Scruffy The Janitor
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Tekken Fanboys. How can people say it has a good gameplay engine? They all play like shit. I'd rather play Mortal Kombat: Advance.
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You've got to be shitting me. You think the mortal combat games are better than the tekken games? Thats laughable. The tekken games are actually much more techinical and complex and deeper then any and all of the Mortal Kombat games. Let me guess, you're just in it for the blood and gore right?
Only someone who knows jack shit about tekken would even say that its gameplay engine is crap.
I can actually back up my arguement if you'd like.
For the love of God, no no no no no.
I hate it when people fucking say that. That's what the haters see when they look at MK. It has solid gameplay, superb audio soundtrack, interesting characters (mainly the early ones), and an engaging storyline.
The violence isn't even one of 5 favorite things in MK.
MK's gameplay is ok at best. It's usually full of so much cheese and lacks real depth in its system. Ground game? Nope, juggles? very very limited.
Throws? No where near as good as tekkens or VFs. Tech traps? Nonexistant (as far as I remember there is no tech rolling in MK games, last one I played was DA or the one after that).
The AI is just flat out bad. MK AI has always been a perfect example of If-then-else programming.
When it comes to pure depth in how well the fighting system is designed, MK doesn't deserve to be even mentioned in the same breath as tekken.
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w00t To Star Trek Voyager getting there. Damn good show. Hopefully TNG makes the list...TNG is the ultimate Star Trek series (well the later episodes, the first couple of seasons or so are really bad....Like TOS bad.)
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No, blue ray is useless because there's just no point to having 50GB worth of space when no game can possibly even come close to that amount. Maybe if somebody started working on a game now, with around several hundred hours of gameplay, including several full length movies thrown in, to be released only after the PS4 comes out...you still won't fill that much space up.
Consider then, the average game, and you realize that you're paying a whole lot of cash for a bunch of unused space.
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The system is overpriced to begin with at the standard price, and frankly I (and a lot of other people) think Blue-Ray is a joke.
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Star Wars.
Surprised Office Space is in there, didn't think it would, but glad that it did. This list is missing one more Star Wars title and I know its going to be somewhere around the top 5 
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A couple of months ago, I was watching TSN (Canada's version of ESPN, complete with SportsCentre) and I was shocked to see professional wrestling on the channel.
I mean, seriously: at least dominoes, chess, Japanese Viking Challenge and the once-ubiquitous spelling bees are actual competitions. If you really think about it, So You Think You Can Dance deserves to be on ESPN more than pro wrestling, as it is both a competition and display of athletics, as opposed to simply being a choreographed athletic display.Gymnastics is a choreographed athletic display, and thats a sport. Ahhhh.......
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Fawlty Towers......awesome
X-Files........damn good
CSI: Miami: ugggh! I can't stand CSI shows. And I'm guessing theres more coming up.
Never heard of The Mighty Boosh, and Have I got News For You.
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SSPS: It isn't the space that's the issue for commentary, for most PS2 and Xbox games, the entire 4.3GB is never filled anyways, it's the lack of time/pure laziness of the developers to not have more commentary.
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Well I couldn't be fucked going to work today, and I had been been drinking heavily last night, so I decided to call up sick. (Gotta love being the first one to work, so when you call up you leave your message on the answering machine, instead of actually having to talk to anyone).
Anyways I was going through our PVR and had noticed that my flatmate had recorded something off ESPN. I was bored, so I thought why-not see what the fuck it was........and It was the glorious sport of .........Dominos. I mean what the hell? I know it's a strategic game, and one loved by nerds......but It's not a sport. Why the fuck was Domino's doing on sport channel.
Anyways needless to say, I thought fuck it, went out and had a cone and watched some interesting games of dominos. It is particually interesting stoned. I'm also going to have to ask my flatmate why he recorded dominos of all things on the PVR.
Anyways what other sports gems have you guys found on ESPN? It seems daytime ESPN watching is full of the weirdest 'sports' known to man.
(Note: This was filmed on ESPN International, as thats the feed we get here in NZ)
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Half Life 2 didn't have a game? Fuck, I'd even put Far Cry above Medal of Honor or Battlefield, which are two of the shittiest FPS out there.
I probably wasn't too clear, I was giving Half-Life 2 as an example of a game that DID have good gameplay. I loved it.
I do have to concede to the KotoR thing though, yeah.. that wasn't an FPS
Morrowind was a million times more of an a RPG than Oblivion. I like both, and Morrowind was a First Person RPG, while Oblivion was just a hack and slash game with leveling up. -
Busta Rhymes' "The Big Bang" It seems like he just put his all into promoting his album and didn't really put much in it creatively. But hey,maybe it's just me.
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The Raconteurs "Broken Boy Soldiers". I didn't really like it the first time I heard it, it semed like a let-down. Coming back to it about a month or two later I loved it. I was constantly playing it and couldn't get enough, not sure why. And Prize Fighter Inferno gets a bit better with each listen, granted its not on the level of Coheed, but who ever said it would be.
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Must it be fiction? Can an entire series of books count?
It doesn't need to be fiction, an entire series is a grey area, though, admittedly, and I don't think I'll allow it. If someone *has* voted an entire series, I'll check if anyone else has voted for a specific book from said series and just add it in as another vote for that, I suppose. My reasoning for that is someone could vote for something like the Discworld series, which is a huge amount of books, and they're not at all representative of one another, if you get my meaning.
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01) Bram Stoker - Dracula
02) J.R. Tokien - Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring
03) Mick Foley - Have A Nice Day
04) Anne Rice - Interview With The Vampire
05) George Orwells - 1984
06) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Hound of The Baskervilles
07) Agatha Christie - Murder on the Orient Express
08) Douglas Adams - The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
09) George Orwell - Animal Farm
10) Mick Foley - Foley Is Good
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EDIT: gah, ignore this post....didn't see post's below the list (I don't know how I could have missed them; but they weren't on my version of the thread)
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using my other list....Ranking them and getting rid off 5 is going to be fun.
01) Buffy The Vampire Slayer
02) Angel
03) Dr. Who
04) House
05) Red Dwarf
06) Babylon 5
07) Star Trek; The Next Generation
08) The Simpsons
09) Saved By The Bell (original series)
10) MASH
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There only ones with One Vote
I see the way he's doing it but damn its confusing.
Well when there's (example) 100 shows with 1 vote each, 50 shows with 2 votes each, 25 shows with 3 votes each, 15 shows with 4 votes each, 10 shows with 5 votes each, 4 shows with 6 votes each, 4 shows with 8 votes each and 1 show with 10 votes, it's kinda hard to do a "Top (Insert # Here) List", since #'s 2,3,4,5 all have same # of votes.
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Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas.........w00t...I love that movie. Donnie Darko's good too.
Not to impressed with the 40 year old virgin, but I'll deal.
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Yeah, I really don't buy that shit. And even if he sold it, who wouldn't see Britney's lawsuit coming to prevent the tape's release?
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Well this will be interesting (although this has only been confirmed by a tabloid yet, and quite a few people are questioning its legitimacy)
SUPERSTAR Britney Spears is facing a mega divorce payout because she did it again and again and again...on a HONEYMOON sex video.Dumped husband Kevin Federline has been touting the four-hour tape for sale and has already been offered £26 MILLION.
A film company wants to make it available online to fans around the world.
One close pal said: "This vid is dynamite and Kev knows it."
And the News of the World can also reveal that Britney slapped divorce papers on Federline—who had already been linked with hookers—after she caught him in a bedroom with another woman. .......
SEE FULL ARTICLE AT: http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/story_page.../showbiz1.shtml
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W00t, don't get to see them then, but not much after.
They are coming to Christchurch, New Zealand on January 9th......syked am I.
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Two Metallica tracks in the top 3.....expected at EWB. I was suprised when I worked it all out that a Metallica album didn't take out number 1. EWB are Metallica fanboys....myself included.
For those keeping track at home this is the full list:
23rd= The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds
23rd= The Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band
23rd= Nirvana's In Utero
21st= Blur's Parklife
21st= Smashing Pumpkin's Siamese Dream
18th= Led Zeppelin's Led Zeppelin IV
18th= Metallica's S&M
18th= Nas's Illmatic
17th Tool's Ænima
15th= Jeff Buckley's Grace
15th= Pearl Jam's Ten
14th The Beastie Boys' Hello Nasty
13th The Beatles' The Beatles (The White Album)
12th The Notorious B.I.G.'s Ready To Die
11th Rage Against The Machine's Rage Against The Machine
09th= Nine Inch Nail's The Downward Spiral
09th= The Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground & Nico
08th Alice In Chain's Dirt
07th The Beatles' Abbey Road
06th Nirvana's Nevermind
04th= The Beatles' Revolver
04th= Jamiroquai's Travelling Without Moving
03rd Metallica's Master Of Puppets
02nd Metallica's Metallica (The Black Album)
01st Guns N' Roses' Appetite For Destruction
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AND THE FINAL THREE:
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Metallica's Master of Puppets
When it was released, Master of Puppets provided many metal fans with an alternate image to the commercially visible pop metal sounds of the era (Poison, Mötley Crüe, and Quiet Riot) - it sold over half a million copies at its time of release without any major video/radio airplay. The album is often credited for innovating thrash metal, while also frequently being tagged by critics as 'one of the most influential heavy metal albums of all time.'
The band's line-up during the album's recording was James Hetfield (vocals, guitar), Lars Ulrich (drums), Kirk Hammett (lead guitar), and the late Cliff Burton (bass). The album is remembered in part due to the death of Burton shortly after the release of the album in a bus accident while supporting it on the Damage Inc. Tour.
With Master Of Puppets, Metallica innovated the thrash metal scene by adding a high level of complexity to the songs, melodic sounds (most notably in Battery, Master Of Puppets and Orion) that showed some similarities with power metal and progressive metal, playing an important role for the later post-thrash creation.
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Metallica's Metallica
(The Black Album)
The Black Album was a controversial album amongst fans of the band. While the album and the band were critically and commercially praised, some fans expressed disappointment and even outrage at the new direction taken by Metallica. Gone, for the most part, were the faster staccato riffs during verses and throaty screaming found on the first four albums. The Black Album presented a more radio-friendly, commercially accessible Metallica, evidenced by the ballad "Nothing Else Matters". Moreover, following the success of "One," the breakaway single from their ...And Justice For All album, five videos were released from the Black Album. ("Enter Sandman", "Nothing Else Matters", "Sad But True", "Wherever I May Roam" and "The Unforgiven").
The Black Album stands as a dividing point for Metallica fans. Its supporters claim that it is still a "heavy" album. Songs as "Holier Than Thou", "Through The Never", and "The Struggle Within" and showing Metallica still had elements of the 'thrash' genre's strict limitations on what is "metal" and what is not. On the other hand, detractors pointed at the ballads "Nothing Else Matters" and "The Unforgiven" as signs that Metallica were more interested in commercial gain, than they were in catering exclusively to their original underground fan base.
The lyrics of the Black Album were much more personal and introspective in nature (from the singer and lyricist James Hetfield - a trait that would continue on subsequent Metallica albums). For example, "The God That Failed" dealt with his mother's death from cancer and her Christian Science beliefs which kept her from seeking medical treatment. "Nothing Else Matters" expresses the connection he felt with his soulmate while out on the road. The album also ended Metallica's tradition of including a lengthy instrumental track on each album.
When the song "Enter Sandman" was ranked by VH1 as one of the greatest metal songs of all time, Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian criticized people who claimed Metallica sold out by saying, "Why? Just because 10 million people went out and bought this record?"
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Guns N' Roses' Appetite For Destruction
Appetite for Destruction was rock and roll band Guns N' Roses' debut album. Beginning with the hit "Welcome to the Jungle", Appetite for Destruction combined elements of metal, punk rock, blues and classic, anthemic choruses. The album was a #1 American hit and worldwide sales exceeded 25 million. It is an RIAA Certified Diamond Album.
While the songwriting credits are indiscriminately credited to all five band members, many of the songs were solo tracks that individual band members wrote in the pre-GNR era. These songs include "It's So Easy" and "Nightrain" (McKagan), "Mr. Brownstone", "Anything Goes" and "Think About You" (Stradlin). "Rocket Queen" and "Paradise City" were unfinished Rose/McKagan and Rose/Stradlin demos respectively that the band fleshed out in its early days.
Other songs on the album reflect the band's reaction to the debauchery of the L.A. rock and roll underground, such as "Welcome to the Jungle" (ironically, Axl Rose wrote the lyrics while in Seattle) and "Out Ta Get Me", as well their assorted female companions, reflected in the songs "Sweet Child O' Mine", "My Michelle", and "You're Crazy."
The album is among the best selling albums in history; at least 15 million copies were sold in United States alone. However, one year after it was released in 1987, the album had sold only 500,000 copies. MTV refused to play any Guns N' Roses videos because of the album's original cover. Based on the Robert Williams painting Appetite for Destruction, it depicted a robot rapist about to be punished by a toothy metal avenger. The band compromised and put the original cover art inside, replacing it with a cover depicting a cross and skulls of the five band members (Rose has this design tattooed on his right forearm), somewhat like Grateful Dead album artwork. This compromise was not good enough for MTV, and the network continued the video ban. Finally, David Geffen, then- president of Geffen Records called MTV and begged them to play the Welcome to the Jungle video. MTV agreed to play it once, at 2 o'clock in the morning. The song became MTV's #1 most requested song in 24 hours.
In 2001, Q magazine named Appetite for Destruction as one of the 50 Heaviest Albums Of All Time. In 2003, the TV network, VH1, named Appetite for Destruction the 42nd greatest album of all time. Rolling Stone ranked it at #61 on their list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
The text was modified from Wikipedia entrys.
Also notice, The first post because an album was left out by accident.....No one commented that there were only 24 albums...
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The third lot of the list:
9th Equal
Nine Inch Nail's The Downward Spiral
9th Equal
The Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground & Nico
8th
Alice In Chain's Dirt
7th
The Beatles' Abbey Road
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Nirvana's Nevermind
4th Equal
The Beatles' Revolver
4th Equal
Jamiroquai's Travelling Without Moving
Final Three coming, probably tommorow.
Surprised Office Space is in there, didn't think it would, but glad that it did. This list is missing one more Star Wars title and I know its going to be somewhere around the top 5 
I mean, seriously: at least dominoes, chess, Japanese Viking Challenge and the once-ubiquitous spelling bees are actual competitions. If you really think about it, So You Think You Can Dance deserves to be on ESPN more than pro wrestling, as it is both a competition and display of athletics, as opposed to simply being a choreographed athletic display.
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Really thought we'd see Shawshank fighting for the first position (maybe as low as 3rd). Not matter what movies you usually like, it seems everyone loves Shawshank redemption (and for good reason!).