Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Mar 22, 2006 6:38pm PSTOoooh.. Lost returns tonight. I dont enjoy the show quite as much as I used to but it still manages to continue to entertain me. It's either that or those home made videos Maarten sends me. Mmmmm.
- Yahoo doing IM phone calls - The Bikini Principle - PayPal has gone mobile - A decade of PDAs - Vista delay making folks emoLastly, those wacky Canadian record execs totally dig on you downloading music.
Daily Filter: Planetside 2, Deadlight
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
In the first dream, I was working at a diner (snuh?). We were short-staffed, and I was the only one waiting tables. While I was talking to the cook (doin' that weird "diner talk" jibber-jabber, of which I have little or no actual knowledge in the waking world), this guy comes in and starts ranting and raving--he's waiting to be seated, and it's been a whole TEN SECONDS. Yes, this was Rosewood.
Then the alarm went off. I hit the snooze...
In the second dream, some buddies and I were at the mall (snuh again?) and we wandered into a computer software software staffed by one guy behind the counter. There was little merchandise, but several test computers set up--each with a printer, each printing out Shack phrases. Except it wasn't funny; it was kinda' creepy, and we started joking that the store employee was like Jack from The Shining. That employee? Yep, Rosewood again.
So, what the hell does this all mean?
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It was really fun doing the Killzone MoCap on Friday!
I have a pic with the two directors that day....the one on the right is one of the oscar winners for visual effects in King Kong! It was great working with these guys!
http://www.shaneroberts.net/images/Killzone/IMG_3636WEB.JPG
I've got my fingers crossed in hoping for a callback to do more MoCap for them!
PEACE.
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And there ain't a GOT DAMN thing you can do about it: http://www.ew.com/ew/report/0,6115,1175748_1_0_,00.html
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My Oblivion character. Albino high elf. I've shown you mine.. now show me yours!
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http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.04/learn.html
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Oh! And the demo they had at AGEIA looked really cool. I think it was called "Cell Factor" or something. Does anyone know if that's just a tech demo AGEIA made or if it's an actual title?
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Fidelity Investments yesterday said a laptop computer with personal data on 196,000 retirement account customers was stolen last week, prompting it to send out security alerts to affected individuals.
THis is why we have hard drive encryption on our laptops here, just in case something like this happens. We have to put in a password before windows boots to let us in.
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My Oblivion gripes.
I recently played Fable, which is in the ballpark for Oblivion but not exactly the same, but there were some things that Fable did that Oblivion doesn't do, or does terribly.
1. Oblivion feels like a built-for-PC MMO that accidentally forgot to put in the netcode. Joystick support that you have to force off in the .ini file just so you can control your character? A one-line tutorial on archery: "Equip a bow and arrows and fire away!"? I'm 31, I've played MMO's and tons of RPG's, and this game feels like I got kicked off a pier and told to swim. Imagine the 15-and-under crowd who gets this as a console game. MMO complexity with practically non-existent tutorials and nobody else in-game to ask for help = bad first impression, and that's just on PC.
2. My first 3 hours were as a Nightblade cat race guy, and come to find out from my X Fuzion shackhype-prone friend the cat race "sucks for Nightblade" and is weak at magic and the Nightblade doesn't Sneak well to start and if I had picked the right Thief type class I could be getting 6/3 bonus for sneak attacks rather than 4/2. I break into people's houses, only to be able to sell *nothing* because somehow this fantasy world comes with anti-theft tags on every damn item in the game and somehow a merchant 5 towns over knows that you robbed somebody of a bottle of wine. FINE FU GAME I'LL PLAY A BIG DUMB ORC TANK. So I spend last night playing a tank, following the storyline, warping from town to town, not stealing anything or breaking into chests or picking locks or nothing. I see stuff on the ground, I pick it up. So I close the Oblivion gate in Kyrst and zap to a town to sell my loot. Guess what! There's a 1K gold bounty on my head for thieving! They're going to confiscate my stolen goods and throw me in jail! So I go to jail, get out, take a stats hit for some skills, and check my inventory and I can't even TELL WHAT IS MISSING. Obviously the game thinks I stole something, but it was so insignificant that I didn't even miss it. Is there a way that I can tell in inventory if something that I'm carrying is considered stolen?
Granted, I'm 2 days into the game, and I haven't gotten used to it yet. It might turn out to be the 9.5 review that they tout on their website, but I'm just not seeing it yet. After character #1 I'm playing the game on K.I.S.S. mode, and while I know I'm missing out on a lot of complexity, I also know that I'm avoiding some headaches. Initial impression of this game is a 7.5, and it's pretty much the game's fault for giving such a bad first impression. The number might go up from here as I get used to the game, but again there's that MMO learning curve that doesn't belong in a single-player RPG that is being ported to a console.
Right now I'm feeling about 75% shackhype'd by this game...
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Sony today confirmed they plan to toss the much-reviled boomerangamajig PS3 controller thingy, according to CNNMoney.com reporter Chris Morris. A redesigned controller is expected to be unveiled at E3, in May.
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So I'm fortunate enough to have spent significant time with both the PC and Xbox versions of the game.
I give you my comparative analysis in reply:
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What's the wise choice(s) for a mid-range (under $300/£180) video card. Only other criteria are: Must be AGP, and MUST be dual-DVI.
Do you get ATI X850 XT with dual-dvi?
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arrrrg.
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Friend and I are having a "discussion" say you get a parking ticket. And then you didn't pay the parking ticket. The argument is if you could or couldn't eventually be put in jail for any amount of time.
This is in TN if its a state thing.
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Never really got into Morrowind at all, felt a little clunky and got bored by the combat, but I picked up oblivion last night for the 360.
But...Ho...ly....shit. This game is awesome. The graphics are bar none just unbelievable and the depth of it just seems amazing. I toyed around with the character creation crap for like 2 hours last night. 0_o. The way the world just seems rather alive, and that there are tons of other people doing their thing is just amazing. My only drawback is it's kind of hard to cast spells etc... if they're not part of your little hot bar button thing. And being a pure mage, I use a lot of spells!
Ran into a problem though. This deals with the very first part of the game after you leave the tutorial area. Ok after wtaching the king die, and getting the Amulut of Kings I take it to Jaeffer or whatever. Once there I decided to sleep and get up in the morning and talk to Prior Mayborian or whatever his name is. I ask for his assistance and he says take his horse. I head to the stables area and I want to take his horse, but it has a red icon on it. What gives? I take it and no one says anything until I'm near guards or town or something. Then they start yelling BURGLER, HELP HELP. So just by getting on and off the horse that I was given to use, I fucking have like 10,000g bounty. What the fuck. I've tried loading my game several times. Help PlzKthx.
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WTF?
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i hate doctors, and i want to firebomb all of them. i went to my neuro-opthamologist and basically he said what the first doctor said. i am unable to focus. it's not completely farsightedness, more like my muscles are just weak. so he told me to buy some readers and see if they helped.
i had to buy 2. the least strongest pair still makes me have to pull the computer screen within 8 inches of my face. i suppose if i don't feel like scooping my eyes out with a fork in two hours, however, it's worth it.
i cannot express how upsetting it is to have my head and eyes hurt all the fucking time. i'm just about to put on dark glasses and say i've gone blind.
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Does anyone know why the Bond Yield Curve usually slope upward?
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The game: http://www.fetchfido.co.uk/games/pool-jam/pool-jam.htm
The score: http://img57.imageshack.us/my.php?image=thebestpooljamscoreontheplanet.jpg
My next wonderous feat will involve masturbation and then sleep.
this show is beyond cool - i think the thing about it is its simple, yet complicated. its very easy to follow but i can see how it takes 24 episodes to explain the whole story.
season 1 so far is teh pwn.
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thoughts?
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5.5 hours on airplanes
1 hour in the Phoenix airport
2.25 hours in a car
.5 hours in a Waffle House
ugh, I'm going to bed
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I'm sitting here eating these delicious Kettle Cooked Jalapeno chips, and about 1/4 through the bag my head starts sweating, and it's the most uncomfortable type of sweating too(I run, so I know what comfortable sweating is like). But I can't stop eating them though :(
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http://www.guildwars.com/gallery/video/default.php
Awesome stuff!
Don't forget - this weeked = free Factions event!
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Id did update everything the 1st time I got on LIVE too. Do you think putting the 360 in the DMZ would help? Or is that too risky?
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You can add one to their xps 600 machines for $249 - there may be hope for them yet.
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Best UI ever.
The games are good, look great, and I'm playing aussie shackers online!
What are my options for split screen?
Is there a co-op splitscreen?
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