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December 5, 2007 10:53 PM

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So how is everyone doing today? Hopefully if you're an EVE player, you haven't quite jumped into their big uber-update as it's seemingly possessed by ghosts of Sierra Utilities past. Also, you guys should check this Ninja Reflex preview, if nothing else to see if the developers of BMX XXX can redeem themselves.

Jeff "geedeck" Gondek

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pancake humper

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December 6, 2007 5:54 AM

That EVE shit is crazy. How do they not test for something like that.
- Mustang|
  
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  December 6, 2007 5:55 AM
  
  Remember when uninstalling Myth 2 would remove your Program Files folder? Good times
  - pancake humper
    
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    December 6, 2007 5:58 AM
    
    Yep, only if you installed it to anything other than the default folder. I remember being at NJ Quake when that news came out and a couple kids fucked their machines up lol.
  - geedeck
    
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    December 6, 2007 5:58 AM
    
    I almost posted the PA comic for it, but figured people would split hairs over the differences and I'd want to stab myself
    - pancake humper
      
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      December 6, 2007 6:02 AM
      
      I think xkcd has a comic about this. You should post that.
    - Hoax
      
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      December 6, 2007 6:02 AM
      
      http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/1999/01/06 you are welcome
    - tomservo
      
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      December 6, 2007 6:07 AM
      
      holy fuck god I want to play Myth2 now
- Degenerate
  
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  December 6, 2007 6:06 AM
  
  apparently its just SABOTAGE!
  
  http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=15723135
- jasoncrowley
  
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  December 6, 2007 6:07 AM
  
  Fairly easily, I would imagine. Apply booze. rinse, repeat, rinse, repeat.
- jaga
  
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  December 6, 2007 6:10 AM
  
  *cough* http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=15709896
  
  Anyone who has played eve for a while can't truly be surprised
- Clay
  
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  December 6, 2007 6:14 AM
  
  "Please do not reboot your computer until you have read this"
  
  lol I wonder how many people will get completely owned because Windows Update reboots them in the middle of the night?
  - jaga
    
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    December 6, 2007 6:22 AM
    
    I doubt many considering that to be affected they had to patch in the 2 hour period that the evil patch was live, which was already middle of the night for almost everyone
- Nighteyes
  
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  December 6, 2007 6:24 AM
  
  How does code like this even get added in the first place. What dumbass thought it would be clever to write that?
  - jaga
    
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    December 6, 2007 6:27 AM
    
    as others have said, it looks like they had their own Boot.ini and there was a mistaken \ inserted in the latest version of the installer
- JINKY
  
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  December 6, 2007 6:30 AM
  
  in every patch CCP breaks as much stuff as they add. i guess since they added a new graphics engine they had to outdo themselves this time
- hobosapien
  
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  December 6, 2007 6:43 AM
  
  lol i played eve for like 2 years (even in the pre-launch beta) and every patch was never smooth. not ever.
- Rag and Bone Man
  
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  December 6, 2007 7:23 AM
  
  When Halflife first came out, uninstalling the game would remove the root directory that it was installed in (if I remember correctly).
  - Scoots06
    
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    December 6, 2007 7:32 AM
    
    Good thing there was no reason to every uninstall that game ;)
- Iwannaacura
  
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  December 6, 2007 7:28 AM
  
  give us TLDR or dont play the game what happened?
  - stgdz
    
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    December 6, 2007 7:45 AM
    
    in some cases it messes up the boot.ini thus destorying XP.
- Iwannaacura
  
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  December 6, 2007 7:28 AM
  
  what happened????
  - Home Nugget
    
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    December 6, 2007 7:43 AM
    
    http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/50231
  - geedeck
    
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    December 6, 2007 7:45 AM
    
    Look up + zot
- m0rfus
  
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  December 6, 2007 7:44 AM
  
  i had no issues like this at all...although i think i have to re-install to get the stupid to apply as it got to 98% and died.
- duncandun
  
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  December 6, 2007 7:51 AM
  
  whats wrong with this eve shit