Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Oct 16, 2007 6:00pm PDTCouple of hiccups this afternoon down here in Dallas but hey they werent our fault for once! Pretty annoying that of course the moment you get some great redundancy on servers etc an entire block of machines lose connection. Guess it's time we start running a duplicate of the site outside of Dallas. Still boggles me that my tiny little website has come so far that things like that are even a consideration. What the hell is going on.
- Napster shows new web interface
- Palm trying to remain relevenat
- Try not to eat your iPhone
- YouTube filtering hot?
- MySpace + Skype
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
http://img153.imageshack.us/my.php?image=10160721381uj1.jpg
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I like being a Medic.
Nobody else seems to be a Medic, as a rule.
Am I being inefficient by picking Medic? Is it a noticeable contribution to the team?
Do I just suck at TF2? :(
Grade me!
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the one with the bees
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kitten* using a mac. :)
*not a spider. i promise
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Shack is in the latest issue of PC Magazine
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2175075,00.asp
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Aesthetics of Hate -- http://youtube.com/watch?v=g1vHa00NDlY
Now I Lay Thee Down -- http://youtube.com/watch?v=kHYqE0BLBMA
If so, I need to know about it.
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Drag and Drop
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Halo3/Screenshot.ashx?size=full&ssid=E499E47C53895B78FE98A2847BDB6523
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http://www.halocompany.com/
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=nR2ygFn-yR8 (nyc alleycat from a year or two ago)
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=9748421781672168267,41.896060,-87.668500&time=&date=&ttype=&saddr=wicker+park&daddr=2311+w.+north+ave+to:augusta+and+leavitt+to:W+Chicago+Ave+%4041.896060,+-87.668500+to:41.887327,-87.66695+to:W+Carroll+Ave+%26+N+Elizabeth+St,+Chicago,+Cook,+Illinois+60607,+United+States+to:1310+N+Clybourn+Ave,+Chicago,+Cook,+Illinois+60610,+United+States+to:3150+north+lake+shore+to:1657+north+damen&mra=dpe&mrcr=3,4&mrsp=4&sz=13&sll=41.911986,-87.658539&sspn=0.093893,0.152779&ie=UTF8&z=13&om=1
it was short and a lot of fun (especially since I don't know the city that well). Racing through the streets of Chicago with a group of other riders. my commute is always by myself, and I havent really ridden much at all with other riders, so it was amazingly refreshing to be mashing through the city with other like minded people - probably akin to playing on a server with just shackers.
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humps the disk really hard at first but once it settles down, everything goes fast and snappy.
is there a way to turn of font smoothing? i don't like it :(
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http://www.gametrailers.com/player/26524.html
I have to say I'm pretty stoked after watching that.
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a used car with 21k miles for $15,000,
or
the same used car with 5k miles for $16,000?
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I'm outta the Halo loop, actually the FPS loop pretty much these days. But I have been asked by a women (divorced due to abuse, the bad kind I think so no divX or pics) if I have a cheap PC for her kids to play Halo on. Apparently they go over to dad's on supervised visits and play some form of Halo online.
Halo (1) PC & X-Box
Halo 2 X-Box (and 360 compatible) no PC version
Halo 3 360 only.
No cross platform online play.
I happen to have a pretty decent year old Shuttle XPC (it'd need a graphics card) I 'd also be willing to give her my original X-Box instead. I think she is trying to compete with dad but doesn't have the resources. I also don't want to offend her sense of pride. The family has a 4 year old Dell that runs XP pretty well so they don't need a PC for internet and such.
Advice ?
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Yay for success!
I guess it's true It's true what my dad says, nothing quite succeeds like success.
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http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=10172007
specifically: http://www.google.ca/search?q=quimarello
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http://kotaku.com/photogallery/pikasprivates/2862792
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apparently WTFhorse is big in japan:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3ueNlEjz8mI
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http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF234-Finneas.jpg#217
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http://picasaweb.google.com/filthysock/Olvera/photo?authkey=f2KajuaXVKQ#5122267539661237122
lol shakycam
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Found this today: http://www.myconfinedspace.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/essay.jpg
I always assume school work is forged, but I chuckled anyway.
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There is an infomercial on right now for a fitness program called P90X. lol awesome name there.
It's like pilates with a little Tae Bo for X-treme dudes.
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www.stoldark.com/Shack/Popup/
Be warned, some nested patterns break the preview but work fine on the shack, and vice versa, I'm aware of this and will work on it but in the meantime this could help some people out.
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border hopper, too bad he lost his powers. oh wait it seems this is a shitty rpg sequel ala gothic where you either lose your powers or your memory like peter pitrelli. what fucking monkey writes these scripts
?
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Sorry for being late to the party, but is the combat going to be the same as KOTOR?
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1) $40 game (for a 360 game, that's cheap)
2) Same block graphics but almost no slowdown and looks super smooth save when you hit a target size
3) It's not the challenge to roll up to the target size (there's so much shit that this is almost impossible to fail), it's the challenge to collect the most objects of the right "type" to make that size.
4) Good online parts: both coop and head to head play, stats tracking across the world (including the world's total Katamari size, which right now is around 500,000 km in diameter, 33% done by one guy in Korea 0.o)
Not yet finished, of course, but so far much better than the PSP version.
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