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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    i agree if sony does the same thing then it's over. however since MS's policies are ALL OVER THE NET being bashed, i think they will not do it and suffer the same backlash. several major news sites are slamming the policy. BBC(tamely but they are supposed to be impartial) time, WSJ, CNN, all...
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    Paintball

    i looked the cut off is 10 at the parks/fields i looked at.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I have been gaming since pong came out. but don't have a steam account. microsoft can fix all the issues they are having and this DRM bullshit is Blowing up in their Face right now At E3 during their main presentation at the beginning, go we heard the complaints, we listened. this is...
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    NHL 2012-13 - Half Season Thread

    a think a team can do a salary amnesty for a player this up coming year. that was discussed on the radio yesterday in boston about their upcoming offseason for thorton and other free agents.
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    EBook Readers

    My OG nook wifi is starting to NOT open books i bought at the BN store. had this happen with 3 recent purchases, i buy the book but it won't open -at all. older books are fine, newer books no go it opens to cover then immediately goes back to the book choosing page, i ended up changing epub to...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    right of first sale doctrine however= doesn't MATTER. 100k people buy a Movie DVD--25k people watch the movie and 2 days later sell said movie to a "retailer" for them to sell used at a discount because it is used. does the Publisher of the movie get ANY revenue from the used movie sale...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    even the mainstream media is hitting back on this issue. and i know Someone is going to sue. given a choice for gaming this gen, for a system that i just want to play GAMES on- even if my cable goes out for a week cuz an idiot ripped up the line, it is going to be either the U or the PS4...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    from reading neogaf thread on this: once a day the console checks in...or you cannot play any game period end of discussion until you do. you can still watch tv/movie though. what happens if some one ddos attacks the authorizing server and knocks it completely off grid for a day or two...
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    Paintball

    my kids want to play. two are 8 the other is 11. maybe in 2 years. .
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    NHL 2012-13 - Half Season Thread

    Damn good game....very....tense
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    NHL 2012-13 - Half Season Thread

    larger pads, gear etc = bigger target to block shots. look up Ken Dryden from the 70's and compare his setup to any goalie now. dryden wears THE gear goalies wear now and he would have been even better than he was- and i say this as a BRUINS FAN.
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    Paintball

    i was heavy into it with my cousin back in the late 80's early 90's this was went tanks were just getting STARTED all games competitively HAD to be played with the 12gram co2 cartridges(200fps max speed , it was pretty much 100% capture the flag. i played competitively for a bit but nothing...
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    The Astronomy Thread

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    The Astronomy Thread

    first thing i'd do during a recovery knowledge wise, raid the technical section of a library- get books on: power plant maintenance and design, steam engine design, locomotive design, water wheel, blacksmithing stuff etc. also any agricultural books i could find. setting up my dwelling, i'd...
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    The Astronomy Thread

    theoretically we could populate the entire universe from this planet, realistically, it'd take hundreds of trillions of Years or longer. say you can travel at a speed of one Light year a day; to get from one side of the- currently- known universe(93Billion light years), it would take...
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    Spring 2013 Anime Thread

    it does? damn their search sucks then.. hell i even went through the list and couldn't find it via alphabetical order, will search again... the torrent sites i visit don't list horriblesub versions either. will try again. edit: and i find it on horriblesubs... the reason why i couldn't...
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    Spring 2013 Anime Thread

    horriblesubs doesn't have maousama or majestic prince, or i would use. commiesubs is supposedly 10bit mkv, yes, mx video which i use i have set to run the hd+ codec for 10bit mkv's, itwill not run via the hd+, it will only run via sw mode., recoding via format factory, just changing to h264...
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    Spring 2013 Anime Thread

    no idea what it is with commie, but i got majestic prince (and other commie subs)and it plays like crap on my tablet, however i think it is the codec they use for encoding-it is not h264 apparently-, upon recommendation above, i got format factory, recoded it into hi quality mkv using their .264...
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    Spring 2013 Anime Thread

    ff also does 10bit but between the two places, the FF is significantly more playable. plus mxvideo player supposedly does 10bit.
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    Weather

    EYAHUSA, if i was buying a house or building a house in that town, that is the FIRST thing i would specifiy- a storm shelter/Basement. that is a common sense ordinance, they should approve it.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    i'm not keen on the always on aspect . if i got an x-one i'll just get a decorative box that is large enough for the kinect sensor system and alot of soundproofing padding, drill a hole large enough for the cord - wrap it up in padding put in box, close box. or if i want to use the voice...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    EXTERNAL drives are not that expensive 90 bucks for an external 2 TB hard drive @ newegg. usb2 though, its ~120 for a 3tb usb one...
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    Weather

    going off tornados for a sec, for those interested in the el nino la nina , it looks like a la nina may develop - way too early to tell but as of right now we have gone a year in -essentially "neutral"(we had a brief period of -almost el nino last june thru august-temps barely over the threshold...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    speed wise, just by going what i read one vs ps4 on anandtech both have 8gig ram one devs have access to only 5gig, ps4 7 gig. mem type, one 2133mhz ddr3 ps4 5500mhz gddr5 cpu is a wash-they are reportedly using the same cpu's at reportedly the same speed- both are x86 based chips. gpu...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    the used game thing is huge imo , gamestop's stock dropped 8% most of that drop occuring just AFTER the used game thing was announced. if the ps4 follows the xbox ones install/used game fee/activation gamestop is in a world of hurt profitablity wise for the next couple of years and may die.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    sean, sure it will. like i said, some Dev's WILL, some Dev's Won't, does it matter- that if a dev Chooses to make a wiiu port, they put in the time/money necessary to make it play well on that system. because it's nintendo, you buy a nintendo product for nintendo games and i generally really...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    MY 2C. my first comments about the xb-1 was, damn that thing is huge!. second, looked nice for the social/media aspect switching the once a day online bit- ok with that, i think the most my interent has been down was a day and i can use my wife's or son's phone to do a wi-fi hotspot for all...
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    Spring 2013 Anime Thread

    started watching hataraku maou-sama , except for one thing- nothing to do with the show, anyone know where i can get a GOOD sub for it? i've tried both commie deadfish and FFF and so far the quality has been shit, i can play anything i download via horriblesubs perfectly on my tablet, but...
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    The best television espisodes

    buffy - Hush. Castle : season 3 finale - serious- knockout. romantic season 4 finale always Chuck season 2 finale trying to think of what else i have watched. have not watched enough of once upon a time for a "best" of for that show.
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    Castle

    update on the fall line up Castle -still on mondays 10pm both hawaii 5-0 and revolution are moving. 5-0 to 9pm on fridays revolution to 8pm on wednesdays. replacement shows Blacklist on NBC - fbi crime thing starring james spader as a criminal on the most wanted list who turns...
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    Revolution

    just a fyi revolution is moving to wednesday at 8pm in the fall.
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    Home Improvement

    as long as it's covered and not rained on, should be fine... might get spiders living inside the unit that could screw it up, but that is about it. I'm redoing my Fence in the backyard. the original owner of this lot..built the fence by hand..1x6 boards 2x8 lattice and lattice framing around...
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    Castle

    ya they have to pick up season six with Castle on his knee, ring in his hand and for Kate to...Talk about the past ~month of her actions, instead of i'm sorry i should have told you at the beginning- she has to say WHY and where she wants the relationship to go. Castle's bucket list from the...
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    Castle

    did not like the episode as much as usual, i think the writers screwed the pooch with the ending story arc in general was a decent case though. for three episodes beckett has been acting different. now we know why-see the diner conversation with her dad. the end station scene is meant...
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    JJ Abrams to direct new Star Wars movie

    i just read an article that fisher is reprising her role as princess leia, also there is an editors note that george lucas officially confirmed that both ford and hamill are also reprising their roles.
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    Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

    did you notice the hashtag #coulsonlives definately watching this. the shorts on the dvd's that have coulson in it are awesome.
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    TV Show Cancellation/Renewal 2014

    castle picked up ...abc just did their announcments but i see the list has been updated already
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    Wheel of Time series

    her hair was not cut and i agree gawyn turned into worse than the girls ever were...
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    MLB 2013 season

    I'm pleasantly surprised at the Red Sox so far this year. getting Farrell -so far- has been great for the team -especially the pitching of Lester and Buchholz. sure it's just may but if those 2 can continue to pitch well throughout the season, they have a good shot to make the world series...
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    HDTVs

    i have not noticed any flickering like that on my LG plasma(lg 60pa6500 or something like that), but i have not watched any hockey on it.