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by Maarten Goldstein, Sep 06, 2006 5:47am PDTSo us Europeans are getting the shaft again, with Sony delaying the PS3 until March here. Not that the launch situation will be any better elsewhere, as the US is getting only 400,000 units and Japan a mere 100,000. I wonder how loud the cheers are at Microsoft this morning. Those new Half-Life 2: Episode Two movies are pretty damn neat. Don't miss them if you're a fan (unless you want to go in sight unseen, which is understandable). Movie: Wow! You are mean!
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Minecraft for Xbox 360 dev working on 'Adventure' update
Demon's Souls servers extended again
Resident Evil: Chronicles HD Collection coming in June
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New Zone of the Enders project underway
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Before the second mission started the boss told me to stay out of the ladies room. I think by the end of this game I'll have a sexual harassment suit against me :(
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www.aperturescience.com
Spoilers if you're having trouble getting started:
USER followed by a password combination which should be obvious from the URL: PORTAL PORTAL
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That really isn't very many.. I don't plan on getting one but didn't Sony promise what 2 million at launch??
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I finally found an LCD screen that I find acceptable. The Samsung 930B failed me with it's 8 ms response time--I just couldn't get over the ghosting. But now I'm looking at the Viewsonic VX922, and it's beautiful.
2 ms response time ftw!
The ghosting is definately gone or at least unpronounced enough that I can finally live with it. The colors and brightness are amazing out of the box, and I can deal with the unfortunate backlight bleeding. No way I'm going back to CRT now. Finally, an LCD that can play games. Woohoo!
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Betting menz / womenz: At the end of Portal game that comes with Ep2 of HL2, do you think we'll find out that it was the portal guns that opened the portals (portal storms, was it?) that started the 7 hour war?
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Based on screens alone, which do you prefer graphically:
WoW -
http://www.gamescreens.info/index.php?section=uscreen&user=2&game=13068
Warhammer Online-
http://www.gamescreens.info/index.php?section=uscreen&user=2&game=12752
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http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=6BB937D6790EC4DC
Young Dro - Shoulder lean (8-bit mix)
I made this. Therefore it is okay for me to share it. And do yourself a favor and download it. I used fricken Castlevania samples for the love of christ.
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RE: http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=12809296
I've decided on the following:
Leadtek PX7900 GTX Geforce 7900GTX: $429.99
ASUS P5B: $156.99
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600: $360
CORSAIR XMS2 1GB (2 x 512MB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400): $130 (x2)
How's this sound? I'm primarily concerned with the RAM + mobo as some of the reviews on newegg report initial problems with RAM requiring certain voltage (just to get into the bios to change the voltage).
Also any recommendations on a heat sink/fan or alternative vid card?
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Last night I stopped by one of my favourite watering holes for some bud and jagers. However I went there with a mission, to introduce the world to Gary.
You see I posted about 10 full page version of this image:
http://www.starkravingnormal.com/GaryHUGE.jpg (warning may scare small children and/or animals)
I also came armed with a role of scotch tape with the soul purpose of taping thes images above all the urinals and behind the doors of the stalls in the restroom of this said watering hole. I ended up having a female friend do the same.
Now for this to go global we are askign everyone we know to follow suit for maximum damage, are you up top the task?
"Toilet Busey is watching you pee"
http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/9508/lolse9.jpg
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I just read William Lane Craig's "The Absurdity of Life Without God" for my philosophy class (The Meaning of Life) in which he states that without the existance of God and an afterlife humans and everything they do are ultimately insignificant (a term he never defines clearly). It was quite possibly one of the dumbest things I've ever read. He hardly makes an actual argument beyond the above claim. The man is clearly searching desperately for some 'meaning' in life and will go so far to avoid the possibility that there is none that he will create God, the afterlife, and then summarily condemn anyone who thinks otherwise as absurd and inconsistent. I just wanted someone else to know how stupid he is and I can't wait for class tomorrow to listen to some jackasses try to defend his view.
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what's the best way to get tree sap off a car windshield and paint?
i tried running boiling water over it and scraping it off but that just smears it all around. can't scrape it when it's hard either that's just lol futile.
i tried acetone on the windshield (i made sure not to get it anywhere near the paint) and that sorta worked except it smeared it all around and left a faint frosting covering the entirey of the screen, and no matter how many more times i went over it with acetone it's still there.
so how the hell do i get sap off my goddamned car before it ruins the finish? :(
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I'm think about either going the way of Pally, Rogue, Mage or Lock. I haven't decided. I haven't even figured out my Talent build yet. Any suggestions?
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Is this game as bad as everyone says it is? I mean come on its a GTA game!!!
Any opinions, or did I waste my money?
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Well, today I have to withdraw my support for this product, and it has to do with that power plug passthrough.
Yesterday, I turned on my 360, and got the red rings of death. I've had no problems previously. Not a single lockup. So the red rings for no reason seemed odd. Also, the power supply light turned red as well.
So I moved the 360 to different outlets, and nothing worked. I thought maybe my UPS battery had died and perhaps this was the problem. But it wasnt.
It was the Nyko Intercooler. Removing it solved the problem completely. It seems not only does the 360 power cord not lock into the Intercooler, but problems with the power passthrough can develop. After removing it, my 360 worked perfectly.
A search of the XBox forums reveals that there are a lot of Intercooler users that eventually get the red rings, and removing the Intercooler solves the problem. In one case, the plastic passthrough connector on the Intercooler actually started to burn! The guy posted pictures, too.
Thus, I withdraw my recommendation of the Nyko Intercooler. Its a shame, because it does cool the 360 very well. But the possible power related problems are too great to ignore. It seems this is a great product plagued by shoddy design.
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It looks like the Darnell building is now deserted. Are we going to move elsewhere?
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The Best Damn PCE Emulator got a nice update today! Some of the highlights:
- PCE: Added setting "pce.cdspeed" to set a CD-ROM data transfer speed multiplier. PLEASE READ THE DOCUMENTATION FOR CAVEATS.
- PCE: Fixed CD-DA and ADPCM fadeout speed when setting the "pce.ocmultiplier" setting to a value other than 1.
- PCE: Fixed the ADPCM playback rate formula(the result was off by about 0.27%)
- Began work on implementing several OpenGL pixel shaders, which will be finished in a later release
- NGP: Changed the default full-screen video settings, so that the scaled image size is no longer larger than the display area
Homepage: http://mednafen.com/
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Showoff...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NluHHWKBg4Q
When do you get sick of playing from the standard underneath position and practice this shit?
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No idea what's new, sadly. Xebra is a highly accurate PS1 emulator that has, without a doubt, the worst fucking interface and poorest (english) documentation of any of the top tier PS1 emulators.
/me raises the -mu- signal
I've had mixed experience with it, mainly because I have a ghetto PC and I haven't figured out how to coax it into running very well on it. Other people sing praises at its ability to handle games like Mega Man Legends and Misadventure of Tron Bonne without any of the problems experienced in every other emulator.
Homepage: http://members.at.infoseek.co.jp/DrHell/ps1/index.html
Why don't you finish me?
Shackers to Games:
< insert your response here >
Here's my take on why many people don't finish the games they buy/rent anymore: Too many games and too much easy access to them.
Games are way more disposable than ever before. Back in my day... 15-20 years ago, you didn't buy as many games a year. And the ones you did buy, you played the hell out of them because you didn't switch over to the next new game as quickly. And free acces to games i.e. pirating was popular, but way more difficult than it is today. please don't ban me Finally, kids have way more disposable income (and so obviously do us 30+ gamers leading the charge).
What do you think? Too lazy? Short attention span? Too busy? (Host a Podcast about gaming, but never actually play games anymore? Oh sh....)
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a) You have to defend the casino from those fuckjobs in the cars that want to firebomb it
and
b) where you have to go to the docks to get the labor union leader.
Anyone got any tips for either one? For the second one, I grabbed a car and just ran people over for a while but eventually got bored and decided to see if they added swimming to the game (they didn't :( ). Do I just have to kill everyone? If that's the case, I'll just buy an uzi before the mission.
http://www.trektoday.com/news/020906_01.shtml
Is there really any need to redo the visuals of TOS?
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Hulk Ultimate Destruction is awesome.. that is all.
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