Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Apr 13, 2006 6:00pm PDTIs it Friday yet?
- Time to tax iTunes? - AT&T support spying? No way! - Sprint child locator - Portland goes WiFi - Hybrids are not hot - Venus cloudsLastly, looks like the South Park guys managed to make the news again
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
Resident Evil: Chronicles HD Collection coming in June
Sony patent would interrupt gameplay to display ad
Weekend Confirmed 114 - Diablo 3, Max Payne 3, Lost Planet 3
New Zone of the Enders project underway
Carmageddon ploughing into GOG
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1630086457032903932
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The official English demo for Brigade E5: New Jagged Union has been released and is currently available via Fileshack here: http://www.fileshack.com/file.x?fid=8654
E5 is a spiritual successor to Jagged Alliance 2 in the truest sense of the word. It's a shit-hot uber-awesome game, and while I haven't played the updated demo yet (downloading it now), my impressions of the beta demo were nothing but positive. For a writeup/overview of that, check it out on my site here: http://www.dslyecxi.com/shackposts/new_jagged_union_beta.html
This game is hot hot hot. Check it out if you have some free time.
http://www.dslyecxi.com/screens/e5/m4_sopmod_acog_suppressor_doublemag_harrisbipod_laser.jpg
http://www.dslyecxi.com/screens/e5/breaching.jpg
http://www.dslyecxi.com/screens/e5/moving_down_a_hall_with_rear_security.jpg
http://www.dslyecxi.com/screens/e5/secured_area.jpg
http://www.dslyecxi.com/screens/e5/m9_taclight_suppressor.jpg
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However, the cartoons from DC were always sooo much better then the Marvel ones, and I just don’t understand why. Spider-Man and X-Men were all I watched, and they were sweet and everything, but god damn do I look back on them and think “are these some uglyass motherfucking cartoonsâ€Â.
Here’s an episode of Spider-Man from the nineties:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEbG3J7bGt8&search=Iron%20Man
Just watch the intro, not asking you to check out the whole thing. Seriously, this, Iron Man and X-Men had the most ridiculous art style ever – it’s like they said to the studio who made this that they can only use web safe colours. Retina-scorching! What the fuck? The animation wasn’t all that competent either. It was often good, but sometimes, well, just depressingly stilted and clunky.
And here’s the intro to the old Batman cartoon from Adventures of Batman and Robin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-u07UEDT5I&search=batman%20cartoon
Look at those colours! The whole thing is striking, sleek, dark, iconic! Technically speaking the animation is a lot more fluid as well. You can also get a bunch of fight scenes between Batman and his various nemesii (?) on You Tube – they’re much sweeter, the motion much more enjoyable and fluid then it is in X-Men or Spidey. Not to mention that the musical score is not absolute trash.
The new cartoons are much the same story. X-Men Evolution is not that impressive, and though the new Spiderman cartoon is measurably better then Evolution, it still manages to be less impressive then the DC cartoons. Yet, the new Batman cartoon, Superman cartoon and even Teen Titans manages to have a better look, higher quality animation and even better writing (though I would not say this of Teen Titans, which I find to be :/ )
GO DC! I just hope they pick things up in the comics department to get me interested as well.
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its a fucking marathon
www.woot.com
right now, its some jewelry thats a fake knock off on good tiffany's stuff. that anti-virus has every piece of imagineable
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Fearless was fucking jawsome and everyone needs to see it when its released over here. The choreography was incredible.
Report back later with my thoughts on "violence".
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I go through with the credit card payment.
"Due to authentification error we are unable to complete your Verified by VISA / 3-D Secure Secure Payment."
Bah!
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I'm playing NOLF2 and I get to the part where we discover who the evil mime dude really is! Then the most fucked up thing happens next. Armstrong 'decides' to chase him on a tiny tricycle with Cate on his back shooting enemies down that get in the way. OH GOD that was some good stuff right there. Hehehehe :)
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So. What was the shack verdict on LAYER CAKE again?
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God I fucking hate Gamespy
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i have some xml that i'm retrieving via flash that contains the following
05ƒ_2
hopefully the shack won't eat that character, but in between the five and the underscore, there's one of those fancy squiggly f's.
like this (the yellow one):
http://www.isthisthingon.org/unicode/index.phtml?page=0&subpage=0&hilite=0083
my problem is that this character is not shown when i try to display the string. i have verified it is coming through ok in the xml, so what can i do to make flash not wig out over it? is there some kind of character encoding setting somewhere? or should i be looking for something else?
god flash sucks.
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i know at least one of you faggots is a valve employee. tell us something. ANYTHING! PLEASE!
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I'm now head of the Mages Guild, Fighters Guild, Dark Brotherhood, and Grand Champion of the Arena. 45 hours in and I'm still only Level 13.
I'm looking to complete all the main quest threads, and I'm largely ignoring the others (well... unless I get distracted, or for daedra shrines). Next up is Thieves Guild - are there any others, aside from the main quest (in which I still havn't even seen Jauffre yet...)?
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i watched one episode. talk about a turd. there is nothing going on. these people talk, vote and go to sleep. money counts down and they do it again. i hope the money ends up being $8 for the winner.
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Repost from earlier but, new clip online:
http://movies.aol.com/movie/main.adp?tab=trailers&mid=23424&ncid=AOLMOV00050000000025
A LITTLE spoilerish, nothing huge if youve seen the trailer.
Nothing from this film that I have seen has let me down. Only 7 days left!!!
Contents:
The "miners" trying to kick down the door of the Midwich school bathroom to get ahold of Rose. She holds the door shut, praying that they leave. Camera pans back to the miners and a view of a canary in a cage nex to them. The bird starts going apeshit. The miners grab the cage and quickly leave. A few seconds later, the siren goes off which signals the transformation to the otherworld. The bathroom starts to change and we get to see a VERY brief glimpse of the Janitor creature.
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good stuff. is there a season 3?
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20 minutes left in my Xbox 360 contest. Sign-up for a free subscription to PlayedToDeath magazine and help me win the console!
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I don't get why it is so unpopular. The episodes are incredibly well connected, there are almost zero plot problems of the type that plague smallville and the like (not following the established rules they set out) and on top of that, it is just plain enagaging.
How many of you have watched the show a few times but don't now? What is keeping you away?
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http://www.pandora.com/
Awesome online radio type deal that you can custom tailor to your musical tastes as well as have multiple channels for.
"Rest now mighty Myrmidont for you have been owned"
http://www.hlcomic.com/
Those things take WAY too long to close too. Why make them so long if you have to close 5 billion of the damn things?
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Van Damme's next movie. The picture is priceless.
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http://silentbobspeaks.com/?m=20060413
Spoilers: FUCKING MEWES, GOD DAMNIT
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http://www.guildwars.si/modules/news/article.php?storyid=726
I'm really hyped about this next chapter. Alliance battles and new PvE/PvP game types are more than I expected for the next chapter.
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