First Post!
by Maarten Goldstein, Jul 22, 2005 5:23am PDTI do believe it's Friday. Also on FileShack
- The Sims 2: Nightlife Movie #5 - more gameplay footage from this upcoming expansion pack.
- MotoGP 3 demo - two tracks, two classes. playable off- and on-line.
- Enemy Territory Fortress 1.6 - bug fixes and an additional map. a patch is out too.
Carmageddon ploughing into GOG
Harry Potter for Kinect announced
Mad Riders trailer goes heavy on the meta
Anarchy Reigns finished, delayed by Sega anyway
Jet Set Radio making its way to Vita



So next week, I'm moderating a panel with some of gaming's biggest names. And I'm looking for your help with questions. Details in reply.
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This morning, I head out to the gym. Get there, get changed and head up to the basketball court. There's some other people in there doing stretches and stuff with the various trainers.
I walk over to the corner where the basketballs are, which are behind these 2 15' tall hollow steel poles that are on wheels. I grab a ball, turn around and proceed to catch my toe on the corner of the base of one of the poles. I'm like "Clay's you're such an idiot" and start to walk off.
About 2 seconds later one of the trainers yells "LOOK OUT" - I look over at him and WHAM one of those giant poles whizzes 6" from my head, brushes by my foot and crashes to the floor
At the very least, I should have been unconcious, lying in a pool of blood. Looks like the force was with me today!
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I was walking out of my friends house and saw his brothers white van parked and started joking to myself about how the miata I drove there was stolen and what not, the whole time knowing it was small enough to hide behind this immense thing easily. Naturally I skip around the side of the van, keys dancing in my hand, and find no car. In good humor I check under the van and circle it again, after all it's a miata.
One of those disbelief moments hit me, the kind that makes you want to retrace your steps a bit.
A few seconds of disbelief and inaction soon turned into a quick run down the short driveway to see if I can catch the bastards who stole it driving off. After all I'm motivated* and I know I'll be able to run and catch up to them, after all it's a miata.
I check to my right, check to my left and through that wonderful thing called peripherial vision see the familiar red reflection of the circular breaklights in front of me. Ah ha, the bastards decided to steal what they could and park it across the street. I pride myself on not losing control and remembering to only leave my work clothes and 4 pair of shoes in the car--nothing valuable.
I unlock the car and all is well. The parking break is on (albeit halfway). Nothing has been taken and the idiots didn't hit the truck hidden by the shadow of a large tree. Wait a second! Apparently the parking break is weak and gravity rolled the car down the driveway (fairly steep, about 20 or 25 degrees if I had to guess), across the luckily uncrowded residential road and had sufficient force to park itself in the opposite driveway, missing a mailbox and a truck by a few feet. It is then that the parking break apparently decided to work and that I promised myself to always shift it into gear when I park as well (as a backup, or so I'm told).
I'm glad the steering wheel was turned just perfectly enough to make such a thing possible without damage or rolling further down the street. It also would have sucked had another car hit it, as it's a black car and that part of the street is not well lit.
c'est tout, bon soir.
*was just talking with a friend who always says "if I were really motivated, I could (insert activity here)".
Key points:
1. THE LOCKOUT IS OVER!!!!
2. New rules:
- Overtime shootouts (therefore, no more confusing W-L-T-OTL lines in the standings tables!)
- Smaller goalie pads (11-inch wide leg pads; perhaps more goalie skill and/or allowed goals in the game)
- "Goaltenders can only go behind the goal line in a trapezoid-shaped area."
- Larger offensive zones
- "Although no-touch icing wasn't added, players who make long, home-run type passes that miss their target will not be whistled for icing."
And the Penguins won the draft lottery.
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Seriously, whats a good page that has all the skill trees and stuff like that broken down?
reposted because I ate a reply button
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http://vforvendetta.warnerbros.com/trailer.html
It says its going to be up at 6 est, which has already passed, so hopefully it will be up soon. It looked pretty kickass in the theater today.
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Just to make sure we're clear... its friday.... so that means us losers need to be playing BF2 like a mother f#$*.
So:
When: 8pm CST, 9pm EST, 6pm PST till whenever.
Where: bf2.shackbattles.com
Why: So we can try and catch up to Umax here:
http://www.shackbattles.com/bf2stats/
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Various metal artists will be appearing on the soundtrack to the upcoming "Rainbow Six Lockdown" videogame. The soundtrack will be released as a DualDisc on August 02nd via Calvin Records and is set to feature the following tracks:
36 Crazyfists - "The Heart And Shape"
Chimaira - "Eyes Of A Criminal"
Devildriver - "I Could Care Less"
Trivium - "Like Light To The Flies"
Fear Factory - "Lockdown"
Fear Factory - "Rainbow Six Theme"
Last Amanda - "Game Over"
Not Forgotten - "Waiting"
Not Forgotten - "Never Forget"
Mnemic - "Door 2.12"
Soilwork - "Stabbing The Drama"
Bury Your Dead - "Color Of Money"
Strapping Young Lad - "Love"
Bill Brown (Orchestral) - "Rainbow Six Theme"
Kush - "Unstable"
The video portion of the outing will include:
Soilwork - "Stabbing The Drama"
Mnemic - "Door 2.12"
Strapping Young Lad - "Love"
Bury Your Dead - "Color Of Money"
Plus additional trailers from Ubisoft. The game itself is set to land on store shelves on various consoles on September 06th.
It's like an end of an era. :(
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Explosions rock Egyptian resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh on the Red Sea, heavily damaging a hotel, The Associated Press reports.
Uh-oh
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How come none of you told me that Ramathorn from SuperTroopers (also directed it) is the director for Dukes of Hazzard? I knew I saw him in the trailer saying "Mother of god"
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0151540/
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paging thekidd to the thread
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/cpress/20050723/ca_pr_on_en/laughs_stupidity_awards
Congrats to Ann Coulter for winning stupidest man
Truly an American icon
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It was ME!!!!!!
I'll still be working at the University of North Texas but I'll be getting a pay increase and benefits. I'm giddy with excitment and ready to give out more hugs than dognose will when DNF is released.
=-)
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Does anyone here own a hybrid car? I've got a hankering to own one. I've been following the news lately and I've started this blog: http://hybridsource.everybase.com .
File this post away somewhere and if you run across some news or want to write a review, shack message me. Anyone own a model that they just really love?
The woman's blazer is on its last leg and we're going to need something new soon.
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Whats the deal with XBox 360 backwards compatibility? Confirmed? Not Confirmed? How it works? Etc,.
Thanks
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http://maps.google.com/maps?t=h
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AFTER 7 YEARS OF U.S. DOMINANCE!
That's what I'm talking about. Booyah.
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I'm cleaning out my closet and I'm trying to get rid of a bunch of old games, so rather then put them on ebay I figured I would put them up on the shack. Every game is in its CD Jewel Case with inserts unless otherwise noted. All the CDs are in good condition and play without issue.
Shipping is $2 for the first game, $1 for each additional title after that. Games marked "shipping" are games that I'll give you free if you pay shipping. I'll ship them out via First Class mail in a cute padded envelope. If you live outside the US, I'll ship to you, but you gotta figure out how much USPS is going to charge me to ship a 4oz padded envelope to you.
If you're intrested SM what you want, your address, and the email address I should send the PayPal invoice to. I'm only doing payments via PayPal, but I do take credit card payments via paypal (business account).
If you want something, but think its too much, make an offer on it. I should have everything priced well below what they would ever sell for on ebay, especially since I'm charging basically cost for shipping.
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I captured a video of me playing stage 1 of Alpha Mission 2 on my arcade cabinet, the three minute max length runs out just before the boss encounter starts and I suffer a really silly death, but it's still pretty cool.
13-14 megs large, latest Xvideo codec, played at default (level 4/8) difficulty
http://home.vasteras2.net/mrlonghair/alphamission2stage1-mlh.avi
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http://www.simonsays.com/content/content.cfm?sid=358&pid=513340
I can't wait for this book to come out. He says there's only one more book after this one. Such a good series.
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Best show ever :~(
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I just got a new job as webmaster for the Institute of Noetic Sciences http://ions.org/
It means a 33% raise, full benefits, paid holidays, 2 weeks paid vacation per year. I'm stoked.
My only regret is how little Ruby on Rails I will be doing. Going out to get stuff at a nice chinese restaraunt and then get hammered. Good times will ensue...
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Anyone have an Autobot logotype at least 1200 pixels tall? I think line-art could do
Ever since I got FIOS mozilla seems to take longer to resolve ip addresses. Occassionally I'll get "resolving host" for a few seconds before going to a page. I've tried manually overriding the dns servers to 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2 both on the router itself (the fios provided dlink 604) and on the client machine to no avail.
Has anyone else had a problem like this before?
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for whatever reason it's no longer properly deinterlacing the video for me, resulting in shitty, jittery video that's pretty damn unuseable. Tried uninstalling the software, rebooting, reinstalling, rebooting, and it didn't fix it. Tried uninstalling the drivers. Didn't fix it. Tried using the WDMBT848 drivers and it didn't fix it.
It worked fine for months but now suddenly it's telling me to screw myself :(
Has anyone else had a similar problem and have a solution? I'd like to be able to record videos again like..right now :(
DScaler still works fine, of course. Too bad it's not useable for a video capture tool (not like I have a CPU powerful enough for it to be one anyway :( )