Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Jul 18, 2006 6:26pm PDTI wasnt terribly excited about that Portal game when I heard about it but after checking out that Portal trailer I put on some panties just so I could get them in a bunch. Havent had a good puzzle game in a really really long time. Need more The Incredible Machine.
- Hopefully doctors leave less stuff inside patients - Big animals die :( - Movielink to allow DVD burning - iTunes movies just a few weeks away - TiVo Series3 with HD/Cablecard support almost here - Your scary censorship story of the dayLastly, DNA is becoming more and more a part of crime solving
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Demon's Souls servers extended again
... and a long time ago ... a long long time ago I saw the movie Alien. However, I don't remember a single thing about it. So I am watching it tonight. I know that some of you think this movie is a top 5 movie of all time. I know that some of you think Aliens was much better. In this thread, we talk about the series and what makes Alien so good I should watch it right now.
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Premise: Clyde's stuck in an ipod factory a cloning facility, send help! Wait, you are the help. Guide Clyde, as his clones, to the exit. Save as many Clones as you can, and collect cool items, for bonus points and bragging rights. The game also features coop and versus both split-screen and via Xbox Live. Hawt.
First impression: Good stuff. At the least, try the trial version. It's 4ish levels of the full game, along with sneak peaks at what the full game entails.
If you're a fan of Lemmings at all, I think you'll dig this. It's all about exploration, item collection, and figuring out how to rescue all your dudes. The demo levels are obviously easy, but the presentation is great. The tutorials and hints throughout the game are "notes" left by other Clydes to help you out. Funny stuff. Clyde can pick up items, stand on buttons, double jump, karate kick and with some power ups pull off a ninja move complete with dragon uppercut. Combat, you say? Well, you are escaping from a facility. You've got to destroy the automated security system that consists of cameras that trigger the creation of kamikaze exploding chickens when you're nearby. Once you get all the cameras in the level, the exit teleporter opens up. For bonus points get all of your clones to the Clyde Cute™ so they can get out of the level safely.
Eventually, Clyde gets the ability to cross his DNA with that of other things in the complex, such as sheep, apes, toads, chickens and exploding barrels! Good stuff.
As you can tell from the write-up, I had a good time. It's 800 points, and it seems to be worth it in my opinion. But all you GRAW mappack whiners might see otherwise... quick, check the couch for spare change! But seriously, it gets my seal of approval, and I think I'll be getting it for a quick puzzler fix. Something about this sort of game fills the void the Portal trailer opened in my heart. Give it a shot!
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Look at all the variety just on the front page:
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/
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Question: Ten years ago, what game would you have been playing?
My answer: Quake, in The Dark Zone, on Clan [io]'s Bodycount, an 8-player server with weapons-stay rules for the weapon pickups, and no holds barred.
As this was pre-quakeworld, it was rather shitty on my 33kbps modem and my Cyrix 200+. Things got a little better with a cable modem in February 2007.
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Here's one that is free, unobtrusive, highly customizable, and can give a substantial productivity boost!
Read on below......
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My health insurance was to go up from $294/mo to $398/mo starting this month. I changed my coverage to a plan with a smaller network but same benefits putting my premium at $173/mo.
They withdrew $398 from my account today. Seriously, this is very awesome.
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http://www.silentbobspeaks.com/
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*crywithsad*
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I have a question about job interview attire. Tomorrow I'm going to chat with the nice lady at a very large network engineering and security company (think Cisco Gold Certified Partner or Avaya Platinum Partner, that level of organization).
She told me it's just business casual and I don't have to worry about looking sharp. Also, it's friggin' hot out lately and I sweat profusely, so forsaking the tie would help in that respect.
I have a dark blue Banana Republic shirt with thin vertical stripes that I always get compliments on, but no tie to go with it. So do I make a nod to business casual - that shirt plus pressed khakis, but no tie? Or do I go the standard interview uniform of dress pants, white button-down shirt, and tie?
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any mirrors? :(
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How frugal should I be with storing stuff in $_SESSION? Assuming the website isn't particularly high-traffic. Is a couple KB per session okay?
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It looks REALLY good with that, I could totally deal with depth of field on my gun kinda blurred out down the bottom right but in reality it's bullshot and no system can render that realtime - combo meh.
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The Chinese-language Apple Daily and Commercial Times reported today that Asustek Computer started shipments of PlayStation 3 game consoles in small volume since the beginning of July, with the first consignment to total four million units. The worldwide debut of Sony's PS3 is expected to take place on November 11.
http://www.digitimes.com/systems/a20060719PB202.html
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I love puzzle type games even though I suck at them.
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http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1967772
A guy posts about feeling bad about fucking his friends GF and the drama that resulted, internet detectives get the friends phone number, recordings are made, hilarity ensues...
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http://www.jlug.net/vigs.htm
Adult Lego
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Man, my head is one big red burn.
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Im having trouble, and I have no manual
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Man, do I hate red-eye flights. Had to take the overnight from Denver last night and work a full day today. Full day tomorrow and Friday, then I fly back Friday night and immediately hop in a car and drive 10 hours to Montana for a wedding on Saturday afternoon. Then there is a family reunion on Sunday, followed by a 10-hour drive back to Denver that evening. This week is going to suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
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I can no long play valve / steam games due to this fucking bug.
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=5109938#post5109938
something in my copy of windows?
Should I buy an X-fi? - I hate creative, they are the EA of hardware and I hear the driver support and updates are ho-hum at best hey just like EA
Then again, some posters claim it's a pretty good card, still my onboard sounds quite good to me (I have v.nice speakers / amp so it probably gets the best I can from onboard)
if I DO buy one, how long do you think PCI slots will be on boards, 2 years, 3, 5, 9?? because PCI-e is here now yet there's no PCI-e sound card - should I wait for a PCI-e one? - I do NOT want to have to buy a new soundcard every 3 years, infact ever since onboard got half decent 6 years ago, I've had it for free essentially
Finally, anyone know if there's a solution to my current issue?
The stupid audio hardware performance slider is resetting back to high, any theories, it'll save me 130$ US. that's how much the cheap ones are here.
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Fill in the lyrics,....
The only filling I'd like to do in regards to Beyonce has little to do with music....
In short, I did the math because someone said they were milking it.
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http://www.break.com/index/singlip.html
watch the guy on the left. :)
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Chill music!
Do you like music? Good music? That's free and legal?
I know I do~!
Here's a very cool site where you can upload and download music that people made. Some are very very well done.
Personally, I like chill female vocals and there is plenty of it here.
Here's two I recommend:
http://ccmixter.org/media/files/beatgorilla/1838
http://ccmixter.org/media/files/shockshadow/4884
Enjoy~
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Self pic of an astronaut with the Earth reflected in his/her visor...
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All I have to say is HOLY SHIT!
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That's right I'm ready to goooo!
all right I'm ready to gooooo!
etc etc that sort of thing...
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Hrmm. I'm torn on this. Mostly though I couldn't honestly prosecute the doctors. I mean as far as they knew help was never coming. Looking at this in retrospect I think this is very unfair from the standpoint of saying they were playing god.
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