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by Maarten Goldstein, May 17, 2007 6:57am PDT* poof * Also on FileShack
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I must of played 10 matches on Valhalla last night where me and a friend took over a warthog and destroyed the other team over and over again. Almost felt like we were cheating with how overpowering that thing can get.
Another time, I had that laser... The other team would take the boost jumpy thing out of their base, fly into the air, and directly into my beam over and over. That gun is quite possibly the most satisfying weapon ever.
Can't wait to play some more tonight. And really, I was so anti-halo for the longest time.
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So, next week I'll be flying to Chimoio, a small rural town in the North - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimoio . I have to go there to fix some computer problems on our site and check everything to make it work better in the future.
I called the guys on the phone to check hardware specs, and one of the computers is a Pentium MMX 233 Mhz with 64 MB of RAM.
And guess which OS they're running on this time-stalled-cutting-edge-machine? WINDOWS XP SP2 o_0
Internets.Alerted.
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SEATTLE SHACKMEET TOMORROW
Since we're all lazy assholes I suppose we'll just be meeting at Jillian's tomorrow around 7:30. someone else suggested Shorty's in Belltown but that's a smaller place and I don't know if we'd really fit (assuming everyone shows up). any other thoughts or what, fgts?
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I've had that in there for at least 2 years! 2 years ago, I could have gotten a decent penny for that card. Wtf am I doing with a BFG 6800 AGP in my garage? I also found my first A64 CPU that I owned. I thought I had sold that but nope, it was sitting in a CPU tray.
I also found these stamps with a bunch of upside down airplanes
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In WinXP/Vista this would be ClearType, in OSX they do it natively because apple appreciates crazy ideas like "readability", and making type look the way it was intended.
I hear a lot of people say that it just makes their type look worse, but I imagine they are just running really old CRTs, or are idiots and should die.
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YAY JIM & PAM. YAY MICHAEL & JAN.
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I love Halo 3.
Fun games shackers.
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I'm trying to convince my friend that wow is artistically impeccable, but I'm having a hard time finding decent screenshots. So, shack, please help me win my argument by posting your favorite WoW screenshots. Thanks.
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http://www.majornelson.com/archive/2007/05/17/xbox-live-security-5-17.aspx
Possibly aulde.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=455400&in_page_id=1879
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Did you used to have deathmatches in Doom or Doom II with monsters? I usually did and didn't think it was weird till I found out other people didn't have it as a default DM game mode.
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FUCKING WOW.
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Updated again... it's getting cloooose.
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http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=20753
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I have a question regarding the whole rpg-integration portion of the series (SOTN and later). I've so far only played Portrait of Ruin because I was very wary about this new subgenre they had created. In the end I enjoyed it, but I have some questions.
Is Portrait much different than the rest, or is the main idea the same? I ask because I found some flaws that bugged me to the point where I questioned the need for RPG elements at all. I liked the whole exploration and free roam aspect, thats really appreciated coming from Castlevania IV where falling down kills you even if a platform existed before the screen scrolled. However the health and purchasing aspects are where I take issue.
Firstly - why do I variable health? All this forced me to do was have max potions before I dared to enter a new level or boss area. However.....was this supposed to add a challenge? I could simply walk in and out of one screen and in 5 minutes have enough cash for 9 potions. So whats the point? I never grinded at all and always had enough health so it seemed silly to me, and could have been removed.
I mean the bosses were cool, but what challenge was there when I could simply heal myself after every major injury? I prefer the old method of having a set amount of health and being forced to dodge rather simply heal when I get low. Add magic into the mix and the boss fights were all very easy, in fact the hardest one was fighting for the VampireKiller......only because two direct hits would kill me regardless. Dracula was simple. :( Throw in that super-high jump and suddenly much of the difficulty has flown out the window, and it the challenge becomes trying to get to the end boss without using too many potions.
This only came up after playing Castlevania IV on the Wii VC for hours. I realized how much tougher it is and overall enjoyable. What happened here? Why did they suddenly go easy on Castlevania fans? I could easily imagine them making Portrait tougher with some tweaks here and there, like removing the need for potions and instead relying on your ability to dodge and read enemy patterns.
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lol
http://www.pyongyangrollercoaster.com/
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http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic
The point is, I didn't know Lair had flying whales. Dragon, meh, but if it has Whales I could fly, I would be more interested.
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adam sandler on the price is right reciting a poem about bob barker for his retirement.
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We're moving to a server that has a newer version of PHP, going from 5.1.2 -> 5.2.0. This version includes a new setting called allow_url_include, which is currently turned off.
The piece of code that I'm working with uses includes in this format:
Although nav.php?&whatever=variable is setting in the same folder as the rest of the PHP files, it's not including the file because the url includes are turned off.
How can I use includes while still passing variables? Is there another function that I should be using, like readfile()?
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Launch that big ass new huble telescope, tell everybody they pointed it to the very end of the universe then release a bunch of pictures of some cloudy looking gas stuff, but shaped like an EYE!!!!!
Then a press release saying they saw to the end of the universe and it simply turned out all that was there is, is simply the reflection of the minds eye looking back at us through the glass darkly. No God, no lack of God, simply us. Problem solved, NASA can then take over as our metaphysical overlords and we can experience an Eon of unbridled good times.
I mean honestly who would doubt NASA?
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Tonight I asked him if I could watch TV at 9, since he was watching a movie, and he says...
"Oh yeah, I'm not watching really, I just like to have the TV on for light."
"You could open the blinds and not just waste electricity and leave my TV all the time then, right?"
"Oh, yeah, I guess."
It annoys me he just leaves it on all the time so he has background noise. I guess I am just anal :(
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How can I force this to run in DMA?
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http://www.tamponcrafts.com/heart.html
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