Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Oct 27, 2005 6:00pm PDTWoah... Lost Coast finally here!? I just figured they handed that over to the TF2 team or something (Har! Har!) at this point.
- People dig the internet - Google busting eBay's chops - Mars, I'm ready for my close-up - Sony says CRT is played out - Web 2.0 hot?Lastly, dunno about LNC tonight. Remo is in some sleezy hotel tonight with a few ladies that I'm not so sure about when it comes to digging on videogames.
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Minecraft for Xbox 360 dev working on 'Adventure' update
Demon's Souls servers extended again
every time i shut my right eye it burns to hell.
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need mroe!!!
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My cellphone turned itself off overnight too, despite the batter being fresh and fully charged, AND my cpu fan is giving out.
Sounds like a good weekend to drink heavily
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Thanks.
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Whew, where to begin. We did so much tonight. Startime turned out to be a bust so we went to an Italian restaurant instead.
On with the show!
This place had giant servings of food. Their small sizes can feed 2-3 people because they are a "family" restaurant. Anyones we laughed and cried and RAMDrive creeped out the girl who brought our drinks out. Not much else to say I suppose, we just had a good dinner.
The amazing people
http://glio1337.shackspace.com/shack/DSC01115small.jpg
The amazing food
http://glio1337.shackspace.com/shack/DSC01112small.jpg
This was an arcade game at Startime, apparently arcade games run Windows 98.
http://glio1337.shackspace.com/shack/DSC01110small.jpg
And for the record, RAMDrive reminds me of http://tedstrong.com/graphics/blackjack3.jpg
And UMax reminds me of that guy on X-Play
http://media.g4tv.com/images/imagedb2/228/22846_L.jpg
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"Oh come on, Snake, wouldn't you like a gun shaped like a pen?"
"Walking around the jungle with a pen... I'd look like an idiot." (Mind you right now I'm in this pitch black cave in a black jumpsuit with skull-patterned facepaint on)
"What about a snake-shaped gun?! Imagine, you look like you're wrestling with a snake and you get a shot in on the enemy."
"Major..."
"We could make you a snake-shaped gun that folds up and fits in an attache case!"
"..."
"What do you think about changing your code name to Double-oh-Snake?!"
"!"
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Shannon does die. The reason she dies is because she has the disease. The black smoke that was seen in the Exodus episodes is the disease itself. it enters your body and plays with your mind and ultimately turns you crazy. "The Others" are infact the smoke, the smoke that can take form of humans. This was all originally created by Dharma, who fled when experiments could not be safely contained. Rousseau warns everyone of "the others" and identifies them as the jet black smoke which she points to. This is why her explainations have been so vague. What the others actually do is enter your body and mind in the form of smoke, twist your visions and your dreams, playing on memories and emotions. This sends you crazy causing you to see and hear things. Do you remember when Jack saw his father? or when anyone hears whispering? Well some survivors are already infected but shannons conditon worsens. Rousseau notices that Shannon is behaving as her crew members did when infected. Rousseau kills Shannon.
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Quick one - but how can I make Half Life 2's loading between maps quicker?
Half Life 1 always boasted the no loading between maps thing and of course it did it pretty well, my Celeron 450a and 7200rpm drive back then spent around 3 or 5 seconds loading between maps.
Now, I have a P4 3ghz, 1gb of ram, swap file on a completely seperate fast disk and the game itself is running off a 10krpm raptor.
Load times between maps 10-25 seconds, it's just so illusion shattering.
Idea's?
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Now excuse me while i aquire some pornography.
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My mom picked up a box of the mint Girl Guide cookies. I swear I cried with joy when I saw the joyful green box.
These are, quite, simply, the greatest cookies to ever grace the taste buds of man.
If anyone else can present to me a solid case of a cookie that is greater than that of the Girl Guide Mint cookies, I'll challenge them!
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damnit DKo5 wheres my video?
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hey armybob this post isn't negative]s
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After my second trek to fondle the XBox 360 at my local Gamestop (again, nobody was there, it was just me and the baby), I've reached a new verdict. King Kong is by and large the best looking demo of the three (KK, Kameo, CoD 2). The lighting effects are just stunning, the bump mapping makes everything look rediculously good. However, this does take a noticeable toll on the framerate. However, I believe I'm going to buy the game nonetheless.
Now, in second place for beautiful graphics comes Kameo: Elements of Power. The reflection effects and bump mapping and lighting all come together beautifully here. And there's also one plus; the framerate stays incredibly high. There's one point in which you roll around in this spiky ball to kill your enemies. The ball almost looks REAL because of the incredible bump mapping.
Call of Duty 2 comes in last, but don't let that cause you to think it has bad graphics, because it certainly doesn't. You can see the sun reflecting on every grain of wood of your Lee Enfield. I could be mistaken, but HDR seemed to be in effect. Lastly, the bump mapping does a good job, but I would have loved to see more BMing on the soldier's uniforms, like we saw in the screenies.
All in all, not dissappointed AT ALL, in fact, VERY VERY happy. This system is going to be amazing, and I just WISH that they had Oblivion to play.
Now that would be Shacktastic.
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I've installed the newest greasemonkey beta along with FFbeta2, and I'm having problems calling setTimeout(). the following code snippet has a problem: window.setTimeout() is not aware of the function being called.
calling okay() works fine within the method, but i get "Error: okay is not defined" when trying to call it via setTimeout(). I've tried moving the method declaration above/below the setTimeout() call and I've tried moving it outside the main GM function bounds... nothin.
Any ideas how to proceed?
http://www.s2ki.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=331400
BYOC (Bring Your Own Carerra GTs :[ )
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You get: Much thanks, and a beer.
(...you have to come to my house for the beer.)
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I started playing this morning, and I couldn't stop thinking about it at work. So I played as soon as I got off work til now which normally wouldn't be that bad. Except I got off work four and a half hours ago.
A couple of questions: Are the lips synced differently depending on what language you choose in the begining? Is there any use for those cards I keep finding? (Second hand games with no instruction books SUCK when the games are in depth) Is there a way to listen to the music I play on the guitar without playing the game? Or recording it? I really want to transcribe the "Cool" one.
AND WHAT IF I SCREWED UP THE SEX SCENE?!?!?! CAN I GO BACK!?!?!?
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Ok, not really, as I've had fun with it since I played in in Beta. But I just got my rogue up to level 19 and started doing quests in ashenvale, and started a bit of PvP when I see someone I think I can take! OMG is it fun! Running around and questing but having to watch out for horde and/or getting ganked adds a whole new dimension to the game.
I had a blast last night repeatedly backstabbing a 23 mage who happened to be accompanying a couple of ?? that were ganking lowbies. I'd only kill her if I was able to get a good ambush and a hit immediately after, otherwise she would just frostnova/sheep/blink and nuke me from a distance. I played a druid at launch (when they sucked) and my rogue is just so much more fun. I found out that druids have been buffed a bit since then, when I mistakenly attacked two, and they camped my corpse in kitty form for about an hour. :D
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I thought the guy died or something
Yeah she was a doctor
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Hi, for those that may be interested.
Added a new image to my gallery. This is an image i've been working on a fair while. It is composed from several large hand drawings (the original image is fucking huge, this is very scaled down..) i have compiled together. This is work for my final year at art school. Its difficult to imagine but the final piece will be comprised of several layers of glass, with each layer hand painted, when viewed in unision all the elements on each layer will combine to create a solid image.
I wont bore you with the details of what its about, but i'd like as much feedback as possible!
http://www.deviantart.com/view/24535802/
cheers
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I watched a movie where someone stopped at a gas station to filled his/her car with gasoline. As this person was pulling the gas nose, flames start to appear on the gas nose (that thing you use to fill your car with gas) and the gas cap (that thing that is on your car to filled up gas).
What should I do if there are flames appearing to burst from my car, and why would this even happen?? And most important of all, what should I NOT do?
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Rally Japan
ER repost
Here is my highlight reel of this years Rally Japan:
http://sirx.shackspace.com/rally/wrcjapan05highlights.avi
It was an excellent rally, with a surprise ending. Lots of great highlights.
Gronholm was first after Petter hit a rock and went out on the second last stage. Loeb came in second and thus secured his second Championship title. Atkinson got third and so got his first WRC podium.
I threw this one together quickly due to time restraints so don't expect anything fancy.
Enjoy!
I will try and get France done ASAP
It's Rally Spain this weekend!
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Best suggestion ever.
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?ForumName=wow-suggestions&ThreadID=534233
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solberg you poor bastard :( this is ridiculous - absoloutely ridiculous :(
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Every Thursday, EVERY patron at every Cinelux Theater gets a FREE 64 OZ. POPCORN!!!!!!!!! :O
http://www.cineluxtheatres.com/ Check out that link on the right yo
Considering the Plaza is only $6 and the Cinema Saver 10 is only $3.50 (and their popcorn RULES), this is a FANTASTIC deal! I am so excited! I think now we are gonna see movies every Thursday, Wallace and Gromit this Thursday and I don't care what next Thursday, it doesn't matter we are talking about some fresh, hot delicious FREE POPCORN!!!!!!!!!
XOXOX,
qwpeoriyw... fuckit he's right I can't spell it
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