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Look how crisply the numbers appear against that background of flat gray squares. Now look at this grotesquery:

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The fucking number 1 is blue, and now they put it against an almost exactly same colored blue background?? How are you supposed to make split second decisions when everything is bleeding together? You can change the theme to green, but so fucking what? The number 2 is the same color green! I trust everyone can now see - indeed, can now share, as in bitter dregs from a common cup, Last Supper style - my profound hurt and outrage...

That game looks gay.

For the record, I have done the expert screen in under 60 seconds on a few occasions, but my preferred game is a customized board of 24x30 with 175 mines. I know, I know, why would anyone choose to test themselves in such a harsh, unforgiving manner? Why would anyone subject themselves to such an ordeal? Such is the stuff of which champions are forged. The 12 labors of Hercules were child's play in compare. The joy of Sisyphus at being released from his eternal task turns instantly to mortal horror upon learning that his new chore is trying to complete the 24x30 board with 175 mines in minesweeper. Iiiieeeeeeee!!! Flee!! FLEE!!!

Rare indeed are the times that I myself can complete that monstrosity at all, much less against the clock, but yes, I have done it in under 250 seconds on a few occasions and yes, I can already hear the gasps of awe as they whisper across the nation and into my greedy, gratified ear. I can't think of anything else to say right now, so I will withdraw, silent as vampire smoke as it burns your (your as in you, the reader, right now) foul nostrils while I laugh and chortle and grin like a chimpanzee...

I sent Ding a Friend request on Facebook. Just to make sure he's not dead.

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so am I the only adult going out to buy Duke Nuke'em Forever this weekend?

Yup. I will get mine about 6 months from now at the local gametrade place.

Why does that name sound familiar?

I was just searching for when Modern Warfare 3 came out and saw Duke. Wasn't that a game from years ago?

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I don't like anything with aliens.

so my second Tivo receiver died and I have them so modded up that to replace them I have to buy a used one off ebay and then buy a card from DTV and have it activated.

I went out to DTV's site today and they have those "whole house" receivers that are in HD and let you record up to 5 programs at once - so one DVR player for 3 TVs. From what I can tell it uses your wireless network to send the signal to wireless receivers in your house -I could be wrong on that - that don't give many details.

I have 2 HD TV's but I don't have HD satellite. Getting this one for free and replacing my 3 Tivo's will actually end up being $6 cheaper a month.

Plus you can add a 2TB external eSata drive to expand your DVR recording capability to like 250 hours and it has caller ID that flashes up on your TV screen. It also has a Smartphone app where you can setup to record your shows.

so its time to say goodbye to Tivo

someone explain how I can download bit torrents of HBO shows and then broadcast them from my laptop to my Roku box, which is what I use for Netflix

I'm not sure I follow you on that one Saint.

I assume you don't have HBO otherwise you'd just watch them on HBO GO

Is this some kind of remote setup? because I'd start by seeing how easy it would be to just hook the laptop up to my TV to play

Ecat - It is not wireless. I have it at home.

Basically, what they will do is run another "cable" to this little box they have. That box then uses a standard nic cable and plugs into your wireless router in one of the 4 empty ports. The "cable" is ran to the dish on your roof, yard, wherever.

You will need to upgrade the standard receivers, all of them that are on HD tvs, to get the whole home DVR thing. The standard receivers, will NOT work with the whole home DVR, they must be HD.

Their "on-demand" feature isn't too bad either. Not great, but not bad.

WHAT THE FUCK!

They didn't say anything about me having to buy HD receivers

They better have some freeass HD receivers too

Will I need to run coax to every HD receiver too or just the one whole house DVR?