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by Maarten Goldstein, Jun 14, 2005 4:13am PDTSup. Yeah, got nothing today. I mean there isn't a whole lot going on besides Battlefield 2 and San Andreas. Movie: Gary, you didn't kill your brother. Those gorillas did.
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3Sup. Yeah, got nothing today. I mean there isn't a whole lot going on besides Battlefield 2 and San Andreas. Movie: Gary, you didn't kill your brother. Those gorillas did.
OFFICIAL SHACK BATTLEFIELD 2 WIKI
http://www.viralmemes.com/bf2/index.php/Main_Page
That's right, just like Wikipedia, this is a user-editable set of pages about Battlefield 2 created by Shackers, for Shackers. The idea is to put every tip, trick, and bit of information you could possibly want into this wiki page. Everything from starting the game to advanced crazy strategies. We've got some good tips and info so far, but we definitely need more! So go edit the wiki, add your knowledge, and learn something! I've already learned quite a number of things I didn't know before. And when anyone asks a Battlefield 2 question, link them to the appropriate page on the Wiki (and, of course, add the answer if it's not already there!)
Comments by other Shackers:
"oh HELLS yeah!" g0nk
"wow, that's really cool." edgewise
"Cool, I will definitely bookmark this page!!" Maddog_Delphi97
"That's one of coolest shacker created things ever." geedeck
Mad props to sgtsanity for setting this up, and to everyone who has contributed so far!
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Interesting(super lame) part:
The activities of the obviously active hacking community reinforce our decision to not release the Ranked server publicly with the final product. Our desire is to be able to offer an exploit-free place to play where players can legitimately gain ranks, and collect awards and unlocks. The only way we can offer such a service and protect the Ranked server content is by hosting the ranked servers directly and through trusted partners. The Unranked server tools will be released to the community so that they may host their own BF2 servers, mods, etc.
I don't see how the "hacking" going on is anything malicious, but it sounds like they're insinuating it is.
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So I recently got a Dell Inspiron 6000 (about 3 weeks ago) and everything is great with it except for one thing. The hard disk makes a click sound when it's being accessed, and whenever this happens everything pauses for half a second. At first I figured this was normal, maybe laptop drives spin down to save power, but this happens ALL THE TIME. Even while I'm typing in word I'll get brief pauses because the OS or whatever has decided to access the drive. I can't watch DVD's that are ripped to the drive, they skip whenever this happens. Watching a xvid rip seems to be fine though, I suppose because it doesn't access the hard disk as much.
I'm just wondering if this is normal? Should I send the laptop back? I basically can't do anything on this laptop that requires frequent hard disk access without the pausing/clicking kicking in.
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http://www.iamgoat.com/_images/wtfbbq.jpg (Title Image)
http://www.shacknews.com/shackmeet/events.x?id=2011 (Details)
1. We'll start out with margaritas and Mexican food at On the Border from 11:30 - 2:30 (Howard Hughes Center).
2. With an hour to blow we can hang out EB Games and/or play some mini golf (Howard Hughes Center).
3. Next we'll go watch Batman Begins at 3:30 (Howard Hughes Center).
4. After the movie, it's a BBQ & sweet, sweet gaysexfest where we'll play games, listen to music, watch movies, maybe talk to one another. (iamgoat's apartment)
5. If people are still around after 9:30 we can drive up the street and go bowling. (some bowling place)
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Given the required gamespy registration, many of us are playing under different names. I need to know yours so I can pick which fgt to kill.
I'm Foxhawk in BF2.
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It has recently come to my attention that Trillian is eating messages sent to me left and right. Very frequently I'll be getting IM'd by someone, yet never actually receive said IM's. They'll get mine, I won't get theirs.. happens with AIM for me (meaning, in Trillian.. normal AIM client doesn't do it), haven't tested it on MSN. Not only that, but Trillian will occasionally stop updating my buddy list and eat IM's at the same time. The buddy list will stay in one state until I quit/restart Trillian.. won't see anyone sign on or off until that happens. Anyhow..
I headed to the Trillian forums to see if anyone else was having this problem, and.. holy shit.
http://www.trillian.cc/forums/showthread.php?s=c1eabc4d9fa7c221f06bb2ef617b0010&threadid=53546
Fifteen pages of people thus far have chimed in saying that the same basic thing happens to them in both Trillian 2 and 3. Cerulean Studios hasn't responded thus far in any meaningful way that I can see, so.. for me at least.. I've moved on to GAIM effective today.
If anyone else thinks this might be happening to them, you might want to try running two clients at once (normal AIM + Trillian, or GAIM + Trillian), or compare logs with a frequent contact, to see how much you miss/have been missing.
The more you know...
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What other movies 'sides Star Wars are not set on Earth or a variation of Earth or even have an Earth? The closest I can come up with are the Riddick movies (I don't believe Earth was ever mentioned, though that doesn't preclude it existing in that universe).
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As for next-gen, Blizzard is "Exploring any variety of possibilities," and says it has been approached by Microsoft to put WoW on the Xbox 360 - but is hesitant because it would require a keyboard and mouse to be sold or attached separately.
That would be cool, considering that the people that would play WoW should already have a USB keyboard and mouse.
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2005/06/14/blizzard_battlegrounds_diablo_3/
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/228376_childmurder14.html
She told friends her daughter was an uncontrollable "demon."
So, detectives contend, the woman drew a bath in her White Center home, placed the 6-year- old child in the water and held her under until she died.
Then, using an ax she bought at a nearby hardware store, she cut the child's head off.
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ok its officially at the richardson campisis now
south west corner of coit+cambell, 6:00pm
http://campisis.us/locations/campisislocation.2004-10-04.6615300248
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=7632+Campbell+Road+richardson+tx&spn=0.026733,0.044849&hl=en
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http://www.auspcmarket.com.au/index.php?redir=http://www.auspcmarket.com.au/show_product_info.php?input[product_code]=VI-LTA360VETD&input[category_id]=429
and this
http://www.auspcmarket.com.au/index.php?redir=http://www.auspcmarket.com.au/show_product_info.php?input[product_code]=VI-LTA360V128&input[category_id]=429
the prices are in australia dollars before anyone freaks out. i dont want to spend any more than this and its mainly just to run WoW better on a 1500 + 768MB, cause like the said the SPARKLE PIECE OF SHIT Ti4200 hardly runs better than the Leadtek/MSI/whateveritwas Geforce2 GTS Ultra that used to be in there. i'm hardware clueless so any basic advice would be appreciated.
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Anyone Else have a problem with BF2?!? It says "memory.dll not found" when i launch.. and that file is clearly located in the main dir of BF2....
Also since i installed DX9, CounterStrike Sourse says that my hardware is only "DX8.1 Compatible"....
whaty gives.. any advice appreciated
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and while im getting excited about Gamecube games, Baten Kaitos is really cool as well, although seemingly a little slow to begin with, and it's apparent depth takes a while to ease out, which i'm only just start to notice glimpses of now. it's a bit more simplified than i thought; it's not quite the M:TG RPG that i had it figured for (now that would be awesome if they updated that game) but it's still really well done.
and Tales of Symphonia is on the way as well. these would all be really positive signs if it weren't for the fact that the Gamecube is a dying console (err ...)
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Wonder how much I could get for it on ebay.
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http://addictinggames.com/bookworm.html
my highscore: 343060 - Supreme Archivist
try and beat that
proof: http://img192.echo.cx/my.php?image=highscore6id.jpg (longest word on the last level, I had a few longer ones in previous levels)
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Was listening to the radio in the car one evening last week, and a song started playing that I had never heard that featured a riff that had the signature sound of Sevendust's Clint Lowery's guitar. I got all excited, expecting to hear a new Sevendust song, but was soon surprised to hear something totally different. It was Dark New Day's first single, Brother.
Awesome band, their first album, Twelve Years of Silence, came out today. It's basically an amalgamation of ex members of bands like Sevendust, Creed, Stereomud, Skrape, Doubledrive, and more... It makes for a very refreshing sound and style.
There are moments on the album that I'm fooled into thinking that I'm listening to Sevendust until the vocals kick in, and other songs are completely new sounding and different. The whole album definitely brings something new to the table though, there isn't a song on it that I don't like.
Defintely check it out if this is your thing.
http://www.darknewday.com/
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0009I7NPS/qid=1118794855/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/102-8495328-7047342
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Jagged Alliance and Disciples franchises are coming to the DS
http://planetgamecube.com/news.cfm?action=item&id=6334
More RTS games on the DS the better, its certainly a genre that other handhelds just couldn't do as well.
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1) Team killers. We had 2 at the same time. One took it upon himself to steal the SU-34 from the MEC and then bomb all of us with it. The other was shooting our own choppers with the carrier gun as they landed and took off. At least I got the sweet revenge of killing that guy.
2) People who's method of "dogfighting" is to just ram you with their aircraft. Took 5 guys over to the hotel in the BH and landed, only to have the MEC's Havok pilot ram me. That's fucking cheap and makes the game no fun.
3) People who insist on getting certain choppers every single time they spawn, yet they can't fly for crap. If you hover high in the air directly above an enemy base, we can't hit anything with the gatling guns, man. Also, if it takes you 5 minutes to land a BH on the carrier, that's a good sign you should pass the torch. I have never missed g0nk so much in my life.
*gun*
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flight deck of the space shuttle. crazy.
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http://cs.silverpop.com/amd/tech_tour/2005/registration_site1.htm
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(i'm using a cookie sheet to broil on instead of a broiling pan, could that be why?)
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this means you "l0necl0ud9" or "l0ncl0ud9" and "ArticWolf"..
NOT cool to constantly spawncamping the fricken' carrier and killing anyone that pops up.. this is just incredibly frustrating and ghey.. there were 2 others up on the towers of the carrier as well, couldnt get their names.. but damnit, make it stop!!
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- 60 seconds of intro graphics: I don't want to see a 'demo' disclaimer, I don't want to see nVidia advertisements, I don't want to see an advertisement for the final product, I want to play the game! The gameplay experience will make the decisive decision, not some lame promo piece with a few bulletpoints.
- A menu system that is so pathetic it requires a 'menu loading' disclaimer when you hit Escape in-game. Wow. That should be a really obvious hint there. ATTN DESIGNERS: If you can't throw a good textual UI together without it being choppy or needing a 'loading' message, you need to go back to the basics.
- Some sort of wack incompatibility with my videocard. Why can't it just work out of the box? Now I have to go hunt around obscure sites to discover the name of the INI file in which I have to change a '0' to a '1.' The graphics are entirely borked -- I can't play the game until I fix this. I'll report back then - hopefully the gameplay will make a more favorable impressions.
My specs: Dell Inspiron 8600, 1gb RAM, Pentium 1.8M, ATI Mobility 128mb.
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I guess I could just take it all into EB, but do they really rape you? Do they give more value if you take store credit?
I keep refreshing my order status page at Play-Asia to see if Katamari Damacy shipped yet, even though it's still 3 weeks away. It's been a while since I've been anticipating the release of a game like this :(
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halp meh plz.
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