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• Yeah last night was so fun. Further played until ~1:30...good old hippy NYE. : Lightzout
• Head is collapsing in on itself. I don't remember much of anything. Blacked out round 1:30ish? Woke up on... : RikiTiki2
• I had a single beer and just sat on the couch with my dog all night. Details are a little hazzy? : Omning

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  On behalf of most of the Shack, we love you too. There are others who just aren't ready to come out of... : Thresher
  • But this isn't the CLOSET closet this is the shack closet of dudebro looooove. : warcrow

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  I've heard nothing good about c&c4. Get empire/napoleon total war if you want strategy. Also c&c4 is £... : marmite
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    I liked the C&C and World in Conflict universe. Any recommendations? I rather dislike the past or science... : matthaeus
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      C&C4 is pretty scifi. Its far in the future compared to the others. I don't really have any suggestions... : marmite
      • I still wonder why EA fucked up the GDI/NOD series... maybe it was a bet how many games are needed to des... : matthaeus
• with all the bad press i've heard on CnC4, i would think SupCom2 would be a better idea, not that i've he... : gibbo
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  just to reinforce this, farcry 2 is amazing : razorblade79
  • 1920x1200, Ultra High, DX10, 4xAA: 44 FPS AVG on a GTX260. Thats pretty impressive considering the visual... : matthaeus
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  Get Red Alert 3, it was good fun, crazy over the top alternate-history story, and co-op! : node
  • Already have Red Alert 3. It was a great game indeed :) : matthaeus
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  I already have Empire: total war. Is it worth it to get Napoleon? : utgaardsloke
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    More of the same, sadly. Holding out hope for Shogun 2: Total War being fucking awesome : kill9
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      Let's hope. Medieval II still stands as my favorite in the series so far : utgaardsloke
      • Same. Rome was great, but Medieval 2 was perfect. Don't like Empire at all :( : kill9
      • My only issues with Medieval 2 were the cavalry charge issues and the (still) stupid AI. They pretty much... : Hemtroll
  • From everything I've heard, Napoleon is more Empire but done slightly better. : Hemtroll
  • Its improved in every way but only by a tiny bit. It adds up though and I think it's a much better game o... : marmite
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  If C&C4 was free it would still cost too much money. : Tchest
  • I will definitely buy the game when its under 10 EUR because I want to finish the storyline. : matthaeus
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  C&C has been shit since Red Alert (1). : code-e255
  • Red Alert 1 was pretty cool IMO, especially the naval units. : matthaeus
  • Incorrect. Tiberian sun, RA2, AND RA3 are great games. : VictoriouSecret

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  jesus christ could you make the grey text smaller : valael
  • or is this a chrome thing? the default size (without control+scroll wheel) is microscopic : valael
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  Shouldn't the number of orders be greater than the number of customers? Or is there some new definition ... : Awun
  • No, because the 1.6M orders placed were this year, but the "customers" that the stores have (people who p... : reZaun
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  Over christmas break, I sent my Dad to Shopify for his company's online store front end. It's pretty stra... : Chunks
  • Very straight forward. We now have personal guides (gurus) who help new stores through the setup process ... : reZaun
• Got this in my email last night. My eyes went immediately to Street Fighter... what can I say? : kartooner

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  It's by the same team that did Fruit Ninja I think. : kingdepork
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    You mean Veggie Samurai? My GF wont stop playing it on IPad. She's got 2900+ high score. : R.Cade
    • Nooo fruit ninja is halfbrick. Veggie was a copycat. : kingdepork

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  Should I click this? : dognose
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    i would recommend against it, your heart it too fragile : multisync
    • I've played DNF : dognose
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    it's just the basic premise of the movie. something that's revealed within the first 15 minutes of the mo... : edgewise
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      you should have put the title in spoiler tags you asshole : multisync
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        multisync drunk posts are the best. : edgewise
        • not drunk enough, just sleepy now :( HAPPY NEW YEAR : multisync
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      Ok I clicked it, doesn't look like anything explodes so I will pass thanks : dognose
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        i tried to watch boondock saints 2 at the airport the other day, so so so so so bad :( i couldn't finish... : multisync
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          did you like the first? i still haven't made it past the first 10 mins of part 2. loved the first : dignan
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            what the fuck kind of question is that, who DIDN'T like the first. the second is just painful and trite : multisync
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              there are a lot of people on here that hate Boondock Saints : dignan
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                have you seen the documentary about the filmmaker? : dignan
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                  that was actually pretty good, and explains a lot as to why the second was so fucking horrible : ninjase
                  • i enjoyed it also : dignan
              • they are stupid, and certainly not shacknews.com poster material : multisync
  • i remember seeing a trailer for this movie and thats pretty much what they say in the trailer : ninjase
• I remember an episode of Alias like this. : greasyjohn
• It's funny I watched that movie not knowing what it was about and I was rolling my eyes at the product pl... : Geoffrois
• Companies do it a lot with the younger adolescent crowd. Find the local tastemakers and hook them up with... : sonicdeathwalrus
• Possibly. Nike has done this, or so I've been told by someone who would know such things (sorry I can't ... : Cubictoast

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• Listening to this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAnFLgThTgo There's four more for anyone that is int... : Zollington
• Listening to this Hammock/Matthew Ryan collaboration that was released today. http://matthewryanandha... : jahulio2

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  Dragon Age - Duncan. : sheepraper
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    http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0719115/ : sheepraper
    • Man, he's shown up in several games I've played. : Wadmaasi
  • That's funny--I didn't realize it before, but it's pretty obvious. : drhazard
  • Bingo! I knew it was the same sort of elderly/paternal figure, but the beginning of Dragon Age was ~99 g... : Wadmaasi
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  I like how all the people in the 1190s at least have *some* sort of European / Asian accent...but Altair ... : Jumperus
  • How else could we be expected to relate to him? Let's be reasonable here. : Happy Doodle Muffin
  • I've assumed that it's the modern-age guy making the responses, or at least hearing the responses in his ... : Wadmaasi

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  Have you gotten Phantasy Star 2? It's such a great fit for the platform. You can grind levels pretty much... : geedeck
  • RPG one? Got it, but have yet to play it. Still spazzing out on the fighting jumping ones. : kramweil
• Do not believe him. They control terribly. : mrwolf710

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  I only played Lunar Knights, but I have to say it was worth playing. It might not make it to the top of a... : Big Luke
  • I might have to dig it some place. I was mostly interested in it's use of the solar sensor and how well t... : lcizzle

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• Happy New Year. What do you plan on doing differently this year? Nothing? Same here! : Big Luke

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  How long until this is used in a 3D film? That last guy was Steve Jobs. : Beady
  • High-speed camera + sword/nunchaku etc. = WHOA : vx2o

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• niiice : Draugluin

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  Why are they great? I never bothered picking them up. : kingdepork
  • They actually work for one! Plus if you are a character with low perception you can use them to mark the ... : AgentPothead
  • I thought they were pretty lame. I got the Caravan pack when I bought the game, which lets you start the ... : thecray
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  I have gotten scared about all the bugs people said it have. Does the patch do a good job? (Thinking ab... : humbleone
  • I don't know, the only bug I had so far was a problem with setting hotkeys crashing the entire game, but ... : AgentPothead
  • I played really far into the game before encountering a bugged sidequest. I will say this: playing it at... : kingdepork
  • I played it on PC without encountering a single serious bug. Some people can't even get the game to run, ... : Hemtroll

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• Neat, I remember some of those covers : d fluke
• What? No Amiga Power, for shame. : peetabix01
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  oh man.. I remember this one. Made me feel all happy and stuff http://www.retromags.com/forums/files/fil... : humbleone
  • oh man that brings back so many memories. That was the first issue I ever bought. : thecray
• From back when a flight sim could be a cover story. : roggor
• AWESOME. Some great writing from way back. Now they just need PC Zone too, mainly for the hilarious Brook... : node

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• the world ended in 1998 what are you talking about : rgoer
• again. here's a brief history! http://www.abhota.info/end1.htm : Draugluin
• I thought it was August 4th, 1997? : freekazoidd

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  1) www.google.com 2) home automation 3) profit : multisync
  • I'm looking for something reasonable that would do the job and I'm just wondering if anyone here has done... : ThomW
• http://www.last.fm/music/Kompressor/_/We+Must+Destroy+X10?fallback=1 : opengl128
• verizons got something coming in 2011 http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-20026813-54.html : Chandler55
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  I use them. It works. Pretty neat actually. Some fluorescent bulbs flicker when turned off, however. : ann thracks
  • This is probably bad news. Depending on the design, you sometimes need special hardware to control fluore... : dfay
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  X10 is way outdated. Check out something like INSTEON : OverloadUT
  • I saw they were mentioned quite a bit during my Googling last night. : ThomW
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  I work in the home automation industry. We joke about X10 because it's kind of sketchy stuff, but honestl... : dfay
  • What's your light automation tech of choice? Insteon seems like excellent performance for the cost : OverloadUT
• never buy anything that spams the internet with popup ads. netflix would be the only exception to the rul... : j0nchan
• I used to use them until one of my appliance modules malfunctioned and spit out a nice plume of black smo... : Gnowknayme
• I have a friend that uses some X10. He's been happy with it. But I can't give you any specifics : Slowtreme

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  I have a feeling we will see greatest hits 2/2 today, and greatest hits of the sale tomorrow. I doubt we... : pigvomit
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    I hope not. That would be three days wasted on greatest hits. Hopefully we get one more day of new sale... : LankyJon
    • It's not wasted when there's Amnesia on it! : Dontdrop
• Its worth 20 anyway. : Pneum0

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• Wow that's fucking awesome for $150 : kill9
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  he got suckered if it wasn't Street Fighter 2 turbo. : shirif
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    I actually didn't notice. :/ he replaced the buttons and joysticks though. It's awesome. : GoldfishInAJarOfPickles
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      Sweet. SF2 is awesome no matter the version, except for the one I mentioned :D : shirif
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        I mean that one is awesome-R : shirif
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          ahh. He said he wants to get some of the other boards so he can play different shit but I missed which on... : GoldfishInAJarOfPickles
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            sweet. I miss playing arcades cabinets. : shirif
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              we always played the side scroller D&D/Xmen ones because we sucked at fighting games. Alas... : GoldfishInAJarOfPickles
              • I was just playing those 2 side scrolling AD&D games tonight on my cabinet. Fun stuff. : Arcath

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• Take a nap RIGHT now, while you still can. Congrats to Mom and Dad : watcherxp
• so now you know how babby is formed? : Hemtroll
• my gfs best friend is really hoping her baby comes out tonight but I doubt it'll make it : AllYourBase
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  imagine if you were a baby born on january 1 2000, how could you not have an ego : Chandler55
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    My mothers birthsay is tomorrow and she doesn't have an ego. : i38warhawk
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      birthday* : i38warhawk
      • Is she 11 years old : Pandilex
• January 1st is a really bad and good birthday :(. I know this personally. : moe6

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  I agree on most points except the melee. The game is meant to be pretty ranged with some minor exception.... : VictoriouSecret
  • at the very least, give infiltrators some 'assassination' animations =P : chickdigger802
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  What about biotics is shit? : Cliffzorz
  • The problems I saw with biotics were: 1) That they were largely blocked by armor and shields there was... : johnlocks
• biotics is awesome what are you on : Sapiens
• ME1's biotics were the shit. I used to throw people out of levels. It was great. : Fenring42

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  This is showing on front page as selected comment without spoiler tags. I've not seen whole of latest ser... : Viprime
  • The solution here is not to go to the front page. : Moonbase Commander
  • That's quite the bug :( : Fred Garvin

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  Did he line up a job yet? : Ride-My-Rocket
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    This ^^^^^ : dognose
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      CONGRATULATIONS, saying it in all caps instead of a deep announcer voice isn't as good, but I do what I c... : locater16
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        Oh I didn't line up a job yet, no, got a few leads though : dognose
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          Shitpoops, I was getting ready to be excited for you. Still, I wish you the best in your search! : Ride-My-Rocket
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            You will be the 1st to know! Oh wait, my mom will, so you'll be 3rd 'cause that means Maddog will be 2nd... : dognose
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              Aww yeah! :D Godo luck, Dognose! : Maddog_Delphi97
              • Good luck, I mean. : Maddog_Delphi97
• Can we go to Mockingbird Station for coffee? : dognose
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  Dognose, are you following me? Where will you be living in Cali? : sr71photo
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    Dunno yet. Looking at Sacramento. : dognose
    • My downstairs neighbors are moving out. We make horrible upstairs neighbors, but I'll bake you cookies fo... : laurgasms
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      Who are you staying with? : CRasterImage
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        Home for Wayward Girls : dognose
        • Oh, Lindsay Lohan's place. : CRasterImage
    • Ahh WTF? All my inlaws moved from there so now I don't visit a few times a year. : sigpro
    • I plan on visiting at least once next year! :D : GrimmyD
    • There's an empty apartment right next to me dognose! : spazzium
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  heading to the airport now. : CoRDS
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    woot! I have an hour layover in Vegas, gonna lose so much cash on the slots : dognose
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      actually i lied. its to damn hot to go outside. im going to spend summer infront of the airconditioner : CoRDS
      • It's not summer you crazy upsidedownlander. : majestik
      • 'snot hot here cords! : EvilDolemite
      • CoRDS, I wish I could trade hemispheres with you. I hate being cold. : Maddog_Delphi97
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  dognose, may your travels be safe and easy - : flagg209
  • and may your TSA agent be a gorgeous woman with big tits and gentle hands. : CRasterImage
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  my girlfriend comes back in town a few hours earlier, but i bet i can talk her into going! : ninjase
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    Did I ever thank you for taking me to the post office? That has been bugging me : dognose
    • Yes, but I should be thanking you for the huge stack of dvds! : ninjase

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  ITS SO FLUFFFY! : f4lln
  • ITS SO FLUFFY IM GONNA DIE! : silentbobuk
• One of my favorite movies this year. : hirez
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  Didn't a shacker produce that? : chrisschutz
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    lightzout is single handedly responsible for the entirety of this film : H@rvester
    • At first I read lightzout as "lookitzpancakes" : dysfunctional
• It was a disappointment to me honestly. : KillSwitchEngaged002
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  There are a couple of shorts with the minions on the DVD. : Geoffrois
  • Saw them and laffed hysterically, especially at Banana. : Thresher
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    I was trying to find those but had no luck! The bonus section just showed lame real life people stuff. ... : khaosman
    • The one we got for Christmas had a second dvd called "Minion Madness" with all the mini movies on it. : jdcope
• There are more minions on youtube, there's like 3 shorts they made featuring those guys : kill9
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  Ill never be able to enjoy this movie because of the horrible producer lady who tried to screw over her h... : EricZBA
  • Well, I did say it needed moar Minions. It's not perfect. : Thresher
• I agree. Fun movie, minions stole the show. : thetangent
• I just watch it too tonight. I loved it. : baron calamity
• Agreed, however the minions remind me a lot of the Raving Rabbids from Rayman. : zipper76
• Ha, I watched that tonight too. Definitely enjoyed the minions, they were cute : khaosman
• Completely agreed : MercFox1

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• Directional antenna and more power. : SigENeaT
• I'm no expert but I've heard: A) the 5GHz Wireless-N performs differently than the 2.4 band, so you mi... : dfay
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  get repeaters/ bridges. : shirif
  • this is your only surefire solution. You could go with various directional antennas but then someone coul... : deadfish
• Like this: http://images2.memegenerator.net/Annoying-Facebook-Girl/ImageMacro/1801202/bought-digital-wi-f... : thecatinthehat