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Author Topic: ...and you thought you were a Video Game Fan.. Check this guy  (Read 1411 times)

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...and you thought you were a Video Game Fan.. Check this guy
« on: November 10, 2005, 12:46:40 pm »
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/biztech/11/10/virtual.real.estate.ap/index.html


I play alot of video games but I had never even heard of this game.  Next time you sigificant other complains about spending some money the arcade point them to this topic.
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Re: ...and you thought you were a Video Game Fan.. Check this guy
« Reply #1 on: November 10, 2005, 12:54:23 pm »
It's always good to know that no matter how nerdy I get, there are nerdier folks still wandering around out there.

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This place is dead lately.  Stingray scare everyone off?

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Re: ...and you thought you were a Video Game Fan.. Check this guy
« Reply #2 on: November 10, 2005, 12:57:15 pm »

so, then the company takes his $100,000, shuts off the servers a month later, and laughs for two years.

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Re: ...and you thought you were a Video Game Fan.. Check this guy
« Reply #3 on: November 10, 2005, 01:18:19 pm »

so, then the company takes his $100,000, shuts off the servers a month later, and laughs for two years.

you OWNED that guy CHAD!!!!  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D sweet.
Seriously. Will it fit in my basement or what?

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Re: ...and you thought you were a Video Game Fan.. Check this guy
« Reply #4 on: November 10, 2005, 01:42:44 pm »
Wow!  It would be one thing I guess if you had P Diddy money to through around, but this guy refinanced his house to do this!  What a ding dong.

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Re: ...and you thought you were a Video Game Fan.. Check this guy
« Reply #5 on: November 10, 2005, 01:48:56 pm »
i refinanced my house to quit my job so i could post here all day.

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Re: ...and you thought you were a Video Game Fan.. Check this guy
« Reply #6 on: November 10, 2005, 01:58:55 pm »
I get paid to post here all day.

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Re: ...and you thought you were a Video Game Fan.. Check this guy
« Reply #7 on: November 10, 2005, 02:07:33 pm »
I get paid to post here all day.

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As do I. In fact, I really should take my lunch break. No posts from me for the next hour.

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Re: ...and you thought you were a Video Game Fan.. Check this guy
« Reply #8 on: November 10, 2005, 02:09:57 pm »
Yeah, don't want to overwork yourself. :)

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Re: ...and you thought you were a Video Game Fan.. Check this guy
« Reply #9 on: November 11, 2005, 02:48:05 am »
I get paid to post here all day.

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I get paid in post counts to post here, but yesterday I must have been on suspension  :-\

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Re: ...and you thought you were a Video Game Fan.. Check this guy
« Reply #10 on: November 11, 2005, 07:23:36 am »
i refinanced my house to quit my job so i could post here all day.

As soon as they install Wi-Fi under highway overpasses were all going to do that...