Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Mar 22, 2007 6:00pm PDTSo one more year and my copy of Frontpage98 that I've been using to hax0r these news updates will hit a decade of use. It's pretty much the only piece of software that I havent felt a need to update over the years. I suppose since we only use like 2 html tags in most news posts could be why. *shrug* Please do try these:
- Now Viacom gets sued for YouTube fun - CD sales way down - Watch porn with your kids! - Robot cars will run your ass down - Here comes the NBC/Fox video siteLastly, perhaps we could get lucky and no cell phones on planes will remain.
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
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you guys are on pinnacle, right? and are called giant communist robots?
well then how come I've never seen even one of you? and I've been playing nearly nonstop these last three or four days.
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http://www.last.fm/music/The+Twilight+Sad
The are a Scottish post-rock band with vocals and they are relatively new. Their first LP doesn't even come out until next month. Anways, they are awesome.
http://www.myspace.com/thetwilightsad
I especially like talking with fireworks, but all the songs on myspace are good.
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that's good eatin'
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Saw Children of Men last night and it blew my fucking mind. Not a perfect movie, but I'll definitely take flawed but ambitious over well-executed banality.
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I was trying to play Stalker multiplayer and I died around 10+ times. I never saw once who killed me.
Armed Assault I can't finish the first mission I keep dying.
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http://kotaku.com/gaming/only-in-france/xbox-crashes-french-ps3-launch-246475.php
http://kotaku.com/gaming/britain/easing-tired-bums-at-the-uk-ps3-launch-246470.php
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You sure do know how to make me feel better when things are lookin down.
Yours Truly, A Laker Fan
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http://www.sugarjar.com/media/59397/
Weird Al's "Trapped in the Drive-Thru"
(via Nodwick.com)
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XBOX crashing a PS3 party
http://kotaku.com/gaming/only-in-france/xbox-crashes-french-ps3-launch-246475.php
Now I don't know why I realized this before, when I have 12 yrs of PC gaming (ON SERVERS) under my belt, but host advantage is a serious issue in this game, or any xbox live shooter game (unless they use servers, not aware of any that do). I can tell that by the opposite team's accents, or at least most of them, that I'm in trouble. For example playing against a pair of canadians, english, or australians, means that they are closer to the host (one of them, I rarely host, and I am so angry that I am forced to host to get a better advantage), and therefore, if they are decent, will completely wreck you.
I'm pretty decent at this game, at least, when I'm hosting or when I'm near the host (I ask). The way the system compensates for it is so annoying, because only after you are ripped to shreds do you realize the lag. Like when you charge this guy behind him and fire off one shotty, then another that was way before he even got the chance to rev his chainsaw, it looks like you got it off. Only after you see your bullets from that last shot go through him and hit the wall behind him as he is chainsawing you that you were lagging so he had a great deal of a headstart. Also, there have been so MANY many times where I would launch a boomshot straight a guy, and it would GO THROUGH him completely. Obviously he had a headstart and moved before it came, but that didnt show up on my end.
After playing for a few days now for 4-5 hours a night, I'm getting really depressed that this game is so one sided. I love it when we are relatively near each other, and when the guy I play with (usually against) who is pretty good to begin with is hosting. Why, WHY can't they throw out some servers for us, I mean cmon. This has to be very similar in halo, but when I play it, it's usually with americans at least so the lag difference isn't as bad.
I love to be competitive, but with this serious one sided play, it becomes pretty difficult and infuriating =(
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Chick friend of mine told me about this song I might like. She was right.
Slow Runner - Break Your Mama's Back / http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1kFf_fO5SQ (I liked it, and put it on youtube, so other people could find it, since it wasn't on there already)
Now it's your turn
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Will it have a Jade Raymond nude code?
I'll keep it i wish
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* There won't be "normal" grenades anymore. Valve thinks that they unify the different classes too much.
* Unlike in Fortress Forever, teleporters are kept in Team Fortress 2. The ammo dispenser will make a comeback as well.
* There will be a personalized statistics system. For example, you could see an in-game message like "Hey, you've never played your class as well as today - keep it up!"
* Valve thinks that classes in other games are a joke. "Where's the difference between me choosing a M16 or an AK-47 rifle?", asks Robin Walker.
* It would be technically feasible to let owners of a PC, XBOX 360 and PS3 play against each other. Whether this feature makes it into the final game is still uncertain and depends on Sony and Microsoft.
* Valve received very few threatening letters because of TF2's comic design.
* Owners of multicore processors will get additional, undisclosed, graphics details.
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So I was just watching King of the Hill on TV (channel 53) which I believe is FX (comcast Seattle) then all of the sudden the show ends.
Then I see a black screen white text saying something like "The following is paid for by Rockstar Games and Grand Theft Auto"
Now all there is, is the roman numeral IV the word "trailer" underneath and a countdown.
06.15.55.51 and it just keeps counting down, its been doing this for 5 minutes now...
it mentions a url rockstargames.com/tv
ayone know about this?
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At the London launch everyone who bought a PS3 also received a free 46-inch HD television and a taxi home.
I hope he liked his TV *badoom tish!*
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6474045.stm
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
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So has the show gotten less angsty since the first ep? I watched the first episode and sorta liked it, but what annoyed me was that pretty much everyone that got a superpower was all emo about it. The only character I liked was the Japanese guy. The cheerleader was all "film me while I mutilate myself because I'm not going to make mom happy as a perfect girl anymore" the flying dude was all "wahhh I have these flying dreams" and the split personality girl was all "waaah why is that guy dead?"
Have they embraced their powers yet and started to enjoy them? has the show taken somewhat logical leaps as to how they deal with them and how the world sees them (if the rest of the world knows at all, that is)...
anyways, is it worth getting into, because I need a new show to watch.
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