Morning Discussion

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• This makes me sad :( : bolange
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  I'll just keep trying to reconnect. It's bound to work eventually. : tboomer2
  • Just refresh the stats page instead. Easier that way. : pimpium
• Murphy's law. I leave town, server goes down. I won't be able to look into it until this afternoon. If th... : Goncyn
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  I'm no longer in the game, so the server saw no reason to continue. :( : Vantage
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    I thought you would have been in it until the end. What happened? : pimpium
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      America happened! : Degenerate
      • FUCK YEAH! : zerog83
    • please see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2t7EyVwzyg : Degenerate
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  Bravo Mens What do we do with Sturm08? He's missed 4 turns in a row now. Do we go by the rules and kic... : ajvitaly
  • string him up! : Degenerate
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    I say kick him, especially if he was online and play not-Civ. : Xevo
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      ^ This. I was hesitant to vote either way and leave it to the game organizer but if he's online gaming b : bolange
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        I played my turns between SOTA BG queues in WoW this weekend : lordlobo
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          I often take my turns while playing Eve : bolange
          • Dwarf Fortress allowed me to alt-tab away for a few minutes. : NexusOne
  • Get a rope. : Thornfist
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    I'm inclined to agree that he should be kicked. If some circumstances had happened which prevented him fr... : ajvitaly
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      Sturm, care to reply to this subthread? : bolange
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        He does not care about this thread. :( : ajvitaly
        • He's on your friend list on Steam. Did you tell him about the thread? : tboomer2
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  oh this is terrible news. : Jikim
  • Yeah I'm like a crack addict that has been denied my drug. : ajvitaly
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    Question. Since the server is out, does this mean that we have to redo our previous turn? : Jikim
    • Maybe. Depends on what happened to it. I should be able to check by around 6 eastern, so we'll know then.... : Goncyn
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      The game creates an autosave every time someone logs in. So 99% of the time, only the person who logged i... : OverloadUT
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        I have no idea why the game doesn't make that save when someone logs out, because that would make much mo... : OverloadUT
        • maybe its too logical? : Jikim
• for some reason this post instantly made me think of a Stong Bad email ("The System Is Down") : byorn
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  BAD NEWS it looks like the server is powered off. I'm guessing there must have been a power outage at my ... : Goncyn
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    this just in: handful of gamers commit suicide as their Civ4 Pitboss game is rendered unavailable for day... : Xevo
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      I'm bleeding profusely from my wrists as I type thtisoa;dfml.cx.......... XXX : ajvitaly
      • *HARAKIRI* *SEPPUKU* 'D : Thornfist
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    Sounds like Thursday evening at the earliest, assuming nothing is actually wrong and pushing the button f... : Goncyn
    • IM NOT GONNA GET KICKED FOR MISSING 2 DAYS OF TURNS, RIGHT? : cpt_gloval
  • Now would be a good time for me to head to some civanon meetings. : ajvitaly

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  in fact look at one of the pictures, the gun inside the hat one, perhaps that's some kind of spy detector... : niceguynick
  • I'd like to see a sentry gun in a hat. : The Key
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    Looks to be a teleporter that removes the disguise from spies there as well. Sounds a bit boring though. : daedraug
    • considering balance it had to be tough to come up with new stuff : .frame
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      yeah, plus I find it rare that spies even use teleporters that much anyway : niceguynick
      • I do, sap the tele, wait for engy to unsap, use tele and telefrag the engy : sikander
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    Hey 3 more people need to find the golden wrench and we get the next item! : dvldog760
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      is that how it works? how long is that going to take then.. : niceguynick
      • Its just every 25 people to find it we see a new item. : dvldog760
• I still like the fan-made controllable sentry dogs : proclone1
• some games have game-ending nukes, TF2 gets a giant level-eating robot : devpaul
• the mobile sentry will look like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yczKwVErQQ : niceguynick
• some sort of android robot thingy. either a humanoid or a little roomba-type thing that automatically ga... : manero
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  The shotgun doesn't seem all that useful. No crits until your sentry is destroyed, then a bunch at once.... : Arcanum
  • I'm guessing its a reward for keeping your sentry alive and killing players, so that when it does get des... : niceguynick
  • I read it as you get them 2 for one every time you get a kill and 1 for 1 when you get an assist then bon... : zakazi
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    It is a decent sidegrade to the regular shotgun. I will use it because 1) Most of the time I can kill an... : H@rvester
    • I am getting that impression as well about the shotgun. : ghost hacker
• I was hoping for something more different. : BouillonCubes
• I hope we get a new map or two. : ant_hillbilly
• that weird gatling sentry in the drawings? : wendigo
• how about a dispenser back pack that gives nearby players ammo/metal? : niceguynick
• There sure are a lot of top hats in the art work. : mordaken
• I had a dream last night that he got a melon baller as a melée weapon. It made absolutely no sense. Pl... : pyide
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  Everyone should post heroic stories of my Engineering so I can direct Valve to this thread in hopes of th : H@rvester
  • I already crafted my entire full backpack and played 6 hours yesterday. Plus I'll be on vacation the rest : H@rvester
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    The new shotgun was one of my suggestions from 2 years ago (except the effect is different) My engi sugg : H@rvester
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      your shotgun does not sound like their shotgun : .frame
      • Yea at first glimpse I thought the new shotgun was an over under but it is not. It's just a cowboy lookin... : H@rvester
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    Dear valve, Please take the wrench you planned to give to Harvester and give it to Maddog. Thank you.... : ant_hillbilly
    • AWWW YEAH!! :D : Maddog_Delphi97
  • inorite? i have a 181 score on the books as engineer, I want one too >:( : Downforce
  • I shot H@rvester in the face as an engineer, I should get a medal for that. : Maddog_Delphi97
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    http://www.shackpics.com/viewer.x?file=tf2engyairship_3lxpn9vyn29agw3fswg3.jpg : sikander
    • http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=23404903#itemanchor_23404903 : Maddog_Delphi97
• In other news i recently got a Masters in Engineering the other day. : Klebold
• Wait isn't half the mag just 3 shots? Damn. : invisible_kid
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  Gah, a half decent spy just makes a mockery of any sort of clever forward base building by an engineer. ... : Beady
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    I play spy all the time and harvester sets up so quick I usually can't stop him. That said I play spy to ... : thecatinthehat
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      Cat is right if a spy is focused on stopping engineers then he is not helping his team as much as if he w... : H@rvester
      • Please to be seeing videos of top tier engineer (not mocking you) : Dontdrop
  • Thief, Cat, and I were some of the good shack spies. Harv is really about protecting his gun and his base... : Techy007
• I am betting they're going to implement the range extension on sentry guns thing I was thinking of a whil... : deject
• Personally, I'd like to see a sentry gun that you can attach to a wall instead of on the floor so that it... : Maddog_Delphi97
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  These wrenches need to be found faster! What happens when everyone has run out of materials and there... : pyide
  • I crafted like two thingies last night and I didn't get one!! :( now I have nothing left to craft :( : mikecyb
  • Last night was the first time I crafted anything and I think I maxed out my weekly craft. : ant_hillbilly
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    I cleaned out my stash last night and didn't get anything either. That said, I was on a payload server l... : wendigo
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      wrench drops are broadcast globally to all players. I saw one last night too at around midnight PST but ... : mikecyb
      • i didn't even think to find him on the scoreboard : wendigo
• I turned my entire weapons collection in to scrap metal and all I got was a Masters Yellow Belt! jerks. : Crimsonbeak
• Up to 48 wrenches! Come on, two more... : Masem
• Dude needs a six shooter. : greasyjohn
• 1 more gold wrench and we find out weapon #2 : On the Brane
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  Counter is up to 50. No update yet... : SolveChrist
  • laggy as fuck : RikiTiki2
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  neat! control your own sentry. the joystick is a nice touch! also, new payload map from the looks of i... : pyide
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    66% damage reduction for manual sentry too : RikiTiki2
    • and holy crap, 2x firing rate : RikiTiki2
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  UPDATED! Looks like a way to manually control sentries. : sgtsanity
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    + new map and achievements : DrWaffles
    • honky tonk man achievement gives away the next weapon looks like : RikiTiki2
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      So is the final weapon a melee guitar? How does that repair stuff :< : pyide
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        The guitar activates a guitar hero game. Everytime you hit the correct note, it repairs the equipment wit... : Mmmmmoo
        • That would actually be pretty amazing. : pyide
      • Probably the taunt kill. We already know he has a guitar from the Meet The Engineer video. : sgtsanity
    • The new map, Upward, looks like a pipeline but with a lot of vertical space to play in. Very interesting. : Masem
  • haha this could be awesome! : niceguynick
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    I wonder if it can be controlled from inside a spawn area. : BouillonCubes
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      that's what I'm wondering and would your view change, as in the bfbc2 UAV? I love the look of it, the lit... : niceguynick
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        With both shells and rockets to fire, I'd think that your view would change and the left & right mouse bu... : sgtsanity
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          That's the brilliance of it, though. You can choose who it fires at, and thus have anti-Spy firepower, bu... : AlexW1203
          • Great for putting down suppression fire too even without targets in sight, presuming that you have direct... : Masem
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      I'm guessing you aim it by painting your targets with that thing. So you can be out of line of sight of t... : pyide
      • Or the ground, wall, whatever. Should be good for taking out soldiers and demos who pop out and spam from... : pyide
  • Ha, I need to see those in action. : Godhatesfatpeople
  • omgomgomg. :D:D:D TF2 is going to be fuckin BONKERS : Downforce
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    So a guitar will be the 3rd unlock? loooool : niceguynick
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      It's definitely tied to the Engie killing taunt. And I don't see Valve breaking reality *that much* by h... : Masem
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        I wonder if Valve art assets from Left 4 Dead 2 for this taunt. : Maddog_Delphi97
        • I meant to say "I wonder if Valve did use art assets from Left 4 Dead 2 for this taunt. : Maddog_Delphi97
      • Actually, what if there's no wrench replacement (save for the hundred with the golden wrench)? They could... : AlexW1203
  • always love the icons and achievement names! http://www.teamfortress.com/engineerupdate/achievements/ The... : niceguynick
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    This sounds like a huge buff for engineers. : thecatinthehat
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      not really, because you can't repair it if you're controlling it : RikiTiki2
      • get some other engies to run a train on it : Drakoniac
      • it makes dual engineer buddy system like medic/anyone else!!! w00t w00t : Downforce
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        Which is mostly nullified by having the sentry take 2/3 less damage while in use plus the double fire rat... : thecatinthehat
        • And you will run out of ammo super-quick. : sgtsanity
    • us engies have waited long enough, we needed some darn lovin! : niceguynick
  • yesss : shirif
• So... we're getting the guitar? : greasyjohn

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• tag fail. : g0nk
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  That will never stick : pancake humper
  • Also, the RealID system is a nightmare : pancake humper
• Ya.... : Senate5000
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  While I can see where they're coming from trying to stem some of the trolling, this means for me that I w... : SilverSnake
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    Same here. : mace
    • 'Sup, Obama? : ChibiJosh
  • What's up only 6 of us in the united states unique name having buddy. : AgentPothead
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    Same here. I'm 100% sure there's only one of me in the US. : The Grolar Bear
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      do you kill the others to gain their power? : DonkleyPunch
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        I imagine it's hard to find people called The Grolar Bear so either he is really powerful or really weak. : Hemtroll
        • Hemtroll, I consume and absorb grolar infants on the long, tumultuous road to Bear Omnipotence. : The Grolar Bear
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    Same here. I'd never post with my real name anywhere. My address could be found in 2 seconds with my la... : stump
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      But you're ok with using Facebook where your name is part of your "basic public info"? http://www.face... : action roommate
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        Who says I use my real name there? : stump
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          its on the credit card you use : Kombit
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            Are game time cards still sold or is credit mandatory now? : semaphore
            • Game cards are still available. I don't mind Blizzard having my full name though, I mind all the peopl... : SilverSnake
    • Yeah me either! : chrisschutz
  • pretty much : Kombit
  • me too. not that I ever posted on their forum before though. : afrochops
  • that'll help cut down on the chaff then if it discourages people from posting : RikiTiki2
  • Agree completely. That is an absolute no-go. : master_disaster_17
• Blizzard. Destroying the greater internet dickwad theory since 2010. : Endymion_
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  That's just asking for real-world stalking/threats/violence. Admittedly I haven't read the link yet, but ... : nakedsavage
  • the post is exploding into a huge tread of "FFFFFUUUUUUUUUU!!!" from users so far.. : g0nk
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  I thought Real ID was optional? If you choose not to use it, I guess you can't post on the forums? Not t... : jonin
  • all of Blizzard's games now require RealID pretty much.. a unified user account. It's optional to use it ... : g0nk
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  That can't be legal. : ShadowRam
  • they will make it.... legal : jonin
  • "If you don't like it then don't participate" would probably be blizzards response. I hardly ever po... : slickdoody
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    How is it illegal? : giant boy detective
    • I think that's default reaction to anything these days. If it's not legal, then someone can have a prote... : Aerioch
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    lol, what? : action roommate
    • The only place where it could run into legal trouble is if it's retroactive and starts displaying your re... : Chod
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    why would it be illegal? : RikiTiki2
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      dunno about where you live, but here it is illegal to post any information on people under 13 years of ag... : retardhumper
      • You have to be over 13 to play it since it's a teen rating. : mystikal
      • And it's going to list the account holder's name so for any younger children it will list their parent's ... : giant boy detective
      • I'm pretty sure blizzard checks for that and informs you before you post. : razlebol
      • Simple enough. It's against the Battle.net's Terms of Use for anyone not a legal adult to create an accou... : SagaciousFoo
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  I just saw this on the forums, I bet that they would become nearly barren. : VictoriouSecret
  • good! WoW forums are barely better than youtube comments : RikiTiki2
  • ugh...Barrens chat : Aerioch
• Yeah that's not a good idea. I thought the whole idea of Real ID was to keep it private for friends. : Jonathan
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  I thought this was a joke, but heh, that would be amazing if just for the wreckage. : enyakk
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    If it leads to a higher quality forum community, I would be totally in favor of it though. : enyakk
    • A higher quality forum community, where people create new accounts with a fake names to troll on, then go... : granpachook
• I'll never post with my real name! Oh.. : trOmblyj
• While this would grind trolling/griefing to a halt, I doubt it'll go through. : spectr3
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  The official forums have always been a great place to discuss the latest info on our games, offer ideas a : pancake humper
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    Until someone steals someone's items, or there is a mishap of some kind. Go to forums, find real name, l... : ShadowRam
    • 'and connect Blizzard community like never before with the addition of in-game restraining orders. Simple... : pancake humper
• That's a great idea. : pyide
• Hahahahahaha so long Roleplay Forums : Home Nugget
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  This is AWESOME! : walker270
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    Also, the only way this could be better is if an age was attached as well. : walker270
    • +INF : Sovos
• I've been slowly accustomizing myself to the idea of non-anonymity on the net. Shacknews is one of the on... : sammyl
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  Finally we'll know for sure if that hot Elf chick is really a chick : tcs
  • Or the guy calling everyone a fag is named Queermo McDickenbuttz : walker270
• Awesome news. : jingletard
• I think it's a fine idea and would have no issues posting under my real name. Of course, I'm a 28 year ol... : fuell
• The only thing that is concerning is that they're not doing a forum wipe before the implementation. I'd : lordlobo
• I wonder if it will be retroactively applied to existing threads. It'll be quite interesting to see the s... : jwnin
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  I don't play WoW, but they've just guaranteed I never post there. The last thing I want when applying for... : Conan
  • THIS! or Middle of the day gaming post.... : unjustend
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  I saw this and sighed. Who the fuck is making these decisions? All this will do is make people not want t... : GoldfishInAJarOfPickles
  • Right now the forums are enough to make people not want to post on the forums. : walker270
  • I suspect that it is the same person that reformatted the google news page and re-designed MS Office. : x4nth3
  • Which may be the point. When you have a forum that's so choked with idiots that almost nothing productiv... : SagaciousFoo
• This is great. : NukemFornever
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  what would the shack be like if we all had to post with our real names? I'm thinking tumbleweeds would... : GloriousCow
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    We'd realize only seven people post on the site, each under 60 different aliases. : walker270
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      i only have seven : GloriousCow
      • Shoot I meant to post that under this alias. : esad
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    instanttumbleweed.com (not to be confused with instantrimshot.com or instantcrickets.com) : jwnin
    • Ahahah I'll have to remember that one. http://www.instanttumbleweed.com/alternative/ : AgentPothead
  • It would be like crickets riding a tumbleweed : kill9
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    No change for me. : Brian Leahy
    • Same! : chrisschutz
    • wouldn't bother me : RobFlinn
  • my real name (via facebook profile) has been in my profile for years already : RikiTiki2
  • Well, I'd have to learn a whole lot more names, wouldn't I? : jasonepowell
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    I wouldn't mind. Anything I say here I'd be more than happy to talk about in real life. Once you lose the... : jingletard
    • Which can be a bad thing sometimes. : aeg1x
  • Everyone knows my real name is Bert Newton. : abrasion
  • I would have a pretty long name then : mayooms
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  That seems like a horrible idea. : stonedonkey
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    Also, I predict this will result in the murder of at least one person within 2 years of being implemented... : stonedonkey
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      It's sad that some people's lives are so pathetic they'd murder someone over a stupid game : ColoradoCNC
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        You're right. Every other murder in history had a better reason for it. : Godhatesfatpeople
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          I dunno, video games seem like one of the stupider reasons to kill someone. : ColoradoCNC
          • Depends on whether they drop the mount you've been grinding for : Fooldozer
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  So how do they get your real name in the first place? : eldiablo01
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    by signing up to your battle.net account? What kind of question is this. : pancake humper
    • Good thing I signed up under the name Dirk McSpankins : GloriousCow
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      Yeah, but do you have to give them a real name or do they take it from your CC info? : eldiablo01
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        This is a good question, but you don't have to give them your cc to register a game on battle net and you... : thecatinthehat
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          Exactly! Somewhere along the line you have to give them your name. If you want to you could just say your... : eldiablo01
          • It's a pain in the ass if you ever have to recover your account and prove that your name is legally Penis... : slax0r
• What an awesome idea. Maybe the forums won't be such a fucking cesspool of trolling and idiocy any more. : -JLN-
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  I don't mind at all. I never acted like a dick on blizzard's forums so I don't care about the change. : DM7
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    post your name here : boring gegtik
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      Neil Hawkins. Your turn. :D : DM7
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        John Q. Fartbellows : boring gegtik
        • Cool name. :D : DM7
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        that would be a rad name for an astronaut : GloriousCow
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          do you live in east liverpool or toronto? : GloriousCow
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            Both. Yay the internet stalking has begun already! I feel popular. :> : DM7
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              yeager rd? : GloriousCow
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                Not that address anymore, I moved I'm on foulks rd now. :D : DM7
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                  dammit. Go apply for some credit somewhere or something so i can mail you pictures of my feet and vials o... : GloriousCow
                  • LOL ok :D seems strange that it's not available. The credit card peeps that I deal with know the new addr... : DM7
        • How about a guy that work at dow: http://www.dow.com/corpgov/leader/hawkins.htm : DM7
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        damnit, i used to be special because I knew your name through realid. :( i no longer have reason to live. : slickdoody
        • Don't do it, we still need to kill the AI on battle.net! I'm gonna see if my 200 zergling army will still... : DM7
      • bit of a long shot, but is this you: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/26301/location.JPG : Klebold
      • Joe Queers : r3dn3ck
      • Claude Bawls. : skinlab133
    • Robin Williams. : BlackCat9
    • Batman. : walker270
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    You want your real name displayed on the forum next to all of your posts? : Chod
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      I wouldn't care. But clearly you do. : action roommate
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        If you really cared then why didn't you use your real name instead of 'action roomate'. So imagine not ha... : cap n KRUNCH
        • Well, you chose a horrible person to hoist up as an example, because "action roommate" was picked for a g... : Ebu
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      I wouldn't really care though. I'll add all the shackers I can when starcraft 2 comes out, so they'll all... : DM7
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        Some people have very rare names that could make finding and stalking them very easy. People on the inter... : Hemtroll
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          Pretty much. I think I'm a fairly courteous poster but I wouldn't want this. I'm probably the only person... : Conan
          • This is alot more than a gaming website, but I agree it looks bad. : Pneum0
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        Because it just leads to stalking and anyone who doesn't see that is delusional. People already try to st... : Chod
        • That's true, it would really help me stalk all the females I play a computer game with. Thanks blizzard! ... : DM7
        • "zero to gain" : action roommate
      • Your employer is asking the same question. : barcibus
    • I don't : kgargs
    • What does it matter unless your being a douche bag though? : nukewinter
    • What are you so afraid of? : jasonepowell
  • Wait...You don't care about us knowing your name, but you never let anyone hear your voice? What's up wit... : Gnowknayme
• I can't decide if this will improve their forums or not. I mean, anything's probably an improvement over... : Rotten Deadite
• What is Blizzard smoking. They are truly off their rocker. : Chod
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  i think its a great idea. Valve should do this on the steam forums as well. : grendel
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    omfg lol. also anything related to xbox/live/etc. and especially MW2 : Downforce
    • MW2 would be hilarious. "Hey! Mrs. Stevenson? Hi! My name is Jeff! Your son was just saying the following... : VictoriouSecret
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  I wonder how much of this is Activision wanting to create their own gamers facebook. : Beady
  • gacebook for short : boring gegtik
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  This is such an "internet" reaction. You mean I could be held responsible for the things I say on a vi : sammyl
  • okay drew marlowe : boring gegtik
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    It really depends. How many female WoW players really want their name out there for all the desperate ge... : giant boy detective
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      I think this might be our greatest leverage point. FEMALE SHACKERS send emails to blizzard about how you ... : GoldfishInAJarOfPickles
      • If you haven't been harassed SM me your e-mail address : ryuuseki
      • If anything gets them to change their position it will be this for sure. : The Grolar Bear
  • It is when someone in your WoW guild decides to travel halfway across the country to be with you. : Hemtroll
  • That is hardly a lot of people's concern :/ it's more of a privacy issue. Who want's their co-workers loo... : GoldfishInAJarOfPickles
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    It is really. Some of us have no problem with our real names being out there, some do. Some people wi... : g0nk
    • Doesn't this also cause an account hacking problem? My GF had someone try to hack into her account using ... : AhmNee
  • Some people go out of their way to be dicks to people who don't share the same opinions. Remember tha... : MagicWishMonkey
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    Cause 4chan is going to respect that. I can't wait for someones info to get out then have 4chan or whome... : Crimsonbeak
    • That YouTube video was the first thing that came to my mind after reading about this. : chrisschutz
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      ...don't be REAL ID friends with your guild leader? Seems a simple solution. : LoioshDwaggie
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        That's the whole point, you don't have to be they can just get the info from the forums. : Crimsonbeak
        • There isn't anything that ties your RealID name with your character unless you want it to. : DianeOfTheMoon
        • Or you could not show your character name on the forums. It's not mandatory that you have to show it next... : SagaciousFoo
  • That crazy internet. : barcibus
• lol, just lol. : rmjackson
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  *phone rings at 6am* "Listen mother fucker, if you ever gank my rogue again while i'm leveling, I will c... : lcizzle
  • In eve online you can suicide gank carebears/miners/noobs nonstop if you want but if you start using real... : semaphore
• creative cow does this. annoying as fuck : vassili_zaitsev
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  the obvious solution here is to bitch about WoW changes on Shacknews instead of the WoW forums : electroly
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    but if we do that there, they'll know who we are!! : g0nk
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      read what i said again, but slower this time : electroly
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        sorry, i'm not wearing a my dress of +5 INT. : g0nk
        • fucking lolz :D : code-e255
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          1-0. : Vincenoir
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            HAHAHAHAHA electroly you lost against g0nk lololol : pancake humper
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              roflmao : electroly
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                i've never seen a sicker burn than that. gotta hand it to the man : electroly
                • ^_^ *hug* you know i love ya man! :) : g0nk
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                  I didn't even think he meant it as a burn. He was just making a WoW joke. Look at the stupid lol train : pancake humper
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                    Yeah but electroly collects dresses in WoW. : Rotten Deadite
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                      My collection of textured polygons > your collection of textured polygons : mwasher
                      • Of this, there can be no doubt. : Rotten Deadite
        • hahahahaha : MercFox1
        • wow lol : kgargs
        • A winner is you! : Hemtroll
        • oh lol : fishbone
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  How many of you would like to be interviewing for a job only to have it come up that you have 10,000 post... : twifosp
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    I once mentioned on here I wanted to change my shack name as I dont like having my real name on here E... : jbury
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      Dude, change your Real Name. SHACKNAME 'FO LYFE : MercFox1
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        I guess I could hyphenate when I get married : jbury
        • If a name change makes you feel better, change your Shackname! Life's too short to worry about trivial st... : MercFox1
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    Would you really want to work at a place where being a gamer could get you fired, though? : DianeOfTheMoon
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      No... And the worry isn't that we'd get fired for 10,000 posts on a gaming site... It's that The timestam... : Ormsbee
      • Sounds like a personal problem to me. : DianeOfTheMoon
  • What if there were no anonymity on the Internet at all for anyone? Then using current standards, the onl... : SagaciousFoo
• I never posted there before as it was full of fucktards, wont post now so those fucktards dont get my nam... : oldschoolbob-o
• I kind of wish everyone's license plate number was your cell phone number. : twifosp
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  While I don't mind people knowing my real name, I will inevitably say some dumb shit that is then connect... : moshman
  • I look forward to tracking down forum trolls and beating them to death. : jingletard
• Will most definitely be taken back to the drawing board after the masses find out. : wtNORTHMAN
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  How does this get out of the focus group testing? Jesus, Blizzard, you're supposed to know better than... : MercFox1
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    I just blame activision when I see blizzard make a mistake. : DM7
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      This is such a goddamned stupid idea. This pretty much ensures my only Real ID friends will be confirmed ... : MercFox1
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        That's the idea, though. RealID hasn't been pushed as another general friend list, but something you hav... : DianeOfTheMoon
        • They are doing this completely backwards. A forum isn't a friends list, so it makes no sense why they wou... : MercFox1
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      Technically Blizzard is left to their own devices. : Godhatesfatpeople
      • It's hard seeing all this stuff they're doing and not think that activision isn't having a slight influen... : DM7
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  Ok, looks like this WILL NOT be retroactive to older posts.. http://blue.mmo-champion.com/t/257123747... : g0nk
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    man, they are actually going to do this. I want to know who made this decision so when they post on the f : pancake humper
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      i never post on there so I personally dont think it will affect me, I only search and read threads that a... : g0nk
      • Just make sure you never sell your account since the name sticks and that person can then post as you. : Chod
      • I can't post there because we got banned when the whole 'GRATS BREWTOWN' phenomenon was going on. : pancake humper
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      Its funny because from the first post, bnet users are going on facebook and getting empoyees info and shi... : oldschoolbob-o
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        rofl Ok then after doing some internet detective work, I have found the Facebook pages of quite a few : pancake humper
        • Oh that is just enthralling inside information! : Goto10
        • Why does this even matter? Who gives a shit really... If you don't want it out there, don't put it on fac... : rmjackson
        • Wow he really proved a point there! Who'd of thought that blizzard employees had facebook friends that do... : zombie man
      • Amazing what people can do when they have so much free time to sit in their parents' basement : ColoradoCNC
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        I am trying to reply to this post but WinChatty is eating the reply :( : pancake humper
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          no, it's there twice.. : g0nk
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            electroly!!!!!! : pancake humper
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              oh ahahah I figured it out. I have 'World C up' filtered out completely and it's exiling it in WinChatty. : pancake humper
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                it should probably whitelist your own posts. good catch : electroly
                • I am the best beta tester : pancake humper
            • i did that just to fuck with you : electroly
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          My real ID name shows up as 'Loiosh' so I'm all set. People, you need to learn how to be awesome. : LoioshDwaggie
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            So stop being all smug and tell us how ! : the_burd
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              Just change your name in Battle Net for your shipping information. That's where it pulls it from. : LoioshDwaggie
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                Your billing information can be different. : LoioshDwaggie
                • hm, wont let me change the name parts, only the address boxes : the_burd
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  hhaaha Well if you put that you are a guild leader of 1000 players and run 40 man raids on the daily o... : lcizzle
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    http://videogames.yahoo.com/events/plugged-in/fortune-500-cio-learned-everything-from-world-of-warcraft/1... : DianeOfTheMoon
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      To bad he has an MBA making that article total bullshit. : lcizzle
      • Still he did post on the wow forums too stating his displeasure. : oldschoolbob-o
• I will take "World's Smartest Decisions for $1000 Alex" : Crimsonbeak
• I find this really strange. I mean, I don't care personally because I don't mind everyone knowing who I a... : OverloadUT
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  Walker270 is right. If only it was the age that was shown instead of real name. L2p newb lolrofl you ... : Edges
  • Hahaha. I like this idea. : Ormsbee
• There are so many people who share my full name that this doesn't really effect me ... but you can sign m... : InfoBiter
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  So how many people post on the wow forums? thousands? tens of thousands? Something tells me it's less t... : Agrona
  • It's WAY less. People generally post there if they're bored or they want to voice a complaint. If they'... : slax0r
• Lately their behavior as to how to handle their own community has been fucking odd. : Godhatesfatpeople
• i would hate this if I were a girl. : Beaginator
• it's entirely possible I may never log in to my blizz account again, this whole Read ID thing is annoying... : Slowtreme
• lol : Ajax
• haha this will be good : bolneze
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjWFZPJZTxU : Crimsonbeak
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  So what details do you need to be able to get blizzard to change your email address on the account? Pr... : Beady
  • if you want to change your email address, you log into account management and do it yourself. they'd ne... : electroly
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  Haha I just thought of something fucked up. What about all those people that bought their accounts. I kno... : lcizzle
  • they would've had to merge their WoW accounts with a bnet account, and assuming that succeeded, the RealI... : electroly
• Full last name? Not even a last initial? Now that's a bit dumb on a public forum. What about the young... : DrWaffles
• so how many of you actually post on the blizzard forums? i don't think i have since before the days of t... : valael
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  Whats the big deal here? : Alex Wayne : SqueegyTBS
  • Are you kidding? : JC Tenton : MercFox1
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  So addons can read your name and those of your raid members unless you enable parental controls. http://... : Chod
  • note, the user would need the addon to send this out, you cant just randomly read it from them. : Chod
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    his "proof" code does neither of those things. it sends a whisper to yourself over battle.net. a couple : electroly
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      People have tested it already online with a test addon. Addon A on my machine runs the code and whispers ... : Chod
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        like i said. an addon can use this to send a whisper to anyone who is already on your RealID friends lis : electroly
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          Addons can already cause you to whisper yourself which they can read the text of, all they do is then for... : Chod
          • Oh I see what you mean. I thought you were implying (well, explicitly, by stating "and those of your rai... : electroly
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  lol inded, whine rage thread is at 280 pages! http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=25... : dael
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    I really want to see what happens to their forum when this change takes effect. : walker270
    • I seriously think that the more pages there are, the more Blizzard is likely to make the change. They're ... : SagaciousFoo
• After some thought, I've decided that this is something that will probably cause more harm than good, and... : sammyl
• Wow. Fuck that. : OMGzImBurning
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  my major problem with this is not the security or privacy thing, but rather the fact that i have spent my... : theWhite
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    do you post on the WoW forums? if not, then all you have to do is not add anyone to your RealID friends ... : electroly
    • and even in the case of the forums, i doubt it will ONLY show the RealID. i'm sure it'll show the charac... : electroly
  • no kidding, this will just get weird. for example, wyvern's real name is Scrotie McBoogerballs. also vi : Downforce
• LOL Blizzard have lost it. : abrasion
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  If you consider WoW as a Facebook-like application (which isn't as strange as it sounds), it makes perfec... : Bamii
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    yes but we don't, it's a video game : pancake humper
    • It is now, but with the new B-net (crossrealm and even cross-game chat) Blizzard is building a social hub... : Bamii
• I would be surprised if this lasts long. : thetangent
• Not going to post there for sure... There better have a non public support page if I have problems tho... : razlebol
• that really opens the door to people murdering other people over stupid mmo drama : mnok
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  The more I think about this the less likely I think it will be allowed to happen by the Activision legal ... : grendel
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    what liability, exactly? tons of websites and services run solely on real names and it's not a problem, ... : electroly
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      Generally corporations are required to provide reasonable levels of privacy to consumers, even when deliv... : Talonus.
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        Cite an American law. Random Internet handwavy bullshit about "reasonable levels of privacy" isn't going : electroly
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          You seriously think those poop socks wont cause shit if they know your real name. A company which I purch... : oldschoolbob-o
          • How would they be releasing your name to the public. You're the one posting on the forums so you are maki... : tboomer2
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          Unfortunately, I cannot dig up the law. I specifically used the W2 example because the company I work for... : Talonus.
          • re: your last paragraph: Your name will not be used without your consent. When this change goes live, yo... : Gnowknayme
          • "Personal Information", as specified in PIPEDA, is as follows: information about an identifiable individu... : mystikal
  • chris hansen is READY for this to go down. an AOE script of "why don't you have a seat" : Downforce
• This is a great idea. Not sure why people are so paranoid about people seeing their real name. Don't be a... : zombie man
• So does this mean the terrible revised friend system in SC2 isn't actually going to go away? I was really... : Talonus.
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  ATTN SHACK FAGGOTS: New rule starting tomorrow your usernames need to be your real names or no posts. (Th... : oldschoolbob-o
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    owned. you sure showed us. nobody in the previous 272 posts thought to bring this up : electroly
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      we certainly were incapable of making the analogy between the WoW forums and the Shack forums. so thank ... : electroly
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        Well appearntly some of you cant, or are just giant trolls : oldschoolbob-o
        • im voting you into the troll category btw : oldschoolbob-o
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    Honestly, I don't know what all the crying is about.............. : mwasher
    • It would be less of an issue if this was something common place or normal, but with increased sensitivity... : oldschoolbob-o
  • Your nick is now your email address and you cant update it: GO : Slowtreme
  • In other news, nobody was surprised when boring gegtik's name didn't change. : Ride-My-Rocket
  • i would deal with it by not posting here anymore : dantastic
• Seems to me a company that has IMMENSE issues with stolen logins would do as much as possible to avoid us... : Phreakin
• They're going to reduce some of their forum traffic, and lower the average age range by quite a bit. : barcibus
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  It's gonna suck not getting diablo 3 now :( : ghost in my shell
  • Wow this is even more horrible now that I think about it. That's another vector in attacking accounts... : ghost in my shell
• I love it and think the entire internet should go this way. : Goto10
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  Apparently a group of people took a Blizzard employee's name and scraped up as much private information a : nakedsavage
  • While that is a disgusting invasion of privacy ... the point rings true. Sucks hard for whichever emp... : InfoBiter
  • haha wow. That picture also makes that article even better. : Godhatesfatpeople
  • Excellent demonstration of why this is a bad idea. Unfortunately, they're probably just going to sick th... : the archvile
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    That is all kinds of fucked up : Demius
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      Yep! Now imagine butthurt WoW scrubs getting pissed off over something trivial on the forums or in-game a... : MercFox1
      • JAMES COLEMAN AT 2342 BISMARK LN ROLLED ON MY HUNTER TRINKET : Slowtreme
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    Yeahh! Got them! They have KIDS! And live with their MOOOMMS hahahaha!! Oh, oh, I just ran another ... : Goto10
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      Are you serious? They're demonstrating that within hours of the announcement they got all of that informa... : nakedsavage
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        Yes I am serious. And in real life we have things called "laws". These "laws" help prevent said folks f... : Goto10
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          You must be 12 years old because your extreme lack of understanding while still spouting off like an expe... : InfoBiter
          • Oh I understand it very well. The internet is being the internet is all this is, going to extremes, prov... : Goto10
        • You are betting against the internet. : MercFox1
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          Did you not read the France news article ? Moron. Do your research before posting. : mystikal
          • Huh uh uh! Personal attacks are a no no, mister! And no, I don't read French news. : Goto10
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          There is a genuine chance here people could be hurt, be it jobs, relationships, friendships or even murde... : abrasion
          • There's also simple harassment. If you want some examples of what can happen just check out 4chan. Death ... : mactu
  • Internet FUCK YEAH : Turd Ferguson
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  Welp, I disagree with this. :/ I think a happy medium would be to force people to post on a character ... : slax0r
  • highest level character only, no posting unless character is 40 or higher. In case of multiple character... : JuffoWup
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  faggots here mocked me for being displeased with realID during the SC2 beta. "It's probably only tempora... : MamiyaOtaru
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    I don't understand their motivation, why is this a good idea? : abrasion
    • It makes it cheaper to moderate the forums. : ghost in my shell
    • I think they're trying to clean up the forums by bringing in some accountability. Remove the whole "anon... : walker270
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• Fuck that. My real name is unique enough that a google search of it returns nothing but info on me! : Viprime
• This will suck for people with really recognizable, unique names. Fortunately I have one of the most gene... : Iazu

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  We are all nerds, we love sci-fi shit. And what I'm about to ask is an honest question cause I simply don... : freakynipples69
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    It's one of the few ways of driving significant technological innovation without war. : reelbk
    • If this is true, then I fully support more space funding! That's a great reason. : freakynipples69
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      But we have huge numbers of innovation that have little to do with war and having them funded by innovati... : akirabob
      • Memory foam mattress? : freakynipples69
      • Tang : ThomW
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    A lot of people argue that we gain a huge amount from the products created to make the space program work... : akirabob
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      but that's all socialist inventions. the free market would have created it it better and cheaper if ther... : riptyde
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        HAHAHA no. That's just as silly as the argument that we should go into space just because we should. Th... : akirabob
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          Nope, sorry. Government funding never spurs advancements in science faster than the free market would ha... : riptyde
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            The free market does get distracted by things like Tickle Me Elmo every now and then though. : bostrov
            • That's advancements in tickle science! : crummynz
          • First of all, I really can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not which amuses me. Secondly, I didn't s... : akirabob
  • http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/ : DarkWolf5
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    http://www.ted.com/talks/brian_cox_why_we_need_the_explorers.html For every $1 spent on the apollo spa... : BouillonCubes
    • But we screwed up by not claiming the moon and demanding licensing fees from everyone who paints the moon... : bostrov
    • this is what it really comes down to also if we're the leaders in this area i think we benefit from br... : Enraged Pineapple
  • It mostly drives scientific exploration, or rather some kinds of science are greatly aided by space explo... : bostrov
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    To me it's about long term survivability. It would be pretty damned easy to wipe out the entire human rac... : thetangent
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      we've spread as far as we're going to : MamiyaOtaru
      • I don't buy that. This planet is tiny. Besides, the solar system was BUILT for humans to expand into, wha... : thetangent
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    there's a lot of benefits to science, of course, and there's many economical benefits posited in a fairly... : the_doctor
    • and, it's what's at stake both short and long term that angers me about this mandate from Obama. Politic... : the_doctor
    • If metal mining is like Eve Online it isn't worth it ;) : lowayne
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    imagine if all the money the world put into military went into space stuffs : CoRDS
    • We would honestly have people living on Mars by now. : DM7
• the world would probably get greater technological advances going to all out war with the muslim world, t... : proclone1
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  as opposed to when we used NASA to show those commies who's boss? : sgtsanity
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    and now China will probably (all by itself) get to the moon before we get back to it, and it's not totall... : bostrov
    • I'm pretty sure China will find space opium and their county will collapse (again) before this happens. : cetra00
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      If another country makes massive strides in technological process in space travel, that's pretty cool wit... : crummynz
      • That's the nice thing about science, generally the entire human race benefits from the work anyone does. ... : bostrov
    • Yay for China. They'll get to the moon a scant 40 years after we landed there 6 times. : riptyde
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  man. limitless jokes available when you mix muslims and the space program especially when you consider th... : [fry]
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    What angle do they pray to mecca at? : abrasion
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      Unless my memory is messing with me, this question has already been resolved on space flights. : sgtsanity
      • Ka-pow. http://www.wired.com/science/space/news/2007/09/mecca_in_orbit : sgtsanity
  • jesus christ : Omning
  • Next thing you know they'll be flying shit into buildings from orbit. : Colleton
  • Need Another Seven Astronauts : riptyde
  • jajajajajaj! : noobja
• yes it is. : mavmavv
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  I just read the article. That is pretty retarded and is (as someone mentions in the article) a perversion... : bostrov
  • That was former NASA head Michael Griffin talking about perversion of purpose. : lowayne
• funny thing is they basically invented algebra as we know it by the tenth century, and had a fair grasp o... : Veegeezee
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  Next he'll tell NASA to make the Canadians feel good and we'll be all like - Hey Canada, you guys...uh...... : bostrov
  • Well they do! : Godhatesfatpeople
• I'm pretty sure he just shit on the Quran in some way with this statement. : cetra00
• Walk into any engineering dept in pretty much any university in this country. Who do you see? (Euro/Afr... : mrblarg

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  This may be the first non-franchise movie we see in the theater. By that I mean that we usually see the b... : jingletard
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    Also holy shit spoilers do not read. They loved the movie and it's a masterpiece. : jingletard
    • Yeah, i put spoilers are in the link but i didnt bold them or anything, sorry. : pimpium
• Definitely excited : byorn
• a breath of fresh air from all the sequels and rehashes : Kombit
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  eh, its not in 3d? not interested : GloriousCow
  • No headaches or gimmicks? FUCK. : kingdepork
  • fuck 3d, now if they filmed it in 2d, now that would be interesting. : jonin
  • Hahah, you made me laugh this morning. : LoioshDwaggie
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    I would really love to see the 3D version of this movie - but done Avatar/Pixar style rather than Last Ai... : Jonathan
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      I don't think Nolan is a fan of the 3d cameras. Theres an article out there where he talks about it and i... : pimpium
      • I guess I don't mind post but don't let it be farmed out to a bunch of effects studios. It seems like it'... : Jonathan
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        he's not a fan of 3d period. he'll begrudgingly make a 3d film, but would prefer not to. : grifter
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          Good, since most movies just use 3D as a way of getting you to pay $5 extra to see it in 3D. Avatar is t... : riptyde
          • ^This. : one random winner
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            Is Tron being filmed in 3D or is it being done after the fact? : pimpium
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              filmed in 3d : grifter
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                Nice. That is the only 3D movie i am looking forward to at this point. : pimpium
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                  Tron and How to Train Your Dragon are the only two movies that took advantage of the AVATAR technology. T... : LoioshDwaggie
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                    Is JC going to one up his technology on the next movie and go 4D or some other shit so everyone else has ... : pimpium
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                      Now we can show you what's behind you! : one random winner
                      • oh shit! glasses come with a rear view mirror? : pimpium
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                    The next Resident Evil 3D claim to use Avatar 3D tech too. Doesn't show as much promise as Tron : pobone
                    • Yeah, i don't have any faith in Paul Anderson. : pimpium
                  • And HttYD was AWESOME in 3D. : thetangent
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      he's not into gimmicks. : grifter
      • Which is good. I liked his use of Imax in Dark Knight. : pimpium
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        3D done right really isn't a gimmick. Anymore than his use of IMAX was. : Jonathan
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          his use of imax was as simple as a choice of filmstock to achieve more scale and detail in certain shots.... : grifter
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            So adding more 2D detail isn't a hack, but adding detail in the third dimension is? Saying "3D doesn't... : DinK
            • sure, they're both choices. but honestly, what is 3d really contributing to the film? I'm saying that fi... : grifter
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    No 3D is better than Post 3D. Remember that. : Jobos
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      That's not even true. In terms of the quality of current 3d, you can't get better than filming 3d. Think ... : grifter
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        i believe he's agreeing. he's saying you should either film in 3D, or not do 3D at all. doing it in pos... : electroly
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          Sarcasm + Internet = wooosh Yeah. :( : grifter
          • No sarcasm. Just mentally replace the first two words with "Not having 3D". : qsylvr
  • I love smart directors too. : Godhatesfatpeople
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  i can't wait! For some reason it gives off a Dark City vibe to me. : .frame
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    I was just gonna post that the reviewer missed mentioning Dark City clearly from some personal animosity ... : AxeMan808
    • I'm sure Ebert will mention it in his review. He hasn't seen Inception yet, judging from his tweets. : sgtsanity
• i am going to watch this movie so hard : Mr.SEX
• I've managed to avoid any spoilers aside from who's in it and that it's got something to do with dreams, ... : Clay
• Been looking forward to this for a while, can't wait! : Begawkiness
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  DILEMMA: My girlfriend is going to be out of town until the 28th and said she doesn't want me to see this... : orgcaptainnemo
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    Considering she'll be out of town cheating on you, I think it's only right to do this : Home Nugget
    • Quality reply. Did not see that coming. : MercFox1
    • Oh true. Thanks for illuminating the situation. : orgcaptainnemo
  • what could go wrong? : Slowtreme
  • just tell her you accidentally the whole movie : .frame
  • I've done this before - no harm, no foul : sludge vohaul
  • You'll inevitably let slip a "oh, watch this part!" and give yourself away. : gooblerampling
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    A) Avoid spoilers, go with her, it'll be a better experience. B) It seems to be a complex movie, go wi... : wtNORTHMAN
    • haha B would be the correct way to do it. : pimpium
  • do it, she's too dumb to know anyway : moe6
  • Oh fuck her, go with me otherwise I have to go by myself you asshole. : ejectorpod
  • haha did that for Batman and Robin lol : milkandcheese
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  I thought "we" didn't care what movie reviewers/critics think? : Attica Blue
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    when it's negative we don't care, when it's positive we get stoked ! RTFM! : barichnikov
    • that's pretty much true. You shouldn't let a negative review stop you from enjoying something you're exc... : slickdoody
  • I still don't. I was going to see it regardless. I just thought it was something interesting. I would hav... : pimpium
• i'm just glad somebody was able to do a non sequel/remake and get a good budget. even if paprika beat th... : crypt420
• Can't. Wait. At this point, Nolan is pretty much my favorite director next to Fincher. : lightly inclined
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  Look at all this breathless praise! http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2010/07/creamola.php So pumped. : sgtsanity
  • Damn! : pimpium
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  Oh wait, Christopher Nolan (batman director) did Inception? That makes me want to see it even more, hell ... : sreyes22
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    He also directed Memento. If you haven't seen that you definately should. : nakedsavage
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      And The Prestige too! : sgtsanity
      • Batman vs Wolverine with Victorian Magic! Also David Bowie is Tesla! : NexusOne
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      Yeah, I consider him the Memento director before Batman director. : nodge69
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        well he was the Memento director before the Batman director. : barichnikov
        • although sometime around Memento 3: Remember To Dismember he became more Batman-ish : sgtsanity
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  Did you all see this badass Inception 'full building' ad? I caught it on reddit: http://www.shackpics.com... : Druuge
  • I don't think that will fit on my wall. : pimpium
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  Ew! Leonardo Di-CRAP-rio. I haven't seen a movie with that guy since ... man in the iron mask? But it ... : AhmNee
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    You didn't see The Departed? Or Blood Diamond? Or Gangs of New York? Go rent them and report back when... : coldfusioncs
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      His good in ALL his movies. : minigomp
      • HE IS. * : minigomp
  • Actually, he's turned into a fine actor. (Now shut up and go watch The Departed.) : Gary the Llama
  • Dude, DiCaprio is a great actor. I don't know about the man as a person, but if you want to see one of th... : Attica Blue
  • Wow, really? He may have done a bunch of girl movies back in the 90s but he's been in some badass movies ... : shred.
  • Leonardo DiCaprio is a really great actor. You need to catch up on the times, yo. : Danny5225
  • WHAT THE : CrustaR
  • He's a decent actor, he's just always miscast. : Lunatic Angelic
  • Just gonna add Body of Lies to the list. : miasma&!
  • Leo rules and you drool. I think between him and his agent they have a knack for being selective and cho... : atom519
  • Aviator might be the best movie of the last 25 years. : akirabob
  • You should try coming out from under that rock at least once a decade : Satyric0n
  • what the fuck is this post. : eeeealmo
  • Man, Leo is such a shitty actor! How can you not watch his films? Easily? Oh. Okay. : reZaun
  • If it weren't for "eh, it's not in 3d?" GloriousCow up there, this would be the worst post. : sgtsanity
  • lol @ going to see a movie because of Ellen Page : pancake humper
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    hahaha di-"crap"-rio lol : haiku
    • goddamn €hri$toâ‚°er Nolan : sgtsanity
    • This motherfucker just M$'d this thread. : Godhatesfatpeople
  • LOL. : minigomp
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    http://haiku.shacknews.com/dicraprio.jpg : haiku
    • ha : Godhatesfatpeople
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      More like SHITTER ISLAND amirite. : omnova
      • Aw :( : Medster
      • Good description for a shit movie. : abrasion
    • Should've changed it to Shitter Island. : Medster
    • And the oscar goes to.. : pyide
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      Martin Scor-sleazy : sgtsanity
      • Mark ROFLo : sgtsanity
  • The 90s are over, man. : master_disaster_17
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    in before people jumping down your throat : Omning
    • You mean after : SqueegyTBS
  • Dude, I gave up on jelously hating hot dudes like Leonardo, Brad Pitt and Johnny depp when I realised the... : abrasion
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    I gotta admit, I didn't like DeCaprio until I saw Departed. He was good (though overshadowed) in Gangs Of... : AxeMan808
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      Daniel Day Lewis is good at overshadowing people. : Clay
      • Which is the ridiculous part about how good Paul Dano is in There Will Be Blood. He goes blow for blow : sgtsanity
    • I agree with this man here. : Dontdrop
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    THIS is why that thread the other day about not seeing a movie with a specific actor in it is stupid. : thetangent
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      That thread made me head hurt. Seriously I can't believe people don't at least give shit a chance. Like I... : ovrlrd
      • you watch movies you know you will hate just to be fair? I'd rather not, and do something else with my t... : MamiyaOtaru
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    THIS MOTHER FUCKER HASN'T SEEN "WHAT'S EATING GILBERT GRAPE?" : ejectorpod
    • Say it... say where's Arnie. : atom519
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    I don't like Leo that much either, but I can at least recognize that he is a good actor and is in many fi... : ovrlrd
    • M$ ValvEA Stanfurd Can't think of any others at the moment. : The Grolar Bear
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      SuckBox CrapBox Gaystation : pyide
      • I have to admit. Gaystation still brings a smile to my face. Yeah I'm 5 years old. Deal with it brah! : Godhatesfatpeople
  • Ew! : action roommate
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    Leonardo dicaprio is a fantastic actor. I've enjoyed him in basically all of his recent films. : retarded talking dinosaur
    • I celebrate his entire catalog. : obiquatro
  • ugh, that's Leotardo : gmd
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  Just read the quotes on Rotten Tomatoes http://beta.rottentomatoes.com/m/1217219-inception/ This mo... : ventro
  • wow. : RogerDandy
  • More reviews not necessarily listed there: http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2010/07/creamola.php : sgtsanity

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  How much is this one gonna cost me Squeegy, geeze louize : kgargs
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    I thought I was the only one who said this :( : boomstickah
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      boomstickah can you chime in on Phil's thread : kgargs
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        lol. also, i am geeze louise'r as well. : Phil
        • Jeez, not Geeze. : edgewise
• Yay! Thank you! Looking forward to this! : prime8
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  Damnit I don't see the update on my app store I want that fucking icon nowwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!! : Bamtan
  • This will have to tide you over: http://beautifulpixel.com/assets/iPhone_Simulator-20100626-213413.png : SqueegyTBS
• W00t! Ive been checking the appstore multiple times per day for the last week waiting for this! : ninjase
• boneriffic : pyide
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  Downloaded and installed; thanks! : emacs
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    it's not out yet : pancake humper
    • yes it is : zerog83
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      It is in my app store: http://beautifulpixel.com/assets/iTunes-20100706-111604.png : SqueegyTBS
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        Mine too. It doesn't seem to show up automatically in Updates yet, but I see the new version when I sear... : electroly
        • It seems to take a good 8-12 hours for 100% world wide app store propgation. I'd guess they have to wait... : SqueegyTBS
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        I swear the AppStore and iTunes on the actual device is so fucking delayed. It takes like 36+ hours for p... : pancake humper
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          i just upgraded my LC.app right on my iphone. you have to search for it specifically : electroly
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            Yeah, it wouldn't automatically find it for me from the update section. : pyide
            • found mine right away : zerog83
          • I just did. I still am complaining about the podcast delays :( : pancake humper
      • Sweet, just loaded up the app store and it said lc.app had an update, downloading now! : ejectorpod
    • It's available here in Canada. I searched for 'latest chatty' and version 2.6.1 was found : emacs
    • Just got it : jonin
• Awesome! : deject
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  What are you trying to say with the Stories icon? : tinfoilhatter
  • I know, I know, it's a controller. PC gaming is dead. Dead I tell you. : SqueegyTBS
• Sweet! Posting from the new version : sikander
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  My pants! http://www.shackpics.com/files/iPhoneUpload_n7c2phpd6go76b633ew2.jpg : Bamtan
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    Real shackers put in their dock. : SqueegyTBS
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      real faggots with no friends or music!!! : Bamtan
      • Phone > SMS > iPod > Settings Weenar. : aggressor
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      Awww yeahhttp://www.shackpics.com/files/iPhoneUpload_jhyxheny44b596oxpm9w.jpg : Agrona
      • touch doesn't count, no phone! : Slowtreme
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        How many twitter clients do you need? O_o : losimagic
        • I was trying them out. Verdict: they all blow. : Agrona
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    Ooh, what a are vodafone like? Signal, 3g speed etc? : Beady
    • It's been great for me. 3G seems much faster than O2 ever was, and the reception in my village is 5 bars.... : Bamtan
• Werd, downed and installed. : BackSinner
• Fast app switching, thank you :) : BouillonCubes
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  oh thank god : opengl128
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    hrm. updated, but i still have the old version. :-/ : opengl128
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      i even totally uninstalled it and rebooted. while its installing i get the new icon, then when it finishe... : opengl128
      • Same here :( Must be for cool peeps only at the moment : EricZBA
      • same problem here. : Vegtro
      • Same here :( : prime8
      • same here : t0ad
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        Apparently the iTunes Store does not have the right version. It keeps trying to redownload the update bec... : ovrlrd
        • Screenshot of what is happening: http://www.shackpics.com/files/UpdateFail_azsehzn3ikrs57iw648r.jpg : ovrlrd
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        It showed the old version for me, but then I turned off Wifi and it gave me the new version. : arhughes
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          Okay, weird. I turned off wifi, went back into AppStore and the update showed up and installed fine. : prime8
          • Ah, well if I had to guess it's a cache server issue like I predicted above. One particular server hasn't... : ovrlrd
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            oh nice this worked for me : opengl128
            • Yep worked for me too. Stupid akamai needs to hurry up. : ovrlrd
        • Worked for me too : EricZBA
      • THIS WILL SORT ITSELF OUT Just try again later. : SqueegyTBS
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  BUGS, because I'm positive they exist, go HERE: http://github.com/Squeegy/latest-chatty-2/issues Othe... : SqueegyTBS
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    I am too lazy to make an account so maybe someone else can verify and post: Anyone else getting a whit... : aggressor
    • Nope, I get the icon here, iPhone 4. : tfboc
• Ohhh. Pretty and snappy. : brickmatt
• Awesome, thanks. : not work safe
• All updated \o/ : Slowtreme
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  What does the click icon do in threads again? : pancake humper
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    make arrows navigate chronologically, instead of by thread order. : SqueegyTBS
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      no word on the refresh thread/post reply bug that jumps you to the top of the thread every time? :( : pancake humper
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        http://github.com/Squeegy/latest-chatty-2/issues : SqueegyTBS
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          meh, not worth creating another random internet account for : pancake humper
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            http://github.com/Squeegy/latest-chatty-2/issues/issue/23 : electroly
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              add replies to that : pancake humper
              • i did but then i accidentally closed the issue and now i don't know how to bring it back : electroly
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  I COULD KISS YOU : zuff
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    Don't. I havent shaved today. : SqueegyTBS
    • I'll lick your stubble then : zuff
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  IPhone 4 here and I'm digging it! http://www.shackpics.com/files/iPhoneUpload_tunooacvuw8sgf9q0fj9.jpg : liqker
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    is ws.shackchatty.com still the perfered server if I want the uncensored hotness of the chatty? : liqker
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      ws.shackchatty.com is the censored version : electroly
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        where is the hardcore snuff porn version? : liqker
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          shackchatty.com : OverloadUT
          • The "ws" subdomain means "work safe" : OverloadUT
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          just take off the ws. at the beginning : electroly
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            I BEAT YOU I WIN : OverloadUT
            • thank you both. : liqker
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      So the optimal API is, simply, shackchatty.com? I am also using stonedonkeys (it kept that server address... : Druuge
      • Nevermind, read Druuge, read. : Druuge
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    Using stonedonkey's API and it's running smooth. : zuff
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      doesn't support image uploads though :-( : opengl128
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        I didn't think that had to do with the APIs. I figured it was because iPhone's images are too large for s... : zuff
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          the pictures are posted to shackpics via the API server. i think that's the last remaining thing stonedo... : electroly
          • I built it into the API, created a test page that works on both my server and squeegies, but when I recei... : stonedonkey
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            ah gotcha. Any reason why my app would be showing blank screens instead of the posts after switching to s... : zuff
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              I think his API is having some issue right now. : stonedonkey
              • Fixed. I've been having serious stability issues lately... : SqueegyTBS
        • Iphone4 images are 2.2mb. So yea perhaps. : multisync
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  Not made it to the uk store yet :( : losimagic
  • Weird, restarted my phone and there it is Thank you!! : losimagic
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  $$ DONATIONS $$ because SqueegyTBS is to shy/awesome to ask for them himself If you love LatestChatt : EricZBA
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    Just buy Void ;) : OverloadUT
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      I've donated to Squeegy before but actually haven't picked up Void yet - as good a time as any I guess :D : jbury
      • I've sold about only a tad more than one VOID per day over the past 2 months. But hey, not like I am upd... : SqueegyTBS
  • Thanks. And just so you guys know, I am going to dump a large percentage of my paypal balance into my AI... : SqueegyTBS
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  I've always meant to ask. What is the clock icon for on the separator bar between thread/post view : Morgin
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    http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=23400423#itemanchor_23400423 : aggressor
    • I skimmed over that due to use of "click icon". : Morgin
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  hrm, something not right for me. When I try to install it, the "loading" icon looks new, but when it ins... : skunk_ape
  • happening to a few of us http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=23400297#itemanchor_23400297 : opengl128
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  hlaahgahga it's not in my app store yet : [fry]
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    weird. restarting the phone made it show up for me too. : [fry]
    • very pretty :o : [fry]
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  is shackchatty.com down? stonedonkey's api is loading but not shackchatty : gmd
  • i think it is. just loads a blank page for me. : [fry]
  • Having the same problem here : zuff
  • yeeeeeeeeeeeeep : pancake humper
  • same :( : ejectorpod
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    same : Begawkiness
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      now it's working : Begawkiness
      • yep. also i'd like to add that the retina display is a dick that i never want to leave my mouth. : [fry]
  • try latestchatty.heroku.com : askedrelic
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  What server URL should we be using? : dognose
  • Ah never mind I saw gmd's post : dognose
• It's out :o : ninjase
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  Very awesome squeegy! Thanks! Is there an update to The Void for ios4 coming soon? : bigblack
  • I tried to compile it the other day for iOS4 and came up with a million bizarre compile errors. It's rea... : SqueegyTBS
• Got it, thanks! : Colleton
• It is so pretty I just wanna click it omg. : brickmatt
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  This new version loads so fast on my iPhone 4 that I can barely see the loading screen. It is awesome tho... : ovrlrd
  • Seriously it seems way faster. This is a good update! : askedrelic
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    That's probably because the fast app switching means that the splash isn't even shown at all, unless you ... : SqueegyTBS
    • Yeah I am talking about on a fresh boot. I am quite aware of the fast app switching stuff. : ovrlrd
    • Thank You! : psxtim
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  Good job, man. Just out of curiosity, what was with that landscape startup bug? Almost ALL of my apps ha... : natural born chaos
  • http://github.com/Squeegy/latest-chatty-2/commit/8bb181e37e8f53f617896f931174d65d8d40c8ec#L0L5 In the ... : SqueegyTBS
• Thank you squeegy! You've optimized my toilet going experiences even more. : Druuge
• Yay. It works again! Thx : naabster
• Excellent, dear sirs! Good work! : Mad Brahmin Disease
• well lookie all the sexy new icons. Thanks Squeegy : skelom
• Thank you!!! : Trepex
• Excellent! Thanks! : freshyk
• This is really nice :) : dognose
• Thank you! : irrerno
• You're the best! : Brian Leahy
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  Why don't pic uploads work anymore for me? asks for a valid user / pass? but I can post. : abrasion
  • If your using my api I can't seem to get it to work.... yet : stonedonkey
• Squeegy? Is that my "nasty good" lime in the icon? O_o : warcrow
• It would be cool to see screenshots from the first release to this one. Thanks squeegy, this is good st... : boarder2
• Latest Chatty is hands down my favorite app. : Rethius
• Is 'Don't Save History' working? : kramweil

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• thanks : humbleone
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  So tell me good sir, what does this offer from the previous versions? : DM7
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    TABS HIGH UP : historyinthemaking
    • Tabs not up high on mac ;( : historyinthemaking
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    Yuk, besides tabs on the top, can you change that anywhere? :( : DM7
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      view>toolbar tabs on top. voila! : smacknca
      • Oh, found it on mac. Looks horrible :( Hopefully a theme will help : historyinthemaking
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    Tabs are distanced from the page your on, up the top like Chrome - so you have to look past the address b... : abrasion
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      Tabs on top is the greatest invention ever! : daedraug
      • Like breakfast aids. : abrasion
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      You're on vacation. : pancake humper
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        resting feet, its midnite : abrasion
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          midnight, on vacation, and you can't find something better to do? : mwasher
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            I am stuck here with my feet in a bucket of water, mwasher. : abrasion
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              sounds like a shitty vacation O.o : mwasher
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                It's awesome so far - I just shouldn't have walked 10 miles in a day. : abrasion
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                  Have you complained to whatever city you are in that their walking paths are not up to your standards for... : mwasher
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                    No this place is much better than home in most ways, sorry mwasher. : abrasion
                    • The grass is always greener, abrasion. : mwasher
    • you could just link back to every time you've posted this same thing in every browser thread : Draugluin
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      you have to be the laziest man alive. oh man you have to look higher!! : mikecyb
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        It's about usability not lazyness, make smart posts mike - not dumb ones plz. : abrasion
        • tabs above the address bar make more sense because the address bar is part of the tab : mikecyb
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      You can disable it easily, and the rationale from a usability standpoint is sound. Learn to adapt. : Conan
      • Hahaha, never gonna happen. : DrWaffles
      • lol did you just tell abrasion to "learn to adapt" ? : Clay
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        How is this more usable? I try to give things the benefit of the doubt rather than immediately complain ... : gokwyjibo
        • Never mind. Didn't read down far enough, and have now seen the video. It does make sense but I'm still ... : gokwyjibo
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      People can bitch at me all they like, there's quite a few people who agree - it's a UI disconnect and a f... : abrasion
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        Have you seen the Firefox explanation video for this? http://blog.mozilla.com/faaborg/2010/06/24/why-tabs... : crummynz
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          I don't need to, they are breaking Windows conventions and moving the data I want further away, through a... : abrasion
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            You won't even attempt to listen to reason at this point? Then why keep making these posts over and over... : DrWaffles
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              because I'm right. : abrasion
              • Then turn it off and move on, jesus christ. : DrWaffles
            • I've watched the video. I still don't like tabs up top. : Ebu
        • all their reasoning is within their own app, not about the system as a whole. short sighted and self cent... : NexusOne
        • You mean it's a change? Do you expect UI design to remain static forever? : BouillonCubes
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          They have some solid reasons for tabs on top and their reasons are probably very similar to why chrome an... : thecatinthehat
          • It's firefox too, there will be a dozen ways to put it back to menus on top. : BouillonCubes
      • I hate that thing too. : shirif
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      I HATE TABS ON TOP. Run a browser in a remote desktop window, and you will to. : NexusOne
      • we are united in this, sir. TO VICTORY : Downforce
      • Yep, one of many reasons why it blows. : abrasion
      • Exactly : Ride-My-Rocket
    • I go to great lengths to make firefox put the tab bar at the bottom of the window : proclone1
    • Is it wrong that I don't even like tabs? My "tabs" are these things called tasks on my task bar : Shai-Tan
    • So I'm going to lose weight moving me eyes that much more? : BouillonCubes
    • I hate tabs on top too. Fuck that shit. >:( : thetangent
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      Who the hell has a file menu and static bookmark bar O_o Oh yeah, that's right... : Danny5225
      • Pretty much everyone. : abrasion
• This doesn't excite me like it once did. : uglysad
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  Tell me that's not a non-standard window like chrome. Wtf you idiots, stop with this shit. It's not uniqu... : avatar_58
  • yeah this pisses me off too : pyros
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  Is it faster than Chrome? : dmason
  • Does it blend? : loboca
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  They've essentially copied Chrome and it's still fucking slow. Congratulations! : jingletard
  • I would totally use chrome if the extensions were as mature. For example I use something called Speed Dia... : Shai-Tan
• Once extension support was added to Chrome I gave up on FF. I like my browser minimal and fast (but with ... : mn3m0n1c

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  I like how their spots on the timeline in no way correspond to the actual year they were released in. ... : sgtsanity
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    I like how apparently nothing of note came out between 2001 and 2009. Did they just get bored or somethi... : Teiresias
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      Seriously, I'd have thought Q3A or UT deserved mention. : mn3m0n1c
      • Wait, those were both out in '99. Hrm. :/ : mn3m0n1c
      • and I think XS should get a nod as well, along with Turok: Rage Wars. :( : roushimsx
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        When did Doom 3 or Quake 4 come out? I'm pretty sure Doom 3 came out in 2004 and Quake 4 came out in... ... : Maddog_Delphi97
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          Yeah 2004 was the year of Doom 3 and Half-Life 2. also UT2K4, my fave UT. :) : mn3m0n1c
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            ...also Thief and Riddick. :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_in_video_gaming#Notable_releases : mn3m0n1c
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              oh shi, I forgot Far Cry! This definitely should have made the list. : mn3m0n1c
              • and Operation Flashpoint for its mammoth island sizes and massive scope! : roushimsx
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  I'm offended Quake is underrepresented, it was groundbreaking. : Slowtreme
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    wow I have never played a Medal of Honor game. i didn't even know it was big, I thought it was just the s... : Slowtreme
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      The only ones really worth playing are Spearhead, Pacific Assault, Infiltrator, and Airborne. Everything ... : roushimsx
      • Rising Sun was a true low point. Didn't the team quit and someone else had to piece everything together? : steauengeglase
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      Many of the guys who made Medal of Honor (2015 Studios) went on to create the first Call of Duty game as ... : mn3m0n1c
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        2015 only made Allied Assault (the third game in the series). Some of the guys from Dreamworks Interac... : roushimsx
        • Yeah, I often forget it started as a console series. I'm a PC-only gamer. :) : mn3m0n1c
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        I thought Call of Duty was Medal of Honor, I haven't played that either. UH OH : Slowtreme
        • The CoD series has a lot more good games in it than the MoH series, that's for sure. CoD is pretty ok and... : roushimsx
  • ditto - especially what Quake World Team Fortress did for online gaming.. at least in my mind.. before th... : wimpy1
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    fuck that chart. basically it has to be wolf3d-doom-quake-unreal-farcry-doom3-crysis in terms of mile sto... : Hoax
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      correction, take out doom3 and crysis (those were more relevant engines than games) and put battlefield 1... : Hoax
      • and tribes. i forgot tribes for fucks sake! : Hoax
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  lol Metroid Prime : Mad Brahmin Disease
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    one of the best games ever made : gmd
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      Metroid should have stayed 2D. That is right, I said it! : Evil Benius
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        you are wrong and I will stab you in the face next time we meet ! : gmd
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          I got bored playing the first one. I prefer exploring like that in a 2D environment instead of 3D where I... : Evil Benius
          • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmMRaUX-QSM&feature=related : gmd
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        Metroid Fusion was so bad that it made me reevaluate my desire to ever play another 2D Metroid. than... : roushimsx
        • Even zero mission was too guided. A little direction I can understand, but the statues everywhere were a ... : Conan
      • I'd love some new, deep 2D metroid games, but Prime was awesome. Retro got it right. : Conan
      • Nope. Prime is one of the best games ever created. : ieGod
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    i love me some Metroid Prime, but that list is wack yo. i wonder how gamerankings ranks their games. : dopeman
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      they use a similar method that rottentomatoes uses : RikiTiki2
      • ehhh. i've played all of those games, and while metroid prime ranks extremely high, i would not place ... : dopeman
  • IAWTLOL : zombie man
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    That shit right there is fucking offensive. Metroid Prime (one of the coolest games and concepts ever) is... : MercFox1
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      What is in your opinion? And if you say HALO someone will more than likely rip your throat out, keep tha... : Goto10
      • anyone who doesn't answer doom/quake/tribes/wolf:et needs to diaf i might accept duke3d for dognoses sake... : Hoax
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        Check the postname, bro. Nothing less than motherfucking Doom is number 1, except maybe Duke3d.exe, or Wo... : MercFox1
        • I agree with almost everything you said there, but am embarrassed to say I'm not sure who "MercFox" is. :... : Goto10
    • Neither is Halo. But that's not what the list is saying. MP is the highest ranked FPS game. Critics... : Judicus
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  tribes was also one of the first fps games with vehicles. And I'm surprised at the complete lack of Battl... : cfalcon
  • Terminator: Future Shock beat it by a couple of years. http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/terminator-futu... : roushimsx
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  Nice they left off Deus Ex. That's weird. : classicfork
  • I guess they think that Deus Ex was just an RPG with FPS elements and not the other way around? ;) : roushimsx
  • their infographic doesn't have much room : RikiTiki2
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  How is Resident Evil 2 in any way related at all to the Quake engine? News to me... : Wikus Van De Merwe
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    lol, I totally missed that. Looks like someone used Wikipedia for all of their information: http://en.... : roushimsx
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      I have a hard time buying that at all. I mean, sure, I suppose you could do fixed camera and prerendered ... : Conan
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        The only thing I can think of is that they used some derivative of the quake engine for the PC port of Re... : roushimsx
        • Ok, I grabbed the demo for RE2 on PC and took a quick peek at the file structure and stuff. There's no... : roushimsx
      • Especially when you have a perfectly working engine from the previous game that you can re-tool. (which i... : Wikus Van De Merwe
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      I know right? Gaming journalism fail... : Wikus Van De Merwe
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        gaming journalism : RikiTiki2
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          Serious business. Oh, wait. : Mad Brahmin Disease
          • Well there are so many other prominent games based off of Quake 1, why did they pick the most dubious one : Wikus Van De Merwe
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  Your timeline has been consolized :( : dodob
  • I think that's my main complaint about it as well. : mn3m0n1c
  • There's no such thing as PC gaming anymore. : freakynipples69
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  Marathon was so much fun. : thecatinthehat
  • oh yeah! : mankeroo