First Post!
by Maarten Goldstein, Aug 09, 2005 6:11am PDTWell that was some delay last night. Bad weather on the east coast had me stranded in Newark for several hours, and I arrived in Dallas last night at 11:30pm instead of 8:30pm. "Ladies and gentlemen we are currently plane number 25 in line for takeoff" is a pretty awesome announcement by the way.
Daily Filter: Planetside 2, Deadlight
Weekend PC digital deals: strategy-o-rama
38 Studios, Harry Potter Kinect - Shacknews Daily: May 25, 2012
Minecraft for Xbox 360 dev working on 'Adventure' update
Demon's Souls servers extended again
I'm having a logo design contest for my new game company (previously, I was the founder of PopTop Software - Railroad Tycoon 2, 3, Tropico, etc.).
Design the best logo, win a new Sony PSP
Details here:
http://forums.indiegamer.com/showthread.php?t=4039
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I displayed http://boarder2.shackspace.com/test1.png (unscaled, in full screen mode) on a LCD with a VGA connection. And then did the auto-vga calibration thing (by pressing a button on the monitor).
It's SO much better. I'm not sure if it'll just help for LCDs... but it was so helpful. I have two similar 19" LCDs side by side, one on DVI and one on VGA, and the DVI one was kicking the VGAs butt. But now, I can't tell a difference, aside from really minor color variations. Text looks so much better now. Thanks to whoever posted that pic!
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- Dish network installer broke an outdoor chair because he couldn't be bothered to bring a stepladder. He hid it under the other chairs.
- Dishwasher installer broke some baseboards clean off, but just put them back. We didn't even find these until months afterward.
- Sewer line installers yesterday destroyed a wall socket in my basement. Did they mention it to me? No. They also trashed the yard, left mud all over the deck, and my hose in tangles all over the front yard. Not to mention the huge fucking hole in my sidewalk they haven't poured concrete into.
If no one is here by noon to clean this shit up, those sewer line guys are going to be hearing from one supremely pissed off hippie this afternoon.
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Sisoft is here http://www.sisoftware.net/index.html?dir=dload&location=sware_dl_3264&langx=en&a= only 10mb if you want to grab it.
Wanna see if anyone else's Seagate is chock full of errors but the file system NOT reporting bad sectors? :(
See my reason for asking here >:(
http://forums.storagereview.net/index.php?showtopic=20396
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Rally Finland Video Highlight
Here is my highlight video of the weekend's Rally Finland:
http://sirx.shackspace.com/rally/wrcfinland05highlights.avi (51 MB)
Best action of the year so far. Download this one if you like any sort of cool racing stuff at all.
Video Highlights:
- Yes Solberg lost his brakes for most of a stage, still did pretty good. He is completely nuts. Can't believe he manged to survive that almost-crash on friday though.
- 160Km/h = 100 miles/hr - lots of fun on twisty, hilly, tree-lined roads.
- On a jump on a new stage, Loeb's co-driver had the wind knocked out of him, Gronholm's co-driver hurt his back and couldn't read notes for the rest of the stage, and another co-driver compressed his vertebra and the car had to withdraw.
- And of course Gronholm won! Loeb was still second though :(
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So I've got a pocket pc but I want to use Thunderbird as my email client, is there a plugin to sync the 2?
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1845993,00.asp
dynamic updates will be the 1st thing to need hacking
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www.quakecon.org
(dang it, I was hoping for q4test!)
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New screenshots and an awesome preview over at http://gamesradar.msn.co.uk/features/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=36748&subsectionid=1639
info shamelessly stolen from operationflashpoint.cz
Notably, this: http://ofp.gamezone.cz/news/pics3/opf23.jpg
Finally my Sabot round will leave more than a black burn mark on the buildings! *coughbf2*
Not to mention theres some spicy info on Armed Assault (opflash 1.5, due out this fall), as well:
"..Forests were originally created as a single map object, meaning they were strictly limited in terms of how you could interact. Now, they're made out of individual trees, which can be knocked down when you get in a suitably armoured vehicle."
nifty!
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http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldofwarcraft.co.kr%2Finfo%2Fworld%2Funderdev%2Farathi.html&langpair=ko%7Cen&hl=en&c2coff=1&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools
(horrendously translated from Korean)
In short, 15 man teams holding 5 farms similar to the old TF map Canalzone. Hot? Hot.
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http://www.novell.com
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http://thewound.free.fr/tyg_newtrailer_july2005.wmv
Apparently no wires for the fight scenes again...HOT!
Now if only American kung-fu movies were more like this and less rap/DMX crap.
>:(
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I heard we are not allowed to stand inline the night before the CON starts withour gear :(
So if thats the case what is everyone doing tomorrow night!?
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It seems like my HUD got messed up somehow. I'm going to try just deleting all the content and redownloading, I guess.
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optical zoom desired :P
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She's 15 years old, 15 years old, 15 years old, 15 years old...
Dirty old man'd.
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http://shack.igneferroque.org/il2_vs_tankshell.avi
I get hit by a tank shell strafing a convoy in Il-2 and live. Later half is my wingman getting owned by some German planes and AA. DivX 6.x codec, I think.
We need to have some coop shackbattles with this game.
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¿comprende?
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AMD+OSX86=Smooth
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Apparently a truck carrying live ammunition and other high combustibles just crashed on the on ramp to I-405 on NE 8th st.
It's on fire apparently.
http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/traffic/seattle/i405_8th.htm#cam
anyone see anything on the news about this?
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http://www.shacknews.com/redir_comments.x?id=38143
A shacker asked this and I went to an associate and he came up with the figure of $75/mo or I think $150/mo for RAID storage. I couldn't really find any other numbers so I didn't think that was too crazy expensive but ... well how much would you expect to pay?
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all call centers make you want to do is stick a fork in your eyeball to end the monotonous misery.
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The project is finally done. Some pretty good stuff in there.
Really brings back memories, check it out :
http://doom.ocremix.org/
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I am a huge nerd. I play pen and paper RPG's. That out of the way, RPG's can be greatly heightened by the addition of music. So I am looking for some mood music. This stuff is usually played in the background at a relatively low volume, so I have found that orchestral stuff works best (you wont be able to make out the words). So if you have any song ideas, they would be greatly appreciated.
What we usually need is
Planning: This is what you play when the players set up some horribly complex impossible tactic to achieve something relatively simple.
Examples: "Hack the Planet" song
Schala's Theme - Chrono Trigger
Tension: For the exposition. When the players are invited to court for dinner and find out there is more on their plate then they thought. Best when it starts off slow, to allow for a little more talk before they think things are amiss.
Examples: Intro to Catch Me If You Can
Fight: For when they finally reap what they sow. This usually takes a long time (30 min - 1 hour) so a LOT of it is needed to avoid looping.
Examples: Threat Mix
Hell March
O Fortuna
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updated the ol' roadblog with another entry.
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The power went out here today and I can run all my games but BF2. Just goes to the BF2 screen with the tank on it and then quits(the program) after that.
Is this program finicky with refresh rates at all? Also I am thinking of uninstalling re-installing but I would like to save my configs for it.
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