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by Maarten Goldstein, Nov 13, 2005 12:08pm PSTWent and saw Corpse Bride with friends today. Tim Burton just can't disappoint me it seems. Just love the worlds he creates for his movies. The story for this one was a bit simplistic, but it didn't really detract, I really liked it. Movie: Pick a pet for the rugrat, bitch.
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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
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wtf this place needs DDT stat. this nor'eastie beastie is too used to nice 4-months-of-freeze-your-ass-off winters and he abuses use-dashes-to-connect-words-into-phrases writing style as well :/
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So the ties to Ico were made even clearer - I'm guessing that the warrior's death/rebirth started what eventually turned into the whole 'Ico sacrifice cycle' hundreds of years later?
And who would have thought that one of the most emotional moments in video game history would be centered around a horse?
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Holy shit!
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http://othello.textdriven.com:8167/
repost form late last night, with minor bug fixes. Also moved to much better hosting.
Behold the latest version of my litle othello experiment. Now with visual effects on piece flipping!
Also all DOM updates now happen 100% in javascript. When a piece is played, an ajax request hits the server. This request returns javascript snippets which are inserted invisbly to the page an immediately executed.
In IE, pieces are getting slightly smaller each time they are flipped. Not sure whats up with that, but it works great in Firefox 1.5.
Sadly AI is still dead stupid, but it should amuse you for a few minutes.
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http://img367.imageshack.us/my.php?image=image0362rt.jpg
Was behind this guy at a drive through. I had many lolz. Then realized damn, I really am a grammar nazi.
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This is a cruel, crazy world.
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So here an hour ago he's amazed by it...loves the hell out of it...I'm hoping I can play some DM tonight or tommorow evening with him (its basically the only way we get to play multiplayer anything...since there isn't any broadband available out here yet (only 24.0k dial-up)).
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Have been listening to a lot of Dischord, Kill Rock Stars, Ipecac and Blood And Fire label stuff. So far they have consistently great bands.
Anything else you would recommend?
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If you're intrested in a good (CHEAP! in price) fighting game, look no further then Guilty Gear XX #Reload:
http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-9f-70-pxs.html
It's on sale for $19.90. Air mail is 3.10 which makes this a whole $23.00. Not too bad for an imported PSP game. Apparently the port is really good, the menu options are in English and the story (who cares) is in Japanese.
Review of the PS2 version which is about the same:
http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/562111.asp?q=guilty%20gear
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Battlefield 1942 SHACKBATTLE Announcement for SUNDAY SOMEDAY SUNDAY at 8:00 PM CST!
Since the patch for BF2 seems to make the game even more buggy than it was before I say we go back to the 1940's and BLOW SHIT UP!!
1942 was a golden age of first person shooter gameplay. The game is well balanced, not to many annoyances exist and it is just all around fun.
We'll be playing BF1942 v1.61 at bf2.shackbattles.com - password is in themelon's profile. We'll also be using Teamspeak. EVERYONE should be on Teamspeak, at least to listen even if you don't have a mic. We'll be connecting to rydogg1's server: ts.shackbattles.com - no password required.
A few weeks ago we had a good but small game, and good fun was had all around. We've gotten a few BF1942 newbies involved. If you're new to the game and need training or help, I (and several others) should be able to spend time walking you through the different classes, weapons, tactics, etc. Just let me know!
We'll be playing Vanilla BF1942 1.61! But the map rotation will also include Shackmaps and the tournament map pack. You can get them at the links below.
All right, here's the batch of useful download links if you don't have them:
http://www.fileshack.com/file.x?fid=4501
BF1942 anything -> 1.6
http://www.fileshack.com/file.x?fid=5928
BF1942 1.6 -> 1.61
http://www.fileshack.com/file.x?fid=5284
Shack map pack
http://www.fileshack.com/file.x?fid=6351
EA Tournament map pack
http://www.toldyouimhardcore.com/umax/ShackTraining.zip
Shack training map, which will be running before the battle for training purposes
http://www.goteamspeak.com/
Teamspeak homepage
http://www.redhavana.net/teamspeak/
cpt_gloval's guide to setting up Teamspeak -- I believe he recently updated this
http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=10065483
Annother utility for those of you that use speakers and a mic with teamspeak.
http://www.qbnut.com/tso/
Teamspeak Overlay, puts the usernames of those who speak onto your screen. Has caused some stability issues for a few people in the past.
If you do not download these maps, you will not be able to play them.
Punkbuster will be disabled for the time being.
GO GO GO!!!
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I'm willing to let it go pretty cheap is why I'm asking. $300-400 range. Send me a Shackmessage if you're interested.
http://movies.lionhead.com/movie/3775
Reposting for the evening crowd. I wanna know what the Remo thinks.
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I know most are fans of the old Lucasarts games ala Day of the Tentacle, Maniac Mansion and others...but what are some of your fave more obscure adventure games.
The first game that I ever owned (Besides 'Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego') Was a game called "Countdown" back in 1990. It was pretty amazing because I think it was one of the first games to ever have digitized speech with lip sync. It made me get other games by Access Software (of Links fame). Martian Memorandum was another good one...as was its sequel Under a Killing Moon. They also did "Amazon: Gaurdians of Eden" which was hard as shit but rewarding.
Obscure games aside I still believe my favorite Adventure game of all time was Kings Quest VI...over Gabriel Knight, Full Throttle, Rex Nebular, Space Quest 4, Loom, and Sam & Max. The scene where you have to make the Lord of the Dead cry by showing him a mirror is timeless.
Name some good abscure adventure games and some of your favorite scenes from all of them.
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That is all.
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What are the pros and cons of monochrome vs color external LCD displays on flip phones?
ie, color means less battery life, harder to read outdoors, but lets u have picture ID for incoming calls etc?
I just got a Motorola V360 (monochrome external display) and am wondering if I should upgrade to V635 (color external display).
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Since we're all sharing stuff from The Movies I present to you the first episode of the NERD POLICE
http://dechter.shackspace.com/movies/Nerdlinger.wmv
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I made a movie about the shack WOW horde guild called "WHEN GIANT COMMUNIST ROBOTS ATTACK!"
The movie on lion heads site...
http://movies.lionhead.com/movie/4321
A higher res version on my site...
http://www.slickdoody.com/MyMovies/When_Giant_Communist_Robots_Attack.wmv
It's not really the 2nd in the series, it's just that i renamed it part way thru production and now I can't fix it. :(
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http://akkit.org/dstunnel/
Online Meteos and AW ftw!
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http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?comments=39518
Yes the show sucks, but a HOT blonde 16 year old is on it!
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I'll be back as soon as the kid is asleep!
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Good fucking GOD check out this auction.
http://cgi.ebay.com/XBOX-360-PLATINUM-AND-ALL-17-GAMES_W0QQitemZ8233627276QQcategoryZ62054QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
It already ended, but it was a core with 4 extra controllers and all 17 games, and it ended at 1300 dollars. Without tax, and every game being rounded to only 50 dollars exact, that would have cost 1450. Talk about a fucking steal.
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