Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Aug 16, 2006 6:00pm PDTWhatup hump day lovers? It's still hot in Texas :(
- Of man and monkey - Google launches local WiFi early - HD hot yet? - 50Gig BR discs finally shipping - Google earth geeksLastly, social networking catching up to Google/Yahoo
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
Get this. Now. It's probably the coolest indie project I've ever seen. It's all ASCII, but...
1) It generates the entire world for you. From scratch. It takes 5 minutes to generate this thing and it's all TEXT. THEN it proceeds to run a few hundred years of history over it and populates it with towns, castles, ruins, magic caverns, and more. Check out my world: http://www.igneferroque.org/dfortress/worldmap.gif
2) Then you can play in one of two ways: Dwarf Fortress, which is a sims-like mode that lets you choose a cliff in the world and build your very own Mines of Moria. The other is called Adventure mode, and more akin to Nethack, but insanely bloody. Check this out: http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/screens/carnage_in_town.html
"Blood?! What the fuck?" you may say. But it gets better. The game calculates fog of war in Diablo style, and even gets dark at night. On top of that, the amount of light at night depends on the phase of the moon and weather.
USING ASCII. NO REALLY. I'M NOT SHITTING YOU HERE, SHACK.
Here's the start of my third pitiful fortress: http://www.igneferroque.org/dfortress/fortress.gif
It's fall, which is why the grass is all yellow. You can see the dried up pools all over the place, like the one out front of my entrance. I was actually happy to have this happen, because the herds of elephants tended to agitated near my dwarves (they're the 'E's to the west), and they moved out to the river when water started becoming scarce. Yes, the water's even animated. Oh, and if you lose your fortress, it becomes a real ruin in the world that you can come across in adventure mode and raid.
In Fortress mode, you build defenses Dungeon Keeper style to protect your vast riches from marauding monsters and humans. You can even make traps. The most ingenius trap I've read about involves bringing all the dwarves into a panic room where they lock the door and hit a switch. This switch opens a floodgate blocking a canal that then floods your entire fortress. Shut the gate, let it drain, emerge victorious. That doesn't always work against frogmen though!
Like LotR, dig deep enough and the threats start coming from within (think Balrog here). Hell, there are even underground rivers that take you deep into the mountains into God knows where.
Seriously, this is like an uber Mount and Blade effort here. Get past the Roguelike graphics style and use your imagination a little bit. It will be well worth it.
http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/screens.html
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2011668
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http://www.shacknews.com/shackmeet/events.x?id=3340
California people, look and then reply.
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HIS FUCKING DAUGHTER DIES IN A CAR WRECK ON HIS WEDDING DAY?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
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Intel® Core 2 Duo E6400 - $247
Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 - $152
2GB XMS2 DDR2800 - $221 (minus $50 rebate)
SAPPHIRE 100149L Radeon X1900XT 512MB - $221 (minus $30 rebate)
2x Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320gb perpendicular drives- $190
These are prices shipped a few have rebates (obvious) and I'm going to run the hard drives in a raid 0.
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Is it true that 50GB Bluray Discs don't need to be turned around when wanting to access the second 25GB ?
Is it true that HD-DVD need to be turned around for the same ?
When will BluRay movies stop using the old MPEG2 format ? Why are they shooting themselves in the foot by using this ? Someone getting some royalties for studios using MPEG2 or what ?
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I dont understand what im supposed to do, should I just go to the cops.
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I'd never heard of anyone doing that before, I thought it was crazy.
http://joesnizzle.shackspace.com/buffet.jpg
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So, I got my xbox (hooked up with the HD pack) working right. All games that support 16:9 are in 16:9 thanks to the dual thumbsticks + L/R trick.
However, my movies are still 4:3. Yes, I have the xbox IR thingy but ... wtf? Oh yes, the movies are widescreen movies. Fuck.
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Jason Statham basically needs to stay alive by keeping his adrenaline high and he goes around killing people to do that.
Why isn't he playing Agent 47 in Hitman :(
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I'll have the rat poo latte, plz!
ATTN PHOTOSHOP MENZ WHO WANNA WIN A PRIZE
I have some pictures that I want someone to photo shop me into for some fun!
I have this receptionist http://www.myspace.com/savsabel
And then here is me. http://www.myspace.com/awilliams10
I want to get my pictures photoshop'd to look like I am partying with her. Out in Cali. I have 4 prizes that I can give away ranging from a usb bluetooth adapter to usb am/fm radios to the top 4 winners! Anything goes, but keep in mind that I have to send this per company email so it can not be too NWS
Get creative as possible or just make it look funny!
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https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=340318
Specifically, comments 24, 41, 58, 65, 70, 72 are the funniest to me
YOU KNOW I HAVE MOVED TO OPERA 9 AS THIS BUG HAS RUINED MY PC THANKS ALOT MOZILLA FOR LOSING ANOTHER 210 USERS GUYS YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS NOT FIXING THIS FOR FIREFOX'S FUTURE AS THE SITE I AM STAFF AT THAT IS PC CHAT 210 USERS MAY MOVE TO OPERA JUST BECAUSE DEVELOPERS ATTITUDES IN THIS REPORT THIS SUCKS AND TO THINK FIREFOX WAS AWESOME TIL YOU REFUSED TO FIX A BUG ALL DUE TO ME NOT WANTING TO TEST 50000000 BUILDS THAT WAS HILARIIUS AS EVERYONE ON THIS FORUM LOVED HOW YOU FORCE US TO TEST 100'S OF BUILDS BEFORE YOU FIX SOMETHING
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All signs point to a Woot-off tonight. Consider yourself forewarned.
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http://filmcritic.com/misc/emporium.nsf/95a45e26914c25ff862562bb006a85f2/394a496e465c4f38882571b900114dc5?OpenDocument
Spoiler alerts, obviously. Read and relive those magic moments. Makes me want to rewatch them all.
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http://www.tubewad.com/A-794-p.html
if it's a repost, it's a good one, ok?
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is it OK to put "Growing familiarity with ...." in your list of technical competencies? Or is that sometimes frowned upon?
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=SZzDpysrcy0
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Yeah, so I was replaying 72 hour mode to get leveled up. I screwed up a mission though and then am like, hell, I'll just get Zombie Genocider (which teakes like 53,000 zombies to earn. Well the good news is I'm at 23,000. Bad news is I'm tired as hell and this is getting old. Plus this is taking far longer than I had planned. Goddamnit. I dn't want to quit cause I just spent the last few hours doing this but I just might have too.
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So I'm cooking biscuits and gravy in my kitchen, and I think 'But wait, I need to poop on time' so I start mixing up some coleslaw with this Bacon & Ranch dressing I have previously mentioned.
http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=12373033
Anyhow, as you can see, I bought that quite a while ago, and so I've managed to go through the whole bottle. As such, I wanted to get the very last drops of bacon ranch goodness out of this thing, and I am fucking STARVING because I went and ran a couple of miles and haven't eaten anything yet.
So, I decide, physics is my friend. I will swing the bottle in a big circle, perpendicular with my floor, to drive every last little delicious bit of ranch into the cap, which will then go into my coleslaw. I got about 2 or 3 swings into this endeavor, and I thought to myself 'I'm a fucking genius, I bet nobody else ever thinks to do this, they just shake it and get frustrated and throw it away, but not me, BIG CIRCLES!'
Just as I got done thinking that, I slapped the bottle against the car keys in my pocket. BAM. My arm continues but the lid sails off behind me, bouncing off all 3 walls of my kitchen, leaving a thin halo of ranch and bacon bits all about the ceiling, walls, window, cabinets and finally carpet. Like if you decorated a christmas tree with spaghetti.
I just about fell on the floor laughing, and my dog stared at me like 'You better not puke on me again asshole.'
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http://www.joinfear.com/us/
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So I got a new 360, yay, etc. I finally get it online, for no real apparent reason. Now that I've got it working, guess what?
The fucking thing causes crazy-mad interference on my TV.
I've got a pretty nice HDTV. The previous 360 worked fine. But if I have this Xbox plugged in (not even turned on) and connected to my component switcher, I get scrolling bars and white noise on my component input - even if something else is running. So if my xbox is connected to the switcher, plugged in, and I'm watching a DVD or playing my PS2 I get scrolling bars and white noise. It doesn't matter how many of the 5 component plugs are connected, or which ones are connected, I get interference. For reference, old 360 worked fine with the same exact setup.
WHAT THE MOTHER FUCK.
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This is the Colbert Report!!! performed by a 2 year old.
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NWS
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Can I just start paying the subscription with the credit card and get the retail key without buying game/gamecard?
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Are you fucking kidding me?
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XOXOX,
William "The Refrigerator" Shatner
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This is to inform you that we (My wife Giggles and I) have just completed our first game of Phase 10 using the expanded ruleset you found and posted for me in this shacknews.com thread: http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=12627163
This is also to convey gratitude to you from Giggles, my wife, as she had a very enjoyable time and wanted you to know this.
In addition, it is my intent to inform you that she royally kicked my ass and I hate you.
Regards,
D. Nose
tel. 867.5309
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