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• This game has been in development forever (I think I interviewed someone on the team in 2007), but that w... : notd665
• That was utterly fantastic. : Chipwarrior

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• I want a kiwi. They are so cute. : riptyde
• Just a standard cornhole inspection. : braker
• He looks like a zombie there : giant boy detective
• Haha. Needs a caption. : Alco23

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  I keep hoping to go to Mix but that's no good to you... There's always http://www.zendcon.com/ and http:/... : Jonathan
  • Danke for the links! I'm checking those out. : helvetica
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  Pretty sure there's a 7 to 10 day self-hosted conference on a tropical island coming up soon... Probably ... : vitaminzach
  • That sounds awesome, but I think she'd just laugh at me if I mentioned that conference! : helvetica
• SXSW Interactive had a lot of stuff last year. It was fun. : Conan
• An Event Apart! http://www.aneventapart.com/ They have several throughout the year all around the coun... : malevolence

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  Minecraft threads will get weird after the 24 hour thread auto-nuke-of-dewm! : Creepin_Jeezus
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    Yeah, I was thinking the same thing last night when I saw the upcoming chatty changes. : Arcath
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      what changes? : JohnnyRey
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        If I understand it right, one universal chatty and all topics auto-archive after 24 hours. : Arcath
        • well that sounds awful : JohnnyRey
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        they are taking our freedoms. : ass-street
        • First they came for our posts, and I did nothing. : phate81
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    why? Seems to me they would be no different : boring gegtik
    • everything will be different craig, EVERYTHING : multisync
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      Mostly the thought of having to search for the latest chatty before posting up a new one. Unless someone ... : Creepin_Jeezus
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        how is this different from what we have today : boring gegtik
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          It is clearly different in every way you could possibly imagine. It's all very dramatic and life changing... : Creepin_Jeezus
          • i'm scared : ass-street
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  "Notch is back in the building! (for two weeks)" - http://notch.tumblr.com/ ha ha :( : MamiyaOtaru
  • Cant blame the man for taking his Mother's Uncle's Cousin's Neighbor's Roomate's dog on vacation. : Arcath

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  OH NO, THINK ABOUT THAT 0.25% INTEREST YOU COULD HAVE EARNED BY PUTTING THAT IN A CD : Arctic Fox
  • YOU COULD BUY A BURRITO!!!!! : saunders45
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  I upped mine to 3 and owe $400 :( : zerog83
  • You chose..... poorly. : saunders45

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  spurious is such a good word : redfive
  • It is. I used to see it in conjunction with 'Spanish Fly' in forest porn, and it made it sound... real. : ionic.airblast
• this is how i feel about piracy. when you're trying to make money on a product, the question has gotta be... : dirge23
• I still haven't listened to this yet - http://www.switched.com/2011/02/11/neil-gaiman-piracy-leads-to-mor... : Jonathan
• they are getting trolled hard : indosauros
• WTF with all that NWO stuff and how does it relate to book piracy? Other than that, I agree wholeheartedl... : Thund3rball

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  In February 14, 2011, it was announced that the film would be released on August 12, 2011. Don't Be Af... : LoioshDwaggie
  • Thanks Dwaggie : shwortdogg
• I plan on rocking it loud and proud all day on saturday. :D : mwasher

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  It will only really make a difference if it's a particularly fast thumb drive iirc, most aren't worth usi... : Mr. Goodwrench
  • actually, a buddy just told me to use exFAT instead... : biskits
  • I bought an XT (supposedly the fastest when i bought it) and it wasn't worth doing. Just save up and spri... : GBeer11

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• Shacker Birthdays: rock elf: may you live long and prosper for your 27th ! devnullgt turns 28 ! synapt : askedrelic
• This Old LOL Pile: The top 5 LOL'D posts from yesterday. Don't miss the funny, if there was any to begin : askedrelic
• The Top Tags: This other thing that no one really uses!!! By: awaypaster with [2 tagz] http://www.shack : askedrelic
• The Top Unfs: This is all probably NWS, seriously, look before you click! By: Lunatic Angelic with [7 u : askedrelic
• The Top INF: "The thing that was posted yesterday that compelled the most amount of people to hit the in : askedrelic

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• no one? :( : harold.johnson
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  the developer that sits next to me is redoing all of our CMS stuff in dotnetnuke...I can pass along any q... : devnullgt
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    i'm just curious to what the security on it is like, last time i looked into it (2 or 3 years ago) it was... : harold.johnson
    • Well that's part of normal software development. Even for our main sites, we are constantly refactoring, ... : devnullgt
• no. but on a completely unrelated note I LOVE MEF. I just didn't think that outburst warranted it's own t... : GoldfishInAJarOfPickles

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  I thought all of the Xbox maps were paid DLC - only PC got them for free. : trOmblyj
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    no you put the code in for VIP and all of the variations that they came out with were free. the onslaugh... : dantastic
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      I see...........Is everyone playing vietnam? I cant seem to connect with any games. : Zman0404
      • i remember i had a lot of problems with BC1 on xbox.. not being able to connect to games. i had to set m... : dantastic
  • the Xbox version got the first set of maps free. : Fyunch Click
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    Apparently if you buy the game from a retailer it comes with a "VIP Code" that allows you to download the... : Zman0404
    • that's really awful. i googled and found this: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/957916-battlefield-bad-... : dantastic
• lol. Marketplace is the worst screw job. even MS games don't have any extras or DLC included. : thebigbeefsandwich

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  Is someone running a 0 day warez site on there? : CrustaR
  • we checked through the logs and it seems spiders from china (heh) is hitting the site over and over again... : Fredrik S
• Start combing through logs. Close off any ports that you don't need to be open (if you haven't realdy don... : pixelat3d
• Check logs? : FiReaNG3L

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  don't judge it based on the first level. get through that. : dirge23
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    I still have no idea what people's problems with the first level were. I thought it was pretty cool. : omnova
    • I personally loved the first level, one of the more memorable levels for me. : BackSinner
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      it's just not really representative of the game. : dirge23
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        The game's levels were varied enough that I really never considered it as notably unique. If anything, i... : omnova
        • Yeah, I always liked to kill everyone in the level, so I took basically every pathway. It was always neat... : PointlesS76
    • the first level isnt that bad. In fact i'd say the following couple of levels are the fucking worst. It d... : disembodied potato
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  1) Play it vanilla 2) Stick with the prod : Happy Doodle Muffin
  • PROD WITH THE PROD : MercFox1
• DON'T get frustrated by the first level, it's there so you can explore and do whatever you want to start ... : MercFox1
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  http://kentie.net/article/dxguide/ : The Grolar Bear
  • 8===D : at0micgarden
  • Great link, thanks. : iamgoat
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  I would highly suggest the DirectX 10 renderer (or 9, if that's your flavor): http://kentie.net/articl... : at0micgarden
  • Agreed, that's insane. : one random winner
  • Yes, get this - I played it for the first time last year with this, it was great. : TabsAZ
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  Don't be surprised when the difficulty of the first level turns out to be extremely overstated. : SockMonkeh
  • It wasn't difficult, just sort of meandering. I beat the level, as I recall, but never beat the game bec... : rasputinreborn
• http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=23286093 : Hoax
• Pick albino J.T. : justwr!ght
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  No mods! Don't you do it! : deject
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    You're like, the biggest mod hater on the Shack lol. Mods are good, they're like barbecue sauce. : Mr. Goodwrench
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      Terrible analogy. BBQ sauce is an overpowering taste that simply replaces the flavour of bland foods. De... : Chipwarrior
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        I wasn't really looking for a good analogy tbh, it was the first thing that came to mind. My point is mod... : Mr. Goodwrench
        • I disagree though, changing textures changes everything to me. I don't like using mods like that. Rendere... : avatar_58
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      I know I'm coming off that way, but to be honest I generally prefer the work of professional game designe... : deject
      • I'm with you on this. : at0micgarden
• Once you beat the game give this mod a whirl. http://thenamelessmod.com/real/ http://thenamelessmod... : TehShadow
• level swimming as fast as possible! NOT ADVISABLE FOR TOURISTS TO VISIT THE CANALS AT NIGHT. : Majuju

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  Why are the bothering? Aren't the courts going to force them to close up shop and leave or something? : Haxim
  • Not sure if you've seen what's been going in the rest of the world with civil unrest, but most wind custo... : ryuuseki
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    i am skeptical that this will happen. it was pretty sneaky to let them in, in the first place. : jim bone
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      It bypassed a ridiculous restrictive law and has caused our average price for cell phone service to drop.... : ryuuseki
      • yeah i don't disagree. just saying that it was sneaky to let them in as it seems like a pretty flagrant ... : jim bone
  • WIND is claiming they aren't concerned. guess we'll see what happens http://www.thespec.com/news/busi... : boring gegtik
  • i'll be pissed if they do : RogerDandy
  • Partially why I didn't bother looking them up for my new phone : avatar_58

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  It better be well worth the wait. Hope you put some dongs in there. : DJ Clipdat
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    It would have been but I had to cut it back the original box was going to be almost 80 bucks to ship I h... : hrdwregk
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      And no dongs. Don't have any except the one attached to me. : hrdwregk
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        NO EXCUSES : DJ Clipdat
        • Well the got a SFW thing that nobody has. : hrdwregk

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• X+(X* 100) / XY+63 (877) You're welcome. : wytefang

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• Craigslist or eBay. Guitar Center will give you half it's worth at best and ding you for any blemishes. ... : melkore

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  no, my wife also watched it : dirge23
  • I thought it was an odd pairing, the drama bomb just seems to be escalating lately though. : one random winner

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• coo : rasputinreborn
• that's awesome. new wallpaper for work =) : grabbie

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• You can activate each phone from a single computer, but I would suggest putting itunes on each person's c... : saunders45
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  Start here -> http://www.apple.com/support/iphone/enterprise/ : Tripps
  • very good! thank you both : Downforce

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• Guess not. : Thornfist
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  The Magic Mountain Shackmeet is on Saturday! : angrytaxman
  • should be awesome in the rain. at least it'll be empty! : epit
  • Yeeeeah, with a 6m pregnant wifey magic mountain is sort of on hold for a while. : Thornfist
• Nope. I have vague wishes of going to KublaCon this summer but it probly won't happen. : Delaric

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  lol what the hell : Dravenport
  • A woman from there cussed out my receptionist last year and demanded to speak to "the IT department" imme... : o0JediBeavis0o

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  I just saw you tweet this :D Damn hilarious article. Good that it turned out well for them too! : Arctic Fox
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    i found it on facebook and put it the two other places where people like to hear random stuff. FULL CIRCL : dahanese
    • we all do it :) : Arctic Fox
• Midas touch is damn good. : YerMothah
• Haha, nice feel good story of the morning! : LoioshDwaggie

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  Reader for iPad, it's fantastic. : askedrelic
  • I have a '_daily' category that is all my feeds I want to read daily and will always read. I keep this li... : askedrelic
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  i use google reader! : boring gegtik
  • me too! : ass-street
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    aside from boring dinosaur comics, what do you use it to read? : Korban
    • gegtik is very secretive about his feeds : ass-street
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  Anandtech Ars Technica Bad Science Charlie's Diary (blog of Charlie Stross, it's a good read) Dans Da... : Arctic Fox
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    also NewsRob is the business for RSS feeds on Android : Arctic Fox
    • better than the google app? : ass-street
• google reader 4 lyfe : onji
• i just have a few igoogle tabs for rss feeds. very handy, opens in any browser! : harold.johnson
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  http://deathlove.shackspace.com/blogroll.html : Deathlove
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    Protip: Feeder for webOS is very good and syncs to Google Reader. : drazz
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      Feeder is indeed the heat. What do you use for twitter? I tried that carbon beta and I wasn't really too ... : Deathlove
      • I thought all the Carbon hype was totally hot air. My day-to-day Twitter app is Phnx. (I confess, I lov... : drazz
• ars shack voodoo extreme (lol) anandtech daily tech tech report tested : PointlesS76
• Lifehacker has a full RSS feed that completely cock blocks their new design: http://lifehacker.com/vip.x... : Jenings
• Google Reader on PC, Reeder on iPad ($3), MobileRSS on iPhone (free). All of them set to sync to Google R... : quanta88

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  Who? : Haxim
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    Canadians. : watcherxp
    • Haxim is Canadian. He's being funny. : Fred Garvin

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• Except I was up playing WoW all night and not studying, so my confidence on the test was beaten by fatigu... : riptyde
• what about dudes who suck at games? kgargs can you chime in here please : lakren
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  Who equates throwing a fireball with power? It's just a thing you do. Like spitting bullets in a FPS, or... : Chipwarrior
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    i want to play this game where you spit bullets : Dravenport
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      Popeye brawler with an Arkham Asylum style fighting system : cfalcon
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        You know, Popeye with ridiculous cartoon moves, physics and good presentation ala AA could be a LOT of FU... : rasputinreborn
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          Unskippable and varied power up animations. Each one is longer than the last. : Chipwarrior
          • good to the finish move: engaged : Dravenport
  • I think this doesnt apply to most shackers. seems like it would work for people who are new to video game... : cptstern
• I like the JAH study afterwards: "A new study by Brigham Young University's School of Family Life reveale... : LoioshDwaggie
• i never left my room now i am a lonely failure PS i had no food so i died in a pile of my own excrement ... : boring gegtik
• key word being "some" : RikiTiki2
• Its just like when you check stuff off your to do list. Its empowering. /case closed : HL3dsx
• 90 seconds isnt even enough time to get somewhere to start some quests : dantastic
• Until they get camped for hours in STV. Then they turn into a quivering mess. : DrZettl
• 90 seconds of WoW usually makes me more pissed off, because it involves a group/raid leader asking me to ... : walker270
• heh I just posted her TED talk earlier this chatty http://shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=25280515 : Arctic Fox
• If you get CurrentTV (ch. 358 Direct TV) check out their "My Gaming Addiction" piece this Friday. I think... : BongSlayerB

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  Man I wish I had a PS3 : hrdwregk
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    Its gona be on xbox 360 and PC too. : valcan_s
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      It's also gonna 0wn. : CrustaR
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        I know I have played some of the first one on PS3 and liked the controls on there better than PC. : hrdwregk
        • It also 0wns on 360 : homeboyJim
      • CrustaR, I believe it will. : The Grolar Bear
• I can't wait for that game. : ThomW
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  Fuck. Yes. Do we have a release date? : virus
  • Apparently : September 30, 2011 March is massive, I am sure we can wait till then. : valcan_s
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  This really looks awesome, I have always liked Batman and it's a good time to be a fan. I wish they could... : uebersoldat
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    this is the problem with invincible characters, there's no sense of risk : Dravenport
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      I'm not a huge fan of Superman but I thought the concept behind that Superman game that was released a fe... : Begawkiness
      • yea I liked the idea, and the demo seemed ok, I've just never cared about superman to be that interested.... : Dravenport
      • Actually that's not a bad idea and I don't like Superman. This way you'd feel weak and powerless if you c... : avatar_58
    • That just means that your goals/gameplay has to be based around different objectives; there are plenty of... : Conan
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    What are you talking about? You didn't enjoy Superman 64????? : avatar_58
    • Forgot about that!!! I had so much fun flying through rings I never even played the rest of the game! : uebersoldat
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      NWS http://videogameblogger.org/epic-boobs-save-superman-64/948 : homeboyJim
      • lol @ the comment : Dravenport
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    uebersoldat, did you know that I am a huge Batman fan?? : The Grolar Bear
    • Grolmaster R, I smiled IRL just now :) : uebersoldat
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  When is this game supposed to come out? : freshyk
  • Fall of this year : Zips
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  i'm regretting i didn't get it yesterday on steam :< : JINKY
  • They still have yesterdays deal up there, when do they cycle them out? : Dynotaku
• valcan_s... I CANNOT wait! : skelom
• YESSSSSSS! : Thund3rball

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  backup? : dael
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    and put your hands on your head : Dravenport
    • FOOM sir please FOOM FOOM back up and FOOM put your hands FOOM FOOM head SIR PLEASE : Delaric
  • Yeah, I had backed up my documents and stuff. Lost all my game installs, though. Thank goodness for St... : Rice-Rocketeer
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  fact: if you fuck up repartitioning, no data is gone. if you restore the partition table back the way it... : electroly
  • if you do this and the data isn't back, then you didn't restore the partition table back the way it was b... : electroly
• I just signed up for backblaze, its going to be another week before i'm fully backed up but every day tha... : fletch_

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• I wanted to have wrex with me and ashley is a twat to wrex so I said fuck you ashley. : RogerDandy
• Third question: no, only dialogue choices matter when you're trying to shag Liara or Ashley. : HamChowder
• Wrex + Garrus = unstoppable. Ashely is a damn racist. : denixen
• bring tali twice :3 : Sapiens
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  I always used Liara. Her biotics are overpowering. The 2 best powers in the game are lift and singularity... : AlvinKlein
  • seriously. ME1 was all about biotics and cascading powers. ME2 nerfs are tough, so have fun with pure bio... : Downforce
• I used Liara for her biotics. And while she was humorless, Ashley was kind of retarded. : lechuck59
• Tali and Garrus have some hilarious dialogue in elevators if you team with them. : duffman03
• I liked the combination of Liara and Garrus when combined with my Vanguard. : Bold