Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Nov 22, 2005 5:58pm PSTSo anything interesting today?
- Crazy new camera tech - Google shopping - Hypnosis hot? Thanks /. - Wanna work for an oil company?Lastly, MPAA + BitTorrent deal!
Daily Filter: Planetside 2, Deadlight
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Weekend PC digital deals: strategy-o-rama
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38 Studios, Harry Potter Kinect - Shacknews Daily: May 25, 2012
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Minecraft for Xbox 360 dev working on 'Adventure' update
Minecraft XBLA is getting a small update (1.7.3) for pistons, and then developer...
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Demon's Souls servers extended again
Its servers scheduled to shut down at the end of this month, Demon's Souls has...
8So anything interesting today?
- Crazy new camera tech - Google shopping - Hypnosis hot? Thanks /. - Wanna work for an oil company?Lastly, MPAA + BitTorrent deal!
http://www.pricegrabber.com/user_sales_getprod.php/masterid=12425320/lot_id=2558486/ut=18a20dc018ff7af4
go!
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I take it home and convince my wife, who thinks I'm an obsessive-compulsive maniac, that I need to go to BestBuy at 1:30 AM and stand in line until 9 AM so that I can get a premium system. I was only 22nd in line there and they had 30 premium systems. So I froze my ass off in 20 degree weather sitting outside for 7.5 hours waiting for the damn store to open. About 6:30 AM they came out and gave everyone tickets and told us to come back at 9 AM so we don't freeze too much. Needless to say the parents that showed up around 8 AM seeing few people and expecting an XBox were pissed that they already handed out the tickets.
Needless to say, I'm about to hit Post and setup my premium system. You can shackmessage me if you are interested in the following package that will be going up on Ebay around Christmas if I don't get a good enough offer sooner:
I have for sale:
1) A brand new XBox 360 core system with Component AV cable and a wired controller.
2) A 64 MB memory card necessary to save games in the core system since hard drives are about impossible to get for a while.
3) A Universal Media Remote control to control your Xbox, TV, VCR, DVD, etc...
That is roughly 400 dollars in parts after taxes. You would pay for shipping and I'm not sure how much that is. However, you ain't getting off that easy, I stood in the line rid for about 14 hours yesterday so there will be more payment.
I want 750 dollars. That would include the cost of shipping and handling. I expect a money order or cashier's check. Shackmessage me if you are interested, otherwise I'm headed to e-bay in a couple of weeks.
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I have unopened copies of PGR3 and Kameo that I'd like to give to two shackers who tried to get an xbox 360 and couldn't (I haven't got one yet either).
What's the catch? Well, I work for MS and we get a budget every year to spend at the company store where MS published games sell for a 50% discount. I'll eat the cost of the games, but the shack has to play by the rules.
To be considered, you have to meet the following requirements:
- You don't currently own a xbox 360, but you made an effort last night/today to get one.
- You are still planning on buying an xbox 360 within the next month (assuming you can find one)
- You must not resell the game. If I see these games on ebay I will rip your testicles out. If you win, you have to e-mail me a picture of the opened game.
- You must have been on the shack for at least 6 months
Obviously I can't validate these rules, so "scout's honor" will have to suffice (that's why I'm limiting to shackers >6 months old).
Now to the fun part ...
To win one of the games, shack message me something funny and mention which game you want. If I've seen it before you probably won't win, even if it's hilarious. I'll go through all the entries at midnight tonight and pick the funniest entries for each game and post the winners.
Good luck!
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[i]if all you are going to do is flame me, just leave the thread and thats that. I ****ed up badly the other night. The oil light came on, i got oil, put it in and accidently dropped the oil cap down below the engine. heres where i ****ed up- i temporarily plugged the uncapped oil hole with a sock and the sock got sucked into it after about 5 mins of driving. its wrapped around the cam shaft-im pretty sure thats what it is... and i need some advice on how to get it out without shelling a shitload of money out to bmw to take it in there. should i unbolt the top piece there and cut it out and then flush the whole thing with some stuff at kragen or just try to cut it out piece by piece through the hole with a sharp razor and take the pieces out with needle nose pliers and then flush it?[/i]
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-Kahlua
-Stoli
-Seinfeld Seasons 5 and 6
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I'm heading up to northern arizona/southern utah with the girlfriends family on a road trip. Gonna be lots of siteseeing. Luckily I have my PSone+LCD and FFVII to keep me busy.
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I waited in line for hours last night/this morning and scored an xbox 360 premium bundle at Costco... this thing is better than the 360 premium. It comes with an extra controllers, Kameo, the play and charge kit, and the dvd remote. And on top of that is Costco's return amazing policy, if anything happens to the console in the next couple of years I can just take it back and they will exchange it. The huge box sitting here right next to me unopened, and I am just dying to play it.
On the other hand I just checked on ebay and these suckers are going for over $1000 which I personally think is absolutely insane. Obviously it's tempting to me to sell it there, and with that money I would pay off some of my wife's medical bills. I would just have to wait until I can find another premium console later.
The thing is I am dying to play this thing and when I'm about to enter a listing on ebay I get paralyzed. I hate the practice of ebaying stuff that's sold out, and I feel dirty being one of "those people." On the other hand, when I think about opening it and passing this opportunity to pay these bills, I think that would be a highly unresponsible move and I also freeze up.
So what would you do? sorry for the emo post :( I realize how lucky I am to have a system in my posession and I don't want to come across as ungrateful, but I'm just confused as to what to do.
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http://www.adjab.com/files/2005/11/xboxstandoff.wmv
In the same vein as the water balloon fight ad, but this one won't be shown on TV - too "controversial".
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http://www.planetunreal.com/bean/maps/counterstrike/slum1.jpg
http://www.planetunreal.com/bean/maps/counterstrike/slum2.jpg
http://www.planetunreal.com/bean/maps/counterstrike/slum3.jpg
http://www.planetunreal.com/bean/maps/counterstrike/slum4.jpg
http://www.fraggerock.com/downloads/csmaps/de_slum.zip
After a ton of work, my first Counter Strike: Source map is finished! I want to say thanks to the Shackers who took the time to run through the beta and who gave me valuable feedback. Special thanks to themelon for hosting the beta and bozer and notd665 for hosting d/l links.
Enjoy!
ps ill post notd665's link soon. I stated this thread without it cause im impatient. :p
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Just type in the command promt: "C:\program files\steam\steam.exe" -beta sdk
Looks like they greatly improved the Worldcraft browser window, among lots of other things.
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It's a poem, called "Why I Didn't Get an Xbox 360 On Launch Day Fuck Fuck Fuck".
IN REPLY:
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download this 47sec clip of one of my songs and stream it to your 360:
http://s52.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0WM4RB6OXO2H32X8HVYKE3RODD
record a clip using a camera. i want to see how that visualizer thingy reacts to it. thanks!
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Clay's looking for a new audio system to accompany his shiney new TV.
Since I haven't reach elitest jerk level on the audiophile scale, I've been considering the following home theater in a box solutions:
Onkyo HT-S580:
http://www.us.onkyo.com/model.cfm?m=HT-S580&class=Systems&p=i
Onkyo HT-S780:
http://www.us.onkyo.com/model.cfm?m=HT-S780&class=Systems&p=i
Any other suggestions or recommendations?
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http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/ladyinthewater/hd/
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http://www.comingsoon.net/trailers/doa/
Oh my god. Hahaha. Wow.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/22/hauppauge_tv_tuner_hvr900/
digital tv on the laptop, kick ass
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/11/21/wbuddha21.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/11/21/ixportal.html
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http://img506.imageshack.us/img506/9425/dscf21479os.jpg
I caught em last time they were in town... Amazing show.
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Is there a way to take submited data, have that data emailed (that part I have done) and then take the variables and fill them in to another form on another site?
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http://www.railthello.com/replay/3312 25-0 Zero|DPX
http://www.railthello.com/replay/3268 39-0 e v i l
http://www.railthello.com/replay/3279 51-0 rosewood
http://www.railthello.com/replay/2204 64-0 Experiment IV
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There's a gal on the Blacklist named Kaze, which is short for Kamikaze.
She just so happens to be Asian.
Her preferred driving style is going fast and running into shit.
http://img386.imageshack.us/img386/6644/owlwhatyoudid2bm.jpg
Also, I need to find out which EA Black Box programmer took the name of Racer X in vain. Verily I say they shall pay for their insolence!
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0291537/
J.F. Lawton also wrote DOA the movie.
Smells like a winner...
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http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=11140288
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I saw it tonight with a buddy of mine. I was blown away. Much better than I had anticipated. I saw Ray and really didn't like it that much, so I figured I wouldn't dig this too much. I was very wrong. Joaquin is AMAZING as Cash, and knowing he and Reese did their own singing makes it all that much more impressive.
Anyway, much better than average rock and roll story (sex, drugs, and rock and roll, of course) with excellent acting and music.
It gets two balls up from moi!
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EA, I fart in your general direction!
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