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38 Studios, Harry Potter Kinect - Shacknews Daily: May 25, 2012
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Minecraft for Xbox 360 dev working on 'Adventure' update
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Demon's Souls servers extended again
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8I must say I'm getting quite excited for the Wii launch. Didn't go the preorder route though, so hopefully I'll be lucky running into a store early in the morning (Dec 8 launch here). Also on FileShack
http://www.decalgirl.com/browse.cfm/4,5221.htm
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Odd office situation in reply
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http://www.tweaktown.com/news/6703/r600_will_be_directx_10_1/index.html
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we're looking for people available to come to our New York City office during the week of 12/24.
details in reply...
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Help me, shack! :(
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A browser based MMO similar to Urban Dead. We always welcome more members, so join up! While we may not become as powerful as we are in UD, but there are no barracades. We need people to level up so that eventually we'll have our own stronghold and can 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: Harper Island (Can get there via Ferry).
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Sadly, no. While the co-op in Vegas is the levels from the single player game (unlike GR:AW, which only provided you with a sampler set of single extra levels), you can't just start up a single player campaign and have your buddy jump in. You have to start up a multiplayer match and manually load all the single-player levels from a customizable list. But the biggest issue is that the levels don't even match up with the actual single-player experience where you're given objectives and a story and AI teammates, like Halo and Gears have done. It still just dumps you into a level with the task of clearing it of enemies. And unless you turn respawns on, once you or your friend gets killed, they're out, even though the single player allows you to revive your teammates.
It is nice that they set it up so you can play co-op with more than two people, but it's really not the experience they keep getting me to buy the game for. I'm hoping that Army of Two accomplishes what I keep waiting for in tactical co-op games.
as a friend of mine runs a car web magazine he has the audi rs4 for 2 weeks. we took the chance and had a little fun on a nearby racetrack. pure awesomeness. only the porsche 911 carrera s came close to it.
for the picz + divx menz:
some pictures:
http://www.epenis.de/wp-gallery2.php?g2_itemId=2576
short video:
http://allesauto24.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=408&Itemid=150
turn on your speakers :D
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Should I:
a) Send my WE person a holiday card with a message ASAP (I could probably send it fast and get it there before the package arrives)
b) Write them a personal Shack message / email / website message
c) Who cares
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A Minor update was released today. A new version of the gpg.net client was released.
v1.5.27
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Significant optimization to chat; users with older versions will be unable to effectively chat with users of this version.
Various bug fixes.
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most of us never fly business/first class, but check out these business class and first class seats. first class gets 21 inch screens...lolz
http://www.singaporeair.com/saa/en_UK/content/exp/new/businessclass/index.jsp
http://www.singaporeair.com/saa/en_UK/content/exp/new/firstclass/index.jsp
reference: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2003452451_boeing29.html
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Shackers that are also Cat lovers (so . . the smart ones ;) )
anyone here ever used this: http://www.catgenie.com/
or know anyone that has? if so tell me what you (or they) think of it.
Thanks
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Action directions should take notes and execute like that for now on.
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I'm going to print this photo as a pretty big panorama (around 3'x1' / 90x30cm) and give to my parents for Christmas. I've done some editing and stuff and I'm wondering which of the following three looks best. I can't make up my mind...
http://silversnake.shackspace.com/photos/panorama1.jpg
http://silversnake.shackspace.com/photos/panorama2.jpg
http://silversnake.shackspace.com/photos/panorama3.jpg
These are obviously shrunk quite a bit (15% of original size, actually). :) Thanks in advance for your help!
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dreamcast and xbox360.
any others?
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Our bases are in the process of being destroyed, all of our units destroyed... as the enemy rampages through our bases, we have one last chance.
Umbr sends in his 3 strategic bombers to go for the assassination win by killing their commanders. He has three, and it only takes roughly (<--) two bombs to kill their commander... but he has to do it twice. In their bases.
Luckily, he manages to sneak around the edge of the map, unscathed. Their bases have very little air defense. His bombers take a first pass on red's commander, but decide to bomb an engineer instead. Red and White (our enemies' colors) scramble interceptors and air defense.
On the second pass , they kill hit the enemy commander. On the third, a giant nuclear explosion erupts. (Red's commander died) The giant explosion nearly fills our screens, and we wait.
One, two of his bombers don't quite make it out of the explosion, but one miracle bomber races in front of the blast wave, and heads to white's base. Pass one is a success on white's commander, though the bomber's health is about to half because of white's tech 1 air defense (These bombers are tech 3). Second pass, success. But no giant explosions. Turns out, white's commander narrowly escaped a direct hit on one of the runs. White commander, and, by connection, all of their forces and buildings, are alive by only a few hundred hp. All hope seems lost, but...
*Jurassic Park Theme/MGS Theme/Etc* before my base was overrun, I managed to produce a level 2 skyhook air transport, from which my commander is now hanging. I fly him over the base, Umbr's commander under fire from enemy units and very much on the run.
White's interceptors destroy the transport, and, thus, my commander. His nuclear explosion airbursts right over white's commander, and the coup de grace is finished. We pulled this one out of our proverbial ass.
TLDR: Build air defense, ESPECIALLY once you get to t3. Use the amazingly useful T3 spy planes to see what the enemy is doing. Don't neglect commander defense. All it takes is one shield and couple of sams, or even just T2 aa if you wish. Seriously, you can't neglect these things, especially after the game has been at T3 for a long time.
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As you may or may not know, Origin/EA is releasing a new Ultima Online client in the coming year, with improved graphics etc. Now, I know when that comes out, I'll definitely be playing the game. BUT..
I was thinking, I'd like to get myself reestablished before then. Earn up money, buy a house, etc, before a ton of people surge back and land gets scarce. So, I was considering picking the game up again sometime extremely soon (maybe this week, maybe in January after Christmas). Would any Shackers be interested in going in as a group from scratch and making our way? Just imagine skinning hinds, chopping down trees, and carving chairs with your favorite shackers! I know there are a few of us old time UO fans here, so if you're interested, let me know. Hopefully we can set something up.
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If you could unlock only one of the following XBLA games, which one would you choose?
Small Arms
Doom
Mutant Storm
Ultimate MK3
SF2 HF
I liked the demo for all of them.... ???
(my current XBLA lineup: Astropop, Bankshot Billiards 2, Bejeweled 2, Crystal Quest, Hexic HD, Marble Blast Ultra, Robotron 2084, Totemball, Uno)
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First of all, my computer specs:
DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 Ultra-D (original/ RMA in process) (06/04 BIOS) / DFI nF4-DAGF (open box from newegg)
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Winchester
OCZ 512x2 ELPE 3200 RAM
ATI Radeon X800XL
500w Fortron Blue Storm
Samsung Syncmaster 205BW
Cooler Master Praetorian Case
Second, original thread:
http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/showthread.php?t=69171
Third, pictures:
http://img115.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dscf0057ij0.jpg
http://img157.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dscf0045xw5.jpg
http://img157.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dscf0044ot1.jpg
http://img519.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dscf0058yp7.jpg
http://img169.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dscf0042oi8.jpg
http://img169.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dscf0043yu3.jpg
http://img169.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dscf0041hu4.jpg
Fourth, this has been going on for three weeks:
- Problem originally started 2 weeks ago, was playing a game, video checkerboarded and computer hard locked
- rebooted, attempted to play the same game, video checkerboarded and hard locked again, tried again, same problem
- tried to play an opengl game (quake w/ darkplaces engine) video checkerboarded and hardlocked
- rebooted, did dxdiag video tests, video checkerboarded and hardlocked
- formatted, reinstalled windows, problem still occured
- gave up for acouple days, think i bought another vid card (geforce 7900GS) to see if that was the problem, friday the 10th, problem still occured with the different video card, tried both video cards in both pci-express slots along with trying my ram in any configuration that would allow the computer to boot with no luck at all, any games would cause the video to checkerboard and hard lock my computer
- sometime during this the video corruption followed me into the bios screens, lanparty logo screens and windows itself (you can see from the pics i think.. cant tell how well they came out), windows was also randomly BSODing on me, that hasnt occured at all this week though
- i did a memtest86 for a total of 12 hours or so over the weekend of the 11th, ran for a total of 12 hours or so with 0 errors, so i ruled out the memory being the cause of the problem
- monday the 13th i bought a new power supply (antec 550 neo he) installed that, problem still occured
- attempted to try running prime95 on sunday the 12th blend torture test, would not even attempt to start, kept saying: ERROR: ILLEGAL SUMOUT - Possible hardware failure
- the 14th-16th up until 9pm, the computer was working fine with all original hardware, no video corruption anywhere, games were working, prime95 was working, it passed a bunch of tests, but failed eventually, ran for a total of 10 hours or something, full results are on the first page
- hasnt been working at all since the night of the 16th
- bought an APC back-ups power unit thingy today, to maybe see if i had crappy power going to my system but problem still occurs (always wanted to have one anyway)
(i think thats all kinda accurate.. im sure i forgot something in there)
I've replaced the video card, power supply and motherboard
RAM has ran with memtest86 for 14+ hours with 0 errors, prime95 stress test worked 1 out of 3 times, first time, it went nowhere stating a hardware failure, second time it went for 12 hours or something and eventually stopped with an error, third attempt, same as the first, went no where with a hardware failure message.
All thats left that i havent tried a new one of is the CPU and RAM, I have 2 sticks of RAM, i tried it in every configuration imaginable with my original setup and with the parts i replaced them with all with the same video problems.
Could a bad CPU cause problems like this? Or am i just looking at faulty sticks of RAM that both went bad at the same time?
I'm beyond frustrated and confused with this, I have no friends so i cant test ram sticks or a new processor or anything without paying a shop or ordering something from newegg
Thanks for any help.
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He is credited with co-writing Thunderball after he sued Ian Fleming in the early 60s. Got a settlement in which he got the film rights to Thunderball. Made a deal with EON Productions in 1965 - Thunderball the movie was made. 10 years later he tried to make another film based on Thunderball, was sued by Broccoli, waited another 10 before trying again, won, made Never Say Never Again, waited another 20 before trying again, sued - counter-sued, tried to claim that he was owed back pay for creating James Bond on screen - lost.. Sony fucked him over... and then died. With Thunderball goes Ernst Stavro Blofeld and SPECTRE which is why you didn't see them post 1971's Diamonds Are Forever except in Never Say Never Again and a small uncredited cameo in For Your Eyes Only where Blofeld was killed - a kind of "fuck you McClory" from Cubby Broccoli.
Wow...
My girlfriend has been bugging me to get her an espresso machine, and Xmas is approaching. Got any recommendations? I'd rather not spend more than a couple hundred bucks, but I don't want a piece of crap either. Also, I do not drink coffee so I have no idea what I'm buying.
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I would like to do this beta with some other shackers if possible...
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what an incompetent
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Off to stand in line for the Daily Show. Amazingly I got 2 tickets 2 months after my initial request.
Hopefully my wife won't fall in love with George Clooney...
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I would have thought, that when I bought my viewsonic vx2025w monitor and 1900xtx to power it, I'd be in gaming bliss. At least for a while.
However, I know find my self being constantly frustrated by the fact that more times than not I want to drop the resolution from 1650 down to 1250 to get some more frames in games that have heavy graphical requirements. Alas, unlike Nvidia though, ATI cards apparently refuse to use "centered timings" that allow this in an acceptable manner (you know, black borders on the sides and top/bottom). There's a setting in the drivers for it, but it just doesnt work. In short, it sometimes feels like I've done more to limit my gaming abilites than improving it..and it's frustrating.
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I'm looking at a math example here and it shows: e to the power of -10 is 0.00004540. I completely forget what e is but more importantly how do I input e to the -10 in Excel?
THX
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I'm looking to replace my broken 6800gt.
Should I go 7900GS or the Radeon 1950 Pro?
The 7900 GS is in stock now but I'll have to wait on the 1950 Pro
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