Morning Discussion

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  Welcome to the land of the living, Zeebs. : MercFox1
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    Had to wait to get to work to post. I need to ask askedrelic how to automate this like he does the daily ... : EricZBA
    • low-wage east asian children : ass-street
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  whoa! did you guys know that CAKE was added to minecraft the other day? i assume you use eggs and wheat t... : ass-street
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    Token "The Cake Is A Lie" reference. : RomSteady
    • http://twitter.com/notch/status/24557326849548288 : Arctic Fox
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    is there a reason to make it? does it heal for more than bread? : electroly
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      i dunno. i just saw it on notch's blog...it didn't say how much it healed or how you crafted it...i'll lo... : ass-street
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        looks like it hasn't been updated yet. http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Cake : ass-street
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          It hasn't been updated yet because it doesn't go live until the patch on Thursday. : Zek
          • that would explain it :P : ass-street
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  I thought it was the year of the PS3! Is there any way to get sulfur without killing Creepers or findi... : Fenring42
  • nope. : ass-street
  • creepers are easy to kill. farm that shit : electroly
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  http://twitter.com/notch/status/24838499463073792 Oh Notch, you so silly. : Haxim
  • lol awesome : ass-street
  • The defense rests. : JohnnyRey
  • http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQdHKKDsZgRN7EAOoEFGhl_sPVhxVk3Bny0oKEXkYGkxM874wPkzg *grumble* ... : Hemotoxin
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    i don't know about you guys but this is making me pretty fucking mad!!! : Zek
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      lol.... why?!?! How does a dude making a one character mistake in his code make you fucking mad? : ShadowRam
      • Sarcasm on the internet is hard : Arctic Fox
  • hahaha : deject
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    why are you guys so bad at Shacknews? :( twitter is blocked at work, try echoing the text! : MercFox1
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      @notch: I just found an "!" in the code that wasn't supposed to be there. This explains a lot. : Haxim
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        @notch: I just found the left side of my brain underneath my couch. This Explains a lot." Yes, yes it ... : JohnnyRey
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          No wonder you have such problems with Notch, if you interpret every little humorous post of his like this... : Arctic Fox
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            Yeah JohnnyRey and notch have a major malfunction, it's weird. : MercFox1
            • can't leave them alone in the same room or they'll be at eachother in five minutes : Hemtroll
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            oh cmon! I'm obviously kidding there. : JohnnyRey
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              It's not really obvious man, just saying. : deject
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                u mad bro : _jon
                • bwahahahahahaah : JohnnyRey
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        hahahahahahahahahahahahahah : MercFox1
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          THIS is why constant connection to Twitter is a bad idea as a developer. Normal people fix these probl... : MercFox1
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            I thought it was funny, personally, but it seems Americans don't get self-deprecating humour. : Arctic Fox
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              It would be funny, if it wasn't obvious it happened far too often. If a developer from say Halo did th... : Hemotoxin
              • If it was Halo you wouldn't get this because you wouldn't be able to buy the ALPHA VERSION of the game an... : deject
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                Believe me, this sort of stuff shows up in-game all the time no matter how good the developers. The only ... : Zek
                • Seriously, this is the only real difference. : deject
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              Come on, boss, you can't see my point? I'm sure notch is well aware of his 'shortcomings' as a programmer... : MercFox1
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                I'm just saying that it's what I would expect on someone's personal Twitter feed. Is it good that Notch's : Arctic Fox
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                  Answer? Move the information source for your project off of your personal Twitter feed. : MercFox1
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                    Hey, thanks for posting the same thing I just said : Arctic Fox
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                      Which is cool because that's the conclusion I reached with my post right here: http://shacknews.com/lary : MercFox1
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                        Shades of grey appear to be lost on you, man. I don't mind the irreverent shit Notch posts on his twitter... : Arctic Fox
                        • Some people just want the Minecraft Information Feed. That seems to be what you're missing. : MercFox1
            • nice generalization. : ass-street
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            notch doesn't give a shit though so he just keeps tweeting, and it makes people so mad. As amusing as it ... : Zek
            • We have those days, they're when the Minecraft thread has about 12 posts. Personally I think it's time to... : Arctic Fox
          • yup the guy uses Twitter way tooo much : Shadowdane
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            So just stop following him then. I don't even play minecraft and I enjoy seeing the problems he runs int... : cryptical
            • I don't use Twitter. : MercFox1
    • get a new jerb, fgt : ass-street
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  foo here, reporting for the Minecraft Daily News. Residents of MercFox1 have started reporting sights ... : foo
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    GJ FGT. : MercFox1
    • We need JPB to do some radio-styled broadcasts like he did for the last Civ4 Pitboss battle. : MercFox1
  • that's racist : Hemtroll
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    huh? meteorites? : ass-street
    • SHUT UP AND KILL STUFF : foo
  • Any chance of getting unbanned? Should I just PM you-know-who? ;) : Nixx2004
  • Did Maddog take his shirt off again? : Hemotoxin
  • OH SHI- : EricZBA
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    Creepers have infiltrated ISENGARD Lord save us all : EricZBA
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      Maybe I should login and put some doors on the place, eh : Arctic Fox
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        Actually, it all looked clear. I went upstairs wanting to hide at the top Sauroman style but there was a : EricZBA
        • I'll login and call him a fag tonight, should fix it right up : Arctic Fox
  • WHAT WHAT? : watcherxp
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    I miss Legos with Friends. : Volatris
    • The problem with Lego with Friends is that eventually, you've built a bitching castle, you've made a mine... : Arctic Fox
  • this would be a good way to make sure I don't go near anything previously built : MamiyaOtaru
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    I'm confused, why the hell are we adding mobs to the server no one plays on? Are we trying to make it les... : Vincent Grayson
    • Well, (my opinion) I think that a lot of people were planning on mercfox1 as being the "main" server. But... : watcherxp
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      There's two reasons MercFox1 was dead: 1> The crowd moved, and people just want to play with their fri... : foo
      • Past mistakes? You are being too hard on yourself. You are awesome. If any mistakes have been made, they ... : EricZBA
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  Its been a long time since I've fired up Minecraft. Do players still need persister? : limpossible
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    What is persister? : Nixx2004
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      What the shit, people have been using hacked clients? http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?... : Nixx2004
      • See the date... : Zek
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        this was back when inventory didn't save after you logged out. : ass-street
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          Never had that problem. I did lose stuff a couple times when the server would crash, but nothing that ... : Nixx2004
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            Did you even play the game? in the beginning of SMP, you couldn't save your inventory, it simply didn't w... : JohnnyRey
            • It's alright, Nixx is just raging on things that he doesn't understand, nothing to see here : Arctic Fox
          • right when SMP came out the game could not save player inventory so either you gave all your stuff away t... : Hemtroll
          • n00b : ass-street
          • lol this was months ago before Notch had server-side inventory : Shadowdane
          • lol what? : ShadowRam
  • nope. : ass-street
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    Players never needed Persister. Damn hackers. :/ : Nixx2004
    • We used to use it to save our inventories when the game was newer. : limpossible
    • I don't think you actually know what persister did. : JohnnyRey
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      There was a time before server-side inventory. : MercFox1
      • "back in my day...." : watcherxp
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    No wonder I've never heard of it, looks like it was "needed" before I bought the game. : Nixx2004
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      Nixxer's dupe policing so hard he's raging at people in the past, doing things that actually were needed ... : MamiyaOtaru
      • Yeah, what a moron he is sometimes. :( : Nixx2004
• Played for the first time in weeks last night; still fun. Went to bed at 3AM. :| : Afterglow
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  i'm kind of in an odd limbo now that he's announced a modding API will happen. i don't want to waste tim... : electroly
  • Do it. : foo
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  what's with the huge square craters everywhere? they go all the way to the blue hell...seen lots of them ... : niceguynick
  • It's a client bug - if you log out and back in, they're gone : foo
  • They are chunks of the landscape the server failed to pass to the client to render. Only you see them. Ev : silent prophet
  • usually hitting the invisible ground once fixes it for me : Hemtroll
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    I suspect its an artifact caused by beta versions of hmod? Servers with plain-vanilla MC doesnt feature t... : excessus
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      Really? That's funny stuff. hMod does add some really basic and useful things (/playerlist), but I did... : Nixx2004
      • A lot of the really basic and useful things that hMod adds are for the server operators, not the players.... : Arctic Fox
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      nope, vanilla server has it too. : JohnnyRey
      • Confirmed. : GreatGooglyMoogly
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  Will the discoverer of the Dwarf Fortress that obviously wasn't made with DF2MC on Merc1 step forth? : Hemtroll
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    I though I left a sign in there and made a room as well. : TroZ
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      A creeper was very angry with you for doing that, and took it out on me : foo
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        take the torches out of there when you leave prease : Hemtroll
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          All of them? : foo
          • well leave some if you want to do something with it but I was just planning on leaving it there in the da... : Hemtroll
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      there was indeed a sign but it wasn't signed : Hemtroll
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        There should have been a sign over the room that said TroZ's Room, but apparently creepers took it out. : TroZ
        • I saw a sign there but I didn't have time to read it before foo turned on his creeper magnet : Hemtroll
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          Do they just randomly explode when players aren't around? : Afterglow
          • No. : silent prophet
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  I wish there were rare Artifacts that could be found, even diamond, with enough work, can be found in gre... : MercFox1
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    i wish you could craft unique artifacts, like in dwarf fortress. : dirge23
    • Maybe have another small item like the Compass and Watch that consumes redstone to lead you towards an ar... : MercFox1
  • *be found; even diamonds... : MercFox1
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    it would be cool if there were fossils. Mining them freed them from the rock and then you could put skele... : GloriousCow
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      i just wish the game had more interesting stone layers, and stones of many different colors : dirge23
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        it needs to go DEEPER. :( : GloriousCow
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          BRAUUUUMMMMM : MercFox1
          • http://inception.davepedu.com/ : action roommate
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        if notch were really smart, and he isn't, he'd stop defining custom blocks and start defining a method by : electroly
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          tweet that shit at him : ass-street
          • make sure to call him dumb ;) : ass-street
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    i'd like to craft robots that mine for me. : ass-street
    • We need omicron bots. : excessus
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  Happy 4 Month Anniversary MERCFOX1 Server!! : watcherxp
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    4 months? It's been a lot more than that, hasn't it? I've had control of it for like 6 months I think? : foo
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      couldn't be 6 months could it?? : ass-street
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        looks like we migrated to your server around the 20th of Sept 2010 : ass-street
        • Ahh, the day I got my life back. : MercFox1
        • wow, server was only 10 days old when that happened? There was already an astonishing amount of stuff bu... : MamiyaOtaru
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      I joined this day: http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=23979593 and the server was less than a week old. : Arctic Fox
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        lol we were talking about mobs being in the game back then...:( : ass-street
        • Those were the golden years. The time before the bitterness, the spite, the hate : Arctic Fox
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      10 September 2010 http://www.shackpics.com/files/MercFox1_xkdjsezjhcn6wdqu2b6n.jpg : EricZBA
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        there was a server before that one though...it was short lived. : ass-street
        • but since it was reset i guess it wasn't the same merfox1...ignore me : ass-street
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          AFAIK there was about 4 or 5 worlds before this iteration : Arctic Fox
          • i only remember 1 or 2 but i wasn't on every day or anything. : ass-street
          • 3 that I know of and have renders of : MamiyaOtaru
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            this is the 4th world Mercfox hosted... 1, 2 & 3 died due to corruption issues. : Shadowdane
            • ah that's right...i forgot we lost some due to corruption. : ass-street
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        Man, seems so much longer than that : foo
        • time dilation via constant bitching : Arctic Fox
        • can't even keep track of time? Worst admin. : Hemtroll
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  Hey I don't have Minecraft but I'd like to see some of y'alls work. Got some screenshots or something of... : Druuge
  • http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=24163638 : Arctic Fox
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJRTRw4kaV4&hd=1 : EricZBA
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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWqDOXvLGVM : Arctic Fox
    • ^^^ props to DHAvatar : Arctic Fox
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      OMG! +INF That's awesome guys. How the hell long does each city take to complete? That video makes me w... : Druuge
      • To give you a sense, Isengard = approx 2 weeks of some rather late nights by me and Xevo. There was about... : Arctic Fox
      • Join us! Most of these constructs started off much more modestly : watcherxp
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        first you'll need a time machine to go back to when we all still played : electroly
        • yeah :( I'm thinking that there might be a rekindling of interest when the mod API is added in, though. : Arctic Fox
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      I forgot about this video : EricZBA
      • I got a little misty eyed watching this : EricZBA
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      Holy shit that glass dome. I always saw it on the renders but never saw it in game. : pancake humper
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        It's even more impressive in-person. Also, bear in mind that nem00 started building it when furnaces stil... : Arctic Fox
        • also back when duping was pretty easy, just sayin' : watcherxp
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      Every time I see this, the Minas Tirith bit with the music makes me wet : foo
      • I can see my house! lol : Hemotoxin
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    my old stuff http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=24449153 http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=24572189 ... : MamiyaOtaru
    • all still incredibly badass : Arctic Fox
    • I'm a new shacker, so it's all fresh to me. That chapel looks really good BTW. : VenDrake
  • http://foo1.shkn.ws/~djr/mc/gmap/ : TroZ
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  Creepers in poopdick! : watcherxp
  • That sounds like a weird kind of STD : Arctic Fox

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  external media, read: HARD DRIVE/THUMB DRIVE. It's 2011 Apple! No one uses CD's/DVD's any more! : uebersoldat
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    RAGE TABLE FLIP (ﾉಥ益ಥ)ﾉ ┻━┻ : uebersoldat
    • Hahaha so much anger. : reelbk
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  Just drag the iTunes data folder to any external storage you want. Done * * - this will only work ... : ovrlrd
  • This is what I do for people and it works fine. : sigpro
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    Ah but will it transfer the paid downloads from their store? (licenses) : uebersoldat
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      you mean like for apps? you can download those again. : GloriousCow
      • but you don't need to because yes, it will back up those too : electroly
    • Yes it will, the Apps are all there. The licenses you talk about are actually tied to your iTunes login. ... : ovrlrd
    • Yes. : TrptJim
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    Who honestly does this? :( : MercFox1
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      This is the easiest route. Why not? : TrptJim
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        All of my music is on a separate drive than my OS. : MercFox1
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          iTunes deals with this just fine. he just said it has to be the same folder, not a specific folder in yo... : electroly
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            Good good. I was confused for a bit. : MercFox1
            • As was I, it appears. : Volatus32x
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          ^^Yup, works fine. When I do a new install I just tell iTunes "add folder to library" and *poof* all my ... : Volatus32x
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            Can you back up Itunes, reinstall it, then point to the folder on the other drive? : phil_mckraken
            • Yep. : TrptJim
    • Works flawlessly. Why do you care so much what folder of file names your music are? They could be a bunch... : ovrlrd
    • My life got better after I stopped caring about music folder organization. What a waste of time. : FrayLo
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    Even better, move the folder to wherever you want it, and set up a junction in the original location. : Matt Burris
    • For an easy way to do this, use this free program: http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardlin... : Matt Burris
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  uh, just copy the itunes folder to an external HD : opengl128
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    I was under the impression I had to do the official paid music through their backup utility. Thank the go... : uebersoldat
    • they took off music DRM a long time ago : GloriousCow
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      It doesn't work 100% like that though. : TwiLyght
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        oh god... : uebersoldat
        • Sometimes it fucks up any downloaded podcasts you have and are subscribed to. For example, if a podcast ... : TwiLyght
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      what kind of voodoo do you think is going on here? they're just files : electroly
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        drm? I thought you had to transfer the licenses. I don't use the Apple very much ... : uebersoldat
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          there's no transferring anything. you just authorize on the new machine by logging into the itunes store... : electroly
          • Adrenaline is now receding to manageable levels. Thanks for the help Shack, I had already copied the dire... : uebersoldat
• you're missing the fact that you can just back up the itunes directory like any other directory. why the... : electroly
• You can back up user data, just take their $HOME/Music/iTunes Library and back it up, done deal : Yanks
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  LOL UEBERSOLDAT WUZ WRONG : soggybagel
  • soggybagel, I was hoping I was : uebersoldat
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  http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1751 : PointlesS76
  • ^^^ This is the best guide there is on how to do it. It's really simple : ovrlrd
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  Even if I am, I'll still hate Apple and their communist ways. Sigh... : Wikus Van De Merwe
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    satire, I love my iTouch man. had to go 'driod for the phone though...awww yeah : uebersoldat
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      I use an Android phone from Verizon and it's easily one of the biggest mistakes of my life. : Wikus Van De Merwe
      • easily : chrisschutz
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  why can't we just redownload the songs we purchased, is it a bandwidth issue? : Chandler55
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    I'll always buy CD's so I'll have the hard copy, I purchased some stuff from itunes several years ago but... : uebersoldat
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      You'll never pay for music online again because you expect Apple to replace something that you lost? What... : nakedsavage
      • my understanding of electronically purchased music was flawed. What if my HDD tanked? Shouldn't I be able... : uebersoldat
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    No, it's a licensing issue. Apple has to pay the royalties on a per download basis. The same agreement ap... : ovrlrd
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      Amazon doesn't let you redownload songs, does it? : scottythejock
      • They do not, no. : Deathlove
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  so fess up how many CDs have you burned total before you just learned you can copy the data folder : grandmasterlee
  • one time I used up 7 CD's before giving up. The SAD thing is that I had already copied the itunes folder ... : uebersoldat
• You can : BouillonCubes
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  Just have Jeeves drive you in the stretch Escalade. : dumb.
  • Heh oops wrong thread. : dumb.
• Make sure to export the Library as well (before copying the files over) or you'll lose your ratings/playe... : noxiousgg
• I hate, hate, hate Apple storing stuff in Application Data\Apple Computers so it's stored in roaming prof : TrulyVexed

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• ...Assassin's Creed. : the archvile
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  Didn't ASSBRO come out at the same time? : chrisschutz
  • Is ASSBRO even out on PC yet? : SilverSnake
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    No. It's not even due to be out till Feb or March on PC. : Viprime
    • They did however just recently port #2 over to the mac, etc, so that would hint they do think (even if it... : Fayk
    • Oh ok, I don't really pay attention to ubisoft PC games due to the DRM, and I'm still on asscreed 2 on 36... : chrisschutz
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  I don't care about console games on PC. Why should I? They don't play well there, they got all kinds of d... : SpaecKow
  • Batman AA, end of topic. : harold.johnson
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    Graphics is the main thing for me. Every time I see a tree in a console game, or a wire fence, it looks l... : Chipwarrior
    • Yeah AA just kills me, plus 30fps games (like NFS). Blur and NFS just look impossibly better on my comput... : LoioshDwaggie
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      I play Mass effect on PC, and the textures are still low. There's like two games that came out recently w... : SpaecKow
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        Console games do look better? Are you out of your mind? : Mr. Goodwrench
        • Do look better on pc I meant to say. : SpaecKow
  • Dead Space is playing fantastically for me right now and I suspect I'm enjoying it a lot more given the n... : Herman Toothrot
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    I just bought a wired 360 controller for my PC, and Batman and Darksiders are fucking awesome with the co... : chrisschutz
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      you get gfwl managing your saves lol : SpaecKow
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        OMG!!!!! Who cares? : ColoradoCNC
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          I do. it's fine in batman I guess cause there's no multi and you can use an offline profile but other gam... : SpaecKow
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            I've never had any issues with gfwl. Only problem I ever had was shitty UI implementation in fallout 3. : chrisschutz
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              Well that's good luck for you. I had to skip DoW II mainly because of the awful GFWL implementation at re : SpaecKow
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                I usually just buy PC versions on steam sales when it's a no brainer. Really depends on the game, too. Th... : chrisschutz
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                  A couple of years back I bought a 360, a PS3 and learned how to aim with a gamead, and really that's wher... : SpaecKow
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                    ...without a mouse that should be. sorry im typing on a phone :P : SpaecKow
                    • I know I'm just saying that if you hook up a 360 controller to your PC you get the same gameplay with pre... : chrisschutz
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                    i don't care to buy a ps3 or a 360, and if the company wants to port their game to pc, and i think i migh... : harold.johnson
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                      I don't know why you shouldn't harold, but I know why I and others like me shouldn't - inferior interface... : SpaecKow
                      • is it a high cow you ride, or did you decide to stick with the high horse? : harold.johnson
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                    You can blame People Can Fly for not porting Gears of War very well. What was involved in the "floaty mo... : the archvile
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                      Just the standard UE3 mouse bullshit. : SpaecKow
                      • Disappointing; how did Epic manage to make something as fundamental as mouse movement code so wildly vary... : the archvile
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            if the alternative is not playing a game you want to play, that seems a good trade. : dahanese
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              Some people have stricter standards, and would rather write off that game and find something else from th... : the archvile
              • yes, i happen to know how decisions are made and how people value different things. : dahanese
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              It's not a tradeoff you should have to be making at all. : SpaecKow
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                Depends on your point of view. Most of the people making these decisions don't open files with hex edito... : the archvile
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                  i would posit that has nothing to do with this decision unless you somehow make it so. : dahanese
                  • I do those things but don't hate console ports what do I do? I feel like I'm living a lie : derelict515
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                i disagree with that - there is not a single system out there that everyone likes. thus - everyone has to... : dahanese
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                  i disagree with that - there is not a single system out there that everyone likes. I don't know what : SpaecKow
                  • I don't have a console and prefer GFWL. I only care about achievements if I care about the game. If the g... : loganscar
      • oh no?!?! what? who cares? : mikecyb
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    I agree SpaecKow. I bought a bunch of console ports on the PC during the steam sale and I'm even disappoi... : DeBurgo
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      care to share what games you were having problems with? : harold.johnson
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        most notably I was having issues with just cause 2 and the new need for speed hot pursuit game. I still h... : DeBurgo
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          Post PC specs. : chadg033
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            sure: CPU: AMD Athlon II X4 630 RAM: 4gig OS: Windows 7 Video: ATI 5770, 1gig version : DeBurgo
            • welp, latest chatty as rolled over to evening reading, looks like I won't be getting answers on this fron... : DeBurgo
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          Just cause 2 ran beutifully for me on my q6600 and gtx 260, at 2048x1152. I've only had the time to play... : harold.johnson
          • yeah just cause 2 I have trouble keeping above 30fps in benchmarks at 1440x900, never mind my monitor's n... : DeBurgo
        • I have a core2duo and 4gb of ram and a fairly middle of the road video card and JC2 runs fine at native r... : mikecyb
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          The Mass Effect ports are really good. : Wadmaasi
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            1 was great, 2 not as much but I was satisfied. : SpaecKow
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              What about 2 do you think is worse? It's such a streamlined/simplified play experience that I can't thin... : Wadmaasi
              • oh just a bit of interface lag and stuff like that. but it's still good. : SpaecKow
              • One button for sprint/cover/use, scrollwheel doesn't work in text fields/email/other lists, some hotkeys ... : swampangel
            • Sir Kow, I am saddened :( : shirif
  • I don't care about you not caring : loppsided
  • Because there are some cool games that are trouble-free. Ubisoft sometimes act like a bunch of assholes w... : Nitrium
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    Because those games are usually fucking awesome. : Dschinghis Khan
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      Usually fucking awesome on consoles! : SpaecKow
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        Bullshit. I don't even own a console that's less than 10 years old and every port i play on the PC i fuck... : Dschinghis Khan
        • sorry bout ur casual gaming bro : SpaecKow
  • Mass Effect 2 looks a gazillion times better on the pc. Not to mention the M&kb input is slick as well. : shirif
• I'm not sure where in the definition of important it requires it to be equally important as everything el... : derelict515
• Ubisoft did recently drop some of the lameness of their DRM for AssCreed on PC. I guess it no longer requ... : BeowolfSchaefer
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  And how long before lame DRM "ruins" consoles? : capt tripps
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    never? How many developers are talking about console piracy being a big issue (ie something that would le... : derelict515
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      Since DRM has thus far pretty much only punished consumers (and ultra casual pirates, where you don't nee... : Fayk
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        I don't follow the causation in your argument. Piracy is/was perceived as a problem on PC and so investme... : derelict515
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          Used game sales. : capt tripps
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            Yup, and that's a potential launchpad to then enforce an activation code to play the game, period. No co... : the archvile
            • There's little logic here. They already charge $20 for the code iirc, so it pretty effectively stops a $5... : derelict515
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      Online Pass? It's intended to fight used sales, but it's still an activation key that must be entered in... : the archvile
      • Yeah, so it's about 30 seconds of work and can't really mess up. I haven't run into it yet but it doesn't... : derelict515
  • consoles already have pretty extreme DRM in place : mikecyb

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• it's the feature I use the most. I also use it to change music while browsing lastestchatty in bed : deKaf
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  If you double tab when it's not locked it shows the 4 most recent apps too :D : dumb.
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    you mean it shows every apps "running" in background mode? : HisKillSkill
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      Oh I dunno for sure - I'm on 4.1 and it only seems to show the last 4 apps I've run. : dumb.
      • you can swipe left and right : HisKillSkill
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        you can slide it to the left and see the others : onji
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          Niiice. But damn there're a lot of apps in there. Does that mean they're all running?!? : dumb.
          • no, they are in "background" mode : HisKillSkill
          • Nope, the only ones that would be "running" are ones that can make use of the backgrounding methods that ... : ovrlrd
          • They're not necessarily running. They're just the last apps that were started, in chronological order, an... : nakedsavage
          • you can kill them if you'd like. Hold down on one till they start doing the shakey, and hit the x's : onji
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  Also, tapping the status bar (the area at the top of an app with the clock) jumps to the top of a scrolla... : Jenings
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    why i can learn about all ios4 features? : HisKillSkill
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      i mean WHERE : HisKillSkill
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        All of this stuff is listed in the user guide which you apparently have never read. http://manuals.inf... : ovrlrd
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          Err wrong one, use this one it's more up to date http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/iPhone_iOS4_User_Gui... : ovrlrd
          • Reading manuals is for old people with too much time on their hands! : Captain Loco
      • This is a lot less robust than ovrlrd link but, this seems like a pretty well-rounded list of random ipho... : Jenings
  • cool! : kn1fe
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  I just learned that if you hold it down you can do voice commands. works damn well to play music. : daroach1414
  • Just tried it "iTunes" ... Calling 'James Willans' brilliant. : marmite
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  i wish you could shuffle to the next track without taking the phone out of your pocket. I know you can do... : fletch_
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    Isn't there that 'shake to shuffle' feature? Though you might look a little suspicious with your hand in ... : dumb.
    • yeah you've got to give it a pretty good working over in your pocket to do that : fletch_
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      I fucking hate that feature. I listen to music in my car and I pretty frequently pick a song and put my ... : valael
      • Yeah I hate it too - turned it off. At first I didn't even know wtf was going on - just would hear "do de... : dumb.
• I miss that before iOS 4 came out, you could set double-tap on home to bring up your favorites in the pho... : Serpico74
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  how the fuck do you enable capslock on the iphone? : biskits
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    settings -> general -> keyboard; enable caps lock double-tap the shift key when typing. it'll turn blu... : zerog83
    • I just figured that out on my own. you shouldn't be allowed to use technology. when you coming to PA agai : zerog83
  • Double tap the shift key (the arrow) and it will turn blue to indicate caps lock is on : riptyde
  • double tap the shift button : cellx25
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    Settings > General > Keyboard > Enable Caps Lock : Serpico74
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      the fact that this is off by default is beyond retarded : ninjase
      • I agree, it should be on by default : Serpico74
      • agreed. i can't even comprehend the justification. : biskits
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        Google netbook prototypes don't have capslock at all! : JMro
        • Yes they do, it's just turned off by default : OverloadUT
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        Just imagine how many people would accidentally activate it and wouldn't know how to turn it off. : chungathebunga
        • I know how to use it and I still accidentally turn it on with some frequency : OverloadUT
      • I AGREE. WHAT WERE THEY THINKING??!@??! : surround
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  for the love of god i wish they would list the entire title of podcats instead of truncating the names in... : ninjase
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    examples of gay: http://www.shackpics.com/files/IMG_0604PNG_ca0wcmx67o79teyn5a3i.png http://www.shackpi... : ninjase
    • YouTube player does that too. You should always be able to slide truncated text over. : dumb.
    • i hate it too. Worse, the ipod nano scrolls the titles, so it's not like they're not capable of such inge... : edgewise
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      Carnegie Cou...? Looks like some interesting podcasts... except that one about corporate accountability. : Dynotaku
      • The Carnegie Council for Ethics and International Affairs -- they have a lot of good shit : ninjase
• Yeah but make sure you put another one between its eyes or it might get up again as a zombie. : Herman Toothrot
• Does anyone else notice that there's a lag when pressing the next button on the home screen iPod controls... : Begawkiness
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  I just figured out a day ago that you can lock the orientation of the iphone too. : surround
  • I found that out when my son was futzing with my phone and locked the orientation, and i had to look up h... : riptyde
• Also supported by some third party audio apps, like Pandora. Very cool :) : Ambient80

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• Well shit. Putting mine up on CL I guess. : atom519
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  God damnit. Just before Diablo 3 comes out too :( : LoioshDwaggie
  • lol Diablo 3 will still come out, but there will be nothing to run it on. All PC's will be gone!!!! : DM7
• Glad I didn't jump on the Sandy Bridge parade. SUCKAS! Looks like i'll just pack up both my work desk... : xylopagus
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  aw man! where am i supposed to store my porn collection now? : smacknca
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    You store that on your iPhoner!!! : CrustaR
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      Jobs says that's a no-go. : Gylis
      • Tell him that's too bad!! : CrustaR
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    THE CLOUD!!! : yosemiteclimber
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      Does anyone else get bothered by this retarded term "The Cloud"? It's just a fucking server. : xylopagus
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        I keep seeing Microsoft ads for The Cloud and they make it sound like your average pc user will instantly... : Hemtroll
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          You did it wrong, its "THE CLOUD!!!" : Hemotoxin
          • Everyone to "THE CLOUD!!!" : Hemtroll
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  This reads like a damn onion article. What the heck did I buy a new CPU and motherboard for?! Oh noes!!! : DM7
  • Oh man, I'm so sorry dude. How are you supposed to lug that thing to a coffee shop and read facebook? : IHATEDUST
• YEAR OF LINUX : YerMothah
• http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRy5OeFjei7ePkBTUBqm0gdYBXe86V8tOvhoRWDufRj716WmtsO : Hemotoxin
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  You're going to see a lot more of these articles. PCs are overkill for the average consumer. Simpler and ... : Dave-A
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    overkill? how many people use computers at the workplace? : cptstern
    • Don't bother arguing with him, he just loves to spout this opinion anytime pcs are mentioned. : RetroRedEyeJr
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  So what am I doing working on a PC at work everyday if it's dead?! *throws monitor* : DM7
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    Nah, man. They just mean it's dead for dicking around. People who actually have work to do still need PCs... : JarEme
    • * picks up DM7's broken monitor * : niceguynick
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  ^^ 100% chance this article was written on a PC : dirge23
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    lol, so true. ive never wrote with the ipad but I can't imagine using a virtual keyboard to write up art... : handofthrawn
    • Typing for long periods on a KB with no tactile sensation and a hard surface sounds like my idea of fun. : Fred Garvin
    • Its OK, they have a keyboard you can buy for your iPad, and you can hook it up to an external monitor. N... : IHATEDUST
• cant wait till my work desktop(s) are replaced with a smart phone : cptstern
• Damn, how am I going to do all my work that provides content for all the tablets. : historyinthemaking
• Fucking lefties. Don' t believe them! : xylopagus
• PC GAMING IS DEAD : MercFox1
• WTB Skyrim Wii port plz : Hemtroll
• I just laugh at a post that days real news and fox news in the same sentence. : rayholycross83
• Well then I'll just take a hammer to mine.... +++ <NO CARRIER> : Dolemite
• Sigh. This article is horrendous. : at0micgarden
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  I think it might be Obama's fault. : Fred Garvin
  • I think it might be Global Warming's fault. : Hemotoxin
• Fuck and I just was getting ready to pull the trigger on Sandy. : sKetchflow
• well shit, all 12 million WoW folks are going to be pissed : Downforce

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• Do they even take reservations? Looks like fun, I'm busy though. : Nixx2004
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  This is Wednesday? I'm home sick today, might be able to make it tomorrow if i feel better. Did you figu... : FrayLo
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    Meeting friends at the Needle around 2pm, I don't have anything else planned. : askedrelic
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      you will probably get 500 different suggestions on what to do, so here's mine: if you will be in downtown... : FrayLo
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        Serious Pie is delicious but overrated and overpriced. I've had better homemade in that style. : ThereCanBeOnlyOneCat
        • thanks for making the last part of my post true : FrayLo
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        Check out Starbucks, local coffee chain actually the 1st starbuck's in Pikes Market is fun to visit and : kanix
        • OO I've heard good things about Starbucks : askedrelic
• Good choice, fun place. This is on Thursday, right? You shouldn't need any reservations! : brickmatt
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  Elysian @ 6pm, I'll be there. : ejectorpod
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    Also, Thursday night is what I remember but everyone is saying different days so please clarify so I'm no... : ejectorpod
    • THURSDAY! woops : askedrelic
• This is on Friday, righty? Maybe I can make it. : Nixx2004
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  I can do this. Thurs, correct? : orgcaptainnemo
  • Yes, Thursday, Jan 13th. I fly into the city tomorrow night. : askedrelic
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  You can park at the Chase bank on Broadway if you're renting a car. : ThereCanBeOnlyOneCat
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    oh man haha, i forgot how much of a clusterfuck cap hill parking is : FrayLo
    • I always park at the bank now. I don't even try elsewhere. : ThereCanBeOnlyOneCat
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  Snow is coming!!!! We are all gonna die! : pun][sher
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    snowing tonight, turning to rain by tomorrow afternoon. Should be fine. : dedgecko
    • Like you will leave the Ridge :D : kanix
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  Do a shackmeet so the locals will get word. : kanix
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    http://www.shacknews.com/shackmeet/ : kanix
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      lol shackmeet doesn't have 2011 as a date : askedrelic
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        I am sure the MODS will see this and fix. : kanix
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          I don't think the mods can, we may need to ask the ECO. : spazzium
          • Actually I just sent an SM to greg-m. Hopefully they can take care of it for us. : spazzium
• what : Downforce
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  I sent an email to the SEASHACK group : ejectorpod
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    There's a drawback group??? How do I sign up? : quartic0
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      You should have a shack message if you signed up for shackmeets in Seattle. : kanix
      • I might be able to make this one! But there is no sign-up for it. : quartic0
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  Win* Jan. 8, 1984 Los Angeles L.A. Raiders 30, Seattle 14 I'm not sure how that is a WIN, but: You Go... : Slowtreme
  • oops wrong seattle thread : Slowtreme
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  It looks like I might be a bit late, but I'll make it. : brickmatt
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    Bump, to help everyone see this! : brickmatt
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      Be sure to drink your Ovaltine wear your Shackshirt. : ThereCanBeOnlyOneCat
      • I will wear a shack tshirt and a backwards cap, woot. : ejectorpod

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  No more than any other entertainment device would. : Hemotoxin
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    That sounds like justification. : dumb.
    • read below post. : Hemotoxin
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    This post makes me sound prickish I think. I am not intending to sound prickish. I am just saying I don't... : Hemotoxin
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      You probably aren't what Morris is looking for then! : Mansmells
      • He can provide the opposing viewpoint and keep the article balanced. : GoodBoy
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    I have a part of my group of friends who tries to throw that at me that I play video games too much and n... : Zuchu
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      I realise I missed the boat by a good 10 years or so, but arcades are probably the greatest social arena ... : Chipwarrior
      • Well the thing is most of my generation plays video games, so anywhere I go almost anyone I talk to has p... : Hemotoxin
• You should meet some of the people who play MMOs... : ghost in my shell
• aside from less sleep, no : maulla
• everquest was rough : rmjackson
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  My problem is my wife's game addiction paranoia. She can sit and watch tv from 8pm until 11pm and someho... : kek
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    TV time is together time asshole : kek's wife : handofthrawn
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      My GF and I play games together.. like zelda and final fantasy : Demius
      • Pics of gaming gf : bolneze
  • I wouldn't consider watching 3 hours of TV enough to justify calling someone a television addict, seeing ... : Nerdsbeware
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    That sounds pretty annoying dude. Are there any multiplayer games she might be into though or is she abso... : node
    • Sure, but she's a woman. Logic doesn't apply. We play Kinect and Mario Party type stuff and the addicti... : kek
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    Yea, I'm in a similar situation. And it might be one thing if she was watching quality programming, but ... : dedgecko
    • Coming up next on The Bachelor... AAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH! : kek
  • This. There is no more addiction to games than there is for TV or any other medium of entertainment. To b... : Hemotoxin
  • ^^^I always use this example. Unfortunately, tv is a socially accepted addiction, whereas gaming isn't (a... : arcane_
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  I played a lot of WoW at launch, when was coincidentally right after my first son was born. It put a lot ... : Deathlove
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    I just can't quit you! Poor kid. : trove
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      It's not like I was a single parent - it's like my wife was, though! : Deathlove
      • :( : Volatus32x
  • Serious question: How is WoW "once a day tuned" now? I used to play back at the launch too and I found it... : stratedge
• My Uni work probably suffers a bit more than I'd like because I'm such a game fiend. : Mr. Goodwrench
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  It wasn't an addiction but when I started playing WoW my ex was horrified. He didn't want me to tell anyo... : jenisthebest
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    Really? Tell us more? : ghost in my shell
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      About the mustache. : K0LM
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        http://users.rcn.com/jennieladew/DCP_0792.JPG : jenisthebest
        • UNSEE UNSEE : disposition
  • I didn't know you played WoW. : Afterglow
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  Journalist looking for case studies to use in his hate piece! : Chipwarrior
  • "He played violent videogames" : Hemtroll
• EverQuest did really drag me down when I was in high school I guess, for the 6 months I played. : moe6
• One of my previous roommates (and still friends with) used to choose WoW consistently over going to see o... : ajvitaly
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  I don't know how severe it is but I frequently push things aside to the last minute or forget to do them ... : Hemtroll
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    this used to be me a lot, always procrastinating, things don't get done on time, staying up way too late,... : tunis5000
    • It was really bad when I was big on City of Heroes and other MMOs but now I don't let it affect my grades... : Hemtroll
• NEIN. : CrustaR
• I have a friend who has occasionally chosen to play Everquest over hanging out with a group of friends or... : TheVietSpecial
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  College work I guess. I've grown old enough to curb the gaming or limit it during the year though so it h... : limpossible
  • That is, I'm old enough to realize that I shouldn't be gaming when I've got other stuff I've gotta get do... : limpossible
• Does working in the game industry count ? Cause I sure heard alot of of those : MrLobo
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  i am. i get completely OCD with games, especially story-driven single player games like RPGs. i often go ... : biskits
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    another example: i finally had to quit WoW when my then-girlfriend got fed up with coming over to my plac... : biskits
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      Check your Shackmessages, please. : MorrisatCNN
      • Replied. Sorry, man. : biskits
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    Oh shit. :( Every gaming 'addiction' case I've heard usually boils down to someone putting off real worl... : Chipwarrior
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      the thrill i get from playing a good rpg, configuring my battle tactics, selecting equipment loadout, nav... : biskits
      • I am also like this, although I've gotten better about it as I've gotten older. I still have problems ... : m0rb
• Not personally, I lost one of my best friends to WoW though. We'd been friends since we were both 11. We ... : -JLN-
• I wouldn't say severely but I have felt that sometimes it affected my social life too much and as a resul... : Begawkiness
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  had an ex get addicted to eve while she was living with me, met someone in there from AU, changed her sle... : trOmblyj
  • Wow. I expected that post to end with "And then she left be after cheating on me for 5 months by flying t... : famine101
• I had some adverse affects when I played CS competitively. It got me in trouble a lot in college, and the... : KxRook
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  Socially, no. Academically/professionally, yeah (to an extent). : The Grolar Bear
  • Yep, countless hours of shoulda-been-studying lost here. : Topsiderover
• No. Family always comes first. And with baby on the way, pretty sure my gaming will be the thing to suffe... : Thund3rball
• I used to be addicted to my first MMO (Lineage 2) for like 2 years, then I finally quit. It was worse ... : shurcool
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  Quake was responsible for my grades plummeting in high school. Actually I guess I'm ultimately responsib... : pandastrong
  • I find it strange when people talk about a Quake addiction because for me the game was so intense that af... : stratedge
• I can safely say that I can put a game down when I want or when I need to. : Snipergen
• I just can't play games for that long even if I have absolutely nothing else to do. I get bored after a c... : Zek
• no.. if anything my real world problems are taking over my game time. it is kind of disappointing to see... : dopeman
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  Gaming has probably been the best thing at keeping me away from drugs, I tend to get addicted to things a... : stgdz
  • I mean this is my current addiction http://bfbcs.com/stats_pc/stgdz Look at the headshots I got on th... : stgdz
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    when I was younger my parents used to bother me about playing videogames all the time but when they reali... : Hemtroll
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      raping old people was so awesome when I was younger, you missed out :( : dael
      • Funny saying. Check Mental image. Check. Laugh out loud. Check. : daroach1414
  • I knew someone like you but they had it backwards. This guy I knew would become addicted to anything, he... : Cubictoast
• Definitely interferes with working (I do a lot od working at home). Trying to sort that out, getting bett... : Creepin_Jeezus
• Only in November and months where a clusterfuck of awesome hits me. A lot of weeks I won't play any game... : kingdepork
• well with quake 2 and CS, it could be considered on the brink : Downforce
• EQ completely ruined high school for me. : valael
• I flunked a year at college back in the Wolf3D / Doom days. And I had to make a decision between heroi... : johnhead
• If getting suspended from college and losing 2 jobs count then yes \o/ (was very stupid in my youth) : TheStupidOne
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  It's starting to hurt my wrist. : Albemuth
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    Jerk off lefty for a few weeks : rosewood
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      It takes me both hands. : Albemuth
      • well then hold the binoculars with the other hand : Hemtroll
  • This is no joking matter : bolneze
• Had a problem with weight gain for a while. Ended a relationship once. : roushimsx
• I had a several hundred post thread a while back about how my now ex fiancée thought me playing video ... : chrisschutz
• Yes, some projects delayed due to gaming :( : excessus
• In my experience MMO's are the primary destroyer of personal lives. I had it happen to me with WoW but lu... : jingletard
• I played a lot of WoW when I should have been going to class back in college but to be honest, I probably... : Herman Toothrot
• When I used to play Quake, I was pretty "addicted". I had a non gamer boyfriend that used to come see me ... : arcane_
• My Friend/Roomate brunt a lot of bridges with his close friends when wow came out. He would say he would ... : TOnez
• Nope never. I've gone long periods without playing a single game due to school commitments holding me dow... : freakynipples69
• I used to game so much in HS and college way late into the am barely making it to classes or not going at... : mo13
• Gaming addition? Not really. Shacking addition? Well..... : PointlesS76
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  Yes; when I was unemployed I ended up playing WoW for 9 months instead of honestly searching for a job. I... : OverloadUT
  • why on earth did she put up with that shit : kgargs
• yea...... man... it all started 15 years ago man.... I was just a simple teenage boy with a simple gatewa... : NukemForever
• Yes. Absolutely and it's had long lasting effects on my life and is compounded by that I'm a terrible dec... : Landrosradick
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  My problem is that I spend too much money on games, and not enough time. It's gotten more about picking ... : CyCo_PL
  • that's called hoarding, my friend. : biskits
  • This year, minus a few must have right away titles, I'm holding out on buying anything on Steam until it ... : freakynipples69
• Lost my first wife because I was addicted to games and being lazy in general : foo
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  WoW was pretty fucked up for me. : Slowtreme
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    Raiding was as close as I got. I only kept it up since the guild was mainly real life friends : kanix
    • Raiding was what got me to quit that game. It would take like 2-3 hours just to organize the stupid thing... : The Grolar Bear
• I played DAoC while I had a job, back in the .com days. Company went bust (as they all did) and I had ... : Chunks
• i'm not good at balancing WoW with life but it never impacted my job. just every waking hour other than ... : electroly
• I've had a few friends that I cut off, because when I talk to them it's nothing but WoWother MMOs. Th... : ghost in my shell
• Absolutely. : InfoBiter
• I definitely let my social life slip when I played WoW. It wasn't like I would turn down invitations to d... : nurglich
• I game more than I probably should, but if I wasn't doing that it'd just be some other "procrastination" ... : K1Bond007
• I know of a few people that have this problem pretty seriously if you're interested but I don't have it t... : akirabob
• I only WISH I had the free time to worry about playing games too much. Sigh. :( : wytefang
• My brother's marriage (1yr) started to have issues when the wife wanted to go do something and he said no... : Madwacker
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  I think my first year of college might've been affected by gaming, as I played a TON of World in Conflict... : MercFox1
  • *going into that at the time, though, such as... : MercFox1
  • disregard relationships, acquire CPL titles : Hemtroll
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    We should get a WiC shackbattle going on one day. I loved that game, even when I was testing it. : ColoradoCNC
    • Were you in Closed or Open Beta? Agreed, World In Conflict would be a great shackbattle. I'll try to s... : MercFox1
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  I have the opposite problem. All my real life responsibilities and obligations are impacting my gaming ha... : Vincent Grayson
  • DAMN YOU : rick
  • This for me is now 100% true. : Scotty22
• I find my life severely impacts my gaming. : rick
• I probably limit myself a bit more then I need to so as to specifically avoid having addiction problems. ... : rosewood
• I ended a 3 year relationship because it was codependent as hell and revolved around a mutual WoW addicti... : graceofdragons
• Most games I can pause and go out and do other shit, if I have other shit to do. Even my many-hour RPGs, ... : Orange Pylon
• I found this with games like World of Warcraft. When I was playing at my peak (nightly 2-3 hours), I felt... : SkipperMcG
• My old housemate crashed out of his Uni course because of Black and White 2. (Of all games, wtf?) : ihya
• I love videogames. But they have never interfered with my personal life or matters like that. : Godhatesfatpeople
• Often in highschool and a few times in college I'd only get 2-3 hours of sleep due to playing games well ... : vitaminzach
• The games? No. The PC hardware? Yes. I suffered from "gadg-aholism", which is in remission. : Xin Jing Client 1a
• When I was a freshman in college, that was when WoW launched (remember how the game was at launch, I do!)... : varsindarkin
• At least 3 coworkers have caught me looting their desks for bottle caps and scrap metal. : The Wilhelm Scream
• Definitely... though this is something I've overcome in the past few years, I definitely hurt a lot of my... : bigimp
• The only game I ever recall my wife getting truly pissed about was Tribes. I've enjoyed many other games... : GrnMonster
• Yes, Quake affected me way back in the day. But I'm sure if Quake didn't exist it would have been someth... : Ocelot
• I'm pretty sure Diablo 2 had an impact on my college education, I skipped so many classes while I was hoo... : Code RedBeard
• I failed my first year of college because of Q2CTF. : timmie
• When playing WoW I would specifically go home for lunch on Monday, Wednesday, Thursdays and Friday but ne... : Scotty22
• CounterStrike helped ruin my concentration & productivity in high school, same goes for WoW in college, t... : supaLink
• I failed my first semester in college b'c of highspeed internet + Quake. : kgargs
• I quit World of Warcraft because the lost sleep was absolutely killing me, and hurting my job performance : stratedge
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  I used to consult for a company up in Portland, ME. All the guys in their IT office were addicted to EQ. ... : riptyde
  • I remember playing EQ and being so f'n addicted to it that i thought "if everything else in the world goe... : kgargs
• Any type of escapism tends to be a problem for me. I can ignore looming responsibilities if I have someth... : ArB
• Oh, I can tell you stories from back in the original EQ days. Many of us at work were affected by EverCr... : daggot
• When I was a 12-20 I would easily become "addicted" to video games... friends would come over to play and... : dfay
• once you realize you'll never play every game that interests you, let alone that exists, and that you'll ... : EvilDolemite
• For a few years during college I played WoW to the point where I would ignore opportunities to hang out w... : Adm.Snackbar
• Nope. Gaming is a part of my life and whomever is in it must understand this. My career is my career is h... : rtricoche
• definitely wasted a few years of life gaming.. but hey lets get some perspective, there's a lot WORSE thi... : techx4

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  So Master is the new Diamond? Did they run out of metals/stones? : indosauros
  • More like chess rankings : ThereCanBeOnlyOneCat
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    master's league is top 5% of diamond or something, my friend told me since he's in it : R@zzle
    • Master is top 2% of active players. Initially, top 2% of diamond are going to be promoted into Master... : zakk
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    The skill difference between a high level diamond and a low level diamond is massive. Adding a top top ti... : Serpico74
    • Yeah. I am #1 at 2400, but I have so much wrong with my game. : ThereCanBeOnlyOneCat
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  ive been needing something to jumpstart me in this game again, maybe this is it : maulla
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    Come play more! : ThereCanBeOnlyOneCat
    • I hop on occasionally and see you playing. I always almost ask if you want to 2v2, but then I think I wou... : maulla
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  Sweet. No fungal growth nerf! Zerg can still survive protoss pheonix! : YerMothah
  • I don't know why people focused on the phoenix so much when it came to this nerf, it's not like phoenix c... : valael
• Lets make a channel called shacknews or shack or something to get people in as well : d0gbert
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  TERRAN OP!!! : askedrelic
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    actually, this patch helps out Protoss. Lots of good improvements IMO. : askedrelic
    • The observer cost has now come full circle! : walker270
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      IMO protoss doesn't really need the buff, but I don't think they will change the game too much : moshman
      • I liked that Protoss got something. Obs were too expensive. No one uses hallucination and likewise, Ph... : askedrelic
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  I never see any shackers playing anymore : twifosp
  • I play regularly but am only a lowly bronze :( : bolange
• "A hotkey indicator option has been added to show the primary hotkey on top of command buttons" If thi... : TPSReport
• Looks like I'm going to hop back into this. : MercFox1
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  wow no more flux vanes : Pantene Pro-V
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    I wish Protoss had an air unit that wasn't so specialized. Phoenix is air only and so weak. Void rays are... : askedrelic
    • Jesus no flux vanes. SO SLOW. : brickmatt
    • phoenix is half anti-ground : filthysock
    • Phoenix is rapetastic for harass. My protoss buddy uses it to totally own zerg. : daVinci1980
• Cool so now I can start playing SC2 again. Battlenet in SC2 was the loneliest online community ever. : melkore
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  * Players can no longer block off ramps with two 2x2 buildings. sweet : crypt420
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    what race does that apply to? Does that mean that terran couldn't block a ramp with two supply depots? ... : giant boy detective
    • pylon block vs zerg : Foxhawk
    • It means protoss cant wall in zerg with two pylons anymore, they need three. : YerMothah
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  Every time I hear people talking about SC2 I think "man, I never gave multiplayer a fair shot, I should g... : Zek
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    On that note, are there any really good beginner's guides out there now? Like Bluckles' old guide but mor... : Zek
    • http://day9tv.blip.tv Great at teaching you shit. : YerMothah
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      Google day9 beginners guide or day9 bronze He also has another one for silver level players that will be... : SpaecKow
      • Here's a handy list: http://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/d0tk3/best_day9s_for_beginners/ 132, 1... : Serpico74
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    giving sc2 multiplayer a fair shot takes about 2 months of playing. : twifosp
    • At 3-4 hours per day (maybe 2 if you're a badass). : barcibus
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    I say this every time, but play team games. SC2 being a 1v1 game at its heart means that when you lose... : maulla
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      Then you can be stressed about the utter disdain your partner secretly holds. : chrisschutz
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        *not secretly : Zek
        • I ragequit vent for the first time a few nights ago after a particularly bad 3v3 with a teammate who has ... : Serpico74
    • nicely put - SC2 being a 1v1 game at its heart means that when you lose its much more "personal" I thi... : TPSReport
• woot. I will update and hopefully not suck at the single player campaign :D : Downforce
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  I'm at work, so I can't play, but does the extreme graphics option make a noticeable visual difference? : shyguy74
  • I only tried it when the public test realm was up. The main thing I noticed was a severe hit to my framer... : Serpico74

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  TL:DR: We can't talk about it yet : manero
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    I don't know; I think he gave some details that I found reassuring (assuming they are correct or stay cor... : UtilityMaximizer
    • biomes! : MamiyaOtaru
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      We may need to blow up some reactors around the world to provide settings for upcoming games in the STALK... : Dave-A
      • This actually sounds like it might be plausible. : Hemotoxin
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      I don't mind the setting of Chernobyl exclusion zone remaining the same. They could easily add new areas ... : Mr. Goodwrench
      • It really depends on how they did it. I mean they could easily just have the franchise warp 10 years into... : Hemotoxin
      • I was thinking that the cities would still be uninhabited when one explored them, as everyone fled in adv : UtilityMaximizer
• Stalker 2!!!!! Woo!! :D : DM7
• What they're not telling you is.. it's a facebook game! : Edges
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  Didn't know it will be multi-platform, interesting. Maybe help in creating a more refined "stalker" exper... : shortbuscaptain
  • Awesome, I may actually finish this one. : Dave-A
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  I still don't see how Stalker will work on a console without sacrificing a) the inventory system and b) t... : Mr. Goodwrench
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    nevermind, I overlooked the bit where he said it wouldn't suffer. Still, I'll believe it when I see it. : Mr. Goodwrench
    • Russian devs are pretty brutal when it comes to difficulty, especially with not catering to multiplatform... : shortbuscaptain
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      devs always say this, and very rarely do they stick to it. multiplatform is the worst thing i can imagin... : vitek r
      • 60 degree FOV! : Mr. Goodwrench
  • I think the idea is to have two separate interfaces. : SpaecKow
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    Was Demon Soul's not a similarly punishing game that was well received on consoles? : derelict515
    • Not really what I meant. Stalker's difficulty stems from the player having to react quickly with a mouse ... : Mr. Goodwrench
• What are you doing standing their Stalker? Come on in! : Hemotoxin
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  I hope the survival elements aren't like in New Vegas. It just became tedious after a while. : justwr!ght
  • GSC are like the original Notch. If they're adding something, brace yourself. : greasyjohn
• Wow, that may be the least useful interview / Q&A that I've ever read. : PenicillinX57
• Obligatory link to Chernobyl Video Thread!: http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=24978607 : ZenzenTen
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  Q:Will the X-Labs make me shit me pants? A:Yes : spiderfill
  • I know! When he said there will be more underground levels I was already scared. :( : DM7
• Sweet thanks for posting this. : loppsided
• Map of game area: http://wikimapia.org/#lat=51.3439098&lon=30.1952362&z=12&l=0&m=b&v=8 CNPP is at the ... : ZenzenTen
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  Q: Will it be buggy as shit upon release and require community patches to be playable? A: Yes. It wouldn : jingletard
  • you must be playing a different game! : justwr!ght
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    Did you not play Call of Pripyat? I didn't experience one bug playing it through to completion in the fir... : Mr. Goodwrench
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      That is not what I heard from most people who played it right at release : OverloadUT
      • Them people be crazy. : Hemotoxin
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        CoP was amazingly bug free. SHoC and CS, not so much. : ZenzenTen
        • This. CoP was definitely a step forward for the series, and a large one at that. I hear that GSC made qui... : Hemotoxin
  • Oh please, this wasn't true after a couple months beyond the Clear Sky release. Call of Pripyat is prett... : deject
  • COP was bug free. i never had more than a minor niggle or two with SHOC. CS was kind of a mess though. ... : vitek r
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  DX11 and PC will be pimp what more do you want? Oh my I can not wait, 2011 release? : valcan_s
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    Dear god I hope not. Between this and Skyrim my education would be SCREWED. : Hemotoxin
    • Same here :( : Mr. Goodwrench

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  VERY LONG! Things already on my list: http://crbug.com/876 - Find in page: Prepopulate the text field : Zero|DPX
  • Strikethroughs unintentional (due to typo) : Zero|DPX
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  I want to be able to click on a tab and rename it rather than be forced to have a cut off HTML title tag.... : haiku
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    Seems like one way to address this would be if tab title eliding preferred the unique portion of the tab ... : Zero|DPX
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      Placement to the unique part of the page title is one solution, and would be pretty low cost and work fin... : haiku
      • I think I'd go with that, if there are multiple tabs with the same start to the title, only display the p... : Toraz Chryx
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        Filed http://crbug.com/69301 and http://crbug.com/69304 . : Zero|DPX
        • Holding and watching you adoringly right now : haiku
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  http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=13005&q=tab%20group%20label%3AUI&colspec=ID%20Stars%20... : filthysock
  • That's not a polish-level bug. That would require major UI thought as to what we should be doing. Inc... : Zero|DPX
• I would suggest using acetone a nail polish remover. : thecatinthehat
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  -I want to be able to have history clear on exit. In the dev channel you can have cookies clear, but not ... : TheNiXXeD
  • Please, link bugs on file, rather than describing them. : Zero|DPX
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  How about that annoying as shit URL status bar? : YerMothah
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    Signed. This is one of the most annoying "features" of Chrome. : overkill
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      I like it a lot. It bugged me at first, but I like that it goes away when I don't need it : Thomas Hace
      • Some of us can NEVER get used to a blinking object -- its inherent to me that something popping into and ... : YerMothah
      • I agree it's great : hamliga
      • If it wasnt ever there I wouldnt mind, but the fade in/out is annoying to me. : Maarten Goldstein
      • Yeah, I really like it. : OmegaRed59
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      I really think this would be better if the bubble didn't stand out so much against black. http://crbug.c... : Zero|DPX
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        I like the method seen here: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=38204#c15 http://chromiu... : pyide
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          I have posted a couple times on why we elected not to go the Firefox route when we thought of it back in ... : Zero|DPX
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            That's a shame because it's a much better implementation than what's currently in chrome : pyide
            • The nice thing about browsers is that, on a long enough time scale, everyone is likely to converge to the... : Zero|DPX
            • I'd settle for an option to disable it entirely though. Doesn't matter what color the background is, it's... : pyide
      • i agree. the #1 reason it annoys us is because we're all shackers, and shacknews has a black background ... : electroly
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  If I type something into the address bar and hit alt+enter to open it in a new tab, then switch back to m... : jra101
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    Now I see that is already on your list, doh. Issue 2538. : jra101
    • Using tab to cycle is http://crbug.com/57748 . : Zero|DPX
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  on ubuntu, if i copy and paste something (text or a link from the page, or the pages url), and close the ... : harold.johnson
  • if i close the browser, not the tab. : harold.johnson
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  https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47549 from http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=24234229#ite... : indosauros
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    Good bug, but not a UI team bug. I would like the WebKit folks to fix this though. : Zero|DPX
    • Thanks : indosauros
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  "Always show bookmarks toolbar" is under "Tools"... This makes no sense. Would be nice to just right-clic... : Pantene Pro-V
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    First, I think you must be on Mac, because otherwise I don't know what convention you'd be used to where ... : Zero|DPX
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      i'm using windows 7 and its already like that to hide the bookmarks toolbar. The same functionality isn't... : Pantene Pro-V
      • The only thing I can think that you're talking about is that there's a context menu option on the bookmar... : Zero|DPX
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  Finally, a thread for this, I've tried reporting it to no avail.... OSX: Mouse cursor state does not r... : phobium
  • link to bug report : filthysock
  • * If you can't find it in the bug database ( http://crbug.com ), file it and then link it; don't just wri : Cheeziologist
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  http://crbug.com/36080 Toolbar popup window too large for netbook display http://crbug.com/31494 Extensi... : arhughes
  • Thanks! : Zero|DPX
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  http://crbug.com/46543 - Auto-filled input text box yellow background highlight cannot be turned off! - R... : Rooster Cockburn
  • It's clear if we're going to use a yellow background we also need to use black text. Thanks. : Zero|DPX
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  Customizable number of sites on the new tab page. Like 8 or whatever on a 24 inch screen is a little bit ... : dealie
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    I think there are extensions that give you this already. : Zero|DPX
    • I try to avoid extensions if at all possible, but i reckon if it isn't an option in the browser itself th... : dealie
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  Your implementation of vertical tabs is kind of broken. New tabs open above the currently open tab which ... : retarded talking dinosaur
  • i get the feeling this feature is too "beta" and undeveloped to even bother making a bug about it though : retarded talking dinosaur

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  WTF, why? : soggybagel
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    patent trolls, probably : MagicWishMonkey
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      h.264 license restrictions were lifted last year to allow ease of adoption on the web. Google is doing th... : Serpico74
      • Until Mozilla was on board with h.264 it was always going to be messy. : Jonathan
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        lifted postponed : electroly
        • in what might be the most obvious tactic in the history of business : electroly
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        Wasn't it a verbal agreement by the patent holders not to sue? : MagicWishMonkey
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          i remember it as just a "Trust us" sort of thing : indosauros
          • "trust us" we won't sue until you're big enough to make it worthwhile. : MagicWishMonkey
        • The h.264 patents are handled by a holding company/organization so that people who want to implement the ... : sgtsanity
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          Until 2015. Until 2015. It should be obvious what happens in 2015. : electroly
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            Actually, they extended it to forever in August. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2368359,00.asp : sgtsanity
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              I stand corrected. However, it's still only for free streams and only the content creator gets to escape... : electroly
              • It does, which is one of the key reasons Opera doesn't support it. : mathyou
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  fuck that. fuck your lack of RSS support. <3 everything else : askedrelic
  • Install the RSS detection extension. It works really well. We don't ship it because it hurts page load ... : Zero|DPX
  • Agreed. Uninstall when I get home. : multisync
  • but askedrelic it has a PDF reader built in! wtb live bookmarks please :( : Sapiens
• Stupid : Serpico74
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  I thought YouTube was going all h.264? : Slowtreme
  • They already are. : spazzium
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  This is a huge step backwards. I understand why Google would do this, afterall they control the destiny o... : kbaxter
  • I blame Firefox. If they'd agreed to implement h.264 then the big four would either have an implementatio... : Jonathan
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    I'm not worried about the mobile world. Hardware revs happen fast there and hardware VP8 decoding is alr... : Zero|DPX
    • Apologies, this is a bit sporadic. 1. Decoding in software just because you can is not a good idea. Th... : kbaxter
    • Samsung TVs happily decode h.264 .mkv files and have for a while. : GreatGooglyMoogly
• unexpected : Cheeziologist
• Porque? : Godhatesfatpeople
• appalling! : askedrelic
• What morons. : spazzium
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  Isn't apple pushing for h.264 for html 5 video? This seems like a pretty shitty choice to force on web de... : thecatinthehat
  • Nothing is being forced. It's a near ubiquitous codec at this point. It's also really adaptable, i.e. h... : spazzium
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    h.264 is the standard. It's in everything from Blu Ray to satellite/cable to videos streamed to your phon : Serpico74
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      i thought VC-1 was the standard for Blu-Ray : ibrokn
      • Incorrect, VC-1 is a supported format but the majority are encoded in h.264. VC-1 was most widely used in... : Serpico74
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      Or just give Chrome the middle finger and not care. Making the web a PITA is not a great way to increase... : Dolemite
      • This sucks because I love Chrome, it's all I use on Windows unless I have to use Firefox. : Serpico74
    • it's so totally keeping with the ethos of the web to have a "standard" that isn't freely implementable. : MamiyaOtaru
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    Anything that doesnt play HTML5 + H264 can just play the h264 in flash. : nukewinter
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      Yeah, but you'd still have to keep both copies on the server for playback. : spazzium
      • Nah. The flash player is just reading an .mp4 file. : evildanish
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  Ugh, this is really fucked up. H264 is practically ubiquitous right now and it works really well :/ : jipey
  • Not ubiquitous enough :( http://diveintohtml5.org/video.html#what-works : gingerninja
• uhhhhhhhhhhhhh : mikecyb
• Time to disable autoupdating? : Haxim
• Idiots : BouillonCubes
• is there even hardware acceleration for vp8, ogg playback? : wvuong
• scandalous! : indosauros
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  Time to go back to Firefox? : Nixx2004
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    I don't know what this means, as a user. Lower quality videos, or some videos won't work, or what? : Nixx2004
    • It affects developers and people involved with video streaming much more than the user. In the end it co... : spazzium
    • If they OS supports the codec does the browser need to also support it? : Jonathan
    • Flash video will work just fine just like it always has. It is just a polorizing decision for developers ... : thecatinthehat
  • Yea, Mozilla will have a field day about Google supporting open licensing, but no one else will care : askedrelic
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    Firefox refuses to use h.264 because they don't want to pay for the codec. The effect is to further force... : sgtsanity
    • Oh, so I wouldn't regain h.264 support by going to Firefox. This is a weird situation, heh. : Nixx2004
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      I was under the impression that any h.264 decoding is free. : ShadowRam
      • Free for end-users, but Mozilla claims it would cost them around five million per year. http://shaver.... : sgtsanity
    • It's not just them having to pay for using it. They don't want to saddle the users of firefox for having ... : ysbreker
    • It's not about paying for the codec. That's a serious misunderstanding. : Conan
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  BUT FLASH STILL SUCKS AMIRITE. I HATE UNIFORM COMPATIBILITY : electroly
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    The REALLY asshole part of this is that Google Chrome is bundled with Flash. It is the most two-faced thi... : sgtsanity
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      I don't understand what is two-faced here. Google has never tried to kill Flash or argued that Flash is ... : Zero|DPX
      • It's not that choosing between the two is a binary choice, but that Google is dropping h.264 because it i... : sgtsanity
  • Flash does suck because of how it's used 99% of the time. : BouillonCubes
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    Flash isn't magically uniform and everywhere. Hell, VLC is in more places than flash. Sure, everywhere... : Fayk
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      VLC is in more places than flash. [citation required]. You'll find Flash's install base is entire order : electroly
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        You claimed uniformity. It's not everywhere. I'm just asserting you can find some way to decode h.264 pra... : Fayk
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          nobody gives a flying fuck about PPC-based Linux. seriously. and i'm someone who has always been a big ... : electroly
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            Any non-Linux/Solaris *nix? QNX? Anything but Solaris/Windows/MacOS/Intel-Linux? : Fayk
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              those minority platforms are so irrelevant that i don't even know why i'm replying. their entire install... : electroly
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                iPhones then? :) : Fayk
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                  If it weren't for the Apple fiat, Flash would be on the iPhone, too. I feel bad for web developers targe... : electroly
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                    If you define 'fiat' as not requiring a company to add in a closed, externally-developed plugin (with a p... : Fayk
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                      I do define fiat as that :) And you couldn't easily say that, because Apple still wouldn't include Flash... : electroly
                      • At this point? Yeah, they probably wouldn't, but it's unknowable. If it was that way from the start, thin... : Fayk
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            i mean this thread is talking about Chrome vs. Firefox vs. IE on the mainstream platform and you're talki : electroly
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              It's abit tangential, sure, but you were championing flash as the wonder of uniformity an ubiquity, I jus... : Fayk
              • ubiquity among computers that actually matter, yeah. i'll take my billions of installs over PPC-based Li : electroly
    • http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey : synapse19
  • ITS SO SLOW goes and watches HD videos on youtube all day : 60days
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  This is retarded. This means I have to use Firefox and Safari. : soggybagel
  • firefox doesn't support H.264 : mikecyb
  • or you could quit being a fag about Flash. IIRC Zero|DPX said there's a build of Chrome that will allo... : MagicWishMonkey
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  More like Zero|DerPX : rosewood
  • lmao : Downforce
  • lol : BouillonCubes
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  Doesn't this mean that now Firefox, Chrome, and Opera all now do not support h.264? Leaving only Safar... : indosauros
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    Safari, IE9, and mobile platforms. And that last one's the kicker. : sgtsanity
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      IF you think that the only mobile platform out there is the iPhone, then yes. : ysbreker
      • It's a pretty significant portion of the Mobile platform. : master_disaster_17
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  I think it's a mistake, just as I have argued with Mozilla folks that their no-h.264 stance is a mistake.... : Zero|DPX
  • But still appreciated! :D now blaming virus : sgtsanity
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    That said, Serpico74's comments above are also mistaken. This doesn't make the "HTML5 video transition m... : Zero|DPX
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      It may not make things messier, but it certainly makes things more complicated for people putting up web ... : Serpico74
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        I still don't see where the added complication comes from. What were you doing for Firefox users? Presu... : Zero|DPX
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          Yup, and now HTML5 won't even be a consideration for serving desktop video. I'll be sticking with Flash c... : Serpico74
          • It shouldn't have been a consideration before anyway unless you wanted to alienate 25% of your audience. ... : Zero|DPX
          • It never was going to be a consideration, unless you are in the OMG FLASH SUX camp. : YerMothah
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        FLash plays h264 though so really you only have to worry about h264, webM and MAYBE OGG. But since CHrom... : nukewinter
        • Yeah, I'm talking about the containers, not the codec itself. I encode in h.264 either way. The point is ... : Serpico74
      • There are plenty of (cloud based) services that do all the encoding for you, hassle free. Take a look at ... : ysbreker
    • Iawtp. : kaddar0
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      What's the motivation then. : BouillonCubes
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        See my third paragraph? Also, idealism. Also licensing fees although that's not really a terribly large... : Zero|DPX
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          It makes it harder as much as it makes things easier. H264 has a lot of steam behind it and now Google h... : BouillonCubes
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            You need to be more precise. h.264 has a lot of momentum in terms of general use around the world, e.g. ... : Zero|DPX
            • I wasn't talking about the codec alone obviously but still, Google hasn't definitively "made things easie... : BouillonCubes
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              Every browser is going to have some sort of mechanism to display WebP. Except Safari and all three maj... : sonicstorm
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                No, Safari is on the list too. For mobile, see my reply much further up the thread. By the time any o... : Zero|DPX
                • I hope not. Ask the cellular providers which codec they would like to see on their devices. Their first... : spazzium
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                  now everything is being split up again though. there will be devices with VP8 decoding and without it, b... : mikecyb
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                    I think zero|DPX mixed up his codecs in his post WebM is the video codec, webP is the image format derive... : ysbreker
                    • I did mix them up (thanks!) but I don't think that affects mikecyb's point. : Zero|DPX
                  • if it weren't for mobile devices there'd be no reason at all to use the HTML5 video tag. that was true b... : electroly
                • When did Apple pledge any level of support for VP8? Last I read about it Apple's response was a big ol' "... : sonicstorm
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      Google gains by pissing Apple off, specially since current iOS devices do hardware decoding of H264. : ErneX
      • Neither Google nor anyone else gain from "pissing Apple off". : Zero|DPX
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  OH well, just use FLASH in chrome. : nukewinter
  • Yup, this. I'm not taking on a third codec when Flash and h.264 works for desktops and h.264 works for mo... : Serpico74
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  Open Standards, helping to push technology all over the place : haiku
  • next up we will solve the mp3 problem : sgtsanity
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  <3 Zero, if you're responsible for this --- THANK YOU. I give you e-hugs. : pixelat3d
  • me too : MamiyaOtaru
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  Hi guys i'm from Google. We want everything open and free on the web...except our adwords and adsense whi... : gyokuro
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    Oh and forcing your YouTube account to be linked now as well! : pancake humper
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      yeah that was a real dick move. "In order to track you better we need all the information we can get, whi... : gyokuro
      • oh and hopefully you stay logged in so we can add your search results to more tracking! : gyokuro
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        Heaven forbid that a developer try to shut down a completely separate authentication system, backing stor... : Zero|DPX
        • I can believe the technical reasons, but since I don't want to see Youtube related emails in the Gmail ac... : swampangel
        • Heaven forbid a user wants two separate logins across two ostensibly different websites. : soggybagel
        • Can I log into a 2nd or 3rd YouTube account and remain logged in to my GMail account? : Goto10
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          Heaven forbid we get to choose. I don't want people to know my youtube channel if I email them from my pe... : pancake humper
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            don't use gmail / youtube then : fletch_
            • lmao : Downforce
            • holy shit I should have thought of this. : pancake humper
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            how... how would people find out your youtube from an email you sent them? : mikecyb
            • You can search for someone's youtube channel with their email. However you can disable this. : ant_hillbilly
        • lol thats the reason? : gyokuro
    • :I : Godhatesfatpeople
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    Are you having a slow day dude? You are blasting posts like these on every topic today like you're Ron Je... : geedeck
    • are you mad bro? : gyokuro
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  Couldn't a plugin just add support back in? : OverloadUT
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    That's not the point really. : BouillonCubes
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      Yeah content developers can really only depend on what's supported in the browser by default. : sonicstorm
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        Again, not the point. : BouillonCubes
        • Woops, I thought you were being sarcastic. : BouillonCubes
  • that plugin is called Flash : electroly
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    I think a lot of people will keep serving H264 to Chrome users using Flash. : ErneX
    • ^^^ this. The difference is that putting h.264 in an HTML5 container probably won't make so much sense an... : Serpico74
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  Shut it all down and go back to realplayer, QuickTime, and WMV. : jingletard
  • I prefer asf : sanchez
  • No :( : Godhatesfatpeople
• it all sucks anyway, real player will rise again to deliver us rich web content : Downforce
• preorder cancelled : willardjuice
• good thing Chrome isn't a largely used browser. then this decision would really suck : Korban
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  Oh man John Gruber has got such a hardon for this: 1. In addition to supporting H.264, Chrome currentl : Schnapple
  • Apple fanboy tears are the most delicious tears of all. Yummy yummmmy! : MagicWishMonkey
  • He should be thrown off a building : sanchez
  • You can answer them on your own blog! : sgtsanity
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    Gruber has a point. : ErneX
    • Yeah it's just the way he goes about it is always like some kid saying "nuh-uhhhhh" : Schnapple
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      Exactly, but because it's Gruber the hate train arrives at the station. His points might be motivated fro... : ovrlrd
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        The second point is completely retarded. WTF does Android have to do with Google Chrome? : MagicWishMonkey
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          He just wants to make Google look like hypocrites every time they do something even remotely "not open" : Schnapple
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            Sounds like he's just mad that Chrome will continue to support Flash. Newsflash: Flash is a helluva lo... : MagicWishMonkey
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              Safari, IE and Firefox don't include Flash out of the box. It used to be included in OS X, but Apple stop... : BlackCat9
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                The reason that was such a big stink is because it came around about the same time that Apple had made Fl... : Schnapple
                • while it's true Windows has never had Flash installed, it's largely irrelevant. all OEMs preinstall Flas... : electroly
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            Yeah, it's a recurring theme: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/12/22/open Is that bad though? Isn... : Fayk
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              lol, does he seriously think Google should open source their core intellectual property? Just becaus... : MagicWishMonkey
              • He's calling them on it because out of the other side of their mouth they say stuff about other companies... : Fayk
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          They are both owned by Google, and they make decisions on what to support and not support on both. If the... : ovrlrd
          • I seriously doubt the managers responsible for Chrome have anything to do with Android. The strategy r... : MagicWishMonkey
          • hahaha do you have any fucking clue how big google actually is? : synapse19
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          Don't all Android phones come with Chrome as the web browser, and use it to display certain pieces of con... : BlackCat9
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            Yep, but that doesn't mean the Android team and Chrome team are one and the same. : MagicWishMonkey
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              I think that's why he's asking, not assuming. If I were an Android user, I'd want to know if they're goin... : BlackCat9
              • It would be nice to know, I guess I don't really surf porn much on my phone so watching h.264 videos has ... : MagicWishMonkey
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          If Google is making an argument from WebM being the best solution for the web overall and ditching h.264 ... : sgtsanity
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            ANDROID IS NOT A MOBILE BROWSER! What about this is so difficult to understand? : MagicWishMonkey
            • I can't call it WebKit because that project isn't the one that supplies the codecs. Am I being a little l... : sgtsanity
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    Except that I don't think Apple needs vindication for removing Flash. I'd say that's a pretty reasonable ... : sKetchflow
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      not removing: not adding. : Fayk
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        err yeah. Not including it in the base OS install or whatever. : sKetchflow
        • oh, I also thought you meant on the phone. Yeah, not including in the Mac OS install, then (but it's alw... : Fayk
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    I'm pretty sure he doesn't care about a random person's comments, he means google making its motivations ... : Fayk
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      Yep, but let the Gruber hate pour from your veins Schanpple. Let it all out, you love the hate. : ovrlrd
      • Oh, I'm a John Gruber fan. I love how he's such a bitch. Of course I like John C. Dvorak for the same ... : Schnapple
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    Regarding the disabled comments thing, I actually think most of the internet would benefit from sites dit... : jipey
    • I sort of agree, but when your comments are almost always shit-stirring, I think it's sort of chickenshit... : Schnapple
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    he's right, though -- it's outright hypocritical of Google to keep bundling Flash, and it will just be co... : Postal
    • How does dropping h.264 sacrifice a principle for the sake of cash? I can understand why you would fee... : Zero|DPX
    • for some reason i don't believe that the chrome and android teams are one of in the same. call me a litt... : harold.johnson
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  I assume this means Chrome OS won't support H264? As a CR-48 user, that's really unfortunate. It's one th... : jipey
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    if Chrome OS loses H.264 too, it's dead in the water. imagine a platform that not only doesn't have any ... : Postal
    • I dunno, Google also owns YouTube which is the 400lb. gorilla of online video. They might just make WebM ... : Schnapple
    • most sites will serve those videos through Flash, so it's not really dead. video sites generally only ha... : mikecyb
    • youre missing the part where no one actually uses h264 yet : retarded talking dinosaur
• Can't google basically what they want since they own youtube? It seems no matter what platform they choos... : mnok
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  I feel bad for Zero|DPX because whenever anything Google related happens, he is immediately the scape goa... : repeat2k
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    thats because he stands up for every decision Google makes no matter how stupid it as a "holier than thou... : gyokuro
    • So, you missed my very first reply where I said I think this is a mistake? It would be interesting to ... : Zero|DPX
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  How long can Google hide behind the "Don't be evil" slogan when stuff likes this goes down. http://www... : Slowtreme
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    there's not really anything evil about this. they are removing a proprietary codec from their own browse... : mikecyb
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      except they are going down this route for their own reasons, not for the good of the interwebs. : Slowtreme
      • We try hard to think what would do the internet good, and then avoid that. Because if the internet becam... : Zero|DPX
• I'm happy about this move. I think pushing back against h264 will increase browser competition (or at lea... : mathyou