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Duke's All Out of Gum
FortKnox writes: "ARUSH games who are making the next Duke Nukem (Duke Nukem:Manhattan Project) have a contest. Submit a new Duke Nukem trash talkin' line, and if yours is chosen, they'll put it in the game (and they'll give you some other booty, too). I can imagine that they'll want it to be pretty clean, but you could have some serious bragging rights if your line made it." If you're reading Slashdot at 6 AM on Sunday morning (note typical U.S.-centrism), clearly you have the right stuff to quip with the best of them.
Now "What next," that's easily seen as stupid by any semi-literate person who knows English.
Actually it's only viewed as stupid by those who have only taken enough English to be able to criticize. Haven't you ever heard of colloquial writing style?
and the most annoying pop-up Wandering Monsters in the worst D&D style.
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the telephone rings / problem between screen and chair / thoughts of homocide
"don't fall into the fallacy of believing that Perl can solve social problems. Maybe Perl 6 can, but that's a ways off"
Huh? 4 Million?
I thought it was common knowledge that "There are eight million stories in the naked city." - has the number dropped, or is that immortal line wrong?
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the telephone rings / problem between screen and chair / thoughts of homocide
"don't fall into the fallacy of believing that Perl can solve social problems. Maybe Perl 6 can, but that's a ways off"
(This is really oblique, but if, by chance, there's a scene on the roof of the Winter Garden Theater at Times Square; and if, by chance, Duke blows away a NPC in a Cat costume, then:)
"That musical didn't make any sense, anyway."
Schwab
Editor, A1-AAA AmeriCaptions
To hold a sweepstakes or a contest in Florida, the company needs to post bond equal to the total cash value of ALL prizes offered to guarantee that the company can fufill it's promise of prizes.
Florida enacted a law requiring this after thousands of it's elderly residents were scammed by marketing companies promising them riches in contests and sweepstakes.
Thanks to this law, most contest promotion companies believe that the market available in Florida isn't worth the hassle or cost of putting the money up front, so Floridians can't win these promotions.
Just for kicks
I vomit up things like you after breakfast.
It's times like these I wish I had become a web developer.
Time to die, ya friggin maggots.
When I'm through, everyone here will be crying to their mommies for a diaper change.
Catch! or Nice Catch, all-star. (Upon shooting/hitting a rocket or something)
I hope you took out insurance on that filthy carcass of yours, cause the repo man's here.
I'm out faster than a cheap tourist in a Vegas casino.
I'm so hot, you could cook a steak on my ass.
I'm faster than a cheetah on speed bolted to an air-to-air missle.
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From an IGN interview:
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Editor Emeritus and Senior Writer, TeleRead.org
You might enjoy Serious Sam. It's got a bit of that good ol' Duke Nukem one-liner style.
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Editor Emeritus and Senior Writer, TeleRead.org
And, for that matter, Serious Sam also has the biggest levels and most wide open spaces of any first person shooter I've ever played. And for under $20, you can't go wrong.
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Editor Emeritus and Senior Writer, TeleRead.org
If they want some new one-liners perhaps they should send a spy over to Bruce Campbell's house. He's actually pretty cool in person and will spit out one liners like you wouldn't believe.
After all, it wouldn't be like they've never used his material before....
-Julius X
-Julius X
remove "-whatkindofspamdoyoutakemefor-" from email to send
They HAVE to exclude Florida. If they didn't, any Democrats who didn't win may take them to court, claiming the entry form was unclear on how to type in the entry, and demand a new contest.
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
All your babes are belong to me!
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
We (and people in Tennessee) can't ever enter national contests due to some weird state laws, probably involving taxation of prizes or something. Almost all fine print for contests make Florida ineligable.
On the flip side, we have no state income tax...
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Evan
"$30 for the One True Ring. $10 each additional ring!" -- JRR "Bob" Tolkien
It is truly a sad, sad day when the scarisity of Bruce Campbell movies restricts the development of 3D shooters. Surely if the movie studios had seen fit to make more Evil Dead movies there'd be plenty more material for Duke to rip off.
Yes, it's inversely proportional.
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I wish I had a kryptonite cross, because then you could keep Dracula and Superman away.
I'm guessing you missed the references to Star Wars: Dark Forces and Indiana Jones too, then. There were a couple of secret rooms, similar to the one with the Doom Marine, featuring corpses of Indy and I believe a Storm Trooper, but I could be wrong (it's been so long since I've played...)
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I wish I had a kryptonite cross, because then you could keep Dracula and Superman away.
They must be doing this now that there won't be an Evil Dead 4 to rip off. (Or a sequel to "They Live", for that matter)
My personal favorite conservative genius is Houston-area Representative Tom "the Arrogant Asshole" DeLay, who is against mass transit for Houston (the largest city in the U.S. with a bus-only mass transit system) even though such a system would cut car traffic and clean up the air.
His district is composed White-majority bedroom communities containing many residents who commute to work in Houston, yet this genius keeps denying Houston money for a rail system even though his constituents would directly benefit from a light rail system.
Real smart, huh? But lets not forget the real geniuses here, the voters who keep returning him to office and subjecting the rest of the country to this fool...
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You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
A man who wants nothing is invincible
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You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
A man who wants nothing is invincible
Conservatism in action, I like to call it. Texans are deathly afraid of an income tax, and use a convoluted and inquitable system of local property taxes to pay for stuff like public schools. Consequently, Texas is in the bottom 10% nationwide in many statistics (like paying school teachers).
Houston is choking with auto traffic and the air here is approaching (and freqently surpassing) LA's poor air quality, yet rail transit still is not a reality here. Conservatives don't care because taxes are low here. Many Texans wouldn't mind paying a little more in taxes for a better quality of life but we are prevented from doing so by the conservative White rednecks in charge here.
P.S. re: the alcohol-sweepstakes ban, it is the Bible-belt conservatives who treat citizens like children in Texas. If godless liberals like me were in charge we would treat citizens like adults...
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You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
A man who wants nothing is invincible
"They proably wanted to keep up the damn voters in New York for putting Clintion in the sennet."
You know there is a statistical correspondence between higher education and liberal political views.
In Capitalist America, bank robs you!
I live in New York so my thoughts would be they fear the onslaught of people flooding their networks with suggestions (New York City has about 4 million people alone not including Upstate). On the Florida side of the issue, I think it's because they couldn't determine a President the first time around so the gaming company decided they may not be able to determine a slogan either.
As for Rhode Island, geez they must have like 200 people living there or something, I remember seeing this small town on the news that had like 10 people or something that have forever lived there and had the same mayor for like 40 years or something.
Want Root?
How about this quasi-historical one...
"I read your book, you magnificent bastard!"
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
To clarify, ARUSH Entertainment is publishing (not developing, Sunstorm Interactive is developing it) 'Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project', a 3rd-person game in the 'Duke Nukem series'.
'The Next Duke Nukem' is more an attribute of Duke Nukem Forever, which is in perpetual development by 3D Realms (the original Duke Nukem 3D publisher/developer).
First thing I saw in this story was "Duke Nukem." In the Duke mindset, I totally misinterpreted the line "they'll give you some other booty, too".
Urk. Thanks, but a baseball cap or whatever will do just fine.
On a different note, who wants to help me write a game called Earl Eatem? I think it would make millions.
-J
Karma: T-rexcellent.
Oh my god, I killed Kenny!
Your kung-foo no good!
I fart in your general direction
Paper or plastic?
these have not been submitted; feel free!
Use my userscript to add story images to Slashdot. There's no going back.
"excuse me.. I'm out of bubblegum..."
(loud gun noises and screaming)
-metric
From what I remember, I think a lot of the sounds in Duke Nukem 3D came from Army of Darkness, which is a fun pseudo-horror movie from the 80s.
So, I found a manuscript on some poor schmuck's fan page that I hope you people don't slashdot into weblivion. Grep away, folks!
By the way, Army of Darkness was actually the third in a trilogy including Evil Dead and Evil Dead 2 (info here) so feel free to get cool samples from those too.
And for the real geeks, episode 107 from the first season of South Park is a take off on the first Evil Dead.
No one from New York? Great, our best pool of shit talking talent is untappable. Why, I'll send them an email so nasty they'll need a nurse to pull it out!
"I've been waiting 8 years for Duke Forever and I all got was this lousy slogan"
Have to be 18+ too, there goes the largest (I wouldn't say best, though) pool of shit-talking talent too. Looks like all of those Half-Life script kiddies who swear every second word can't enter.
Actually, now that I think about it, that's probably a GOOD thing...
Dark Nexus
Dark Nexus
"Sanity is calming, but madness is more interesting."
Someone else has already mentioned that the contest is only open to "legal residents of the United States, excluding Florida, New York, and Rhode Island"...
:)
Anybody else find it kind of strange that the game is set in New York, yet New Yorkers can't win the contest?
Dark Nexus
Dark Nexus
"Sanity is calming, but madness is more interesting."
would be, uhm, _so_ politically incorrect:
"I'm gonna go Columbine on your ass!"
(Of course, lawsuits would fly around like mutated policemen after being hit by a rocket, if they ever used that line but hey, that's half of the fun anyway)
Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I
Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I
Learning to fly, Pink Floyd.
Not only that but the game is called the "manhattan project"!
Got friends?
Everybody knows that Duke Nukem is a pale immitation of Ash from the Evil Dead series. How about Duke actually admitting it for a change. Duke says: Hail to the King baby, and by King, I do mean Ash.
Chris Kuivenhoven is a thief, beware
Here's a couple:
"How about a Beowulf cluster of this!"
"Natalie Portman, eat your heart out!"
"I've fallen, and I can't get up.."
"This sure beats looking at that goatse.cx pic.."
"Bill Gates is evil! Evil, I tell you!"
"First Pos.."
Ok. Enough of that. I'll shut up now...
Torg, come out of the spaceship. Nothing can stop Torg.
How about he just says.... "CowboyNeal".
Australianus Geekus
How about a few suggestions:
/. for a few days and get some good ideas.
Reb
Get a new job!
Where's Lara when you need her? (As you die)
Doh!
I'll squish you like a square watermelon.
Hey you cheatin f#^&$#
I'm kickin your ass like an 80 year old that can't work a mouse.
Ahhhhh We're all going to die.
You've been r00t3d!
Just goes to show all you have to do is watch
Never mind the /. story being us-centric. What sucks are the contest conditions:
"12. Eligibility. This Contest is open to legal residents of the United States, excluding Florida, New York, and Rhode Island".