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Minecraft for Xbox 360 dev working on 'Adventure' update
Demon's Souls servers extended again
Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Sep 19, 2007 6:00pm PDTYes yes I'm still going to keep doing ER.. Just been some crazy stuff going on with FileShack around these parts as we've had some pretty heavy hardware failures hit all over the place. It's been pretty intense trying to get everything back in order for you guys. We hope to have full capacity by the weekend as we're putting together a new machine tomorrow with a few TB of storage and 16gigs (!) of ram to serve stuff up outa Dallas.
- SPACE SICKNESS!
- FDA attempting to suck less
- Turkeys in space
- CPUs arent slowing down
- Smile is 25!
ErikJ: Valve demands a match against the Shack.
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ErikJ: I'll drop by tomorrow.
ErikJ: Prepare your team.
ErikJ left chat.
The exact date isn't certain. I mentioned tomorrow night and he's going to have to check to see if they've got enough people availab.e The deal is, we can put together 2 teams of 12, if there's that many available.
If you're interested in playing (there's only 24 spots), reply here with what class you'd want to play, and a link to your steamid profile page.
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0397138/
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The CTF map sucks. There, I said it.. Worst map and I am glad there is only 1 with ctf.
I was kinda sad at first when learning there was only 1 CTF map, but after playing it.. I really changed my opinion.
The pacing is so slow on this map. Everybody is doing jack shit. Instead of awesome encounters to advance to the next point, you have people all over the map doing stupid shit. You have 2-3 engineers staying int the briefcase room. You have about 4-5 spy disguised running everywhere because that is almost the only to get past the bridge without getting sniped. No one is working to get the briefcase back, everyone is just doing anything.
Another thing I don't like is that you don't need your briefcase home in order to cap the enemy one and also you can't return your briefcase to the base instantly. Yeah, I know, it was like that in TF1 but I though they would have at least changed it in TF2.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkjHTsoofc8
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1/24 on 2fort
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TRU is having their annual buy 2 get 1 free sale this week. The deals good until sunday. Supposedly it works for ALL games instore while only select games are eligible online. Now I just need to figure out what games to pickup. Maybe Heavenly Sword, Warhawk, and Blue Dragon (or Eternal Sonata?). I may then get a batch of $40 games and pick up Rogue Galaxy, Odin Sphere, and ???????
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I've encoded a video, it's about 19mb and explains it, hopefully clearly.
You'll see how things zoom in with a tighter fov and how it affects your mouse movement and feel.
Hopefully you'll notice the claustrophobic effect of a tight FOV.
I used extra large figures to exaggerate the effects but to make it more clear
Note: you may actually prefer FOV 75, you might prefer 35! this isn't about the debate, it's just a display of what it is and how it works.
You'll also note the most zoomed in FOV I chose, just how much your eyes will feel in front of your head and also why it might make people sick.
Finally, hopefully once you see this and then stop, look away from your computer and look around your house you'll notice what FOV a human has and how something (kind of) similar to what we have makes things feel more fluent and easier to control.
Enjoy, let this be the end of 'what is this whole fov thing anyhow?'
http://abrasion.shackspace.com/FOV.WMV
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Will Chuck Norris Blend?
http://www.willitblend.com/videos.aspx?type=unsafe&video=chuck
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where better to go if you love the cock?
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http://cords.shackspace.com/flat-garlic-bread.jpg
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=sIdc0AuqOLY&mode=related&search=
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New Beowulf Trailer
Color me more impressed:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/beowulf/trailer2/large.html
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I am on Comcast in PA and can't access a lot of sites.
The shack, of course, works :)
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the power here has gotten really noisy lately and my upses keep kicking in to filter out the noise. but the stupid beep and relay click is giving me the shits
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Love. This. Game.
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http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/apple-ipod-game-buyers-re-purchase-for-classic-3g-nano/11463
If you have a 5G ipod and want to buy an ipod Classic, you'll have to repurchase all the games you already own on the 5G ipod. !!
I wonder if I call Apple and say I lost the games on my hard drive, that I could redownload the new versions. Heh :)
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Testicles could be a source of stem-cells - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7002828.stm
I foresee lots of awesome new chat up lines.
I don't think I want to know how they extract the cells O_O
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On an unrelated note....TF2 officially kicks wicked amounts of ass. I had a great time playing against shackers last night, even though I was repeatedly pwnd by Matt Burris.
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I took some shots tonight that I thought I'd share.
These are from my server earlier - and include TheQuad, burningeye, DOOManiac, Postal, and Chellis. Can you tell I play as Pyro from these pics?
Awesome pic of TheQuad: http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/9068/ss4um8.jpg
DOOManiac at ease: http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/9510/ss2os4.jpg
burningeye getting sentry-gun'd: http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/3296/ss1sf1.jpg
FIRE! FIRE! FIRE!
http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/7650/ss3la1.jpg
http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/1328/ss5he6.jpg
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/5962/ss6uv1.jpg
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i just found out WHY my ups's kept kicking in
i guess im going to need to call an electrician in the morning.
http://cords.shackspace.com/wtffusebox/
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Sam & Max Season Two Playtest
This Saturday (9/22) from Noon to whenever, at Telltale Games' office in San Rafael, CA
For those with a Saturday afternoon to kill by playing unreleased Sam & Max episodes and eating some food... Telltale's having a playtest for Sam & Max episode 202 this weekend and you're invited probably! We're looking for people to come by the office and play through a pre-release build of episode two, then sit down with the designers and talk about what worked and didn't work for you, any suggestions you may have, etc.
Some sort of lunch will be provided. No experience with Sam & Max or adventure games or anything is required, so no worries about that or anything (people who have played the earlier episodes are also welcome).
If you're interested, send me a Shackmessage and I'll send you the details.
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I want to buy my girlfriend an ipod nano 3g for her birthday but she thinks people who use those elastic armbands are faggots.
She wants to use her mp3 player on her waist, using a belt clip system - is there some kind of pouch or holder for the ipod nano 3g which would clip on to a belt / tracksuit ?
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http://www.eurogamer.net/tv_video.php?playlist_id=4863
Looks extremely "meh". This and the ice levels are killing a lot of the excitement I once had for the singleplayer aspect of this game :( It's a shame cos the jungle stuff looks amazing.
timaste: gg
Sapiens: gg
timaste: fucking spies
Sapiens: lol
timaste: he was diguised as ME
timaste: jesus titty fucking christ
hirez: lol
timaste: he still got me
hirez: LOL
timaste: I'm all like, there could be two timastes
timaste: you never know
Killed by Jackass. Awesome facial animation. :D
http://sapiens.shackspace.com/tf2/hl2%202007-09-18%2016-36-48-85.jpg
The more signs you get the funnier it is!
http://sapiens.shackspace.com/tf2/hl2%202007-09-18%2017-50-00-87.jpg
Valve doesn't fuck around. Also, lol ErikJ.
http://sapiens.shackspace.com/tf2/hl2%202007-09-18%2020-11-39-26.jpg
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http://pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF231-Baby.jpg#214
Unusually brutal O_o
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Neverwinter Nights 2 Roleplay Heavy Persistent World (With Permadeath!)
So for the past few days I've been playing on Haze ( www.nwn2haze.com ), an NWN2 Persistent World with Permadeath. It's roleplaying heavy, something I'd never really done, but reading the SA thread on the server really made me want to play. It's honestly been a blast. It was hard at first to kind of let go and say, OK, roleplay.. But once I did, the game really started to shine. You've got all these different characters, each with a truly unique story behind them intermingling in this world..
Just today a few of us were sitting by the fire at the north gate of town when someone came out of the tavern yelling that Krissy, a popular female in town who had been recently possessed (part of the in game story line, undead attacking the town). Whatever possessed her made her hang herself in the tavern. We all went running, and when we got to the tavern, the guard (player run) was already blocking enterance to the upstairs rooms where it happened. Downstairs we all mourned and discussed what could be the cause of all this; and this was another place the game shined. All these people knew this character in one way or another, some closely, others more casually. But everyone reacted in their unique way. Obviously this was planned with the DMs, but it was so cool to watch all these people react.
Anyhow, if you're interested in Haze, all you need is Neverwinter Nights 2 and a PC that will run it. Come early October we should see the official introduction of Patch 1.07, which in beta is already showing HUGE performance increases across the board, so if you felt your PC couldn't have it before, it's worth trying again (not to mention previous patches have also made a lot of progress, AND Haze's areas are nowhere near as big as most of the Campaign's areas, IE Neverwinter). Please reply here if you're going to play; as the premise of Haze is each character washes up on this unknown Island (each with their own choice of reasons: shipwrecked, fell over, etc), it would be fun for a decent sized shack group to develop a backstory and wash up together.
In Reply I'm reposting the recap of my first character's first few days in Haze. It's missing a few details, but it should give you a bigger idea of what's going on here.
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