Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Oct 14, 2005 7:57pm PDTWell then, weekend eh? How bout that!
- Way cool space pics - Porn on your iPod very soon - No spam from Nigeria? :( - Dude, it was hotLastly, Mary-Kate drops out of college, she'll never amount to anything.
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
Tonight at 8pm CST is the go-time for our Operation Flashpoint Shackbattle Practice Session.
The server's IP is 64.113.124.16:2302, you will need to connect to it via the in-game multiplayer menu, stuff like ASE more than likely won't work. The password can be found in my profile.
Your commandline shortcut for the server should read as follows:
"C:\Operation Flashpoint\(whateveryourflashpointexeiscalled).EXE" -mod=@BAS;@BASTonalOpFor;@USMC -nosplash
Connect to the server whenever you have a chance, prior to the Shackbattle kicking off, to ensure that your mods are in order. Once things go live we'd rather be killing things than troubleshooting.
Teamspeak 2 Server Info (along with keybinds) can be found here: http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=10911912
TS attendance is pretty much mandatory, you're going to be lost without it.
Squad Leaders
As this is a practice session, pretty much anyone can volunteer to be a squad leader. If you're thinking about trying out, make sure you familiarize yourself with the info contained in this post: http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=10619352
Here's the list of people who will be participating in the Shackbattles in some form or fashion. Maybe 70% of these guys will be present at the practice session.
snuff phune adambugger Ratsofatsorat
Dechter snowwolf Lord Warlock Delithio
Syixxs enigmatic Helter Skelter Kaiser rasputinreborn
malloc Ninja Techno Rampancy Dslyecxi havoc1c4
timaste sanchez Blackdawgg Durandal07 zipperface
60days Jumperus Foxhawk MuteMode draconic burningtrees
kenmis cigam nyranger66 sockmonkeh senorspine nfxfsx
busdriver3030 umbr stygian_whisper lakren happynoodle
awoihjaweohr pacalon weezer rocks SAS_Ale Normality prime8
ballystix j33uk M0nkz Turd Ferguson D0gbert lightzout TheTick
Micro-Picpost
weezer rocks (who goes by SquareD in-game) and Umbr stopped by the OFP server last night and played around for a bit, took a few screens of the action.
Here we have weezer rocks and I doing a simultaneous takedown of some tangos guarding a compound where hostages are being held.
http://dslyecxi.com/screens/Operation_Flashpoint/0510_Shackbattles/simultaneous_takedown.jpg
Later that night, Umbr and I played the same mission.. here we've slung our weapons and are clearing the interior of a building with silenced Glock 17's.
http://dslyecxi.com/screens/Operation_Flashpoint/0510_Shackbattles/pistol_clearing.jpg
weezer rocks and I take cover behind a truck in one awesome BAS Tonal mission, only to be blown into tiny little chunklets by an RPG moments later.
http://dslyecxi.com/screens/Operation_Flashpoint/0510_Shackbattles/little_do_we_know_that_there's_an_rpg_incoming.jpg
After being spawned into the bodies of our AI teammates (something that won't be happening in our actual Shackbattles, as everyone will be human), we both go to scavenge decent weapons off of the corpses of others. Carnage is quite visible, and let me say this: This mission is going to fucking own in the Shackbattles. We did it before (it's the subject of havoc1c4's "Machinegun" Shackbattle vid, which you can get here: http://dslyecxi.com/screens/Operation_Flashpoint/Havoc's_OFP_Shackbattle_vids_(uber)/Havoc's%20OFP%20SB%20Vids%20%20%20-040314-%20%20%20Machinegun2.avi ) with fewer players, and it was awesome then.. it'll be awesome + 10 now. Woohoo. :D
http://dslyecxi.com/screens/Operation_Flashpoint/0510_Shackbattles/scavenging.jpg
So anyhow, this Shackbattle is going to be awesome. \m/ >< \m/
If you have any questions about all of this, feel free to ask me via Shackmessage, reply to this post, AIM, MSN, ICQ, etc etc. Don't forget to check out all the OFP Shackbattle-related posts linked in my profile, that contains most of the info you need to get set up for this.
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P.S. STFU ALCUESO
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roommate just got back from weekend trip and thus the distractions return....
if not I'll just hit up the library.
USC vs. Notre Dame, amazing game. Best one I have watched in a long time.
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http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46811
"Hard drive's shot..."
*throws down an internal optical drive*
Sigh. Why is it so hard to get simple things like that right? I feel like my intelligence is insulted when I see that shit.
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OMG....this really offended me as a Canadian. I hope this isn't the opinion most US residents have for Canadians.
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giggity.
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http://home.cwru.edu/~ecl2/Caron-The-Save-full.wmv
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While searching thru IMDB I found a TV show I vaugely remember as being awesome. Does anyone remember "The Odyssey?" It was about a boy in a coma who is in this weirdo world where children run everything. Kinda post-apocolyptic and such.
And apparently Van Wilder was in it? ;D
Anyone know if there is a planned DVD release? Or remember this show at all?
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I will instead say something has been lost from the time those days were at max power up to today. I just cant put a finger on it but I will say that the obssession of gamers today with "realism" has something to do with it. For some reason I feel like games like battlefield 2, as great as it looks and as nice as it is to have vehicles to ride around in, cannot capture the feel of gaming from many years past. Its kinda disturbing to me because the technology used to make games back then has advanced many times and yet the essence of that time is missing.
I am not bashing battlefield 2, it is a great game but it is missing the feel from the quake2 and quakeworld days. I think it has something to do with pace. Shrug.
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http://stgdz.shackspace.com/Shack/G15/LCDSDK_1.00.402.zip
http://www.clubic.com/photo/00139747.jpg
this is what you could make it look like, be handy for spec ops and engineers, also for heavy gunners and medics.
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http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/ProductDetail.aspx?sku=320-4221&c=us&cat=snp&category_id=6198&cs=04&l=en&mnf=694&Page=productlisting.aspx
I haven't heard anything bad about it.
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http://www.csh.rit.edu/~askedrlc/logitechg15.jpg
This keyboard is HOT. The LCD is amazing, some people might have played around with an LCD before, but the integration into the keyboard and the software is hot. I'm going to start messing around with the SDK asap, so I can I get greyscale porn running on this. This keyboard is just very sexy, very smooth, keys are a pleasure to type on, its great. But it's $80...
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Assuming these things aren't everywhere, I've got two (admittedly kinda lame) Serenity keychains here that I'll mail to the first two shackers who post a reason why I should see it, despite never seeing Firefly (at least semi-serious).
Disclaimer: If darklox posts here before midnight saying he wants one he'll get it instead of the 2nd reply - he did me a cool favour a while back.
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Check out my new "I'm a Dell display whore" set up
http://joesnizzle.shackspace.com/Nerd_Station.jpg
Gotta love that 2405FPW :)
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I am torn between the dell x50v and the hp ipaq hx2795. Anyone have either? It seems the hp oen might be a tad better at the moment
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Actually having fun playing it, and can tell what the pet is going to do. Armies, walls, ect.
Im having a hard time figuring out how to get my impressiveness up better though, i finished the 1st island by impressiveness takeover, which took awhile.
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Then they showed some Xbox 360. I've been dieing to see it in action for a while. I have it pre-ordered. They showed PGR3 and Kameo. PGR3 looked like PGR2 with better graphics. I wasn't really impressed. I will be getitng it for the live features, but I was honestly dissapointed. It didn't look as good as I've seen in a lot of those early HD videos that were floating around. The backgrounds (the city, the fans) were superb, but the cars loooked just like they did in PGR2. The in cockpit cam was very cool, but third person didn't look much better then in PGR2.
Then they showed Kameo. Kameo looks great. Very impressive. He only demo'd the first 5 minutes of the game or so, and I've seen a lot more in movies, and I'm confident this will be a huge title. Kameo rocks.
The controller is awesome. It's smaller then the current,, sleek and smooth. The system is also very nice looking in person.
Overall, in the graphics department, this looks just like Xbox 2.5. I really, really hope my opinion changes once I have it at home (it was shown on a projector), but I don't think it will. However, the amount of features for LIVE and the way the GUI is (very smooth) is worth getting the 360 alone. I really believe in Microsoft's case, Next Gen has to do with the LIVE interface, not so much the graphics. Keep in mind though, the system is so fresh, the full potential has yet to be shown, and I bet the great graphics will come out in 2006. Right now I feel like what I've seen is just Xbox games ported over to 360.
As for the rest of the place.. pretty lame. Bunch of cell phones and other crap that wasn't too impressive. ATI had the Ruby demo going, which was nice, but I think I've seen it before. Lots of hot girls walking around too.
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I preordered the Q4 CE, so I'll be picking that up on Tuesday. CoD2 will follow in a couple weeks, and then F.E.A.R after I upgrade my FX 5900XT.
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