Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Sep 10, 2004 5:46pm PDTSo just when I was thinking I had tired a bit of the RTS genre, I fire up the Dawn of War demo and I'm totally engulfed. I really dig on the gameplay style that pushes you towards conflict. You can really feel the influence of Warcraft3 in there too. Robots are cool.
- Fab Labs are hot - The Sasser dude isnt so sassy anymore - Robots walk on water. I told you they were cool. - Cell phone TV approaches - Lookin for that hot liberal chick?Lastly, Jack has fired up some new code on CHICAGO for you girls to play with. In addition to what appears to be some very accurate wait time estimates resumable download is now supported in most cases.
Anarchy Reigns finished, delayed by Sega anyway
Jet Set Radio making its way to Vita
Diablo 3 patch coming next week
Elder Scrolls Online plans to sort out bugs with long beta
Super Monday Night Combat launches Turbocross mode
Remember when Ice Cube, was a Mary Jane smoking ho slapping 40 drinkin gangsta?
WTF
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www.unnaturalgaming.com/checkmate
Just wanted to let all the UT2004 owners out there know that we've just released v1.0 of our Checkmate mod! We've got a dedicated server up and running (same operation that rydogg uses so performance and ping should be good), but at the moment we're experiencing a problem with map rotation. We'll have it fixed just as soon as we can figure it out, but in the meantime download Checkmate and give it a try!
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big shipment went out on the 9th. some people on this board have found tracking numbers/cities for a lot of the shipments. you can check if your town is there and then call UPS and verify the address.
http://www.gearlive.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=92&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=10100
there are many tracking numbers scattered over several posts and threads...just look around. BTW, I believe these are for people who were 'in progress 3' on 8/4.
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Found a wand, put it in my ranged weapon slot, now how the hell do I use it?
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I liked it so much I created a T-Shirt out of it: http://www.cafepress.com/celerityfm.13465168
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The right wing blogs and true believers, so quick to accept the forgery allegations as gospel, should tell us all what crow tastes like, if they have the gumption to eat the delicacy that they have cooked themselves.
Authenticity backed on Bush documents
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/09/11/authenticity_backed_on_bush_documents/
a Democrat supporter's blog outlining all the relevent evidence countering the forgery claims
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/9/10/34914/1603
and for good measure, a very informative interview with a reporter who seems very familiar with the tactics of one Karl Rove: (the Bush's Brain segment)
http://freshair.npr.org/day_fa.jhtml?display=day&todayDate=09/08/2004
And with this, I think I shall wind down, I need some sleep.
P.S. FWIW, Resident Evil : Apocalypse was awful :(
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Since no one cared about my cheap gamepad post(except tostador), http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=8529438 , I found the answer myself and wanted to share.
http://atzitznet.no-ip.org/Joy2Mouse3/Joy2Mouse3.htm
This program is very sweet. Recognizes a bunch of joysticks/gamepads and then lets you pretty much program all the buttons todo whatever you want. Any keyboard or mouse function. Very very sweet and it's also XML based. After a little programming, I have a very sweet remote.
http://www.draugluin.com/villagese.jpg
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Iron Maiden - Flight of Icarus
I'll still be listening to the first 3 or 4 Maiden albums until I am ancient and crusty (more ancient and more crusty, I mean).
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There is an 8 page Quake IV preview in the latest PC Zone (UK) with a bunch of screenies and stuff. Guess they beat PC Gamer to the punch :)
Not had a chance to read the article itself, but the shots dont impress me. Looks identical to doom3, even the marine models look the same. Heck, its even as dark as doom3. Sucks, but I cant scan the damn thing, scanner is packed away somewhere :(
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Burnout 3 ... wow. Just .... wow.... Okay, so going up against my roomate I was getting my ASS kicked but playing through single player?! Fun shit. I keep getting to where I am only doing the crash mode. I probably spent over an hour on Leap of Faith alone. Crazy fun stuff. I wish the load times were better and some of the UI stuff was better. Also, I really suck at the time trials.
If this game isn't getting enough shack hype to ping your radar, then adjust your sensativity. This is an awesome game.
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http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPAT4+shtml/081448.shtml?
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ftp/graphics/AT09/refresh/AL0904W5+GIF/061453W5.gif
Winds still 150mph.
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1) Anyone know if there are some good internet cafes on the big island that would let them plug in a card reader and upload like mad?
2) Anyone think they might want to buy a 2 gig slightly used microdrive in November?
3) External hard drive for the PC at person's house?
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what's that you say? A thread that says America, yet is not Political?
Yes my friends, it's the new trailer for TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE! I myself had a big stupid grin towards the end of this trailer, and I hope you will too. http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/team_america/
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I thought it looked like it had some serious potential to be kind of freaky. If you missed the URL at the end of the trailer and are interested, it is http://www.aaevp.com. There is a link to the trailer for the movie there as well, if you're totally lost. It's a neat premise, anyway.
Oh, and also, the new Resident Evil movie was pretty cool, although I swear at the end she should have 203948 babies with Neo, especially now that Trinity is dead! She's got the whole "THE ONE" thing kicking.
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=56583
http://www.eurofiles.net/torrents/04_HL2-Coast.exe.torrent
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Anybody else getting Gulity Gear X2 #Reload (say that 5 times fast) it's pretty cheap at $20. Plus we can kick our asses online.
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I can't hook up my Xbox *and* PS2 apparently, to the same tv. If I have the Xbox's S-Video cable plugged in, it will always override the PS2 and I have to unplug it...wtf?
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Ah, I'll still buy it, but still.. Am I the only one that loved the colours/atmosophere of the first game?
Everytime I start a SP race, I get the intro video. All different types of races, too. Doesn't matter if I've seen it, I get the video. What the fuck?
And don't even get me started on Live! For some reason, for the past 10 minutes it wouldn't sign me in even though I could sign in from the dashboard - and now I can't see my friends list. Fucking wonderful.
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when I try to enter the private sensorium in the civic festhall, it dies :(
the first time around it displayed a BSOD for a split second then rebooted my computer, the second time around planescape just crashed to desktop. the error report for the first crash said something about device... problems.
any idea what I could do? all my drivers and my winxp are up to date, I've patched planescape to 1.1, I haven't had any problems before in that game.
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I'm not a huge fan of wire work for the sake of wire work. I don't like flying-fu, the chick fights were a bore. was more like a stage version of peterpan than a king-fu fight.
Story and cinematography 5 of 5 The scope was great, but overall 3 1/2.
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