Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Nov 28, 2006 6:00pm PSTI'd holla at ya
- You have lots of spam - Smart whales - Digital TV switch is coming - Crazy building breaking wind - YouTube hits VerizonLastly, Dallas area shackers come hang out with Shugamom and myself on pre-pre-xmas!
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
There is a scene that had me scratching the noodle. Bond sits back down at the poker table with his new shirt on and then it quick cuts to him walking into Vesper's room where we find her hanging out in the shower. Tell me my theatre just fucked up and that it really wasn't edited this way.
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A browser based MMORPG similar to Urban Dead. We need more members, so join up! While we may not become as powerful as we are in UD, but there are no barracades. We need more people and for people to level up, and eventually we'll have our own stronghold and start raiding the strongholds other factions.
Tips: http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=13292468
http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=13343005
Current plan:
Level up to 10 as you like (heal/hurt/repair/etc.) so that we can start infusing squares. Check out
http://wiki.nexuswar.com/index.php/Class to look ahead to the class you want and plan your CP spending.
Faction Spread
Head to the following areas as we are trying to congregate (I know its hard) for coordinated attacks.
Shacknews ppls: Head toward the northern cresent of St. Germain Island.
Shack Hype ppls: The Northwest side of central St. Germain Island (5-11 E/w; 26-36 N/S)
Followers of Appleflavain: I'm open to suggestions. (Harper Island?)
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When my uncle cleaned out all her shit when she died he found a heap of maps of england with a lot of the airstrips marked out on the maps.......
hurmm..
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Haha
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Thanks!
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http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=13348908
(Wii order).
Still no confirmation order or charge to my credit card. Order description was updated to say "no definitive shipping date", and status was placed "on hold". I think they pretty much just let you order even though it was out of stock. So I called up and cancelled. Oh well :(
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Does anyone else have this problem? It's pretty aggravating.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkB3Flck9_8
;)
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tl;dr = xp starts to install but won't resume when rebooting
I'm trying to install xp on a fat32 partition so I can chkdsk a drive per http://support.microsoft.com/kb/228888. The partition is setup & formatted and has the i386 folder on it. I boot from a win98 cd and run winnt. It says it's done and needs to restart, but when it does it won't boot from the hard drive.
tia!
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http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?comments=44836
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http://wwwapps.ups.com/WebTracking/processInputRequest?HTMLVersion=5.0&loc=en_US&Requester=UPSHome&tracknum=1z05w3580305592071&AgreeToTermsAndConditions=yes&ignore=&track.x=26&track.y=11
this is for my Xbox 360 "repair box".. just the box to return the damned console back for repair.. it's take a week.. and it seems to have just sat at one location for 5 days for no reason.. fucking UPS..
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http://www.chud.com/index.php?type=news&id=8116
OMFG this is the best news i've heard all month.
This is beyond awesome. Pretty much the only place that could do justice to this property, and the deal went down.
fuck the film, this is how it is meant to be. hour long episodes.
Shack you can all start pumping cum.
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ENGLISH 793: NECROMEDIA (RCD)
PROFESSOR MARCEL O'GORMAN (WINTER 2007)
On March 8, 2005, Kevin Klerck posted a suicide note to his LiveJournal, engaged in a few last lines of chat conversation, and shot himself in the head with a shotgun. Such events are not uncommon, as evidenced in the recent rash of Japanese multi-cybercides that have fascinated the news media. Timothy Leary, the infamous Harvard professor and champion of psychedelia, presaged such events by putting forth the notion of “designer dying,†a concept that he hoped to enact by webcasting his own death. Such tragic and heroic events--tragedy and heroism being the operative words here--encapsulate the metaphysics of computer culture that we will explore in this course. This is a metaphysics rooted in two basic components of the human condition, two sides of the same coin: a) the need to be acknowledged and recognized as an individual, and; b) the inevitability of death. Both elements may be summed up tritely as the human “quest for immortality,†which has been altered radically by new technologies that both facilitate and exacerbate our tendency toward death-denial. Today, dreams of immortality come not only in cryogenics and genetic engineering, but also in personal web sites, home movies, mass mediated celebrity worship, and in an endless stream of fashionable gadgets that offer pre-programmed identities to their users. We will explore the insidious irony of this situation by investigating technology’s material instantiation in warfare--our death-denying gadgets are either the direct result of military research, or they are immediately repurposed for military endeavors, all for the sake of human destruction.
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http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=3866
So awesome :(
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That's rather depressing.
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Was really looking forward to The Witcher but would seem that's not out til Spring 2007.. by then Jade Empire should be out too. Think I've 'finished' just about everything else.. short of buying a PS2 for some JRPG action I don't know what to do. This makes me a sad panda.
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A Box? What could it contain... http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/7358/IMG_0161_resized.jpg
If only... http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/6380/IMG_0162_resized.jpg
Curious... http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/160/IMG_0163_resized.jpg
The second layer... http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/9190/IMG_0164_resized.jpg
The third layer... http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/9648/IMG_0165_resized.jpg
The poster: http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/2091/IMG_0166_resized.jpg
The swag: http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/6681/IMG_0168_resized.jpg
1) Korean "Kung Fu Hustle" ad card
2) Camera lens cover (made in China)
3) Fake AA batteries (also made in China)
4) Star Wars tissues (useful when using both types of candy)
5) 101 Single Girls (from Maxim)
6) Travel razor and shaving cream
7) Cruel Intensions... VHS?! I don't think I have a VHS player... :p
8) Roasted and Peeled Chestnuts
9) A female action figurine, with removable head and arms. It's the thigh-high boots that do it for me
A) Silk tie (made in Lebanon)
B) Ear Conditioning CD... doesn't suck too much (just like I asked for)
C) A Black's pouch type thing
D) Korean candy of some sort... "Choco Heim". Tastey
E) Beads
F) Plastic pouch containing 1 yellow pick of destiny (not shown)
G) A book
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The problem is not the themes of videogames. It's an altogether more bitter pill to swallow, but the problem is that with a few unique exceptions, videogames aren't using those themes in an effective, gripping or mature manner.
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This is another core truth about the mass market which the industry has failed to realise. The "mass market" is a myth; the reality is a huge collection of individual niches, some larger than others, but none of them all-encompassing. There is certainly scope for videogames to expand into new niches, as the example of Silent Hill - and indeed of Nintendogs, or Brain Training - displays. However, more importantly, right now videogames are failing to effectively harness their existing niches. Weak narrative, poor direction and pacing, unsympathetic characters, excessively complex control systems, bad music, graphics glitches and a host of other sins which are often forgiven readily by the hardcore are preventing the bulk of this industry's product from having any impact with the vast majority of consumers
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The question currently being asked in the games industry is, "what new kinds of games can we create which appeal to the mass market?" This is the wrong question. The right question is, "what is it about our existing games that limits their appeal - and how can we change that?"
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I used to <3 email and I loved having a good email client (Outlook) and have it all sorted and yeah shit like that.
I detested web based email.
Now, I get all my mailfrom my ISP's "home made" front end to the pop mailbox or gmail :/
If I could forward all my ISP email to gmail and dump it in a folder I think I would - crazy.
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*cry*
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I was wondering what your experience has been with your friends with the Wii or PS3?
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http://dennis.cerosmedia.com/7e0044cd79147d9825694406a9efc0b6888.cde
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Mystery illness hits former Russian PM
Yegor Gaidar, Russia’s former prime minister and the architect of the country’s market reforms, last week suffered a sudden, unexplained and violent illness...
If Gaidar can catch teh AIDS who is safe?? :[
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Tenacious D flash guitar hero. \m/
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