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9BioShock, Metroid Prime 3. The Gaming good times have begun, with lots more excellent titles hitting stores the next few months. Now I just need to get my hands on a Wii again so I play Prime. Movie: It's more comfortable for you to label me as insane
Allegiance is a space simulation, much like Privateer, the X Series, or Freelancer...in that order. Unlike those games, this one has a strategy component. There is an economy, and a commander that organizes everything from the infrastructure (bases) to the execution of grand strategy. The maps are gigantic - each sector is big and each map has between 5-15 sectors. It is unknown to me if these maps are randomly generated, but they appear to be so at first glance. Most of all, there are up to 200 players in each match. When a battlefront forms, this means Battlestar Galactica style battles - where you are a bee in the swarm and you are surrounded in a chaotic dance of death. It's great, and inertia is properly modeled which makes it that much more cinematic when you flip around and fire behind you while flying backwards.
The learning curve is quite large, but by no means impossible to get by - learning to play the game is pretty easy, especially if you own a joystick. Learning to keep up with the strategy is the intimidating part. Yesterday I participated in a battle in which we were waiting outside a warp node between systems, when we recieved botched intelligence that there was a bomber waiting on the other side undefended. We all rushed through and cringed as a pretty good sized squad uncloaked around the bomber. Needless to say the ride home in the escape pod was quite scenic.
Most of all - Allegiance is free now. The source code was made available to the community and it was improved, the server infrastructure, the gameplay, and the graphics have all been worked on considerably and the game itself is now free to own and free to play. Frankly I believe despite its age that this game holds up to and surpasses many modern retail games currently available. Anybody who has played Dwarf Fortress understands that sometimes a free game you find on the internet can be better than any Unreal 3 Powered EA Garbage. So yeah you guys should check out Free Allegiance. Here's the information you'll need to get playing, but only experience can help you play.
http://www.freeallegiance.org/ - To play you will need to download the 70MB Client and create an account. Your name will be branded with a fresh (0) signifying to all that you are a proud newbie.
http://www.allegacademy.org/lessons/crashcourse.shtml - More importantly, to know how to play, this crash course will help. It covers the basics. Down the left hand side you can see more advanced topics.
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Realistically speaking, how many dicks would you suck to get a next-gen Rez game, and what would your preferred platform be?
Personally I'd have to say five, because I think it would take about 5 key people to really make it possible. I'm really torn on platform though - Wii holds some amazing possibilities with the speaker and the rumble and the pointing, but the thought of seeing something like this in HD makes me so wet. Of course, let's not discount the PC - that could be beautiful.
To be honest, I'd probably give a couple of handjobs just for a $20 Playstation Store/XBLA 1080 version of the original.
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I work in IT :(
Also, a coworker did the no-call/no-show thing so we are hiring for night shift Desktop.
XOXOX,
Owen
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I've never had one before, and just got one. I put it in the window, and most of it is sticking outside. There is a huge open vent on the top that basically exposes the motor etc inside. Having it hang outside is ok right? I presume these things are equipped to fill up with rain water, even with all of the internal workings exposed.
Also, I had it on for an hour and then took it out of the window and it spilled water all over the floor - wtf?
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http://www.wikirage.com/
Good for singling out recent news and/or controversies.
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I need a new stereo receiver. My old Sony something-or-other has a lovely problem where when the volume is in a comfortable listening range (about 7-14 on the dial) the bass gets remarkably loud and distorted. On top of that, it was made before the A/V explosion so it doesn't have very many or very intuitive A/V I/O. There's no component I/O on it at all, meaning my DVD player goes right to my TV's component input and the rest of my devices are left to be composite.
I'd like it to work with my existing speakers (Sony mini-satellite surround things) for the time being, without being too expensive; I'm thinking in the $200-300 range. Future expandability would also be nice, so a few HDMI ports would be good even though I don't have a digital TV. Anyone have any recommendations? I've browsed a bit at Best Buy, without really researching, and it looks like there are receivers with what I want in that price range. I need advice on brands and so forth to kickstart my research.
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I'm looking for some French movies to watch.
I've already watched
Angel-A
Science of Sleep
Paris Je t'aime
Amelie
C.R.A.Z.Y. (French Canadian)
Triplettes de Belleville
district 13 (not my favorite, but the parkour was fun)
Recommendations?
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I've got two Windows XP Pro SP2 OEM's, sealed and unused. I'll sell them for $100 each shipped to a shacker. SM me if interested.
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=wQVEPFzkhaM
Not the best quality, but still pretty cool.
You can listen to a better version of it here:
http://myspace.com/thecarletonsingingknights
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Now installing. Who is playing tonight? The headset is a lot smaller than I thought
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someone is not happy
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I am going to grab 2 one for our house as well. You fuckers better add our asses and talk and shit, I mean more than what happens on the Wii!
Also Bioshock, Forza2, Viva Pinata. missing anything?
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is there an easier way to navigate, similar to windows explorer, to help her move her pictures/music/etc?
btw: her technical knowledge goes about as far as turning it on and getting on the web.
mucho grassyass, peoples.
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I don't quite understand all the different options (sizes? decibels?) out there and what I should be looking for if I want something that is:
A. quiet
B. quiet
C. quiet
I have an Intel D875PBZ motherboard. I know the lower the dBA number the better, but that's about it. What should I be looking for as far as products?
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the latest edition of zero punctuation is now out this week on the chopping block are the consoles
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/zeropunctuation/1383-Zero-Punctuation-Console-Rundown
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What's the average temperature like in late October/early November?
TIA!
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Rex Grossman's first three touches went fumble for turnover, interception for TD, interception for 60 yards... he then fumbled on the 3rd play of the 4th drive.
This game seems pretty accurate.
lol Degenerate & crew
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So I joined the year 2001 and got a RAZR the other day (you dont want to know how old the phone it replaced was)
Anyway, when you open it up on the screen it says in plain text "AT&T" -- on most phones you can change that to your name or some gay phrase or whatever, but I've dug through what seems like every menu and I cant seem to find a way to change it. So what the fuck?
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Who wants it? first on lurker gets it, I'll ship it out for free. Only say yes if you plan to actually play it, please :/
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http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/5797/usafxz8.jpg
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http://www.sega.com/gamesite/universeatwar/fullsite/
I have to say I'm a little disappointed in how this game looks so far, but, since they're ex-C&C, hope lingers...
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I got a quickening, finally, and it's shite, am i supposed to be doing stuff during the animation? it hit for like 200 :'( (feral strike)
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I'm using a new drive and I just want to move it from the iPod to the new HDD instead of using the old drive.
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