Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Jun 05, 2003 6:00pm PDTHey I won the lottery today! While buying slurpees with the woman the other day we agreed that it would be fun to throw away a dollar on really terrible odds with hopes of laughing at ourselves later at how dumb it was. How wrong we were though! Through some kind of miracle we've managed to turn our $1.00 investment into a boggling $3.00!!! We've agreed to not forget the little people and talk to a financial planner about how this will change our lives. I also hope to continue to operate Shacknews in some capacity. On with ER:
- Maybe a few less of those penis enlargement emails? - Ford gets great MPG ratings, except not! - Wacky speed limit statistics - Chicken catching machines! Thanks /. - Spam challenge software at Earthlink (Bad idea btw) - Pay more for faster lanes?Lastly, our buddy Mike in between stints of making goofy stuff like FileShack managed to design the new Metallica Vault website which launches tonight. Check it out and tell him how gifted he is, he needs the confidence boost!
Daily Filter: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13: The Masters, Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion
Dear Esther Mac port confirmed
Killing Floor hits a million sales, discounted on Steam
Jam Live Music Arcade announced for PS3, Xbox 360
Metal Gear Online to quietly die this summer
old karate school:
-contracts
-$90/month
-$35/belt test (yellow, green, purple, blue, red, brown, $200 black belt test)
and there are "in-between" belts for each (e.g. yellow-green) and two "in-between" brown belts
-$150 mandatory uniform
-hard carpeted floor
-5 minute warmup
-kata, kata, and more KATA
new taekwondo school:
-no contracts
-$35/month
-$35 uniform
-jigsaw padded floor
-BREAKING OF BOARDS
-takedowns, sweeps, etc. at white belt
-20+ minute warmup
-jumpy-spinny kicks
The tkd instructor is going to Korea for 3 weeks to train in the mountains with a Korean Grandmaster. He has to fit everything he needs for 3 weeks in a backpack.
I got to red belt at the karate school after 1.5 years there, took 3 months off & started over at white this Monday. It's fun...
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/!\ W A R N I N G /!\ The linked page has a HUGE 12MB .jpg file don't click if you have a modem.
http://www.rit.edu/~sjr7604/ss%20huge.jpg this will take several minutes to download
right click and download and view in something like ACDSee or use IE 6 with the auto image resizing to fit screen is suggested
The image should be viewed so the it fist your screen. It can then be enlarged so you can see what makes up the image.
Over the last 2 weeks, I wrote the program that created that image in java. I know that there are other programs available to do this, but they either cost money, are linited shareware/demo version/ suck. So I wrote my own. What do you think? Each of those tiles are actually a full wallpaper size image that I downloaded over the last month or 2. 428 different images are used for the 4446 tiles. Anyone have more game wall papers to add to my collection so that the image can be made to look beter?
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I saved a replay of it for the shack's viewing pleasure.
here's the replay: www.shackspace.com/~poor_yurik@shackmail.com/lsn/yurik-match01-vs_welshtroll.lsn (60kb)
It doesn't matter where you save it, you don't even have to save it to your HDD, you can just choose to open it and it will automatically launch the game, load up the replay, and then you can hit the "rewind to first turn" button...then hit play and BAM! :)
I'm the machinas in the movie, and its from my perspective. This was my very first match in the game so eh...hehe. Really crazy match though. I didn't know my opponent, he was automatically paired with me by the master server within about 5 seconds of me clicking "find opponent".
If you don't have the game, the full game is a free download:
http://www.lasersquadnemesis.com/LSNinstall-2-06.exe
For any questions you have about the game, go here:
http://www.lasersquadnemesis.com/faq.htm
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2 LSN related links:
www.lasersquadnemesis.com - the homepage, with all the official info, league/ladder list, map downloads, etc
www.lsnguide.com - unofficial, very in-depth strategy guide
Last note: I'm currently finishing a game up with torias and just started a game with Morgin so more replays are soon to follow. :D
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just finished watching the cowboy bebop series, and loved it.. I'm not normally an anime fan but this has got me on an anime kick now, so can you guys recommend some stuff i'd like?
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http://www.shackspace.com/~alacious@shackmail.com/ilkae-01-sweet_tooth_subway.mp3
http://www.shackspace.com/~alacious@shackmail.com/ilkae-02-aerokiwi_lagoon.mp3
http://www.shackspace.com/~alacious@shackmail.com/ilkae-03-rusty_mittens.mp3
http://www.shackspace.com/~alacious@shackmail.com/ilkae-04-cappuccino_summit.mp3
http://www.shackspace.com/~alacious@shackmail.com/ilkae-05-sushifruit.mp3
http://www.shackspace.com/~alacious@shackmail.com/ilkae-06-hublander.mp3
Ilkae is composed of Aaron and Krystian, 16 and 19 years of age and representing from Canada and Poland respectively. Their musical style could best be described as a mangled pairing of video games, hip hop and electronic fuckery. Their youth is reflected on this 44 track, 64 minute adventure. A light hearted romp with most tracks remaining around one to two minutes in length. Served best on shuffle, or when you can't find your ritalin.
http://www.warprecords.com/mart/music/release.php?cat=MERCK007
If you like it, buy it! Support a couple of talented kids :)
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http://seven.halltech.com.au/yellow/
it's yellow, and shit. I love time exposures with car lights, I'm so cheesy :(
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*pulls cord* "The IBM Hard Drive says: 'click click click'."
So, 1/3 of my raid is dying, weeeee!
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I think alot of people are having knee jerk reactions to the poor production upon first listen...I think everyone should view the DVD, the songs just rock so much harder on it.
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DKo5’s 1000th post BONANZA.
I figured that for my 1000th post I’d do something a bit special, sort of a “Who is DKo5†post. I’m a fairly new poster to the Shack, but I lurked for years. I really like Bungie ( http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=7175041 ) and their games (you might have heard me talk about Halo ( http://www.shacknews.com/jazz/search.x?query=Halo&db=current&user=DKo5&type=all&sortby=date )). I’m going to take this time to throw a little Halo Shack party, throwing up links to videos I’d like to call, Links of Awesomeness.
Links of Awesomeness
http://www2.mythica.org/halo/hbo/Halo50K.WMV - Here’s a really cool Halo video that was put together in anticipation for the Halo50K tournament that happened in April. Really good editing, some awesome music, and some really nice shots. If I’m ever feeling down about Halo… wait… does that ever happen? Anyways, I just like to watch this video to get me majorly pumped up to play Halo.
http://www2.mythica.org/halo/hbo/Halo_Seven.WMV - No, this isn’t a reenactment of the movie Se7en in the Halo game, nor is it a trailer for Halo 7, its merely a totally rad video of Halo frags and stuff.
http://www.mindwarp.be/The%20FrameWork/Halo50KRedux3.mov - Yet another Halo video for Halo50K. This one has some pretty nifty editing (sometimes it is almost headache inducing), but its still got some cool effects and its extremely high res and a REALLY good watch.
http://www2.mythica.org/halo/hbo/first-halo-movie.mov - Ever wondered what Halo would be like as a silent movie? Here’s your chance! Some old and recent clips of Halo put together as a silent movie. Good watch! … well, I liked it
http://www2.mythica.org/halo/hbo/HaloHoedownWMV.wmv - Whats to say, this video just cracks me up.
http://www2.mythica.org/halo/hbo/halo2_announce_qt6_large.mov - Well, uh, this is the Halo2 announcement trailer, and who hasn’t seen it… but really, it still 0wns my bones.
http://www2.mythica.org/halo/hbo/evolution.of.halo.mov - This is a nice compilation that was put together for Bungie Fanfest 2002 showing the Evolution of Halo (it went from an RTS to a 3rd person game, to an FPS on the PC/Mac, to an FPS on the Xbox). I want ALL those weapons in HaloPC, plz.
http://www2.mythica.org/halo/hbo/Asshole.WMV.zip The infamous “Asshole†video.
http://www2.mythica.org/halo/halo_warthog_jump_high.mov And (almost) last but not least – the Warthog Jump video. This is the one that started the whole craze. Some of the best music -> video footage of Halo yet (‘scuse me while I kiss the sky’). No matter how many times I watch it, it Never. Gets. Old.
http://www2.mythica.org/halo/old/halo_e3_2000.mpeg - Finally, the E3 2000 9 minute and 42 second trailer. I was already looking forward to Halo before seeing this video (Macworld videos blew me away), but this totally did me in. I watched this video at least once a day, usually before going to bed. You can't go through life without watching this video, I beg of you.
Well, I’d like to think that this MAJORLY tldr post won’t just get collapsed by 99% of you, because there really are some bodacious videos linked here. Now, of course, I didn’t post ALL my favorite videos, only a few. If you’d like to know more, just head to http://halo.bungie.org and check it out! Oh yeah, please feel free to Shackmsg me with ANY Halo questions, or if you’re ever wanting to get a game going on XBConnect, or if you just want to talk about Halo or anything Halo/Bungie related.
I’d like to thank hAx3d for being my Halo XBConnect partner for the last, ermm… eight months now. We regularly play Halo on XBC (pretty much every weekend) for 4-6 hours at a time, and its STILL a blast after all this time. I’d also like to thank Flawless Cowboy, Johnny Rotten, jedi_27, and everyone else who has ever had a discussion about Halo here on the Shack with me.
Also, I’d like to make sure everyone is aware that HaloPC is scheduled for a September release, and it will be good. I had a chance to play it at the Bungie Fanfest 2003 a few weeks ago, and it is indeed the Good Stuff (tm). I hope to see you all on the servers! :)
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someone posted this hilarious pic of sammy sosa holding up two fingers with the caption "Sammy Says: I'd hit it... twice"
Anyone got a link back to it? can't seem to find it
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http://www.shackspace.com/~ansuble@shackmail.com/usb.jpg
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Also, Dante is a pretty good defender. He knocked the ball away from several very good dribblers. I find that when I know someone is really good, I get intimidated and I'm more likely to screw up. I guess the advantage of coming out for the first time is you don't know who's supposed to be intimidating.
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http://sports.espn.go.com/golf/story?id=1563894
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http://www.veer.com/ideas/move/
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here's your fucking note you fucking attn whore.
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fuck you guys. seriously. fuck you all.
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http://www.msnbc.com/news/570130.asp?0cb=-515160354
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and just when i was getting bored of the game, i discover i can transmute potions into full rejuventation potions (aka fatties). jeez. and i've been throwing away small potions all this time.
ps: i thought magic find was a skill, so i put one point each into my barbarian's potion find and item find :(
ohwell.
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There's good news and bad news about 2 Fast 2 Furious, the moronic follow-up to The Fast and the Furious and a contender for the worst movie of 2003. The good news is that it's better, albeit marginally, than Freddy Got Fingered. The bad news is that it's 15 minutes longer.
http://movie-reviews.colossus.net/movies/f/fast_furious2.html
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B&W action with a bit of extreme (too extreme!) puppynose action !!
http://seven.halltech.com.au/myneighbourhood/
Taken in my room, or in the streets around my house, realising I'd loaded the wrong film, and had to use it, or waste it, so shot a buncha crap.
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http://www.pantherx.com/images/sosa03.jpg
Would you? Am i rite? Am i rite?
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Enjoyed Isketch last night
and thank you to majestik for the love
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bah.. someone here might care :P
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http://www.gamershell.com/download_2406.shtml
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