Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Jun 14, 2005 7:07pm PDTWelp hopefully a couple people will show up to our little 10yr thingie! Maarten is going to be giving out free lap dances to the first 50 people to sign up.
- Democracy is naughty! - Soaps on phones :( - Wal-Mart declares VHS dead or is it? - Earth2! - Another dot-com boom! - Worried about Michael Jackson's finances are ya?Lastly, RIP D&D illustrator dude. :(
Mad Riders trailer goes heavy on the meta
Anarchy Reigns finished, delayed by Sega anyway
Jet Set Radio making its way to Vita
Diablo 3 patch coming next week
Elder Scrolls Online plans to sort out bugs with long beta
Super Monday Night Combat launches Turbocross mode
The Secret World delayed until July 3
Daily Filter: Sleeping Dogs, Transformers: Fall of Cybertron
Kingdoms of Amalur needed 3 million sales 'to break even,' RI governor says
Former Modern Warfare devs wanted to give Call of Duty series a 'rest'
How do you find the re-readability factor on this series?
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Then come back for my rant.
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http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=10239511
I have moved all of the content to:
http://www.shackbattles.com/wiki/index.php/Battlefield_2
Please add/delete/update any content there from now on. Also, feel free to add aditional games on the main page. I strongly encourage you to register a user account so that you can get credit for what you contribute.
I still need to get image uploads enabled so that we can put the minimaps on there. For now just use shackspace.
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The premise was interesting... a couple of guys join an experiment where one group takes the role of prisoners and another takes the role of prison guards while a group of scientists study how these groups interact witch each other and what effect fear and power have on the mind. It starts out friendly enough, but things go south really fast...
If you don't mind watching subtitled/foreign movies you should really give this one a try.
O_O
I have never been that impressed. OH MY GOD.
Need sleep, impressions after second viewing in morning :D
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Thanks to Toothpic Vic's suggestion, I've been looking into this clicking stuff with my laptop hard drive. As I suspected, it is to do with the hard drives power management junk. I tried the patch available from Dell, but it says that my drive doesn't need the update.
Hitachi has a utility that lets you set the power management options for ATA drives, but when I tried that it wouldn't let me set the power management options for my drive (Western Digital WD600VE-75HDT0).
So basically I'm stuck now. I would REALLY like to avoid shipping my laptop back to Dell, especially if they just ship me back a new drive the does the same thing. I can't afford to buy a new hard drive for this thing. Does anyone know of a utility to adjust the power management settings for a hard drive? Western Digital's site doesn't have anythign that I can see, and Dell only let's you control the acoustic management options (which make no difference in my case).
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http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37.628036,+-116.848060&spn=0.015621,0.022058&t=k&hl=en
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Awwwww, I'm not running the product the way you intended? Well, it just so happens that your intentions are extremely stupid.
This is what happens when marketing gets in the way of common sense (an all too often occurrance in game publishing). We discussed this situation at length today at the office and here's what we came up with:
EA looked at the BF1942 demo and the fact that there are still people playing it to this day -- I checked earlier and there were 172 people playing. These are people that never went out and bought the game. These are people that EA didn't make a few dollars from.
By implementing the 12 minute time limit, they assumed that it would be annoying enough that people wouldn't continue to play the demo after the game's release. What they didn't assume is that it would piss off the majority of their fan base. Then, when said fan base figures out a way around the time limit, they come screaming (whining?) back saying we're breaking the terms of the EULA.
Yeah? So what? I already figured out how to get unbanned/relisted ASAP. Go ahead and ban/delist my server EA, I'll just put it right back up as normal, WITHOUT THE TIMELIMIT.
This whole debacle is one of the worst cases of idiot marketing paper jockeys mucking up one of the most anticipated game demos in recent years.
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12 hours of bf2. yeah i'm hoplessly addicted to squad leader.
every group i've gotten to join seriously puts the hurt on the other team and my squad is consistantly the #1 squad with all points (the little gold trophies, cap points, kills)
and then, during the battle tonight on ashke's... organized squad vs. organized squad, wow that was FUUUUUUN. especially the BHD style battle on the rooftops of the construction site, we were pinned down but kept killing the opposing squad perched on the higher rooftop.
now we just need commanders who actually know how to command. online play on the shack servers is NOT the place to take commander for the first time
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Newer drivers out:
http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=1096
Just tried them, seem to work great.
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by the way the concrete bridge in the BF2 demo map is also destructable http://turd_ferguson.shackspace.com/screen003.jpg
doesn't change gameplay much as that doesn't really go anywhere but I'm sure the bridge is probably found in other maps.
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This little cockfucker is constantly biting me, scratching at me, jumping on my keyboard, fucking up my shit, rebooting my computer, tipping over my glasses, tearing up my pants, shitting on my floor, biting my kid and making her cry, eating all my damn food, the shit aint free, biting me some more, biting my kid more, tearing, scratching, clawing, ripping tearing, shitting, AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!11111
I hate my cat.
http://img42.echo.cx/img42/1002/angelcat15ie.png
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This is on an Nvidia 6800GT outputting via DVI and i've tried numerous different driver versions by the way.
Is it a DVI thing, an Nvidia thing? The only thing google is turning up is related to SLI, which I don't have.
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I've decided I want to learn to play guitar, so I've been looking around trying to find a good beginner guitar. Now, I realize I can ask 100 people and get 100 different answers, but right now it looks like I'm going to go with an Epiphone Les Paul 100. I really havent seen any negative comments or reviews on it, but I figured I would ask the shack as well. Any comments or suggestions?
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http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/contests/05-06-09/
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Someone explain to me why he was able to get all the loot and keep it for himself?
Does WoW not have a loot distribution system that permits controllers/loot bankers during raids?
The edited video that I'm cross hosting to prevent subscription download annoyance:
http://lunatic_angelic.shackspace.com/xxninja.WMV
Here's a poorly jpeg'd retelling of the story:
http://lunatic_angelic.shackspace.com/xxnvmstory.jpg
Also:
LOL at chicks on Teamspeak/Ventrillo freaking out over this shit.
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http://www.andresbecerra.com/ShackUploads/ShowImage.cfm?FileID=254&Title=Yeah,%20don't%20mess%20with%20BigT
/T
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link: http://comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=10032
..this wasn't much of a surprise. action+bald hero=vin diesel movie all the time.
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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...]*}y]s
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http://img101.echo.cx/my.php?image=sanfierrogarage1wv.jpg
4 vehicle limit even though my 1337 parking skills could easily allow like 6 D=
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http://www.slickdeals.net/#p6177
Go to the AMD Tech Tour and you can get a desktop bundle thats worth about $490 (newegg prices) for $250.
— AMD Athlon™ 64 3200+ 939 pin processor
— Asus A8N-E Socket 939 motherboard
— Microsoft® Windows® XP x64 Edition
They're coming to Seattle on July 12th and I'm really thinking about going.
Anyone been to one of these before?
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Wow. What an excellent movie. Christopher Nolan pulled this off even better than I thought he could. Every moment was brilliant and had me grinning like a hyena the entire time. The way they set up his "beginnings" was so perfect I couldn't ask for anything better. The set design, costumes, freaking sweeeeeet Batmobile (and I was a little worried about it when I saw those early pictures), excellent Batsuit, cinematography, casting, acting, action, plot were all so amazing.
Nolan had some great themes going on with fear, justice, vengeance that all played out so well. It was the best Batman movie by far.
There is only one "thing" that I would change at all from this movie and that is saying a lot. The fight scenes were filmed far too tight and edited to be far too quickly cut. Most of the film wasn't cut with MTV editing but the combat scenes were far too fast for me. I enjoy fight scenes that are filmed with the camera pulled out some and not so tight on the action. Most of the fight scenes were too dark and too fast to have such tight shots and quick editing.
That aside this is such an excellent Batman movie and such an excellent movie in general. Definately go see it.
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I want to be able to write a function that does the following:
that will run the function pointed to by pointerToFunction, supplied with a variable number of arguments.
So ideally I could do something like:
and it would equivalently call someFunction("theArgument");
Now, I've tried using va_list, but the problem is you have to cast the arguments at compile time, which I don't want. Is there any other way I can do this?
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So what mouspad does everyone use? I'm thinking of buying a nice one for once. Any suggestions?
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All the stuff about this Orny adams guy is Zzz. If by the end of the movie he dies or is somehow seriously injured then it will be okay. If not im going to re-edit this movie to get rid of him.
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These pictures were taken on my level 26 warlock. Please direct your attention to the Tital panel at the top and my DPS output.
http://img101.echo.cx/img101/7455/omgdps19lu.jpg
http://img240.echo.cx/img240/5906/omgdps28tg.jpg
http://img240.echo.cx/img240/7183/omgdps44tm.jpg
http://img240.echo.cx/img240/5652/omgdps37sn.jpg (Oh yeah, you're seeing that right!)
Who said Warlocks are gimp??
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The game will be set in 1998, with the lead character being Toni Cipriani (voiced by Michael Madsen, who has also appeared in Driv3r and the Kill Bill movies). The full 3D viewpoint is finally given some substance by the screenshots. The game looks very similar to GTAIII and uses some of the original map from that game. Players will see the familiar three-island layout return, with Portland, Staunton Island and Shoreside Vale all being included. It is not yet clear if there will be any further areas to explore.
Motorbikes are confirmed for the game. Screenshots show both the PCJ and the Freeway. However, an interview segment of the article states that there will be no airborne transport in the game - probably because GTAIII's map didn't feature collision models for the roofs of the buildings. Other vehicles which appear in the screenshots are a police car, police Enforcer, Esperanto, Moonbeam, Stallion, Taxi and Bobcat. The article also states that the Patriot and Sentinel will be included.
Can't link as the site contains screenshots scanned from the magazine.. they look nice btw :-)
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http://www.grackle.net/cat/vomit.html
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