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  Seriously. I don't PC game much anymore but this second class support shit needs to stop. : ThomW
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    Just don't buy games that are blatant shitty ports. : capt tripps
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      I switched over to the 360 years ago and just keep wondering how long it'll be until pc guys get fed up a... : ThomW
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        Most PC guys like me don't play console games on their computers. I have consoles for that :P People ... : SpaecKow
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          That's how I work it. IMO FPS are still a PC genre, I realize i'm behind the times. To me, a huge tv wi... : Pneum0
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            I am starting to think that next gen consoles may finally support KB+M. With movement on the user interfa... : Dr_Cube
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              that would basically force everyone who wanted to play FPS's online on a console to play with KB+M. Not ... : DonkeyPopsicle
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                Or they could just account for it in the matchmaking maybe. Seems like an awful reason to not give peopl... : DinK
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                  Fragmentation is a good reason to not support it. : daVinci1980
                  • yet this still happens with dlc : crewmaac
            • Honestly I think they're moving away from that, going even simpler, but I would absolutely love if that w... : DinK
            • -they're terrible ergonomically on a couch -everyone would have to use them to be on equal footing or els... : derelict515
            • STEAMBOX with KB+MOUSE FTW. : ajvitaly
            • no they wont : dantastic
        • I have remained a PC gamer only because of Valve, Blizzard, the Battlefield series (so long it still has ... : Dr_Cube
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        I got fed up with the pc hardware requirements and bullshit like having to juggle drivers or deal with an... : roushimsx
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          I got fed up when I sat down to play games then spent more time downloading updates, patches and dealing ... : ThomW
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            So you dont play on PS3 either I take it? : Strid3rtheGreat
            • So true. =( : DinK
            • God so true. Especially mine since it has an issue that makes it freeze on startup. : ThomW
            • Uncharted 2 was the first, and still only, game I tried to play on PSN and it left me pissed off. I tried... : zerog83
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          Ever since I got my first PC as a kid, issues that popped up for PC games has lessened dramatically, almo... : TrptJim
          • Well I didn't grow up with a PC, so maybe I'm spoiled by games "just working" and not having to fuck with... : roushimsx
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          Lol, yet when Oblivion came out on the consoles it often fell below acceptable frame rates... : Pandilex
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            oh wow, good job unearthing an obscure western rpg that I have a negative amount of interest in and tryin... : roushimsx
            • But it looks like shit, whereas it runs smoothly on mine (60+ fps maxed) and looks amazing. Enjoy your su... : Pandilex
            • man, you're a loser : justwr!ght
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        I'm more likely to quit playing games. I buy around one console game a year, and never anything for the x... : Dynotaku
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          That's what a lot of people say until they just go ahead and play and get used to it. You don't have to ... : DinK
          • I have both a ps3 and a 360. Played them for a while but came back to playing mostly PC games. I just thi... : razlebol
      • Back at you, I wonder when console gamers will realise they are paying way too much for games with bad gr... : Pandilex
  • I'm really interested in seeing how they handle the patches and support for the PC version in particular.... : roushimsx
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  Hey Dice, you see what they said? : Godhatesfatpeople
  • ^^^^^^^^^^THIS^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ : Thornfist
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    I shit on the pricing structure of map packs for COD as much as any internet hatah, but dude, I will fuck... : roushimsx
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      They really dropped the ball with 1943. I would have bought three maps for $15 every three to four month... : Haku-Jin
      • I'm not sure they expected it to be as popular as it was. 1943 was pretty awesome, but my understanding f... : deveus1
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        The game sold like crazy, too! What the fuck? Did they just not have a team allocated to continued BF1943... : roushimsx
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          Kinda. I forget which podcast I was listening to at the time, but a few of the devs basically said exactl... : deveus1
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            It's a really sad miscalculation and a total missed opportunity; I don't think there's any way for them t... : roushimsx
            • I don't think anyone was happy about it on either side of the fence. On the bright side, there was a real... : deveus1
        • Yeah i think that was pretty much it. But seriously when you get a hit like that you think they would re... : Haku-Jin
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  I hate glitchers as much as or more than anyone else, but maybe making the PC version a working piece of ... : Gore87
  • Yeah, I'm willing to live with griefers if they could just make the game playable. : Vincent Grayson
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    Yea, right now they've mentioned their main priority is figuring out wtf is up with the lag issue everyon... : roushimsx
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      quake 3 engine netcode is pretty hard to fix man! : chilln
      • yea i got tired of the crappy performance so I just load the levels via the console in ioquake3 and it ru... : roushimsx
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        Gameservers located one of the main issues for the lag. The sv_maxrate was set to 5000 instead of somethi... : Strid3rtheGreat
        • yeah there's a r_clipFPS variable set to 24... I wonder if the config is a straight console copy/paste : Downforce
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      SP for a lot of people is experiencing the same "lag" effects, though. No idea how this passed QA. : Daochi
      • what QA : Shadowdane
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      Hey, they made thier deadline. That's what's important! : Pneum0
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        Activision doesn't fuck around with that shit, as Tim Schafer would tell you firsthand if he wasn't so fu... : roushimsx
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          Brutal Legend speaks volumes to the fact that Activision was pretty much right in that case. : baron calamity
          • http://www.joystiq.com/2010/11/08/activisions-kotick-on-brutal-legend-drama-thats-not-really-w/ : deveus1
    • The single player is *better*, but it's still pretty bad. And there's lag in places that don't even make ... : Vincent Grayson
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  Game devs, TEST YOUR FUCKING GAMES!!!!!!!!!! : i38warhawk
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    Armchair developing at it's finest. : liqker
    • Nah games are never tested. Compile that shit and ship it - what's the worst that could happen?! : dahanese
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    Millions of simultaneous players stress testing ANY game will find bugs. As long as they are on top of t... : Poor Yurik
    • Well, enjoy your $60 open beta. : i38warhawk
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  Hey, they were just following orders, in a weird and twisted way, forgetting to read the second paragraph : the archvile
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    It seems like the 'how-to-exploit-the-bugs' in youtube would be pretty effective. : Pneum0
    • Only if you tell the developers about them. : JarEme
• Even better is the comments! : supermonkeyballz
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  "I'm not going to talk about it publicly. We are disinterested in making mini-celebrities out of douche-b... : Cygnus X-1
  • David Voderhaar is mad yo : PlanetPerfecto
  • Vahn and Bunting are cool dudes : deveus1
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  bless them for dropping a broken game? : Dravenport
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    Broken? Doesn't sound any more broken than any of the previous games in the series and they're sure tryin... : roushimsx
    • It is significantly broken. See posts on the Steam forums regarding the "lag" bug: http://forums.steam... : Daochi
    • why the hell would i want to play a broken game : Dravenport
  • When is a game not broken upon release in one form or another. Just doesn't happen anymore. : Pettytheft
• I'm glad to see Treyarch hit this one out of the park. Hopefully now people can stop referring to them as... : MikkleThePickle
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  My friend played it last night at someone's house and he said the graphics look worse that MW2. They were... : h o s t i l e
  • I'm not terribly impressed with the graphics, but the scripting and everything is pretty fucking awesome ... : roushimsx
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    It looks fine : justwr!ght
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      He specifically mentioned the weapon models. : h o s t i l e
      • The weapon models are asstastic. : Albemuth
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    I'm pretty sure it's borked and forces DX9 mode. mine looks like SHIT, and for reference, I fired up metr... : Downforce
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      I don't believe the last 3 Call of Duty games were anything but DX9. I doubt this one is either. : pyide
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        can we please go back to the point I say where they are still using the quake 3 engine? it comes up every... : chilln
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          which is really weird, because if I fire up quake 3, I'd probably get over 9000 frames per second in tota... : Downforce
          • runs okay fps wise for me with my i7 860 oced @ 4ghz, and a 5850, but yeah the internet is lagtastic. and... : chilln
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      I love Metro immensely and think it looks AMAZING on max detail, but Black Ops looks fine. : Poor Yurik
      • well, I did have that directx error on first launch which apparently means I really should reinstall, eve... : Downforce
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    It's based on the old WAW engine (which is based on the CoD4 engine). What do you expect? MW2 was base... : LoioshDwaggie
    • So the tech that IW is using is specific just to them? Why wouldn't/couldn't the studios share the same t... : snot3353
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      didn't the digital foundry article on eurogamer confirm that it's a further extension of the MW2 engine, ... : roushimsx
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        Enhanced WaW(CoD4) engine: http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-2010-call-of/100688 IWard 4 was for MW... : LoioshDwaggie
        • I find that hard to believe though... why would they write/update/maintain a completely separate engine t... : snot3353
  • SP looks great. MP does look bad. Everything looks washed out to me. : skinlab133
  • Why do people misspell "than" as "that"? T and N aren't remotely close to each other on the keyboard. : Marrbe
  • Not as good as MW2, IMO. Weapons sounds kinda weak compared to MW2 as well. : Mmmmmoo
  • As a shallow graphics whore, most of the game looks like shit. there are moments in the sp campaign where... : exit button
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  The killstreak nerf has really improved my enjoyment : Boxelder
  • I was worried when I read the list of kill streaks, but they did a fantastic job of balancing it. Also, i... : noxiousgg
• Fuck yah! And I know they'll do the same for the consoles. God damned MW2 cheaters ruined my fun time. Ge... : Madwacker

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• old men are the FUTURE : smax
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  want some pie? course you do : spiderfill
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    This is bugging the hell out of me. I can hear the voice in my head but can't remember what it is from. : Superrodan
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      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHKKq7kMF8w : stamps
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        Man voice acting in games has come a LONG WAY : ovrlrd
        • yea, music too : MrBig0
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  "Damnit to hell!"- from Jagged Alliance 2. The Arnold Schwazenegger ripoff guy. : Nullzero
  • MY SKIN IS PUNCTURED AND LEAKING : magistersmax
  • More Evil Peoples : bombay
  • Igor's "I am curious about object" is the line that stuck with me. : Poor Yurik
• I don't know how little known it is, but my friends and I sometimes bust out "I've covered wars you know!... : Superrodan
• I like goth chicks : Simulacrum
• Far Cry "Do you know how to hang-glide?" "No, but I learn real fast when people are shooting at me." : ShoCon
• Sometimes I yell "E.D.F.!" when things are feeling victorious. : Borzoi
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  I literally one time said, "It's blood... I hope this is not Chris's blood.." once when I was at wo... : Wikus Van De Merwe
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    G's bloodstains! Suffer like G did... ? : stamps
    • Don't come! Don't come! : David Craddock
    • hahaha, oh man, not that there would be a next time... but next time I'll totally use "G's blood stains!? : Wikus Van De Merwe
    • Dogs of the A.M.S... Time they made a move! : cornchak
• I've... Actually heard you say that before. : magistersmax
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  For my friends that get the joke I sometimes say, "What do you know about...the Voodoo murders?" in Tim C... : Druuge
  • What can you tell me about the four Wudu? : stamps
• You'd find that Lady Luck was really a hooker, and you were fresh out of cash. I quote the hell out of : K1Bond007
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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb_J-SJMebU#t=38s : pyide
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    I haven't even played the game but I'll never be able to get that shit out of my head. : pyide
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      http://store.steampowered.com/app/46420/ : kallanta
      • I could have grabbed it when it was $2 or whatever but I knew it was something I'd never be able to play.... : pyide
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  Pretty much everything from Resident Evil 1. : SockMonkeh
  • "Wait! ... Don't open that door." : Wikus Van De Merwe
• Oh god all the time, I hate you people : d fluke
• remember that game Gex? That one had lots of one liners I used to find myself saying : RikiTiki2
• Whenever I hear the name Todd, I think, "Open up, Todd! Oh, yeah - I knocked him out." : David Craddock
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  I like to dish out a "I'm gonna rip off your head and shit down your neck" to people who don't know me ve... : ramshot
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    Do you do the original (R. Lee Emery from "Full Metal Jacket"), or the shitty ripoff by Duke Nukem? http... : Bold
    • I like this version more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3woEDTUbDYg#t=1m02s : mem
    • Ripoff or not, I saw it first in Duke Nukem and it's one of the most memorable gaming moments in my life.... : ramshot
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  AK47s FOR EVERYONE *cheering* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZQdaEFa_60 : Thornfist
  • wasnt aware of this, but LOL. : supaLink
  • God i loved that game. "I need shoes". : re-verse
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    Generals rocked. The GLA were fucking crazy too, no power, seemingly shit weapons, but in the right hands... : node
    • I remember the Toxin Tractor had the best quotes, but I dont remember what they were, and there aren't an... : Thornfist
  • that was such a great game. : smax
• "Blame yourself or God." - Final Fantasy Tactics : CyCo_PL
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  Not really but every time I think of BG I hear "Go for the eyes Boo! Go for the eyes!" : randomnull
  • ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ : r3dn3ck
• i find myself saying "HEY!" "LISTEN!" a lot : mayooms
• Yeah I say that line all the time. : MercFox1
• no. : the city
• I say that all the time. I even got some friends to say it, and they don't really know what it's from =( ... : famine101
• Not so much for videogames, but I do find myself quoting obscure movies or TV shows all the time. Prim... : passingstranger
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  I say "All your base are belong to us" in every situation that arises in my everyday life. On a bad day, ... : Alice O'Connor
  • In all honesty, I break out "How are you, gentleman?" with great frequency. Sometimes "for great justice" : Cheeziologist
• sure : dael
• AHBITA-BASHOO! : Vincenoir
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  Mostly HW Guy quotes. "So much BLOOD!" : Bold
  • I love this doctor! gets used here when appropriate. : node
  • So far I've managed to resist saying "LITTLE CART WILL NOT PUSH SELF!" to those guys collecting trolleys ... : nem00
• We'll quote Mortal Combat's "get over here!" and "finish him!" and we'll quote all of the counterstrike r... : bling1bling
• "It's me, Mario!" (even though my name isn't mario) : alexpr
• "beware, i live!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-XEINagmaU : re-verse
• "Wealth beyond measure, outlander!" : stygian_whisper
• Haha, sorta. Been playing tons of RDR and now randomly I'll walk around repeating 'John Marston' in a sou... : hoov1185
• "The son of a bitch must pay." : Marrbe

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  I am so breaking into the front trunk of every one of those cars I see. I've never seen one of those i : NexusOne
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    Go to Miami. Lambos are like Honda Civics there : riptyde
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      No they aren't? : Clarkek
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        Last time I was down there I saw 5 of them in about an hour. : riptyde
        • Was it the same one riding around in circles? =p : mobab
      • Yea he's right they are all over the place : supermonkeyballz
      • They are. They're rentals tho. Check out South Beach and tell me how many dollars in cars you see. I... : korruptedone
    • i remember when i was a kid in miami i always wanted to see a lambo..and then all of a sudden, in the las... : crypt420
    • Also, the Galleria area in Houston. : xylopagus
  • I've seen a lot of nice cars in the past 2 months in MN. The Ferrari Italia had a smoking hot blonde dri... : tsuba
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  This is just awful. Considering the state of things in this country it's just vulgar. : Volatus32x
  • shut up, we need to extend the tax breaks for the rich. : NexusOne
  • Is this a serious post or not? I can't tell : randomnull
  • lol : redfive
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    This is a pretty terrible post. Especially considering that the video didn't show the part where 50 cent... : Senate5000
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      LOL, so, because the video didn't show the whole story you're saying it's a bad post given a comment base... : Volatus32x
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        bro just chill : arizona bay
        • Sorry. Just one of those nights. : Volatus32x
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        what a hilariously serious reply. : deveus1
        • *Takes a bow* : Volatus32x
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    Would it be better if sony or whoever screwed him out of everything? : capt tripps
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      Huh? : Volatus32x
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        What Huh? : capt tripps
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          lol, gg Capt. : Volatus32x
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            WOULD . IT . BE . BETTER . IF . SONY . OR . WHOEVER . SCREWED . HIM . OUT . OF . EVERYTHING ? : capt tripps
            • He has his own label. : skitzo
  • 50 CENT THE ROLE MODEL : givemesnacks
  • Welcome to rich people worldwide. : ColoradoCNC
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  Those yellow straps are 10k bundles. : GeorgeB3DR
  • Looks like about 1.75-2M in there then : riptyde
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    You must be among a small number of game designers able to recognize 10k stacks by the rubber band used t... : deveus1
    • You must be among a small number of game designers WoW players able to recognize 10k stacks by the rubber... : royalally
  • If they are 20's, those stacks are 250 notes judging by the size of them. : -=kodiak=-
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  Fuck, I love money. : Utopia
  • ^^this^^ : arizona bay
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  Damn it mwasher. I accidentally the comments. :( : Delithio
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    dat nigga just stuntin' Delitheeyo! : mwasher
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      I bet yo shit fit in a Nike box : Goto10
      • Lol, in $20 bills my shit would fit in my wallet. : mwasher
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  i gotta say; 50 cent is a good entertainer. he has yet to bore me. : crypt420
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    i love this song of his http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpxpHQ9ggUE best 50 cent song in a long whil... : arizona bay
    • I dig it. : givemesnacks
    • i really like this song, not counting the funny youtube thing... was linked earlier.. she bootyfull, she... : crypt420
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      Lloyd Banks has been murdering it with Beamer, Benz, or Bentley, then Any Girl, and now Start It Up. ... : h o s t i l e
      • Start It Up is fucking bananas right now. : yldragon
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      Good. This might be better IMO... 50 Cent feat Mobb Deep - Outta Control (Remix) http://www.youtube.co... : yldragon
      • i absolutely love that remix. completely forgot about it but yeah it is definitely a great song, much be... : arizona bay
      • Huge fan. : givemesnacks
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    The 50 Cent video game is a lot of fun too. Seriously. : Head Rush
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      doesnt his son get shot in the intro or something and he throws his body out of a moving car? : arizona bay
      • He's in a hurry and that shit is weighing him down. What do you want from him? : Head Rush
    • he should make an fps. i'd check that out. : crypt420
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      It's the only game that I've tested that I still enjoy playing. Plus, doing AV tests on a 7.1 system with... : ColoradoCNC
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        You were on the test team? I know some dudes from that team. : deveus1
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          Were they over at Vivendi out in El Segundo? I was doing the publisher-side testing, not dev-side. : ColoradoCNC
          • Yup, those are the guys. For what it's worth, everyone I talk to from that team had a really great time t... : deveus1
          • Really you worked at Vivendi in El Segundo? I worked for them before they moved there when they were in U... : angrytaxman
  • I don't dig his music at all, but i like his antics : CoRDS
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  Thats Vitamin Water money! : not work safe
  • It has to be. : Godhatesfatpeople
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  What a moron. You can tell this fool never had money in his life so he has to bizarrely flaunt it like th... : Attica Blue
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    i bet you are poor : HisKillSkill
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      i bet you are stupid : Pneum0
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        i bet you are ugly : esad
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          i bet you are sad : proclone1
          • :( : uglysad : Drakoniac
  • Look just because you know how to type doesn't mean you gotta flaunt it with your posts. : not work safe
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    This how he makes money. It is part of him image. : Lucy Labia
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      his image : Lucy Labia
      • I liked it better the other way : pyrogen
  • woot an Attica Blue post in my thread! : mwasher
  • He has had boatloads of money since 2002/2003. This isn't a new thing for him. : h o s t i l e
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    You're really silly: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/32749464 : pancake humper
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      He carries himself very well and is very intelligent in his business decisions. Good for him. A good in : Volatus32x
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        There are plenty of people who think that is chump change. : not work safe
        • If you don't make 250k+ a year, you are a chump who deserves shitty things to happen to you. : Crabs Jarrard
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    Actually he's an extremely sharp business man, who knows exactly what he does and is doing. : u sir name
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      Yes, I know, he trades on stereotypes of the violent, hypersexualized, materialistic black man to make mo... : Attica Blue
      • And then invests that money in profitable businesses! : pigvomit
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        u mad. : arizona bay
        • i think he's mad bro. : the city
        • HE MAD. : lodit
      • What the fuck are you going on about? He's made and equal amount (if not more) of his money off his inve... : Moonbase Commander
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        I'm just mad I didn't think of it first : riptyde
        • Every time I attempt to trade on stereotypes of the violent, hypersexualized, materialistic black man, I ... : pigvomit
      • He also bought half of vitamin water after his first album went 6x platinum BEFORE coca cola bought it fo... : skitzo
      • I think you mean "Yay!" : bolneze
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        Are you still in college? Your posts make it seem like you're someone who is still in college. : not work safe
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          Are you a white guy who, as a result of his experience as a white guy, really doesn't know what he's talk... : Attica Blue
          • No, that'd be you. : Moonbase Commander
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      he made 100 million when vitamin water was bought by Coca-Cola. I thought that was a pretty awesome move ... : lord cecil
      • Plus he does movies now and doesn't rely on music. Much more money in it. : Rigg5
  • "Good. Use your aggressive feelings, boy. Let the hate flow through you." : crockroches
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    50 Cent is probably the only rapper I respect. He's a businessman, first and foremost. Seeing as how I ... : Moonbase Commander
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      plus he's fucking indestructible. : smax
      • Yeah but lets be honest here, are you gonna wear the Rebok running shoes of a guy that's been shot 9 time... : Moonbase Commander
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    It is pretty ridiculous and dumb, it should be invested and gaining interest. : abrasion
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      After the camera turned off, he probably drove to the bank to deposit it so he could do just that. It's a... : aggybong
      • pretty much, there're other legal reasons having that much cash around is dumb too : derelict515
  • He's actually pretty smart : boomstickah
• I have a trunk load of 100's too. : edgewise
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  So is 50 Cent ignoring that stupid bet he made with Kanye a while ago? I'm not surprised that he thoug... : passingstranger
  • 50 has a retarded amount of money so I'm sure he doesn't lose much sleep over it. Look at all the dumb sh... : h o s t i l e
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  Well, I'm jealous enough to talk shit but the dude is an entertainer and seems to have worked hard for wh... : jingletard
  • He's a pretty smart businessman too. I think he made something like 100MM dollars from the Vitamin Water ... : deveus1
• He made a song about it, and 40s to 47s is pure fucking comedy gold. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO... : skitzo
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  I'm really oblivious and was about to post I know the guy is a rapper but does he really make that much m... : judge
  • also this thing: http://www.singersroom.com/news/881/Hip-Hop-News-50-Cent-Making-Millions-on-Vitamin-Wate... : derelict515
• He needs to take that money and fund 50 Cent: Blood in the Sand 2: Rumble in the Jungle or something : kikilupo
• I love how he was actually thinking at the end where he was gonna put it. lol : boomstickah

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  MOAR: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0tZiK2e1_U http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3cpQ2OyXpo : Fred Garvin
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    ohh liked the last one : hobosapien
    • so, you liked the Third Reich video :( : CoRDS
• It looked pretty neat...it's a shame they didn't have more oversight on the finances of the game...I can'... : roushimsx
• O.o wow : Xencer
• Impressive tech demo. : massdev
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  Every game I've seen with the nifty terrain stuff always came across as gimmicky and bad to me. I'll pro... : jingletard
  • That might be one perspective, but there was nothing more satisfying than taking apart entire buildings p... : JonathanBedrava
• Crysis + Red Faction = OH HELLS YEAH! Why did this get cancelled? : locater16
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  Am I the only one who recognizes the song near the end? Ministry - Thieves http://www.youtube.com/watch?v : reZaun
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    I would hope you would. Stanley Kubrick was a fan of that song, for obvious reasons. It's why Ministr... : Lone Swordsman
    • O_o really? : reZaun
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  It's a shame to see that the project was canceled. I used to work at Artificial Studios, which turned int... : lyme
  • hey i remember you! man, seeing all this reich/ignition news is making me all nostalgic. haha. it's too b... : robingchyo
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  lol, space nazis? cool tech though : tostador
  • Space Nazis ain't new. : greasyjohn
  • Yeah it was okay until I saw the in-game models. Yikes. : Godhatesfatpeople
• I like it except for all that telekinesis stuff. : supermonkeyballz
• Impressive tech. Doesn't look like they have much of a game though. : CaptainSurly
• Interesting tech demo. That motion-blur is so obnoxious. : Godhatesfatpeople
• pretty cool : MrBig0
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  The first part reminded me of Unreal 1. And I've always wanted a true sequel :( : alexpr
  • Oh hell, me too. Exploring that stunning alien planet will always stay with me. : node
  • And one of the other videos has a fairly Cerberon vibe for me. I likes me a game that goes balls out 90's... : SpaecKow
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  Does the scale look off to you? The player character relative to that bridge on the damn makes the player... : lcizzle
  • Yeah, very. : Godhatesfatpeople
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  What was that other cancelled thing, third person shooter, featured skating around and firing backwards w... : SpaecKow
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    Aha! Shame, it had a very nice style http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NApza43fQk : SpaecKow
    • The cool thing with that seemed to be the cinematic camera, which was probably not workable without makin... : doc.solo
• I'm laughing at the first person hands when no weapon is equipped. I can't help but picture the player ch... : doc.solo
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  Steed was a drunk and abused the employees verbally and physically I love industry gossip : GloriousCow
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    Me too, but this rings false, no one who worked at id software for multiple titles was ever a hack modele... : SpaecKow
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      but he was a prima donna assclown : roushimsx
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        Yeah, and they let him go for it, but I don't think they let him go for beating the shit out of people. : SpaecKow
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          a decade of being washed up can do some crazy shit to an egotistical jerk. : roushimsx
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            did you have direct interactions with the guy? : GloriousCow
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              yea, he verbally and physically abused me : roushimsx
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                For reals? You got a story to tell roushi? : SpaecKow
                • did he touched you in your no-no area? : r3dn3ck
              • did he punch you in the dick? I hear he punches people. In their dicks. : GloriousCow
            • Dude, its Shacknews, fact has nothing to do with opinion here. : Lightzout
      • i met him at the GC two years ago and he was a very friendly : moshman
• Nice. I can't wait until "everything" breaking becomes the norm in shooters. If I want to go through a wa... : ramshot
• i'd like to know how many more tech demoesque things like this and are amazing exist out there.... that w... : KaboomzZz

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• Also the interface passes the wife test! : Yanks
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  Lot's of people are into these movie jukebox PCs. I might try it. What's the easiest way to dump your mov... : systatic
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    Asipre revo or zotac somerhing box with Nvidia ion chip : askedrelic
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      I mean to actually dump the movies onto your HD. : systatic
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        Internet : askedrelic
        • + funnel : veras
      • windows: dvd decrypter + handbrake mac: handbrake : riptyde
      • (1) Rip them to your hard drive with DVDFab HD Decrypter, then (2) Encode them with Handbrake : Bean
      • Makemkv : mallfouf
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        If you can afford it, AnyDVD HD is worth the money. Effortlessly rip DVD and Blu-Ray discs. It is pretty ... : deject
        • Yeah I got it when it was $55 but I think it's over $100 now. Either way, it is the best at what it does. : Crabs Jarrard
        • This sounds like a viable solution : punchdog
      • That shit takes forever! Just rip the ISOs and use them. Encoding saves space, but is NOT WORTH THE TIME. : Crabs Jarrard
  • Their is no easy way, it is a giant pain in the ass : quazar
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  Sucks that all the major content providers already blocked access :( : pancake humper
  • Really? They didn't get that squared away before launch? So no Netflix or anything? : Crabs Jarrard
• Really? Tell me more! I've been pissed they haven't done any software updates in months, but I figure the... : askedrelic
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  Did you get one of the media centers? : MagicWishMonkey
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    At launch event : Yanks
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      <~~ standing next to him. It's a guaranteed buy for me. Was on the fence, but I'm sold. : squigiliwams
      • How does it compare to XBMC / PLEX ? : spazzium
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      Awesome, do you like it so far? What all does it do that you can't do with a 360/PS3 and the Hulu app... : MagicWishMonkey
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        Not having to convert your files into whatever format the xbox or ps3 wants is a huge plus for me. It pla... : EricZBA
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          Yea, that really is annoying. I wish someone would release one of these devices with DVR support, I k... : MagicWishMonkey
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            Check out MediaPortal. It's got all the media playback features most people want plus DVR support. Runs... : riptyde
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              I don't wanna build another HTPC though, I used Windows Vista Media Center for about a year and a half an... : MagicWishMonkey
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                What was wrong with it? I use WMC and it works fine. : Jimbo Ro
                • I've tried all of them. For me the best is XBMC, hands down. It just handles new media better. I've als... : tboomer2
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                  It didn't have CableCARD support so I couldn't record in HD (I couldn't find a tuner with CableCARD suppo... : MagicWishMonkey
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                    Ah ok. I've been using HDHomerun and an antenna. No desire to pay for Cable TV. HD works great for me. : Jimbo Ro
                    • This is the direction I'm going : riptyde
• My Boxee Box shipped today! : EricZBA
• at the moment I actually think the current interface is prettier : _jon
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  When can I download 1.0??? Important! : askedrelic
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    ^ what he said, site still has the .9xxxx version : EagleSweet
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      fack, nm i just learned to read today : EagleSweet
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        fuck, they are withholding 1.0 "for awhile". Fuck them. : askedrelic
        • whyyy : feek
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  Is it better than Plex? : tashtego
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    Plex is pretty horrible, so most likely. : Clay
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      Shut up, it is not! The new Plex Nine is badass. They are working full time on it now and patches are com... : ovrlrd
      • It runs on jailbroken Apple TVs now. : BlackCat9
    • Plex isn't horrible. Plex 9 is fantastic. And it works on my iPad / iPhone, too. : BlackCat9
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  So why is it better than XBMC? : Clay
  • Boxee is nice, definitely wife approved however I don't like how to handles new videos. It's got a sched... : tboomer2
• My Boxee Box comes from Amazon tomorrow. I sure hope Netflix support comes soon since I want this to repl... : angrytaxman
• I want a boxee box :( : ninjase
• Any videos? I haven't used it since it was in early beta and it was too buggy to really rely on compared ... : BlackCat9
• my boxee box gets delivered tomorrow! : slickdoody
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  Got my Boxee Box today, but alas, the update is not available yet. Hoping for tomorrow morning. The har... : Tripps
  • Stupid Australian retailer holding on to my boxee box. Probably won't get it until the 18th : nunami
  • How loud is the fan? : Dusty_Slim

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• Kick-Ass : dognose
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  Die Hard set Alien, Aliens Band of Brothers The Pacific Big Trouble in Little China : jimmy_legs
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    When is FOX going to release each movie separately on blu-ray? I don't want to pay $100 for the anthology... : phate81
    • I don't know. I don't hate the other movies so mch that I wouldn't buy them. Just do it!! : jimmy_legs
  • Yippie Kai Yay, Mr. Falcon. : Dschinghis Khan
• Tron Legacy : massdev
• Planet Earth! : SpaecKow
• District 9 : -=kodiak=-
• Alien Anthology, Wall-E : Serpico74
• firefly and serenity : peat
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  Planet Motherfucking Earth : pgharavi
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    And Life. : Haku-Jin
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      Is there an Attenborough version of this? I could not tolerate the Oprah version. : JonathanBedrava
      • Of course : givemesnacks
      • Yup : Haku-Jin
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        Buy it through Amazon. They have the BBC version. : jcrockerman
        • The week after that shitty oprah version came out, best buy even had th Attenborough one. : Entity
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        Also as excellent as the video is in Planet Earth, the video quality of LIfe is even 10x better : but why
        • i thought the video quality was pretty crap in planet earth actually. artifacts all up in my shit! : mXENO
    • I haven't seen it yet. Is it awesome? : pgharavi
• Backdoor Bitches 7 : Cheeziologist
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  Gladiator LotR Trilogy Saving Private Ryan The Matrix Terminator 2 Serenity Star Trek 2009 300 Th... : tunis5000
  • With Gladiator and SPR make sure the UPC barcode on the back is yellow. The first pressings had issues. : Prozium
• apocalypto : jujubeads
• Back to the future, of course Every Pixar release : Entity
• The Dark Knight The Matrix Heat Planet Earth / Life Baraka : sreyes22
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  Speed Racer. Scott Pilgrim just came out yesterday, but I haven't heard how the transfer was on that. : sgtsanity
  • People give it shit, but Speed Racer looks AMAZING. : Kniggit
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  The Dark Knight. The IMAX footage is amazing : tcs
  • This. You have to rent the The Dark Knight at the very least to see what the blu-ray format can really d... : DinK
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  Any Pixar films, especially Wall-E : waxthirteen
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    Wall-E was good, but I say Toy Story 3 was even better : Entity
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      I disagree : avatar_58
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        Same here, Wall-E wasn't even good. Toy Story 3 is supremely better. : abrasion
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          Not even good. NOT EVEN GOOD? WTF man? I don't understand how anyone could think Wall-E was anything s... : MeestaNob
          • Over rated, predictable. : abrasion
        • oh ffs : Halen
      • While I did enjoy TS3 more than Wall-E, that wasn't the point I was making. I thought the TS3 transfer wa... : Entity
  • ^ This, I own Ratatouille and it looks amazing! : stophelping37
  • Even if you don't like Cars it looks god damn amazing on a big ass TV with blu ray. : mrwolf710
• How much was the blu ray player, how long does it take to boot? Does it have a network port and or USB po... : abrasion
• Casino Royale. : K1Bond007
• The Bourne Trilogy is usually fairly cheap on Amazon and very high quality sound and picture. : Goncyn
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  Band of Brothers. Surprised nobody else suggested it. : xylopagus
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    As grainy as the series is, it still looks fantastic on blu-ray! : LilCrypto
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      i think it's supposed to look grainy : xxiv
      • It's just that the freaks on avsforum rage on anything with a hint of grain and consider Band of Brothers... : LilCrypto
• Star Trek looks fuckin awesome on Blu : chiisu81
• L O S T The Sopranos BSG : Metatron85
• Eastern Promises. Also, trade in any of your old and busted DVD's for WB blu-rays for as little $5: h... : Frank_Mackey
• Galapagos Star Trek Wall-e Children of Men Transformers Planet Earth Alien Anthology Battlestar Ga... : GoodBoy
• Last of the Mohicans! : Navy Spitfire
• Baraka, Grindhouse, North by Northwest, Collateral, Heat, and AA! : Crabs Jarrard
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  Critereon is busting out Videodrome next month! http://www.criterion.com/films/240-videodrome?q=autocomp... : Borzoi
  • Click that link and behold the cornucopia of special features! : Borzoi
• Pan's Labyrinth : biofrog
• Star Trek Is pretty awesome, Matrix and LOTR Trillogies arent too bad worth a re-watch in HD. : Vincenoir
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  The Fifth Element The Chronicles of Riddick Others have already mentioned many good ones. : Jumperus
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    We've hit a sorry state of affairs if Chronicles of Riddick is must-have. : action wombmate
    • I still think it's got one of the best final shots in sci-fi movie history. : Borzoi
    • Entertaining action flick with great visuals? Nothing wrong with that. : Jumperus
    • I think he meant Pitch Black is a must have. LOL : HL3dsx
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  Baraka. : Godhatesfatpeople
  • It's being screened in 70mm tonight (Nov. 11) in L.A. 'Was thinking about going. http://egyptiantheatre.... : Borzoi
• Terminator 2, RoboCop for sure. : HL3dsx
• Inception, The Dark Knight : matthaeus
• http://thegift.thisoneisonus.org/ : jimvolk

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  Thank god. How much longer do we have for CODBLOPS? : pigvomit
  • FOREVER : MercFox1
  • How can you ban what is just the normal acronym for a commonly played game? That would be like banning pe... : snot3353
  • codblops is here to stay, buddy! : mikecyb
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  Haven't been posting as much so I missed this. Reference to origin of meme for exemplar of why to avoid? : RomSteady
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    This one was particularly dumb, even as shackmemes go. AFAIK, it was someone's (BeerHunter's?) way of ta... : Arcanum
    • Thanks, I'd been wondering about that. : Deathlove
    • it's not even a meme, since it apply to maybe 2 people. : Slowtreme
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      No it's purely a replacement for lol: See Stoofoo : abrasion
      • Ah, some people were saying it's a tagging thing last night. : Arcanum
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  What the fuck are you talking about? : rosewood
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    I was about to post 'basset hound?' before I remembered to shack search! Apparently Beer Runner}R, or wh... : the if
    • Ok, that's pretty funny. : reelbk
    • I always wondered about that. : The Grolar Bear
    • thats not funny : bolneze
    • Either I'm not around that much or I'm not observant as I've never seen that being used before. Why the ... : Zips
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    http://www.shacknews.com/search.x?type=comments&terms=basset+hound&cs_user=beerhunter&cs_parentauthor=&s_... : Trips
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      haha http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=15445073 still gold : smax
      • This is a good move btw, it was lame. : abrasion
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  For those of you who need to tag posts, get the shack extension for chrome or firefox or whathaveyou, it ... : kaddar0
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    Everyone who shacks regularly should have greasemonkey + shack scripts. Post Preview and the formatter ar... : daVinci1980
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      It crosses my mind (especially the sparkly script) but if it slows things down, bleh. : greasyjohn
      • It doesn't slow anything down. And it makes posts easier to write. And you get to tag shit for later look... : daVinci1980
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        It slows things down horribly - just shackmessage yourself the link and put the subject as *BOOKMARK* : abrasion
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          Wut? I run this on multiple computers, Mac and PC and it doesn't slow the site down at all. : daVinci1980
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            I've tried greasemonkey several times on 2 different quad core machines. I'm pretty picky about speed t... : abrasion
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              Why do you think quadcore would have anything to do with it? Javascript engines are inherently single thr... : daVinci1980
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                I still use it, but it increases the chatty load time by almost 5-6 seconds here. Intel DualCore 3.6GHz a... : Crabs Jarrard
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                  I'll time it, I don't find this to be the case at all. You can see when it pops in, it doesn't do anythin... : daVinci1980
                  • FWIW - my Firefox install is total shit. Greasemonkey is my only extension, but all sorts of shit never r... : Crabs Jarrard
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    It's not for tagging posts. : abrasion
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      what *is* it for :| : Majuju
      • oh so it incorporates mr. sleepy AND stoofoo, awesome : Majuju
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      I was under the impression it meant "stupid," but I never was sure. : Fenring42
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        It means "lol" : abrasion
        • So we have two lol tags? That's just dumb. : Fenring42
        • abrasion, what lolscript do you have? It sounds like you have an old version that doesn't have [tag] : kaddar0
  • firefox tagging , guess its time : dignan
• I'd almost forget that you're a mod except you used to drunk ban me. : boomstickah
• What was the thread with all the shack tag test posts? I don't remember the phrase that was used so I don... : not work safe
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  I live with a basset hound. Damn thing barks incessantly when left alone. Doesn't play with toys, doesn... : Delaric
  • lol : Godhatesfatpeople
  • One of my friends had a bassett hound, we found out one day after leaving a near-full glass of beer on th : nem00
  • Wow that is EXACTLY like my Mom's basset. He's a great dog, but he barks up a storm whenever he's left in... : Xevo
• Awesome : justwr!ght
• Next it will be mint-berrrrry crunch! : ShoCon
• I thought that stupid thing died years ago, wtf : Halen
• I thought you were sad/angry your dog died. : sweat
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  Meme nuking is so selective. Some get killed before they even see the sunlight others go on for months. : Fred Garvin
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    what memes would you like to see banned? for me: "which shacker is this?" : mXENO
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      this was banned or at least heavily frowned upon at one point but has been creeping back : Majuju
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        "which shacker is this" is just uncreative. oh look, an article about someone who did something retarded... : mikecyb
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          Which shacker is this that just posted which shacker is this? : soggybagel
          • FAIL; : mXENO
• woohoo! : retardhumper
• Ah yea, this is great news. : MrBig0
• can we just ban beerhunter instead? : RikiTiki2
• Can somebody explain this to me? Who or what is a 'basset hound'? : tcs
• Your post is the first time I've seen it. You're worse than hitler and dracula combined. : ArB
• When I want to tag a post I just come up with a reply that is terse and insincere. If it's a link to a vi... : noxiousgg
• i guess i missed this basset hound business. : ejectorpod
• I thought an actual basset hound died this day and was wondering what the backstory was. : ihya

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  Richard Feynman was a goddamn genius. Definitely on my list of all-time famous people I'd like to have to... : daVinci1980
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    you would have a dinner party with lots of dead people? : radula
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      Has no one ever asked you? If you could have a dinner party with 5 historic guests, alive or dead, wh... : daVinci1980
      • At least they wont eat much! : radula
      • The alive ones. : cerealSAM2
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    anybody else kinda get goosebumps listening to a brilliant person? i get them a lot from ted videos, daw... : GloriousCow
    • You get it cow, that's why you get goosebumps :) Abstract thought is a beautiful thing! : spyrext
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  I don't get it :( Why did she slip? : DingoStoleMyBaby
  • gravy : radula
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    The big bang. But then why did the big bang go bang... http://www.wimp.com/happenedbefore/ : podung
    • That big vacuum chamber gives me the willies. : ZombieAcademy
    • Holy shit, what building is that? : davislovestacobell
• http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=24444742 : ThereCanBeOnlyOneCat
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  Seen the youtube posted a few times. Can't open wimp on the video? I wanna see if it longer than the one ... : anhero
  • Fuckit, I'll post the video because it is part four of a multi part. Interview series and the whole set w... : anhero
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    this playlist will keep you busy http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8777381378502286852# : GloriousCow
    • ^^ I recommend this : gyokuro
    • Fucking flash on phone! Bah. I need a nokia 900 : anhero
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      here's the rest of those videos. that video is part of one of my favorite series of videos on youtube. it... : Herman Toothrot
      • oops mean for the OP : Herman Toothrot
• Magnets! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpBxCnHU8Ao : shortbuscaptain
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  he should have just started at the 7 minute mark. The rest was "look, you're an idiot." : steelsamurai
  • er the 5 min mark :( : steelsamurai
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    he had to explain to the guy why he is an idiot because that guy was being a dickhead idiot. : gyokuro
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      the guy was asking a simple question. What's going on with magnets basically. Something that any scientis... : steelsamurai
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        But it's not exactly brain surgery http://www.wimp.com/brainsurgeon/ : CRasterImage
        • hahaha, that show was great. : daVinci1980
        • Not exactly rocket science... : daVinci1980
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        at :49 - "of course its a reasonable - its an excellent question" If you've listend to a lot of Feynma... : GloriousCow
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          We don't know the mechanism. Just consider what you said... magnets work by "electromagnetic force". Simi... : steelsamurai
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            We do know the mechanism, but it's a specific part of quantum electrodynamics. : daVinci1980
            • it comes down to "this thing and that thing repel". : steelsamurai
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            If we didn't know the mechanism, we wouldn't have a name for it. That we don't understand the mechanism i : GloriousCow
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              know and understand are synonyms, but you're saying we know the mechanism but don't understand it. I'... : steelsamurai
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                I disagree that they are exact synonyms. I can know that something falls due to gravity without fully un... : GloriousCow
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                  it's painful to have to refer to the dictionary, but Webster lists them as synonyms and uses one in the d... : steelsamurai
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                    what you have just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your... : deloski
                    • If you don't understand it perhaps you should just not reply : dooberzoo
          • The semantics, and his explanation of them, is what I found most interesting. I didn't find him arrogant.... : anhero
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        The question wasn't simple, and that was Feynman's point. And what does the history of magnetism have... : daVinci1980
        • The point that Feynman is trying to make is that why magnetism exerts a force is an irreducibly complex p... : daVinci1980
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          it was a *simple* question, the *answer* is not simple. Furthermore you're entirely missing the entire pu... : steelsamurai
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            that is on the simplicity front: the interviewer is just asking "magnets, what gives?" You can get ti... : steelsamurai
            • What Feynman did is elucidate what it meant to actually ask such a question. That's part of the whole rea : GloriousCow
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        I actually felt the exact opposite the first time I saw it and felt that it really helped explain how dif... : anhero
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          I think I have a special gift of shutting down trolls. They never seem to respond to me even though they ... : anhero
          • I feel the same way, although I did get responses tonight. : daVinci1980
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    The rest was an interesting break-down of the kind of assumptions we make and and contexts in which we as... : DinK
    • After finishing the rest of the video, I thought the whole explanation including the set-up was excellent... : DinK
• Well! I'm glad he cleared that up! : Goto10
• 42 : smax
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  I'm beginning to think that those clowns were right, we don't know shit about magnets. Ya ya electromagne... : gakera
  • I think the issue is less "hey we don't know stuff" and more the giant argument from ignorance of "hey we... : DinK
• This guy is a badass. : the city
• So fucking awesome. : Skrynkelberg

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  why? : EvilDolemite
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    Because I thought quite a few people would buy CoD for PC? : Fenring42
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      http://dl.dropbox.com/u/369916/RbTzd.jpg : Confrustrating
      • hhahahahahahaha oh god yeah give me a break hahahahahaha : mikecyb
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        it's funny but I'll take the kids over the thirty year old autistic shut-ins : [fry]
        • Your trolling is normally remotely classy fry. : abrasion
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          oh my god it's not even true anyway. go try and play counter-strike or TF2 at like 3pm after kids get ho... : mikecyb
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            It all depends on the server. : Wisp!
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              counter-strike INVENTED calling people faggots in a game. you can't even pretend that it's all on consol... : mikecyb
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                Only on PC can you guarantee that sort of experience, because PC has servers that control the community. ... : SpaecKow
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                  unless you pay MW2 on PC lolz : mikecyb
                  • Yup MW2 on PC is the faggot honeypot that keeps shitbirdery out of the other games. : SpaecKow
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                Yeah, and it still happens on PC too, but with consoles being the big thing the fuckwad ratio hasseverely... : pyide
                • oh my god I have to mute some idiot in TF2 every other day. jacknapes that decide it's awesome to play m... : mikecyb
              • Halo 2 MP invented the word "nigger" and the userbased backported it to history via John Titor. True stor... : roushimsx
          • Or how about HoN : chrisschutz
      • lol, that's funny. : ShoCon
      • Hahahaha! : ConsFEARacy
      • I swear this argument is tired. I've played on quite a few servers which were as bad any Live game. : Pettytheft
      • It won't load for me :( : Fenring42
      • lol : royalally
      • haha indeed good sir, indeed : brewsterdog
      • Hahaha, love this! : CaptainSurly
      • The monocle makes this. : yldragon
      • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXasCjUTNpE : dooberzoo
      • Exhibit A: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfCiOzL7cYs All kidding aside I wish I could get in a console ... : uncle slappy
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        They left out Jew. : ThomW
        • I swear, Jews get screwed out of everything! :( : roushimsx
    • Why should they? : Lukiopimp
  • cuz he's never played Game Dev Story : sludge vohaul
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  I wonder if there are kids who get it for the Wii and are bullied in school because of it : Chandler55
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    I'm sure no one needed a reason to bully them before. : Porkasaurus
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      Yea, that's a really good reason to bully them going forward though. : MrBig0
      • IT GETS BETTER.....when you get a job and buy a real console : Chandler55
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  is that significantly different from any of the previous games? : derelict515
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    Yes. MW2 sold 2 million on the PC. That's more like 15-20% of sales. : Wisp!
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      2 million opening week? And how many online? : derelict515
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        2 million total, as of whatever the last data was released to the public. What do you mean how many o... : Wisp!
        • whenever* : Wisp!
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  I don't believe that. Black Ops is showing very strong player numbers on Steam that indicate it has sold ... : Wisp!
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    hmm, well i guess i'll go with your gut over gary whitta's insider numbers : EvilDolemite
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      Steam stats != gut reaction :/ : Serpico74
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        projecting 300k sales is, though : EvilDolemite
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          What are the chances that every buyer (or even half of buyers) worldwide was on at once? : Wisp!
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            Steam purchasers of a game like COD? I'd say a very high % play online the first two days. : jake
            • every owner of Black Ops PC shows up as a Steam player since it is Steamworks : Dontdrop
        • Ah, right : Serpico74
        • Yes that's a lot more if there are 120k players online. : guigr
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    http://store.steampowered.com/stats/ Yup, peak number of players in MP today was 95k and SP was 64k. T... : Serpico74
    • Its also funny to note how many players it took away from MW2. MW2 numbers are generally around 65k-70k, ... : Serpico74
    • why not? there were 3.6 million people playing the game on 360 last night. : mikecyb
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      Well if 4% is roughly 200,000 (guess) then 60% would be 3 million which is in the realm of possibility, y... : pyide
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        4% of 3.5 million is 144000, so its totally possible. My bad! : Serpico74
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          wrong calculation anyway if xbox is 60%, then the number you need to take 4% of isn't 3.6 million, it'... : veras
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            That number still follows if we are talking total sales, not total online players. I can totally buy litt... : Serpico74
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              wait where did you get your 3.5 million from? I assumed your use of that figure was the 3.6 million Leahy... : veras
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                Yes, I am going from total players. You can assume that the total number of units sold is roughly double ... : Serpico74
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                  Hi Serpico74, sorry to butt in. But I've noticed you know a lot about movies and plasmas and such. Aft... : bombay
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                    I'm assuming you mean the THX calibration screens that come with Pixar movies and such. Yes, those are qu... : Serpico74
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                      Yeah, I meant the former re: THX, Sorry to confuse My TV is a brand new PAL (Aussie) TH-P54V20A. I me... : bombay
                      • Yeah, It'll probably give a little flatter picture than what people are used to out of the box, but it'll... : Serpico74
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        7 million+ already. They had 4.5 million in pre-orders alone. Worldwide. So.. 4% of 7 million-ish is l... : K1Bond007
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          VGChartz methodology circa 2007: http://gamrfeed.vgchartz.com/story/629/where-do-vg-chartz-north-american... : ZenzenTen
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            that depends, is codblops steamworks/steam required? if it is then you can extrapolate the PC sales from... : mikecyb
            • blops is all steamed up, yes. Built in and required. : project13
            • Yup, Steam is required, same as MW2. : Serpico74
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              Extrapolate yes, but even at this point, I'd imagine a large % of PC players aren't even playing due to s... : ZenzenTen
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                I am not sure you can say that; I've put up with a lot of shit to play games. I know others have too. : bombay
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                  I'm talking stutter so bad even the menus and movies freeze up for 4-5 seconds at a time, and not just on... : ZenzenTen
                  • I've done that before, but through a whole game. I do remember the fun of getting wing commander to wo... : bombay
      • XBL was saying 3.5 million online when I was playing earlier. : mojoald
• well there's no friends integration, no lobbies, no nothing on PC : Downforce
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  Post lacks details. Is this shipped, or sold? Does it include digital copies on PC? : ZenzenTen
  • Probably not, steam sales never seem to be equated with sales figures. I know quite a few people who bo... : Strid3rtheGreat
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  Console games sell well on console, who knew? : MercFox1
  • yeah, and that visual review that said its way better on xbox 360! wow! : radula
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    this. I've never bought a CoD game ever. I play games designed for PC. : ]pm[chem
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      But CoD 1 and 2 were! They were great PC games for their time! : herradura99
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        and United Offensive! UO was kind of spotty; the levels went on way too long for what they offered (f... : roushimsx
        • CoD3 didn't feel like a good sequel to 2. The car with the mgs on it was stupid. : Fenring42
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  Also entirely possible that doesn't include digital sales. : SpaecKow
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    Which are largely irrelevant compared to retail store units, btw. : GeorgeB3DR
    • Not for PC they aren't. Physical and digital are approaching parity, and they've been close since Q3 2009... : MercFox1
• This is depressing. : MeestaNob
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  I had no idea it was out on Wii. Can't wait to play the DS version :D : roushimsx
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    The online is still 2v2? or was it 4v4? And I cant believe they still kept the zombie mode in the DS v... : PinkyImp
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      The DS CoD games are pretty dang rad! I love that they never tried to directly port the console/pc games ... : roushimsx
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        Didn't n-space just get shutdown or something? : Fenring42
        • Something kind of like that, I think. Wrapped 5 games up, was waiting to ship them, didn't have any new j : roushimsx
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  Screw the drama on the PC I'm surprised that the PS3 number is that high. I mean sure it's not even two-... : Malku
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    Black Ops is the first modern gen CoD that I bought on PS3 instead of 360 :( : roushimsx
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      Well keep supporting it. PS3 needs more love in the world of MW games. And as a side note I have a... : Malku
      • It's ok! I was doing a lot of travelin' about the midwest and then getting f'd in the a at work for a whi... : roushimsx
    • well If I get it I'm going ps3 or pc this time : X-GOUKI
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  CoD has been sold as an Xbox game for the last 3 years now. Even if these stats are accurate, does it re... : treefingers1
  • The last Xbox game was Madden 2009. It's actually worth more now than it cost when it came out http://ww... : roushimsx

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• werewolves in wheelchairs : GloriousCow
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  http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=24405834#itemanchor_24405834 : Borzoi
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    I never said I was the most original poster. : Porkasaurus
    • aw it's not that - there's just plenty of comedy gold in that thread. : Borzoi
• zombie ninja pirates : j0nchan
• I just hope it's not something I actually like so I don't have to watch in horror as it's driven merciles... : gokart.
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  i thought the mutant / human evolution thing was gonna explode with all the x-man movies, push, jumper, h... : sticman77
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    the problem is, those were almost universally terrible : Herman Toothrot
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      Just look what they did to Heroes : lolpatrol
      • Er, he mentioned that. Nevermind. : lolpatrol
• unexplored... lol. re-explored maybe. the material is out there. just wait for the tweens to pick up on... : radula
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  Werewolves of London. : greasyjohn
  • Also I have a multi-billion dollar film idea that draws on this question. : greasyjohn
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  Zombies + Ninja = Nomjas! : Arcath
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    Which is the Korean word for MAN! : greh kleh
    • http://www.sherdog.com/fighter/Chan-Sung-Jung-36155 : sticman77
• porcine terrible lizards : deathofrats
• gamers : xpogox
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  Something non fantasy. If anyone's specific prediction comes true I know of a few Hollywood/Marketing/... : locater16
  • Yeah. Zombies are WAY fucking overdone. If you look at history, when our world takes a shit, then we're... : Thornfist
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  Mummies. : kallanta
  • http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/10/12/ : Herman Toothrot
• Werewholphins : Rooster Cockburn
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  3D Zombies. : bombay
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    who travel back in time... so... 4D zombies : j0nchan
    • YES, perfect. Now we are in the money. If we can get an athletica and singer tie in, we are gold. : bombay
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  Aliens have already happened in the late 90s early 2000s withe the X-Files, war of the worlds etc. There ... : red2lucas
  • Hey, Twilight gets all the chicks. Where there's chicks, there's money. Lots of it. But hey, maybe T... : Maddog_Delphi97
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  aliens again, then it reverts back to samurais or WWII : azuvatar
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    I think we've all had enough fucking WWII : Thornfist
    • other than arcade FPS games, I don't think I'll ever get sick of WW2 : valael
  • I would love some new samurai fiction! : kallanta
  • you forgot pirates and ninjas : vynn
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    we need WWI to get the spotlight for once : kabex
    • WW1 was not fun for anyone, that's why it's never used as a setting. Just endless slaughter on both sides... : utgaardsloke
    • there really do need to be more WWI movies : Herman Toothrot
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      You hide in a trench in the mud and cannot run. If you move from cover you get shot. Your gun only fires ... : dooberzoo
      • And also, if you stay in the trench you slowly lose health from trench foot, dysentery and pneumonia. Occ... : utgaardsloke
      • Are you saying that hiding in a trench for 2 hours and then running toward a Maxim gun in an open field w... : Marrbe
• didn't we do this just a week ago? 8( : biofrog
• I want more zombie movies like zombieland and less of the serious zombie stuff like Walking Dead (I love ... : valael
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  I want to see Steve Buschemi as that zombie from that game. : losder5000
  • Stubbs : scottythejock
• Wights : BarrowWight
• Gargoyles. : Vincenoir
• Snorks : braaains
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  samurai frogs with jersey accents who like to eat tacos : skryte
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    Sounds too much like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. : Maddog_Delphi97
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      maybe the frogs could be middle-aged. : skryte
      • lololol : Maddog_Delphi97
• who was the shacker that was mad about Zombies? Was it Normality? he must be having the time of his life ... : thecray
• I want to make a movie on the life and times of Kelly Johnson; trust me the spy shit in that would own. : bombay
• Nazi communist dinosaurs with massive overbites : davislovestacobell
• Its not going to get old until they work it into a Twlight movie. : yldragon
• I'd love to fight some AI that put me to the test. : Zolneirz
• dickwolves : r3dn3ck
• I think noir detective stuff is due for a comeback. : Yabrodan
• bears. The are godless killing machines. : jimvolk
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  Critical mass was 5 years ago? : GreatGooglyMoogly
  • Okay maybe 2. : GreatGooglyMoogly