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6Hopefully you goof balls will enjoy your weekend! I'm hoping to perhaps get 30 minutes of rest or so.. that would be super awesome.
- Smarter phones - Videogame courses expanding - Battle robots are here! - Opera doing well, hopefully sucking much lessLastly, WoW plague is all the rage! Dig it!
I was a little wary picking this up, simply because I enjoyed the HELL out of Hulk Ultimate Destruction but I did anyways, and I am extremly glad I did so.
I should preface my comments by saying that I played proably way too much spiderman 2, I mastered the system, collected all 150 tokens and completed every race with a gold medal (and was rewarded with NOTHING!). Ultimate Spiderman takes a differnt angle than the previous spidermans by basing it on the current comic book. The resulting visual style is astonishing, for all intensive purposes its a living breathing comic book world. Spiderman has a veritable array of animations for any situation, its almost breathtaking watchin him in movement, he's extremly agile and nimble yet graceful and precise at the same time.
The Swinging system has been revamped, and despite my initial aversion to the change, it is LOADS better and extremly fitting for spiderman. One of my gripes with spiderman 2 was the swinging system was very unforgiving, if you didn't catch the building at the right angle and the right time you could be flung off into nowhere, or sometimes you would come to a dead stop right into a building...extremly embaressing for any superhero. Couple this with the fact that it was almost impossible to swing in a straight line down a street. With ultimate spiderman, they took the swinging back to where it belongs, low, fast, and slick as shit. Spiderman now moves extremly gracefully down the middle of a street and its very easy and intuitive to control. I won't get into the mechanics of it, but suffice to say it is a vastly improved system.
The combat has always recieved a much needed massive overhaul. Spiderman moves as fast as rick james on a coccaine spree. You can jump off walls to hit enemies in the face then combo off them to nearby enemies chaining together throws, kicks, punches, web tricks, all in the span of 15 seconds. Its extremly impressive how fast this kid moves. The more enemies you chain together and the faster you switch targets the more damage you do, so you are rewarded for taking people out as effectively and stylishly as possible which is a nice touch. It really makes you FEEL like spiderman which was missing in my opinion from previous games.
Venom...ah venom, everything is as it should be in the world. He is a massive powerhouse with some really great combos such as the backbreaker which picks up a enemy and breaks his back in front of his horrified partners. YOu can also do the ever so fun slam their head into the ground, or simply grab them and throw them off high buildings. His extremly long tentacle attack coupled with his claws are devesating and extremly powerful. Venom also has the ability to throw cars/objects into his foes for maxium radious damage. His modus operendi for transporation is jumping, and this man can fly. Think hulk flying through the air ala the movie as well as the game, but faster and with a longer distance O_O...fantastic. To heal you must absorb people into you and drain them, you can do this to enemies as well as civilians (heheheh) and its fun to just totaly take out 15 guy's by practically eating them.
The story is well played out in AWESOME cutscenes, certanily the best of any comic game to date and I dare say some of the best cutscenes i've seen in a while period. The visual style is overwhelming, and the production values are top notch. For any True Believer, Ultimate Spiderman is a must buy !!!!
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This has only furthered my opinion that most shackers are on drugs most of the time.
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I wanted to post them earlier tonight but the Corpse Bride came in my way, excellent movie BTW, it made me want to check out everything animated directed by Tim Burton.
I don't know why but a lot of the characters reminded me of Monkey Island.
Well, without further ado...
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today 25th september (yes it is )
my wife and i have been married for 6 years
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She's trying to order some makeup but they no longer sell it in the US and of course, won't ship it overseas.
If anybody is willing to help please shackmsg me.
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0471711/
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I dice an onion and dice up some garlic and let that sweat out in 2tbsp of butter in my cast iron. While that is nicely browning, I slice up a red, green and orange pepper into nice strips. I also dice up two jalapenos and some other pepper (like a poblano). Then I toss those in there and let that cook. Medium High heat. When those are are starting to soften, I toss the chicken in. I make sure that every piece is touching the bottom and I just let it get a nice sear. A lot of the onion and garlic gets cooked right on the surface of the chicken. I do a big pinch of salt over the chicken and then another over the veggies. Then I do a few grinds of FRESH FUCKING BLACK PEPPER over the chicken and veggies. When that sear is done on one side, I flip the whole mass-o-chicken and sear the other side (takes more time since the pan has lost heat). Once thats done, I toss them around for awhile until the chicken is done.
I serve it still spitting but I put about 1/4 of a lime's juice over it all while its still hot. Creates a nice aroma and adds some citrus taste to the mix. Serve with rice, black beans, crema, lettuce, diced tomatos, and anything else I can do to totally gringo up the dish including store bought tortillas if I was lazy. The beauty of this method of cooking fajitas is that one could have a real mild one with just chicken + cheese + tortilla or you could load it up with peppers and go to town and get something that your tounge will truely enjoy. Be fucking creative with this dish, please. Maybe find yourself a nice rub that everyone likes for the chicken like I have as well. I mean, why the fuck not? Play around every once and awhile. This stores great and you can easily toss some chicken, peppers, beans and cheese on a tortilla tomorrow for lunch and nuke it for 60 seconds and be good to go.
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http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=top+gear
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http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/MEFW911UPL/
Newegg's got 250 GB PATA drives from Seagate for $112.
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me and a bunch of other hunters are pwning horde in gadgetzan using that 'exploit' .. basically we feign death, then send our pets after horde.. the bruisers go after the pets, but not us... and having like 8 pets on one horde, theyre dead quickly
this is the most fun ive had in a while, i bet the horde are pissed there lol
also, i totally pwnd this rogue, they must have been pretty high level, i got like 91 honor .. had fraps running too! check it:
http://www.shackifieds.com/files/uploads/rogue.wmv
bruisers did most of the work, but they obviously suck at being a rogue since they didnt sprint or vanish or anything. in retrospect i should have marked them, but i guess it didnt matter
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http://board.spawn.com/forums/showthread.php?t=209328
that's beyond everything.
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http://bt.etree.org
Ton's of great torrent downloads of live concerts that you really can't find anywhere else.
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Oh for the love of
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real life quake 3
http://daemlich.net/8180
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_BitTorrent_clients
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6791295034711995187&q=starwars
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Discuss.
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That's the shack verdict?
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http://www.battlefield2.co.kr/movie/mine.wmv
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Re: Fred's post from yeserday and my post from last week ]
http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=10798420
Toys 'R' Us console gaming sale is still on until Sept 30th (says their flyer)
Your local store should have separate bins for games on sale at $14.97. Note that at my store none of the games were actually marked down on their stickers; you have to take them to the counter and see the discount applied.
For example I picked up 'Jade Empire Limited Edition' for $14.97 Cdn., and 'Red Dead Revolver' for the same price. While both games were clearly marked $39.99 and $29.99
Is there any way to skip past the intro movies and whatnot? I'd like to be able to start playing right after the murder rather than watch it every time I start the game.
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Ok my system specs:
Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz HT
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 PCI-e Driver 7.8.0.1
1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz
I ran 3dMark2005 and I got 2999... is that normal ?
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