Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, May 29, 2007 6:00pm PDTI am soooo stoked for House of Payne.. that just looks like the best TV show concept ever to hit the TV screen. Barely squeezing by Cop Rock in my eyes. Just lots of awesome on my TV. LOTS of awesome.
- Robots are cool
- Google maps gets more cooler
- Deafening love story
- Baby hacking
- Space pictures
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We're going to have a super-special guest join us on our next episode--the one and only Steve Gibson! So we turn to you, dear shack, to post questions you wish us to pose to him. If you question is interesting enough--we'll use it.
Also, if you're a member of our forums, you can post the questions here if you like: http://playedpodcast.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1180466951
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I think LOST and House end-of-season episodes rocked out, as well as Family Guy. Not so much American Dad! and Heroes.
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I don't even know what he can do. Final year students can't resit any exams, so he's going to have to spin some grade-A bullshit to the mitigations officier. I just told him to focus on his last exam on Saturday and deal with it after, but jeez.. I think I'd be sick if I were in his position.
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Gloss Silver and Metallic PinkRose:
http://ds.ign.com/articles/792/792607p1.html
Still no Red :(
http://dslyecxi.com/videos/may29_server_test.wmv
The second video is probably the best fan-made film I've ever seen for any game, ever. It's fantastically well done.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwq5F5UbCk4
There are also some other ArmA videos from our sessions over the weekend.
This one is of an adversarial (player v player) mission, the BLUFOR guys are advancing across rough terrain while we OPFOR have to try to hold them off. The exchange of tracer fire is pretty slick at night.
http://dslyecxi.com/videos/may28_night_tracers.wmv
This next one is pretty cool. It's a 10 minute assault on an enemy town in a short "battle drill" mission we have on the server. Battle drills are basically ways for us to rapidly train people on how to work together as a team in common combat situations. They're short missions that can be played with a squad-sized element (14 people or so), and typically they have a random element thrown in - in this one, for example, the exact town you end up attacking is randomly picked at the start of the mission.
http://dslyecxi.com/videos/may28_random_town_assault.wmv
Finally, here's a comical zombie video I posted previously.
http://dslyecxi.com/videos/may27_zombies.wmv
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http://www.autoblog.com/2007/05/29/video-car-dent-removal-with-hair-dryer-and-compressed-air/
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So as some of you may remember from the post about the Calgary Shackmeet, and you Shackers there will remember, we were watching a hockey game and I was trash talking a cutie at the next table over cause she was an Oilers fan. Well Fast forward to today Lunchtime.
I goto the nearest Safeway to get me a fruit and veggie combo plate (cause thats how I roll) and I'm yammering away about banalities with my boss who came along to get some Smokes and lotto tickets. So there I am talking about whatever when this really really cute girl taps me on the shoulder and says "Hey!"
Of course I, being the hero that I am reply oh so wittily "Hey." At which point she tells me "You were almost cute then I remembered you from Bottlescrew Bill's and you weren't cute anymore." and then she flounced away. Leaving me all redfaced and having to explain to my boss just what the fuck just happened. So I did, and he laughed at me and said Sucks to get it back don't it?
Dude. Karma is a bitch. Not that I'm gonna stop calling out people. Just be forewarned this shit *will* come back to haunt you.
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Help! I can't acess pr0n netvibes. :(
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is it bad to have diarrhea for 3 straight days? anytime i eat anything, it usually comes out pretty soon after. i'm thinking stomach flu, but could it be something more serious?
and yes, i am going to see the doctor this afternoon.
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1020990/
speechless!
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I bought an alarm clock a while ago that has 2 alarms set for two different times. I try to be at work by 8:30 so one alarm is set for 7:30 and one for 7:45. The alarm clock is across the room.
For the last 4 weeks I have managed to sleep walk over to my alarm every morning, and reprogram the alarm times for 8:30 and 8:45, crawl back into bed, and go back to sleep.
I wake up and have no idea how they were changed.
Does anyone else have any problems like this? I set that stuff across the room so that I would HAVE to get up to turn it off and HAVE to be awake - but no dice, I must sleep in a goddamn coma.
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http://lionsgate.com/war/
Jet Li? Jason Statham?
Oh hell yeah. Teaser is now up in case some of you have yet to see it.
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tl;dr: GoonFleet accuses CCP devs of helping in game (EVE) players, CCP says "nuh-uh" and hints at legal action.
Accusations: http://goonfleet.com/open_letter_to_CCP.html
GoonFleet posted a single, civil thread in the forums asking CCP to address the issues. It was immediately deleted. In true Goon fashion, they proceeded to spam the forums, load up signatures with clips/posts/shots accusing CCP of letting the devs cheat.
Response: http://myeve.eve-online.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&bid=472
The allegations investigated above by this internal affairs department will also be examined by our legal resources, as we do not intend to sit idly by while our servers, community and reputation are under attack.
lol
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what the fuck, 5pm?? they have it in back, i asked him. he said he's not allowed to sell it until 5pm. WHAT THE FUCK.
so i say yeah ok, later dude have fun not selling me the game. i go to gamestop. the doofus in there says unless you have a pre-order you can't buy it until friday.
WHAT THE FUCK. how is driving the customer away supposed to make them want to buy shit from you. what the fuck kind of stupid policies are these. i'm never buying a game in store again, i'll just get my shit from amazon, they don't piss me off like every store in the area does.
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http://ps3.ign.com/articles/792/792156p1.html
Looks suspiciously like they used s-video. Check out the full-size image and look at the resolution. In fact it does look like they just used the smoother.
wtf IGN. Am I the only one Anyone else see this, or am I just crazy?
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fuck Mario Kart DS, seriously.
i've played the shit out of every Mario Kart since the original (excluding MK:DD since i never had a GC till i got my Wii) but MK:DS' is pissing me off nearly as much as the cheating AI in the original.
i wish there was a way to just turn off all or some powerups so it's just pure racing. the really powerful ones like the blue shell or the lightning are plain fucking obnoxious. it becomes a game of random chance with regard to whether or not you'll be punished for doing too well.
should i even bother getting MK:DD? i played it once and a lot of it seemed pretty wacky, but i don't remember being so annoyed by it.
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My employer is looking to contract out some web design work (html, css, photoshopery). They would prefer that candidates be in the New England area, and willing to commute to Rochester NH for a few hours a week, however remote candidates are also welcome to apply.
SM me if you are interested and I'll provide you with a place to send your samples and resume'.
Was the blood going into the drain Sylars? Why didn't anyone notice him crawling and lifting up the man hole, considering they were all just standing around his corpse?
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But then I saw this here:
"For those who pick up the collector's edition of the game, mission mode will feature five exclusive missions." Shit.
http://www.gamespot.com/pages/gamespace/updates.php?page=1&pid=935677&sid=6171534&part=rss&subj=6171534
Le sigh. I have such a hard-on for Ninja Gaiden, I'm gonna have to get the collector's. :(
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Post any good deals here, hopefully frys has a good deal today. Ill check when I see the paper.
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http://wmcstations.com/Global/story.asp?S=6582120
tldr;
A 17 yr old kid didn't like the terms of his credit a motorcycle shop. Shoots 2 people at the dealership and kills himself fleeing from the scene.
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Hm, some kind of an interesting new thing from Microsoft.
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http://www.local10.com/news/13403977/detail.html
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Wow. Exactly what customer are they targeting here? Who is going to say "why, I had this $600 in my pocket that I did not know what to do with. Thank you Mr. Gamestop clerk. I will buy a ps3 just because you suggeted it."?
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I want to try Vista out, but I don't want to partition any of my current drives as they are mostly full.
Has anyone tried this?
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One letter difference between imperfect (continuous) and past (undefined)? Yea, no thanks buddy.
Basically it boils down to a lot of memorization. Like "I was eating" and "I ate," or "we were going" and "we went." Except with 2nd aorist there's just one letter different and lots of times it's a vowel that sounds similar and you had gosh darn better have it memorized or you'll totally screw yourself.
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