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• theres a niche for everyone on the internet : Kombit
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  Where did the stereotype of 'no one over the age of 25" for this movie come from? I mean it's mostly nin... : Lionhart32935
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    Old fuckers like me just don't get the kids jokes and sexin. We just want them off our lawns. : Fyunch Click
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      we're just set in our ways : dantastic
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        what? quiet whippersnapper, I can't hear my Ginger Lynn Allen porn. : Fyunch Click
        • i don't know who that is but i'm angry because i don't know : dantastic
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    the comic book was all sega genesis references. kid chameleon and sonic and knuckles? get out of here. : ibrokn
    • Clash at Demonhead? The one-up was an obvious Mega Man clone. He plays a PSP in book six. : Deathlove
  • What about people who are exactly 25? : thetangent
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  Unpopular actor? He was brilliant in Arrested Development and the only other movies I've seen him in he's... : Fred Garvin
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    BTW, is that retarded quote something you made up? Also, I guess people should only make movies everyone ... : Fred Garvin
    • yeah look what happened to spiderman 3 :( : dantastic
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      It's Michael Cera playing Michael Cera in a Michael Cera movie, what's not to like? : DM7
      • Michael Fucking Cera. : MeestaNob
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      If you are gambling 60 million of other peoples money on it, then its normally a good idea, yes. : theghostofsmdever
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        You of all people know that sort of thing happens all the time. That's why it's called a gamble. Bigger b... : Fred Garvin
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          This wasn't a gamble, this was throwing money away. Again, this is one of the reasons that the person th... : critch
          • Who got fired? You just provided a quote and not a link. : Fred Garvin
    • no but then you dont spend 60 million on it. you make it for way cheaper : spiderfill
    • Well, yes, I did make that up. But it's not far from the truth. This is two bombs in a row for Cera, i... : critch
  • Me neither, I thought he did a great job. Haters gonna hate. : Rehevkor
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    People are tired of him playing the same exact role in every movie. : aggressor
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      And I'm not a Cera hater. I've seen everything he's been in and I painfully agree. The dude is typecast s... : aggressor
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        I've been a big fan of Cera and even an advocate at times earlier on when people started attacking him fo... : zuga
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          Who's to say he's even capable of playing anything else? Has he ever shown that he can? : rudds
          • I think the only example of him playing anything else whatsoever is his alternate personality in Youth In... : zuga
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            the amusing thing is that Dennis Hopper, Joe Pesci, Robert Deniro are all considered to be fine actors an... : steelsamurai
            • ^^^Has not seen My Cousin Vinny, The Super, We're No Angels, Awakenings, Angel Heart...Ok, he's right abo... : AxeMan808
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      I agree, but on the other hand he's type casted so much it would be strange to see him in another role. : DM7
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        Youth in Revolt at least allowed him to somewhat break out of that with the alter-ego character. : mancide
        • Yea but that character had maybe 30% of the screen time compared to Cera being Cera : aggressor
    • Pretty much. He's always the awkward teen chasing the chick he can never get. : jingletard
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      So, people hated Arnie and a million other actors who played basically the same role? : Fred Garvin
      • Action movies where violence is the go-to for story telling are a bit more lax. Also: The 80s. : aggressor
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        No, watching a badass be a badass is always awesome. Watching a pussy be a pussy, not so much. : ArcKnight
        • ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ : RikiTiki2
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          His character is a pussy but also better than you. That makes people feel bad. : guigr
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            Hahahaha, what? : ArcKnight
            • LEAVE MICHAEL CERA ALONE : ArcKnight
        • Haha. : Dschinghis Khan
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          Bob Newhart says you're an idiot. : HockeyJohnston
          • http://www.indianinvasioncomedy.com/stand-up-comedy-videos/comedian-pics/bob-newhart.jpg : c0bra
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            Bob who? : ArcKnight
            • This is the part of the thread where we all watch you suck your own dick before you get shot in the head. : heartsauce
        • hehe so true : deathofrats
        • he's in seven highly-stylized fights and wins them all. what a pussy. :( : Deathlove
        • Hahahaha, there is a lot of truth to be found here. : thetangent
        • Correct and succinct... ding ding we have a winner. : MeestaNob
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        Arnie played a pregnant man once, don't forget : bozer
        • My nipples are very sensitive... I NEED MAH LARREH!!! : MurrayTheSkull
    • This. His shtick was only sort of funny at first...then you realized it was basically all there was to... : Omega Blue
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      This. It's almost as bad as the recent wave of Burton/Depp/Bonham-Carter movies. : Ride-My-Rocket
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        I understand Bonham-Carter's playing a crazy woman in her next movie. : Rotten Deadite
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          I heard it's going to be a dark film. : Rooster Cockburn
          • http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1929453 : MeestaNob
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    Cera and Shia LeGoof should marry each other, and fuck off to some remote island with Night. Sham-a-ding-... : ShadowRam
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      Did he kick your dog or something? : Fred Garvin
      • That bastard-guy : ShadowRam
  • It's ok if you do not like Michael Cera, but some people have trouble differentiating their hatred of a p... : MurrayTheSkull
  • I love Arrested Development. That being said the vast majority of people out there haven't seen it and re... : Magus
• Studies show that the word 'Pilgrim' isn't popular with people. They shouldve named him something else. ... : jingletard
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  ummm people over 25 won't understand the references? What references would those be? : mr wolf
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    they are like that noise only young people can hear. Over 25's just don't hear the references and wonder ... : Fyunch Click
    • I'm 32 and the movie was filled with references from my child hood so I don't get it. Reminds me of my e... : mr wolf
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      From yesterday: http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Box-Office-Bob-omb-5-Reasons-Scott-Pilgrim-Vs-The-World-Fa... : LoioshDwaggie
      • yes. I read the article. I am working on making fun of the whole age specific references in the article. : Fyunch Click
  • If it's anything like Juno, I can understand. My parents didn't understand a lot of the Ellen Paige's di... : atom519
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    All of the Nintendo ones, obviously. Would someone over the age of 25 even recognize the old 8-bit Ninte... : walker270
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      umm.. yeah? the original nintendo came out in 86 right? I would wager that people under 25 wouldn't b... : deathofrats
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        Nope, sorry, you're wrong. No one understands video game references over the age of 25. No one. Ever. ... : walker270
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          wait wait..that was um...smokey the bear and sam the crime dog right..I can jive, i get the references. : deathofrats
          • Sam? McGruff! You fucking poseur. : Deathlove
      • Haha, yeah, I was going to say you need to bump that up 5-10 years. : one random winner
    • You realize the NES came out in the mid 80s, right? If you got the NES around when it released, you are p... : MaxPete82
    • I am 26 and I got all of the references. Why wouldn't I? I had an NES. : aggressor
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      What the hell is wrong with you boy? : rosewood
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        Has there ever been a post in the history of the internet that used the word "obviously" in a non-sarcast... : walker270
        • Obviously I have no clue : rosewood
      • Ok we get it you like calling people boy but that needs to stop like 90% of your posts have had that in t... : Morgin
    • I'm a 34-year-old geek. I grew up when arcades still existed. I own an original PONG machine (still wor... : genom
    • I'm 40 and played the hell out of NES and SMS. I even imported a Super Famicom. : baron calamity
    • lol WTF? Im 27 and Im positive my 37 year old cousin would get every referance as well. : klearlyunseen
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  Well, I'm 30 and I got pretty much all of the references. : giant boy detective
  • As far as you know... : Ebu
• This movie will make it's cash on DVD/Blu Ray... I'm not even surprised at how bad it did in theaters. : ArtilleryMarker
• I thought the film was a disappointment, but two people WALKED OUT on it not even halfway through. I'v... : ctlaltl33t
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  I don't know much about the movie but goddam 60 million seems like alot of money for that type of movie. ... : NastyJack
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    Comics are hot right now in Hollywood : ctlaltl33t
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      Maybe this'll stop that : RikiTiki2
      • Not likely with Thor, Avengers, Ant Man, Iron Man 3, Spiderman reboot, X-men First Class, etc etc etc : ctlaltl33t
  • Universal Studios is shtting the bed this year by throwing huge budgets at niche films. : Super Sparker
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  From what I read the movie is filled with old video game references that kids under 25 most likely won't ... : rosewood
  • One person says nobody over 25, another says nobody under 25. Oh no. Besides, isn't retro 'in' now? : aggressor
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  it may take 10 years but it will make it's money back on dvds and rentals. Even Waterworld turned a ... : grabbie
  • Waterworld made money because the company that made it sunk lolololo : TheStupidOne
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  I tend to think it was the terrible trailers that killed the movie I don't think they knew how to sell it... : OutlawSundown
  • http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=23674424#itemanchor_23674424 I was wrong about the good part thoug... : ctlaltl33t
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    The trailers were awesome. I saw one of them and it sold myself and my fiancee to go see it : shred.
    • Some of the later trailers were better but the early ones were terrible. : OutlawSundown
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  so....what movie are we talking about? : sanchez
  • When in doubt, read the Morning Discussion entry. : aggressor
• I have not seen one trailer for it on television. : Druuge
• Man, what's with the hate on this movie? I saw it last night and it was fucking awesome. Most people walk... : dravalen
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  some people don't like being reminded that they don't know much about anything.. or that they're not as ... : industro
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    This is bullshit dude. There's a big difference between "not getting it" and not liking it for what it is : ctlaltl33t
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      Why do you hate this movie so? : Jonathan
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        I didn't hate it, but I didn't love it either. I just think the attacks on anyone criticizing this film a... : ctlaltl33t
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          Not liking Michael Cera is pretty weak? He is a pretty polarizing dude. : hussdelrio
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            Other way around, re-read my post dogg : ctlaltl33t
            • Oh the attacks on the attackers are weak. WE ARE IN AGREEMENT THEN. /raises glass : hussdelrio
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  Michael Cera is the Punky Brewster of the '10's. : Thornfist
  • Without the tits : Thornfist
  • Except he has actually been entertaining and funny. : Fred Garvin
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  I don't get why people wont see a movie because Michael is playing a role that he is best at playing. It... : TheVietSpecial
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    The difference is people *like* arnold. (See: being elected governor) If I saw Michael Cera on the st... : Thornfist
    • That image is hilarious. : one random winner
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    except Arnold is badass, Cera is deliberately awkward hipster shit that people are starting to reject out... : kainen1
    • Michael Cera's tricked us all into going to see movies! : Deathlove
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    I really liked the movie but I just wish Michael Cera had a chin :( : DeBurgo
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      I was too busy looking at the girl with hair like this : ----_____O_o/----------- to notice Michael Cera ... : walker270
      • Fraylo was in the movie? : Cheeziologist
• I just didn't think it sounded interesting enough to see in theaters. : edgewise
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  What's disconcerting is that the audience demographic that would really enjoy this is the same type of de... : MurrayTheSkull
  • I think that is the key. Even those who don't steal would rather just wait to netflix it. : baron calamity
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  Box office bomb or not, I would bet it takes off on DVD. : acheron
  • I know I'm buying it on blu-ray. I already bought the game, saw it in theaters, and ordered the comics. I... : Rehevkor
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    Kevin Smith said pretty much just this on his twitter. : Deathlove
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      Cop Out bombed a lot worse than Scott Pilgrim. Wishful thinking for him maybe? : ctlaltl33t
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        Started at $18M, finished at $44M. Made money before it even hit international/DVD. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMB... : Deathlove
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          ^^ Saw Cop Out on opening night : ctlaltl33t
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            I saw it, yeah, but the fact is, it made 150% of its budget before it even hit DVD. That's not a bomb. : Deathlove
            • Deathlove I'm just fucking with you dude. Relax : ctlaltl33t
  • Box office matters, but for a lot of films it's an ad that sells the DVD. : Fred Garvin
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  haha do you really think the like 5000 people who got to see the movie free at Comic-Con would have made ... : mikecyb
  • The one thing I would say is that the PR for this film probably should have been built around people surp : sgtsanity
• I personally don't like the comic. :\ : baron calamity
• The trailer looks so bad the ShackHype can't even sway me to see it. : givemesnacks
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  I love watching Michael Cera movies. Hope that guy never ages. : Edges
  • Same here, Edges. : CrustaR
• the funny thing is I'd probably be interested in the movie if someone else was playing the lead role. : .frame
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  Why are people calling micheal cera a hipster? : klearlyunseen
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    Because people on the internet are stupid, and I guess we've moved past calling everyone we don't like "e... : Vincent Grayson
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      I wonder what the next blanket label will be for the generally disliked. : Barnahog
      • I'm hoping at some point we can just move on to something like "fuckface" and lose all the pretenses of i... : Vincent Grayson
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      haha this is so fucking right on. The next one up will be scenester or something "scene" related, book... : sammyl
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        We already passed making fun of scenester fucks, dude. Years ago. : Modica Sol Solis
        • when I was younger the term was "trendy". : .frame
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    Yeah, I don't get it either. He seems to be more or less play a nerd in his movies, as far as I can tell.... : Attica Blue
    • Most hipsters are nerds at heart. : Modica Sol Solis
  • Because it's the new buzz word. http://www.google.com/trends?q=hipster No one knows what it means but ... : NastyJack
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  The $10,000 lost from those preview screenings really would have made a difference! : Prozium
  • yeah also they are picked to be evangelists who spread word of mouth buzz so its meant to be positive : spiderfill
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  I started reading the comic. The main character is a fucking prick. : herradura99
  • And he's no different than a lot of Shackers or people that we know. : Fred Garvin
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  I'm 28 and I got every single reference. Hell when I'm 60 I'm still going to think the movie is awesome. : HL3dsx
  • yes but all the 24 year olds at the time you're 60 will find this a "quaint old timer's movie". generati... : beastrabban
• Didn't it make $10 million opening weekend? That is hardly a bomb. Even though it cost $60 mil to make I ... : Magus
• I don't get it, the opening logo is Atari 2600 style and people over 25 won't get it? : Derringer

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  Wow, I didn't know it was going to have space combat at all. I figured they'd save it for an expansion. : BouillonCubes
  • They probably learned from SWG : Sgt_Boomstick
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  Was that massive auto aim or did the ships have their own turrets which you can aim? : sanchez
  • My guess is mouse for aiming - keys for movement. : Jonathan
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  That looks awesome. I wonder what everyone who was complaining about tunnels will think... : GoldfishInAJarOfPickles
  • Looks terrible, although since I have no idea what the player was controlling versus what was automatic, ... : briareos99
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  cool looks like you are on rails - as opposed to "able to fly anywhere" thanks for sharing this swt... : Nation
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    Yeah they already said it was flight along tunnels of space. : Jonathan
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      GummiShips : LoioshDwaggie
      • High adventure that's beyond compare : Jonathan
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        I thought of that too ... though --- wasn't that how the Tie Fighter / X-Wing games were? : Nation
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          They were free roam (I assume inside a pretty big box of space). Rebel Assault was similar to this. : Jonathan
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            so, just a question of "how big a tube" --- maybe this will be big enough to be considered the spiritual ... : Nation
            • Personally I'd rather they skipped further single ship space combat and focused on something battleship/f... : Jonathan
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              No. X-Wing and Tie Fighter were full on flight sims. They had one major issue (lack of ceiling makes flig... : LoioshDwaggie
              • this. : riptyde
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  Wonder if pvp would be possible ;/. : Techy007
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    Have you never heard of jousting? : Jonathan
    • Excuse me, do you know where I might find some sailors? : atom519
• That definitely looks cool, even if it's just a distraction from ground combat. : atom519
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  I don't know how I feel about this game. On one hand, it's Bioware. There's space combat. On the other ha... : Modica Sol Solis
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    I think they are definitely filling a niche that WoW does not. They are creating content in an MMO space... : BouillonCubes
    • I guess their aim of making a single-player MMO is an admirable one, but I have my reservations on how ef... : Modica Sol Solis
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      If by "they" you mean EA... then sure "they" are.. don't think for a second this is going to be anything ... : rmjackson
      • Looks pretty similar from what I've seen. Looks very much like KOTOR + MMO. : BouillonCubes
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      Their voice work tends to go into the raids and major quest lines. They prefer to focus their efforts on ... : LoioshDwaggie
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        blizzards likes to put voice overs in the most annoying places possible where NOBODY wants a voice over. ... : electroly
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          SUFFER MORTALS AS YOUR PATHETIC MAGIC BETRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYSSSSSS YOU! : Chod
          • Hahaha. Best part of that fight. Her voice breaking is great. : LoioshDwaggie
  • Pretty sure the difference lies in setting and story. They're trying to being the feeling of singleplayer... : derelict515
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    The big thing I'm curious about is how their "story-centric" approach will pan out once you're at the max... : Vincent Grayson
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      Well, given that they want the game to be story-centric, I'd hope they'd have a lot of GMs to run events ... : Modica Sol Solis
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        Does anyone do GM events these days? Seems a real waste of effort. : Jonathan
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          Why do you feel it's a waste of effort to do GM events? : Modica Sol Solis
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            How many people see the fruits of their labor? What are you paying per hour for someone to generate quest... : derelict515
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              If they're planned well, plenty of people should see them. You have organic world events, like the Souths... : Modica Sol Solis
              • TM and Southshore was not a world event. The only reason people went there was because they had faction s... : ArcKnight
        • I'd like to see more GM events in MMOs, or even a GM-run faction. Keep things fresh vs just doing the sa... : riptyde
      • You mention GM events in these threads all the time, and I get it why you do, but I have a hard time seei... : action wombmate
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      Endgame is always the killer for most MMO's. It seems the developers always view it as an afterthought, ... : atom519
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        Honestly, if the story stuff is compelling enough, I'd be more likely to hit max level, finish my story, ... : Vincent Grayson
        • your class missions will be completely different, but they obviously dont make up most of the game. So pl... : xxx2xxx
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    See, this is where you're wrong to be disappointed. SWG already tried to fill a niche that was semi-uniqu : snot3353
    • Galaxies was awesome, in its time. I guess there's a significantly large audience who wants exactly what ... : Modica Sol Solis
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    Although I will say, if I wanted to play a single-player space combat experience, which is what this is, ... : Modica Sol Solis
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      Freelancer was awesome. : snot3353
      • "is". Freelancer *IS* awesome. : AxeMan808
    • RIP space sim genre. :( : riptyde
• lame rail shooter.. go play rebel assault.. ::pout:: I WANT MY TIE FIGHTER REMAKE DAMNIT! : dextius
• It looks very pretty! : chungathebunga
• that music makes anything seem awesome : Lawgiver
• I think I beat up that bald guy in the Witcher. Weird. : hatelull
• My first reaction was OH WOW AHHH THAT GUY IS FLYING A MILLENNIUM FALCON OMG WOW THAT GUY IS IN A TIE FIF... : snot3353
• Can we get a mobile mirror? : skinlab133
• hmm looks interesting : bolneze
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  If it was an action game they were advertising here, cool... but uhh... Where's my MMO? :< : ramshot
  • this is a minigame / gimmick. the mmo-part is like wow, you run around with your guy and shoot bats and s... : xxx2xxx
• It seems like just a novelty to break away from the tedium that may come from MMO ground combat, how much... : shortbuscaptain

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• bwaaaahahaha that's you? you fucker, I should've known. : beastrabban
• Get up here! We are playing Parcheesi! : jcrockerman
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  Wait, your not really called phil? : silentbobuk
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    Or Alex Graff, either. : Phil
    • mind = blown : foo
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      OH MY GOD! MY MIND IS BLOWING! : silentbobuk
      • holy shit, is it blowing for free or...? : phipple
    • Nooooooooooo! : mystifier
    • lies within LIES within LIES OMG : beastrabban
    • How did I already know this? : one random winner
    • This is the same feeling I got when I was 9 and my brother told me Santa Claus wasn't real. : atom519
    • What!???? That's impossible! : justwr!ght
    • I need my totem!!!!!!!!!!!!!! : Downforce
    • one... two... Freddie's coming for you... : riptyde
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      This is like that day I found out that Mexicans won't eat garlic. : dognose
      • whaaaaaat???? : pyide
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        Holy shit mexicans won't ear garlic how does that even work!? : SpaecKow
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          Black people can't swim and the Chinese can't be fed after midnight or they turn into Cave Trolls. : Godhatesfatpeople
          • oh hell yes. I'm starting a late-night chinese food restaurant and building an army. brb. : mindmann
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          ear garlic sounds nasty. : voodooraze
          • :[ : SpaecKow
    • Gay name, bro. : Godhatesfatpeople
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  Nice jet ski!! : CrustaR
  • best part of the series was him on the jet ski with the topless chick on the back and he just dumps her o : dantastic
• elohel : rmjackson
• how can we be so sure its you ? post a pic for yourself holding a fish on your head with a piece of paper... : hanged_man
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  Done - curious how you will melt our brains through Facebook : sonicdeathwalrus
  • My first order of business will be trolling Sarah Palin's 8 billion followers. : Phil
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  lol i thought you found me through my job so i sent you to my exile list of people i'm kind of creeped ou... : dahanese
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    oh shit. i think i'm on that list. : mindmann
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      no you are probably on "internet" which is one step above. : dahanese
      • actually...i don't think i'm on any list at all... : mindmann
  • so that's the list I'm on : CoRDS
• LETS DO THIS : umegastar
• lol, I was wondering who that was. : edgewise
• I can't help this, sending friend request : flagg209
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  Phil I am not adding you on Facebook so you can creep my pictures and post them on Shacknews >:( : jenisthebest
  • Limited Profile time! :) : quanta88
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    You seem very trusting of Toronto Shackers... : Afterglow
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      because if you post pictures of me on shacknews i know where to find you to punch you in the balls! : jenisthebest
      • lol : Super Sparker
      • But you never came to my cockpunching party last year. :( : Afterglow
  • it's okay, all he has to do is friend any of your friends and he'll get access : electroly
• wait how did you find me a week ago, that was weird : FrayLo
• I hate facebook and I will never create a facebook account, fuck you. : Maddog_Delphi97
• this might bring me back to fb, phil. : noobja
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  facebook seems way too dangerous for you. I can see you tagging various shackers in a photo of some trann... : wtf242
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    DON'T GIVE HIM ANY IDEAS! : beastrabban
    • ABORT. ABORT. ABORT. : r3dn3ck
    • QFT. Someone nuke that shit. =] : Zhaneel
    • DO IT. PHIL... EMBRACE THE DARK SIDE. FEEEEEEL THE TROLLING. : Downforce
  • I want to do this now. : Fenring42
  • this was kind of my thought... : mindmann
  • I want to be friends for him specifically that reason. I hate 99% of my fb friends and family : judge

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  Interesting take. I am actually kind of curious to see it now. Also, he says that people are sick of ... : theghostofsmdever
  • "fuckers" : sludge vohaul
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    "annoying little shits" : Arctic Fox
    • You just don't understand gramps!!! : theghostofsmdever
  • Guidos. : NodTerrorist
  • "sluts" : AllYourBase
  • I'm surprised it didnt do better myself. My wife really wanted to see it based on previews alone, neither... : FreshwaterAU
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    "spoiled reality-TV addict faggots" : Ride-My-Rocket
    • no that is baby boomers : sgtsanity
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  I must not pay attention, because I hadnt heard of this movie until some time last week :/ : maulla
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    I've seen the trailer plenty of times, it just didn't look interesting to me. : snuff
    • Ditto. : Megara9
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  I get the feeling it will do better here in the UK because a) I don't think people hate Micheal Cera (... : marmite
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    That said, piracy might hurt it a lot because it's STILL NOT OUT here. : marmite
    • Ignore shit ramble:---I know, its rather annoying! However our film industry is slowly dying because no o... : theydobecauseitis
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  I like his "geeks don't get it" point. Not that I think geeks actually don't get it, but he makes a g... : peanut-
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    There is quite a lot geeky about him IMO. In fact I would say he's a massive geek. : marmite
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      What is actually geeky about him though? Going to house parties, playing in bands and pining over which g... : peanut-
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        Maybe it's a difference in terminology. I've allways thought of geeks as like a socially accepted nerd an... : marmite
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          i thought it was reversed and geeks were worse than nerds, but not as bad as dorks : RikiTiki2
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            No way... Geeks get laid, nerds don't. : jcrockerman
            • unless your a Lambda Lambda Lambda : crewmaac
            • what about dorks and spazzes? : RikiTiki2
  • My take is that it's what a hypothetical "geek"'s fantasy would be. It's a world in which a dude who ... : xil-reno
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  I really wanted to see it this weekend but I had to watch the kids while my wife worked. I think the mark... : gooblerampling
  • ^^ this. I am really looking forward to seeing it, but time is not something that we have in abundance. : Fredrik S
  • Yeah, between crunch mode at work and toddler chasing, there's no way I'm seeing this (or anything) while... : jason bergman
  • ^^^ Yeah, me too. I've been super excited to see the movie, but with little ones and work and everythin... : Geshtar
• Seems a shame that it bombed, but the article does make a lot of sense. I definitely intend to see it whe... : Inadrys
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  look how right he was http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=23674424#itemanchor_23674424 and all the repli... : gmd
  • gmd, we can be friends now : ctlaltl33t
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  I blame marketing...I hadn't heard of the movie until I saw this post. None of my friends suggested seei... : Rape.Farm
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    Also, I'm 30...so maybe my 31 year old friends won't like it? Anyway, knowing my friends, unless they'... : Rape.Farm
    • Also, Spaced was the best show ever. : Rape.Farm
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    I can't imagine anyone other than Cera playing Pilgrim, he fits the role perfectly. : Lone Swordsman
    • My wife suggested Dan Byrd from Cougar Town, and I'd agree with that, but Cera's still looks to fit pitch... : Deathlove
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  People Over 30 don't get it People Under 30 don't get it Fuck I'm gonna be 30 in 4 months and I don't... : NukemFornever
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    Cool people. : Rape.Farm
    • In other words... hipsters. : Mommar
  • I get it and I'm 30. : Lone Swordsman
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    I'm 30 and I get it however i have no desire to see the movie as it doesn't appeal to me in any way. Howe... : Chod
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      I agree, I'll be 30 in two months and I understand what it is fully. It's just not appealing. The "thro... : Mommar
      • the game is pretty fun : RikiTiki2
  • He's playing every cliche card in his deck. : Fred Garvin
  • People who read the comic. : TheVietSpecial
  • You, in four months. : The Grolar Bear
  • i'm 34 and i loved it :( : waxthirteen
  • I get it and I'm 30. I would lay heavy odds that my younger brothers (aged 26 & 24) will adore it, but t... : Zhaneel
• interesting : bolneze
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  The internet hype turned me off. It felt extremely artificial. I have no plans on seeing this movie. : Ocelot
  • That sucks because it is amazing in all regards. : lodit
  • thats a shame. as i said, nobody is really saying the movie is bad. most people enjoyed it quite a bit. i... : purekillforce
• I don't think there's any profound reason - there's nothing to get - It just looks stupid. : dumb.
• It isn't out in the UK yet is it? Damn. : theydobecauseitis
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  Interesting article. Question: Do people really hate Michael Cera that much? I mean I know he pretty muc... : greenbergMD
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    I don't hate him, I just think he's a bad actor :/ : losimagic
    • he hasn't shown he can play any other character except the one he always plays. maybe he hasn't been give... : purekillforce
  • I can only think of 2 things he's been in and I don't really remember hating him in either of them. : marmite
  • I am tired of his schtick. He, like Napoleon Dynamite, are only able to play that one character. : deathofrats
  • yeah he sucks, he has no versatility. he plays the same meeping little meep : kainen1
  • The Internet hates everything. : Deathlove
  • I am very much not a fan. : Ebu
  • No, I've only ever seen him in Zombieland (that was him, right?) and I loved that! : Megara9
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  Goddamnit, according to IMDB the release date for Scott Pilgrim in Germany is the 6th January 2011 WHA... : jbury
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    JBURY LEAVE THE MOTHERLAND : Kombit
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      I'm not German I'm English >:[ : jbury
      • i mistook germany for russia : Kombit
      • We're still working on that, please hold : Deutschland =P : Lunatic Angelic
  • Wow, fuck. : theydobecauseitis
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    Pretty normal for non-blockbuster releases here, although it is getting better nowadays :( : Lightbulb
    • It's this kind of shit that encourages piracy. After seeing the trailer and watching all the talk on here... : jbury
  • They probably have to censor the violence because it's too crazy for Germany. : Godhatesfatpeople
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  Odds are most geeks simply didn't get the appeal of a movie about cool guys with guitars pretending to li : AgentPothead
  • I went to see it on Sunday but, I'm a cool guy that plays bass and likes video games. I especially like S... : melkore
  • I immediately though of the Shack when I read that line. : gooblerampling
  • God Starcraft 2 owns my face : zuff
• I think he over-analyzed the movie tbh. I think there's a moticum of truth to what he says, it's not appe... : thecarrot
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  I WISH MORE PEOPLE WOULD HAVE READ THE COMIC. : RogerDandy
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    This times a million. It's not about what everyone thinks it's about, goddamnit. : TheVietSpecial
    • He's totally a douche in the comics. : LoioshDwaggie
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      so it isnt about scott pilgrim defeating some guys with powers to earn the right to date some girl? : purekillforce
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        Not really. It's supposed to be about Scott Pilgrim growing up and realizing that he's an unemployed dou... : TheVietSpecial
        • i havnt been reading much about it in posts as i havn't seen it. not out in the uk yet. didnt want to rui... : purekillforce
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          Link it, I need an post to throw at people. : Deathlove
          • http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=23738673 Here you go. It's not the greatest, but hopefully it'll ... : TheVietSpecial
          • an hero? : Drewus
        • Now I'm way more interested in the comic. : Edges
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    Up until about 4 years ago, I was fairly hardcore into comics. Go to the shop every Wednesday, subscripti... : emcea
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      Is it even 4 years old? : marmite
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        Book 1 came out in 8/04. : Deathlove
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          oh, I only heard of it like a year or 2 ago. : marmite
          • It didn't reach really critical mass until '07 or '08 - that's when I heard of it, and I'm pretty far fro... : Deathlove
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  I didn't (and kind of still don't) really know anything about it, but the trailers got me kind of interes... : Begawkiness
  • just go see it, it sounds like you would have fun with it. the stylized stuff is very cool : xil-reno
• I think an interesting aspect of this film's issues is the trailers they came up with. I'm basically part... : zuga
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  it's not fair, it totally would have made more money if more than 100 people read the obscure comic. It ... : gmd
  • I honestly never even heard of the comic until I first started hearing about the first few leaks of the m... : Godhatesfatpeople
• i dont know what scott pilgrim is and the first time i ever heard of it was during the previews at incept... : alanboom
• Understandable because to the uninformed, the movie looks like Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl for th... : emcea
• I haven't seen it yet and probably won't. I'm 33. For me its one part hipster loathing and one part Cer... : Thornfist
• Interesting review. From the advertising I had seen I thought this was a kid's movie. : trove
• this is why i didn't see it: everything about the movie annoys me...from the cutesy art of the comic sour... : crypt420
• It's a very good movie! Probably too fast for a good chunk of the moviegoing audience, though. Like In : sgtsanity
• For one, I don't give a shit about comics. I didn't even know this was a comic until I started reading t... : deadhorse
• They reference Scott pilgram in kick ass when the chick that kick ass wants to bang is talking about how ... : Morgin
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  I think people are starting to get wore out on comic book movies is all. : kainen1
  • I don't really think the general moviegoing public are going to see this as another run of the mill comic... : Halen
  • I doubt it. The thing is, the comic book actually has to have superheroes that are widely known beyond a ... : Attica Blue
• Shame about mankeroo's credits snub. I guess nobody really cares about the grunts. http://www.shacknew... : HamChowder
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  81% bombs?? Its script may not be as dazzling as its eye-popping visuals, but Scott Pilgrim vs. the World : Downforce
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    If visuals were all it took to make a film good, the landscape of films would be very different : ctlaltl33t
    • well sure, but it's a HUGE portion. I just don't get the movie critic/rating industry obviously. there... : Downforce
  • The article is saying that it bombed financially, not critically. And it's accurate in that statement. : slax0r
• I thought it was a great film, and Michael Cera did a really good job. Also the chick was freaking hot! : hobohun7er
• I only even started hearing about this movie a few weeks ago, and I still have no idea what it's about (h... : thetangent
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  i just honestly quite dont give a shit about watching this movie. Ever. that simple. : -=kodiak=-
  • Do you hear that, Internet? He's done. Really. That's it. Done. : gooblerampling
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  Here's what I gathered from the trailer: Douche is told by girl that to get with her he has to fight 8 o... : deadhorse
  • I can tell you must be a hit a parties. :P : Thornfist
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    What you missed is that each evil ex is like a video game boss that turns into coins when he is defeated... : marmite
    • Yeah, that's the problem, the trailers really make the movie look shitty and dumb. I'm sure I'll probabl... : deadhorse
• I really liked this page from the comic - I think it sums it up pretty well, the mood, humour, style etc.... : marmite
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  I can't speak for the rest of the world, but I was broke that weekend, I seldom watch TV and haven't gone... : steauengeglase
  • Oh and I'm saving my few movie dollars for Machete. : steauengeglase
  • the critics were mostly positive about it. NYTimes gave it their seal of approval! : barichnikov
  • You're wrong; 80% of the critics liked it : OverloadUT
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    Armond White loved it - that should be the only review worth your time! :P : Super Sparker
    • yes, but Armond White (contrary to his other reviews) really likes Edgar Wright's films. : MurrayTheSkull
  • uhhhh, critics loved it. : klearlyunseen
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  I saw it twice this weekend and I fucking loved it and I can't stop thinking about it and I want to see i... : OverloadUT
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    It's the best video-game culture movie ever made. : OverloadUT
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      Which is funny because it's not even a movie about video games or based on video games. But it manages to... : OverloadUT
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        The Vs. stuff made me giggle every time. : walker270
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          The best part is that all of the video-game and comic-book like visuals were done very, very well. It enh... : OverloadUT
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            God fucking damnit I think I am going to see this movie tonight again : OverloadUT
            • It might become my favorite movie ever : OverloadUT
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        i did enjoy all the references. Like the ivy-esque whip. and a lot of the costuming. : mindmann
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          Okay, Ramona's hair color... The style + colors were very much out of the old 8/16-bit NES/SNES RPG ga... : walker270
          • thinking of it too hard. the hair color is less a video game reference as it is a significant character ... : MurrayTheSkull
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  We had this same thread yesterday. I say go see it. I'm 29, almost 30 and I think it was great. : phipple
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    I think I'm going to go see it with my mother tonight. She played enough 8-bit era games that I think she... : OverloadUT
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      It wasn't as heavily game referenced as people make it out to be. Just a few here and there. The SNES Zel... : phipple
      • I've seen it twice; this would be the third time. I think you're crazy to say it's not heavily game refer... : OverloadUT
• I saw it with my 29 year old gf and her 22 year old sister. Neither of them are big videogame players (bu... : Drewus
• I'm not entirely surprised - the trailers were a bunch of neon lights flashing around an anorexic dude pe... : Megara9

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• First Time Playing? Useful Links! - (Video) How to Survive Your First Night, originally linked by zuff : Dong Patrol
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  Additional Multiplayer Stuff! - From SA via Zek, make your own persistent inventory with Persister! h : Dong Patrol
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    hmm why is the new persister erroring out saying I'm failing to login? : dedgecko
    • I think there's a new version of the server out, so maybe we need a new persister link? : GrimmyD
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  So, what happened? Was the server reset? : Clasifyd
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    Full rollback again? : conandan
    • New world, it looks like! : Dong Patrol
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    Did you see the apocalyptic map from last night? My god. Unchecked expansion claims another world. :( : MercFox1
    • Does Notch know about this? : Vividvoid
    • So it corrupted the file? : conandan
    • Hope you start making manual backups, i think there is tool for that too but i couldn't find it. Maybe ... : kaankasim
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      I did not see the map. Would you happen to still have a copy? : Clasifyd
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        http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7834948/apocalypse.png : kaankasim
        • Christ... So who's getting blacklisted? : Clasifyd
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          holy shit... who the fuck did that?! :( : Shadowdane
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            silent prophet : kainen1
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              can we ban asshats that do this crap... didn't we warn him about exploring too? : Shadowdane
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                i don't know if there is banning in the server software yet. i seem to recall it being added but i'm not ... : ass-street
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                  There is blacklisting and whitelisting, yes. : Clasifyd
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                    then i guess we know what needs to happen. : ass-street
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                      I would have voted for this for the jerks using lava to burn everything up, too. : Clasifyd
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                        didn't that happen in the middle of the night or something? the server really needs better reporting abou... : ass-street
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                          I was on the server when it crashed, in the NDC area around 4pm maybe? Central time. : at0micgarden
                          • i just meant the fire starting duders. : ass-street
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                          No idea, I'm just one of those 'lynch mob' types. Ban 'em all and let God MercFox sort 'em out. : Clasifyd
                          • i support justice!! : ass-street
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              Can you verify this? This is dead serious. : MercFox1
              • he made a post or two about exploring in last night's minecraft thread but they way it is worded doesn't ... : ass-street
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                no, he was just defending 'exploration' last night. http://shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=23742965 Not trying ... : kgargs
                • Ok, I just need to figure out who to hold accountable. : MercFox1
            • Haha, I haven't been on Merc's server since the first world reset. It is too much of a drama bomb to play... : silent prophet
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          can someone repost this on shackpics? : ass-street
          • http://www.shackpics.com/viewer.x?file=apocalypse_hw7ac028cy6z6rsbyft5.jpg : Vividvoid
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          Is exploring randomly generated terrain really that amazing? OH LOOK, MORE HILLS. Screw what actual human... : Delusional
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            Not to mention it's called a Multiplayer Creation server, not Multiplayer Exploration server. : Vividvoid
            • Creative, not Creation. : Vividvoid
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            to be fair a lot of the natural caves in the explored terrain have already been drained of resource. : ass-street
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              hahaha dude, please, take a look at cartographer. There's TONS of resources to be had. You don't need ... : kainen1
              • Yeah, there were even coal and iron still easily seen from the tunnel network. : Vividvoid
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                i can't view dropbox links at work so i can't see how far he went but any cave around the spawn or where ... : ass-street
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                  Yeah, I'm uploading it to shackpics--it's a few megabytes. : Vividvoid
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                    i'm sure he went over-board and i'm not really defending anyone but i guess i can see the motivation to j... : ass-street
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                      he knew it would crash and even defended his reason for doing it and that's the 'way it is for him'. sor... : kainen1
                      • did you read my post? : ass-street
                  • And the 2.9MB file is apparently too large for their 3MB upload limit. : Vividvoid
            • 4-5 of us were 3 minutes from the spawn and working on an entire town using the land underneath us. It w... : kgargs
          • Yeah, I don't get this either. : Drewus
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          can you explain what happened? how did areas get whitewashed? : deathofrats
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            'Whitewashed' areas are just unexplored chunks. If nobody has been there, the server doesn't generate th... : Clasifyd
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              Not when the server gets corrupted. A lot of the whitewashed ares in the center of that--well, what use ... : Vividvoid
              • Ah, i thought that was before the corruption. : Clasifyd
              • ah and so when silent prophet was exploring, it erased areas already explored somehow? : deathofrats
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            Holy fuck... That's like 15-20 hours of game-time...gone. On server restart we should erect a massi... : dedgecko
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              It's actually more hours than that. : MurrayTheSkull
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                no - just my personal time vested to date. What - two weeks since the last apocalypse? : dedgecko
                • oh well i probably put in double that, since I'm home most of the day/week. : MurrayTheSkull
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              Have a server-op do it with adminium : mroizo40
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                Lighter can break down adminium, as part of the furnace fix. : MercFox1
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                  also what a fuckin pain it would be to make an adminium wall from bedrock to the skybox : ass-street
                  • which people could still build to the top of and walk across anyway, even if they didn't use a lighter. : Xevo
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                Obsidian : MurrayTheSkull
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                  which can be destroyed with diamond axes... : dedgecko
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                    Unobtainium! : Haxim
                    • no World Trees in current SMP build =/ : Xevo
            • People will explore beyond it anyway, just to be douches. : Drewus
        • What the motherfucker! I go away for two days to play Going Rogue and what the fucking shit? Goddamn! : Hemtroll
    • I was going to be on tonite to see my house in NDC with its view of the lake I made. Noooooooooooooooooo... : dnagenome
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  Looks like 0.1.3 server upgrade is out. : Vividvoid
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    If this is the case it might be a good time for an upgrade. : MercFox1
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      Notch has a blog post about it, don't know if it's out to download though. : Vividvoid
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        it is. there are new save options added that sounds like it will help the woes mercfox's server has. ... : harold.johnson
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          I thought that was suppose to be 0.1.2? : Vividvoid
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            i don't recall seeing these options in 0.1.2? i've been on pain killers the past week, so i'll use that ... : harold.johnson
            • looks like just more save features. Notch added other save options in 0.1.2. : Vividvoid
  • Minecraft Server 0.1.3 (not the inventory yet!) * Fixed save-off * Ops can now build in the spawn area ... : kaankasim
• lol, dong, Troast and I made you a nice tomb :) : Vividvoid
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  Merc why is there not a server setting for restricting map size? Or why couldn't you roll back? : kainen1
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    Yeah, why can't you just restore? : kgargs
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      A bigger question is going to be, what happens when inventory is moved to server-side and the corruption-... : Vividvoid
      • we all cry I guess. I dunno, I like merc's server but if trolling can't be controlled I'll just play on... : kainen1
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    Ya, I think versioned saves are going to be a necessity... (you can't restrict map size, there' s just no... : loboca
    • Versioned maps might be a good answer in the respect that you could version every half hour or hour or so... : Rotten Deadite
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      every 1/2 hour might be a bit much. AFAIK, the saves get to be a few hundred megabytes. A backup every... : TroZ
      • map saves every 30 minutes (like it is now) plus version saves every 12 hours, and keep the last 2 days w... : Vividvoid
      • Whats a few gigabytes these days though? the only way it'll be a pressing issue is if the servers running... : nem00
      • My server backs up every 3 hours and it's been working just fine. : zuff
      • I believe he switched to a different version of the script that I threw out for people who wanted it wher... : passingstranger
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      I thought it was already backing up every 30 min : Slowtreme
      • afaik they aren't versioned, just saves the world to disk. A snapshotted world would be most efficient di... : loboca
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    SMP, by design, does not even allow you to limit map size. Roll back (which is different from the "Backin... : MercFox1
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      There are various GUI admins out right now that do interval backups. My favorite is minecraft admin and h... : zuff
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        I took a real hard look at Minecraft Admin last time I did an upgrade, but I'm trying to limit the extern... : MercFox1
        • This is something I could probably do. : passingstranger
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          Which log files do you want to have backed up? Just server.txt? : passingstranger
          • Server.log : MercFox1
        • You should really try Minecraft Admin in the meantime. It's just a wrapper and it takes about 5 minutes t... : zuff
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      veeeeery nice. Thanks alot man :p : loboca
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        Hey did you ever get my message about the "server-reset-via-http" thing? Even if I can only do rudimentar... : MercFox1
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          Nothing outside the chatty (or I missed it, lol), did you SM? Anyway, sure, let me get something together... : loboca
          • Ok, I SMd you the basics of the setup. Lemme know. : loboca
  • It would be great if you could set an ultimate map size with the possibility of expanding that size in th... : Drewus
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  My castle will be avenged! With an even bigger castle, and inside that, a life-size model of the previous... : SolveChrist
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    SolveChrist, a challenge! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geoJG1cAFgM Maybe you can try it when the ser... : Vividvoid
    • holy hell that's massive : ass-street
    • HOLY QUESADILLA! Esta un iglesia grande! : SolveChrist
    • ...it's only a model. : dedgecko
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      HOLY SHIT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xABvXZ746wQ&feature=related : Vincenoir
      • That is done in Creative Mode though... still impressive though. : Shadowdane
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  I have erected a statue honoring the losses of the apocalypse v2, mainly mourning the loss of Port Wang. : Kronyxx
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    did you build that church where i put up that wood cross for you? : MurrayTheSkull
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      Yeah I built it, and I put your cross on top of the church so to speak. It's gone now though. : Kronyxx
      • yeah it sucks, since i built a secret entrance from the church to the bookstore that was in construction ... : MurrayTheSkull
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  Notch adding peaches next friday update?! http://twitter.com/xnotch/status/21329114378 : Haxim
  • I really just hope he adds something to do with the milk and eggs. Also, powered mine carts that aren't r... : Clasifyd
• this must be the best game ever because I have never seen a game get this much consistent attention on th... : Lawgiver
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  New Caszuffania Cartograph: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1125473/Caszuffvania-After.jpg : zuff
  • Before: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1125473/Caszuffvania-Before.jpg : zuff
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  Thanks for the help kaankasim :) http://agentpothead.com/nice.png You should be able to see what we made ... : AgentPothead
  • I cropped it, it right in the middle. https://dl.dropbox.com/s/6bdmuev65vknz7o/nice.png : kaankasim
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    lol your domain is blocked at work... Malware/Suspicious Content : Shadowdane
    • Yeah somebody else said that a few times, dunno what that is about. Probably just dont want to see the wo... : AgentPothead
  • fucking lol : moe6
  • Thats pretty good work : Slowtreme
  • Thanks genericuser! http://agentpothead.com/bulletbillvsbowser.png : AgentPothead
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  So I make a post last night about how server instability is the real issue, not exploration (why would yo... : silent prophet
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    TLDR but I bet you got an A+ in High School Drama : kainen1
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      so did you? : ass-street
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        yep, just for calling a spade a spade. look, this guy made kind of a boneheaded post that looked incrimi : kainen1
        • do it in single player then : pancake humper
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      I could make a file copying program to run in the background on the server in less than 30 minutes that w... : silent prophet
      • lol : kainen1
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    The shack is your girlfriend. : Vividvoid
    • Well, none of us are fucking him, so... yeah. : Rotten Deadite
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    minecraft.txt : MurrayTheSkull
    • I got out a long time ago. :) I could see where this was going after the first reset. Now I'm just here f... : silent prophet
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    You seem to be incapable of understanding that in a community it is sometimes necessary to compromise. I ... : noxiousgg
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      Considering I stopped playing on the server after the first reset out of respect for Merc's no exploratio... : silent prophet
      • Building does not inflate the size of the map like exploration does. A chunk is a chunk, whether it's ful... : Clasifyd
      • Ignoring the fact that a majority of people that originally voiced their opinion on the matter supported ... : noxiousgg
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        I'm pretty sure you don't have a damn clue. I was taking expeditions across Lamperia to found Duke City b... : MercFox1
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          Which is all fine and good unless that expedition is the one that causes the map to finally collapse? Wou... : silent prophet
          • The same one? Probably yes. We had about 30 Megabytes of free space, and an expedition similar to that fi... : MercFox1
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        Because building masterpieces doesn't crash the server, whereas the latter situation would crash the serv... : DHAvatar
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          I understand, and agree. My issue was with the lynch mob posts when the inevitable happens. The whole rea... : silent prophet
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            why shouldn't he? the ground rules have been clearly stated. we all know what happens if you do nothing... : kainen1
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              I'm not defending anyone by saying they were "testing the game design". Whoever went out on their own obv... : silent prophet
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                chill bro it wasn't an 'emotional dramatic finger point' i just casually thought you did it from your pos... : kainen1
                • I dunno about you, but I've had some pretty thrilling poops. : MurrayTheSkull
                • You mean my post responding to kgargs' "weren't lobo and grimy exploring?" accusation last night? After w... : silent prophet
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    there's a reason why 95% of all shack-servers have passwords. : dedgecko
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      That would be a good idea, is there even a way to password protect them?? : Shadowdane
      • not yet. : dedgecko
      • Pretty much the only way is to add a whitelist where only certain people have access, currently. : Clasifyd
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    silent prophet, I'm going to nip this right here and right now. This goes for everyone, if you think y : MercFox1
    • Stop being so goddamn sensible and level-headed, dude. : Rotten Deadite
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      Needs more "Listen faggots" : Clasifyd
      • Listen up, you primitive screw-heads! : Rotten Deadite
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      btw - where's the new new duke city? : dedgecko
      • I think it should be Duke City 3D : Xevo
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        I'm thinking it will be on the western coast of the known world. There's a stretch of land that's pretty ... : MercFox1
        • Duke City 3D. the next one is Duke City Forever (and it has to be in the planning stages for 13 Minecraf... : mikecyb
    • MY SERVER :p : kainen1
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      Sounds good to me. Do yourself a favor, though, and get or write a versioning program for the world files... : silent prophet
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        Yeah that's what I'm doing tonight, it's been on my list, but whoever fucked the map up last night did it... : MercFox1
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          I blame kgargs. : Clasifyd
          • This about sums up my feelings on the matter. : mwasher
          • agreed : kainen1
          • agreed : mikecyb
          • I'll go with this. : MurrayTheSkull
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            What did he do? : kaankasim
            • You're missing the point. : Clasifyd
            • Raped your kids, your wife, and yo husband : YerMothah
        • oh :( : silent prophet
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      Good. Use your aggressive feelings, boy. Let the hate flow through you. : RyDogg1
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        Being a squeaky wheel apparently the only way to work out contentious issues here. Since I posted, we now... : silent prophet
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          and i ended up with a robotic hand!! : ass-street
          • Yeah, its pretty much win-win all around. :) : silent prophet
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          Your still a drama queen. : ShadowRam
          • Don't accuse me of crashing servers and I won't have to wade in here and rattle the cages. : silent prophet
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          Okay I have a problem with this. Again you have a problem with a Shack server, I'm sorry to hear that an... : RyDogg1
          • Well considering people started blaming him immediately and tried to get the dog pile going (and some of ... : zakk
          • Considering the only reason I am even posting in this thread (since I haven't played on merc's server in ... : silent prophet
  • eh, i kind of agree with silent prophet. the server is going to be reset for beta anyway; don't get attac... : retarded talking dinosaur
  • I don't understand your reasoning here. You have a sandbox game, sure, yeah that's cool and all. But r... : Drewus
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  It just occurred to me that I haven't seen clay in SMP. Is it there? I know bamboo is, and it was release... : Clasifyd
  • It's there, i saw once in the first world. : kaankasim
  • Yeah we had a lot of clay around LDC on the last world. : Xevo
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    Yeah there's clay. I had collected a bit when wandering around the northern continent's beaches. : MurrayTheSkull
    • I have like 38, I bet persister still has em! : loboca
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    what is clay used for? : ass-street
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      Fire it to make bricks, then combine bricks to make brick blocks. : Clasifyd
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        cool! : ass-street
        • I want clay + gunpowder = shaped charge explosive : Rotten Deadite
    • shutting it all down : Slowtreme
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    I saw a partial house made of brick in NDC I think : mikecyb
    • Yeah that was my place, that I never finished up. :( : MercFox1
  • I built a whole brick house in the second world, so it's definitely there. You just have to sail on the b... : noxiousgg
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  FYI, the New Mega-Church of SolveChrist, inc. © is under construction near spawn. Special thanks to K... : SolveChrist
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    I'll try and pop back in there once I finish off some Haxim server stuff. I have to rebuild my bookshelf... : MurrayTheSkull
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      Make sure to bring a full inventory of stone. Scrap that, it still won't be enough. I lost about 5,... : Kronyxx
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        This is a shitty ass bug but it seems to work fine if you just mash Q 64 times. I set up a bind on my mou... : Hemtroll
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          just open the inventory and drag and drop the items out of your inventory... a lot faster than trying to... : Shadowdane
          • yeah but then when people pick up the stacks they often get only 5 or 6 blocks instead of 64. Throw out 6... : Hemtroll
          • I did that and it registered ALL of my stacks as either having 1 or 10 stone in it instead of 64. Meant... : Kronyxx
  • Yeah, I looked at it, and thought that it needed more bling. : Vividvoid
  • FYI - i've got a little mine going to the depths of hell right behind the new Mega Church... keep out!! : dedgecko
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  Anyone remember who made the big Gordon Freeman figure on the creative server? : Hemtroll
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    nope but i'm thankful that we haven't seen one retarded game character yet! : kgargs
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      Just wait until notch implements dyes and coloured blocks. : Haxim
      • I'd just use it for carpets and things like that... I really want red blocks. : Clasifyd
      • I think that most of us play the SMP differently than we do the creative servers, so I'm not so sure that... : noxiousgg
      • as soon as they are there i'm surround kgargs' settlement with marios : ass-street
      • God help us all. : kingdepork
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    this one http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?p=15331318 ? : peetabix01
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      Similar but someone made one on Merc's server IIRC. : Hemtroll
      • I think TroZ made that... not sure though. : Shadowdane
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  WTF is this!? http://manicdigger.sourceforge.net/news/ Notch just learned it's existence and he doesn'... : kaankasim
  • yup looks like the first clone.. lol : Shadowdane
  • This is just bad. It would be fine if they said something like "we were inspired by Minecraft, but our g... : passingstranger
  • lol @ http://manicdigger.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Looks like it's been edited quite a ... : Senate5000
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    I hope that site/ripoff game gets hacked to hell, what a pointless cunt. : niceguynick
    • Notch needs to contact sourceforge. They'll investigate it. : LoioshDwaggie
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    what is this like the Chinese bootleg version of Minecraft or something? : mikecyb
    • Looks like it. The blog posts are even in Engrish : OverloadUT
  • What in the fuck.... : Drewus
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    LOL This is going to fail. : MercFox1
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      Shameless clones wouldn't be a dime a dozen if they didn't work. : OverloadUT
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        I don't get why you would even bother doing this. Close to 400,000 people have played Minecraft. The peop... : Drewus
        • A lot of people are going to check it out just because they're curious. Plus there are going to be a lot ... : OverloadUT

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  I love pirate orks! : Degenerate
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    i can't stand dem's talkin' :( it makes me want to put a drill in my ear. Yeah for the expansion thou... : kevp
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      Der talkin' is wut makes dem great! : CRasterImage
      • yer! I likes the wayz they spellz too! : silentbobuk
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  Please add the Tau! Please add the Tau! : melkore
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    I think the Necron could be pretty awesome :D : Degenerate
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      I could live with Necron's being added. They would looks pretty awesome in the DoW2 engine. : melkore
      • If they're at all true to the way they are in the minis game, they'll suck. Jesus I understand they were... : Rotten Deadite
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    Relic said there will be a new playable races in this expansion. I'd love to see the Necrons. The Tau wou... : Godhatesfatpeople
    • races : Godhatesfatpeople
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    Ah, people are saying the "I" gives away a hint. That looks like it could be the Imperial Guard. : Godhatesfatpeople
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      The Inquisition? : walker270
      • Yeah it looks like the rosette of the II : Godhatesfatpeople
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        Definitely, maybe one Grey Knights or Sisters of Battle. : drhazard
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          Sisters of Battle might be ok because we wouldnt have to listen to them talk : Degenerate
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            Wat? : CRasterImage
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              arent the Sisters of Battle sworn to not speak? or am I thinking of another group of bad ass bitches? : Degenerate
              • I wouldn't doubt there are sects of the Sisters of Battle that don't speak, but you're probably thinking ... : drhazard
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        Yes, that stylized I is used by the Inquisition. : CRasterImage
        • Also, since the enemy seems to be the Orcs, then the Inquisitor's army might include Deathwatch. : CRasterImage
  • did they ever add more than 1 last stand map? that mode really needs variety : dantastic
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    The Tau are Xenos scum. : CRasterImage
    • That's right brother, and there's only one thing for Xenos filth. THE FLAME. : thetangent
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    I think they will add what ever race that have already made units for....the Imperial Guard. : IncursionZ
    • This is my prediction, though I would prefer Tau. : Captain Loco
• I wouldn't mind me some Necrons. : Johnnsen
• Looking forward to the WAAAGH! : ZTac
• Please give my my Shas la :(. : Techy007
• Yes! I've been waiting for this announcement. : Captain Loco
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  This isn't Starcraft 2. : thecatinthehat
  • yes its actually fun :D : MrLobo
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    and cartoony orcs in sci-fi RTS looks retarded and breaks immersion. : Sixcos
    • lol : Godhatesfatpeople
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      Unlike space elves and Tyranid clones. ; ) : capt tripps
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        Pretty much everything in 40k is cranked to 11 enough that it becomes silly. I like the orks because in ... : ZTac
        • WH40K Is basically the Slayer of the fantasy world. : Godhatesfatpeople
    • Me not actually being in space or delusional breaks the immersion. : taronish
• HD version http://www.gametrailers.com/video/gc-10-dow-ii/702965 :D : Godhatesfatpeople
• SWEET! I'm wondering how this is going to tie in with the end of Chaos Rising, what with the Chapter Mast : thetangent
• DAKKA DAKKA! : shortbuscaptain
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  Why do people not like the Orks' voice overs? I quite like them and I think they fit them nicely. : Kronyxx
  • They're awesome. I love their voices :) : Godhatesfatpeople
  • They are perfect and people are broken. You knew this already. : sheepraper
  • Its just that they were so good in DOW I. : hatchet165
  • The Orks have my favorite voice overs in that game. : Duffman8369
  • They're awesome, what's the problem? : Nitrium
  • warhammer orks have pretty much the best voice overs in any game ever : theWhite
• HELL YES. : The Grolar Bear
• SP Eldar campaign WOOOOOO! : sheepraper
• Enough with the damn Orks, I want Necrons. : Lone Swordsman
• Badfuckingass : justwr!ght
• naice Im thankful for anything 40k related but I want to see a turn based game with this engine : bolneze
• It will be the Inquisition/Daemon Hunters/Sisters of Battle most likely. : Derringer
• unf unf unf unf fap fap fap FINALLY Orc loving, had me a blasssttttt, orc loving raping so fassstttt WAAA... : happynoodle
• Kaptin Badrukk is a force to be feared : R@zzle
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  I will buy this for the ability to play tyranids. FINALLY. : Cottc Cid
  • what : walker270
  • lol? : bolneze
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    Surely you can't be serious. : Arctic Fox
    • don't call me Shirley : devpaul
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  Related to the Ork love. http://www.gamereplays.org/dawnofwar2/replays.php?game=47&show=details&id=138725... : stygian_whisper
  • Bookmarked for later. : TaintedSyringe
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  DoW 2 is awesome on paper, but I kind of dislike the whole thing now, largely due to the way the units an... : enyakk
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    Sync kills can go fuck themselves. Sure, they look pretty, but DON'T FUCKING DELAY ACTIVATED ABILITIES... : walker270
    • It's the kind of thing Blizzard would never have, because they are all about consistent and predictable g... : enyakk
  • I disagree completely. My one issue with DoW2 is the Chaos fags are still too OP ;) : Godhatesfatpeople
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  "Hey, Commander, am I in this game?" - Thaddeus "Shut the fuck up, Thaddeus, you're out of your league." : ChibiJosh
  • Did you want us to read this in their voices? Because I sure did, dangit. : Kronyxx
• I wonder who is going to Hire them to show up to sub-sector Aurelia? : Crimsonbeak
• Bring Back SQUATS!!! : Caoster007
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  FUCK YES ORK CAMPAIGN I AM SO FUCKING EXCITED : OverloadUT
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    YOU MIGHT WANT TO CHECK YOUR PANTS : Degenerate
    • THERE IS SHIT IN THEM! : stygian_whisper
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  I was actually pretty disappointed by Chaos Rising. :| : Rice-Rocketeer
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    I still found the campaign gameplay to be pretty flat and dull. I am looking for Frozen Throne kind of va... : enyakk
    • That's been Dawn of War since the beginning... : walker270
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      No way! : Godhatesfatpeople
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        The chokepoint focussed maps and enemy spam leave very little way for interesting microing in the SP game... : enyakk
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          Choke points don't last very long in DoW2. So it's not really a huge problem. As for enemy spam that's re... : Godhatesfatpeople
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            His post was about single player. You responded to it talking about multiplayer. : walker270
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              I know. It's why I asked what difficulty he played on in SP. The game AI varies. : Godhatesfatpeople
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                I thought original campaign was fucking awesome. But Chaos Rising was just more of the same, but less ... : Rice-Rocketeer
                • Ah, I hear you. I personally loved it. I did wish for more Space Hulk though :\ : Godhatesfatpeople
• I hope we get to name our own War boss. : Cheeziologist