First Post!
by Maarten Goldstein, Nov 15, 2002 7:40am PSTYay for Friday. This weekend will be all about gaming. Got Hitman 2, The Thing and No One Lives Forever 2 to get through. I haven't played too much of NOLF2 yet, sadly I got kinda bored during the first few missions. I dig Hitman 2 though, despite, as I mentioned yesterday, not really being a silent assassin. But I'm slowly getting better at the stealth play. Encountered a nasty sound bug yesterday though that left my ears ringing because the volume increased ten fold and out came some screeching sound mixed with normal sounds. That sucked a lot. So that new Harry Potter movie opens today. I saw the first one on DVD when I was at Steve's earlier this year but it just didn't do anything for me. Easy to see why people like it though, and it's better that money is spent on something good instead a crappy movie with a lot of ad dollars thrown at it. Movie: She's not my special lady friend, man. I'm just helping her conceive.
Daily Filter: Sleeping Dogs, Transformers: Fall of Cybertron
Kingdoms of Amalur needed 3 million sales 'to break even,' RI governor says
Former Modern Warfare devs wanted to give Call of Duty series a 'rest'
Konami accused of bank loan fraud over Def Jam Rapstar
Capcom aims to shorten development cycle
me so horny
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last time i did one about sensory deprivation (the recreational + sorta medicinal kind, not the penal kind). And im thinking of going somewhere in the field of psycholinguistics with this one, but i can't nail down a concise topic to make a <10 minute speech about. unless.. would 'slips of the tongue' (or a better title with the same idea) be a good, interesting topic? At least i could be sure to make that humorous. Is this a good idea? or could you do better? thanks in advance
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Basically, I need a list of Really Cool Places. It's (sort of) an rpgish game, so you'll be going and exploring (or exploiting and utilizing) these locations, and it contains both technology and magic, so everything from a Magic Node to a Demonic Spaceship to a Research Station orbiting a gas giant to an Infested Asteroid to an Undersea Military Base would be fair game. ANYTHING you can think of. Basically, if there was ever a memorable location in any game you've ever played, regardless of genre, I'd like to hear it.
Obviously, I already have a big list, and some stuff is pretty simple, but I'm looking for a bit more than ye olde dungeon hole in the ground. I've also got a laundry list of terrain types for planetary creation, so if you've got some abnormal terrain ideas, lemme know (undersea bases, fights on the side of a cliff in the middle of a hailstorm, etc).
These places will be populated (or not) by all manner of human, non human, abhuman, mutant, magical, technological, and other critters, but I'm not worrying about that aspect at this point. I just need the locations right now, filling them can come later.
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Short and Sweet BATTLEFIELD1942 UPDATE
EA + GameSpy = The end of 3rd Party Server Browsers?
It had to happend.. GameSpy and EA are teaming up. Here's a quote from the article;
"Under the agreement, Electronic Arts ("EA") will incorporate GameSpy's middleware into select PC games that feature online game play. GameSpy will also provide assistance in managing the back-end services for EA's online games that use the GameSpy middleware, providing server, bandwidth and reporting support."
Read the full story here: http://www.gamespydaily.com/news/fullstory.asp?id=4353
MODIFICATIONS
Now, onto the more happy news..
Schwebepanzer's New Map Update
I linked this in the previous update, but the Geocities page quickly filled it's bandwidth quota for the day. The page has now been update again, showing off more shots from the level, including a few really cool ones. The page is here: http://de.geocities.com/schwebepanzer/Schwebepanzers-page - If it's unavailiable, a mirror is availiable via http://timm.mine.nu/BFMap
Conflict In Somalia
CIS have recently released a short movie, showing off working helicopters (complete with in-game cockpit and missiles), Humvee, and more. The weapons page has also been updated with screenshots of every weapon they are planning for the release. Check them out at http://www.cismod.com/
DesertCombat
www.desertcombat.com has again been updated with new screenshots, this time showing off an in-game M4A1 (both as first person model, and 3rd person model) Looks pretty good! Also, battlefield42.de has released a 30mb movie showing off DesertCombat's F-16 and A-10 in action! Be sure to check that out here: http://www.bfnation.de/bfdsonst.php (pretty slow mirror, but hopefully worth it)
SA Jeep Raceing Map
Thanks to Odoyle for sending this along: Some guy on the SomethingAwful forums is in the process of making a jeep race map based on Wake Island. The forum is viewable without a subscription now, but be quick! It might now last for long! http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=300468 The second page has the best shots by far.
Halo Mod
Another mod has popped up, a Halo mod! Check out http://halo.bungie.org/misc/bf1942mod/ for more information and screenshots. Apparently this mod has been around for quite some time, but only recently switched to the BF1942 engine. Let's hope they won't get foxed now, eh?
Previous Updates
For those that missed my previous updates on "What's Up In Battlefield Land", be sure to check out the old posting (sorted by date, newest on top - all +inf'ed)
http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=6004893
http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=5972389
http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=5939148
http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=5891830
http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=5834214
http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=5807446
http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=5801091
http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=5781094
Nine Point Seven - GOTY?
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Mustang seems obvious, but I already got the Eclipse a lil bit ago, cheap, and now I can get a Mustang cheap, so I dunno if I should...
and if the law don't get her then i will..
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Do any of you play traditional games away from the computer? I play quite a lot of poker, Scrabble (TM) and chess.
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Would you rather be gay or lesbian? (yes this implies that you'd have to have a sex change, but you'd get awesome pussy any day) (also yes, you'd have to have your fudge packed from time to time to remain a man)
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Dusty Baker: Cubs Manager.
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To Join An Army!
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*uninstalls*
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Anyone wanna buy me this?
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You guys are assholes, you know that? I shall have my revenge!!!
you'd better sew your assholes shut
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"In comparison, someone who holds an MCSE is merely a technician. They know how to use a specific set of tools, and can troubleshoot computer systems that other, more capable people have designed for them. Calling such a person an engineer truly is an affront."
Mike Dixon thinks it's "completely ridiculous and typical of those idiots at Microsoft to just take any term they feel like and embrace and extend it as if they just invented something new," he writes. "I've worked with a whole lot of 30 day 'MCSE' wonders that couldn't even format a floppy disk."
A-MEN!!
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I am thinking of applying to Microsoft and IBM this summer. If I get a job, my only concern is pay. I made very good money last summer working in San Jose and I saved a lot and it looks like I'll be able to pay my entire school year's expenses with the money I made. Does anybody know how well the big companies pay interns? Would it cover my tuition/rent/food/etc ??
Also, does anyone know how you can unlock the ninja to play through the regular game. I think I figured out how to unlock all the secret characters in the VR missions it seems like you get someone new for every 50% completed.
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http://shackupload.hippoman.net/uploads/majestic-curtain_of_fire.mp3
I've actually exchanged emails with him a couple times.. Really nice guy, though he said the third Majestic album would be out earlier this year, and it hasn't yet been released :(
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YO DA MAN!
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http://www.ea.com/eagames/official/battlefield1942/editorial/community_message_07.jsp
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http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/11/15/reubens.artwork.flap/index.html
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