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Stupidity at its finest.
Jan 29 2008, 1:29 am
By: gigabites2  

Jan 29 2008, 1:29 am gigabites2 Post #1



Well, I put Starcraft and Broodwar on my flash drive. It plays from pretty much any computer and I can access B.Net from anywhere without CD-key conflicts. Any thoughts, ideas, suggestions?

Oh, and I'm like to thank Blizzard for the 1.15.2 patch. Hooray for trashing the CDs.

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Post has been edited 2 time(s), last time on Jan 29 2008, 4:02 am by gigabites2.



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Jan 29 2008, 1:42 am Dapperdan Post #2



I was dissapointed and surprised to find that Jordann hadn't made this topic. :dontgetit:



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Jan 29 2008, 1:45 am chuiu Post #3



Heh, I did that a few years back (around patch 1.07 or so). I eventually stopped when I had no more need (need? lol) to do that.

Post has been edited 2 time(s), last time on Jun 2 2008, 6:32 am by chuiu.



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Jan 29 2008, 2:05 am FatalException Post #4



Man, I thought this was going to be a link to some news article about a Korean guy who got a tattoo of Kerrigan's wireframe and "NEVER FORGET, Z.I.W." (Zerg In War) on his penis or something.



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Jan 29 2008, 2:05 am Dapperdan Post #5



*Makes on-topic post to balance with lulz post*

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Mini Moose 2707 [8:54 PM]: I don't see why he thinks that what he did is stupid
Dapperdan [8:55 PM] Me either

Anyone want to explain to us better? :><:



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Jan 29 2008, 2:06 am Dapperdan Post #6



Quote from FatalException
Man, I thought this was going to be a link to some news article about a Korean guy who got a tattoo of Kerrigan's wireframe on his penis or something.

LOL. I thought it was something jordann had posted -- we were clearly on the same wavelength here.



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Jan 29 2008, 2:07 am FatalException Post #7



Quote from Dapperdan
Quote from FatalException
Man, I thought this was going to be a link to some news article about a Korean guy who got a tattoo of Kerrigan's wireframe on his penis or something.

LOL. I thought it was something jordann had posted -- we were clearly on the same wavelength here.
Soooooo true. :P



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Jan 29 2008, 9:17 am candle12345 Post #8



I tried this. But since my 2gb stick got stolen, there was no room for anything else on the stick...
[My spare 500mb usb stick]



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Jan 29 2008, 12:25 pm Hynk Post #9



Having no cd-key conflicts while connecting to BNet could be that it's your cd-key, and your game...
Anyway, I did this too, except my flash drive on SC only takes up 144 MB. =) Instead of 1.2 GB or something like that for both MPQ files.


Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Jan 29 2008, 12:26 pm by Hynk. Reason: Err0rz



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Jan 29 2008, 1:39 pm EzDay281 Post #10



edit: Hrm. Nevermind.
...
maybe I shouldn't be posting fifteen minutes before I leave for school when I've not any sleep.



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