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    11/22/09

    In reply to Texminator Arcade Game Adds Competitive Edge to Texting
    I refuse to use texting shorthand and abbreviations. When I text, you will get a full sentence from me, complete with punctuation and proper spelling. It's called integrity sonny.
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    11/22/09

    @Duckspwn: This from the one who left the "a" out of his alias? Or is it "Ducks pwn?" Lose-lose. ;-)
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    11/23/09

    @Duckspwn: [twitter.com]
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    11/23/09

    @Fractal the Meek: Duckspwn, as in Ducks Pwn. But that's an alias, so it's acceptable. :P
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    11/23/09

    @psychiccheese: Oh geez. Don't even get me started on that cesspool. #tips
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    11/22/09

    In reply to Texminator Arcade Game Adds Competitive Edge to Texting
    Please tell me this is a joke. A gag-product they put up on April 1st (a la ThinkGeek) and just forgot to take down.

    It's like the moronic cousin of that Mavis Beacon "game" they subjected us to in school...
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    11/22/09

    In reply to Texminator Arcade Game Adds Competitive Edge to Texting
    So it's a payphone, but you can text, and nobody receives the messages?
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    Image of Fractal the Meek Fractal the Meek
    11/22/09

    @njdevil: Brilliant.

    Incidentally, you know you have an advocate around these parts?
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    11/22/09

    In reply to Texminator Arcade Game Adds Competitive Edge to Texting

    last month when I went to my local arcade, I saw one of this game with a windows error on the screen, it made me and my friends laugh xD
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    dragon:ONE promoted this comment Edited by Rick-e at 11/22/09 7:16 PM Rick-e was starred Rick-e was unstarred
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    11/22/09

    @Rick-e: A lot of arcade machines that are fairly modern run Windows or Linux and are based off of conventional "off-the-shelf" hardware and software.

    Sega Lindbergh. RingEdge. RingWide. The Merit Megatouch. All of them are standard x86 platforms, with Intel dual-cores and various other devices connected to them.

    I do speak from experience, the Merit Megatouch runs Linux, has no information about GPL software used on its' site, and isn't that hard to muck around with.
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    11/22/09

    @dragon:ONE: yeah it was quite interesting to know that those games run on top of conventional OS's.

    now that I think about it, doesn't that mean that people with Linux should have more access to game than they do now?
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    11/22/09

    @Rick-e: I know the guitar hero cabinets are also windows-based. fail.
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    11/22/09

    @ColbertSuperNationalist: @Rick-e:

    I think you've both got it a little wrong. It's easier to start from an embedded operating system to perform the basic functions of a computer when building an arcade game, rather than have each new arcade game also include operating system functions in the code. This also allows for easy altering of the game, eg, turn DDR superNOVA into superNOVA 2 or something.

    As a unintended bonus, it only takes a copy of Windows and some clever searching and one can find the rip of a arcade game's HDD, which means that it's possible to run the arcade edition of say, Beatmania IIDX or some other current arcade game.

    Why don't you have access to this? Arcade cabinets cost tens of thousands of dollars. You think they'd let you roll your own for a fraction of that?
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    11/22/09

    @David Reyburn: Not without legal recourse.

    Someone managed to get Megatouch FORCE 2007 software loaded onto a conventional PC with just a touchscreen.

    Took some hacking to override the security key checks and to make a custom board to recognize parallel port input to, say, add credits and enter operator setup (instead of the USB I/O board they use). All on off the shelf hardware.

    It was up on YouTube... until Merit had him take it down.
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    11/22/09

    In reply to Texminator Arcade Game Adds Competitive Edge to Texting
    First New Moon brings rakes in $140 million, and now this. I'm officially out of touch. Think I'll write some email whilst watching one of my laserdiscs.
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    Image of Segador Segador
    11/22/09

    In reply to Texminator Arcade Game Adds Competitive Edge to Texting
    Excellent! 90% of kids age 12+ already communicate in broken textlish, so this is the perfect training tool for our young rising Illiterati.
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    11/22/09

    @Segador: You know what's the best? When you get a college paper to grade written using ''textlish'' as you phrased it.
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    11/22/09

    @Nathan Obbards: i remember reading an article about some university( i think it was oxford) going to let student use short form and textlish for assignments and exams.. i dont really remember what university but i'm sure i've read it this year...
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    11/22/09

    @wira020: And the death of a language begins...
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    Image of Segador Segador
    11/22/09

    @Nathan Obbards: CU L8ter, english!
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    11/22/09

    @wira020: It was New Zealand. Students can now use textlish on nationalized exams.
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    11/22/09

    @Nathan Obbards: Oh, I would have so much fun tearing that apart.
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    11/22/09

    @Nathan Obbards: Ive never used textlish on a graded assignment, but I regularly use it (or rather a hybrid textlish/AIM) as a form of shorthand in notes and drafts. And I had a calculus prof. who gave lectures which often included textlish. Its nothing more than a form of shorthand, and as far as I'm concerned not unwelcome in a collegiate environment, as long as the context is appropriate.
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    11/23/09

    @eagles3 speeeedin: I have no problem with it if you use it in notes. However, presentations, papers, and exams should be written without them. I haven't seen it yet on a good exam, but other TAs have taken points off for using it in an essay exam. The ones I have seen all deserved bad grades anyways, so why punish them more.
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    11/23/09

    @Segador: I had a teacher claim that some poor, stupid, stupid, girl used textish during a speech in a college course.

    In one hand I wish it weren't true, but on the other hand I hope her humiliation brought tears to her eyes.
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    10/22/09

    In reply to Image Cache: Inside a North Korean Arcade
    Looks like they haven't changed since the last time we saw them...

    [gizmodo.com] #northkoreanarcade
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    10/22/09

    In reply to Image Cache: Inside a North Korean Arcade
    If the rittle chirren want to pray, they need to pay! ~Kim Jong-Il. #northkoreanarcade
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    10/22/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: I hear his favorite game is Missile Command...
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    Edited by Jrsy Devil's Advocate® at 10/22/09 6:36 PM Jrsy Devil's Advocate® was starred Jrsy Devil's Advocate® was unstarred
    Image of Gary_7vn Gary_7vn
    10/22/09

    In reply to Image Cache: Inside a North Korean Arcade
    Looks like a really happening place. You go Korea! #northkoreanarcade
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    10/22/09

    @Gary_7vn: North Korea. (And yes, I do think it's worth correcting.) #northkoreanarcade
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    09/18/09

    In reply to Japanese Arcade Game Lets You Flip a Table in Anger
    Fuck and Yes.
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    09/18/09

    In reply to Japanese Arcade Game Lets You Flip a Table in Anger
    What are you talking about? This game looks amazing. Now all they need is to make this game for the Wii, so we can play by strapping the Wii mote to a real table.
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    09/18/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: uh, no. It would clearly require a separate accessory if it was on the Wii.
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    Image of Munch the BanNail Munch the BanNail
    09/18/09

    In reply to Japanese Arcade Game Lets You Flip a Table in Anger
    Thank God Japan doesn't have an expression about Ike Turner or Chris Brown.
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    09/18/09

    In reply to Japanese Arcade Game Lets You Flip a Table in Anger
    Is that lady/girl a hostess? What does she do? Help you put coins in the slot?
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    09/18/09

    In reply to Japanese Arcade Game Lets You Flip a Table in Anger
    So it's a game based on "The Real House Wives of (NORTH, and not Central/South)New Jersey"?
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    09/18/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_HasANewNameToda...: The game "Burying wife behind Sheetrock Wall" is based on "The Real Husbands of North Jersey"
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    09/18/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_HasANewNameToda...: I have never seen anything from that show until just now, with your embedded clip. I am dazzled, and I know that I need not see any more of the show ever again, for the rest of my life. Thank you, kind sir, for freeing me of this challenge.
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    09/18/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_HasANewNameToda...: I will tiro this show now.
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    09/18/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_HasANewNameToda...: Being from NNJ, I can't help but devolve into a fit of cackling. The syllabary alone! "Whore" was one long slur of "HA-AO-OW-OU-WA-AA"!! bwahahaha.
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    09/18/09

    @Caidence: Please, I live South of GSP Mile Marker 120.7, a.k.a. The Benny Line. I have to deal with them all Summer on the weekends. Damn cars reeking of Drakkor with "Bad Boy" stickers on them.
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    07/06/09

    In reply to Tour Michael Jackson's Ultimate Mega Geek Den
    As a favor to our Curves, I am hosting/posting this picture for her:
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    07/06/09

    @BuyingPowerTools_GitEmSteveDav...: Thank you, and please send the hate mail to me, not SteveDave.
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