Evening Reading

September 18, 2005 7:27 PM

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Doin a quick trip to Chicago for the weekend... it's great that the hookers up here do price matching. Who woulda guessed that?

- Another way for your car to get hacked - The new Bond? - The Emmy winners - Bloogle for the blogosphere! (barf)

Lastly, Wells Fargo enters gaming market?

Steve Gibson

Steve Gibson is the cofounder of Shacknews.com. Originally known as sCary's Quakeholio back in 1996, Steve is now President of Gearbox Publishing after selling Shacknews to GameFly in 2009.

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September 18, 2005 7:28 PM

just a friendly reminder that the BF2 shackbattle is still underway.
- [deleted] 147069810
  
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  September 18, 2005 8:12 PM
  
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  - Postal
    
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    September 18, 2005 8:15 PM
    
    gg on the unintentional bump of my shackbattle notice!
    - [deleted] 147069810
      
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      September 18, 2005 8:16 PM
      
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  - unlurker
    
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    September 18, 2005 8:17 PM
    
    I'm pretty sure you can do that with xpath, but I'm too lazy and intoxicated to look it up right now.
    - unlurker
      
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      September 18, 2005 8:17 PM
      
      Damn it, compound mispost.
- Maddog_Delphi97
  
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  September 18, 2005 8:16 PM
  
  Yep, good game tonight.
- Fred Garvin
  
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  September 18, 2005 8:20 PM
  
  And for me tonight it's an exercise in total frustration. Nothing like emptying a hole shotgun clip into a guys back only to have him turn around and pop you with 3 pistols shots. Yeah, that's fun. Not to mention everyone always bailing on the losing team so that it's always 2 to 3 guys short.
  - deeveee
    
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    September 18, 2005 8:22 PM
    
    Yea tonight sucked.
    - laidback
      
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      September 18, 2005 8:23 PM
      
      It shouldn't for you.. You were bombing us all to hell! >:I
      - deeveee
        
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        September 18, 2005 8:24 PM
        
        Yea and foxhawk was on my ass 90% of that time so it wasnt very fun :(
        
        Fred Garvin
        
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        September 18, 2005 8:32 PM
        
        Especially in the damn map when the USMC has the MEC airbase. You run for like 5 minutes to go and try to repair the arty and scanners and just when you get there a plane comes out of nowhere and blasts you to hell. There needs to be an eaiser way to take planes down. They are so fast that in a map like Kubra there are so many obstructions you can't shoot long enough to take them down.
        
        Nighthavvk
        
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        September 18, 2005 8:33 PM
        
        booo no way, I was only on kfj... I think you mean johngloid or whoever was on you.
- 69shots
  
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  September 18, 2005 8:22 PM
  
  After tonight, this game is just so frustrating to play anymore. It used to seem like the shack server was alot more focused but even the shack server has turned into a heli/airplane bombing game. It's fucking rediculous to even think of playing a foot soldier anymore. You can just count on getting killed by a chopper, airplane or artillery in the minute after you spawn.
  - deeveee
    
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    September 18, 2005 8:25 PM
    
    I think we need a better map rotation. Having 2 maps in a row that has jets makes it not very fun for people on the ground.
    - genjuro
      
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      September 18, 2005 8:27 PM
      
      I said it when they decided on it - this is a bad idea.
      
      Running a 400 ticket map twice is just fucking insane and will lead to people leaving early.
      - 69shots
        
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        September 18, 2005 8:32 PM
        
        Yeah, that was pretty messed up also. When I saw that we had like 365 points to go and I was so fed up with all the bombing run crap, I called it a night. I went back in for a few more but it was the dam map and low and behold more fucking airplanes doing runs. I could really do without airplanes when playing on a Shackbattle night. There's enough of that to go around during the other nights on pubs.
  - RikiTiki2
    
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    September 18, 2005 9:08 PM
    
    yeah, air power in BF2 is really high compared to what there was in BF1942 and BFNAM.
    
    planes in those two didn't completely dominate.
    those US attack helos in BFNAM, though, yikes
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      September 18, 2005 9:30 PM
      
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- kfj
  
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  September 18, 2005 8:47 PM
  
  just because i owned half the american team with the bomber dosent mean i hate you guys
  - Fred Garvin
    
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    September 18, 2005 8:50 PM
    
    Understood, but it's still no fun for those of us on the ground. You are basically a high speed mobile arty.
    - Maddog_Delphi97
      
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      September 18, 2005 9:41 PM
      
      Yeah, I wish the non-mobile AA guns on the ground didn't suck.
      - Nighthavvk
        
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        September 18, 2005 9:44 PM
        
        perhaps they could give a huge bonus for air to air kills.
        
        Maddog_Delphi97
        
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        September 18, 2005 9:55 PM
        
        That might work... IF somebody can get to an airplane BEFORE IT GETS BOMBED.
        
        :[
        
        No fun if the same planes gets destroyed over and over again in same spot.
        
        deeveee
        
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        September 18, 2005 10:02 PM
        
        Maybe they could add more jets so theres more air to air combat and less bombing?