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by Steve Gibson, Oct 31, 2007 6:00pm PDTSo IMAP showed up on my gmail today and I figure it's about time I finally moved over to that stuff. Given that I tend to do email from a few different locations and all. I of course still strongly endorse popfile as a super nifty filtering software but it's nice to let gmail take the first pass on that.
- Please make this happen soon
- How about a do not track list
- Hackers love Ron Paul
- I cant bring myself to make a lolcat reference :(
- Wal-Mart is going to carry the $199 PC
this chick was at our halloween party today
http://dopefish.shackspace.com/misc/starwarschick.jpg
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http://www.macrumors.com/2007/11/01/apple-updates-macbooks-to-santa-rosa-gma-x3100/
I was looking forward to them being aluminium :(
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The 8800 GTS "2.0" revision is out in a week or 2 as is the new ATI 3800 (?) but still nothing on the ultra high end front.
Cevat Yerli from Crytek has said in multiple interviews to wait for an 'uber' card in mid-Nov - I'm wondering if we're going to see something which kicks ass and is still somewhat affordable in the next few weeks.
(yes, I know the 8800GT is awesome) but if that's a 230$ card, just what will the 340$ card be? - I'm curious.
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http://xs221.xs.to/xs221/07444/IMG_1177.JPG
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Is there a www.robotvacuumreviews.com maybe?
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Intarwebs alerted!
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LoL times here :)
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Checking out SA forums while the servers are being patched, and I found out what those three little symbols mean in the lower right.
(Stolen from SA Video Games Forum)
The mini-game is actually kill-based. There are three components:
a damage type, physical, fire, spectral, critical strikes are even possible
a mob type, demons, undead, beasts, spectrals etc.
an item type, mods, armors, weapons, enhanced(greens), etc.
When you log in, the server generates a new set of these conditions, they are represented by little icons on the lower right hand of the screen with numbers in them. As you deal damage of the given type, kill monsters with the same type, and find items of the same type the number goes down.
Once you have completed everything (made the numbers disappear) the mob you kill next drops an item for you guaranteed.
The damage types are mainly self-explanatory, your weapon has an icon next to the damage it does, match it!
The mob types are simple, the mobs you fight have icons next to their names.
The items are the same way.
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My wife and I finally found an apartment in Portland and are now full-blown Oregonisms*. Big thanks to Degenerate and filtersweep for their valuable insight into the ungodly myriad of Portland neighborhoods. We should be taking possession tomorrow, at which time a picture of the jaw-dropping view from the balcony will follow.
I guess I need to learn how to brew beer now to fit in?
* My wife coined the term "Oregonism" and has vowed to check my shack history to make sure I'm properly assigning credit. Love you, sweetie!
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The reason I ask such a foolish question, sure to get me many smart ass responses? I'm going on vacation next week with friends to Hilton Head. They are the educated types, unlike myself, and want to set aside an hour of the 24 hour drinking day to reading.
I'm considering bringing a laptop and just reading the Shack for an hour a day.
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Until the server is back up and guilds are in, let's get a list going.
Edit yourselves in here:
http://www.shackmatches.com/games/
I'm also working on getting a TS server up.
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For those that got it free or paid, you should check your email and see if your download link came!
Unzipping now to give it a listen...
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I took a camera out with me as I walked my boys around this evening. It seemed to be a low turnout than before. A lot less homes seemed to be in the "Halloween Spirit" but there was no shortage of treaters. We asked other families that try to count how many treaters they get, and they estimated about 600.
http://www.easyscreens.info/?v=1097 Some of the candy stash, the bags that didn't fit in the pantry.
http://www.easyscreens.info/?v=1098 My kids in Costume
http://www.easyscreens.info/?v=1099 Not even dark and the lines have started
http://www.easyscreens.info/?v=1100 this dude is cooking hotdogs for the crowd
http://www.easyscreens.info/?v=1101 the line of cars and people entering my neighborhood
http://www.easyscreens.info/?v=1102 makeshift parking lots sprout up
http://www.easyscreens.info/?v=1103 A Halloween float? They passed out candy
http://www.easyscreens.info/?v=1104 One of the hayrides that will take you around the 'hood
http://www.easyscreens.info/?v=1105 Another family was dressed up as Shrek, my son took a pic with them.
http://www.easyscreens.info/?v=1106 My kids carved their own pumpkins this year, of of them designed his own too :)
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So 2 weeks ago a lady hits my parked car with her truck. No big deal, she left all her info and a note apologizing. So we're dealing with farmers trying to get this repaired and now they're saying since she was using her truck for work they will most likely end up declining her claim and fucking me over.
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I do two runs with an awesome medic as a heavy and cap twice on 2fort2. I played a little D after the 2nd cap and get killed and then what happens? I get switched. Then a stalemate for the next 20 minutes. Poor romulan is backing me being an awesome medic even though he doesn't have a mic and dmason is sticking it in him. The teamwork was pretty sub par but it was just stalemate city.
W/o atb, it would have been wham bam, thank you mam and we would have moved on.
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On 30 October 2007, it was announced that Fox would commission a pilot for an American version of Spaced. Variety reported that it was unclear how Pegg and Wright will be involved, but that they may be advisors to the serie11]; however, Wright later confirmed via his MySpace blog that neither he nor Pegg were at any point approached regarding "McSpaced" and will have no involvement.[12] Wright expressed that he was upset that "they would a) never bother to get in touch but still b) splash me and Simon's names all over the trade announcements and infer that we're involved in the same way Ricky & Steve were with The Office."]/
last paragraph here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced#Future
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It even has the most hilariously awful achievements. "Win 15 consecutive Ranked songs online using a standard controller - 5 points". LOL fuck you.
What a horrible horrible disappointment. :(
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Is there a guy somewhere that IDs your stuff for free like Cain in D2?
Should I be taking apart items for spare parts, or just vendor everything and buy what I need?
Any advice for stat points? (engineer)
THX
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Last time I asked for writing advice I got a lot of promising leads but very few deliverables - YOU FUCKERS LET ME DOWN. However, because I love you, like a retarded paraplegic step-sister who I keep in a box under my bed and grudge fuck for sadistic pleasure, I am offering you a second chance.
I'm participating in NaNoWriMo as a last gasp attempt that either makes or breaks my return to writing. So far, so good. I'm one day in and one chapter up. If you're interested to read, here's a brief synopsis of the novel -
Set in the near future in the UK, the novel deals with a situation of heightened racial tension that eventually spills over into powderkeg situation involving terrorism, hate crimes and political opportunism. The story is told from multiple perspectives and delivers on all sides of all the issues as it reaches a devastating climax.
If that interests you in the slightest, either head over to my blog and comment -
http://www.christopher-morgan.co.uk/newblog/
or download here: http://www.christopher-morgan.co.uk/files/Prologue.doc
and comment in this thread.
I wrote this in 1.5 hrs this afternoon, no revision after the fact, obviously fact-checking and so on will come later, this is my first run. It's my first time putting words on paper in any meaningful sense in 2 years or so. I say this not for pity, but I guess for a measure of leniancy when offering opinions.
TIA Shack.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/highschool/news/story?id=3088759&lpos=spotlight&lid=tab1pos1
team scores 72 points in the first quarter of a HS football game.
http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/8508/dscf6066mr8.jpg
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3:30 pm to 5:30 am
I'm pissed that I still don't feel like I covered the topic in enough detail, but it's a suggested 10 pages. I have a feeling if I write more than what I have now it's going to hinder more than help.
fucking hell.
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http://www.gametrailers.com/player/27330.html
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=YEqZkglTVYE
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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3iff716996ae2a7e21c8a3f229c7669739
Looks like it's going to be a no-go and it could have been good. But with the ratings dropping fast this season, I'm not surprised.
*Caprica'D*
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Map comes up.
"Veto! Veto! Veto!"
Everyone else vetoes.
"Who didn't veto?"
"I bet it was that om...no...poo fag."
"om..no...poo, if you didn't veto it then you're a fag."
"Yeah I'm going to kick your ass in the game." etc.
Yeah. I would have never guessed that my name was that difficult to pronounce without leaving out syllables, but this is the second or third time random people have left out the va syllable when trying to address me or call me a fag. Thankfully, my friend jumped on after that match and we played Team Slayer. Except we kept getting complete morons as teammates. One even managed to have a -16 K/D spread. These guys were ranked higher than me! We eventually came across a guy who was a good player and not a complete douche so we partied up. Much ass-whooping ensued. Then another good guy we partied up with last night joined in and there was even more ass-whooping. Great times!
I'm also starting to shy away from social matchmaking since you end up with insanely good players and very bad players (worse than me, and that's bad) all mixed together, and teamwork is checked at the door. I lost count of how many times I've rolled up to people driving a Warthog trying to get a gunner, and they just walk on by like lemmings into the fire. That and even more people tend to act like idiots when using a microphone than in ranked matches. We joined a social game yesterday, only to immediately hear "I walk around my house naked to scare my cat." What? Then you have the guys singing the whole time.
None of this is particularly unique to Halo 3 or Xbox Live but after nearly a decade of online multiplayer gaming I still get annoyed by it. Playing with shackers is usually a godsend by comparison, so I guess I'm thankful for that and the few decent people I've come across so far.
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