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by Maarten Goldstein, Nov 27, 2004 7:39am PSTThe Incredibles opened here a couple of days ago, I'll be checking out later today. After all the things I've heard I can't imagine it will be anything besides really good. Much love for Pixar. Movie: The plan, as it turned out, was as simple and as dumb as anything we'd ever done.
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
Which was your favorite chapter / stage and why?
Me: Nova Prospekt. Holy shit that was awesome. Very engaging level
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Doom3 had awesome tech. The real-time shadowing is years ahead of it's time, combined with the ambience I felt it had excellent atmosphere, and the people who hated it seemed to have hyped themselves into thinking it was going to be different. Their fault, awesome game if you play it right.
Half-Life 2 is a totally different beast. More action-adventure, more story. It doesn't mean it's better, or somehow makes Doom3 worse. It's fucking different, get over it.
Riddick still impressed me more than either *runs*
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You can tell there's influence. Especially in the more industrial warehouses and stuff. The spidery headcrabs, etc.
Valve is a more creative bunch now than id is. That shows in their use of the technology. I'm not trying to be a fanboy here by just being like THIS SI #1 but there is so much more quality that its undeniable.
I haven't even beaten Doom III yet, because by the time I got to Hell it still felt like a tech demo, even though I was in a totally different environment. I'm about to go back in, because I can't help but continue.
Also, anybody with SoundStorm hardware needs to look around for the 6.14 beta nForce drivers because it fixes the bug of not getting 5.1 sound.
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(1) Is there a name for the wooden Katanas that are used for practice? (like the ones used in the Last Samurai)
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$10 per person
That's outrageous, is it not?
$50 for five people to go see a movie? Sigh
Maybe I just haven't been to the theaters in a long time and the prices have always been this high?
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Is there a way to turn the lights on when you're driving the dune buggy? I'm just off of Highway 17 and into the tunnels, but I'm getting slayed because I can't turn on my flashlight while driving, and there are bad guys everywhere. Any ideas?
Thanks!
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we need a thing that prevents fur where there was no fur...a thing thats relatively cheap and very effective
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Some of the cheapo non huge HDTVS do 480i, 480p, and 1080i. What happens when you give it a 720p signal? If it up converts to 1080i does that look better than 480p?
Chances are I will just wait until more of them support 720p, but just incase I decide to make a puchase now I want to know what I am getting.
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Why it load slow?
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I'm not very far into the game (just got to Ravenholm) and things seemed fine until the newspaper clippings in Eli's lab mentioned Earth's surrender to the invaders . Or am I supposed to be slightly confused at this point?
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What if the "surprise" that Valve is planning for us is something like a demo version of DoD: Source for all of us to download and play?
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What are some other games I should check out?
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So far, I already know I want to play through the eyes of at least four characters if the exp. packs are made...
1) Alyx's perspective through the game.. The hax tool alone would be interesting and you know she had to kick ass to get through some of the areas.
2) Barney... holy shit.. can we say Blue Shift 2? What would be cool this time is you would be playing *both* sides of the story... the uprising and combines.
3) A combine elite or grunt... just so I could control one of those cool tank cars or better yet fully walk through the Citadel instead of hanging inside a container ala Gordon. Imagine walking under three or four striders.. or riding in a drop ship.. or possibly even controlling a drop ship... O_o
4) Dog. I saved this one for last because how cool would it be to have super strength, toss shit left and right, and be able to rub Alyx's sweet sweet hiney? :)
Sign me up. I skipped a few HL1 expansions when they first came out, but I'm completely into this game and anxiously await new perspectives on the events from different characters.
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Goddamn Thunderbird! Okay, so it's only 0.9, but if the "Save Draft" feature is enabled, shouldn't it work more than once? GGRRR!!
You can save a draft of an email, and then you can later open the draft to edit it. BUT YOU CAN NEVER SAVE THAT DRAFT AGAIN!! You get only once chance to save and reopen!!
What makes it worse is that I suspect it might be choking on the subject line, and not being smart enough to be able to save two versions of an email, both with the same subject line. But, after opening the draft that was successfully saved the first time, THE SUBJECT LINE IS GRAYED OUT! WTF !?!??
Okay, okay, it's not even beta. BUT FUCK!
off to eat leftover thanxgiving pizza.
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0235853/
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In response to http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=9084348
I completely uninstalled every driver, toolbar, etc. Anything that had anything to do with ATI is now removed from my computer. Cleaned out the registry. Used driver cleaner. Removed EVERYTHING before reinstall. Yet for some reason I still can't set the AGP speed and it is really fucking up performance in my games. I set it to 8 and it just resets after it "test" the setting by restarting. In almost 3 years of owning this card I have never had any problem like this, and it is really starting to frustrate me. if ANYONE can give ANY advice on this situation, I would be greatly appreciative, because I am getting really sick of HL2 and UT2k4 being glorified slideshows. Is there any program I can get that will let me override the ATI setting and set my AGP speed back to 8x?
:goes back to punching the wall:
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Firefox and Thunderbird own me hardcore. Kinda like Buzz and everyone else on Ashke's...
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is $185 too much?
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We chit-chat every now and then, but it's mainly about kindergarten, or she asks about my dog, or she tells me about her cat JiJi. She has little attention span for the telephone so I really had no idea how smart this kid is.
At first I thought, maybe it's because she is my niece, so I think she is awesome... but really, she totally impresses everyone she comes across. Having some time to hang out with her for a few days, I was pretty blown away.
She is the youngest person in Kindergarten, starting it a year before other kids (at 4) . She already reads and writes and has started math. She also speaks some Spanish having only picked it up from their cleaning lady. The craziest thing though, was we started doing what I can only call "abstract addition" together. She started this game and explained to me how to play it. They are really just improvised riddles.
Basically she asks you to add two things, and the answer has to be acceptable to her. For example, she will ask me "What is eyeball minus sight?" (She really gave me this one). I answered "closed eye" she said "No, blind". Owned. A closed eye is blind, but apparently I complicated it. Then I started giving her questions, and her answers were really crazy.
What's TV plus No Antenna? "Cable"
What's dog plus no tongue? "Thirsty"
What's spinning plus a million? "stars"
Impressive! She wasn't even stopping to think about them, she has all of the benefits of autism while still being "normal" in every other sense of the word. No other kids her age (like her friends) have the capacity to do any of the stuff she is doing yet. What a badass huh? She's going to be filthy rich and it's going to rule. Here she is kicking ass: http://haiku.shacknews.com/!/genuine.jpg look at that crazy look in her eye.
And here is the kicker: I taught her what a "font" is and what the font on her shirt was (That was comic sans) and she pointed it out to me everywhere she saw it after that (Ok, only one other time but still... she's 5!).
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So does the double F5 to refresh and go to the top of the page not work?
Also, F5 doesn't seem to clear the "Reply To"?
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I saw this rio carbon, but dont know how good it is.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?id=1083712209124&skuId=6690066&productCategoryId=pcmcat10200050002&type=product
Thanks.
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http://www.playmoregames.net/vids/flatout1.avi
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I'm amazed, I had no idea that such a disaster could happen.
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I can't wait!
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http://www.geographyolympics.com/
Help your nation beat other countries in this cool random geography quiz. Just click on the Join Now link and select your country and/or state of representation. Currently we're all getting owned by the small nation island of Madagascar (obvious steroid atlas users :D) so 'Pros only' as our favorite Halo 2 resident would say.
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http://img97.exs.cx/img97/6232/house11.jpg
she's famous, and lives in england,netherlands... something. not sure where else to look to find out who this is. google doesn't help too much.
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Can someone sum up ( with spoilers ) the story of Half Life 1? I havent played it since it came out, and i just wanna make sure i know everything.
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