Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Aug 09, 2005 6:00pm PDTWell, I'm just a little more than a week away from leaving my 20's. It's pretty much over guys. Sorry. As I'll be immediately much more mature once I turn 30 we'll be ditching all the poop jokes and hip pop culture lingo references. I'll also start to scold you on not doing your homework before playing games. Cool?
- Remember guys, anything is possible! - Yay for a safe NASA landing - MS gets $7million from spammer - Massive bank heist - Blu-Ray security has been decidedLastly, if you missed it.. Jessica Simpson has boobies
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I hope this isnt a repost, but here it goes.
A new movie of the fantasy FPS game Project Offset has now been released. Project Offset is an epic adventure set in a fantasy world that visually looks absolutely amazing. From the few minutes of footage we have seen so far, this is definitely one of the more interesting next-gen games in development.
It is really amazing that such an ambitious and very promising next-gen game is being developed by only three people working out of an apartment. The Offset Team which is the name of their company is currently completely self-funded. The engine and all art thus far has been created with a tiny budget, just enough to purchase the software and hardware they need for development. They also are looking for investors and publishers as they can't stay self-funded for too much longer according a news post on their site. Somebody give these guys a publishing deal!
Here is what the Offset Team said about their game:
"Project Offset" (working title) is a game like no other first person shooter to date. We wanted to make an FPS set in a epic fantasy world. A game where you can choose one of many character classes. A game where clans can combat over mission based objectives and be ranked accordingly. A game where you can play alone, coop, team based objective or deathmatch.
The controls feel exactly how an FPS player would expect. Play as an archer and
your skill using the bow and leading your target is what will set you apart. When the battles get close up, pull out your sword and continue the fight melee.
For players who like vehicle combat, we won't disappoint. Project Offset will have creatures you can ride, dragons you can fly, siege weapons you can man, all part of an epic battle between you and your foes.
"The game is targeted for next gen PC hardware. Xbox360 and PS3 are also possible and we are excited about bringing Project Offset to these platforms."
http://www.xbox360news.com/Blogs/News/hqs/blr_257.aspx
Looks pretty cool I must say. Hrm......m-must resist urge.....to....pre-order. :P
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Whats up! We haven't had a CS:S battle that was decent sized in a long time... so here we go...
Where: CS.SHACKBATTLES.COM
When: 8/10 8pm CST, 9pm EST, 6pm PST
Why: Because there is a new map (Assault) I haven't tried yet, there was an update to it today, lotta reasons why. But mostly because BF2 is getting a little old.
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On the island of knights and knaves (Knights and knaves are the only people on this island other than you. Knights can only tell the truth, while knaves can only lie), you meet Jack and Jill. Suppose that JACK says "I am a knave, or Jill is a knight." Which of the following do you know for sure?
Jack and Jill are both knights.
Jack and Jill are both knaves.
Jack is a knight, but Jill is a knave.
Jack is a knave, but Jill is a knight.
We cannot say for sure.
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I had someone breaking into my car the other day (saturday), on our way home from a vacation, the car was fully packet with all kinds of crap one brings to a cabin holiday. Anyway we made a stop at a amusement park on the way home, went back to the car and bam ! one window smashed, the drivers door busted (lock and handle).
Know what the fuckers stole ? my fishing gear, my sons fishing gear, and his fucking Xbox+games and dvd's (packet in a softbag at the bottom in the truck, not visible from the outside). I mean who the fuck steals fishing gear ? and junior fishing gear ?
If I ever see anyone stealing shit that isn't theirs I'll promise i'll rip their fucking guts out.
I mean, I had two kids crying, both for the loss of the stuff and beeing afraid of the 'criminals'. One has wooken up every night since this happened (7y). I only lost some easily replacable crap (fishing gear) they lost somehting that mattered to them, mostly the fishing gear that was new for this summer, all their save games + games on the xbox, most of their kids movies. For them is not related to the stuff itself, they had some kind of attachement to it, I mean my eldest got his first pike with that gear a few weeks ago etc.
I fucking hate idiots taking shit that isn't theirs ! kick em' in the nuts or nuke them from orbit.
Stealing should be sentenced with death after one conviction. Yeah that right fuckers, die !
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I just discovered this when my kitten laid his head on the control key.
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http://www.filecabi.net/v/file/urban-ninja/wmv
Punching water is AWESOME.
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http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=10663
(430$ US) - ouch.
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the upside for Sony is of course that they will be able to leverage off the xbox 360's solution with the ps3 :P
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It appears that people are in the process of making hommade code run on a 2.0 PSP.
http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20050809_175640.html
(coundn't find the original site)
happy birthday pup!
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Madden 2006 sucks.
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A blue one, to be exact.
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http://www.flashplayer.com/animation/declineofvideogaming3.html
LOL'd hard at the Ken Kuturagi and Metroid scenes.
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http://www.telefragged.com/thefatal/index.php?content=inc_si_ds.htm
http://heretic.drunkencoders.com/screenshots.html
Both are in their early releases so there is quite a bit of work to be done but its getting harder and harder to keep talking myself out of buying a flashcart.
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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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Score, I guess. Is it good?
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http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=10541697
Repost from FP... Didn't find an answer:
I'm trying to figure out how to un-invert the cockpit view for planes and heli's in bf2. Basically, I have my controls set to be non-inverted, yet when I press Z to 'look around', it goes into invert mode, where up is down, down is up ... really messes with the way I fly.
Anyone know how to fix this? Im sure not everyone likes invert mouse for mouselook mode...
Shack helppen apple flappen HWM PLZOMGBBQ!!!
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plugin 38.113.32.180:8000 into winamp
im up as DJ right now with:
1. Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) (4:48)
2. Les Savy Fav - One Way Window (3:18)
3. Sonic Youth - Purr (4:22)
4. Sleater-Kinney - All Hands On The Bad One (2:57)
5. Interpol - Precipitate (5:34)
6. Fugazi - Last Chance For A Slow Dance (4:38)
7. Siouxsie & The Banshees - Arabian Knights (3:07)
8. Echo & The Bunnymen - The Killing Moon (5:47)
9. Joy Division - Shadowplay (3:53)
10. PJ Harvey - Working For The Man (4:49)
11. Massive Attack - Karmacoma (5:16)
12. Bjork - Venus As A Boy (4:42)
13. Björk - Oceania (3:24)
14. Björk - Pluto (3:19)
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spooky.
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GET PSYCHED!]r
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Rant time!
Jesus - I fired up the demo on my laptop with an ATI 9600 and while I couldn't see shit (LCD screen and a laptop one at that - it just looked washed out) -it DID work fine.
So I get myself a 6600 today and I think hell I'll try it on my proper PC.
I've got a 10krpm 74gb raptor and 1gb of ram - I admit the video card is only 128mb
Load times were appauling.
The menu had to "load" and wasn't responsive.
The game was slow as HELL and stuttery - like 10 fps, then smooth for 5 seconds - then back to 10 fps? (1024x768 and I don't use AA ? - on a 6600GT?)
The game has to re-convert textures each time or some shit when you change graphical detail
oh and getting INTO the game I had to have an EA splash screen, then Dice, then Nvidia, then "warning this is only a demo" then "hey pre-order us now" then finally the huge load time of the real game.
Oh and as default it connects to a local server or something "ready to play" but I haven't set my settings yet - so in order to do that, I have to cancel the huge load it's just done and quit the current session to change them
wow...... SO glad I didn't buy it.
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http://www.zerotohundred.com/features/dreamcarsasiaklcc2005/ldragon/DSC_8853.JPG
only one in existence, and still under testing by Lotus and Proton's motorsports division R3.
:D :D :D makes me feel warm inside
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It wont even start the game. It just gives me a black screen that I have to pushbutton reboot!
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just got my 2405fpw up and running. looks great. although now i have the question of what to do with the audio inputs from my gamecube and satellite tv.
i just wanted something cheap and effective, are 1/8" analog inputs what i need to hook up the red and white audio cables from my satellite and gamecube? am i going to need a special device to switch between two sets of input?
600mb is an iso - it's a linux install cd - it's ... just wow.
and isn't it 10 minutes of gameplay?
We're gonna need a bigger pipe.
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I need a SOCKS 5 proxy that works over port 80 and I need it quick like
Reward? ...
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http://about.reuters.com/pictures/prints/galleries/Index.aspx
A bit expensive for my taste, but you can't deny the quality of some of these prints
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