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13I'm what they call man candy. Whatup ladies?
- Financial advisors lick balls - Intel busts out WiMax - Anyone think Zune will catch up? - Open XML is coming for youLastly, some video game gifts for all you uppity bitches.
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I think they are right.
I still dislike the pointer getting in the way when I go into zoom mode. Wish I could turn that off w/o also turning off using it to shoot in slingshot mode.
(Just got turned into a wolf. Holy crap I see what people mean about it having a longass tutorial.)
And what the fuck is wrong with Nintendo, putting boobs on children and cat-things? Wierd.
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Thank you Sir-X! For the first time in THREE long years, my WE has come through! It was a bit of a surprise to me since I didn't get an alert notice in the mail, but a big box arrived for me in the mail a few days ago. When I opened it, I was treated to the wonderful sight of pink popcorn puff packing.
I reached in to the sea of pink, and the first object I pulled out was a USB expansion panel, complete with proprietary connector to ensure I would not be able to use it! YES!
http://lh3.google.com/image/ajchan/RXkCJKWZlsI/AAAAAAAAAAg/l6SfoALLqok/PC070025.JPG
I also discovered a bonus letter from Mrs. Sir-X explaining how lucky we all are to have such a fun community. Truly we are. The letter also explained how I took toys from a 3 year old. I have no shame.
http://lh3.google.com/image/ajchan/RXkCSKWZluI/AAAAAAAAAAw/JWPNNq_u_Q4/PC070031.JPG
Finally I came upon some actually useful items: TWO pink cat-shaped Avon soaps from the 1980s! Oh and a wireless mouse and mousepad. I will get on using that soap right away.
http://lh5.google.com/image/ajchan/RXkCNqWZltI/AAAAAAAAAAo/tq6KCoBH0Bs/PC070029.JPG
When it was all over, the bounty total included:
3 doll type toys
1 fat DS charger
1 partially completed dog-themed puzzle book
1 Canadian Tire dollar
2 computer games
1 spigot
1 kazoo
2 driver disks
1 sewing kit
4 rubber feet
2 install discs
1 pair of earrings
1 mystery mini-tape
http://lh3.google.com/image/ajchan/RXkCXKWZlvI/AAAAAAAAAA4/9lHJCgk_BdA/PC070034.JPG
I don't have a mini-tape player but I'm sure it's filled with sexy answering machine messages.
It was truly the best WE ever. Thank you Sir-X and family!
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It's awesome
Please Drag and Drop the pictures, I haven't had the time to move them yet, sorry guys :(
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It has been a long time since this many great shows start all in one season. Each one stumbled a bit but at the half way point, all are so very VERY strong. On top of that, there are other great shows on right now like BSG and Lost and BSG.
We are some lucky duckies.
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Are any of you experiencing this bizzare lag that can spike you up to 5k lag and disconnect you or leave you hanging for extended periods of time?
I would link some of the threads from the forums but Websense stabs our internet in the face here at work.
They are saying that it has to do with AT&T's backbone servers? ( I'm afraid I don't know what a backbone server is though)
Apparently quite a few people are affected, are you?
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A couple of month ago I was ultra excited, but now it seems that everything I was looking forward to has been nullified. I don't care at all about any of the games with the exception of Zelda. And that feels awfully lot like the Wii port of the GC version of N64's OoT. The fact that it lacks voice overs and the soundtrack is realtime synth doesn't exactly help to set it apart from it's N64 inspiration. I just feel spending >300Eur to play a single GC port is insane. The other two games I was somewhat looking forward to, Red Steel & Excite Truck, got so totally trashed in reviews that I lost all interest.
So games 'meh', what about the rest? Graphics are terrible. They look bad for GC standards. If that old thing could do stuff like RE4 and Rogue Leader, why must all Wii games look so bad? Some of the launch titles are not even supporting widescreen. My EBGames didn't get a component cable either. The last console I played over component was an N64. I didn't expect Gears of War, but at least GC x1.5. Why did Nintendo screw this up so badly?
Online? Nope. It might launch sometime in 2007, but even then I doubt it'll be any good. Friend codes are rediculous. Looks like game invites, voice chat etc. will be handled on a per-game basis, so we can forget about stuff like a chat session staying on as we switch games or get an invite for a different game than you're playing or sending messages to other players from a guide menu. Or background downloads. Or IM features while a game is running etc. After using Live! for over a year this such a huge step back.
Other OS features? Also nope. I got kinda used to streaming my own music from an attached iPod or networked PC at any time, looks like that will be an optional per-game feature as well. No DVD or other video playback. All the other promised stuff like the browser or the news channel is also not there. I also just hear bad stuff about the virtual console. PAL vs NTSC issues, no demos, forgets your cc info, questionable if you can redownload content, widescreen stretching, no online etc. Again, after using the 360 dashboard / live for over a year this is a total letdown.
I WANT to be excited about the Wii, but there's just nothing going for it, IMHO. It's great that Nintendo caters to casual gamers that don't care about complex games / graphics / online, but I'm not a casual gamer. This weekend I might just as well play GoW, re-learn PGR3 with my new racing wheel, pickup Viva Pinata or R6:V to CoOp with you guys.
I guess if you love stuff like Super Monkey Ball or want a Party Console it's totally awesome, but that's just not what I was looking for ;-( The biggest motivation for me to pick it up now is that it's not going to get much cheaper until better games & online come around.
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Wow, Microsoft must be starting to get scared.
I just had a crack at it and it seems relatively snappy and simple - they stick to that damn K.I.S.S formula so well which MS seem to be deviating from in newer versions of Office :/
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http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/300.html
Looks really good. Very cinematic. Seems like if you're ok with the obviously over-the-top elements, it'll be an enjoyable flick. The song from the trailer is appropriate (Nine Inch Nails I think), I wonder what the actual soundtrack will sound like.
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If this thing dies that's it. I'm done. I'm tottalyl serious.
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http://www.hardocp.com/news.html?news=MjI4ODUsLCwsLCwx
This happens to me everytime I have to write a check. There's a slight pause before I remember how to write :\
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Someone posted some sweet covers for this game and people talked about buying cases and printing that cover. Did the US version come with Wii Sports in a paper sleeve or something? Because I just opened the box and it's in a nice DVD case with cover and all. Did us Euros get some extra love here?
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Time to put on a few extra layers of clothes...
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Got this in the Discworld newsletter.
http://www.skyone.co.uk/hogfather/
Click on videos, then 12 days of hogswatch.
This looks amazing! I'd heard they were doing it, but it looks a lot better than I was expecting. Sweet!
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What's the word on the latest re-stocking? I heard Best Buy may be getting them this morning. Any BB employees here that may be able to verify?
Know of any other re-stock schedules? The Walmart tip panned out for Wednesday, but I was just a little too late.
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Fuck, I just had to finish typing this and try to post during the daily backup.
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http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061206/capt.88314f4fb93f4de19cde5fe0956fc6db.democratic_governors_dcnw103.jpg
How can they squeeze any more out of that thing? It's like 7 year old tech.
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We have a bunch of Wii postcards kicking around the office here at the moment, and i noticed something in one of them :
http://sabaki.co.uk/gallery/wiid.jpg
It's a picture of someones apartment, but theres clearly a bag of weed visible in the picture o_O
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I made a song that I wanted to share here. I present to you, The xbox 360 version of The Police - Roxanne:
Xbox
You don’t have to put on your red light
This freezing's over
You don’t have to sell your body on ebay tonight
Xbox
You don’t have to put on your red light
Xbox
You don’t have to put on the light
Put on the red light
Put on the red light
Put on the red light
Put on the red light
Put on the red light
I loved you since last December
This crashing I never remember
I have to unscrew your body now
I have to heat your motherboard
I know this made me shaked up
But you don't have to break up
You worked once and you'll work again
Just not on the ebay
Xbox
You don’t have to put on the red light
Xbox
You don’t have to put on the red light
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But no component cables around. NOWHERE! It seems they have been delayed to 12/18 :<
Launch itself was easy. I didn't preorder so I went to the biggest electronics store. It was supposed to open at 9:30 am but they were already open when I arrived. Those fuckers. Luckily they seemed to have gotten a huge chunk. at least 300-500. Sweet. Got the Wii + Zelda + Rayman. Nunchucks were sold out, the Wiimote was overpriced.
I hope 480i over composite doesn't suck too bad on my LCD :/
http://www.csnation.net/articles.php/interview_231/
CS-Nation: Many gamers who play CS 1.6 purchased the retail version. CS: Source was sold as part of the Half-Life 2 package. How do you think gamers who purchase your products will react to in-game ads?
Doug Lombardi: We believe that gamers are going to expect and accept well-done advertising in games. We want to make sure that advertising does not detract from the game experience, so it is our hope that first time Counter-Strike purchasers will consider it simply as part of the game world.
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i've wandered around the village for almost an hour and still no action. i finally figured to use the hawk to get the bees and cradle but the f ing cat wtf go home you bitch i'm chasing you around go across the bridge! ok so i got the rod and i'm trying to fish but its so gay the fish wont go near the rod and finally i gave my girlfriend a go and she has caught like 5 fish and wtf fucking made me put it back argh i don't care if its common i want to keep it wtf do i do?
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I'm still sad that she died. Not only was she hot hot hot, played a sexy vampire goddess Akasha in Queen of the Damned, but she was an amazing vocalist and was rumored to have Trent Reznor on board to produce a few tracks on a future album prior to her death.
Musicians should not be allowed to fly in planes, ever.
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So I'm in the 6th dungeon, and there's a room on the seventh floor with two of the removable-armor-armadillo guys and one of the black robot statues that comes alive and swings a hammer. There's a gate with an impressive looking chest behind it. On a ledge, there are four buttons that need to be depressed to open the gate. There are two of the little stone statue things near the buttons, and one more up on a higher ledge that I got down with the wand. However, that leaves one button to be depressed. I can stand on it myself and the gate opens but then obviously as soon as I get off it closes so I can't get to it. I can't see anything else in the room to use to keep the button depressed. The only other objects are the shells from the armadillos, but those are down below and Link can't throw them high enough to reach the ledge. Help!
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Being the trend-savvy girl that I am, I appreciate you trying to push an exclusive new Target look on me, but I doubt there are that many trend-savvy girls in the shack constituency that that ad can effectively target... Can we have a show of hands?
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