Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Aug 20, 2004 5:30pm PDTSo I installed some of those Omegadrivers the other day since I was feeling sassy and it turns out they like, work and stuff. Nice control panel integration etc..
- Most powerful women - iPod hot in Japan - Athletes, not journalists - Silly string a little too silly for LA - Should kids have cell phones?Lastly, just point that special lady to this article if she's complaining about all your other special internet ladies.
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
Mad Riders: Techland's ATV racer coming to PC, PSN, XBLA
"Turns out there were 2 or 3 people on each server duping credits. Verant figured out how to detect the duped credits so they did a mass ban of everyone with those credits. But the problem was they had worked into the general economy and they bannedd just about everybody.
All the innocent people that had alternate accounts logged on and started spamming the CSR reps with complaints and they banned all those accounts too."
Can anyone confirm?? This is freakin' huge if true.
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http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5515280448
Wonder what the press release from Valve will say. LOL Golden moment on ebay.
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In short, Jade Empire rocks and we have a lot to look forward to.
EQ2 is fifteen pounds of meh in a five pound sack, with awesome graphics.
Tribes Vengeance better have a lot of QA time ahead of it if it doesn't want to have a laughable release.
Saw: WoW, "Rainbow 6: Star Wars" or whatever the hell that clone trooper game is called, Fable, MechAssault 2.
Shortly:
WoW: Watched a little bit, seemed solid. Didn't really want to get my first experience of playing the game in Gencon, so I just watched.
Star Wars game: Looks cool, familiar formula, we'll see.
Fable: Concept looks cool, every asshole in the world wants to spend 2 hours playing the game without freeing it up for others, so all I can do is just say that many people looked happy playing it, and yes...there is a fart button. And yes...it still farts after the fiftieth time you've used it, unfortunately.
MechAssault 2: Same asshole problem as Fable. Graphics look good, but not quite the departure from the first that I was expecting. Maybe extended play will reveal difference. Looks like they didn't go too far from the original's gameplay (fast, intense, destructive), so it should be pretty fun..
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Since the Shack is so popular, I mean it was featured on g4 and has been mentioned on CNN several times, why don't they makes more of the news that they report? I understand that alot of industry stuff, esp whats posted in LNC they couldn't do, but there are a few devolopers here on the shack, why couldn't steve or Maarten interview them instead of reporting when someone else does? I know that there's the shack features section, I guess what I'm saying is I'd like to see it expanded upon. Anyone agree with me?
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"...Don't miss Kevin as he heads to Texas for QuakeCon to talk to gamers and industry folk alike, including the guys from ShackNews."
Don't know if sTeve or one of the mods will highlight this tv moment for shack, but I personally think it's awesome. I left sTeve a voicemail asking for his autograph and ... he's not available for comment. :) teehee
http://www.g4techtv.com/pulse/episodes/3400/Week_of_82004.html
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it's not a good day when your cat decides that during the night he'd like to mark his territory on your monitor.
I came in to my office area to find a big spray mark on my nice 21" CRT which dribbled down, over the power button and left a big puddon on my mouse mat ..
arg ..
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Too bad Riddick looks like it pisses all over the original.
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http://www.steampowered.com/marketing/hl2_preload/english.html
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Any ideas?
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I couldn't work in the Sleepy Swirly, I tried... but at least we got some Doom III Live Action Roleplaying in there -- and sHugamom! Everyone owes her a cookie for the childhood photos.
I was very worried you guys were going to want to shoot me in the throat over this piece -- I still am. So be gentle, I'm fragile.
:)
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something i just finished, about 2.5 hours with photoshop 7 and a 4x5 wacom tablet
http://www.winwood.net/blob/scaryblob.jpg
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I am currently shacking for the first time with my new daughter. She is two weeks old and is asleep in my arms.
The wife is gone for another 45 minutes. She had a meltdown a few minutes ago so I came to google "baby soothing sounds"
....now that she is down....time to shack
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:')
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If i buy the pc3700 will it run at that speed or will it run at pc3200?
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whats the big diff between 9700p vs 9800p?
i just swapped my old 9700 for a 9800 and doom3 and join ops feel the same. no improvement that i see
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15 kills to 7 deaths in my first cs game in oer a year. fnp90 > all!
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did artie really break up with his girlfriend?
Also which show date did this happen on?
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Is this possible?
You guys should paypal me money instead: getrichquick@shacknews.com
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I've turned $10 into $100+ about 6 times now. As soon as I hit that $100 mark I start getting blasted with the biggest bull shit ever. My full houses get beat by four of a kinds. I've had 4 of a kind beaten by higher 4 of a kinds. If I'm dealt pocket Ks someone will have pocket As. If I have pocket As they're totally worthless because people catch flushes and straights...
I think i'll stick to the real life shit... At least that why I can beat the shit out of the dealer.
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i'm willing to be the ipod mini is the one getting all the attention in the land of the rising sun, since it looks much faggy and all.
in a good way.
New CS: Source changes for today:
- Optimal refresh rate is now autodetected from the list of available modes
- Fixed bug where multiple terrorists could purchase C4
- Fixed "bad net addr" error when joining a game after running a listen server
- Fixed sprays not working correctly
- Addressed crash caused by loading incorrect serverbrowser files
- Addressed flickering overlay textures on some video cards
- Addressed ground texture clipping in de_dust
- Limited sprays to 128 by 128 pixels
Also some STEAM and CS:Source changes from yesterday:
Counter-Strike: Source changes
- Improved server changelevel behavior
- Improved behavior of full servers
- Improved "say" behavior on servers
- Addressed SetMode() issues
- Addressed "Invalid property: DT_BaseAnimating" issues
- Can now create windowed modes at the same size as the desktop
- Changed sv_pausable default to 0
- Improved command line parsing
- Improved change team binding
- Improved centerprint ID behavior
- Disallowed command "overview_mode" if not in observer mode
STEAM changes
- Improved pending subscription behavior
- Improved 'reusing credit card' warning during purchase
- Changed credit card expiration year selection to go up to 2014
- Improved display of "not enough disk space" message in game install wizard
- Improved purchase wizard timeout behavior
(I checked briefly for previous posts on this topic and couldn't find any.)
Source: http://www.steampowered.com/index.php?area=news
The new purchase over STEAM/subscription stuff makes me wet, as it indicates the HL2 release isn't too far away. Right?
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God I hope the rest of the record doesn't suck.
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reminded me of this RC Plane movie.
http://files.bnux.nl/getfile/e9ea18
It's 22MB's but it's even more amazing.
come play with me on 66.17.131.222:27019
i have rcon and its a stable server. too bad there's no one on but me :(
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