Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Aug 02, 2007 6:00pm PDTSo this evening I'll be gambling fake money at the IGDA QuakeCon poker tournament where I hope to say many mean things to the many game developers who will be playing there. Yes you had a better hand than I did, but your game is going to sell like crap. Die. For this evening:
- Hybrids selling
- Deep on Mars
- Nokia > Motorola
- Apes love charades
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
Resident Evil: Chronicles HD Collection coming in June
Sony patent would interrupt gameplay to display ad
Weekend Confirmed 114 - Diablo 3, Max Payne 3, Lost Planet 3
New Zone of the Enders project underway
Carmageddon ploughing into GOG
Mail orders: Please use www.paypal.com to detail your request and make payment at the same time. Payment is to sHugamom@gmail.com. I still have about 900 tees, so there's plenty.
The pink ones are a bit shorter and shaped for women, 100% cotton. The white ones are Hanes 50-50s ... comfortable in the heat but with less wrinkling. White sizes are S,M,L,XL, XXL, XXXL. The pink larger sizes are gone but I still have S&M left. I can get more made if there's a call though. Those ordered by this weekend will be mailed to you on Monday.
Cost: US mailing cost is included. The first shirt is sweet $16, and only $6 for each additional tee to the same address. It's okay to mix sizes or colors. If you're not USA, add $6 and I'll send it.
Go to www.paypal.com to send money to sHugamom@gmail.com Send me your:
a. shacker name
b. real name and address
c. tee-shirt size(s) and color choice (usually white for men and pink for women).
Note that I'm "authorized" to hold all money made this year in the sale of shack tees ... to go towards another special shacknews party that we'd love to have in 2008! This is the shacktees slush fund! We have white tees.
QUAKECON Attendees: I will be doing a "drive-up" around 8pm tonight to the front of the hotel with all the tees labeled for shackers ... who requested through Rosewood. If this time does not work for Rosewood due to the Fogo mania ... we'll see about maybe 9:45 ish... because I have to be at DFW to pick up my sugar-bear at 9, dat's why. Dearest darlin' Rosewood has kindly been gathering the shack names and size info of people who want a shirt @ QC but who weren't there yesterday. One shirt at QC is free, additionals are $5. A couple of the shackers who have ordered via paypal have actually kicked in a couple bucks for next year festivities.
Shackers are absofreakinlutely awesome. We love you all. :) Wish you could all be at Quakecon!!!
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Also Vegas rules. Its loud, shiny, tacky, and you can drink outside and smoke inside. My kind of place. As fun as it was with my dad, I plan on going back with about $1000 more to blow and either alone or with someone my own age for a weekend.
Oh and the Hoover Dam is JUST like Rainbow 6 in that fucker. We got a special tour because my dad knows some of the guys that run the power plant there. I got to peak out of the little vent hole in the side of the dam. we took the special dam tour.
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just got finished watching it.
gotta love the absolute hypocrisy of the MPAA. good to see some good old fashioned investigation to expose the secret ratings board and discover who is on the transparent but totally secret appeals board. and it really makes me sick to see how much censorship really goes on there. did you know that they have 2 members of the clergy sitting on the board casting votes as to what's ok and what's not? how ridiculous is that.
you should all check it out, i see plenty of bitching about what gets what rating around here
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www.flickr.com/ilrosewood
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http://www.topoftheslide.net/pics/camera/qcon2k7/nyranger66/
http://www.topoftheslide.net/pics/camera/qcon2k7/nyranger66/Picture%20131.jpg
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I can't help myself. Someone please cum quench my undying thirst for Mr. Blue Veins.
I'm in the front row, waiting for you!
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Are there any patches/mods/tweaks i need to apply in order to get it running the best?
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"To some degree there’s going to be some lowest common denominator effect because we’re going to be testing these every day on all of the platforms, and it’s going to be “Dammit it’s out of memory on the PS3 again, go crunch some things downâ€Â"
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Kinda takes the wind out of "platform Y has the capability to run it just as well as platform X"
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1 bottle of Beck's: £2.50
1 bag of peanuts: £0.60
1 Mars bar: £0.50
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Upgrade your Wordpress installations.
http://wordpress.org/development/2007/08/wordpress-222-and-2011/
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So I decided to nuke it. Chose Restore from iTunes and waited...and waited...and unplugged it and reformatted it in Windows to see if that cleared up whatever was wrong with the iPod. Went back to Restore it, and waited...and it's been an hour restoring.
I assume this isn't normal. Any ideas on wtf I can do? Apple.com support is no help :(
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So my wife and I have been doing this "Couch Potato to 5k" thing from coolrunning.com to get ourselves into better shape.
http://www.coolrunning.com/engine/2/2_3/181.shtml
Last week was: jog 90 seconds, walk 90 seconds, jog 3 minutes, walk 3 minutes (repeat the cycle 2x)
Starting tomorrow it's: jog 3 minutes, walk 90 seconds, jog 5 minutes, walk 2.5 mins (repeat 2x)
I have a feeling tomorrow is gonna suck. Stupid hilly neighborhood and thin 6000' air. :P
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Hopefully they get their network stuff together though; while the PSN Store isn't BAD, Live Marketplace it leaps and bounds better.
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40 of the MOST spontaneous questions ever, BE HONEST.
For serious. These people are 30. WHO DID U LAST KISS? What are they doing.
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While driving to Dallas yesterday I ran over a huge piece of black rubber from an 18 wheeler's tire. It was extremely big and took up the entire lane... It was impossible to avoid. I was going close to 80, It was in a construction zone and there was no shoulder, there was an 18 wheeler in the other lane, and another car was very close behind me.
My car seemed to work fine afterwards, but driving more I noticed that every time I make a right turn there's a horrible grinding type noise. It only happens when I turn right. I looked under the car and there does not seem to be any leaks, and I don't visibly see any damage. Any ideas of what could have happened?
A LOT of work went in to setting this up for us, and a LOT of people had a LOT of fun. They completely opened up their badass home for us, set up tons of entertainment, food and drink for DAYS, and people very obviously enjoyed themselves and each other. There were games and movies on projector, and they let their Great Dane puppy roam around saying hi to people and sniffing their ears so hard a couple peoples' heads caved in! He even had a PC in the kitchen so we could Shack, you know, in case we missed communicating with Shackers or something. Drunks are sleeping peacefully there as we speak. A toast to the Melons, may Duke Nukem never be miffed at you!!!
XOXOX,
The Shack
c/o dognose
Heaven, TX 90210
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This whole Quakecon has been EPIC! I don't know if there will ever be as big a group of Shackers in one place ever again ( I really really hope there will be though). This has been one for the history books. It's gotta be cool being Steve Gibson at a gathering like this knowing that all these people are together and having fun and being crazy and drinking and playing games and talking games and talking shit and having fun and that they are all together doing this because of you. One little website about Quake has grown into the greatest community anywhere. Wow, it's enough to make you teary eyed. I don't know if we ever got an official count but I'm guessing that there are at least 40 Shackers here...it could be as high as 50 or 60 though with everyone coming and going. Me and MrsWolf didn't even make it to half the fun stuff and still had a great time. For all those that didn't make it start saving up now. We already know next years Quakecon dates. Plan for it and make it. It's so fucking much fun.
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5723486019018665505&q=kimmel+bourne+ultimatum&total=8&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
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I'm making backups for all our computers, since I got a new one, and am shuffling a bunch around!
I was using Nero Burning ROM, but I have heard there is much better.
So what are you guys using to burn CDs/DVDs nowadays?
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Also, whoever is responsible for fucking Mary Kay having their big convention parallel to Quakecon is a genius. (mostly) pompous women walking around with tiaras and giant ribbons on their shoulders next to the Quakecon demographic... glorious.
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http://draco.shackspace.com/Quakecon07/
Assorted pics but some/most of them are from here. There are more pics, but if you wanna see what I got w/o a gallery setup, here it is on my shackspace until I upload them all. :P
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http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=14873562
And so, I present to you - The Baron.
http://www.myinitialsare.dk/gloriousbaron.user.js
http://www.myinitialsare.dk/pics/script_example.png
Also, backstory on "That was a glorious day!" - http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=13012060 and http://64.72.120.56/~deathgun/genjuroglorious.avi
This post should probably wait until later for everyone to recover from QCon festivities, but I've got a flight in 2 hours and I won't have internet access for a week so what the hell.
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http://ds.ign.com/articles/810/810388p1.html
also Picross DS is still the best game of 2007
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Anyone have any luck using a service like this? Did you get any responses? What important experiences can you share?
it's slightly better than DVD quality but full HD would have been over 2 gigs.
oh while i was it it i did a 1440x800 res update of the rage footage i'll put in there too. i fussed with the tools a bit and managed to get an even sharper picture.
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