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by Maarten Goldstein, Mar 20, 2007 8:11am PDT1+1=2 Also on FileShack
- Dystopia 1.1 patch - bug fixes for this Half-Life 2 mod.
- Battle Sudoku Client - multiplayer sudoku.
- Bomb 'N Dash Client - bomb throwing madness.
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I can't legally post a link to an image of the comic, but the comic that made me the most sad was the series of comics where Calvin (of Calvin and Hobbes) breaks his dads binoculars and has a nervous breakdown because of it.
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Tl;dr: The game is an incredibly atmospheric, engrossing, intense, content-filled, and slightly difficult shooter with one of the greatest settings I've ever experienced in a game before. It is not, however, polished, bug-free, or technically impressive game. And it is most certainly not the immense hype that it had building up to its release.
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in the past couple days, my firefox at work has been doing a weird thing. even when i shut down FF, when i load it back up it pulls up the memory of ALL my tabs from monday.
wtf and how do i make it stop.
I've had a 1080p display for a little more than a month and a half. Most HD content delivery seems to suck shit right now. You can get it through satellite or cable (I get it through cable), and it's really compressed. The bit-rate is just woefully low. Except on live pop garbage like American Idol, if they do say... a fire-effect across the screen, it's just a big blocky mess. Static images are alright on the stuff that has had better than brain-dead post work, but there's obviously many, many incompetent people working in the video processing field right now.
My friend has a 720p front-projector that just looks beautiful with HDDVD, but I don't want to buy HDDVD because Blu-Ray seems to have a decent shot at squashing it. I guess since some people in the world can't even afford to eat, I shouldn't cry about the lameass imagery coming from my 1080p display... but damn, it kind of sucks :'(
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http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/774/774345p1.html
http://splashdamage.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16322
I wonder if this means that the game is shaping up nicely, and that this'll be it's final shakedown before release...
hey, I can hope, right?
also, wtf open beta plx :[
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my old work comp died and I'm trying to set up this new one...
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http://www.joystiq.com/2007/03/20/hdmi-enabled-black-xbox-360-in-late-april-for-479/
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They sound great using my 8525 to stream cd quality sirius radio!
and when I get a call, they mute my music, and turn into a headset!
rating = !!!+/!!!
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my company wants to start using web viral marketing to increase awareness of our main product line. as a team leader for the product in my department, i'm one of 5 people invited to a planning meeting to discuss how to motivate our entire department to help "spread the word".
i declined the invite from the marketing guy and wrote my manager a short email. i told my manager that i'm morally opposed to viral advertising, and i asked permission to send a substitute.
i don't know how he'll take it. he's a balls-to-the-wall advocate of our company, our products, and our marketing successes. i know he won't agree with my stance, but i'm not sure whether he'll be okay with me taking it. this could really be a career-limiting move. i'm too goddamn proud to just attend and not contribute, though. i really don't want anything to do with most marketing strategies, and i consider viral ones the lowest and dirtiest.
anyway, thanks for letting me e/n about it.
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A long time ago.. maybe a year or two.. someone from what I *think* was the US posted a video of him driving in his car. It had been sped up and he was driving to the shops and back. He put it to music with Gomez - How We Operate. I'd like a copy of that video.
Super long shot I know but it's just tweaked my fancy
(Lord Warlock said I should post this here. If it's not appropriate please let me know)
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Fancypants hit level 14 last night and acquired Super Jump. There is NO stopping me now. I'm quite sure that Angrypants is, well, angry about his no Super Jump situation.
The Super Group is still growing. We're probably up to almost 30 members. Some of those are alts but I dont think too many. Last night we had 7 people on at one time and had some fun grouping. I even got to watch maulla die several times.
For those interested, theres a two week trial available here, http://www.mmorpg.com/gve_trial.cfm that a couple people have gotten set up with even though it says it expired already. The SA thread, http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2287988 also has a couple offers for trials but I'm not sure how current those are. Theres a lot of good info and screenshots in that thread too. Check it out.
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My NYC-based company is moving to a new data center on April 13th, and we need some help setting up a new Windows domain to test in. It might be a simple thing, but neither my boss (CTO) nor myself can figure it out -- I got as far as creating a primary domain controller (PDC), and got a client PC to connect to it. But when I tried to configure a replica DC, we failed.
Anyway, here's the question: Are there any Active Directory gurus out there who would be available to conslut consult for us ASAP? Reply to this thread with questions, or SM me with your contact info / rate, and I'll go to the boss tomorrow. References to reputable professional outfits are also welcome -- we'll be migrating to Exchange 2003 or 2007 in Q3-Q4 2007, so there's more work for somebody who does a good job for us now.
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When I got home late last night, I found a package sitting on my doorstep... and once open, its contents were revealed to me: http://lemurpants.com/images/foundbeer.jpg
Free beer! In this case, courtesy of the refined and scholarly qwpeoriu, who is now my favorite not-quite-black person on the Shack.
You see, a while back, I sent some local brews from the Houston micro (the only one) to some fine shackers on the west coast, of which qwpeoriu was one. http://lemurpants.com/images/saintarnold.jpg I didn't request or expect anything in return, but query-poo decided to spread the love with some lovely beers, and they are now chilling in my refrigerator awaiting a proper tasting.
He sent me delicious, hearty pints of:
- Rogue's Chocolate Stout (I've had this one, I know it's great)
- Rogue's Shakespeare Stout
- Rogue's St. Rogue Red Ale
- Rogue's Hazelnut Brown Nectar
- Samuel Smith's Oatmeal Stout
- Samuel Smith's Old Brewery Pale Ale
- Samuel Smith's Nut Brown Ale
Thanks again qwpeoriu!
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http://spacex.com/webcast.php
T -13 minutes. Click the big blue link.
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I'd be shitting sunshine if I had a jar or two of this stuff (and it tasted at least half as awesome as I think it does) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshmallow_creme
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I am really inexperienced in getting car insurance but I believe my lady friend is paying too much. I know there are a million options but she is 23 and paying over $200 a month for a 2004 Honda Civic LX (cost $14k). Financially it just sounds dumb to pay for the entire car in insurance premiums in under 6 years. Is she getting ripped off or paying for tons of unneeded options? Thanks for any advice for this car newb.
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That said, I didn't really like the movie. It's no error of theirs to put all the screamy lines in the trailer, because probably every line in the movie could be screamed. Every single plot element could have been simply stated, and was so bluntly put. Even the art direction, while pretty, wasn't all that detail-filled.
I'd point to the Director's Cut of Kingdom of Heaven as a film that succeeded in this area. As is, 300 is a lot like the bastardized theatrical cut of that film. Another great comparison would be to Silent Hill, where one half of the movie was fucking awesome on its own terms while the other one (Sean Bean is DETECTIVE HUSBAND and Meanwhile, Back In Sparta) sucked ass. I know they wanted to pad it out past 90 minutes and give us a change of pace, but that entire sub-plot was pretty useless in every sense.
TLDR: 300 was brusque beauty, but I wanted baroque banter.
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What are you up to tonight shack?
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Sound is so important to the experience of sports but it's always getting drowned out, it's so much better when you can clearly hear something like the clang of a puck hitting the post, the sound of a bat getting all of the ball, or the crunch as a linebacker runs smack into the running back.
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THE DRAFT IS TONIGHT @ 8:00pm CST
If you need to change the time let me know.
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http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=14052853
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lol