Weekend Discussion

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  match ups: EAST: Entitled Milkcrate Hunchbacks vs. geedeck's UPPER DECKERS UpTown Souljas v : hirez
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    Source TV addresses? BTW I love you Hirez! Comic Sans is going down. : Lightzout
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      Bring it on! : FlamingGimp
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        Oh shit Lightzout you made him angry. You won't like him when he's angry. : yosemiteclimber
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          Hey yosemite, let's go drinking: http://www.sfbrewersguild.org/ : FlamingGimp
          • Oh damn it's today :( : yosemiteclimber
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        Losing team makes winners real root beer floats! : Lightzout
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          Oh crap I made root beer floats for me and my daughter last night, this may be a bad omen! : yosemiteclimber
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            Because you knew we would win! : Lightzout
            • BTW you get 50 awesome Dad points for that. : Lightzout
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            It could just mean your daughter is a winner!! :D : Maddog_Delphi97
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              I will keep her on my lap during the game as a good luck charm. And then I will let her call everyone a f... : yosemiteclimber
              • Sounds like a winner already! :D : Maddog_Delphi97
      • Fire all the Missiles! : Sailor of Fortune
• SUBS: Please join the Sub group channel at least 15 minutes before game time. IF you would like to be a ... : hirez
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  I should be available for subbing; would love to play. : the if
  • Was on a date but good for every other sunday from now for sure. : the if
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  how do i install map? : MurrayTheSkull
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    Program Files -> Valve -> Steam -> SteamApps -> <Steam Account> -> Team Fortress 2 -> TF -> Maps : yosemiteclimber
    • done! BRING IT OOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNN : MurrayTheSkull
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  AWW YEAH!! : Maddog_Delphi97
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    IAWTAY : Juno
    • :D : Maddog_Delphi97
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  Why are we playing custom maps, kinda dumb :( : Clay
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    because no one wanted to play ctf_well, ctf_2fort or ctf_doublecross. : hirez
    • Any chance you could throw the servers up an hour early so we can mess around? : ant_hillbilly
    • I would have been cool with anything but 2fort. : thecatinthehat
    • wtf those maps are all awesome : DrFlammable
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      more like you're the only one who wanted mach4 and since you rule with an iron first, it is so. : botch
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        mach4 is awesome, stop yer bitchin : harold.johnson
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          it very well could be, i guess i'll find out tonight! : botch
          • it's used in cevo, ugc, etc league games, and it's been around for a long time (ETF and Q3F) : harold.johnson
    • At least ctf_doublecross is a semi-recent map made by Valve. : Maddog_Delphi97
  • Why are custom maps kinda dumb? People have made some great custom maps. : FlamingGimp
  • A lot of recent maps released in patches were custom maps not official Valve maps. : dkrulz
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    ctf_mach4 is the best map in tf2 : synapse19
    • i wish it was still used on a lot of servers. there used to be a 24/7 mach server i played on, with a 32... : harold.johnson
• Prepare to not get pwned by me!!!! : nyranger66
• I look forward to our match tonight. Also is anyone streaming and casting the west coast tonight? : ant_hillbilly
• EFF YEAH! : Dschinghis Khan
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  I'm posting from a couch in Los Gatos, moving into my dorms at UCSC on Wednesday, so unfortunately I'll m... : crummynz
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    Which college brah? : Lightzout
    • He told me Porter. The same architect firm who designed CA State prisons designed Porter College as well. : Sailor of Fortune
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  Anyone gonna stream/comment one of the East games tonight? : yosemiteclimber
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    Who streamed for the first week? It was really good quality. : ant_hillbilly
    • loish had one and omnova did another. : yosemiteclimber
  • Big T. : thecatinthehat
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  T-MINUS 50 MINUTES! : theWhite
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    where is geedeck :( : _jon
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      where is geedeck :( : watcherxp
      • srsly >:( : theWhite
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        Where is geedeck? :) : Dschinghis Khan
        • don't even have server info =( : watcherxp
• hurr wah go! : _jon
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  SOURCETV is FAIL - I keep getting "STEAM certificate length error! 0/2048" when I try to connect the sour... : hirez
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    fuck it all. reinstalling TF2 on the server. hope this fixes it. : hirez
    • Good luck bromanowski! : Lightzout
  • ip? : vov1n
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  Where are the servers? T-minus 30 mins. : watcherxp
  • hirez is reinstalling TF2 on the server. : Maddog_Delphi97
  • All servers are up. I will put Dallas on ctf_mach4 : RyDogg1
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  CTF Rules (at least it is cut and dry this time) Regular Play: Two 20 Minute Halves; the team with th... : watcherxp
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    Is it cumulative scoring ? Meaning both halves are totalled ? : MrLobo
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      seems that way.. "the team with the highest score wins" Just like Football. : watcherxp
      • affirmative. highest total score wins. : hirez
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  all the servers are up & I have sent password info to everyone but 10 inches of SG, as no one is online f... : hirez
  • CAPTAINS be sure someone does "rcon changelevel ctf_mach4" between the halfs. : hirez
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    did you send it to anyone on geedeck's team? : theWhite
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      not received here : watcherxp
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        I can send it to someone, hold on. : hirez
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          Not sure if that will help, geedeck has all the contact info : watcherxp
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            lakren is already in the server, and we already have 5 people posting in this thread : _jon
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              SMing you guys what I can : _jon
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                i really hope we dont need to forfeit this shit :( : theWhite
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                  Looks like we are gonna reschedule as both teams came up short of the required players : watcherxp
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                    can we just cancel the tournament guys : _jon
                    • or let us merge teams so we can actually field 9 people : _jon
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  subs? anyone around who wants to be a sub? : hirez
  • can I sub for another team? : _jon
• Guys come warm up on Dallas while we figure out the server info! : _jon
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  Ok, i jsut want everyone who didn't show up tonight to know, that you are no account assholes who need to... : Dschinghis Khan
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    there are like 3 or 4 people on my team that have never shown up for a match : _jon
    • Yeah, I've noticed that. I signed up for the tourney thinking I'd be an "extra" player, but I've played e... : Bold
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    thats completely wrong, they should get cancer not aids. : theWhite
    • Either way fuck them, and the horse they road in on. : Dschinghis Khan
  • LOL SHACK : Flynn
  • Just gonna get worse now that football has started. : watcherxp
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    Yeah, if you can't make it, let us know in advance so we're not waiting in the server for 15-30 minutes w... : DrWaffles
    • Yeah. : Dschinghis Khan
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      Or, you know... kill yourself : _jon
      • That, too. : DrWaffles
  • :( : yosemiteclimber
  • :(... wankers, all of them. : Alco23
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    I have teh AIDS now. :( I'm sorry, I pulled some Rip Van Winkle shit and took some epic 5 hour nap tha... : geedeck
    • :/ : _jon
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    Sorry, I was late tonight but I made it to see we only had 5 people show up :/ : melkore
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      maybe if we combine all the east teams, we will have enough people show up, and then that team would just... : _jon
      • everyone wins! : Hemtroll
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  We should kick off people that don't show and redraft from the sub pool. : speirus
  • We should dissolve all teams that haven't been able to field 9 players and just play on a 64 player pub s... : _jon
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    unfortunately, the sub pool has only 5 people. : hirez
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      dissolve our team. now it has like, 9 : _jon
      • its an option. I'm going to contemplate ways to fix this problem & will get back to you. : hirez
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  What is the DALLAS password? : GoldfishInAJarOfPickles
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    rhymes with faarten : _jon
    • ty : GoldfishInAJarOfPickles
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  WEST CAPTAINS: Please start reaching out to your teams right now. Only 1 out of the 3 games happened in t... : hirez
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    TOURNAMENT CANCELLED : _jon
    • Not balanced for flakes. : dfay
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      _jon needs a hug. : Lightzout
      • I think I should buy Minecraft. : _jon
  • Oh shit, that's not good. Where's Juno? : Maddog_Delphi97
  • ouch. that really sucks : Mmmmmoo
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    how did it fall apart in the 2nd half? People just left? : nyranger66
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      when I came back to check on them, they only had 6v6. : hirez
      • Well game one was sort of lopsided. Don't penalize team razzle for having everyone (actually like10-11) t... : kainen1
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        I talked to katyanna and she said to just count it as a a forfeit/loss. I don't really care either w... : R@zzle
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          yeah. that's exactly it. its very disappointing. these teams were OVERDRAFTED. there shouldnt be this muc... : hirez
          • I had a no show for my SC2 tournament match today. He had no post history and profile page. I guess since... : Sailor of Fortune
  • My team is assembling without me lifting a finger. Take that! : omnova
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  TEAM RAZZLE WINS, WHAT A SPECTACULAR MATCH : R@zzle
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    good games guys, first round on Mach4 was amazing offence/defence : okellyc
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      i doubt you are talking about our match : MrLobo
      • wrong reply, i failed :( : okellyc
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  good game mentelgen : Cheeziologist
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    loved the first half : Cheeziologist
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      aye first half was amazing : okellyc
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        yeah, things pretty much fell apart there towards the end, sigh : sergeon
        • yeah, what happened? I was defending 2nd match so I had no idea wtf was going on out there. : nyranger66
• GG mentelgen. Nice chess match we had going on that first half. : ant_hillbilly
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  UpTown Souljas beats Mentlemen 1-0 in the first half and 8-0 in the second. : thecatinthehat
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    8-0? How is that even possible in 20 minutes with any sort of defense? : persuxe
    • once that SG on defence goes down its pretty much game over on mach4 : okellyc
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      you reach a point and realize there is no chance you can win, so you pretty much stop trying. down 4-0 w... : kill9
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        also thanks for dissing my team jerkface : kill9
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          be proud for having enough players to actually have a match : _jon
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            That sucks. 30 minutes of random pub hoping practice for nothing. Hirez will figure it out. : ant_hillbilly
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              yeah, I think I would rather just be a sub at this point. DrFlammable, for example, has got to play in m... : _jon
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                yea but hes a douche who sits in the intelligence as a scout taunting repeatedly. great sub, A+++++ : botch
                • lmao : DrFlammable
        • Don't listen to him, you guys played with honor! : nyranger66
        • fuck man I am really sad I had to miss it. Family emergency :( : hirosushima
  • That was rough. Sorry guys. :( : slax0r
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  how come some of the scores for round 1 are still missing? where games cancelled or something? : Flynn
  • no, The captains never reported them (and I havent had the time to review the demo to get the actual scor... : hirez
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  sourceTV should be up for the west games: TF2 Tourney #1: 69.62.158.85:27020 TF2 Tourney #2: 69.62.15... : hirez
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    sweet I'll pretend I'm studying cell and molecular biology while watching. : thecatinthehat
    • you can analyze the gibs! : SolveChrist
    • I need to study as well, but... more TF2 FUCK YEAH : nyranger66
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    is sourcetv up yet? not showing up for me :( : nyranger66
    • blank screen is probably more interesting than the cowboys v redskins right now : Cheeziologist
  • no go bro :( : nyranger66
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    69.62.158.85:27020 is down, thats the game with EB : theamazingrand0
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      Ellen Page All-Tards vs. My Little Pwnies is a good game. its on the 27021 : ant_hillbilly
      • EB is my team, though :( : theamazingrand0
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        i can't connect is there something special i need to do? : GoldfishInAJarOfPickles
        • connect 69.62.158.85:27021 in console is all I had to do. : ant_hillbilly
        • nevermind, got it to work. : GoldfishInAJarOfPickles
• Wish I could play tonight. Just moved into a new house and no Internet until Friday :( God speed comic s... : twifosp
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  I propose that we convert this tournament to Mount & Blade Warband. All in favor: Yay! : sanchez
  • Nay : Cheeziologist
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  anybody gonna stream some West games? : _jon
  • STREAM ORDER CANCELED! : Dschinghis Khan
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    Can't you stream it? Is Loiosh around? : thecatinthehat
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      I don't want to : _jon
      • stop whining! : Cheeziologist
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    I'm gonna stream them. with my piss. a stream of piss. all over their faces. : Drakoniac
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      This is not forestry summer camp draknoac : mysled
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        Go on... : Dschinghis Khan
        • as you lie there in anticipation, the world around you becomes clearer. you can hear the crickets, you fe... : Drakoniac
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    does this work? http://www.ustream.tv/channel/shack-tf2-tourney : nyranger66
    • i see your console : _jon
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  POC get your asses online. That means YOU techy007 : yosemiteclimber
  • Let's go fuckers need at least 1 more to play : yosemiteclimber
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  Oh shit! I just walked in the door! Pwnies, do you need me? : Wheatloaf
  • get on team chat : persuxe
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  http://www.livestream.com/anthillbillylive : ant_hillbilly
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    should be working now : ant_hillbilly
    • yup, looks good! : nyranger66
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    Which game are you streaming? : thecatinthehat
    • Ellen Page All-Tards vs. My Little Pwnies Ellen Page All-Tards vs. My Little Pwnies : ant_hillbilly
  • too choppy took it down. : ant_hillbilly
• oh hey I was watching football : ]pm[chem
• another win for COMIC SANS! : Drakoniac
• gg's all, holy shit : yosemiteclimber
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  MLP defeats TARDS 8-5 : persuxe
  • dmason, you're a PITA! : Alco23
  • woot! : harold.johnson
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    Haha, if we had known the scores were going to be cumulative, we would have played much differently that ... : gnomish
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      ^^ as previous matches were played as such : m0rfus
      • http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=23975547#itemanchor_23975547 : harold.johnson
    • Dammit : Maddog_Delphi97
    • Heh, I was worried they'd be cumulative :D. : Malku
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      Probably should go read the rules that were reposted in this thread. It's a casual, fun tourney, but we ... : persuxe
      • they can be construed two different ways. so go suck a dick it never says cumulative score. : GoldfishInAJarOfPickles
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        You said the only rule was to show up captain :P. Jk, I love you man :D. : Malku
        • Oh, I'll be checking for taunt kills. I was too busy playing build a sentry to notice. : persuxe
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        Yeah, I need to get out my reading glasses before each match it seems. We got burned the first week with... : gnomish
        • Sorry, I meant I need to get out my reading glasses. The ones for reading the rules. Will you be my f... : gnomish
      • Rules have been changed during the tourney from what I've seen. Like the first week when our team was for... : K1Bond007
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      TOURNAMENT DRAMA RIGHT HERE!!! : sanchez
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        FUCK YOU WE NEED A REMATCH JUNO WAS CHEATING THAT FUCKING IDIOT I AM THE NEW CAPTAIN : gnomish
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          that's it I quit : Juno
          • oh NO YOU DONT! : m0rfus
          • :( : Maddog_Delphi97
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      the rules were posted above. and they've been online since the start. : hirez
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        those CTF rules would have been nice in the OP Hirez. yes, it sucks that we didnt understand that THIS CT... : m0rfus
        • Your captain should just read the rules, not hard. : dkrulz
        • the rules have been posted online since the start. take some responsibility & look at them. : hirez
    • lolololol! : thecatinthehat
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  fuck. : GoldfishInAJarOfPickles
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    I thought we got another round, didn't realize all the points you guys gave them was going to lose the ga... : GoldfishInAJarOfPickles
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      Well at least you could say that you weren't part of the losing :P : Alco23
      • well I just didn't want juno to get left out for two rounds everyone should to play : GoldfishInAJarOfPickles
• burn motherfuckers! : sanchez
• Critical "End Game" Attacks defeats POC : Flynn
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  GG's Comic Sans! : .Jayson
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    what was the scores? : nyranger66
    • was were : nyranger66
    • I really can't remember, but it was heavily in their favor : .Jayson
    • COMIC SUBS SANS defeated The Expert Bajowskis 18-3 over two rounds of ctf_mach4. Thanks to all those that... : skankcore
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    Comic Sans was dominant! : Lightzout
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      I really hate that map : .Jayson
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        it wasn't bad! my only complaint is that the ceiling was way too low in the center part of it, so rocket ... : nyranger66
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          I spent a lot of time in the intel room and it sucks you cant get back upstairs without leaving : .Jayson
          • engy teleporter is credit to team : ant_hillbilly
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            You can if the engy builds a teleport with the entrance down there and the exit up top. It seems highly u... : pyide
            • He got it up a couple of times, but JJ kept wrecking our shit. : .Jayson
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    As a neutral sub party I just want to I take no joy in this victory. I feel bad for eb. who actually h... : pyide
    • I want to say* PROOFREAD MORE : pyide
    • Well I enjoyed thwarting your sneaky spy advances :) : .Jayson
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      Thanks for posting this pyide, I agree completely. It was quite disheartening to have the rules work so b... : skankcore
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        Didn't your team force a 8v9 during the first game of the season? : dkrulz
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          Yes, the option was given to me. In hindsight maybe I shouldn't have taken the advantage presented. Given... : skankcore
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            Karma's a bitch ;). : Alco23
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              how about people just show up instead of pissing on skankcore who has managed to field a team all 3 match... : ]pm[chem
              • Attendance has always been a problem with all the Shack tourneys. I remember the only reason my team won ... : nyranger66
              • Having a good team that can be there is great, doesn't excuse a dick move. And FYI, all of us that cou... : Alco23
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              lol, no offense but 1) karma doesn't work that way and 2) that's pretty dick : dopeman
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                Technicalities... 3) Yup. Lets suck dicks all round. I'm going to be a dick about it no doubt. Dic... : Alco23
                • ok. i know YOU happened to be on the team that got dicked, and I happened to be on the team that did t... : dopeman
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      Hey great perspective. thank you. However, if people actually showed up for their match this wouldnt be a... : hirez
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        and really, thank you for being a sub. we would have only played 2 out of 6 matches tonight without subs : hirez
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          Can I be a sub for the West? : nyranger66
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            Yes. East coast players can sub for west coast matches & vise versa. : hirez
            • I'd like to sub too, but just for West Coast. : MurrayTheSkull
            • Has that ever happened? I think it's a great idea for acquiring more subs! : pyide
            • I had no idea. I would sub if need be. : ant_hillbilly
            • Are players in the tournament proper allowed to sub on other teams East or West? : Sailor of Fortune
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        Is there a limit to the number of subs that can be used by a team? : K1Bond007
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          No more than 2 per team. from the rules: "Each team must field 9 players. If one team is not able to fie : hirez
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            If them's are the rules I will abide by them and stand by the decision to play 8v8 even though I've made ... : pyide
            • hey, no worries man. I appreciate everything you said. Ultimately it comes down to the community. : hirez
      • It's not a great perspective, it's just my gut feeling from playing that game and not having any fun whil... : pyide
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        With all these androids and iphones people have maybe the shack apps should have a tournament reminder bu... : Sailor of Fortune
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          Well there is a schedule, huge threads, and the matches are every Sunday at the same time with the except... : K1Bond007
          • A Steam app would be amazing by itself. Hell Steam should integrate the custom tourney idea and frequentl... : K1Bond007
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          i don't think that is even necessary. the tournament dates were posted way in advance, and we have weekl... : dopeman
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            exactly. I think the next tournament needs to consider this problem. : hirez
            • it's a tough call. we see it happen every year with the white elephant. large numbers of people get exc... : dopeman
    • I'm really sorry, I was feeling awful and about to throw up. I sent an SM to wendigo saying I'd play if ... : TheStupidOne
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    My apologies for not being there tonight, Comic Sans. Work changed my schedule last minute, and I got stu... : noxiousgg
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      this man is lying he was playing minecraft : Chandler55
      • Man I wish I was playing Minecraft. : noxiousgg
• gg fools : megarust32
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  Looks like "Critical "End Game" Attacks" is an undefeated team on the west coast : Maddog_Delphi97
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    they're stacked as fuck lol : proclone1
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      I'm just trying to get a read on what the final match will be like... Uptown Souljas vs Critical "End Gam... : Maddog_Delphi97
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        Also, who is on the Critical "End Game" Attacks team? : Maddog_Delphi97
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          Omnova made us all participate in some dark ritual involving a sacrificial virgin in order to win. Also s... : locater16
          • Who wants smoothies? : Sailor of Fortune
        • Everyone : FlamingGimp
        • no one. they're all bots : Mmmmmoo

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  neat thanks. what's he doing now? : Draugluin
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    I always found it strange he hasn't really done anything since. He's been doing a lot of hobby programmin... : Chandler55
    • he cofunded this company http://www.ardfry.com/ but its kinda boring :( : GloriousCow
  • my exact question - I mean look at Carmack ballin it up nowadays : bolneze
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    It's kind of sad and weird that he's not one of the top 3d engine programmers right now. He probably woul... : ArB
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      what's the story? did he get dumped by 3D Realms? : sasoi
      • I don't believe so. I think he was under contract with them so he probably left when that ended. : ArB
      • He dropped out of college to work on the build engine. He went back in 97 to finish his degree : GloriousCow
  • I used some of his PNG stuff recently, it's pretty awesome as well : MikkleThePickle
• That was pretty cool : Halen
• This is really cool, thanks for sharing. : Rampancy
• So much advancement in engine and graphics technology - zero advancement in car alarm sounds. :( : surround
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  He was huge into voxels wayyy before minecraft hit the scene and made them something people use! : lukej1337
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    Minecraft is voxels? I thought minecraft was polygon cubes? : SpaecKow
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      why do people think this? : lukej1337
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        i figured it was just some sort of octree based raycasting : GloriousCow
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          I don't get why Carmack thinks this will look good. No sub pixel information makes image quality a sad pa... : locater16
          • just procedurally generate it with bondo : spaceless
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            who says there has to be only one ray per pixel? : GloriousCow
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              What I really want to get out of the ray tracing is this infinite geometry which is more driven by the da : GloriousCow
              • Sounds like poor image quality to me. : MrBig0
          • Textures don't have sub-pixel information either. : uncleanmonkey
  • Delta Force 1/2 voxel grass > * MP was fun because of it : sanchez
  • you can check out what he did with voxels too http://www.advsys.net/ken/voxlap/voxlap03.htm : Herman Toothrot
• very interesting! good link. : vile
• Cool video! : MacemanInTW
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  That YouTube channel is a goldmine of old PC games. : DrWaffles
  • my wasted youth : Alpha Class Android
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  Good vid. Related, what are some good windows ports for Shadow Warrior & Redneck Rampage? Orange Pylon... : sanchez
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    I couldn't really find any other ports for Shadow Warrior :( Here's an eDuke32-based port of Redneck R... : Orange Pylon
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      That works very well, but the damn game is hard as fuck. Bad guys will own you with the shotgun from outs... : sanchez
      • Redneck Rampage has a sharp learning curve, kind of like Blood. After the first level or so it gets a lot... : roushimsx
• Awesome : JMro
• Good music too : ctlaltl33t
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  this just makes me wish i knew enough to write simple 3d engines : Herman Toothrot
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    Same. I would be happy if I could write a simple raycaster. : Gary the Llama
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      do it then. It's a fun project : moshman
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        where would one go to get started? : Herman Toothrot
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          Some basic OpenGL or DirectX tutorials are all over the internet, you'll only need the basic stuff to get... : moshman
          • in fact, you might not need openGL/directX at all but it does make life a little easier : moshman
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          this book has everything you ever wanted to know about oldschool rasterization http://www.amazon.com/Mic... : GloriousCow
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            that book might be a bit overwhelming though. And I wouldn't even call it old-school any more because si... : moshman
            • its awesome just as a piece of geek history. Its like a 1000 page .plan update : GloriousCow
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          if you just want a simple flat framebuffer to throw up some pixels on, i highly recommend using SDL. http... : GloriousCow
          • yeah, SDL is awesome : moshman
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        Interesting. I always assumed the math required was way out of my league but after looking at an overview... : Gary the Llama
        • it's fairly straightforward. You'll need knowledge of vector maths, but that is pretty elementary stuff i... : moshman
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          Having also done it, yeah, you should. It's not as hard as you'd expect, and nothing beats the feeling of... : Conan
          • Yeah. I don't think the hard part is actually doing it, the hard part is (or was) doing it fast enough to... : thecray
        • It would be a challenge to do from scratch. But there are so many tutorials and pieces of sample code ou... : CRasterImage
        • PLAY IT AGAIN, CARMACK. : abrasion
        • Yeah, tracing a ray against a sphere is really simple. Once you have pixels on screen it's really quick t... : uncleanmonkey
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    I wrote a really basic span-based 3D engine for the GBA years ago, though the homebrew project it was fo... : Conan
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      I've always wanted to make a litte gameboy game. I just don't know how to get started. What sort of softw... : Cliffzorz
      • http://www.gbadev.org/ - has links to tools, documentation. : Conan
• i cant believe he was 14 when he made all this : ballystix
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  he has your typical programmer personality too, I made a post in his forum after duke4 got canned last ye... : Chandler55
  • oh hey it looks like I guess I was right about the exploitation thing in a way I didn't really expect, bu... : DeBurgo
• Man, I wish Powerslave and TekWar would get reverse engineered. : roushimsx
• in some ways it almost seems exploitative what 3d realms did with his engine. like I mean here you've ... : DeBurgo
• That was awesome. Ohh the memories. : HL3dsx
• What a great video! Impressive stuff given the era plus how young he was. : node

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  I don't think he will. : Dschinghis Khan
  • definitely not : eeeealmo
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    Harvester pointed out something that makes me think you are right. At the end of last season or whatev : kill9
    • harvester sure knows his vampires. probably from all those twilight books he talks about reading. : eeeealmo
    • well holy shit.... i think you've got a point there. : -=kodiak=-
    • Everyone feel free to paypal me $5 when I turn out to be right tonight. : H@rvester
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      interesting, tho that kind of goes against usual vampire lore, like in Anne Rice novels for example, anci : tunis5000
      • yea but he was drinking her blood then too. In hindsight it makes sense with the whole fae blood thing an... : -=kodiak=-
    • I immediately thought of this. $5 : Xencer
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    he's a major character in all 10 books and he's already signed on for next season <-- books/next season s... : jenisthebest
    • Makes more sense to put the spoiler description before the spoiler :) : moneyshot
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  omg season finale already :'C if they kill him off I will not watch the show anymore :( : moe6
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    see kill9's post. : -=kodiak=-
    • I actually already knew the answer. Just saying in case they totally forget that shit and kill him off fo... : moe6
• My guess is Detective Andy is a Werecarp : The Wilhelm Scream
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  Hung season finale too! damn : AlexXdude
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    how is that anyway? : Clay
    • I started watching season 1 early this summer and I'm all caught up. It's not omg so awesome but it's a ... : tunis5000
    • I was really surprised by it when I watched a few episodes last season when it started airing and I've be... : AlexXdude
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      I like it for the most part, but tanya is getting more annoying with every episode. Ray's kids need to di... : Prototype
      • I loved the episode where the daughter says something like: people wonder how we came from you and mom! ... : tunis5000
      • I agree with absolutely everything you just said : devnullgt
    • I couldn't get into it after watching all of season one. Just...I dunno. Dead. Limp. Limp. lol. : Deathlove
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    Entourage probably as well : tunis5000
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      Entourage too, but I finally gave up on it after a few episodes into this season : AlexXdude
      • i attempted to watch that show in re runs from the start of season 1. I just couldnt do it. couldnt wa... : -=kodiak=-
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        It got better. Before it was kinda eh because everything was perfect for the crew, but now as everyone st... : aggybong
        • no it sucks, and it sucks even more with Sasha Grey being on this season The only reason I am still wa... : inf3d3l
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          Ari needs his own show or something. The main Entourage group is so annoying now. Nothing ever happens. : pancake humper
          • Yeah he is pretty much the only reason I still watch. : Evil Benius
      • but this season has been great : Maarten Goldstein
• AARRG I hate that I have to wait! I've been spooling through the last few episodes today. BLARGOBLARG! : gakera
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  did anyone watch this? it was pretty meh : jenisthebest
  • IM BORED : dantastic
  • At least there is more Russel hi-jinks. Had they not brought him in I probably would have lost interest i... : steauengeglase
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    yea not that great :( : eeeealmo
    • The season finales for this show are always just another episode. They never go out with a bang. : SockMonkeh
• I liked Lafayette so much the first season when he was all cocky and intimidating the townsfolk. Scared a... : LilCrypto
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  good god that was fucking weak. Even more so because the producer got on there and thanked everyone afte : virus
  • Yeah I'm glad I quit watching this stupid show. Trying to get into Dexter but it's taken me 6 months to g... : Odoyle
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    • Jesus I really need to start proofreading my posts. : InfoBiter
  • Eric got out of the cement by Pam, that's why Bill wanted her dead and she killed the assassin. Spidey se : shortbuscaptain
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  Yeah, not really a great end to the season. At least I'm not excited for next season :P. : Alco23
  • I hope to see more episodes in s4 written by Brian Buckner, Kate Barnow, and Elisabeth R. Finch. I'm not... : akaigirl
• Finally got around to watching the finale. Going to personally say this season was pretty lame. Not re... : inf3d3l
• This season had far more episodes that were all around a bore to watch, but the episodes that I would con... : Confrustrating
• man that fight at the end i was waiting for either bill or the Queen to go YOU WANT TO FIGHT! FIGHT ME! p : shavenewok
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  The high point of this shit was when that dude ripped the spine out of that other dude and said we're gon... : losder5000
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    True Blood was always top heavy, from the first season they start good and finish sort of weird and lukew : SpaecKow
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      I just like the over the toppedyness of it all. It's kind of like the Shield that way for me. Whose mou... : losder5000
      • vince mackey? shield watching fail : Maarten Goldstein
• probly a bit late, but eric is still alive in the books, somehow i doubt they would kill him off (since h... : kiddygrinder

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  Or maybe you should just give up and let your definition of nice things be dictated by finance. : Dong Patrol
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    I don't, but movie studios sure do : ( : locater16
    • Money can be exchanged for nice things. : JarEme
  • Sure why not. We can all herp derp ourselves back to bacterium. : terath
• wat now i hav to thunk at movvees? f dat : sanchez
• worldwide numbers $373m vs $69m . However, children of men was a $80m movie? Didn't look or seem like it... : filthysock
• 1. Wolverine had about 4 times as many theaters than Children of Men 2. Wolverine was a summer blockbust... : K1Bond007
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  Is Children of Men good. Wasn't it supposed to be the new Blade Runner (according to the commercials). ... : capt tripps
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    It's really good. I don't know about comparing it to Blade Runner though. : K1Bond007
    • ^ : sanchez
  • It's good. One of my top 5 favorites of all time. : Wikus Van De Merwe
  • VERY good : watcherxp
  • A really excellent movie. The best modern interpretation of a Kubrick movie. : el_bandito
  • I like good movies and I thought it was good but not excellent. : Morgin
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    YES. It's as close we are going to get to Half-Life the movie. : Frozen Pixel
    • No, that's the last 15mins of new war of the worlds. It has striders and everything. : silentbobuk
  • It is impressive : dognose
  • it was alright : synapse19
  • I loved it until that part after the credits where they ate the baby. : basketofkittens
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    It was so good that after it I saw V for Vendetta and hated that one enough I watched Children of Men aga... : Sailor of Fortune
    • I really liked V for Vendetta =( : InfoBiter
    • You sir, suck. : nwillard
  • It's not another Blade Runner--it's its own, incredibly impressive thing. If you want Blade Runner, go w... : kallanta
  • It was decent. : terath
  • It's one of my favourite movies ever. : marmite
  • Very little science, lots of fiction. Also, Clive Owen does the same one-face-for-the-whole-movie thing. : greasyjohn
  • I didn't think it was all that great. Shack-hype was over-extended. Again. : CRasterImage
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    It's pretty good but nothing mind blowing. : abrasion
    • yeah agreed. didn't quite live up to the hype surrounding it, but far FAR better than wolverine could ev... : beastrabban
  • It's good but like everything the shack loves it is depressing as fuck throughout much of the movie. : gooblerampling
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  wolverine was good until the end. Children of men wasn't that special. Good idea but bad execution : mista mista
  • bad execution? WAT : skinlab133
  • You shut your whore mouth. Children of Men was amazing. : Topsiderover
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    Execution was like 90% of that movie. Those long moving scenes were amazing. : K1Bond007
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      i didn't really like the movie for 2 reasons 1. guy always gets away through some stroke of luck and h : mista mista
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        Yeah, he was so lucky at the end that he ate a bullet. : Topsiderover
        • Yeah, I think he missed that part. And the part where his ex died. : Fred Garvin
  • This must be a troll post. Children of Men is excellent execution. : thecatinthehat
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    IA, children of men seemed like it could have been so much more. : filthysock
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      I wonder what much more you thought it could be. : SpaecKow
      • He wanted to see what pornos were like in that setting. : Sailor of Fortune
  • 2/10 : MrBig0
  • Wolverine didn't even register for me. As in I don't even know what that movie is about. Comic book I ass... : terath
  • Bad execution? Your post was badly executed. : Fred Garvin
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    Wolverine the movie was many times worse than the video game. One of the rarest strokes in movie game tie... : Sailor of Fortune
    • Truth. The game was fun and an above-average brawler on its own. The movie was busted in so many ways, ... : SigmaDraconis
  • The only good thing about Wolverine was Liev Schreiber's 4 legged running. By Crom, the movie had Will.I.... : AxeMan808
  • You are a homosexual. : Godhatesfatpeople
  • ohhhh goooddddddd : Milleh
  • Wolverine was NOT good "until the end." Wolverine was not good. : uglysad
  • Your face was a bad execution! : enyakk
  • Children of Men would have been way better if Michael Cera was in it : zerog83
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    trolla trolla : freakynipples69
    • get dolla ebrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbr : ArB
  • oh god, it hurts so much : JohnnyDanger
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  i watched Children of Men but dont remember it being THAT amazing. : bolneze
  • I had just lost two close family members when I saw it, and for some reason I just really, deeply, connec... : Topsiderover
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  Children of Men is not entertaining, it's like a European movie with Hollywood actors : matthaeus
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    Too bad about the hollywood actors. Clive Owen is an awesome euro actor though. : terath
    • Michael Caine acts pretty good too : matthaeus
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  Yeah, it's just that Wolverine is a movie based on one of the most popular comic book characters ever, wh... : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • I don't even know if X-Men or Wolverine were first. But you get the point. You are going beyond apple... : Mad Brahmin Disease
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  This just in: Quality does not equal popularity. Film at 11. : baron calamity
  • except children of men sucked too. : kokujin

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• First Time Playing? Useful Links! - Shackwiki Minecraft page! http://shackwiki.com/wiki/Minecraft : Dong Patrol
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  Additional Multiplayer Stuff! - From SA via Zek, make your own persistent inventory with Persister! h : Dong Patrol
  • Whoops blerf I guess I can get rid of that link to the Persister, can't I? : Dong Patrol
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  This shitty post doesn't even point north! : Hemtroll
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    Oh hey there HemTROLL how's it going? : Dong Patrol
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      omg lol wtf cock omg this thread sux im going to frontpage : Hemtroll
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        Listen up kiddo, Minecraft has been making money since before you started playing Halo. : Dong Patrol
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          Liar, Halo was the first game that shaped every genre. : Hemtroll
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            Halo Wars did for RTS what Halo did for FPS; invented it. : Dong Patrol
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              everyone knows Minecraft is just a ripoff of Halo 2 : Hemtroll
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                Halo: Reach's Forge World was the direct inspiration for Minecraft's primary mechanic! : Dong Patrol
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                  Bullshit, the Forge World inspired The Sims which inspired halo 2 which inspired minecraft! : Hemtroll
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                    Looks like somebody doesn't know as much about video game history as they thought! http://www.shacknews. : Dong Patrol
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                      Dear cockbarge, Fuck you. Sincerely, the front page. : Hemtroll
                      • p|..8========D...// PUTT PUTT HERE COMES THE COCKBARGE : Dong Patrol
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  Alright so I just bought Minecraft and have dicked around in single player for a few hours. Made a neat h : Arctic Fox
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    The first thing to do is realize that there nothing you need to do to prepare, Shackers will answer every... : Dong Patrol
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      May as well start here then (since I'm at the shops with the wife): does everyone have a common spawn poi... : Arctic Fox
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        Everyone spawns at the same spawn point which you can teleport to using /home. Server saves your location... : Hemtroll
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          http://minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Crafting - is your friend : lukej1337
          • Yeah I've found that one already, thanks :D : Arctic Fox
  • The objectives are the same as in SP but with more people. SMP has some bugs here and there but basically... : Hemtroll
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    SMP is basically the same except for no minecarts, monsters, working redstone and buttons/pressure plates : AgentPothead
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      I wonder if the span of how people build stuff is gonna shrink once the enemies are able to kill players.... : MurrayTheSkull
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        Fences man, fences. : AgentPothead
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          fences can explode too. : MurrayTheSkull
          • :( : AgentPothead
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  I have enough trouble finding Iron as it is, so I'll skip the Compass. : SigmaDraconis
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    I don't understand his reasoning behind it pointing to the spawn. You spawn at the spawn, you always know... : AgentPothead
    • Maybe it was the easy way to do it so he could push it out this week. I'm sure he'll fix it to point nort... : Hemtroll
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      There's not much use in that for me (single-player, at least). I mean, I could use it to relocate the Sp... : SigmaDraconis
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        Definitely. I'd rather make minecarts than a compass. : AgentPothead
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          I think it's a sort of realistic implementation of /home - in that sense, i think it's cool -especially i... : lukej1337
          • Of course, the ability to set down markers that show up on the compass would make it even better and tota... : lukej1337
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            /home is from a seperate mode, it's not included in base minecraft. Heck the same mod that supplies /home... : AgentPothead
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              you can /home on base SMP servers, actually. i would rather see /home turned off, it's pretty cheap. : harold.johnson
              • Really I didn't know that? Does it return you to the spawn or can you /sethome and return to that home? : AgentPothead
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      spawn is the only fixed point in the game, though. there's no real 'north'. if an arbitrary direction f... : harold.johnson
      • That's not useless at all, because if it points north you can use it like a real compass: directions + la... : Arctic Fox
      • What? The clouds move to the north, the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. These are all said by... : AgentPothead
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    really I'm finding iron everywhere.... go in caves people haven't explored. : Shadowdane
    • Except I'm playing Singleplayer. I think I should be digging in random directions more. : SigmaDraconis
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  POS Compass points in the direction of spawn! This is totally useless (especially since we know clouds m... : Vividvoid
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    I always heard people saying they wanted a compass for when they're deep underground, which I guess this ... : Xevo
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      Even then it's useless. It doesn't tell you 4 absolute directions like a compass. It gives you 2 relative... : AgentPothead
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        yah i hope he fixes that... i don't think it would be hard to make it point North always. : Shadowdane
        • Or have two arms--one pointing north and one point toward spawn. : Vividvoid
        • Yeah just spawn an entity millions of miles north at map creation and have the compass point towards that : Arctic Fox
        • Oh wow I just doublechecked and whatever he did broke the /compass in hey0. Now it always says we are poi... : AgentPothead
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  ysbreker what have you done to my house?! : Dong Patrol
  • He is always in people's houses fucking with their shit. He turned my basement into a water temple in th... : Vividvoid
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  For singleplayer games, this is pretty cool. It's a dungeon generator. http://www.minecraftforum.net/v... : Visceral Monkey
  • Also, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILGhpb4CmJs&feature=related : Visceral Monkey
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    ^^^^This is really neat, look at this^^^^ : Dong Patrol
    • Guys. Do what he says, he's not joking. This. Is. Awesome. : AgentPothead
  • 3 minutes in is where it goes from awesome to FUCKING INCREDIBLE : Arctic Fox
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    I'm interested in this. : SigmaDraconis
    • It's AWESOME. Seriously, can't imagine a sp game without it, so cool and so many random options. : Visceral Monkey
  • what the shit! this looks awesome. i shall try this once i am back home : MurrayTheSkull
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    awesome. can't wait to see it work on SMP maps : harold.johnson
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      It should work fine right now. Just no mobs. Have an admin run it on a smp map and then reload it to the ... : Visceral Monkey
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        i tried running it on a copy of my servers map. it couldn't find a spot to build, no matter what settings... : harold.johnson
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          I ran it a bunch of times, I finally got it to not put up an error when I lowered the dungeon levels to 5... : AgentPothead
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            Saw this on that thread. [edit, v2] Turns out you can ALREADY run it on SMP worlds. Just need to copy it : Visceral Monkey
            • Yeah I couldn't get it to play nicely with even a fresh map. : AgentPothead
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    Hey! Listen!} Watch his Links! See what I did there. : AgentPothead
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      I see a lot of yellow, that's for sure! : Dong Patrol
      • Somebody had to fuck up their shacktags at somepoint, it is a minecraft thread after all. Hopefuly it get... : AgentPothead
  • This is pretty awesome... and it's probably only going to get much better as Minecraft progresses. : Gwyndion
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  hrmm what am I doing wrong? I just grabbed the latest minecraft.exe but now when I try to connect to any ... : bawbeh
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    Install any texture packs or stuff like that? Does SP still work? : Visceral Monkey
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      yup SP still works. No custom anything installed. I'll clean out my save folder and try again. : bawbeh
      • that did it, works now. : bawbeh
      • Are you using a laptop with Intel branded graphics? I'm pretty sure the latest version has a known bug wi... : AgentPothead
  • Try taking the space off the end of the IP address your're pasting in. : Haxim
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    That's awesome. How did people do the paintings viewable from space? Seems like it'd be tricky to me : Arctic Fox
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      Depends on which one. A lot of them are video game sprites which work really well in a blocky medium. Som... : AgentPothead
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        Whoa MegaMan is incredible. I'm not sure I know half the tiles that went into making him, lol : Arctic Fox
        • Oh I use custom textures, the Zelda skin mod so they might look a little wierd. I think megaman is snow, ... : AgentPothead
    • They hack in their materials and make a template probably. I find it the worst part of minecraft. : kingdepork
  • 0oh yea I gotta work on the stripper! I almost forgot : supermonkeyballz
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  Booyah! Automatic cactus dispenser near spawn on Merc's server. http://www.shackpics.com/files/cactus... : DHAvatar
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    Besides hurting yourself, are cacti used for anything? Or are they just a convenient green block for pixe... : Arctic Fox
    • They can kill enemies too, but since you don't take dmg and enemies don't hurt you or take dmg either, it... : DHAvatar
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  Noobie question: are there any black blocks besides obsidian? Thinking of a project and wondering whether... : Arctic Fox
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    Also are spiral staircases remotely possible, or don't waste my time? : Arctic Fox
    • i don't know anyone who has tried to build a spiral staircase. Yet. Give it a shot and make sure y... : MurrayTheSkull
    • You can do 'square spirals with the 1/2 blocks leaving a 1x1, 2x2 or larger hole in the center (or have i... : TroZ
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    i don't think there are. though there might be a custom skin out there that makes another material into ... : MurrayTheSkull
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      It's all good, figured I'd mainly be using stone/cobblestone, but just thought I'd check : Arctic Fox
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        You should play on Merc's server, if he ever puts up the new map! : dnagenome
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          That's my plan. It's down? : Arctic Fox
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            nah, server is up, waiting on merc to put out a map of the new world, so you can find your way around. : dnagenome
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              Yeah, I'm tossing up a new map now. Just got back from Columbus, OH Shackmeet!!! : MercFox1
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                Hmm i don't see it. Are you sure you remember how? : dnagenome
                • HRRRRNNNNNGGGHHHH. I'm taking a Bird's Eye Map and an Oblique Angle map. Bird's Eye is done, but Oblique ... : MercFox1
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  Dwarf Fortress to Minecraft I've just released the latest version of DF2MC that converts Dwarf Fortr : TroZ
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    I didn't play Dwarf Fortress, but that's pretty awesome that you made this! : BlackCat9
    • Have you tried any of the worlds that I posted? You don't need to have played dwarf fortress to apprec... : TroZ
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    So you need to have dwarf fortress installed and running to use your converter? Can you posted a few exam... : Visceral Monkey
    • yes, you need Dwarf Fortress running for my converter to convert the map. There are about 12 example map... : TroZ
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  More noobie questions: how do you guys form your own rivers? (of water or lava) : Arctic Fox
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    After carving out the direction of a river/canal, you create a checkerboard pattern with dirt, leaving op... : MurrayTheSkull
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      Murray, I started a bank in castle Heidi! Take a look! Also, red Sonya (Heidi) says thank you for the g... : conandan
      • Oh crap! I'll be in there in a moment... : MurrayTheSkull
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        conandan, the canal is finished. check it out :D : MurrayTheSkull
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          it was fun to finish out, I widened the turn and also made the initial drop start sooner so you don't fal... : Xevo
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            oh you fixed that? now i have to see if i can hit the walkway still :D : MurrayTheSkull
            • at the highest speed I can get, it bumps the edge but doesn't break or land on top. : Xevo
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      Is it possible to make running water? : Arctic Fox
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        Yeah just drop it with the bucket and let it flooooow. : AgentPothead
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          muhahahahah, I now have a cobblestone generator :D : Arctic Fox
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            You can bake that in the furnace to get some sweet natural looking rock. : AgentPothead
            • Yeah I figured that one out on my own. :D Playing around on my singleplayer account it looks like a mix o... : Arctic Fox
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  so ive got minecraft but only have spent a few hours digging out a base in a mountain. is it cool for me... : botch
  • Sure! Come join me on zuffs : conandan
  • or the main server run by Mercfox1 : watcherxp
  • Only join my server if you like awesome. : AgentPothead
• Anybody made a snow map yet? I finally decided to make one and I lucked out. http://agentpothead.com/ice.... : AgentPothead
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  ZUUUFFFFFFFF!!! Buckets aren't working :( : MurrayTheSkull
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    I tried to tell you before you left, he's at a concert. : conandan
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      :( we need a concert hall in heidi's castle :D : MurrayTheSkull
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        You guys have made a crazy castle. Let me know if you ever need help : Washburne
        • You are more than welcome to build structures inside. If you build roads, try to follow the general patte... : conandan
  • buckets work just fine for me.. : watcherxp
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    I'm interested to know what was the 60 iron bars that was in the chest in front of the bank used for. : conandan
    • nothing probably. i've been on merc's and the inventory is buggy. IE, you have to manage inventory slowl... : MurrayTheSkull
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  So I am attempting to check out the multiplayer servers, but when I join, I get a brief view of what look... : Goncyn
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    try them again : harold.johnson
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      OK, MercFox's worked on second connect, thanks : Goncyn
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  UPDATED OIZOMAPPER RENDER - Shacknews East: Bird's Eye: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7834948/20100912_0409_ : MercFox1
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    Very nice. I'll be joining this one, got plans for a cool tower :D Are the black regions just unexplor... : Arctic Fox
    • There is no limit, if you don't see it on the map then no one has been there yet. : Hemtroll
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    LOL "Official Mercfag1" : ErikTehRed
    • haha, found that. Whoever did it screwed up and didn't make the F capital though. : Haxim
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    ANNOTATED MAP Go ahead and add your landmarks, I will update(and move the markers over) this every few... : watcherxp
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      Would you guys like the birds eye or oblique map used for this? : watcherxp
      • I vote for the oblique, looks cooler. : Hemtroll
• Sunday Morning Bump : Shadowdane
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  Um Holy shit!! o_O Was looking on Maplib found someone else's Minecraft map, good lord this map is ma... : Shadowdane
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    and this server is online... looks like its the same world too. : Shadowdane
    • set it on fire : _jon
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  This is what I have been working on on my server: http://www.maplib.net/map.php?id=10466 Literally ... : Derringer
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    Can we get a ground level snapshot? Awesome project!! : watcherxp
    • I will get one right now. : Derringer
    • Here are a couple: http://www.shackpics.com/files/SD1_f45d7pi96erog0dgls7g.png http://www.shackpics.c... : Derringer
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    that shit's huge : MurrayTheSkull
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      Yeah, I found an image of a Star Destroyer that has front, back, side and top and bottom views. So I ope... : Derringer
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        Shots from the ground, pls. : Robotic Puppy Eater
        • http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=23973590#itemanchor_23973590 : Derringer
  • Oh shit. : MercFox1
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    That's no moon... : DHAvatar
    • It's right over the Home spawn, so it's basically perpetually night there. : Derringer
  • hahaha what?! Holy shit! : Hemtroll
  • That's almost as big as my balls. : Maddog_Delphi97
  • Hah that is awesome, we were going to do the same thing but never got around to it. : AgentPothead
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    Is there a maximum world size? Are the blocks stored as some sort of tree, or do they all have pointers t... : ThereCanBeOnlyOneCat
    • It's all voxels so everything is stored in a huge 3d grid. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voxel The engine ... : AgentPothead
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      The world is broken into 'chunks' of 16x16 blocks that are 128 blocks tall, with 'sea level' being at 64 ... : TroZ
      • Thanks! : ThereCanBeOnlyOneCat
  • Holy crap you posted the first render of it! : Piett23
  • um holy shit!!!!1 : Shadowdane
  • Haha. That is fucking awesome. : Senate5000
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  Port Thong is coming along fairly well! We have a wall perimeter setup, and we are gonna to finish it by... : Vividvoid
  • * Z Y N G A ' D * : Dong Patrol
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    thanks for the new map... kinda wish I built Lamplopolis closer in to everything else, no one wants to v... : Shadowdane
    • you should build the Large Hardon Collider : conandan
    • I'll visit and build after I finish my castle in Duke. : Hemtroll
• UPDATED OIZOMAPPER RENDER - Shacknews East: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7834948/20100912_2210.png Rende : MercFox1
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  Well I give up again. I've lasted less than 30 seconds total in 4 attempts to log into Merc's server ton... : Freon
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    Java blowing up for you? Try uninstalling it and reinstalling it. : MercFox1
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      Sigh. It's Minecraft. It's just.. horribly, horribly buggy and barely playable half the time. The ap... : Freon
      • um i played nearly all weekend and only crashed once... the game is quite stable except for some quirky ... : Shadowdane
      • Dude, he's saying that we've all been pretty stable. Way to jump down the guy's throat. : Arctic Fox
      • This is a pretty stupid post Freon! You've been having lots of problems, and people have tried to figure : Dong Patrol
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        Like I said below, it is a bug that quite a few people are having. See here: http://www.minecraftforum... : Xevo
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          I have this same issue on my rig running windows 7 64 but my son has no issues running on his also runnin... : legsbrogan
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            Dual booting unbuntu just to play Minecraft? legsbrogan I think you might be hardcore. : Dong Patrol
            • Motherfucker is straight up Minecraftin' : Hemtroll
  • I'm getting the same thing, as well as MANY people on the forums. Hopefully, Notch figures it out and fix... : Xevo
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  Agentpothead can you run a render please : supermonkeyballz
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    http://agentpothead.com/newest.png fresh off the presses. It's an oblique angle instead of an oblique, I'... : AgentPothead
    • fantastic thanks saved me a lot of time : supermonkeyballz
• I'm told furnaces work....but with mcadmin running the latest server jar...my furnaces are awful tempterm... : lukej1337
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  fuck your server, merc. and fuck whoever burned my house down. : MurrayTheSkull
  • Whoever did it was still on when you came back, it had to have happened within 15 mins or so before you j... : alphablu
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    :( That sucks man, I'm sorry : Arctic Fox
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      I'm slightly drunk, so I'm a little over-pissed. I'll probably pop back on, but I'll be damned if I'm go... : MurrayTheSkull
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        You can come help with my castle out in the boonies if you like :D : Arctic Fox
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          I'd rejoin, but I disconnected while still in my burning house. Would rather not see the framework of st... : MurrayTheSkull
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            I think some folks put it out? : watcherxp
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              are the frames still there? : MurrayTheSkull
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                me and solidsnack put out the fire, the stone frame is still there. : alphablu
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                  yeah i'll wait until that's gone. and I'm sober lol : MurrayTheSkull
                  • Vividvoid restored your house : alphablu
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                  BTW Who the F is "Bead"? : watcherxp
                  • don't know but he sounds really anal : Hemtroll
      • Poopdick is the best Dick : watcherxp
  • We also had some griefing on my server :( http://agentpothead.com/morbo.jpg Lava and water do not work th... : AgentPothead
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    This is horrible. I thought this griefing shit was over with--I guess I was wrong. I tried to rebuild y... : Vividvoid
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      I imagine more new people will start connecting as the pace picks up again : Hemtroll
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        I am thinking my most requested new feature will be a PASSWORD option for the server : watcherxp
        • Yeah that would be convenient. We don't even have to post the passwords in the chatty, just give it out t... : Hemtroll
        • I think you can whitelist/blacklist people. That way they pretty much have to be allowed in. : AgentPothead
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      <3 :3 : MurrayTheSkull
      • You aren't really going to leave PT, are you? : Vividvoid
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  My new Lair http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1564055/lair1.jpg http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1564055/lair2.jpg http:/... : watcherxp
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    I built a cobble generator nearby before the TF2 tourney. Did you have a chance to see it? : MurrayTheSkull
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      I saw one earlier tonight, but I am not sure it was yours. : watcherxp
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        It's the only one that's at poopdick right next to the warehouse and ovens. : MurrayTheSkull
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          OK then, one with the Huge tree in the basement? : watcherxp
          • Oh, poopdick? didn;t notice : watcherxp
    • And who built the poopdick sign dead in the middle of a road?! :) I think I'm going to file a complai... : Gwyndion
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    That's hot man : Arctic Fox
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      no gay stuff : Hemtroll
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        What's all this gay talk? : Dong Patrol
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          go away, no gay stuff to patrol here : Hemtroll
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            I can fix that! http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=23967125#itemanchor_23967125 I think I'm going to... : Dong Patrol
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              That looks like a duck boat filled with a cock : Xevo
              • The lowercase letter "p" at the back is an outboard cockmotor. : Dong Patrol
  • That came out really nice! I like that waterfall idea. I was thinking of doing something like that at s... : Gwyndion

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  we're sorry. in return, we bring you Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene, toneh, Feist, Tragically Hip, Rus... : Postal
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    And Celine Dion. Thanks alot, Canada. : chadg033
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      and fucking Bryan Adams. Wonderful. : ezanga
      • Now, now, the Canadian Government has apologized for Bryan Adams on several occasions! : swimteampie
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    Arcade Fire is too pompous and taken with themselves to be considered Canadian now, jes? : Lunatic Angelic
    • too pompous? really? : Majuju
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      That basically becomes the case with any popular band, doesn't it? : Haxim
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        Hell no, plenty of popular bands keep an even keel and don't bully other bands on the bill / deride fans : Lunatic Angelic
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          wait, arcade fire has done this? : Majuju
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            Yeah, even the Flaming Lips called them out on it like 2 years ago or something, not to mention the inter : Lunatic Angelic
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              "even the flaming lips" ...fuck wayne coyne, he is the biggest asshole ever, Yoshimi was cool, Soft Bulle... : edward
              • haha really? he seems like the nicest guy of all time. : sasoi
      • band Canadian : dodob
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      They are from Quebec, so they are not Canadian. : Fred Garvin
      • lol, politics! : ArtilleryMarker
    • New Hampshire gets to claim them. And they are not pompous. : edward
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    You have a good point there. I apologize for fucking Canada. : voodooraze
    • But can you take bieber back please? He makes me want to hurt random 30 yr old women. : voodooraze
  • I don't like any of those but I love Hayden. : Porkasaurus
  • ugh, tragically hip : dantastic
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    We will accept Rush and Tragically Hip. You can keep the rest. : melkore
    • Correct. And I'm not positive on Tragically Hip. : Freon
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      Geddy Lee and his skinned-cat voice can move the fuck on : action roommate
      • Shut your mouth faggot! : Ender.Wiggin
  • You gave the world Dallas Green and Emily Haines. I don't think you guys could ever do wrong in my eyes b... : Confrustrating
  • Doesn't even come close to balancing out. : Halen
  • You forgot Metric, fatty. : Dschinghis Khan
  • What about Phil Collins? : Freon
  • Eh, bring us more Sarah McLachlan. : greasyjohn
  • Wolf Parade! : notd665
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    LETS NOT FORGET NICKELBACK. : caveatemptor
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      seriously though GY!BE, A SIlver Mount Zion, Kid Koala, Neuraxis, AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST, MEN WITHOUT HAT... : caveatemptor
      • Broken Social Scene are douchebags : edward
  • we give you guys Fred Garvin thats got to count for something : Chandler55
  • i thought a couple of the arcade fire guys were from texas : extrahappyturtle
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    I don't care about any of those except Rush. You did give us Land of Talk, so that's good, but you're st... : ArcKnight
    • Seeing Rush on Saturday for the first time - so stoked! : Odoyle
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    that's a shitty ass list. : -=kodiak=-
    • ^^^ : valael
  • Don't forget Neil Young! : ruckboos
  • also, evangeline lilly http://www.girlskickbutt.com/pics/evangeline_lilly/40/ : Metatron85
  • Deadmau5, Michael Buble, Metric, Tegan and Sara, alexisonfire, city and colour, maestro fresh wes, kardin... : threeup
  • TRIUMPH, HOW THE FUCK CAN YOU LEAVE TRIUMPH OFF THAT LIST : Alpha Class Android
  • No Alannis? Isn't it ironic? : BlackCat9
• Woulda been a better post if you'd written "Justine Bieber" : Odoyle
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  I don't like his music, but he is a fairly talented kid outside of his pop music. : eonix
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    What? How? : Confrustrating
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      He can dance well, play multiple instruments very well, is pretty good at sports he plays, and so on. I o... : eonix
      • Well, I feel like shit now. : Confrustrating
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        How do you live with yourself? : voodooraze
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          By not hating people with more talent than myself. : eonix
          • ZING! : [7]kami
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        I could do all those things too if I didn't have to work for a living. *grumblegrumble* I hate it when... : ninj0rc
        • Yea, I hear being a musician isn't any work at all. : Ebu
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  Because America has never produced bad artists. BILLY RAY CYRUS MOTHERFUCKER!! : TwiLyght
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    don't break my heart : VivaMachete
    • nnooooooo : MamiyaOtaru
• So this will officially be the post that makes me cross the line from moderately metro to full on homo, b... : Morgin
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  I can go about my life perfectly fine and never have to hear or see anything about Justin Bieber unless I... : arizona bay
  • mtv doesnt even play videos! : creep
• Fuck you guys, we unloaded him onto you fair and square. : MrBig0
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  he actually seems like a pretty neat kid. i mean, he's famous as all fuck, but he doesn't seem horrible a... : mindmann
  • I like him a lot. He's incredibly talented and has a great personality. I really can't grasp people getti... : laurgasms
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  Who cares? I hear about this kid far more from people bitching about him than in any other context. : systatic
  • ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ : FrayLo
• Probably longest i've seen/heard em is that commercial. : Ziz
• we don't even want him up here! : shakybonez31
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  If I were Justin Bieber I think I'd have a permanent hardon just thinking about all the panties I was moi... : SiW.
  • Life is so unfair. : Topsiderover
  • Too bad he thinks ewwwww instead : Mondo
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  if he's so damn popular why have i never heard his music on the radio? i only know him from YouTube and t... : mayooms
  • how can you even go outside without hearing "baby babyy babyyyy oooooh!" : aeg1x
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  I forget what TV show it was on (saw it at the gym), but some 25 year old actress was admitting to her cr... : fluffy64
  • See my post above. : SiW.
• Swollen Member is all you got, Canada : NGFodder
• I wonder how his Whuffie would balance out. : miasma&!
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  Kid needs a haircut : spiffymc
  • and a penis : hanged_man
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvmIzxO0-n4&feature=related : DonarUDL
• As a Canadian I agree. : Fred Garvin
• His marketing team has crafted his image to illicit this kind of response. They want him to evoke extreme... : theghostofsmdever
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  wtf's a bieber? : drucifer
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    like a beaver but more vaginal : kingfish
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      I thought it was one of those French things that squirts water up your ass. : theghostofsmdever
      • close! : dooberzoo
• I really do apologize :( : Milleh
• Justin said he hates YOU too. So I guess it all works out. : CRasterImage
• Every single U.S country or folk band >:[ : reZaun
• you leave lookitzpancakes alone! : whodares

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  you can get a script to do it otherwise you type asdfasfdasdfs {}] around it. : akirabob
  • and by that i mean the letter o with a [ then what you want to type goes here then ] immediately followed... : akirabob
  • oh my. : Clay
  • wtf : bolneze
  • GENIUS! : cerealSAM2
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  spoiler text goes here : nyranger66
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    wait, what's the point of the code tag if it doesn't ignore shacktags/!? : nyranger66
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      other way--spoiler [ code [[ ]] code ] spoiler. : daVinci1980
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        You think so? Let's try: foobar : CRasterImage
        • Nope. Still spoiled. Code tag doesn't dismiss tags inside it. Nor does it disqualify tags that are ac... : CRasterImage
        • That's odd. The spoiler is active in teh preview, but the text is just dimmed in the regular view. : CRasterImage
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          o]o[ Try again morons! ]o[o : Dong Patrol
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            Well that backfired exactly as much as I'd feared it would. : Dong Patrol
            • It looks good in Winchatty o__o : nodebug
    • Indeed. That of course assumes a working code tag :( : Jonathan
    • The code tag doesn't work. Exactly. It doesn't ignore other tags, like you would hope. But it does do ... : CRasterImage
• Go to the link in my profile and get the shacktag script fore greasemonkey/firefox : Lightzout
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  http://www.shackpics.com/files/shacktagsPNG_mp5tcx82azwja3d9at7p.png : uglysad
  • THANKS! : milgram976
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  usability question: why isn't there a link in the reply box pointing to the tags? : danws6
  • I don't think there's a good reason. Shacktags are a "if you're willing to figure them out, you're welcom... : Goncyn
  • I believe the reasoning was that if they were easily visible to all users, they would abuse them. But yo... : DrWaffles
  • same reason there is no edit button. : romulan
  • ja.zz had the tags listed next to the post box : electroly
  • because if you are familiar enough to know the tags you know not to abuse them. Other people would make ... : aethyr
  • Hoverboards : mem
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    because then everyone would start there post with attention grabbing red letters. : sharpie
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      where? : biskits
      • Over they're, next to shut-it town. : sharpie
• This thread is hilarious. : Goncyn
• balls : VivaMachete
• o}[like this]o : ninjase
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  o[like this]o : ninjase
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    o[It does not work!]o : shirif
    • {ahhhhhh} : Randalian
• peni text goes here ]penis : jingletard
• http://rock_elf.shackspace.com/tags/index.html : vx2o
• alt+f4 : mista mista
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  All these replies probably confused the op so much he will abandon the spoiler tag forever. : notext
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    or she... : Sailor of Fortune
    • There are no women on the internet. : CRasterImage
• ALT+F4 : Fred Garvin
• test : Fpsnut
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  NOT LIKE THIS : GloriousCow
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    this reminds me of when that chick dies in the matrix : dirge23
    • I just thought that about 5 seconds ago. : abrasion
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  â–² â–² â–² : nwillard
  • This aint 4chan : CRasterImage
  • NEWFAGS CANT TRIFORCE : MercFox1
  • lol newshags can't triforce. : whodares