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  I thought it was an awesome city when I went there in early March. I was also pleasantly surprised by the... : The Grolar Bear
  • However, I am not a Vancouver home-owner or renter, and I guess that's where things get complicated! : The Grolar Bear
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  Awesome Hockey Team! :) : pturvz
  • How wrong you are. : Solstice
  • Until playoff time. : coyoterys
• Hosted awesome Olympics and the Canucks are likely to win the cup this year! : Morgin
• Great city. I really love Vancouver. : Vantage
• Never been but want to go there. I hear it is an awesome city. : ant_hillbilly
• Great city but expensive. Awesome hockey team. Go Canucks Go! : jamesray
• i was there a few weeks ago and it made me said it's not a practical option to move there : feek
• Everyone I know loves it, friends that live there say cost of living is really the ouch part though. : kelerian
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  I hear it's very wet. : Haxim
  • This is recently false, according to all my friends in Vancouver/Richmond. : Moonbase Commander
• rain : lodit
• I loved it when I was there as a kid. : moe6
• http://www.crackshackormansion.com/ : surround
• Homes that cost 10 times the average wage. : The Key
• I love it and I've never been there. : dognose
• Lower east side is fucking frightening, Real estate prices are crazy, and the government is full of grano... : retardhumper
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  I live here and it's great but property is ridiculously expensive and quite inflated. I'm still waiting f... : synapse19
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    ...and if you're from Australia you'll be one of a billion people, especially if you're in Whistler... : synapse19
    • Australians are the Mexicans of Canada : Majuju
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    like every other major big city : FrayLo
    • Vancouver is one of the most expensive cities to live in North America (not just Canada). : eonix
• expensive, high crime : Dravenport
• not much : c0bra
• I am from Vancouver.....it's the best Canadian city hands down and one of the best in the world in terms ... : darkT
• i'd move there if i could. : jayares
• the cost of living is through the roof and I'd move away in a second provided I could find the same work ... : Majuju
• Its pretty amazing, but I live near toronto, also it is expensive : oldschoolbob-o
• I was there in May for the marathon. I really really like the city. : shyguy74
• I would love to live there. : sKetchflow
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  Everyone mentions the high cost of living. What is a rough idea on how much rent you'd pay? Also, what... : Drewus
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    My friend pays roughly 1200 for an apartment in new Westminster. : jamesray
    • Does the average salary cover that high cost of living? : sKetchflow
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      Jesus? What's the square footage. I pay under $800 in Coquitlam for a decent place. : Sgt_Boomstick
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        $800 a fortnight? A month? : Drewus
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          Rent is usually expressed in months. : Moonbase Commander
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            Rent here is usually expressed in fortnight's, so I was thinking 800 was pretty steep :/ : Drewus
            • But yeah, 800 a month is ridiculously cheap compared to where I live (Canberra, which is the most expensi... : Drewus
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              A fortnight? Do you have a pad in the Shire? : Sgt_Boomstick
              • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortnight : Drewus
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                where does he was his tunics? : dignan
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                  wash... walking away : dignan
                  • when I was my car? : Drewus
      • I think it's something like 600sq ft. : jamesray
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    The condo beside me is going for 1.3 million and its 1000 square feet. ^Fucking read this. : eonix
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      The downtown core is pretty ridiculous. That's for sure. : Sgt_Boomstick
      • I'm not even in the core! Fairview area for me (near Granville Island). : eonix
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    I pay $1400 a month for a one bedroom, but its a fucking sick one-bedroom on the 21st floor of a high-ris... : rick
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      You'd be lucky to get a one bedroom place in the city here for less than $1600 a month. : Drewus
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        I guess I'm lucky! Its old place, but it really doesn't matter considering the location. : rick
        • Oh, this is in Canberra, Australia. Because the city is full of rich public servants, the cost of everyth... : Drewus
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  I don't think about Vancouver. : AgentPothead
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    Well you should if you are the type of agent you say you are... : rick
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      Weed is legal where I live and in a few months they will be voting on legalizing the home growth. I think... : AgentPothead
      • Ahh well that sounds nice. It might as well be legal here, but it isn't. : rick
• Great city to live in. : Sgt_Boomstick
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  I lived in Van for 10 years. Seattle for 10 years too. Van is like a cleaner, less crime filled Seattle. ... : jane911
  • Vancouver, the city, is BIG? You can walk from the west to the east in 15 minutes and the north to the so... : eonix
  • I don't think I've ever heard of Vancouver having less crime than Seattle... : cltcprd
• It's just a nice place. There's something about the air and water there that is just superior to everywhe... : miasma&!
• Beautiful city : Serpico74
• It's awesome. : Fred Garvin
• I have yet to visit a city I would rather live in than Vancouver. Best: The food: the density and q... : rick

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  I've played 21 hours of Civ V so far. That isn't much at all compared to how much I played Civ 2, 3, and ... : ajvitaly
  • I own Civ 1,2,3,4, and 5. I think this is the best version yet. I think the worst improvement of this g... : amrbean
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    i think City States will be more interesting when diplomacy is less bare-bones. one thing Civ has always ... : dirge23
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      The lack of diplomacy depth is probably my biggest concern. I didn't like the stuff in Civ:Rev and so its... : Jonathan
      • even BTS had overly-simplistic diplomacy for my tastes, and they've regressed that substantially in CivV : dirge23
  • If you don't think those maintenance fees are fair make a mod and reduce the cost yourself. I'd be surpr... : pyide
  • I must agree on all points. I think things can be fixed or at least made more balanced, but I am generall... : JonathanBedrava
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  they'll fix a lot of the bugs. i knew once i started hearing about hexes/no stacks/no religion that there... : dirge23
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    It's not just bugs. This imbalance of this game is considerably more off than every other Civ has been at... : ajvitaly
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      i'm willing to consider most of that "gameplay bugs". : dirge23
      • i suspect/hope that we'll see the gameplay experience for CivV substantially grow and develop post-releas... : dirge23
• There are many things messed up with it, but I do still end up having fun with it. Give it a years wo... : phate81
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  don't you miss being able to go straight up or down instead of zig zag. seems like a bigger hex would hav... : MoreVespeneGas
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    It should've just been an octagon and we wouldn't have these issues. : sKetchflow
    • I suppose you are joking? You cannot construct a grid with only octagons. : Skrynkelberg
• I don't care. I love it and I can't stop playing it. I just finished a lengthy war with France as Japan a... : Rehevkor
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  And insofar as aesthetics are concerned, I'd like to have an option to hide the icons floating above all ... : ajvitaly
  • There is a mod for this, called blank screenshots or some such. It gives you an option next to the other ... : pyide
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  I really hope they can fix it with DLC : MagicWishMonkey
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    Could people stop talking about DLC? Just say patch or Add-ons, please. People these days... : guigr
    • Ok add-ons, it will definitely be more expensive than a standard DLC pack. Whatever it is, I hope the... : MagicWishMonkey
• Yea, I'm really hoping they listen to player base feedback and deal with everything in an expansion. : twifosp
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  I like the trade luxury for 300 gold, spend 500 gold on city-state, get mucho food for 60 turns + city st... : ZenzenTen
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    And with each luxury resource being such a huge modifier to happiness, there is very little need to every... : ajvitaly
    • I had all but 3 of them and was hitting the happy cap pretty hard on Prince. I had mega population though... : ZenzenTen
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      well "need" is subjective, but the buildings help you expand earlier, when the resources aren't available... : dirge23
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        It's actually better to go -9 happy cap. You get much more production from the extra population than you ... : ZenzenTen
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          in practice the way i play is just to drive both my population and my happiness as high as i can manage. : dirge23
          • I try to keep all my meters high. I tend to keep happiness high for the Piety policy that half of happine... : ZenzenTen
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      Yes happiness is extremely broken. Historically, according to civ, all wars were started because their p : twifosp
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        your population doesn't stop working due to unhappiness in civ5. it just stops growth. (right?) : dirge23
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          Which makes even less sense. : MagicWishMonkey
          • it makes enough sense. but yeah, in general one of my biggest problems with Civ is that the franchise has... : dirge23
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          The first stage is slow population growth, the second stage is they will stop producting units all togeth... : twifosp
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            Either way, the mechanic is still horribly broken that if your population is unhappy, you'll send its so... : twifosp
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              there are the valid alternatives of bribing city states or building circuses too, you know : dirge23
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                Have you played on monarch+ yet? : twifosp
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                  nope. : dirge23
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                    K maybe it's just extra broken on high difficulties. Maybe I should bump it back down to have some fun. ... : twifosp
                    • even in previous civs i didn't like to play on higher difficulties because i felt like it forced me to ma... : dirge23
    • Aren't happiness buildings useful if you're going cultural and have piety (excess happiness converts to c... : Haxim
  • The good news is they just have to figure out the right numbers after some tweaking. Sure, it should hav... : _jon
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  I played ~100 turns or so before realizing my workers would not auto-build roads. That's a pain. It sho... : Lucien Irenicus
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    They will build auto roads. : JohnnyRey
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      They do it horribly though. And at 1 gold maintenance per turn it gets costly : kgargs
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        Do you mean with the auto-improve function or the go to route function? : givemesnacks
        • auto-improve. But it seems like it's the last thing they do. They will build other improvements first it ... : JohnnyRey
      • Yea, I had a city state across the world request a road, and any time I put my workers on auto improve th... : Medster
      • yes, on marathon they make horribly complex roads that end up costing way too much money each round. I'm ... : BongSlayerB
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  never really played a Civ before (except for the one on iPad) wondering if I should get civ5 or civ4 sinc... : Frush81
  • 4 will be cheaper of course but if youve never played it before I would just get 5. It's still a great ga... : Degenerate
  • Despite the flaws, I really don't think there's any reason to get Civ4 over Civ5 right now. We're oldscho... : yoonix
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    Dude, get 5. You will like it. It's actually the most noob-friendly PC Civ yet in my opinion. Take it ... : _jon
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      (rev is the ipad one?) well .. not sure I like it .. I think I just dont get it. Pretending I dont wa... : Frush81
      • Well Rev is basically the Xbox 360 version of Civ that was ported to iPhone/iPad. the 360 version is pre... : _jon
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  More than one step forward. 1) Hexes 2) Ranged units 3) No more stackable units 4) Strategic View : Milleh
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    No more units and ranged units over hexes that are 500km wide. What a step forward! : guigr
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      If you're looking for a realistic warfare simulator then this is the wrong game. : Nitrium
      • this : Milleh
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        Maybe, but at least back in Civilization 1, you had the impression you were managing a whole empire. This... : guigr
        • That's a fair criticism but it has nothing to do with the comparison of distances in ranged battles. I co... : Nitrium
• It's a good game, but still needs a lot of work and patching. : Nitrium
• We come together, because opposites attract! : HL3dsx
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  I just wish it didn't crash so much :( : Amadan
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    This is strange, I see people talking about it crashing all the time, but it hasn't crashed once for me i... : Rehevkor
    • Yeah, no crashes here either. Q9550 4890 E-MU 0404 Win 7 x64 : _jon
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      I'm at 44 hours played and it crashes really often when I load a game. It doesn't crash while I'm playin... : Amadan
      • I've got almost the exact same setup as you minus the SSD and antivirus and I've never had it crash or pa... : TheVietSpecial
  • Have you ever tried running it in DX9 mode? : Nitrium
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  My biggest issue with Civ V is how clunky and over-bloated it is. Basically it's a hugely complex board g... : Milleh
  • LogMeIn + Strategic View = win : _jon
  • Clunky? The interface is more streamlined than it ever has been. It sounds like you would rather just be ... : Zek
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    Have you even tried strategic view? : Haxim
    • Yes, I am saying that the game is basically very resource demanding. : Milleh
• I'm hoping for a massive performance improvement. The UI and moving units feel a bit sluggish. : Nitrium
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  how come i can't tell how strong a unit is by mousing over it (unless i'm at war with it and about to att... : skryte
  • That would be handy. I've also seen the list of modifiers become so long that the unit panel covers the b... : Rehevkor
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    also why is it so hard to get the game to skip the opening video? : skryte
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      edit the gamesettings.ini and change skipintromovie to 1. : Deathlove
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        awesome, thanks! : skryte
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          where the hell is this file? i found a directory in C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\My Games\Sid Meier's Ci... : skryte
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            UserSettings.ini, sorry. : Deathlove
            • okay, i found that one. oh, and it's SkipIntroVideo. cool, thanks again. : skryte
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            My Documents>My Games>Civ V iirc : prokat
            • yeah that's where i ended up finding it. the appdata folder was a red herring. : skryte
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      From what I understand the game is loading the menu in the background while it's playing the intro movie.... : dionex
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        I cannot understand this. The first rule of UI's is that you don't let something happen for more than a f... : thecray
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          the civ4 menu was way better and seemingly more demanding, yet it loads basically instantly : feek
          • It also gave you a little animation so you knew it was actually loading. : thecray
  • how come whenever i right-click to move a unit, it puts a red dot, then if i right-click a second time, t... : skryte
  • also i wish numpad enter would take you to whatever the end-turn button has morphed into. it seems like e... : skryte
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    and what happened to "upgrade all units of this type"? : skryte
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      Since you have way fewer units with limited strategic resources it's not really an issue, is it? : Haxim
      • sure, it only takes 30-40 clicks. that's easy. no, it's still a nuisance. : skryte
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  Even in this state V is still pretty damn fun. Once they fix the AI the game will definitely be in my to... : herradura99
  • Same here. It's buggy and has some balance issues, but I still can't stop playing it. I can't wait to get... : Rehevkor
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  I'm getting random fake barbarian units ghosted on the screen (bad description, i know). I'll need to get... : BongSlayerB
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    I know what you're talking about. I've seen it with resources and other units as well. Using Nvidia har... : Arcanum
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      aw crap...well there goes my complete justification for buying a GTX 465 Fermi card today. Any word on w... : BongSlayerB
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        I have no idea. Maybe mine is different, though? In my case, it's copies of models from elsewhere that ... : Arcanum
        • I get this as well. You scroll around but some random models will be fixed on screen. They usually disapp... : thecray
• I completely disagree. love all the changes. so much fun to play. : hirez
• I'll hold out for a big patch before I buy. :( : systatic
• I hate that these threads are scaring away buyers, when the experience is already hard to top in gaming. : givemesnacks

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• First Time Playing? - Check out (and help with) the Shackwiki Minecraft page! http://shackwiki.com/wiki : Dong Patrol
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  Dong can you start adding Shadowdane's render next to his server as well? : Nerdsbeware
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    we ask everyday and he ignores us. i hate him : multisync
    • In my defense, I normally post these and then fall asleep for 8 hours. : Dong Patrol
    • I have angled map favourited... http://shadowdane.shackspace.com/Minecraft/shackdc-angle-current.png The ... : excessus
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      Multi... we need to make the path to go over hill... so its viewable from the eyebird map.... <g> : excessus
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        You don't realize the scale of the world until you look at one of these renders. I can't even make out th... : pancake humper
        • It's really amazing. : excessus
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          You talking about the canal I made this past weekend? : Maddog_Delphi97
          • no, on Shadowdanes : pancake humper
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        well plan out a route! mark some trees or something and we can start a diggin! : multisync
        • should be beautiful... after all, its supposed to be for newcomers to admire the world :) : excessus
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    Oh damn it all, I left the MercFox render in the root post! That's gone as of today, though; these posts ... : Dong Patrol
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      like a labia gone wild! : multisync
      • Lucy, you got some 'splaining to do! : Dong Patrol
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  Server Renders! MercFox1 Bird's Eye View: http://box.nevernet.com/~djr/mc/render.png Angled: http: : Dong Patrol
  • much better! unhate : multisync
  • Excitebike! : hoov1185
  • Yay!! The angled render works now. : Maddog_Delphi97
  • Oh I finally figured out what that triangle thing in the west is (Destroyer) and nice millenium falcon : Slowtreme
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    I don't have an auto render thing set up. Sorry. : m0rfus
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      I setup a batch file to do this, its completely automatic. I'd be happy to post it if other people are i... : Shadowdane
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        Yes please! SM some details/instructions. I'll give you some rape dollars! : m0rfus
        • Yah I'll do that tonight... at work right now. : Shadowdane
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    Some dude was complaining about me building a bridge (well not really complaining, but he didn't seem hap... : MagicWishMonkey
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      i can only guess that it was Vividvoid, careful or he'll ban you! : multisync
      • Naaa it wasn't him, it was some dude I don't recognize from the chatty. I don't want to get banned, I... : MagicWishMonkey
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      Vividvoid pretty much never seems happy : Arctic Fox
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        It wasn't vivivoid, it was some other dude. He kept saying "Hrmm...." disapprovingly when I explained ... : MagicWishMonkey
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          Yeah it's hard to know what is appropriate because everyone seems to set their rules differently. Persona : Arctic Fox
          • Good point, I'll make sure it's high enough to boat under. I hope I can get my blocks back if I need to t... : MagicWishMonkey
          • Ya, if you don't do this, i'm gonna rip a hole in your bridge everytime i pass by. No blocking mass tran... : dnagenome
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            I can definitely recommend against what somebody did to me. A good example of poor MC etiquette. While ... : Gwyndion
            • Ugh that's gay. I've left the ground under me for whatever people want, but no-one should just ASSUME tha... : Arctic Fox
            • Yea I would never do anything like that, I'm not going to screw with his island/fortress or anything. I p... : MagicWishMonkey
            • U can use gravel to get right of the lava. : james_austintx
            • it's fixable, just will take you some time. : metalremains
        • lol, that's pretty passive aggressive for chat. : swiftB3
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      It wasn't me! I swear! : VectorJKL
      • haha, no it wasn't anyone I recognize from the chatty. It might be a regular here using a different name ... : MagicWishMonkey
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  What will happen, I wonder, when monsters get implemented. Specially the KABOOM type of them, approaching... : excessus
  • going to have to build some walls! : multisync
  • i can't wait for that day!! : ass-street
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    It's annoying actually. People hangout around the spawn in my server and I'm always re-patching it becaus... : m0rfus
    • they sound like pussies! : ass-street
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    We were discussing this once on Merc's server.. we might have to setup reconstruction teams who travel ar... : Gwyndion
    • Nah just build your buildings properly -- lots of light around the radius, and a fenced path to the door ... : Arctic Fox
  • That is gonna be AWESOME : The Wilhelm Scream
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  Look at These Videos: Awesome rollercoaster! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jftUwZrkVNI Huey Lew : Dong Patrol
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    i want to lay track all over the place but it just takes way too much iron :( : GloriousCow
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      I stock piling iron now so that when it goes live in MP I can make some awesome tram systems. : Nerdsbeware
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        what happens when the server gets mined out and there's just a big gaping cavity full of lava and death u... : GloriousCow
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          People will move a few thousand chunks to the left so more world is generated. : RomSteady
          • you think you're so smart :( : GloriousCow
          • ^ THIS!! =) : metalremains
          • It's just a jump to the left... : Arctic Fox
        • THEN WE DINE IN HELL! : Nerdsbeware
        • Ever seen Star Trek 6? : riptyde
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          We need a Random Terrain Generation Bomb. We can just set a height, width and length setting and drop it... : Gwyndion
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            It would be fun if you could flood a cavern with lava and then with water to have it cool into solid ston... : riptyde
            • that makes obsidian already though? : pancake humper
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      That's what gets me -- where the fuck do people find enough iron to use mine carts at all? :/ : ThomW
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        I went through a branch mining tutorial linked in last night's chatty and gave it a shot. I had over 100... : RomSteady
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          link? :( : GloriousCow
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            look down : Arctic Fox
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              I refuse. : GloriousCow
              • YOUR UDDERS ARE NOW DIAMOND : Arctic Fox
            • look back at me. : Scotty22
        • link to this? : Clay
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          Yeah branch mining is suuuper efficient: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az4KihqqRGk : Arctic Fox
          • Basically it's limiting the number of stone blocks you demolish, and maximising the number of blocks that... : Arctic Fox
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            after the update that place will be a mazelike zombie infested hell : GloriousCow
            • I wonder just how bad Mercfox's server will be once all the monsters are out. We will have to reclaim th... : mastermike569
            • I know, isn't it awesome : Arctic Fox
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              When monsters come in, I'm going to go into Hell and remove all of the torches. It has a tunnel directly... : foo
              • Have you seen dnagenome'sold place? Similar concept: It used to be a huuuge stripmine, but now that he's ... : Arctic Fox
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                This will be the new griefing after fire. : Gwyndion
                • No, we've already seen what the new griefing will be: http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=24167726 : Arctic Fox
          • I'll have to try this. : AltZero
        • I gotta do this tonight. : metalremains
      • You get 16 track blocks for 6 iron. It's not really that hard to find if you explore caves, it even shows... : Zek
      • The guy who uploaded the rollercoaster is the one that posted the branch mining tutorial I linked below..... : Arctic Fox
  • That rollercoaster is just awesome. In the old meaning of the word. : Gwyndion
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  Minecraft meets Old Spice: http://nerfnow.com/comic/391 : RomSteady
  • THIS PICK IS NOW DIAMOND : MercFox1
  • beautiful, now someone make a version of it with a live action person blue screened on top of minecraft s... : lukej1337
  • Haha, awesome. : The Grolar Bear
  • This post needs more love. : mlev
  • Good stuff. : Gwyndion
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  notch to officially replace torches with lanterns: http://twitter.com/alek214/status/26445863134 http:/ : aethyr
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    I wonder if lanterns will stack : pancake humper
    • I'm sure they will. Otherwise it'll be a real pain. : vx2o
  • hah, sweet! : metalremains
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    hahaha, time to start spamming torches all over the place for free lanterns? : burningtrees
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      (this is why there should be world resets sometimes) : Zek
      • Too bad we can't reset real-life. : rick
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    Has he said what it's going to take to build a lantern? : ThomW
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      3 obsidian 2 diamonds and a gold handle : multisync
      • and flint for fuel : pancake humper
      • Your breakfast teapot? : conandan
  • Hell yeah! : ConsFEARacy
  • I think that's good. So it will unbalance things, but also cause less annoyance. : Nixx2004
  • Time to fill 30 large chests with torches. : noxiousgg
  • Only trick is that we don't for sure that you'll get a lantern back if you break one. : Xevo
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  I want minecraft achievements. What would be some good ones? : GloriousCow
  • He's doing achievements but I think the only one he's mentioned was completing all the crafting recipes. : Zek
  • It's Full of Stars! - Fall through a hole in the bedrock : Dunwich
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    General, given ones: Build X amount of tools Mine X amount of minerals (iron, gold, diamond) Sheering ... : Nerdsbeware
    • Lose one of each diamond tool to lava : GloriousCow
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      I hope he doesn't do any boring grind achievements like that. Achievements should be to get you to do fun... : Zek
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        I'm not a fan of the kill/collect achievements either, I mean if they are like 5 points or something sure... : Nerdsbeware
        • we're already worried about our nonexistant minecraft gamerscore : GloriousCow
    • - Create a fully functional ALU - Create the Starship Enterprise on a 1:1 scale - Divorce your wife, di... : snot3353
  • Falling from x amount of height and surviving Killing x amount of mobs within a few seconds Killing a m... : iamgoat
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    i don't want these things - 99% of the charm is the simplicity and lack of extra fluff crap like this :( : multisync
    • I agree, actually. But I think Notch kind of wants to use them to encourage new players who are just jum... : Rotten Deadite
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      So are you actually enjoying the game now? I know you were sceptical a few weeks ago... : Ride-My-Rocket
      • Pretty sure he has it on an IV drip into his veins now. : pancake humper
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        Pretty sure this game has almost everyone by the balls at this point. I logged into Merc's last night at... : foo
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          If only my actual work was as fun. I'm almost finished Isengard, so I'm not really feeling the impetus to... : Arctic Fox
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            Yeah, I got bored for a while, which is one of the reasons I started working on Minas Tirith. I knew it ... : foo
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              Really big projects are the most fun. I'm thinking about what to do next myself between classes. : Hemtroll
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                Mo'def. Big projects require planning though, which I realized too late. I did MT without planning any ... : foo
                • Yeah it was kind of the same with Isengard. We tore down the walls a few times because it wasn't looking ... : Arctic Fox
                • spiral staircase! : Drakoniac
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              If the skybox gets raised eventually, we should start a "Middle Earth" server. By the way, in order to ma... : Arctic Fox
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                I'm actually using painterly now, but I want it to look good for everyone, not just me :( : foo
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                  That's the worst! I never build with cobblestone because I know how it'll look with default textures :( ... : Hemtroll
                  • if you stripe cobble and smooth stone it looks awesome though, check out Orthanc. : Arctic Fox
                • Yeah me too. I chose mostly similar textures to default for exactly this reason. : Arctic Fox
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                  I just put in the lighter texture pack, and it actually looks pretty good: http://picasaweb.google.com... : foo
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                    Link is broken :( Oops... there's nothing to see here. Either you do not have access to these photos, : Arctic Fox
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                      Drrrp sorry, didn't realize I had that album locked. it's open now http://picasaweb.google.com/djrfoo... : foo
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                        big pictures are busted :( : pancake humper
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                          wtf, they were working just a minute ago : foo
                          • i refreshed and now they're working again, google must be having problems : foo
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                        Yeah that definitely looks nicer : Arctic Fox
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                          Yeah but that's just for me.. The only thing I can really do is use half blocks like Hemtroll said, but ... : foo
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                            How do half blocks help? They're still grey by default. I think what you've got is fine : Arctic Fox
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                              They're still pretty light compared to stone and easier to make than smooth stone: http://www.minecraftwi... : Hemtroll
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                                They're about the same tone as smooth stone http://www.shackpics.com/files/javaw2010100313025639_3vu6lnik... : Arctic Fox
                                • Whatever you upper class snob. I'm just trying to catch a break. White man keeping me down! : Hemtroll
                  • it says I'm not allowed to look at your pictures :( I thought we were casual acquaintances? : Hemtroll
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                If that's what we're doing, that server needs to be whitelisted-only players. I don't want to put all th... : Ride-My-Rocket
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                  Seriously. : Arctic Fox
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                    I have bettah planz. Debating on moving to hey0, it allows us to set our own specific spawn points and... : foo
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                      Awesome, I was the one that suggested this change so I'm all for it :D : Arctic Fox
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                        Just gotta get Merc's approval : foo
                        • Oh also I want to move the server to a box with 16gb ram and 8 cores (instead of 4). Gotta talk to him a... : foo
                    • voting this so hard : MurrayTheSkull
                    • sounds good to me : james_austintx
                    • sounds awesome. i would love to have my /home in my sky city : electroly
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                      This is one of those cases where since I already play I don't care...but it would suck to join as a new g... : Vincent Grayson
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                        Going off memory, there's 6 mods, and there's at least 2 others on every time I've logged in : foo
                        • If you need more admins, I'm on most nights and would happily swing the banhammer administer a reign of p... : Arctic Fox
        • I've started to force myself to stop and go to sleep at midnight. Otherwise I'd end up playing much later... : Vincent Grayson
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        i love - it's so simple and stupid its therapeutic i think : multisync
        • glad to hear it! : Ride-My-Rocket
    • Same here! : StriderNL
  • I mostly enjoy achievements but Minecraft is actually a game I would prefer doesn't have them. : Begawkiness
  • Always Bet On Dupe : _jon
  • The Pilgrimage : _jon
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    THE BADASS - Destroy someone else massive building down to its roots. : excessus
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      Achievements celebrating griefing would be a truly moronic idea. : Arctic Fox
      • Unless required to be done by CANNON!!!!! WAR IS HELL BOYS! : dnagenome
• oh yea i got a yellow record on shadowdane's last night (thanks drae) the sound is awful lol : multisync
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  Does your progress in offline mode get saved? I am about to go on a plane trip and would love to play my ... : byorn
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    Your singleplayer games are stored locally : Arctic Fox
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      Cool...now to see if I can run it on a netbook :( : byorn
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        not really... i tried it on mine and it was choppy as hell even on the lowest view distance. : Shadowdane
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          this. : mlev
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            yeah the graphics and gameplay are deceiving, it uses a lot of resources. : Hemtroll
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              It's very processor heavy. There's a lot of rendering that happens, and all the fluid dynamics and suc... : mlev
              • Yeah, I was noticing how badly it ran when there was flowing water/lava around. The falling snow in one w... : byorn
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  Shack help? New guy in the spawn dungeon : sierran
  • on Merc server : sierran
  • i'm out, thanks : sierran
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  just got this last night. connecting to mercfox's server it loads, then after a bit i get a black screen ... : onji
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    reduce your view distance to Normal : TroZ
    • that did the trick thanks : onji
  • One of the reasons is all the UNDERGROUND stuff yup can't see that it's rendering. I noticed is on Merc's... : m0rfus
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  So what's the over/under on notch making a blog post close to the release of the halloween update along t... : Haxim
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    I just hope all these changes are still compatible with current saves, especially biomes. : JohnnyRey
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      idk wat biome ? : mlev
      • http://minecraft.net/boo/ : JohnnyRey
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        Areas with different weather/terrain. : Zek
        • fuckin awesome. My roommate and I were talking about that the other day, how you can have a snow world, ... : mlev
    • If not, MCEdit to the rescue! : Arctic Fox
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    I'd imagine his big halloween update is his plan to get back on track with working on the game. At least ... : Hemtroll
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      Did you just say meow? : Dong Patrol
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        Did I say me... didn't we do this once already? : Hemtroll
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          Not so funny meow, is it? : Dong Patrol
          • YOU DONGS LIKE MEXICO?! : Hemtroll
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        Do I look like a cat to you, boy? Am I jumpin' around all nimbly bimbly from tree to tree? : metalremains
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          Am I drinking milk from a saucer? : metalremains
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            Do you see me eating mice?! : Hemtroll
            • SHENANIGANS! : Rehevkor
            • Do you see mice eating me? : uebersoldat
    • i think it's a shift in how he does updates. I think he is moving towards less frequent updates. But PA... : lukej1337
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      I red that in Meowth's voice : guido anchovy
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        you red it? Is that so IVAN?! : Hemtroll
        • I are gude spelar : guido anchovy
        • in soviet russia, thats right meowth. : GloriousCow
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    biomes are totally going to require people to make new maps. no? : lukej1337
    • Probably not! New block types and tweaks to the level generator take effect when new terrain is generated... : Dong Patrol
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      Maybe, they might be discoverable by new exploration. But a lot of the SMP servers have already been expl... : Zek
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        That's the genius of the fast-travel dimension. : Arctic Fox
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          Depending on how it works : Haxim
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            Magnets! : Rehevkor
            • New rule: Server must have at least one representation from LOTR in order to access the fast travel dime... : dnagenome
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          This is going to play hell with renders when people disappear into the fast-travel dimension and explore ... : mroizo40
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            Hopefully there will be some sort of limit, either that or they will need to configure the map to focus o... : MagicWishMonkey
            • Or run multiple, tighter renders for each 'settlement'. : Haxim
          • Personally I don't think people should be able to go into unexplored territory through fast-travel. I wou... : Zek
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  I just wanted to say something regarding www.minecraft.net/boo. OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG I'M SO FUCKING EXCI : uebersoldat
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    PUMPKIN HELMETS YEAHHHHH!!! : Dong Patrol
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      Seriously, is anyone going to ever use torches again? : uebersoldat
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        depends on what it takes to make a lantern : Hemtroll
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          Glass and coal I'd imagine. Maybe something like this: G C G ? : uebersoldat
          • In other news, beaches are now on the endangered species list! : Hemtroll
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            There will be some metal in there, I bet. I think he'll want to make lanterns slightly harder to make, gi... : Arctic Fox
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              yeah, i'd imagine them being more like this: iron, iron, iron glass, coal, glass iron, iron, iron : ass-street
              • or maybe just one iron in the top and bottom rows : ass-street
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                lol no that's way too much iron. Something like 1 Glass 1 Coal/Redstone 1 Iron Would be sufficien... : Arctic Fox
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                  lol U R WRONG1 : ass-street
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                    I'm just saying you can't have a single light use as much iron as an axe + a pick, or 2 buckets, because ... : Arctic Fox
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                      we shall see mr. fox! : ass-street
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                        i also hope that relighting torches with flint & steel causes many accidental fires :D MUAHAHAHA : ass-street
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                          are you going to need flint & steel to light a torch initially? if not, will knocking a torch off the wal... : GloriousCow
                          • good question! : ass-street
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                            maybe they will knock off the wall and just be a stick again. : ass-street
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                              ^^^ this is my guess, like the way that boats disintegrate back into wood when wrecked : Arctic Fox
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                                but then they'd disappear after a while, but notch said they'd be relightable. hrm. : GloriousCow
                                • relightable on the wall is my guess : ass-street
                                • 1. Torch behaves as now at first 2. Eventually torch burns out and becomes a non-lit torch on the wall ... : Zek
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                          It will definitely NOT be wise to place torches in a wooden house (or near bookcases). : Gwyndion
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                            Shhhhhh..... let them learn for themselves. : mattavius
                            • ..."and I'm just going to put a nice little torch right her...uh oh..." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... : uebersoldat
                • maybe he will add Oil as a new liquid-block type! : yAak
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            make em out of gold and glass. Got no use for gold anyway. : BeowolfSchaefer
            • seriously wtf is gold good for anyway? : uebersoldat
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        I feel bad for notch having to cave to the masses about lantern conversion :( : Haxim
        • Eh, why? It stops the bitching, and hardcore players can toss their ill-gotten-lanterns into lava if the... : yAak
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        Yep, I'd use torches in my mines and spelunking. Way I see it is lanterns are for the areas you live in, ... : Arctic Fox
        • This makes perfect sense to me. : uebersoldat
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          is he gonna nerf redstone torches too? : GloriousCow
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            I'd doubt it. They're already useless as a light source, and the way they work in circuits pretty much re... : Arctic Fox
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              still would make a decent permanent mark of where you've been in caves : GloriousCow
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                I actually currently use Redstone torches as a breadcrumb trail :) Redstone torches are always on the rig... : Arctic Fox
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                  thats.... not a bad idea at all. : GloriousCow
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                    It's REALLY handy if you ever make a branch mine of any size, or for underground exploration in general. ... : Arctic Fox
                    • Oh.. I see now what you mean. Ignore my other post. :) : Gwyndion
                  • Yeah... actually a very good idea... but why redstone? Why not normal torches? Just because you have mo... : Gwyndion
          • I highly doubt it. It would fuck up all the triggering mechanisms you can create with then. : riptyde
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          aye, torches are likely to be cheaper and can be built on the fly. Lanterns will likely only be used for... : SolrFlare
          • ... which I think is cool. I like that you'll be able to get lost, then as you're running from skeletons,... : Arctic Fox
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            I'm okay with that. Once I've mined out a hallway I don't need it to be lit anymore. I would hope they at... : riptyde
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              would be nice if they just kinda smouldered after they went out. Down to redstone level. Not enough so th... : GloriousCow
              • I like this idea. : Arctic Fox
              • this is a great idea, you should tweet it to him or something : yAak
              • agreed, tell him this! : ShadowRam
              • Why not have different levels, so you can kinda judge the passage of time even more? Full brightness f... : Nixx2004
              • brilliant! please tweet this to notch! : uebersoldat
              • That would be a perfect solution. : swiftB3
  • I'm fucking Exc too! : excessus
  • i like the idea of craftable watches! : aurealis
  • You know, yesterday when I saw this I had totally missed the note at the bottom which mentioned BIOMES! ... : Gwyndion
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  mercfox render questions: what's the big yellow block to the NW of port thong? what's the big almos... : Clay
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    The yellow block is a Pyramid made of fire. No idea on that stone circle that is almost filled in. ... : TroZ
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      whats with the waffle-pattern to the trees in isengard? : GloriousCow
      • Those are waffle trees : MagicWishMonkey
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        not sure - all tree seem to have it so it may be an artifact of the renderer : TroZ
        • Yeah, it's just the way it renders in this view for some reason. I was just there yesterday and there is... : Gwyndion
    • There's another star destroyer being built in the east : MurrayTheSkull
• when is notch going to let me cut other players with my diamond sword?? : ass-street
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  Every time I see these renders I can't help but think of the episode where Lisa puts her tooth in a bowl ... : eldiablo01
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    ooh, I've created Lutherans! : riptyde
    • Hahaha somebody needs to nail a note (sign) on the Church of SolventChrist. : gakera
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  Who is building the Millennium Falcon on Merc's? And what are they building next to it? The DeathStar? : AltZero
  • Millennium Falcon?? Anyone? : AltZero
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  re: my question last night - is there a way to play offline Creative Mode with custom maps and, like, a f... : Majuju
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    minecraft.net has a client you can download and run in fullscreen : foo
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      I don't know if there's one for creative mode though. : Haxim
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        Yep, there is, it's called 'minecraft classic' : foo
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          I must be blind then, because I don't see any links to standalone exe clients for creative mode which wil... : Haxim
          • oh snap you're right : foo
  • fullscreen should work in Creative mode too right? Just hit F11. : Hemtroll
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  Render of my little Minecraft world: Day: http://www.getthefrakout.net/minecraft/map1-obliqueangle-day... : Colleton
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    Have you checked out any of the multiplayer servers yet? : MagicWishMonkey
    • Not yet. I'm having fun with the single player game. : Colleton
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    Hey, those don't look like Oizomapper renders at all! http://www.digitized-e.com/mroizo/OizoMapper.zip : Haxim
    • OK, I'll give it a try. Thanks! : Colleton
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  Giving away clay! http://www.shackpics.com/files/clay_rkxm19ojrus9ne4dbhv9.jpg Think I'm bored of e : Nixx2004
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    what is the ball? : ass-street
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      clay balls : supermonkeyballz
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        what do you do with those?? : ass-street
        • Make bricks in the furnace : pancake humper
        • Touch them together at Nixx's house. : dumb.
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      Clay ball. I'm using Painterly Pack. Each block breaks into 4 balls. Each ball in the furnace make... : Nixx2004
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        ah ok. i hadn't run into any clay yet. : ass-street
        • I'm an explorer, not a builder, so I went exploring to find clay. I hope someone can use a bunch of this. : Nixx2004
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        In short, each clay block turns into a brick. So that is ~2,176 bricks. : Nixx2004
        • How large of a legit brick pyramid could I make with that many bricks? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=... : Nixx2004
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    I had a project in mind but I was hesitant to start because i would need so much clay for bricks. Can i p... : GloriousCow
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      Done and done. We went from spawn, got in boats, went west. Saw minecrafter guy, delataur's place, throug... : Nixx2004
      • thank you sir : GloriousCow
  • THIS IS MADNESS : Clay
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  We need a night render of MercFox's server. I think it'd be interesting. : magistersmax
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    Oizomapper doesn't have night renders and Cartographer won't render maps this large : Shadowdane
    • :( : magistersmax
    • Oizo: I know how the lighting works if you want to know the details : TroZ
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  Shadowdane server is down no? : excessus
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    Sorry can't check it from work... if it's down I'll get it back online when I get home from work. : Shadowdane
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      No prob :) : excessus
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        Oooh dude.... I need my dosis... so badly : excessus
        • yah I'll be home around 6:30pm EST to get the server back up... : Shadowdane
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  I was killed by a tree yesterday in Minecraft. Walking through my sky orchard and bang, sapling telefrag : Lunatic Angelic
  • Hahah didnt know that was possible : AltZero
  • Haha, oh my god. : magistersmax
  • hahaha excellent : mikecyb
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    One does not simply walk into sky orchard : riptyde
    • um, yes you do... http://dan.hersam.com/uploads/mordor.gif (kind of a long .gif) : HamChowder
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    Excellent use of "telefragged", full points sir! : Johnny Law
    • Yes, I assigned 5 extra bonus points for the use of telefragged, which I hadn't heard in a long time. : Gwyndion
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    karmic revenge for telefragging that tree in quake : dirge23
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      Oh, you mean Shub-Niggurath? http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=15389797 : RomSteady
      • i know, it's a weird name for a tree : dirge23
      • ITYM Shrub-Niggurath : Johnny Law
• Minecraft is one scary game :( ...which is awesome. : vx2o
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  Help! I want to build a chandelier in this space: http://www.shackpics.com/files/helpchandelier_w3fkj6... : Nixx2004
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    Whoa, what is that minimap in your SS? Is that a mod? I so want a minimap! : AltZero
    • Yeah: http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=45059 : Nixx2004
• I started playing this game yesterday. 1) It's really fun! 2) It's virtual crack. I looked up and sud... : Danny5225
• Ooooh boy! A huge update without a month of updating, feels like it's..... Wait, more dangerous monste... : Kronyxx
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  MERCFOX1 SERVER LABELING Seriously folks. Go here: http://box.nevernet.com/~djr/mc/grid.png The... : conandan
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    haha the grid cuts my sky city almost exactly in half. i'll just pick one though : electroly
    • It did the same thing to Minas Tirith, heh : foo
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    Erm that form seems hilariously broken : Arctic Fox
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      It asks me what my Shack name is three times and on one the only option is 2 radio buttons, "1" and "2" : Arctic Fox
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        PICK UP THAT CAN FILL OUT THAT FORM : foo
        • Shit, yeah, just fill it out. I don't know if I can change it now. I don't know what happened. Somethi... : conandan
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        Same here. No idea what to do. : Moonbase Commander
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          pick the right one, or your computer blows up!!! : conandan
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            Pop quiz, hotshot! Which radio button do you click?! : The Kazlor
            • the one that doesn't make my computer blow up... : conandan
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        If you don't know the proper answer for all three then you're not a real Shacker. : dumb.
        • "1" and "2" do not appear in our official greeting. : Moonbase Commander
    • Oh wtf. : conandan
  • haha holy shit. How big is that file? : ThomW
  • Done. : The Wilhelm Scream
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    Done. : Arctic Fox
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      Hey Arctic Fox could you label my area and EricZBA's area (the house on the hill above my farm). I can't... : dnagenome
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        Just wait 'til you get home, lol. Otherwise I might be tempted to label them 8==========D : Arctic Fox
        • Dude, I've got the answer to your 8=================D it's called TnT!!!!!!!!!!! : dnagenome
      • I cant get it to work. The form is FUCKED : EricZBA
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    Done. Is there a place I can go to see the result of this? : Maddog_Delphi97
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      yah if people submit multiple labels for shared projects, we could get overlapping labels. : Shadowdane
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        RESULTS https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0AlBq3Egf0Gu0dHVBaWdYX3VaSzNKa0JocTA0RjlrUWc&hl=en&output... : conandan
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          haha nice : uebersoldat
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            this could get out of hand if people label every little fucking thing on the map... : Shadowdane
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              A simple way to do this would be to say "only label your place if it fills >1 grid square" : Arctic Fox
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                or the people labeling can just use common sense : conandan
                • Common sense is not exactly common. : Arctic Fox
              • racist : ass-street
        • Dear god the entire map is going to be nothing but labels and no textures to see : foo
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        Yeah, I labeled the Lampopolis Canal, but you designed it / did most of the work : TroZ
        • Wasn't going to claim otherwise... i wasn't even going to label it. We don't need every path or canal... : Shadowdane
  • Done : Shadowdane
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    Done. : Gwyndion
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      Oh shit.. I picked "2"! What's going to happen to me?! : Gwyndion
      • banned :( : ass-street
  • doooooooone : ass-street
  • OK, done. : Nixx2004
  • Dizzled : RogerDandy
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    I'm trying to figure out where to label JOasis. I have 30 squares to choose from. :) : ConsFEARacy
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      Just pick the vortex part. AND CLIMAX INTO IT. : Maddog_Delphi97
      • AWWWWW YEAH! : ConsFEARacy
  • Part of it says WHAT WHAT IN THE BUTT. I laughed. : Lucien Irenicus
  • Filled out for my two locations. : The Kazlor
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  Serious Minecraft question/glitch: So my non-Shack buddy has a server he and some other non-Shackers a... : uebersoldat
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    he might not be shutting down the server correctly? i dunno... a giant hole just appeared on my local ser... : yAak
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      how does one shut it down properly? : uebersoldat
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        type: stop hit enter. type: help for info on various commands : yAak
        • er, for running server in a command prompt anyway : yAak
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          cool thanks man. I'll pass the word on. : uebersoldat
          • Yep. Just make sure everyone logs out of the server before he shuts it down, or they won't have updated ... : foo
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  I wish I was at home so I could work on my cube. : Vincent Grayson
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    are you making Madison Cube Garden from Futurama? : conandan
    • actually, now that I think about it. Making FUTURAMA LAND would be cool. Making the different structure... : conandan
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      Nah, I'm thinking more along the lines of the Cube from the movie 'Cube'. Obviously I won't be able to... : Vincent Grayson
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        lol, ty for saving me from tackling that one myself. It's too good to not be done. Although it really ... : graah
        • you could make it so they have to walk through the rooms in the same order as the Kokiri Forest from ocar... : MrBig0
      • that would be awesome. : foo
      • Hah, I was just thinking about this last night. : Zakko
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  Please can I come to Merc's server and walk around and look at all the pretty buildings? I promised I won... : theydobecauseitis
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    Just log in and ask someone to let you out of spawn : Hemtroll
    • Cheers I will come and look around tomorrow then! : theydobecauseitis
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  How are you guys getting things like pvp/mobs causing damage and infinite water/lava in multi? Different ... : nodebug
  • No. Full armor and weapons, that is. : excessus
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  I think it would be funny if this ever happened http://www.virtualshackles.com/150 : Haxim
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    half of the world would implode if physics ever got enabled... seriously, the massive tunnels and holes ... : foo
    • ^^^^ yeah it'd be pretty silly to implement physics wholesale : Arctic Fox
  • He's actually thinking about something like this. On the development status page, there's a line for... : magistersmax
• Interesting http://www.theweem.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/dndminecraft.jpg : BeowolfSchaefer
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  Menz who need cobble: I made a cobble factory near the spawn (opposite the side you get out on) ht... : mlev
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    What good is cobble? I seriously can't stand the stuff : foo
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      More to the point, who'd mine it from a generator? Just dig deep and make a strip mine, all the cobble yo... : Arctic Fox
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        I swear the mountain that MT is in was like 50% cobble, it was horrible to get through : foo
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          50% cobble would be amazing. usually it's like 95% : electroly
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            You're forgetting the dirt and gravel. : Arctic Fox
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              the two mines i've dug all the way down to bedrock have had vastly more cobble than dirt or gravel. very... : electroly
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                Yes, but foo's talking about a mountain above ground, which is at least 10-20% dirt ;) : Arctic Fox
                • i actually have yet to go to MT. i need to check it out sometime : electroly
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      You can smelt it into regular stone. : Zek
      • Yeah. I don't like building in all smooth stone or all cobble, either alternative looks bad to me. So I t... : Arctic Fox
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      All of Sky Canal is cobble... : magistersmax
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        Because cobble was least costly. Dirt would have required too much land stripage. Had plenty of cobble ... : dnagenome
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          I know, that's why cobble is good. It's abundant. I was answering the "what good is cobble" bit. : magistersmax
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            it does everything except look pretty : Clay
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              unseen interior support ftw. this bad boy: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2f/Burj_Khalifa_bu... : riptyde
              • Except things in Minecraft don't NEED supports so your argument is invalid : Arctic Fox
    • I'm sorry I had confused cobble and gravel for some reason. MT was a ton of gravel : foo
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  Bored People: I am in the process of making a huge underwater dome. But I need a huge dry dock as w... : Arcath
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    Why drydock it? Why not make a mould out of dirt, cover it with glass (or whatever you want on the outsid... : Haxim
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      because 12+ deep under water I cant see to make a dirt mould. Let alone in a area 64x64. :/ : Arcath
      • I think he means it would be faster to dig a giant hole and then flood the ceiling, than to fill part of ... : ThereCanBeOnlyOneCat
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    Is that near your mine? : whore
    • Kinda. http://www.shackpics.com/viewer.x?file=drydock_xhhjgpnacp32ai0j5jr8.png : Arcath
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    i read huge dry cock : Marrbe
    • I will make a glass cock when the dry dock is finished just for you. :) : Arcath
• Hay guise, look what i'm working on. http://www.shackpics.com/files/shacknewslogo_yb7eow6o5v7n6ws93fk... : mlev
• Shadowdane's Server is back up... looks like I had a power outage this afternoon. Took the server offli... : Shadowdane
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  Anyone on Mercfox got a surplus of Obsidian or any other black rock? Pleeease : The Wilhelm Scream
  • http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=24167306 : Arctic Fox
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  Is the full game way different the browser based one? : K0LM
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    If by browser based one you mean Creative, it has different blocks and you have to mine them yourself. It... : AgentPothead
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      I tried the free game with just the blocks and wasn't impressed. : K0LM
      • Survival is totally different. Watch a couple of vids from this guy's Youtube stream: http://www.youtube.... : Arctic Fox
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        Yeah that's creative mode. As it stands now, alpha mp is not much different. The single player however is... : AgentPothead
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          What the hell is this! That look awesome. : K0LM
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            It really is great fun and worth the 13$ entry fee. : AgentPothead
            • For that price it seems like a no brainer. : K0LM
  • full game and free game are completely different. : Hemtroll
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  Minecraft in space?!? 70% off while in alpha! http://www.minerwars.com/News.aspx#Preaplharelease Th... : Arcath
  • That actually looks pretty cool. Reminds me of descent, but in space. : AgentPothead
  • My opinions are that this is not even close to Minecraft in space in any way. Did you just see the "mine"... : OverloadUT
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    Those graphics look a little bit better than Minecraft's graphics. : noxiousgg
    • only a little bit : conandan
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    They should show the actual goal of the game. Shooting asteroids is fun but those videos got pretty bori... : Moonbase Commander
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      Says the guy addicted to a game with no gameplay in it :P : AgentPothead
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        Mining for minerals is still gameplay. I become addicted to mining in all games: EVE, LotRO, Minecraft, ... : Moonbase Commander
        • Mining in Eve is quite possible the most boring task in the history of mankind. : snot3353
    • You're the lunar officer, you should come up with the ideas! : The Grolar Bear

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  In what area of town? : CrustaR
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    he said Austin. : mwasher
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      Well, some prefer downtown and not North Austin. : CrustaR
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        Yea I still am a member of the "nowhere in Austin is really too far away to drive" club : mwasher
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          You are a rare breed indeed! Speaking of which, there is talk of a CASINO shack meet this Friday. : CrustaR
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            When I remind you that it is ACL weekend you will realize you don't want to deal with the traffic and not... : mwasher
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              (But I'm down) : mwasher
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                BTW, Delithio and I have been going out the past few weeks up north. Hideout Pub, BB Rovers, etc. : mwasher
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                  Mwasher, up for some more Red Stag shots? : Delithio
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                    negative. shit was rancid. i did go win $120 in poker the next night so maybe that helped or somethin... : mwasher
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                      But, but.... Kid Rock.... Anyways, there's a few places in the Domain we can try in the near future. : Delithio
                      • Ya I'm down whenever. : mwasher
                • Hideout is good! : CrustaR
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              Dang it, manwasher! : CrustaR
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                see? I know you like I know the back of your mother's head! And I know the back of your mother's head! : mwasher
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                  Well, I might go anyway! It can't be too crowded, right?? : CrustaR
                  • It will certainly be crowded. : mwasher
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    I live in Westlake, willing to drive a bit. : magistersmax
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      In fact, I'd rather drive a bit and get out of Westlake. : magistersmax
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        Haha, Westlake. One thought that pops into mind is Hyde Park, but I'm assuming you've already been the... : slax0r
        • Yep. : magistersmax
    • there's a great vietnamese place on westlake i go to like twice a week. Hai Kai or something : wtf242
    • Roaring Fork (go between 4 and 7 for happy hour awesomeness) CASINO NXNW (in-house microbrew and good b... : CrustaR
• arbys : gmd
• Chuys : whistletits
• Stubbs BBQ mmmmm : theghostofsmdever
• wahoo's, whole foods has a fun little buffet, hmmmm : packav
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  Polvos, Hula Hut, El Chile, Shady Grove, pluckers, trudys, : wtf242
  • I always love going to Shady Grove, and the weather is perfect for it right now. I want to go. : mwasher
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    Haven't heard of Polvo's before. Hmm. : magistersmax
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      The girlfriend doesn't want Mexican tonight though, maybe some other time. : magistersmax
      • pluckers : whistletits
    • galaxy cafe is good casual american food : wtf242
    • I played my very first gig with my high school band at Polvo's. : slax0r
    • Polvo's makes the best migas I have ever had. : wendigo
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  Ruby's : cplick
  • Rubd'ys, FTFY. : daVinci1980
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  mwasher's place : electroly
  • I totally have room to entertain but I live to far away. :( : mwasher
• I like this place http://austin.citysearch.com/profile/10239836/austin_tx/tan_my_restaurant.html : monikerdaven
• Saigon Kitchen on Lamar : dognose
• Been to Casino El Camino already? Get the burger there. Cheap, yet amazing. : Odoyle
• Long John Silvers : megarust32
• Sichuan Garden (actually this is in RR, but not too far) http://www.sichuangardentx.com/ : hydrologie
• Rounders (pizza), Kirby Lane (everything), San Francisco Bakery (light sandwichs and pasteries), Torchies... : deathofrats

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  I hope to, but I won't be around until later in EST : flagg209
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    Flagg we must play, at least by the weekend! : warcrow
    • sounds great to me - I'll look for you on steam : flagg209
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  If L4D2 goes on sale. $19.99 is too much for a game I might be too scared to play. : ZenzenTen
  • Don't worry, its not too scary. Especially when you run around with 3 others, cursing furiously at specia... : Johnnsen
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    It's not scary, just tense. : Lone Swordsman
    • Fast zombies freak me out. : ZenzenTen
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      This. The first game was dark and did a good job of instilling a sense of dread along with the tension... : RomSteady
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        It's really about survival, the horror element is downplayed. : Lone Swordsman
        • Running from a tank never fails to get my heart going, though. : HockeyJohnston
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    BEST SALE EVER!! : ZenzenTen
    • :D : kallanta
  • You're in luck! http://store.steampowered.com/app/550/ : ColoradoCNC
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  I'm totally down for a few games tonight! : MercFox1
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    EGG YEAH! : Dschinghis Khan
    • OMLETT!!!!! : LoioshDwaggie
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      Yeah I am down too. : jimmy_legs
      • Sweet, getting the old crew back. : LoioshDwaggie
      • I thought you were going to play with me Jimmy... :( : SgtPepper78
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        It probably won't be until like 10 or 11. Can you old geysers take that? : MercFox1
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          10-11 at night? Valve is bad, but not that bad. ;D I'm gonna guess around noon-three range. : DM7
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            No I mean I won't be around for games until then. lolmemad : MercFox1
            • Let's do this shit! : ConsFEARacy
      • I might be able to run through it. I have a lot of work to do though :( : ass-street
• HL2:DM snuck into my mac Library :D : packav
• They never promised us a time :-( : Masem
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  I'll play tonight but is there anything really new other than new campaigns? Are the two surprises on the... : Zek
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    Probably a new mutation today too. And the mutations are whole new games within L4D2. Some of them have... : SgtPepper78
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      Yeah some of them are good but I wish they would just make them selectable. And add Survival Versus as a ... : Zek
      • They might. They added the Realism VS which was the first mutation. I believe they added it because of ... : SgtPepper78
• I left my computer on today in hopes that it will download automatically. :( : DM7
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  What time does it come out? : lplasmatron
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    It comes out Valve time, developer friend. (Sometime this evening, no announcement yet). : LoioshDwaggie
    • Fighting zombies during the day would make no sense anyway. : ZenzenTen
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  Is the comic being released today too? : AllYourBase
  • Yes! : DM7
• While you're waiting, enjoy the winners of the Midnight Riders "Save Me Some Sugar" video contest. htt : Masem
• can't wait to play it this weekend : danws6
• Mac version of L4D2 finally comes out today as well. =) : genom
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  Watch them not release it until 2:59am eastern. : ant_hillbilly
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    That would be 10/6/10 and they said the release is @ 10/5. :( : DM7
    • No that would be 11:59pm still 10/5 but going with west coast time which they always do. : ant_hillbilly
• Monday still is ??? for me. Anyone else? http://www.l4d.com/sacrifice/ : deathofrats
• Is it on 360 today? : mancide
• I would like to play zombie game with internet frans. : vile
• If it ever updates. L4D2 is stuck at 67% damnit! : jonin

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  wait nvm http://www.bluesnews.com/a/2056/duke-nukem-forever-first-access-club-announced PC mentione : ETPC1
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    whoa, bluesnews looks exactly the same as it did 8 years ago : vov1n
    • you know what, i've come to realize that blues is the only half-decent game journalism site (besides shac : ETPC1
• Or until the demo is posted on a non-georbox server. Run stop cynicism.exe, run internets.bat. : FirstPersonCooter
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  DNF is coming out for PC. full stop. end of thread. promise. : dahanese
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    i know that, i just wanted to know if the demo was! : ETPC1
    • would it be too early to talk about steamworks? =3 : ETPC1
  • HOW WOULD YOU KNOW??? Oh wait... : avatar_58
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    woot! : dognose
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      she didn't say it would be the same day as the console release though : stgdz
      • No, it will be, BEFORE! : one random winner
      • This is what I was thinking. : atom519
      • this! : ETPC1
    • woof! : CrustaR
  • I came. : someWayne
  • whoaaaa hold on a second there missy : Downforce
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    just no keyboard support in the menus : GloriousCow
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      I played it on a keyboard! How do you think I was able to play it! : dognose
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        keyboard to 360 controller dongle : GloriousCow
        • Would that be the Duke Dongle? : hashd
      • http://www.flickr.com/photos/soldiersmediacenter/4621703638/#/ : Marrbe
  • Any DLC plans? : fen boi
  • The PC version is the prequel to the console version. It's just before Duke gets into that horrible accid... : eisencc
  • Yeah but the graphics need polishing, but it's ok, it's early in development. : uebersoldat
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  I wish they would just release the demo for everyone instead of putting it with the Borderlands GOTY edit... : Mecha Tofu Pirate
  • i think they are gonna release it to the public, but everything nowadays has to have it's own exclusive l... : ETPC1
  • its still getting a public releease, obviously. there will be other opportunities : Maarten Goldstein
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  lol even that's not incentive to buy borderlands : cptstern
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    Get out : jaxpunk
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      I'll wait for the holiday sale when Borderlands GOTY will be < $5 : cptstern
      • I might do this, apparently it's improved a lot since release : ]pm[chem
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  What if I have all of the DLC and I bought the original Borderlands? : Rice-Rocketeer
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    Fuck you, you get nothing. For being a fan your reward is to buy the game and DLC again in a bundle just ... : pyide
    • bingo. and even the "oh you played the grand finale BEFORE the mythical patch" status doesn't mean anyth... : Downforce
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    You still get the play it, at a later date? : pimpium
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      pimpium, at a way later date. : CrustaR
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        But if you waited this long...whats a way later date at this point? haha : pimpium
        • True, dawg. : CrustaR
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    I have to say that GOTY editions really seem to discourage early adopters. Maybe you should be able to s... : TShandy
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      This is true with pretty much everything in the world of technology and gaming though. You always pay mor... : Vincent Grayson
      • Prices going down over time a) makes sense and b) is unstoppable. Especially given all the clamoring abo... : TShandy
  • you get to pay 49.99 if you want to play the duke demo early. : NukemFornever
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    Yeah, I have Borderlands already and have since launch. Way to kick me in the face. : Link.
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      It's not even the Duke Demo that does that. It's the $40 worth of DLC. STILL $40, for my dumb-ass retail ... : AxeMan808
      • this is worse than BC2's launch brokenness. this is launching a 4th paid DLC and THEN a patch that makes ... : Downforce
  • you get laughed at : deathofrats
• I am outraged that they want us to pay $60 for a fucking demo. At least they throw in a free copy of Bord... : ghost in my shell
• PRE-ORDER CANCELLED : scener
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  duke is being so mishandled its hilarious. poor duke. : NukemFornever
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    and I don't blame gearbox, I blame 2k. : NukemFornever
    • You mean Take-2? : dedgecko
  • DNF actually getting released is quite the opposite of Duke "being so mishandled" : nyranger66
  • please explain : Korban
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  Oh what the fuck about those of us who've bought Borderlands full price along with all of the DLC? : mancide
  • Gearbox's history of mediocrity will be made up for with DNF hype. : Entity
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    Then we get to get the demo when everyone else does? Either that or you can buy the GOTY edition and get ... : roushimsx
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      Those games you mentioned, didn't have people already drop $40 on DLC though. My copy of Borderlands on P... : Entity
      • Well you got to play that DLC 6-9 months sooner than the people that bought the GOTY edition. : roushimsx
• Running apathy.exe : Tech T
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  Know for $59.99 on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 and $49.99 on the PC, you'll get the game and all four... : filthysock
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    I'd say it was a good deal, but the game was recently on sale via Steam for $10, and the first three DLC ... : pyide
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      I'm saying the article has been updated since the OP and the PC is mentioned now : filthysock
      • oh O: : pyide
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  Buy a re-release of an half-assed port and get an early look at what may be another half-assed port! I... : Beady
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    Gearbox brought their guys in to port it to 360/PS3. I believe I read it in a Kotaku interview last month... : roushimsx
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      Limited weapons, because of the console control scheme. Shitty port :( But damnit i will buy it becau... : YerMothah
      • I'm not entirely convinced that the limited onhand weapons were solely because of the console port. The r... : roushimsx

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  Nicole Ritchie is not only a poor actress, but they overwrote her lines to compensate, which just made it... : jipey
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    She was terrible, but my real issue is the whole premise. So weak and pointless. It made no sense. : brickmatt
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      It doesn't help that the whole Buy More part was completely contrived and not even a little funny. : Totenjaeger
      • So unfair to Morgan after last week. And where were the ninjas? : brickmatt
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    At least Olivia Munn was prettier. Shit i'd take the Old Spice guy over Nicole Ritchie. : Dschinghis Khan
    • The blonde was hot but I'm tired of guest stars. : brickmatt
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  The whole Buy More sub plot was pretty stupid too. : Ellissd
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    It was just a way to bring in Big Mike again, that's about it. : Nerdsbeware
    • Didn't make it any less stupid. : Ellissd
• Summer Glau will be in episode 8 at least. : pimpium
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  These episodes in general that focus TO hard on the relationship between him and Sarah where the guest st... : Nerdsbeware
  • Last week was great. This was a flop. Not enough Casey no Beckmann and it made no sense. : brickmatt
• Also need more Fernando. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1035503/ : Nerdsbeware
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  I was hoping for another Jeffster concert :( : pancake humper
  • Me too, it might have saved that plot. Maybe. : brickmatt
  • That's exactly what I thought was going to happen . :( : ThomW
• STONE COLD STONE COLD STONE COLD : NukemFornever
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  like!@#$$fe : mwasher
  • That was for you. : brickmatt
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  Well look forward to this being the last season of chuck anyways. : soggybagel
  • really? : boomstickah
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    Yeah probably. It is the worst since season 1 so far. : brickmatt
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      There've been 2 very good episodes and 1 bad one in the inverse order of last year. I think that's a litt... : derelict515
      • 1 very good and one decent. The premier was a good idea but poorly executed and cheese-y. This whole seas... : brickmatt
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      Whoa there, It's easily better than last season so far. : Ellissd
      • I liked last season a lot more. So much of this season feels like a reboot. : brickmatt
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    Ratings may seem to support this. Although if they dont have anything to replace it with... : pimpium
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      Its both the ratings and it no at NBC is fighting really hard for it. They've scaled back the budget eve... : soggybagel
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        Dont worry. Zucker will be gone soon as the merger is done and NBC will come out a lot better without him... : pimpium
        • New studio heads tend to clean house. : brickmatt
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    i like chuck but it's really not that great a show, its tone is extremely uneven : dirge23
    • thats what makes it great : retarded talking dinosaur
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  Wow, I saw AV Club gave it a shit review and wrote it off to me usually disagreeing with that particular ... : Deathlove
  • and brickmatt likes everything too! so it's got to be bad : Mr.SEX
  • I hate that reviewer but it really was the worst episode of chuck I can think of. : brickmatt
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  lol brickmatt : sgtsanity
  • Don't do this to me, it's usually clever and fun. : brickmatt
• yeah I felt nasty watching it to the end. it sucked hard : freakord
• I don't know how anyone can say "hated it so bad". It's your typical chuck episode and it's still entert... : Edges