Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Oct 30, 2007 6:00pm PDTConsidering how hot Quake Wars was going in to this year it doesnt really feel like the buzz went anywhere. Kind of got hit in the head by all those other major releases. Gonna give things a try though with that new Quake Wars patch.
- Power sucking vampire
- I still sometimes get afraid in the dark :(
- Yay internet tax ban
- Daddy why do trees change colors?
Shack Giveaway: Mighty Switch Force (3DS)
Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack preview
Alan Wake 2 would be 'much quicker' than first game, says Remedy
Darksiders 2 releases June 26, pre-order bonuses announced
PlayStation Home getting avatar 'fighting' game
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So I came to work this morning, and was met at the door by a girl from the office, lets call her Sugar Tits (Sugar covered tits…. uhm). I’ve had kind of a puppy dog crush on her for several months now (nice tits, great ass and lips that just scream “fuck me, and fuck me hard!â€Â) so naturally I turned on the old charm, smiled my colgate award winning smile and said hello. Then I noticed she was crying. Like the gentleman I always am, I asked her what was wrong, and she told me. Looking back, I’m surprised she told me at all, all our previous conversations had usually ended with me drooling down her cleavage mumbling something incoherent, but I guess she thought we shared a special bond or some shit…
Well prepare yourselves, she told me the manager actually fucking fingered her in the copyroom while she was filling the copier! I couldn’t believe what I was hearing! First of all, if anyone should get to finger her, it should be me (been working hard for ages to land that particular piece of ass), second of all you have to picture this guy. He’s about 45, consists mostly of lard and has what seems like permanent sweat beads dotting his forehead. Top all of this off with a nice little Hitler mustache that has a tendency to attract several kinds of food…. Nice.
At this point I had a flash of him sitting contently in his ugly ergonomic chair sniffing his fingers, with a disgusting little grin on his face. And Sugar Tits kept looking at me as if she was expecting me to do something. So I thought… WTF, if my wit and extraordinary saliva control hasn’t won her over yet, maybe a knight in shining armor stunt will.
So I pumped up my chest and told her I would take care of it and bullshitted my way through some womens equality in the workplace shit.
Set with resolution to tell the manager where he should stick his fingers next time, I went to his office. Without knocking I pushed the door open, ready to give him a piece of my mind, acutely aware that Sugar Tits had followed in my wake of destruction.
And… he wasn’t there. I turned around and Sugar Tits was inclining her tear soaked face towards the copyroom, the bastard was still in there. I pumped up my chest once again, displaying my manly frame for all to see and marched towards the buzzing sounds of copiers and printers.
As I came to the door the manager turned and looked first at me, then at Sugar Tits.
And odd look passed over his face and he told me to shut the door, this seemed like a private conversation. I turned, smiled warmly at Sugar Tits and closed the door. Within seconds I heard the sound of metal hitting the floor. Then I felt his hand on my hip.
My first reaction was to elbow the freak, but when I tried to move my arm, nothing happened. The hand slid from my hip down the front of my pants to my crotch. It squeezed lightly. I felt myself harden instantly. Betrayed by my own body parts I croaked “WTF are you doing?â€Â. He answered by turning me around, opening my pants and exposing my swelling package. He looked at me with lust in his eyes and said “I advocate equal rights in the workplaceâ€Â.
My thoughts became a blur of anxiety and loathing mixed with anticipation and lust. He went down on his knees and closed his mouth around my pulsating member. Within seconds of his tongue touching my skin I was near bursting. He ran his hand up my butt cheek and gently but firmly stuck his finger up my ass. I came harder than I’ve ever come before.
Hmmm… what can I say? I must love the cock.
http://shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=15451738
I have been at school.
So i need decent speakers...on sort of a tight budget for a Rega P1 turntable...and I have no idea what I have/ need/ should have/ should need. I have no amp. I have no reciever. Active monitor? I know nothing, please enlighten me to this techniolgy I am so lacking.
This is my plea. THANK YOU
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fav line from last Monday's..... "...but I feel like my junk is hanging out there for the whole world to see."
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http://www.theonion.com/content/video/ninja_parade_slips_through_town?&utm_source=digg_1
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Seeing as there are enough games and other things either out or coming out to last about 9 months, what are you spending your hard earned cash on? And what will fall to the side?
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Also, next week's episode is halfway through the season?!?!
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So I got GH3 (w00p) and my guitar is doing something really annoying.
Any time I press down the green and red buttons at the same time and strum, it briefly flashes the yellow button, like I pressed that too. This sucks, because it means that any long chord is immediately cut off, and I'm constantly losing my streaks because of this sh!t.
I thought maybe the buttons were just sticky, but that doesn't seem to be the case. If I press the buttons it only shows that I pressed the two...it's not until I strum that it flashes the yellow.
Is my shiny new wireless guitar f!cked? :(
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on a scale of 1 to 100, please rate (from what you've played)
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"Just a reminder, CENTCOM requires that weapons be in condition four while trick-or-treating".
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So my computer has a USB Wireless receiver to grab internet from my willing neighbor. Can I use my router to route that connection to my Xbox or does the router have to have a direction connection to it from the wall? This will save me lots of time and energy.! Thanks guys!
I've decided to switch to gmail IMAP for my future email needs. If I want to transfer all my old mail from thunderbird to gmail, whats the best way of doing this? If I import my mail into a thunderbird client setup for IMAP, will it update automatically on the server?
Thanks!
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1) Pick up a chicken
2) Run with chicken through map
3) Get through to objective without throwing chicken / letting chicken die.
Sadly you can't put the chicken down without killing it.
Sure I remember a Quake3Arena mod that did ran along those lines too.. ;)
Maximum KFC
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I recently purchased a mainstream brand computer from a mainstream/warehouse store! I know, I know... I should burn in hell. Let's move past that, shall we?
My new computer, which is an HP Media Center m8120n was pretty cheap, considering the build/components:
Intel Core 2 Quad Processor 6600
3 Gigs PC2-5300 DDR2 SDRAM
Nvidia GeForce 7350 LE Vid Card
Vista Home Premium
hardrive, wireless LAN card, Modem, blah blah blah!
however, YOU guys will notice that my vid card sucks ass, in a major way. Between the components listed above the computer came with a 480 watt power supply.
I would like to do a major video card upgrade without having to swap out power supplies... and I was leaning towardsa n 8600GT (or something similiar), or something within that price range. Please keep in mind that I am married with two kids and have grown into a miserable cheap bastard.
So, great SHACK, what say you?!?!
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So, I decided to go to RadioShack and buy a soddering iron.
Then, I decided that it would probably be a good idea to learn to desodder while I was at it, both to save on materials and because it's a good thing to know.
So now I'm buying a soddering iron, desodderer and some sodder.
Well, crap, I also need something to sodder, so I need to get a blank board and something to go on it, plus I need a multimeter to check for continuity and signal strength.
I start looking through RadioShack's bins (we have one locally that still remembers its roots and doesn't only sell Cell Phones) and...ugh.
Physics 2 isn't until next semester, so I haven't dealt with this stuff for over a decade (what little we really did in HS), so...dumb question:
What site can I go to to give me an introduction to electronics? I'm thinking of setting up something simple like like a battery to a switch and a small LED or some such. But resistors, capacitors, little bug chips...so many pieces that the lego-builder in me is just drooling over. Where do I start?
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Give yourself unlimited amounts of Nanosuit energy when using SPEED (so your energy level never drops). Then give yourself 3x the amount of speed! You hit about 120mph in 2 seconds.
Obviously, this changes the game completely. You feel like that super hero "The Flash". Or that kid from "Incredibles". I'm sure there's a way to make yourself walk on water, too, I just haven't looked for it.
You can run at near-vertical rock walls and run right up them.
You can ramp off of rocks and fly 80 yards or more.
You can grab a soldier, launch yourself off a rock and throw him hundreds of feet.
And the best part is, you still take damage from falling, so you get some spectacular (and funny) deaths.
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http://kotaku.com/gaming/crysis/crysis-dx10-stuff-so-works-in-xp-316543.php
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Only criticisms is that the difficulty ramps up slowly and that it's probably more evolutionary than revolutionary. The fidelity of everything really does make it seem like something more substantial than the previous games though (it really does feel like playing a Pixar film), and it's far and away the best of the series that I've played.
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So I popped in Wolfenstein 3D and Star Control II tonight, only to be greeted with tinny mono sound. Huh? I knew for a fact both of those games were equipped with stereo. So what was up? This was up:
http://www.oldskool.org/guides/oldonnew/sound
The Sound Blaster 16 is backward compatible with earlier versions of the Sound Blaster, with one exception--the on-board mixer. The Sound Blaster 16 improved the on-board mixer of the Sound Blaster Pro, giving it finer control over volume levels and automatic gain control. What they forgot to include was the filtering system, which had two functions: A high-pass filter that muted the sound, and a stereo/mono filter that controlled whether or not the output of the card was mono or stereo. To do stereo sound, the Sound Blaster Pro would initialize a 44100Hz digitized output stream, then flip the stereo/mono filter bit, which converted the output stream into 22050Hz stereo. Without this filter, modern sound cards initialize the 44100Hz mono stream okay, but then do nothing when the stereo/mono filter bit is flipped--because it doesn't exist. So you're left with mono sound. There is no way to fix this problem without switching to a sound card that says it is explicitly Sound Blaster Pro compatible.
Unfortunately, Sound Blaster Pros aren't nearly as common on eBay as Sound Blaster 16s. :(
*looks around meaningfully*
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http://uk.tv.ign.com/articles/831/831410p1.html
I saw this segment on Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe where this guy basically said stuff like this was gonna happen a lot more - the importing and converting of overseas comedy on a whole since comedy was dying in the US. That must be true if something as cult as spaced is being remade.
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they should have a section just for the "real" DS games :p
/vent
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QepgKVOVfZ8
lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UDoIBgiUAQ
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Supposedly, there is no stereo sound being output in the game. When you switch it to stereo or Pro Logic II, it still plays mono channel. Can anyone confirm this? If so, that would be a horrible issue, expecially since the Wii can't be updated/patched.
If you were thinking about buying it, just a heads up.
god i'm such a negative nancy >:(
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http://andiamnotlying.com/2007/using-mcdonalds-as-pizza-toppings-this-cannot-have-happened-above-the-mason-dixon-line/
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http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/10/29/amd_hd_3800_to_support_dx_10/
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I first posted about it just over 2 years ago ( http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=10920029 ). Felicia and I saw a screening of it tonight, and it is INDEED awesome. Tons of hilarious moments. There were many expected bee jokes, but there were also a ton I didn't see coming. It's really worth seeing.
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http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/9776/youtubene3.jpg
Who the fuck makes an account name like this? Probably a bad question.
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NOV 20TH WHERE ARE YOU!!!??!?!?!
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doh!
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