Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Dec 15, 2006 6:00pm PSTSo you might want to consider buying something for someone about now.
- Web addiction hot again - Crime fightin webcam - Quit seaching the internet - Nuke energy on the moon - Gates agrees DRM is an ass painLastly, who says there is another dotcom bubble? Vodka.com goes for $3million!
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
Resident Evil: Chronicles HD Collection coming in June
Sony patent would interrupt gameplay to display ad
Weekend Confirmed 114 - Diablo 3, Max Payne 3, Lost Planet 3
New Zone of the Enders project underway
Carmageddon ploughing into GOG
It's really long, so I'll post it in chunks in the reply.
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Your new ad campaign with the Russian guy and his son is really annoying. I can't even tell you what they're trying to sell because it's so annoying, I change channels. Whatever humor you are trying to get at is failing.
Please stop this campaign soon.
Your pal,
Thresher
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIiWRLlN75U
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Also, Should I go Core 2 Duo or AMD ?
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http://icomeinpeace.shackspace.com/PICS/shackxmasbabies/sgbabysant.jpg
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how is the game in single player as opposed to coop? should I wait for my friend to come over and play, or is it just as good in single?
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So i got busted for possession last night. Or did I? My friend dropped me off at my car and a cop pulled up and asked if we were employees at the gas station. We said no and he was all "I smell marijuana smoke" and so he stripped us and busted us right then and there.
So i spend the night in jail (that was a first!) and in the morning they hand me a sheet for a charge of paraphernalia and make no mention of the 1/8th of weed he also found and confiscated. No Serious Misdemeanor. Nothing. He said he was gonna charge me with it last night and no mention this morning. Same thing happened to my friend.
Now, they can't "send us the charges later" can they? I mean, pretty much, if they were gonna charge me, they were gonna do it right then and there, right? No mention at all of the weed they took.
I think those fuckers stole my weed...
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There's a new trailer, check it out:
http://www.square-enix.co.jp/dragonquest/20th/DQ9PVL.html
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I'm getting periodical soreness inside my nose, leaving a red spot outside on the tip of my left nostril. In a few more weeks, I'm betting around Christmas time, I'll see a little black spec appear just beneath my skin. What that is, is my nose hair. And I'll finally be able to pluck it out and relieve myself of this BS for another few weeks.
HTF a nose hair follicle got flipped upside down inside my nose is a complete fucking mystery. Fucking nose hairs must be damn strong to be able to pierce my nose.
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So my mother (and also my aunt) have promised to get me a couple new shiny monitors for this years xmas so I can ditch this clunky 21" CRT.
Now I would like to get a dual monitor setup going (ideally...) but a single widescreen might suffice too I guess.
Questions:
a) are there any knocks on widescreen vs regular flat panel monitors?
b) what are the pros / cons of both?
c) Should i consider getting 2 19" flat panels instead of one nice 20" / 21" one?
c) any specific models the shack would recommend?
(~$600 CAD max for single or ~$600 both)
thanks guys!
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I just can't get excited for this: I'm graduating college today, well that is to say that I'm walking across a stage and getting a diploma cover. Four and a half years to get a degree that I'll never use. (Economics and PoliSci Double Major FTW). Horrah!
As a real kick in the pants I should be studying all day for the final I have on Monday that decides if I actually graduate.
I've already got a job, been working fulltime at said job since October... while finishing school full time. Its a Systems Administrator job for a Windows / Exchange Domain, and I'm good at it, so I'm not joking about never using the degree. Its sad really in that graduation will be like a vacation since I'll only have to put in 40 hour weeks.
So, anyone else graduating today?
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Ever since goddamned Fast & Furious came out, racing games have been geared towards this retarded japanese-import-car, ebonics-speaking-white/azn-boy, underground/ghetto genre, and it fucking sucks. In this NFS:MostWanted game I got with my 360, if I'm not racing, I'm watching some cutscene where "Dagger" is taking my pink slip AND my girl. WTF, why would I date a girl that is seemingly stapled to my pink slip? This "Let's Race, Dawg" and endless trash talk gets fucking old.
And that's all they're coming out with these days, the next Midnight Club / Ghetto-Theft game (now it's Carbon: "Settle an ongoing turf war by building an unstoppable crew, winning races against your fiercest rivals, and outwitting the cops. How you choose and manage your crew" What the fuck? I don't want a crew, I shouldn't have "rivals" that can't stop humping my leg, and I sure as fuck don't care about turf wars. I want my Euro Snob games back where my cutscene involves a swiss alps landscape backdrop to my picnic of fine wine and cheese.
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good guess
did you know, stallone was originally suppose to play john mclane but turned it down
lol
how hard would it be to make this page *not* look like crap in IE?
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IT'S YOU!
Wut? Cool. I win the internets.
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Do all cinemas in London suck?
- shitty sound
- small screens
- small theatres
- dirty/old/broken seats...
wtf?
any recommendations on a nice, modern, large cinema somewhere in London?
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I hope she didn't give them to me!!
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I really should have come to class. :(
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I don't get what the big deal was about Fahrenheit's use of "push these buttons at those moments or get hit" when games GoW and RE4 were sooo much more effective with it.
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http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=12134
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Its hilarious how scared Tampa is to kick to Hester.
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http://www.seductiveshorts.com/#goods/quiz
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Why does Jeremy Irons always get mixed up in this sort of shlock??
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/eragon/
This... Dungeons and Dragons... Why can't he get cast in a GOOD fantasy movie? It's like he and Sean Connery get their movie advice from the same people. Missed out on LOTR because you didn't understand it? Oops! Better hop onto the League of Extraordinary Men/Eragon train to catch that moneyboat! Do they even read the scripts first? Guys, come on.
That said, I just watched The Departed tonight. Wow. Wow.
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Ive had good experiences with the little kodak photo printers, and i like that they dont use ink. But how about the epson ones? http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=7955359&type=product&productCategoryId=cat01018&id=1153336509197
anyone have the ink dry up early, like most ink jet printers?
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I just hit my high score in this rabbit jumping on bells game wanted to see if anyone could top it.
2,603,900
screenshot for proof:
http://brainsick.shackspace.com/highscore.jpg
good luck!
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Sin Episodes, episode 2 and more cancelled? ?
I haven't read the full article but this is the first peice of gaming news to really annoy me :/
That's not cool - I paid good money for ep1 and I was looking forward to more
A big fuck you to the faggots who pirated it and still tried to get support
http://www.shacknews.com/extras/2006/072606_ritual_piracy_1.x
and another fuck you to the idiots who whined it sucked and it needed more of X and more of Y (example, it should never have cutscenes like half life doesn't) - a hearty fuck you to those idiots, who clearly never played the original game.
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