Morning Discussion
by Jeff "geedeck" Gondek, Sep 21, 2007 6:13am PDTGood morning Shacknews, I hope the end of this week finds you well. Decent amount of interesting news from TGS, nothing too shocking but it was nice to see Populous and hear that No More Heroes has a publisher for the US. Anything get you guys excited? Also, I'm going to put up a Halo contest today, and if you would care to contemplate a topic for it, I would say "Halo Product Placement". Godspeed. Rejected Chatty Title: DNF Is Gonna Ch@t
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Orange tags are n [ ORANGE ] n !!!
I'd better get this shit right.
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For this great match, Shacknews has selected 24 great men (or possibly women, to be honest some of them are a little iffy). The fate of the free world rests on their mousepads. God Speed.
Group 1:
ArtilleryMarker
Hashdout
BoredGuy
Omaha
Visceral Monkey
Lakren
Alphablu
d0gbert
bozer (unconfirmed)
hawkeye
choppp (unconfirmed)
Group2:
k1bond007
hardflip
Megarust
Whiske Pete (unconfirmed)
Dr.Flammable
Burning Eye
Phil
Viscid
Toraz Chryx (unconfirmed)
AskedRelic
Ohnoes
Cigam
If you are on this list as unconfirmed, you have expressed interest in playing, but need to confirm with me via shackmessage (or talk to me in the steam chat room) that you will indeed be playing on Tuesday. If you are not on this list it's because you suck, or I hate you, or god hates you. Take your pick.
If you would like to watch the game, you will able to do so on SourveTV by connecting to "Valve Powerplay TV" in the spectate section of the server brower at the time of the match.
*note that we will probably not be beating them. In fact it's not even feasible. Best to not mention the chance of it happening ever again. Shut up.
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Here's a couple cool shots of people killing me:
http://www.monkeysilo.com/tf2/blur.jpg
http://www.monkeysilo.com/tf2/rocket_remains.jpg
http://www.monkeysilo.com/tf2/rocket_remains2.jpg
A shot of some of the other day players who should've been working as well as we started to fill up a second server:
http://www.monkeysilo.com/tf2/day_players.jpg
Just a "fuck me" situation:
http://www.monkeysilo.com/tf2/just_run.jpg
And a shot from that epic 2fort battle when the map just would not change. Just hearing Toraz Chryx wail over his mic at the 4th replay of the map was awesome.
http://www.monkeysilo.com/tf2/change_map_plz.jpg
I'm really enjoying playing as a pyro despite his limitations. The only thing that really pisses me off is his effectiveness against:
http://www.monkeysilo.com/tf2/fucking_sgs.jpg
Also, tried the medic for the first time yesterday, a lot more fun that I thought it would be.
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SourceTV for TF2 Shack Vs. Valve match
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This is brilliant!!!!!!!!
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When: Saturday, September 29th, 4:00pm CST
Where: My place. Check my profile for directions in the coming hours. If you can't figure out Google Maps and how to get there I'm afraid you're beyond hope. I can fit four cars in my driveway, and after that you can just park on the street or on the adjacent street. Plenty of space.
What: I will be providing starter food and beers; ie., enough for a skeletal party, but not enough to truly rock out with your cock out. I will be grilling over charcoal. Bring what you wish. Food, beer, liquor if you prefer that. Cigarettes of all types. All game systems are welcome. I have GHII 360 so if someone wants to bring a second guitar, or a PS2 + two guitars, that's cool. Upstairs or in the dining room I'll have a shitty TV with a Dreamcast and functional Atari 2600 including muthafuckin' Pitfall and Missile Command.
If anyone drinks a lot and needs to crash you can sleep over, in my bed. I have a couch, guest bedroom, and futon. And hard tile floor.
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... is that a british saying?
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http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/09/21/travel/escapes/21soaring.html
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http://orbit.vect.org/img/gallery/clean/img_3355sm.jpg
cue shackers to come destroy it plz.
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I put together my new system today and powered it up. It powered up fine and I went into the BIOS and did the basic bios settings so I could install Windows. I saved the BIOS settings and then the system shut down. When I turned it back on, the mobo LED is lit, all the fans would power up, but then the system would reset after a few seconds. It just does this pattern over and over. First thing I tried was resetting the CMOS in case I set something that f'ed things up. No dice. I then unplugged everything (including video) except mobo power (and mem and cpu) just to see if I got any error beeps. Same problem, just resetting every 5 seconds.
What do you guys think I should do next to troubleshoot?
System:
Intel Q6600 quad core
Asus P5K-E Motherboard
2x1GB Crucial Ballisitix 800Mhz DDR2
Corsair 620W PSU
EVGA 8800GTX
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this is the first video of halo 3 i've watched and now i'm pumped :D
"we flipped 6 times in the air, landed, and kept going"
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So, I promised a couple friends I would run a game on sunday.
I need to come up with a plot and or storyline and make shit.
Problem is, I can't think of anything. I can't brain today.
Anyway, They are going to be a cleric/paly duo, lvl 4, both Palor neophytes.
Can anyone help meh come up with some ideas for their game? I've never actually made a campaign before, but I've ran a few(they dont turn out that well, infact we all pretty much suck at running, mainly because we don't like running, we like playing:3)
Thanks shack... :D
im also interested in how many dnd nerds there are on here
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If the server is on hydro, the loading thing stops at like 75%. I cant tab out, I cant hit cancel, I cant Alt+F4. I have to Reboot my PC, even though it's clearly running. Only for hydro.
WTF
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:(
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pancake_humper: exit and restart steam
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So, is Vista really where it's at now, or should I continue to give it time and get XP, which in another few years will be the "OMG LOL GET A MODERN OS GRANDPA?"
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mother fuck, that car is SO FUN TO DRIVE. I haven't driven any of the comparable cars in its class yet, and blah blah blah fraylo bmw fanboi, but shit. that was so much fun. i think it was even more fun when my buddy was driving and i wasn't in control.
HOT. anyone else driven the 335i?
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I think I have finalized my Digital Cam choice.
http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=ModelInfoAct&fcategoryid=145&modelid=15262
I looked on new egg for pricing. The funny thing is that for the same brand, model and detail it gave two different prices.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Description=sd870&x=0&y=0
Why? The only thing I could think of is the color of the cam. Any thoughts on this cam? The good, the bad, the ugly?
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I want to buy a microphone so I can yell at you fuckers in TF2. I know nothing about microphones except the pointy end goes in the computer and the other end goes in my mouth. Any suggestions?
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Ok, I'm not actually asking this question, I'm going to attempt to answer it. Since that video was posted* I've already seen a couple comments along the lines of "They talk about these features like nobody has done them before" or something similar. Ok, I admit, it's a bit sensationalist - but when you think about it, marketing IS sensationalist.
First of all, there are people that like Halo as a franchise. Like me. I like the world, I like the story, I like Master Chief, and I love the coop play. For whatever reasons, people like it. So when new features come out, such as dual wielding weapons in Halo 2, the hype wasn't because you could dual wield as if it was this amazing ground-breaking feature, but it was because you could dual wield in Halo. You could dual wield with Master Chief.
Same thing applies to map editing or match playback. It's not that it's so fucking unique and magnanimous - it's because we'll be able to do it with Halo. Not to mention that this sort of thing has never been done for a console game. Look at what people did with the original Halo - Red vs. Blue, Warthog Jumping, etc. You have to know that people are going to eat this shit up.
And let's be honest - Joe Shmo who uses his PC for porn, email, and MySpace couldn't care less that you can do similar with certain PC games. The geek "barrier of entry" to have fun with features like this is undoubtedly going to be lower with Halo3 and XBL. And that matters a lot.
As far as the effectiveness marketing goes? My perspective: I overhear people in my office talk about Halo 3. Nobody talks about Orange Box.
These are my opinions. What do you guys think?
* http://www.joystiq.com/2007/09/20/new-halo-3-viddoc-and-final-pre-launch-podcast/
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Here's some more photos - mostly poor photos, from a ... mediocre holiday (long story, don't ask)
Some cool ones though.
http://abrasion.shackspace.com/holiday/5_minutes_of_collecting_cane_toads.jpg
Cane toads, european pest introduced into Australia to kill off bugs, they did more than that.
I don't exaggerate - we got that bucket in 5 minutes
http://abrasion.shackspace.com/holiday/canetoad2.jpg
Holding one - crazy things, you can kick them 50 feet into the air and they hop off - crazy yeah I porked up before and during the holiday fgts
http://abrasion.shackspace.com/holiday/mudcrab.jpg
Mudcrab I caught and ate, absoloute awesome - that nipper will take your finger off if you get it in there
http://abrasion.shackspace.com/holiday/somefish.jpg
http://abrasion.shackspace.com/holiday/somefish02.jpg
Just some fish I caught, no idea what it is - put up a nice fight for it's size though.
5km long (3.5 miles?) jetty - yes that long
http://abrasion.shackspace.com/holiday/5km%20jetty.jpg
Poor google maps image, that's it going off to sea under the clouds (awful fishing :( )
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=lucinda+queensland&ie=UTF8&ll=-18.520388,146.347246&spn=0.067062,0.135269&t=h&z=14&om=1
The mammoth hamburger, tasted incredible, was massive - fresh ingredients, worth every cent., best I've ever eaten
http://abrasion.shackspace.com/holiday/burgertime.jpg
Holiday cut short (again, don't ask)
On the way back to Melb, our national animal - massive things (Can destroy a car if you hit them)
Here's one I prepared earlier ..........
http://abrasion.shackspace.com/holiday/skippy.jpg
Returned to Melbourne - went fishing in our local river.
http://abrasion.shackspace.com/holiday/eel01.jpg
These babies are awesome - great fight but slimiest thing you ever did touch, it leaves a coating o nyour hands like a snail
http://abrasion.shackspace.com/holiday/eel02.jpg
(and despite what the english (my dad) says - AWESOME tasting, thank god for the chinese recipes on the net)
Movie of it still moving after I tried to take it out seriously a LOT of times - they are incredible creatures
http://abrasion.shackspace.com/holiday/MVI_6006.AVI
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