Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Dec 03, 2005 4:30pm PSTWell, time to start putting up those crazy colored lights everywhere! The joy of men over 6 feet everywhere as it is your penance for the sin of being tall.
- I'm stoked about bananas! - The next couch potato - Saturn moon - Science songs :(Lastly, if you're still looking for things to be thankful for here in the USA here you go. Yay for congress spending time on the important issues of our time.
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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
Found this on SA: Evidently they released the source code to the game so fans have been patching this mofo up and adding new features. Did a quick check and didn't see this posted.
New Stuff:
* Smarter, more cunning AI that climbs on roofs and snipes using spotters
* Externalised, editable data for weapons, items, and more
* Virtually unlimited slots for new weapons, ammo, armor and other items
* New item and weapon attributes, such as thermal vision and to-hit bonuses
* New game options and modes and externalized game settings
* A slew of new gameplay features and improvements
* Weapons and ammo from UB, plus lots of new weapons, ammo and attachments
* Automatic grenade launchers! Reloadable RPG!
* New mercs from UB now available from MERC
* UB tilesets available for user-made JA2 maps
* Just about everything is or will be configurable without hacking exe
http://v113.ja2mods.de/
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I watched half of Wake of Death, it was ok
This is in relation to the earlier problem I had with the USB ports: http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=11206575
I did everything suggested and it didn't work. I even did a repair installation of WinXP and got nothing so he just told me to find him a new motherboard.
This one looks good: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813127179
But weren't the nforce2s much better than VIA's comparable chipset? I've forgotten all this stuff but that might have been the reason I got an Nforce 2 based mobo the first time around
As a side note though, do you think I should attempt a reformat and fresh install? He told me it happened after he used one of those air canisters to remove the dust from the inside. Do you think this could have happened if some of the liquid from the can got sprayed on the mobo?
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http://cd.bounced.de/index2.php
Website doesn't look the most professional, but I haven't played the mod to judge its quality.
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I suggested to a couple of my friends to download the new version of firefox 1.5 release candidate #3, but some of them have had some major toubles with it and are looking to install the old version of firefox. Sooo I'm wondering if any shackers know where I can find old versions of firefox - i checked www.oldversion.com but i had no luck there. Does mozilla.com allow downloads of older versions?
The other option of course is to see if I can troubleshoot the problem. Apparantly firefox crashes whenever she uses google, which really must suck. She's on a iBook Mac, probably 2 years old or so, not the fastest of computers by a long shot. Any suggestions for troubleshooting or similar problems on a mac?
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Steamboy - (2004) by Katsushiro Ôtomo
Spriggan - (1998) Hirotsugu Kawasaki
Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade - (2002) Hiroyuki Okiura
Royal Space Force - Wings of Honneamise - (1987) Hiroyuki Yamaga
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The whole book can be trimmed down to about 2 chapters worth of events compared to the other books. Everything else is either filler or random, disjointed excerpts of different minor characters that show up once or twice, and do pointless crap you don't care about. There's like 2 pages of "OMG SURPRISE!" moments, and that's it. I found myself actually wanting to skip through pages because it got so tiresome, unlike that last 3 books. If you like long detailed descriptions of how the trees smell, where someone slept last night or how some random bum on the side of the road looks like, this ones for you!
Every chapter is basically written the same way for the entire book (minor spoilers if there's even anything to spoil):
Arya: shows up for 3 chapters and sells fish.
Sansa: again, doesn't show up much .. after 4 books, she SLOWLY starts to become less of an airhead
Brienne: runs arounds the forest accomplishing nothing..pointless POV
Cersei: "woe is me, jaime is different and doesn't love me anymore omg. I'm afraid of Tyrion and the prophecy" etc, etc. She and Brienne has the most chapters in the book, and they're all exactly the same
Jaime: "For all I know that dumb bitch Cersei is fucking Moonboy"
The entire iron islands plotiline/characters: "who should be king?!"
There was a lot of foreshadowing however.
For the others that have finished the book, here's my predictions for what's going to happen in the following books (POSSIBLE MAJOR SERIES SPOILERS):
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I love this program, but there's one issue I've had with it since I started using it last night. I'm on this torrent with 25 seeders and 50+ leeches. Normally, using BitTornado a situation like this means that I'm downloading really really fast and uploading at my capacity. I hop on using utorrent and it's not happening. I'm downloading at like 20k/sec and uploading at 40k/sec. I leave it on for a few hours and it just stays like this. I fiddle with some settings, making sure that download speed is unlimited, but it never changes. No blocked ports reported at all. So just to check, I switch back to BitTornado partway through the file and as expected, I'm downloading at like 800k/sec in no time at all...
What gives? Why would utorrent do this? Help me because I love the program otherwise.
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OurPsycho Slayer Night Shackbattle will be happening on December 11th. Start time will be 7pm CST.
For those of you that haven't played it, the idea behind the mission is that three serial killers (aka Psycho Slayers) have to go around the island killing civilians while avoiding the police. The Psycho Slayers will win once there are only five civilians left on the island, the Cops will win once all Psycho Slayers are in jail. Eleven cops, three slayers.. it's a hell of a lot of fun.
We can support 14 players in this mission (11 cops, 3 slayers). There's still room to join if you're interested in playing.
Currently the following people are interested:
Foxhawk Pacalon happynoodle LordPall
MrLonghair adambugger Dslyecxi Rampancy
NFXFSX lightzout weezer rocks quietb0y
A writeup of one Psycho Slayer session can be found here if you want a better idea of how it plays out:
http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=11071388
On a totally unrelated note, look at the cute spider kitten!
http://dslyecxi.com/images/cats/0512_Duke_2.jpg
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I see move left and move right, but no strafe left and strafe right?
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http://www.madcatz.com/Default.asp?Page=248
What.the.fuck?
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Games like these are what shackers are always bitching about not seeing enough of. So ... go buy it already.
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3980165796053569246&q=starcraft
Looks like the same game (starcraft 1)with newer, modded models to me, but who knows. And it's russian? I'm so confused. Someone tell me wth this is! It just doesn't seem like a Blizzard game to me.
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I mean, we had KOTOR and the Dungeon Siege games, but I wouldn't consider either of those especially epic as compared to the BG series. Is there anything coming down the pipeline, or are we stuck with watered down, action oriented RPG's?
Just wondering, because I'm missing the days of epic RPG's where it actually felt like you were experiencing a unique story and truly shaping the world. MMO's don't do it for me (becuase your character is too insignificant) and most modern RPG's are just too linear and unimaginative. BTW, what the hell is Bioware working on right now?
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But seriously.. I want to know: How many of you have the BattleField 2 expansion pack Special Forces?
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"Shacker" High Scores as of 12/4
"Shacker" being a Shacker who's on my friend's list. If you're not there or I don't think you're a Shacker, shoot a message/invite to "Foxhavvk."
Feel free to add your own or to correct/improve my list.
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Can anyone recommend some good cataloging software? Something that lets me track the DVD's I own, video games, music, etc.
Thanks
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http://www.redhavana.net/gallery/album05/mr2
added a white line to the top and bottom for 1280 width desktop goodness.
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So, what should I use?
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Anyone else having horrendous slowdown issues when a rival leader is displayed?
Civ4 1.09
2.4Ghz A64
2GB PC3200
6800GT, 81.94 Dets
GTXP
1280x1024, 4x FSAA
XP SP2
toggling a graphics setting in the games options fixes it, temporarily at least, but a more permafix would be nice.
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http://24natic.atspace.com/Season5/prequel.htm
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Yay for newbs!
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Da Bears win by 122 today!
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Has anyone here used pandora.com before? http://www.pandora.com/
Its a configurable radio that you can have *play* music for you that's similar to some of your favorite artists. I plugged in "Placebo" and its played 3 songs that I really like so far. If anyone like's the idea of discovering new artists through an alternative format than radio, and probably supporting independent labels, check this out. Now.
I'm still loving it. Looks like they'll put in ads at a later date or you can "subscribe" to it for $36/yr, but so far its definitely worth $36 to hear so many new cool artists.
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Artists/Albums similar to Amon Tobin's Out from out where or at least it's darker "feel" (compared to his other stuff at least)?
Every time I go to a "similar artists..." list I end up getting stuff I don't really like. All this beep beep boop the kids listen to these days gives me a headache >:(
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