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by Maarten Goldstein, Nov 21, 2006 6:50am PST.gnola evom ,ereh ees ot gnihtoN Also on FileShack
- Need for Speed Carbon 1.3 patch - now with more drifting.
- Darkstar One retail 1.3 patch - bug fixes and interface improvements.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QYJnlIXF7I
*shudder* and LOL at Jaime Pressly.
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Recieved my WE.....In Reply
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nws?
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I've run into some strange behavior with string modifications and variables... If I do this:
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http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=2918517
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http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5032
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It's like its trying to connect, but it never does. Fuck this thing is pissing me off. I can sit here like an asshole all day with no inclination that its doing anything or just turn on my 360 and say to hell with this thing. I'm really getting aggravated =(
It's like the technology behind this is from 1996 or something. Who the fuck decided to not have a god damn ethernet port on the back of it? Fuck wifi in its ass. GUN
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http://www.slikstik.com/quadfeatures.htm
Huzzah!
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So yesterday some co-workers and I went to a Vietnamese soup place (Pho?) where I spent about $11 dollars on the rolls, soup, drink etc. After I pay my bill, I use the change to leave a $2 tip.
One co-worker tells my Vietnamese co-worker that I left $2, more than the $1 each of the other two left.
My V-friend has been hounding me all day about leaving that much money, I should have only left *maybe* $1.
So my question is, am I missing some cultural difference, or is my friend just a tight-wad about the whole deal?
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So I'm looking at Gears and I'm wondering, what's the thinking on how long it'll be before:
1. ... any PC game looks as good as GoW does (on HD)? Because I don't see anything close yet, including Crysis.
2. ... we get photo-realistic graphics for games on any platform, PC or console? Because if games like Gears are what we're getting in 2006, and the GF 8800 for PCs are pushing the power they are, also in 2006, where will we be in 2010? 2015?
Thoughts? Speculation?
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what's that band who's music vid was just the band in their tour bus doing air guitar/drumming/synching? it's driving me insane i can't remember the band's name.
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So I was daydreaming on my way to work and thinking about the consoles and started wondering about next gen (yeah, it's now officially current gen, next gen is in 3*}g -> 10X years.)
What's your predictions about how things are for the next gen?
Me,... well I recall when the PS2 and Xbox both came out that the graphics were great but NOT that great,... this time round the graphics are pretty good for the PS3 and Xbox360, like pretty darn good.
This is going to sound ultra naive but I just can't imagine a huge leap next time, I can't fathom it - I feel it's going to be all incremental from this point onwards, huge leaps are over.
Also, backwards compatibility - we're in an awesome time right NOW.
All 3 consoles will play their older games, 2 of them will play 2 generations back (or MORE with the virtual console on Wii) How cool is that? You can "effectively" purchase 6 consoles by only getting 3 new ones - give or take a small handful of games which aren't compatible - not a bad deal at all
Wonder if we'll see this same level of b/compat next time? - My thoughts, no,.. no we won't.
My reason for thinking this is emulating a single core CPU is tricky enough as it is, emulating these current video cards from different manufacturers is tricky also, how the heck can we do multi-core chips and in the X360's case, programmable video cards! - crazy.
Plus CPU's are getting smarter, not much faster - in 3*}g -> 10X years who knows what speed our CPU's will be and if they will be 1x or 9x more powerful. (plus how does one "emulate" the Wiimote if it fails for example?)
On that note, all 3 companies should be damn well marketing the backwards compatibility a LOT more! - Your PS2 fails, why replace it with a PS2, get a PS3 - then you have a PS2 and a PS3 when you need it - same for Xbox 360 and same for Wii - it really should be pushed more.
*}g (Microsoft seem to want short generations of lifespan for their consoles, personally I dislike this a LOT - it's not cost effective for the consumer)
X (Sony have claimed to want 10 years from the PS3, they got damn near 10 from the PS1 (iirc) - I prefer this, value for money and full time to totally exploit the hardware)
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http://www.knitemare.org/cats/scared_kitty.jpg
CUTENESS OVERLOAD!
http://www.knitemare.org/cats/
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The ending is fucking amazin!
http://www.thatvideosite.com/video/3620
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Any Shackers up for Dinner and maybe a beer on Friday? I might drive back through Portland Friday night on my way back to Seattle if there is interest.
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Where do I find those settings?
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Some of the less than stellar reviews from Rotten Tomatoes:
...hippy trippy space odyssey-meets-contempo-weepy-meets-conquistador caper starring Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz suffers from a turgid script...
A pretentious, unfocused, and fussy mess...
It’s as if Aronofsky was so consumed with the film’s elaborately contrived aesthetics that he took no time for a little thing called character development.
An artsy-fartsy disaster...
After watching the trailer a few times and getting over the really neat look of the movie it's not hard to imagine any of these criticisms being far off the mark. I'll still go see it but if I was a betting man I'd say it's going to be a big disappointment.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CL2hetqpfg
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http://www.imdb.com/chart/
Seriously, W...T...F!?
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I've played a ton of FF titles in my lifetime, but this one is a bit tough, and admittedly I hadnt played much of the earlier ones (earlier than 5) so I have a question(s).
1: How the hell do I get my characters to be able to use 3rd+ level spells?
2: How the hell do I get mana to be able to *use* these spells aside from restoring HP/MP? I was just curious if there is another way.
I am stuck At the dragon monument and have to beat the rat creature, using mainly magic, but all I have is Fire, Blizzrd, Poison and Blind. One character has Fira, but I cant use it. Also I read somewhere there are Fira and Blizzara scrolls in the Vikin Hideout, but I've no idea where.
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Maybe it's just the underwear that I use.
I wear fairly loose boxers, and they always end up wedgy-ing.
ShackPoll
What kind of underwear do you guys wear?
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GO
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He once tried to convince me that the phrase "a password must contain a minimum of eight non-blank characters" meant that a password could not contain any spaces.
This reminds of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, "and this my liege, is how we know the Earth to be banana-shaped."
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I've looked through all the menus and even my nintendo.com profile to try to find where I get my friend code or put other peoples friend codes in, and i cant find shit. how does this work? yes ive updated the nintendo and gotten online.
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"Hi g0nk, you have 13 messages"
should be..
"Hi g0nk, you have 13 messages, 4 unread"
that would be keen..
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Suggest music for me that sounds like tool, but nothing heavier please!
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