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Article #99427Re: UC ships to retailers at $19.99
From: FLY135
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 17:02
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 17:02
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"Lemming" <thiswillbounce@bumblbee.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:lpbn20dht13armea523onm4as72elo4412@4ax.com... > On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 15:54:59 GMT, "FLY135" <fly_135(@ hot not > not)notmail.com> wrote: > > > > >"FLY135" <fly_135@(hot not not)notmail.com> wrote in message > >news:4dhWb.20237$jH6.14061@newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net... > >> > >> "Shingen" <Shingen@aolsukd.sbcglobal.net> wrote in message > >> news:ps3j209m1rqp5bee4f2277c3ssn516uold@4ax.com... > >> > BCM came with both a 76 page manual and a key-card. Did you get yours > >> > second-hand? > >> > >> No, $7 new in box at EB. Maybe I should go back and take a second look. > >> > >> BTW, I played again tonight for about an hour. Average time between > >CTD... > >> 15 minutes. And most of the time I was just sitting looking at the manual > >> when it dumped. > > > >Followup. I played for 2 hours last night without a single CTD. Apparently > >the CTD's I related in the previous post were from misc button pressing due > >to my state of confusion about what I was supposed to be doing. > > That's a statement worthy of the SC himself. "The game crashed > because the <insert suitable adjective here> user pressed the wrong > button." Beautiful. That was a completely objective statement relating the only the explanation I had as to why it was crashing every 15 minutes in one session and not any in the other. I suppose if I has interjected a few "f*ck'g, stoopid, crappy" clauses thoughout my statement it would have been more palatable to some readers.
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