Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Feb 21, 2006 7:00pm PSTSo apparently the real competition for TrackMania Nations is overseas. It's been an eye opening experience the hour or so I played on a French or German server. Seeing 5-8 guys within half a second of a perfect score several tracks in a row is intense.
- Judgement day is coming for Blackberry - HD in your palm now - WiMax is gonna take a while - Space Shuttle retiring - Bluetooth virus, cool!Lastly, Google image search may be changing things a bit considering this recent lawsuit outcome.
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New song for download: http://goodweatherforairstrike.blogspot.com/2006/02/new-feist-song-remix.html
Oh, and get the Sea Lion Woman mp3 too, it's fantastic!
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Fuck the stupid refs, fuck the shitty Italian ice, fuck the shitty graphite sticks, fuck Nabokov.
FUCK.
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Oh shi, I could totally use a new set of clubs.
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http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0425196410/qid=1140582666/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/104-7236390-8996737?s=books&v=glance&n=283155
Flipping through the chapter/story descriptions, one caught my eye:
"A Child's Revenge: November 1942"
Thought you guys might be interested, so I typed up a snippet from the middle. But first here's the description that made me choose to read it first:
When Christine Strevinsky and her childhood friends found out what the Nazis had done to their neighbors, they took justice into their own hands and wrought a shocking reprisal.
Here's the part that made me decide to share it with you dudes. It's pretty engaging. (in reply
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My hands hurt :(
The good: The sensation of knocking the living shit out of another person has never been handled with more precision. The controls ARE that good. THe feedback you get from being nailed by a well placed haymaker is enough to send chills down your spine. Alternatively, it feels really fricken good when you can pull of a hard hitting combo especially when they are up against the ropes.
I've about 30 matches or so online, mostly against shackers (30-2 baby!) and only experience lag when I played maulla who has a shitty connection to me in every live game anyways. Even when it does lag, it's really nothing to write home about. The lobby system is handled about the same as most other ea excursions, kinda dumb but functional. It's at least easy to setup a 1 vs 1 versus a friend.
The carreer mode is extremly well done, and not too littered with reptitious training games. There are a few (3 to be exact) but they are easy and you can have them simulated for you if you so choose, i actually enjoy them. The progression through the various fighters is satisfying and ramps up the difficulty quite nicely, though mostly I'm knocking them down in the 1st round everytime :)
The bad: The saving system is absolute shit. I went through about 20 fights in the carrer mode, exited out through the menu's and went to the lobby system, when i went back to the carreer mode..guess what? Nothing saved! Son of a bitch! You have to go to the options menu and manually save your profile, not explained very well and the option was hard to find. In fact, ALL OF THE MENUS SUCK in this game. period.
LOAD TIMES can be pretty annoying, it's proably only 10 seconds each time but it gets to be a bit much and can be irritating, especially with the EA SOUNDTRAX going on in the background...i suggest custom soundtracks.
There are a few clipping issues occasionaly but it usually makes me laugh more so than it does irritate me.
Overall a great great fighting games, one of the most polished ones i've ever played, and a nice step up from the wonderfull fight night 2. The crippling menu's and lack of a better system for online play (spectate fights HELLO!!!?!?!) keep it from being anywhere near perfect. A solid 8.5/10.
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http://features.teamxbox.com/xbox/1487/Ghost-Recon-Advanced-Warfighter-Multiplayer-Campaign-Trailer/p1/
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http://www.flashplayer.com/games/the8bitwizard.html
60 questions about the NES.
this time we'll double the stakes as I bring you... the 16 bit wizard!
http://www.flashplayer.com/games/the16bitwizard.html
60 questions about the SNES.
and post your scores. I will, once I got done doing that thing
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Just finished watching Domino ...
How the HELL did they screw this up?!
Director: Tony Scott (Man on Fire, Crimson Tide, The Fan, The Last Boyscout)
Writer: Richard Kelly (wrote and directed Donnie Darko)
Plot: Domino leaves the glittarti behind and sets off to become a bounty hunter. She quickly falls under the wing of veteran hunter Ed Mosley (Mickey Rourke) and his crew and becomes an unlikely natural in the art of bounty hunting. But things really heat up when a gang of masked men begin a series of armored car heists, and before long the mob, a crazed TV producer, the FBI and a terminally ill child have all got caught up in the crazy situation.
Starring: Kierra Knightly, Mickey Rourke, Lucy Liu, guest star Christopher Walken...just to name a few.
What a crazy-ass, miss-mash of a flick...plenty of violence and grit, but it looses all coherence and reason about midway through. I have not been this disapointed since Once Upon a Time in Mexico. :(
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LETS HEAR IT FOR SUSHI!
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http://www.techtree.com/techtree/jsp/article.jsp?article_id=71508&cat_id=547
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http://www.gamerstyle.com/liksangcart.jpg
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He needs good suggestions for a competition.
GO! GO! GET ME A SEXBOX
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I'm after a decent game for my Windows Mobile PPC. I've got an emulator running some game boy and nes games and also Scumm and a couple of games but I got totally addicted to Hexic the other night on my mates 360 and was wondering if anyone has found a clone of it for PPC. Or something similar that I can get away with playing at work
Cheers!
http://shopping.theendrecords.com
I've spent 3 hours looking for shit I want/need, and this is what I have so far:
ANOREXIA NERVOSA - Redemption Process
NAGLFAR - Vittra
BURZUM - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
BURZUM - Filosofem
MAYHEMIC TRUTH - In Memoriam
CRADLE OF FILTH - Midian
THROUGH THE EYES OF THE DEAD - Bloodlust
ULVER - Bergtatt
KEEP OF KALESSIN - Reclaim
Besides Mayhemic Truth, which is an older band of a band I already love (Morrigan), these are all albums that I am very familiar with and love very much, but for some reason have not owned ever. I still have about 80 bucks to burn. I'm like a kid in a candy store. :D
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GOGOGO!
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Do any of you have a dual sound card setup in your pc? One for music.. one for gaming or something? I'm really getting into the whole PC audio scene (headphones, speakers, amps etc.), and I was wondering how such a setup would work. Apparantly a EMU creative card is the way to go for sound quality. Gonna have to do some reading up on that.
Currently I have a x-fi platinum.
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Just got a letter in the mail from Verizon saying that FIOS is now available in my neighborhood.
w00t !! 15/2 HERE I come !! I've been waiting for this for almost 6 months now. It's really reasonable too, 15/2 service for 45 bucks / mo.
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some real cuties
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/features/2006_swimsuit/models/
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is there a place in the US that stays between 65f and 75f all year long? that's where i want to live.
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http://morgiavelli.com/DSC06797.JPG
I like my tie. One of my fav's.
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I love Bejeweled but I don't want to pay for it again and im kinda bored with it anyways. Snood is boring as well now but I would like something in this genre of games... does anyone have any ideas?
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http://digg.com/technology/No_more_cashiers_at_Taco_Bell_and_KFC
Makes sense except the part where everyone uses a dirty greasy touchscreen all the time. That and if an order gets screwed up. Oh and if customers take FOREVER to pay for thier order since they're so stupid.
On the plus side, no more rude cashiers asking the same question over and over, orders should go through much quicker overall, and food should be prepared quicker.
Problem when going to KFC is that no one is around to take orders all the time because their preparing the meals which takes a few minutes each. One near me is badly mismanged in that they have to keep going to the back of the store where the fresh chicken is all the time and that area is usually crowded. Usually that shit should be upfront but they have a hard time getting it there when things get busy since it gets used up so fast. That and just going there and getting 4 chicken wings at all is just impossible half the time since they run out so quickly. All they really need to do is keep the chicken in ONE location all the time. It's like, why would McDonals display thier hamburgar meat all the time while the rest is in the back. It makes no sense. That and give an up to the minute status of what chicken is availble to order. Waiting 5 minutes in line and only to be told they have no wings at 5pm, 6pm, and anytime after 8-8:30pm. Bastards.
Yeah I love chicken wings which is the only thing I eat there. Sue me :P
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omg my first title has now shown up on Shackreviews!
http://www.shacknews.com/reviews/game.x?gid=2664
The description is off (that's the console features, but I don't think EA had a special "PSP" version of that) and the developer is wrong (EA Canada did the PSP version, Chicago did the console version), but I'm willing to overlook that stuff ;)
forgive me for the plug, I'm still getting used to seeing it in-store
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