Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Aug 25, 2006 6:00pm PDTSo whatchu playas doing this weekend? Keep representin!
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I've seen Serenity a couple of times on cable, thought it decent of course. Then I seen it at a friend's place, just an episode or two. The next day I bought the DVDs for both the television show and the movie.
What sort of universe do we live in that this show got canceled? Please transport me to a parallel universe where this show is still on. I just watched Airel and I never ever want this show to stop. And I am sad that it does.
You can't take the sky from me.
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mac or PC
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I need some clarification:
a) Do I need to play Episode 1 to play Episode 2?
b) What sort of hardware will I need for Episode 2/TeamFortress/Portal? Same as HL2/CS:Source?
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BF2142 beta program ... is it worth it?? How many of you mother humpers are playing it?
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I've got the forceware 91.31 drivers installed for my 6800. Now every time I boot up I get this dumb popup balloon telling me SLI has been disabled because I don't have two cards.
Yes, I know that, thanks.
But how do I shut off this damn message permanently?
It pops up every time I boot up.
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Also, BF2142 is already swarming with smacktards. Protip: You cannot shoot the home team through their titan's inner shields, even if you spend 5 minutes trying.
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With naming my girlfriend's mom's new puppy.
Picture of said puppy here:
http://willowriverfarms.com/images/bonniee_boy_1__350x262.jpg
It's a male Brussels Griffon, the same kind of dog as in "As good as it gets"!!!
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I'm guilty of this :(
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMNDXXoxQF0
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXImi2etl7I
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First of all you have to register to download the quicktime SDK for windows. What the hell is that? Why would you make things harder for someone to use your products than it already is? The answer, because Apple is full of a bunch of assholes.
So, assuming you get the SDK installed everything should be good right? Hahaha! So let's say you want to extract an audio track from a .mov file programmatically. Good luck sir! You could try checking the tutorial on the brand new to QT7 API made explicitly for such things but it wouldn't do you much good. Sure it shows you (maybe) how to extract audio from a movie file, but it doesn't tell you how to open a movie file. Perhaps you are clever and can dig through function headers to figure it out yourself, can't be hard right? Oh how wrong you are.
You see, there isn't a normal function that takes a filepath as a string, that'd be far too easy. There are several open functions, but good luck understanding how to use them. Each takes three or four quicktime custom structs for storing random information and the handy 'examples' don't actually initialize any of them! The load functions all return error messages in the form of ints, so perhaps you could work through the errors until you get it right? Hahaha not a chance. You see the documentation mentions these error codes and simple says "See Error Codes" and it's all italic like perhaps implying it is a link. But no, not it is not a link. It is nothing, just regular text taunting me.
The web documentation has no mention of what error codes actually mean, nor is it listed in any header file that I could find. Want to search the website? LOL! Perhaps check the documentation that comes with the windows sdk? Thats for Macintosh only, dumbass!
How any developer can put up with Apple's crap is beyond me. Also, on an unrelated note, I just found out that Stargate SG1 got cancelled. Wtf! Way to make my day even worse. =[
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Article removed yesterday from GameDaily...
Not sure why, but this is not good for the XBOX 360
http://tinyurl.com/luca2
Maybe the source turns out to be a Sony Exec....but since my 360 Died, Im starting to believe all the bad crap about the 360.
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i would say ratchet and clank cause of the weaponry and the humor, although i never played a Jak game (the 1st one is sitting there, and the 2nd is bought and in the mai) i heard Jak 1-2 were really good.
what's the word ?
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It has some interesting aspects:
Pretty good graphics
Huge world
Variety of weapons and vehicles
Fast paced action
Sadly, none of these are executed well enough to make me want to purchase the game. =( The controls are very sloppy, especially involving parachuting/stunts/sky diving, which are all a huge focus of the game. Combat is pretty poorly implemented, as your character has godlike aim, while the AI can't hit shit. Combine that with your ability to take a ton of damage, and regenerate health at low levels, and you're left with a big helping of boring.
The weapons themselves are pretty uninteresting, and until I found the RPG (with 3 whole rounds), there was nothing that seemed memorable at all. Oh, this SMG or that SMG? Who the fuck cares, they all function almost identically.
However, all of that could be forgiven if it weren't for the really weird bugs the demo displays. Killing passengers inside vehicles resulted in their bodies warping outside of the car/bike and hoving horizontally in mid air until they disappeared. Vehicle collision is very random, especially when bikes are involved. Partnered with weak controls in the first place, and it makes any sort of ramming/vehicle combat almost unplayable.
So I'm sad because Just Cause was a title I was looking forward to, and now I'm not sure I'll even bother to rent it. Fuck. =(
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http://lookitzpancakes.shackspace.com/Random/Diablo.jpg
THANK YOU CHODOG!!!
Can't wait to play it!
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http://img205.imageshack.us/my.php?image=werdwf2.jpg
Hell yeah! August 29th will rock.
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Since melon's primary CS:S server took a dump several times last night, we gonna head to #2 tonight?
CLICK HERE to see server info and play ---> http://www.game-monitor.com/GameServer/209.144.224.155:27015/ShackbattlesCS_2.html
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Anyone have or know where to get the installer for IE 7 beta 2? Beta 3 and RC1 are slow as hell and locks up every other page. I had no problems with beta 2. Also, firefox closes everytime I resfresh the page or click on certain links.
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New episodes of Metalocalypse and Tom Goes To The Mayor are up. Dont see Venture Brothers though.
http://www.adultswim.com/adultswimfix/index.jsp
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*rubs eyes*
Maybe it's the red hair..I'm crazy...
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