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by Maarten Goldstein, Feb 18, 2006 10:48am PSTBurrito time! Also on FileShack
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- Dragaa - Dark Power - user made World of Warcraft movie.
Daily Filter: Planetside 2, Deadlight
Today's Filter features an air combat trailer for Planetside 2, a plot trailer for...
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Weekend PC digital deals: strategy-o-rama
Do you like strategy games? Then you'll love this weekend's sales at digital...
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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...
8Burrito time! Also on FileShack
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Besides that.
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Any suggestions?
I have read Starship Troopers and Ender's game, but that's about it other than some random star wars/star trek books.
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p.s. please, no more "X days/hours earlier" gimmick.
p.p.s. remove intro spoilers
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So what did everyone think about the ending? I liked it a lot - I thought for sure they'd bring back Hyrule and it'd be happy. Instead Red Lions goes down with the ship, and the slate is wiped clean for the current generation. But now I'm really curious what they're going to do in the next game, since this one nicely wrapped up the continuity between Gannon and the Tri-Force.
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Any tiny SotC/ICO fans want it?
http://home.no.net/scifi/i/DSC00010.JPG
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Some friends were trying to get me to go to some hot springs with them for some chick. I was going to go until I saw the weather outside.
It's snowing and the roads are a mess. I elected to stay home instead of possibly getting some action.
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Are their any websites you feel are particularly slow to render on OSX?
urls plz
I'm testing something out here
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So I'm downloading some episodes from the first season of Lost (if I like what I see I'll buy the first and second season DVDs, standard op). So I've downloaded 1-7, and 9-15 from the first season. I really want to keep going on, but freaking episode 8 is taking forever to d/l. What do I do, skip it or wait it out?
Btw, is season 2 ongoing right now? What's the general shack consensus of Lost?
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www.incitti.com/Blitz
Think this guy spends as much time coding it as we do playing it!
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Can you adjust playback speed like in windows media player?
Also, can someone confirm that this isn't possible in iTunes?
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So I've been reading through the www.head-fi.org forums about amps and...good God... most of this stuff is so incredibly technical I'll never understand it. I just want to know what the difference is from one amp to another, but here I have people trying to explain tubes and diodes and... I don't care. I just want something that makes my mp3 player sound #$(%#$* awesome. :(
I've ordered some new headphones, and am in the market for a good portable amp. The Headroom ones from www.headphone.com seem like the simplest way to go, but after reading the Head-Fi forums, I found that Headroom's amps are quite outdated.
Hmmm.
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I hadn't played in months, but after 30 minutes of patching Battlefield 2, 10 minutes of "optimizing shaders" and another 5 minutes of loading, and then somehow only getting 10 fps in the game, I said "fuck this, I'm going to play a game that's engine isn't written by retards."
Anyway, about UT2k4. I started by playing some Bombing Run. The only server I could find running it had 8 people playing and they were all pretty good. Just playing it though brought back memories of some of our amazing UT2k4 shackbattles, in which we would occasionally throw in rounds of Bombing Run. I shed a few tears and then switched over to CTF, where there were plenty of decent servers to choose from.
And hot damn CTF was fun! In no time I was cartwheeling around and shock combo-ing mofos off of cliffs. All of my time in BF2 and Counterstrike had made me forget how awesome it is to actually run around and duel people while pulling off insane dodges and switching between different weapons. Realistic games just do not have good combat. Sure, there is some tactical thinking and movement, but the firefights usually end in about 2 seconds. UT can have running duels that last over entire maps. That's the way video games were meant to be played!
Now while most of my UT2k4 session was awesome, it pains me that the community has mostly degraded into servers running homebrew maps with square rooms and plain color textures. Epic has delivered some amazing content and gameplay, and everyone wants to play retarded stuff. *sigh* I'm thinking we need to re-ignite the UT2k4 love here at the Shack and have an official Shackbattle with official UT2k4 content. Anybody up for that?
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Cool street art in Valparaiso: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlaunceford/tags/graffiti/
Some stuff I stitched together with autostitch:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlaunceford/tags/autostitch/
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yesterday i cut my second knuckle on my index finger to the bone. was playing with a benchmade knife.
so i cut about half to two-thirds of my knuckle, some people say i need stiches but i can move my finger up and down so i figure i did't cut my tendons all the way.
the cut feels weird at times like a worm under my skin in my finger.
is this bad?
ps. knives are still fun
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/dooball/
I take my photos (sets of 3 or more) at different exposures (-2, 0, +2). More photos mean more information to work with which is a good thing, but it also increases the time it takes to output a final image, and adds to huge file sizes.
Photoshop CS 2 has a HDR merge function under its FILE > AUTOMATE menu. Pretty basic. I use a program called Photomatix.
Photomatix's hdr function is simliar to photoshops, except that its got one additional function called tone mapping which is what gives HDR photos that nice contrasty and sometimes 'painting' look.
(shill) You can grab a trial demo off their site. Fantastic! (/shill)
Some tips: Use a tripod. In a hdr photo, you want to see all the details in balanced lighting. That means no over/under exposed spots and vice versa. So keep that in mind when you take your exposure sets - you want to be able to see all the details that you'll normally lose in the other shots.
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Uninstall printer for Mum.
She comes in saying "IT'S GOING TO WIPE ALL MY FILES, IT'S TELLING ME TO BACK THEM UP SO IT CAN WIPE THE WHOLE COMPUTER"
I look at the screen, click "Restart" like the dialog says, and that's it.
NOT FINISHED!
"What happened?"
"I... restarted the computer. You can click that Setup icon now."
"How?"
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not managing to tape Sci Fi Friday
it's not the end of the world, but both my wife and I wish we had remembered to tape SG-1, Atlantis & BSG.
Oh well.
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A ShackTactical OFP session will be happening tomorrow, Sunday at 6pm CST. I'll be in the server at 5pm CST for you early-joiners.
My apologies to whoever organized the BF2 Shackbattle for Sunday.. the ShackTac stuff was coordinated well in advance of that, so there might be some ShackTac'ers missing from the BF2 SB who would otherwise have been there... myself included.
FDF 1.4 introduces WWII units and other improvements into the already-awesome FDF mod. We have tons and tons and tons of coop and adversarial missions for FDF, and the past session with it was quite a bit of fun for all involved. Expect this one to be pretty cool as well.
You can find a video of our last session here: http://dslyecxi.com/screens/Operation_Flashpoint/060121_Shackgoonbattle/jan2006_shackgoonbattle.wmv
Getting the new stuff
Everything you need for the Shackbattle can be found on Umbr's site. My OFP page ( http://dslyecxi.com/ofp.html ) has been updated with the links. All you need for this session is the FDF 1.4 Combined pack, you can find it there.
TeamSpeak update
Get the new TS bindings! We'll be doing squad segregation/cross-channel communication this time, so if you don't have the right bindings, you're going to be very, very confused.
http://dslyecxi.com/files/ofp/shacktac_ofp_ts_keybinds.kbn
ShackTactical
If you're interested in playing in OFP Shackbattles, you really should sign up for the Shack Tactical list. Go here to read more:
http://dslyecxi.com/shacktac.html
The turnout for this session is expected to be pretty good. A bunch of the SA Goons will be playing with us as well.
http://dslyecxi.com/screens/Operation_Flashpoint/060121_Shackgoonbattle/shacktac_attack.jpg
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Alright shackers, it's that time again! The duo of MurrayTheSkull]r and Flint Ironstag are back for 3 hours of utterly awesome radio. Starts at 8:00 PM EST, so please tune in and take a listen! Also get your friends to listen, overwise I will kick many a small puppy.
http://lastlife.net:8000/
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http://img226.imageshack.us/my.php?image=lame8lr.jpg
I've downloaded a few plugins, but the only ones that show up are the volume control, search bar and the album art thingy. I have a 'treeview' panel somewhere but it refuses to show up. Ditto with the track info panel (which shows what the current track is). I just can't find where I enable them. Gah.
I've pretty much decided that it's not worth it and I'm currently just using WMP10. I just wanted to play my oggs without transcoding them :[
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I had a drive that wouldn't mount. It wouldn't fsck either. I rewrote the superblocks and got the e2fsck to run. Still wouldn't mount. Went to look at the superblocks again and accidentally rewrote the filesystem (mke2fs -j out of habit instead of -S). What can I do to recover?
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