First Post!
by Maarten Goldstein, Mar 27, 2005 5:12am PSTHappy Easter / Sunday. Hmm chocolate eggs. UPDATE: I woke up this morning and found a message from sHugamom in my inbox and what was attached could be the greatest find of the 21st century: actual footage of the Easter Bunny! Turns out the Easter Bunny is a huge fan of the Shack and sHugamom and her husband John helped the Shack Bunny deliver a special message for all of us! Movie: He looks like a deranged Easter Bunny.
Daily Filter: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13: The Masters, Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion
Dear Esther Mac port confirmed
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
Shack Giveaway: Mighty Switch Force (3DS)
Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack preview
Alan Wake 2 would be 'much quicker' than first game, says Remedy
SHACKBATTLE Announcement for Tuesday, 3-29-05!
Vanilla BF1942, details and enlistment at:
http://www.shackbattles.net/battles/view.php?battle_id=341
Themelon’s keiser.themelon.org:14567 server, 9:00 P.M. E.S.T. until whenever we quit! Feel free to join whenever you can, and KEEP THE TEAMS EVEN! There will be a 20 player limit due to bandwidth constraints. If it runs smoothly, themelon may bump it up a bit.
Iam wating uuuuuuu, Gerbils, hamsters, etc.
We'll be playing Vanilla BF1942 1.61! But we’ll also be using the FIRST OFFICIAL SHACK MAP PACK.. You can download it from Fileshack:
http://www.fileshack.com/file.x?fid=5284
If you do not download these maps, you will not be able to play them.
You must enable Punkbuster to play. We'll use rydogg1's Teamspeak server. The Teamspeak server address: 38.113.32.180
There is no password for the Teamspeak server. The channels relevant to us are Axis and Allies. PLEASE USE TEAMSPEAK. You can download the latest version of Teamspeak here:
ftp://ftp.freenet.de/pub/4players/teamspeak.org/releases/ts2_client_rc2_2032.exe
ftp://teamspeak.krawall.de/releases/ts2_client_rc2_2032.exe
Put [TS] in your name so that we know you're using Teamspeak. Add [TS-L] in your name if you don't have a microphone. Here is cpt_gloval's helpful guide to setting up Teamspeak:
http://www.redhavana.net/teamspeak/
Also, HERE IS A NIFTY TEAMSPEAK OVERLAY UTILITY:
http://www.qbnut.com/tso/
It allows you to see who’s talking in-game.
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Selling some of my games. Figure a shacker might want some of it before I trade it in.
Xbox Games
Halo 2 Collectors Edition - $30 shipped
Mortal Kombat Deception Kollectors Editon - $25 shipped
Midtown Madness 3 - Stil sealed and brand new - $10 shipped]g
Bloodwake - Stil sealed and brand new - $10 Shipped
Brute Force - Stil sealed and brand new - $10 Shipped
Gameboy Advance Games
Metroid Fusion - $10 Shipped
Post or Shackmessage me if interested in anything. Paypal is fine as well. Games will be shipped out USPS w/Delivery Confirmation. I can do US
or Canada but will be a couple of dollers more for Canada shipping. Thanks!
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I woke up this morning and found a message from sHugamom in my inbox and what was attached could be the greatest find of the 21st century: actual footage of the Easter Bunny! Turns out the Easter Bunny is a huge fan of the Shack and sHugamom and her husband John helped the Shack Bunny deliver a special message for all of us!
http://www.shacknews.com/extras/ShackBunny.wmv
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umm, do someone remembered there was a macross background? When was it posted? tat's one badass background.
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http://www.shackifieds.com/files/uploads/wtf.bmp
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YES
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http://media.ford.com/newsroom/feature_display.cfm?release=20294
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i have a couple pair of jeans that somehow got that mildewy smell on them. they smell sour. theyre 50$ pairs of jeans, so I normally just air dry them to minimize wear and tear. I guess the last time I put them out to dry, it wasnt warm enough in the room, so they stayed damp for too long, and developed this sour smell... i washed them and put them in the dryer this time, and they STILL STINK...
what the fuck do i do?
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me: "establishing the roman empire"
him: "man... you gotta stop playing that, go out, get a life"
me: "umm ok but we both play games, why is rome so bad?"
him: "whatever man, just get out, do something"
him: "so anyway i just played these great games in FIFA2k5 on xblive..."
GUN
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I just broke out the ole' bread maker from the attic today and would like to try some good recipies. I remember a semi large post a while back about making bread and I know there are some shackers out there who are damn good at it.
What are some good recipies for white bread and sourdough bred? Those are my two favorite. Also any cooking tips would be appreciated. I think my bread maker is capable of doing up to 2lbs and it can cook it too, but I seem to remember that using a bread pan in the oven is better.
Thanks for all the help
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Is it any good?
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Q3A used to be mine. I fire it up and kill a couple of bots or join a quick DM on an off. That had been going on since the game's been out and now I'm trying to move on to another one. Somehow UT doesn't do this for me - not that I don't like UT games. Warcraft 3 almost reached the border of becoming the next quickie. Need for Speed:HP2 / UG1/2 had the potentials, just the potentials. MVP Baseball 2Kx takes way too long to complete one single game.
So what about you guys?
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http://img221.exs.cx/img221/5745/ff11110248653333rn.jpg
hawt pt 2
http://img221.exs.cx/img221/3994/cosplay11114494320731up.jpg
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/w00kie/sets/180637/
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wtF>?
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http://web.umr.edu/~two427/stuff/bluedrivethru2.avi
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it was hella cool, during the end, i was like 'weaksause', but than i was like "aw fuck"
i just know that it is a physical impossiblity for me to wait for next season. I must find the writers and hold them hostage so they may divulge the secrets
when will they be coming back on again?
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HAPPY EASTER SHACK!
http://fry.colonpee.com/easter.wmv
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The real news is the ascendancy of Firefox. Last September Internet Explorer was in the #1 spot, with 38%, but Firefox is now the most-used browser among Ars readers, at 40%. IE has lost 8% points here at Ars, coming in at 30% in the number 2 spot.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050327-4738.html
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More than likely a repost, but news to me:
Friday, March 25 2005
Next week we'll begin beta testing the new Valve Anti-Cheat system. For people playing multiplayer games, there will not be any visible difference while we're conducting the beta, but we will be logging cheating violations into our database to make sure it's ready for general release. This will be the last public notice before the system is released and active for everyone.
If you have any cheats for multiplayer games installed on your computer, now would be a good time to uninstall and stop using them. When a cheat infraction is detected, the offender will be permanently banned from playing on secure servers.
--Steam update news popup thingy
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My doggie is going deaf :(
Also having a BITCH of a time finding all of my DVDs and games and shit. I seriously have no idea where the fuck my parents put most of this stuff, and I think my fucking mom managed to throw out my porn YET A-FUCKING-GAIN.
Joy.
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holy hell, is this true?
if it's a repost, I'm sincerely unapologetic
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I've found a job that seems to fit my skills quite well, and that sounds very challenging and rewarding at the same time. But the company's business plan is as follows:
1. get hired by a North American company interested in saving on expenses
2. get design specs for a sub-assembly (like PCBs or injection-molded plastic bits, or just simple nuts-n-bolts type stuff) that is currently made here
3. design molds/assembly/welding/whatever to manufacture said product
4. then create the capability to manufacture said products (casting molds, programming robots, training ppl) in China or Vietnam for 1/3 to 1/8 the cost
5. ???
6. Profit
As an engineer, my role would be #3. And let me tell you, from an engineering perspective it's a dream. New products that need manufacturing designed for them all the time, not the same old thing all the time. Obviously, this type of company is moving North American jobs overseas. I'm not typically the type of person who concerns himself with geopolitics and things of this nature. In fact, I currently work with multiple people from the far east (Taiwan, Vietnam, and Malaysia) who are grateful for every job that we ship over there.
Now, I intend to investigate this position and go for it. My question is this: if you met someone and found out that their job was based on (basically) shipping existing American production overseas, how do you think you would react to that person?
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"X game is too easy, wahhh"
DifficultySettings.com?
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http://gamefries.blogspot.com/2005/03/how-to-get-e-books-on-your-psp.html
Basically it uses a program called "Paperless Printer" to covert text files to .jpgs. Could be used for just about any other type of text document, even websites.
I want to see if its possible to use this program in conjunction with an RSS feed reader. If someone made a synchronizing program, you could have your PSP reading RSS feeds on the fly.