Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Mar 23, 2007 6:00pm PDTWell that Mythos thing sure is interesting. I've played quite a bit of Diablo and Titan Quest in my time. Some of the screenshots look nifty while others look well.. just not so hot. This shot in particular screems Korean 2002 RPG. Ah well. I shall enjoy myself some Immortal Throne this weekend!
- Puppy killers paying up - The fight against .xxx - Vonage party - Aliens! - How fat is my ass, really? - Tween battlesLastly, been pondering the next home machine upgrade as I'm a couple generations behind and I figure Crysis will demand something sassy. TR has a pretty good run down of the latest in CPU land.
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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
There have been a few posts recently where Shackers have had their hard drives fail, losing important data. Losing a hard drive is unfortunately becoming more and more common. Google recently did a study on hard drive reliability in their large data centers; they go through a LOT of these things. Google found that for drives up to a year old, there was a failure rate of around 6%, i.e. 1 in 17 drives. That's a really big number. Seagate actually claims that it's a bit higher than that (0.34% annualized failure rate, which falls a little UNDER Google's 1 in 17 claim). As the years go by, this number gets a lot bigger. They found that the S.M.A.R.T. data was useful in predicting a drive's death. ~30% of drives with S.M.A.R.T. errors failed, and reliability worsened as time went on. So to say the least, drives have gotten MORE unreliable over time. It's common to have multiple drives in our system also, thus increasing the odds of data loss.
So I'd like to make the 4th Sunday of March Shacknews National Back that ass shit up day. With drive failure at an all time high, there is no excuse to not be backing up your data. We all store tons of pictures, our music collections (possibly containing a lot of downloaded, irreplaceable content), videos, financial documents, school papers, etc on hard drives. We NEED to be backing this stuff up. Think to yourself what would happen if one of your drives were to die. What would you lose? Could you replace any of it?
In reply I'm going to offer a few suggestions: backup solutions, WHAT to backup, and software recommendations. Please add your own tips and tricks also. Backing up your data doesn't have to be a lot of work, nor does it have to be expensive. You have a lot of options for both on-site and off-site backups! I hope you keep reading!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg2XD2JMd8o
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And please, please, PLEASE spoiler-tag that stuff for everyone who can't watch this stuff on the first showing.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQtyJZhV2lQ
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=eaWqseH2A60
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what are some good ytmnds to introduce this person to?
so far I have miyamoto.ytmnd.com
ninjaworksit.ytmnd.com
preferably stuff that does not require extensive internet background knowledge.
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Hit me with a shackmessage if you do, thanks in advance ;)
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The game is not bad, but it's sad to say it needs a patch.
Also how do you use the artifacts or that crap you collect?
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You may look forward to many excited posts about explosions and gunfire.
Thank you for reading this. You may now go back to your relationship threads.
XOXOX,
Carrot Top's "Friend" Carrot Bottom
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Fuck yes. I love you GameTap, yes I do.
So I tried the fix that was posted around here and in various forums, which you will find in reply. It worked! Frame rates are just as good as when using Static Lighting, but now I have dynamic lighting I have every setting on max, I have shadows from the Sun which I couldn't get before, I have grass shadows set on. It all looks so much better. No idea what it fixed, but all I know is the improvement is amazing.
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As for the movie it was great, but being from Massachusetts I found the accents ridiculous, especially Damon's. His Masshole accent is so over the top and bad that it's hard to believe he's really from here. And don't get me started on the therapist and her random accented words ... why even bother? Not everyone in MA has that accent anyway.
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orly?
http://www.playfuls.com/news_06695_Sony_UK_Boss_Calls_the_US_a_Land_of_Cheap_People_to_Justify_PS3_Price.html
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I have already installed Firefox and moved my bookmarks and pictures and all that jazz and I am about to install WoW as well. How do I get an RSS feed of Shacknews onto my gadget thingy?
yay for new laptops!
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http://www.pavlov.net/blog/archives/2007/03/apng_is_here.html
It'll show up in Firefox 3.
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I conclude therefore that, fortune being changeful and mankind being steadfast in their ways, so long as the two are in agreement men are successful, but unsuccessful when they all out. For my part I consider that it is better to be adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a woman, and if you wish to keep her under it is necessary to beat and ill-use her; and it is seen that she allows herself to be mastered by the adventurous rather than by those who go to work more coldly. She is, therefore, always, woman-like, a lover of young men, because they are less cautious, more violent, and with more audacity command her"
Awesome.
There's a certain pompousness that comes with quoting such a work, but we can do away with that as I grant that I'm just as dumb or bright as the next lamp post. We can just focus on the Machiavelli.
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http://www.dallasfood.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=78
tldr; they hide who they buy their chocolate from, so the author finds out who they get it from and estimates that they are marking their product up about 1300% and marketing to celebrities
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So I'm past the bar, doing the next stage of quests. I'm having trouble with two of them.
One: Family Rifle. What. I'm right at the marker, and I don't see it.
Two: Professor. I saved him, killed all tangos in the zone, but he won't follow me. Advice?
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lol nerds. :[
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Muse
Killers
Live
Smashing Pumpkins
Better than Ezra
Counting Crows
John Butler Trio
Andy Mckee
Explosions in the Sky
Dredg
Punk/Rock/Altern/Acoustic/Ambient....
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It's been a month since the last patch, and they have announced there won't be another patch until mid April despite massive bugs and exploits that ruin the game and make it impossible to use tactics due to crashing.
As I've been shit on them once with Dungeon Siege, again with DS2, and now a THIRD time with SupCom, I simply will never be doing business with them again. It's a damned shame that every game they make has so much promise and then is executed in the shittiest of ways and pushed out the door while it's still steaming. It's worse than DICE.
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They should make the scores from the guest judges count half as much.
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http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=1&id=40751
.....What.....
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CONGREGATE THERE.
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(paging Fraylo?)
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http://smax.shackspace.com/Bad_Logo_Choice.jpg
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Me and a partner are creating a 7 minute video podcast on certain social aspects of MMOs for a school project. For the most part, everything is coming along fine, however there are a few info segments that I have seen in the past that I cannot find (believe me, I've looked). They are:
1. An article of a Korean player being beaten/murdered over the PK of another player in 'Lineage'
2. A video documentary, which had a segment of a couple who had met and married over what I believe to be "Asheron's Call"
Of course, anything else you guys know of and come across would be greatly appreciated and be put into the credits.
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Look at the asking price of that thing :( Why did/is Shelby selling it?
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