Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Jun 19, 2006 6:00pm PDTHappy Monday? Please do enjoy these as they are hand picked with you in mind. Much love.
- Cell mixing is scaring people - BR player in hands - iTunes movies approaching - A bit on net neutrality - Nerds not sure what bright thing is - MS iPod killer rumors - China is gonna put a dude on the moonLastly, in a shocker it seems that people like to upload videos of boobies and gross stuff on the internet. Who knew?
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
I told him I looked for those little froggy monsters that grow bigger if you ignore them and I didn't think they were in Epsiode 1 like was originally promised, and he said they decided to remove them because the playtesters didn't find them fun. I was kind of disspointed by that.
I said I liked the flying jetpack guys and that was pretty much the only best thing I liked about Episode 1 and suggested they should add a jetpack for the players so you can fly around ala duke nukem.
I also commented about the death animations and how they don't all "ragdoll out" until the death animation is finished, so if you shoot a guy during thier death animation nothing happens (they won't go flying or whatever).
He also said that arena mode is coming soon and should be very cool.
you are a pirate
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calling United States 702-269-3457 tomorrow to see if I can get the mouse treatment :D Updates to come
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John Ottman is rather faithful to John Williams' original score for Superman
http://superherohype.com/news/supermannews.php?id=4412
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Anyone know anything new about the following shows that I enjoyed so much? (Despite them being only 1 season each and then getting canned).
Firefly
Rome
Surface
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i think i broke it, which does not bode well for my goal of doing the seattle to portland bike ride :(
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What a sad photo. How did they manage to turn one of the wonders of the natural world in to a place that fucking ugly.
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It's official! World of Warcraft Patch 1.11 is tomorrow!
The fourth end-game instance, Naxxramas will be unleashed to the masses. http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-general&t=8754104&p=1&tmp=1#post8754104
It's about time, Ahn'Qiraj sucked ass.
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Playing Gears of War on a 50" plasma
*faints*
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13325723/
1) BMW Z4 $35,600 to $42,100
2) Chevrolet Corvette $43,690 to $64,890
3) Dodge Charger $22,570 to $29,720
4) Ford Mustang $19,115 to $31,145
5) Honda S2000 $34,050
6) Hyundai Tiburon $16,095 to $21,395
7) Mazda MX-5 Miata $20,435 to $26,700
8) Mercedes-Benz SLK roadster $42,900 to $46,950
9) Nissan 350Z roadster $27,650 to $41,000
10) Pontiac Solstice $19,915
that all makes sens....wait....Hyndai Tiburon...wtf? lol
ALSO IN THE NEWS: Girls love convertibles
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I don't know who to hate more, iTunes or this computer here at work. Everytime iTunes starts up I have to stop it from updating podcasts I subscribed to or the iTunes crashes. Is there a way to unsubscribe? >:(
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upto, 9 disconnects in the last 25 minutes... gah.
DAMNIT, WHEN I SAID I WANTED DSL THAT WENT DOWN ON ME CONSTANTLY, I WAS USING A DIFFERENT TLA
the good news is that I've got a BT engineer booked for tommorow to fix this shit
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So this 6 yr old boy was on this giant ferris wheel BY HIMSELF?!?!?!?
I have a 6 yr old daughter and there is no way in hell she would be on that thing by herself. I guess there is a vid clip why she had him on there by himself, but I can't watch the video here at work. But there is no excuse IMO why she let that kid on there by himself. That's just stupid.
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MS's pricing scheme on 'next gen' games. The 'waa, it's so expensive to develop next gen content' tax.
While I'm aware that each gen does indeed cost more to make content for, it's hard to see how they justify it when they do it to games like Tomb Raider. I rented it with a buddy for my Xbox 2. Didn't beat it but got my $5 out of it. Well, he liked it and went and bought it for his Xbox 1. Then he brought it over and we looked at it and there's no difference visually. Okay, maybe the water is a bit better looking on the 360, but that's literally it. But the price is $10 less. How does MS expect people like me who have both to pay for a more expensive yet identical version of a game? The wierd thing is that the PC version is $20 less than the 360, and it includes the supposed 'next gen content' of the 360.
For platform exclusives, like Gears of War, I can see charging more for it, cause quite frankly you've got a captive audience. But when the same game comes out on 4 different platforms, but are all different pricing for the same thing... I don't see how they can charge the next gen tax.
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http://www.spikedhumor.com/articles/35766/Gun_Fight_Outside_The_Court_House.html
1) Guns, especially high powered automatic rifles are awesome and should be legalized everywhere!
2) This guy's been playing too many video games. GTA is satan! I mean, who else could you blame for this type of behaviour? <3 america
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If you didn't get a chance to see Serenity in the theatre (or just can't get enough), a bunch of screenings are going on this week. It is all set up by fans and proceeds go to Whedon's favorite charity, Equality Now.
http://www.cantstoptheserenity.com/
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Well, I finally watched the documentary 'Why We Fight' that was posted the other day. Thanks to whoever posted that; great documentary. Sad that Eisenhower's warnings turned to be more of a prophecy than anything else.
http://www.newsarama.com/movies/Superman/Superman_Review.html
Instead of playing evil Lex Luthor, Spacey gives us Gene Hackman as Lex Luthor. There is no seriousness to the character, he's a buffoon. Which is just weird, because, unless I missed something, Hackman is still acting these days.
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China's Olympic stadium looks like a big vagina.. lol
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But to get to my point. My only concern about the Wii was that the controller wouldnt be close to capable of what i'm dreaming it could be. I've found it hard to find any concrete evidence from various journalists reports from E3, other than some things worked really well something didnt. I'll use red steal, or any potential sword fighting game for an example ;
If the game is designed to recognise a series of manuvers from the wii controller and when the player performs one of these actions, it then performs a pre scripted attack on screen... i'll be disapointed. I'd see this as something that would grow pretty tiresome quite soon.
IF on the other hand it was a system that tracked the movements of the player and reacted accordingly without the pre scripted attacks (where your essentially just replacing a combination of buttons, with a certain form of phsycial movement...) would be exceedingly exciting.
I did read the redsteal appeared to be closer to the former of the two. All i kind of hope for is that this is a new system like the DS that developers will have to get acquainted with and really explore the possibilities. I hope we're not already seeing the limits of the system now.
/rant
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if you had a choice between a widescreen, hdtv or an xbox 360, with a couple games/etc. to get you started, which would you ask the genie to give you?
ps. i don't have cable right now. i'd have to get that.
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I have the first two under my belt and I am looking at Superman III and I have to wonder if I should even bother. I mean, at first I see Richard Pryor and I say to myself "But of fucking course!" But then I see that there is no Gene Hackman. Then I see the same hack who took over for Superman II directed it. Then I read the trivia page on IMDB and it gets even worse. I probably haven't seen this movie since I was a kid and I am wondering if I should just skip it.
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I got one last night
where's the list of xbox live shackers?
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Patch 1.11 is today
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as a continuation of my nws / ws post from FP earlier today, here is Evangeline Lilly at the launch of the New Face of Michelle K Footwear on June 15, 2006. each image is 1600 x 2500 with a resolution of 118.11 pixels / cm.
http://www.hinjang.com/decorus/025-Evangeline_Lilly-20050615001.jpg
http://www.hinjang.com/decorus/025-Evangeline_Lilly-20050615002.jpg
http://www.hinjang.com/decorus/025-Evangeline_Lilly-20050615004.jpg
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Didn't end up buying the warranty from MS so we'll see if I have to fork over $100 for repairs. :(
(the 360 is currently sitting on an AC vent in an attempt to get through the final mission in hitman, we'll see if cooling the shit out of it allows me to play just a bit more.)
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