Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Dec 07, 2004 6:51pm PSTHopefully many of you Americans are aware of the significance of the date today.
- Internet alcohol sales debate - Rental protesters - Oh Kobe... you so crazy! - Give a degree to a cat, get sued. - Sunlight and hyrdogen for the futureLastly, it looks like Maarten and I are both going to show up at that SpikeTV VGA thingie since it just so happens Maarten will be in town at the time. We're gonna be total jetsetters and fly in and out on the same day. It's because we're hip though.. not that we're just trying to avoid paying too much money to a LA hotel. WE ARE COMING FOR SNOOP
Demon's Souls servers extended again
Resident Evil: Chronicles HD Collection coming in June
Sony patent would interrupt gameplay to display ad
Weekend Confirmed 114 - Diablo 3, Max Payne 3, Lost Planet 3
New Zone of the Enders project underway
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041208/ap_on_re_us/read_this&e=1
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Initially I couldn't get the game to run due to that lovely "monitor out of sync" problem that resulted in me having to reboot my machine like three times. Pain in my ass.
Played for an hour or two with no crashes. Crashed straight to desktop right after I saved before moving between areas though so I got lucky. Pretty nice.
It's like the Fallout talking heads, except these talking heads are in real time and after the initial shittiness of the opening sequence (WTF was up with that shit?) the game is pretty good looking. That chick in the first club with the gigantic breasts (which are normally a turnoff) is so hot that I feel guilty for thinking she's so hot... but I have a major soft spot (or is that hard on?) for vampires and the whole goth style. ugh.
Great game so far. Pity so many people have problems with it.
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A friend of mine has won an auction for a 17" powerbook and the auction stated that the seller accepted cashier's cheques, but the seller is now trying to get him to pay via a western union money transfer. I seem to recall having read here at some point that it's a bad idea to pay for anything big via money transfers like that though so i warned him about this..
Here is the latest response he got from the seller after asking again why he couldn't send a cheque:
Hi Steve,
Yes I know what I said in my ad but a friend of mine worn me about a "company's cheque"
I don't understand why a money order is not safe.
You have my name and address and believe me I don't want to go to jail for 1263GBP.
Thank you for understanding me.
Regards.
Marvin
This all sounds a bit suspicious to me, but i don't use Ebay, so i was looking for some more seasoned Ebay user's views on it. Is it wise to send this guy almost £1300 via Western Union?
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2) Roommate got World of Warcraft. Watched him play a bit. I can't say I was impressed. It really does have pretty bad graphics compared to EQ2. :(
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http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2004/12/07/771321-cp.html
Abstinence only programs... yeah right.
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I give you World of Pirates: A Pirates MMORPG.
World of Pirates is a "massive multiplayer" online game playing in the Caribbean in 17. century. It contains trade, construction and strategy.
* Operation fields reach from the simple dealer over pirate or head hunters up to the governor
* Own cities and even nations can be created
* Alive world: Urban growth, development of cities with factories, depots etc.
* Surrounding fields of a city can be managed freely, in order to adapt the townscape on the own needs
* Buildup of an own fleet, upgrading of ships in different levels
* Diplomacy between nations
http://worldofpirates.4players.de/wop/main_en.html
It's currently in open-beta. If this is a repost, well, bite me. ;[
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A friend is gonna try and bring me one back next week, he will be in Boston and Houston. What's the chances of getting one? :)
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Who's with me?!
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Plain white > *
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With a surprise ending that will leave you breathless.
Heh, i like that newsguy.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2000-10-06&res=l
"Ladies, I'm talking to you.
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- World of Warcraft Client Patch 1.1.2 (2004-12-3)
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- Removed time zone tabs from realm list for U.S., all servers now appear in one list.
One can hope that there are a load of bugfixes that accompany this "gameplay" change.
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WE8 not online for north america (link from LNC)
http://www.gameinformer.com/NR/exeres/87EE0AE2-E3C7-44CD-A194-2ABB84267E49.htm
i will be posting random outbursts in this thread throughout the night, and probably some in the morning as well.
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I have played 50 Big Team Battle matches. Of those my team has won 17(!). That's a 34% win ratio.
Shouldn't the matchmaking create a balance of 50%? I join random games alone and get teamed up and matched against random people - so why do I still lose all the time?
Even if I completely sucked at Halo 2, I am only 1 player in a 8vs8 match - I shouldn't bring my whole team down like that.
Am I cursed? :(
On top of that, I woke up this morning and turned on my computer, only to hear a terrible, terrible sound. I figured out that it was coming from my video card. Luckily after messing with the fan a bit it's stopped... but it will probably just come back. And i'll never pass the deadmines :(
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Is there a) a good client I should use and b) somewhere I can get info on setting up a CVS client/server properly? My employer wants me to use it for the program I'm writing :/
I'm just asking if there's a better place than the www.cvshome.org site for general "omg I'm a noob" kinda questions :/
I've asked a few times before for general questions, but this is the first time I've been given specifics :/
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http://comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=7515
Babylon 5 theatrical movie :D
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http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproductdesc.asp?description=24-005-026&DEPA=1
I like the specs and price on that one. I'm worried about games though.
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anyone played it or is still playing it?
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http://www.lik-sang.com/news.php?artc=3545
latest reports from Japan about loading times on demo units that actually have access to the games are as follows:
So wth are these "reports" from Japan? And how did they get such "accurate" numbers? In short, the Lik-Sang people didn't even test out the game loading times themselves, they're getting this information from some "reports" in Japan. Do they even have a PSP game to test out? From the sounds of the article they don't.
Not saying its not possible, but rather posting a bunch of load times that you didn't actually measure is nothing short of trolling. Posting something in order to get a reaction.
OMG SUM DUDEZ in JAPAN sent US these PSP LOADING TIMES! U R SO SLOOOOW lolbbqcoaster
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Playing without it kinda sucks.
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http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?comments=34797
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1546387,00.asp
OMG! That's almost a whole page of adverts and marketing. < 5% of the page is actually real, useful content. Hit 'next' and you end up at a page that is almost exactly the same, but the miniscule amount of content that was there before has been replaced with something totally unrelated.
ARGHRGHRGH why do they keep doing this. BLASTARDS.
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http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/1208vaselinevandal-ON.html
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At first she was like "No, video games are evil. I don't want to get addicted." Then two weeks ago I was describing Bust A Move to her and she's like 'Yeah! The bubble game! I played that I my friends house, I loved it!". Lo and behold, the bubble game was just released on X-Boxen. So I went and picked it up. Within 5 minutes of her coming over, she saw the box and was all over it like multisync on a 4-pack of winecoolers.
Now she's hooked! In fact, this weekend, I went to rent a 'romantic comedy' since the last few movies we watched was Army of Darkness (and we have this one for me one for you thing going) and within 10 minutes of the opening credits she goes "Are you into this? No? Me neither. Let's play bubble game."
/faints
Ze Interweb haz been alerted
TLDR: If your gf hates games and you got nothin to lose. Now you know what to do, g, bust a move.
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http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=9150556
Get it within the next couple of hours, cause I'm taking it down at 12pm eastern. :)
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whoa..that's pretty cool.
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