Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Nov 27, 2006 6:00pm PSTSo as of right now the Wii wins for me. I am curious about the longevity of the control system in the market with consumers. It's obvious that it surely makes it easy for outsiders to give the thing a try but I'm curious if it will be considered a revolution or a novelty 12-18 months from now. I'm leaning towards it having staying power.
- Cyber monday! - Patent system still sucks - Toxic seed is hot - Remember Uwe Boll hitting people?Lastly, some people think Vista will be hot. I know I've been holding off on my own switch back to Intel for the new OS.
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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
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http://www.blackmesasource.com/media.html
These are the guys completely replicating HL1 in the Source engine, it looks absolutely incredible.
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WOOT!
AND DAMNIT! They are pulling a Lost on us with the episode releases.
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amazing whiteboard animation
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Just checked my order status and they already have a UPS Tracking #, but haven't left Nintendo's warehouse yet.
480p goodness here I come! :D
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http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/optimus-103-keyboard-to-feature-bandw-displays/
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next part is out. buy your haduken now.
part 2
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1727058
part 1 if ya missed it
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1711287/context/tag:streetfighterthelateryears
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http://www.autoblog.com/2006/11/28/giugiaros-mustang-hotness-revealed/
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Anyone help-me with a cool name? and domain?
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http://pupismyname.shackspace.com/colon%20D%20colon%20D%20colon%20D%20colon%20D.jpg
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Do I let the buyer keep the license plates?
I have the title for the vehicle. Once they hand me the cash then I just hand over the title and that's it? Or am I supposed to make copies of something?
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Hallmark animated ones are so cheesy, and I am getting tired of the Apple ECards.
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I'm looking for some media software that can do the following:
·Runs on a windows OS
·Play all my current video files, but most importantly .vob, mpg4 and .h264 encoded files.
·Can do fullscreen output on my secondary display (which is my HDTV)
·Has a clean interface (preferrably customizable/skinable)
·Wont't enforce DRM restrictions on my own content
Optionally, it has support for IR remotes or protocols (example: winLIRC).
I looked into MediaPortal but it won't play my vob files nor will it display on a secondary monitor, so it's pretty much useless to me.
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THE MOTHAFUCKIN' D, SONS!
Oh my god, it was fucking fantastic. Their final song they played was Tribute.
It was a good mix of old songs and new songs, plus they played Queen - Flash, and a "The Who" Medley
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You sore loser! I finally got to pwn your ass in Gears then you take off and play Rainbow Six.
HojuSimpson and I pwned you and Metal Remains
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http://kissmesuzy.blogspot.com/2006/11/i-wish-everyone-had-listened-when-i.html
Also, click on the I done soiled my britches link on the right for more LOL's. Holy hillbilly football announcers! Amazing high school game highlights in that one though.
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Is this old news? No idea how I missed it. Automatic converting to, and streaming of, WMV... support for upconverting to HD... monitors folders and feeds... etc. I hope it lives up to my expectations!
http://www.xbox-scene.com/xbox1data/sep/EEyuyyEFVluwSrCVWc.php
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I'm kinda on the fence about this one. I liked the SP demo but the MP looked so horrible I didn't even try to play it. If it has nice SP CoOp over Live! and some shackers here are playing it I'll probably give it a try.
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Looks to be the best bang for my buck miniDV cam, but was wondering if any shackers have experience with it?
You get +rep for helping a brother out.
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Vista RC2 using OneCare firewall and Xbox 360 DO NOT WANT
I've been having a monster of a problem playing music off my PC on the 360. Was fine, then not fine. 360 doesn't see the PC at all, PC sees 360, says "hay, 'sup, here's some cool tunes". 360 doesn't know what the fuck, sees nothing.
Instead of getting pissed I just brush it off, whatever, I can play music on my PC and play games at the same time. I'll just not hear what's going on. Whatever.
Now 360 sees PC, "Wow, look at all'em pretty tunes". I'm like, yay, let's get jiggy with it. Play album ... wait ... wait ... BIG FUCKING Ø wtf is this shit!
I go and turn off the OneCare firewall. Yay, party starts, people start dancing and doing coke. John B does that to people.
Fuck
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PS3 downscaling problem might not be patchable. Looks like Sony is leaving a large segment of early HDTV adopters out in the cold...
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http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/11/28/tv.catchphrases.ap/index.html
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omg this would have made playing Descent the friggin' WIN back in the day once they add buttons to it for shootzing.
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Should I sell the Wii Component Cables on eBay? $150 is a lot of money for a $30 cable. But I would like to see the picture in 480p on my LCD... :(
Decisions Decisions.
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also where the fuck is resident evil/biohazard 4 for the pc? i'm fucking holding out on playing it on my cube in hopes that it wont suck on the pc (including strafeing and mouse aiming).
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Thanks.
I need component cables for my Wii on December 8th but no one in all three of the game shops here has even heard of "component".
I wouldn't mind this massive up rising in girls working in game shops but when I walk into Game and there are 6 girls and 1 guy and NONE of them know what a component cable is, it pisses me off. One of them told me it was in the box, repeatedly, over the top of me until I stopped talking.
Are they going to be available in shops or should I buy online?
I don't want to order online and get stuck waiting when they are all over the place in shops.
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http://wiikilledmytv.com has been up for about 2 days now, and i've gotten 1575 unique visits, 1.05GB of transfer and 46709 total hits in those 2 days..
yikes.. maybe I should throw up some google ads or something..
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I first bought the DS the day it came out, and returned out a week later when I realized the games were shit at the time and my beloved GBA SP was a far better gaming platform. So I waited for the games to catch up and the DS lite to come out and then I bought one again with renewed faith. So here it is, such a potentially awesome piece of hardware, and an ocean of shit games.
There's maybe 10 or so decent GBA games, but none are truly great except for maybe WarioWare and Osu Tatakae Ouanden.
On the GBA we had the super awesome Metroid Zero Mission (and Metroid Fusion wasn't bad), on the DS we have shitty Metroid Prime Hunters and Metroid Prime Pinball, both mediocre pieces of shit.
We have a new Advance Wars which is essentially no different from the GBA versions.
They went and shit all over Puyo Puyo, my all-time favorite puzzle game, by changing the mechanics and making it so hello kitty strawberry shortcake that my retinas hurt and I'm ashamed to play it in public.
There are essentially no platformers except for Castlevania and Super Mario Bros.
On the GBA we had three Castlevanias, on the DS we have one which is almost like playing HoD again (apparently the new Castlevania is really good, here's hoping...).
No Zelda. No Fire Emblem. No Contra. No Ninja Cop. And the boring dialog in games is way out of control even for Gameboy standards. But goddammit, we have two cooking simulators. WTF?
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http://www.thekansascitychannel.com/news/10406375/detail.html
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