Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Nov 08, 2004 4:53pm PSTWell, we kicked off the holidays here with buying a couple pieces of really pretty god-awful tacky holiday dishware. It's just not the holidays unless you have some terrigly ugly stuff to put stuff in.
- Bill Gates trips on sidewalk, $536M falls out of his pocket, he decides to give it to Novell. - Clone ban not likely - Mini engineer - $50million orbital race is next - MS set topsLastly, in case you had a doubt.. caffiene is like.. bad.
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
Notch 'can do' $13 million for Psychonauts 2
Alchemy = Herbalism since you need ingrediants.. is there a parellel Profession for Alchemy? Any suggestions that might be better?
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Mozilla.org is getting hammered, but you can find downloads here:
http://207.200.85.49/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.0/win32/en-US/
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FPS games with consoles suck, Aim helpers are there for a reason, because you can't be accurate. It takes me forever to whip around with gamepad. Let alone aim precisely.
This is why Halo didn't stun me, or Metroid Prime (great games, but.. controller?)
And it seriously became this huge of a hit? (Yes, I know there are mouse/kb adapters out there but SRLZY) This game made impact on most people via default controls.
I did try it out on PC, with mouse, and it was great (albeit, ran funny on my good system) good story, control, ect.. but this was after playing Far Cry, Max Payne, ect.
Am I the only one who is letting Halo 2 fly right past me, totally unconcerned..until the PC port comes out? (mouse/kb/higher res/better multiplayer organization)?
Discuss!
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And right now, these Sennheiser HD595s + Pink Floyd's "The Division Bell" = aural sex.
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http://www.shacknews.com/shackmeet/events.x?id=1530
Saturday the 27th (Thanksgiving weekend)
No we won't have anyone as cool as dognose or as hot as edlin attending, but come and see what mr. sleepy does for an encore after the "pizza box diving" from Quakecon. Hot lan action at Shadowlan ( http://www.shadowlan.com/ ) action and food afterwards. After that who knows?
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In other news, my Halo2 preorder....not at my door, no updates from gamestop...I guess they are shipping it, I forgot what options I chose during pre-order.
This is gonna be a boring morning...but at least I have firefox 1.0.
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And all Halo 2 stuff now goes here: http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?comments=34429
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Having an issue with how a page is rendered in Firefox. I have a UL in a table and it looks fine in IE, but in Firefox the bullets in the list overlap into the cell to the left. Similar issue can be seen on this ESPN page http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/feature/featureStory?page=ncaapreview2004 with the conference list.
Anyone have any idea what is causing the difference and how to solve it?
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I showed up at Wal-mart in Derby, Kansas at 11:30. Never heard of Derby? It is the armpit stain on South Central Kansas. This is a town built on credit card debt! Anyways, I had figured it wouldn't have a whole lot of people. Sure enough, there was a small line mostly of soccer moms buying the game for their kids waiting at home! Beer Halo2 Bitches.
Once midnight hit, instead of just giving us the game and letting us go to the front register, they had everything rang out in electronics. The firsts in line got the sliver box thing (I don't even know whats in those!) and the rest got normal Halo 2 action. The best part was that ONE REGISTER was open for us. Who was working it? A 70 Year old man! It was a painful process getting the precious. While he was ringing me out, I told him I wanted to buy all the other copies they had. He almost started to scan them before I said I was kiding. The guy behind me in line almost shit his pants when he heard me say that.
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for Tuesday November 9th
We will be playing Battlefield 1942
http://www.shackbattles.net/battles/view.php?battle_id=310
Crazy me for thinking people will want to play Battlefield when Halo 2 has just come out. But I believe there are others out there, like me, that dont really care about Halo 2.
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Are there any pay sites that let you download tunes with a quality of 192 kbps or higher? mp3s or wmas
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Fuck you SOE for taking an awesome idea and rich world, and turning it into a boring shitfest. I waited and waited, just hoping that the game would turn itself around, only to be let down, again and again.
I even held out for Jump to Lightspeed, and was happy when I got selected for the beta. Happy until I actually logged in and saw the same half-assed implementation just like always.
I'm moving on to WoW. SWG has been voted off the island.
Fuckers.
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http://www.woot.com/woot_detail.aspx
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"Most likely" is a little vague for me. Doesn't MSN queue your offline messages like AIM or ICQ?
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http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_66.93
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The 2005FPW is a 20.1" widescreen (16x10) LCD with a 600:1 contrast ratio and 12ms response time, and currently selling for $679.
http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/ProductDetail.aspx?TabPage=techspecs&sku=320-4111&spagenum=1&category_id=5194&brandid=&k=&c=us&l=en&cs=19&mnf=&prst=&prEnd=&mnfsku=&orderby=final_price&searchtype=&pageb4search=&page=productlisting.aspx&instock=&refurbished=
Looks pretty sweet, especially since the only 2 games I see myself playing in the next couple of months (WoW and HL2/CS:S) support widescreen monitors natively.
Any more games rumored to natively support widescreen?
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The EB I waited at for 5 hours held a Halo tournament for one of those awesome Halo 2 Xbox Live headsets.
After going through the entire thing undefeated they ended up giving me one of those cheap knockoff Plantronic XBL headsets. Now I gotta pony up another $50 to get one :(
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Now only if I had my xbox.
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Damn it feels good to have my internet connection back
So, what's been happenin in the game world lately?
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Patch plz.
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cool as in the sony tv stand on crutchfield.com
tahnks
if not, how fucking shitty is that? i'd have the game in my anus hand right the fuck now if it supported co-op over xbox live.
it's almost as disappointing as WE7 not being online. or WE8 being turned into a turn-based trivia game.
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If I purchase the Gold package, does Valve just mail me all the "tangible" stuff? I.E., the t-shirt, hat, all that junk.
I've been searching on the Steam Answers page all morning, but can't find a mention of this anywhere. :(
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...but I can't play it until Thursday :(
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