Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Jun 04, 2007 6:12pm PDTSo uh... we thought about this global warming thing here in the US and decided it's probably not a big deal and not worth spending a little money on. We have a few more important issues around these parts.
- It's bubble 2.0
- Water gun of death
- Some dude leaked the new season opener of 24
- Europe likes the internet
- Oh nos China! Must be reaction to that MMO
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
The second last battle with many opponents. You know, the part where you need to protect your family from the clones. On God Mode.
You know what? FUCK THIS. Seriously. I don't know what the fuck the SCEA people were ON when they created, balanced and playtested this section of the game, but whatever it is, I fucking want some! Firstly, they gave the opponents an uncancel-able attack that makes them invincible - once it's in motion, you can't stop it or kill them until it's executed. You have a block button that can stop it. Guess what? THEY DON'T. And for added fun, let's make 5 of them spawn around the area immediately after executing a Poseidon's Rage! Great fun for everyone!
There is no logical order to where they spawn - think you've got them corralled? BZZT! Let's spawn one behind you and execute a grab move that immobilizes you for five seconds! And let's alter the other grab move so that it only works on singular opponents, and takes an inordinate amount of time to execute that when you do execute it, YOU HAVE FAILED!
And just for added bonus fun, LET'S SPAWN AN ARCHER OUT OF FUCKING NOWHERE IN THE BACKGROUND THAT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO TARGET WITH ZEUS' FURY BECAUSE THE FUCKING TARGETING SYSTEM IS MORE INTERESTED WITH THE OPPONENTS HACKING AWAY AT THE FUCKING TARGET WHILE YOU'RE FUCKING TRYING TO DO THIS!
Fuck this. I'm one of these folk who enjoys challenges. I can get through Ninja Gaiden on hard. I played Baldur's Gate on whatever difficulty level it was. Heck, I can consistently 5-star Jordan. But this crosses several fucking lines that shouldn't be crossed. And the answer isn't "GOD MODE NOOB LOL". God mode has been a fantastic technical challenge so far, and then they throw up this.
If SCEA wanted us to be challenged in this way, they should have just brought up a screen saying "Your PS2 will now calculate a random number between 1 and 20 million, at a rate of one number a second. When the random number matches 12121968, which is a sacred number in Shacklore, you will be permitted to continue. In the meantime, pitch a tent."
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Mobilize to help us against these bastards!
We need more defense!
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It was still 5:30am but there was a tiny bit of sunlight coming out. When I was pulling out of my garage, and looking briefly in the mirror I saw something like black smoke fly across the driveway. It honestly looked like that thing from the tv show 'lost'. I promptly locked my doors, thinking 'WTF', and took the fuck off.
I'm thinking now it was my eyes playing tricks on me, but at the time I was pretty scared.
How was your morning?
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The transformer at the end of the block just blew out. Again. The second time in as many months, and the whole block it without power yet again. Blah.
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He's my new personal hero.
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saw this on diabloii.net
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Last night I bought a second copy of GH2, as my first one was scratched all to hell due to the stupidity clumsiness of my fiancee. I don't blame her, as I was the one to run cat5 all over the house so I could have internets on my xbox. So now I have 2 guitars, but I still suck really bad.
Does anyone else get really sweaty when playing GH2? I played before work and I'm the smelly guy in the office.
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1) Dahanese hits everyone. EVERYONE.
2) multisyncs car is distracting.
3) Solr and Ajax are too damn good
4) The 69 Camaro rules even when it's stock.
5) mikecyb is almost as bad as Dahanese. Except he does it on purpose.
Thank you all so much for the enjoyable night of playing, much fun and laughs.
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Lovin it so far.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joncook/530986998/
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all i see on google are stupid things id have to bloat my computer with
doesnt like tweakui do something like that?
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I have table Customer. It has a Primary key of "Customer_ID"
I have table Order. It has a Primary Key of "Order_ID" and has a foreign key to "Customer.Customer_ID"
Common sense dictates that is creating a class or something to represent that relationship, the "from" table is Customer, and the "to" table is Order.
Unfortunately, dealing with other people's code does not always involve common sense :(
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http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b3e_1180945325
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I've been here for a little over a month and a half and I just installed Steam and am downloading CS 1.6 and Deathmatch Classic.
Wish me luck in my job search
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And so it begins...
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http://www.typeblue.com/pics/shackrace.jpg
(had to take a shot from one of the races I won, lol )
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I have a folder called D:\CUST
Under that, D:\CUST\INSTALLS
A specific group needs to be given access to INSTALLS but it's interhiting from CUST and I don't want to give this group access to all of cust. So I went to the security tab for INSTALLS, advanced, and unchecked ineritable permissions, and clicked copy, however when I click ok it says
"Warning, you are about to make a change that will result in 11 permissions being added to the ACL, blah blah". I go ahead and click Yes and it just hangs and explorer says not responding. Any ideas? There is 15gigs of data in the folder.
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From half ass'd sketch...
http://red2.axg.net/cockpit.jpg
to half ass'd 3d model...
http://red2.axg.net/cockpit2.jpg
to having the frame welded up (not cleaned and painted yet)...
http://red2.axg.net/ghetto_101.jpg
http://red2.axg.net/ghetto_100.jpg
to what it will kind of look like...
http://red2.axg.net/ghetto_099.jpg
Just have to clean and paint it. Cut out the wooden wheel mount, cover it in some type of material and mount it. Mount the seat and pedals. Lock tie in the cable and I'm done.
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So far it's just as good as #1. 9/10 with only one annoyance so far (the damn spinning blades on the ceiling. Really a terrible obstacle since you die INSTANTLY and have to climb back up every time.)
I notice the checkpoints are much more intelligent now. In fact, on extra-hard bosses, you will even start out in the middle of the fight if you were doing well! Something I wish Ninja Gaiden had done.
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-HD-DVD drive with remote/original box/King Kong DVD
-Planet Earth, Serenity, Batman Begins, Clerks 2, Mission Impossible 3
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MKOsj8-yUA
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/whycassini/cassinif-20070601-02.html
Which one of you started this?
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http://www.london2012.com/about-newlook-video.html
it makes me want to stab myself in the eye
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Beastette 2.0 came late Sunday evening - 2 weeks early much to our surprise..
Mrs. Beast and Beastette doing well.
pics:
babby:
http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/3868/omgpervmj4.jpg
fatty and babby:
http://img452.imageshack.us/img452/882/omgfattyoy5.jpg
mommy and babby:
http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/8269/beast1ud1.jpg
it's been a hell of a ride. 22 hrs of labor ending in a c-section and since it started late saturday evening, the wife and I were both up for about 33 hours straight.
oy.
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In the mean time, Hollenshead also brought some news about Castle Wolfenstein, currently under development at Raven Software:
"The new Wolfenstein is going to be a game that is different and unique in its own right, but still B.J. Blazkowicz in the Wolfenstein universe, with all the cool stuff and the unique stuff there. And hopefully we'll have some more details about how that is all going to work before too long."
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http://www.ebgames.com/search.asp?Ntk=TitleKeyword&Ntx=mode%2Bmatchallpartial&Ntt=diablo+2&N=0&find.x=0&find.y=0&find=Search
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