Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Sep 21, 2004 6:50pm PDTDidnt manage to get a hold of the robots I was hoping to today. (Dawn of War) but I have high hopes for tomorrow! Here some of that ER stuff, please be gentle with this batch:
- MS after radio - Dumbest flight cancellation yet - Pet psychics are hot - People buy free stuff - Everyone pray for Rodney :(Lastly, demystifying StarWars
The Secret World delayed until July 3
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
somoene gimmie a link to the latter plz
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In reply I include instructions on how to connect to a server in Starwars Battlefront by just by using the command line. I might be stating the obvious for some but based on the informative post earlier I can see some people are having problems with it. The ingame browser is especially hard to use. This doesn't really give ASE support, but at least it gives an easier way to connect to everyone's favorite shack server.
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This sucks.
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Even with all the settings on high, parts of the game look like 1997....
had huge potential....console'd?
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Shack Collective, can you help me in this quest for cheap PalmOS based PDA action?
As a recent convert from IE to Firefox, I have a question:
What is the best way to upgrade from 0.9.3 to 1.0PR, install over the old one or uninstall/reinstall? (and yes, I have read the release notes, but I was wondering if anyone has had weird experiences...)
Thank you...
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I hate to say it, but she needs to just go away softly into the night, just fade away. No one cares, no one should care, and you just seem like a money grubbing whore now.
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I can't believe they just started guessing addresses and came up with mine. >:(
If only there was a way to make Gmail respond to spam with "mail undeliverable: recipient unknown", maybe that would get my address off of whatever list picked it up.
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WTF
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its just like being in school again!
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If I appear uncultured, stupid, or American, that's because I am. I've never been to Europe before so deal with it.
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Can someone post how to bind a key to switch inbetween axis/allied channels?
Shackbattle was mucho fun, best Iwo Jima game I ever played, but alt-tabing to switch channels was getting a little bit annoying. Also if someone wants to donate some new hardware for me so there is a tank left when I load Aberdeen that would be greaaaaaaat.
Final Thought sorry about the whole rocket blow up 3 of own team thing ... bad to have an itchy trigger when you spawn as anti-armor
1.) Lucas is dealing with the meat and potatoes of the story at work here in Sith. He was dealing with the meat and potatoes of the original trilogy in Empire.
2.) He's apparently going to reveal the answers to quite a bit of subtle hints that have been hidden into the first two prequels.
3.) This is the point in which the prequel films and the original trilogy meld together. Lucas is being very careful that the two trilogies segue together visually and cohesively. This alone will likely improve things drastically in terms of at least what I'm looking for in another great Star Wars film.
A note, I haven't read the leaked script, and am trying to keep myself fairly spoiler-free on the final film. I watched the Return of Vader featurette on the DVDs and contemplated turning it off a few times. Still not sure honestly whether or not I want to watch the trailer when it appears later this year, but I'm sure I will, as its proven time and time again that I would bathe in Lucas' semen.
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When I got back from my vacation I noticed that my hard drive would click twice and go into hard lock on the second click. Went out and picked up a new hard drive and was installing windows on it and the same two click would happen again and hard lock on the install.
Frustrated I was I figured that there must have been a simple reason for this since it was happening pretty frequently. So I hooked up the old hard drive last night swapped ram out and the same thing happened, messed around with all the speeds and multipliers to no avail. Tonight it is going to be a processor swap but I am starting to wonder if my motherboard could be causing the problem?
If it is has anyone ever deallt with asus RMA support before, it is one of those deluxe nforce 2 boards. If the chip is bad has anyone ever dealt with AMD RMA support before(do they even have it?)?
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Who put their stamp of approval on this game?
1. How about putting numbers on the spawn points. No one wants to try to remember where the hell the dock two or freezing chamber spawn is.
2. How about some vehicle balance. The dock level gives the Empire 3 AT-ST that can just march in and blast the crap out of the spawn points. Even if every Rebel used rockets it still takes a lot to get those units down.
3. Shouldn't it be a basic rule that once you start to capture “strategic†point that the enemy can no longer spawn there?
There is some fun to be had in this game but there is still some work to do.
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He should have stayed anonymous. http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/09/21/lottery.winner.burglar.ap/index.html
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http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2004-09-21-flight-canceled_x.htm
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http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?comments=33686
http://www.boston.com/news/odd/articles/2004/09/22/minn_trooper_writes_205_mph_ticket/
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Holy crap!
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cant say I care much for subarus, but this is pretty nice
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Moreso than the Han/Greedo alteration, the Jabba scene in ANH bothers me. A lot. Jabba is portrayed in Jedi as being a ruthless, evil, selfish gangster who cares for little more than wealth and excess. There's no need for him to appear in ANH. It destroys the mystique of him as a character (it's built up well in Empire), adds stupid comedy (which is inconsistent with his Jedi character), and just interrupts the flow of the sneak escape from Mos Eisely.
On the positive end, these movies have never looked and sounded this good. There's an abundance of bass on the weapons and spaceship effects, and the music comes through loud and clear. Dialogue is mostly crisp, too. I did find ANH to be a bit dark. I run my set at 40/100 Contrast and Brightness, and even when adjusting to 50 some scenes were very shaded. I chalk it up to the restoration and just accept that some scenes will be dark.
You can see scars and intricate patternwork on C-Threepio's exoskeleton now :) And Carrie Fisher was wearing entirely too much rouge.
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http://money.cnn.com/2004/09/22/news/fortune500/interstate_bankruptcy/index.htm?cnn=yes
It says they are going to keep production going and reorganize..
Imagine if they were totally shutting down!
I can see the headlines:
"Mayhem ensued at dozens of supermarkets across the country as groups of overweight people fought for the remaining boxes of Twikies."
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Florence panorama.
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Pandemic- Why did you include such a sucky server browsing interface? Did you learn nothing from the complaints people had about Halo PC? The game has possibilities, but you are going to have to patch the hell out of it to get it there and nobody likes that. It seems obvious that Lucasarts rushed it to coincide with the DVD movie release as so many things are unpolished, to say the least.
Relic- Warhammer 40K is incredible. Very well done, like your previous games. And thanks for the note explaining that you know what problems the game has and are in process of fixing them.
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