Sunday Chatty: Daylight Saving Edition
by Chris Faylor, Nov 04, 2007 7:53am PSTOn this fine Sunday morning, I present a new chatty to the Shack collective. If you're in one of the many locales that observes Daylight Saving Time or Summer Time, don't forget to set your clocks an hour back. Please to not be forgetting about the video game charity goodness of Child's Play either. As Remo puts it, "Give to Child's Play or I will punch you in the face and then you will be in a hospital and you won't have any video games to play because not enough people donated. Jerk."
Kinect for Xbox One coming to PC
Xbox One does not provide any built-in DVR capabilities
Xbox One increases friends lists to 1,000
Xbox One achievements dynamic, not limited to single games
Battlefield 4 launching October 29; confirmed for Xbox One and PS4
Xbox One not backwards compatible with 360 games
Xbox One doesn't require always-on connection, but mandatory installs tied to accounts



Quick question: Rat hunting worth while for phat l00tz and profits?
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I bought Tony Hawk Project 8 the other day and every once in a while it will knock the system into standby mode. Has anyone else had this problem?
They system is well ventilated.
Any ideas?
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Guess which one!
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http://www.shacknews.com/extras/remo/jamsessionscontest/pegglesong.mp3
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This is what I would guess a pine tree air freshener would taste like. : (
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I am looking to replace my 27in Westy 720p LCD with something with a little more pizazz. I purchased today an Optima HD70 720p Front Projector and tried it out on my wall and it appears to look awesome. An 80"+ screen for $600 is exactly the type of budget blowout on my setup I was looking for.
A problem I am having though is that I've never owned a front projector though so I'm not quite sure I've made the right decision. I'm not a home theatre nut in a dark basement... this is replacing the living room TV and so ambient light will occur.. often. Most people in the know would scoff at this idea.. but what do you think?
Otherwise I can get a 50" DLP for like $800... but it doesn't seem as cool.
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Ok, the game's got chickens in it, and they're buggier than all getout. In a really funny way, though. Here's some fun things to try:
Put the chickens on the water from off of the dock. Use the right-click, and don't throw them, or they'll die.
http://carrion.luggage.googlepages.com/putoneinthedeepend.avi
Happy as a little clam in there.
http://carrion.luggage.googlepages.com/chickeninthesea.avi
You can see the 1st one I sunk just to the right of the one I'm placing now.
http://carrion.luggage.googlepages.com/putsecondinthesea.avi
Now, I wanted to try this in really deep water, so I grabbed my bird, placed one in the boat, and went and got another, and saw this:
http://carrion.luggage.googlepages.com/upupandaway.avi
After I put the second in the boat, he took right off.
http://carrion.luggage.googlepages.com/wtfchickens.avi
I cannot wait for this game to actually ship!
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Hello all, if you have already registered on the website, please visit http://sikander.org/etc/shack/shackapp/ again and enroll in White Elephant 2007. You can now choose:
1) Ship Internationally
2) NWS
I've set the post count requirement at 100 posts. I think that is fair and wouldn't exclude anyone who has been on this site long enough to consider participating. If there are any problems, please let me know by shackmsg or reply. Everyone who already registered on the site will also be receiving a shack message about this. I'm planning to match people for WE this coming weekend. The plan is to let everyone know who their WE buddy is by 11th of November.
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Is that true? I had no idea they still supported the NES! 24 years of support??! That's pretty goshdarned good if so.
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I've finally figured it out- sparkly draws xkcd. It's the only explanation.
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I know you could use normal fly spray, but that shit leaves a residue and buggers up the window clear-i-ness.
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That being said, this is such a great game. I can't stop playing the thing. It feels like the things that made Fallout such a great game are present in this one. The dialogue, the storyline, the little details and moments.
Spoilers ahead, don't read if you haven't played the game:
I finally get to Hollywood where there is some surreal music playing in the background. I pass by a restaurant, only to be confronted by someone from my character's past life where she thought he went missing or was dead. Obviously she tries to help my character out and call some friends but I end up having to bite her to prevent anyone knowing what really happened. It's such a small scene, but for some reason the combination of the whole situation, what my character has been through up to that point, and the music made the whole thing kind of memorable really.
It's just a well crafted game that is brought down by some bad bugs. I wish Troika was still around to fix the problems and really make the game as perfect as it could have been.
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I haven't had tv since coming to Olvera (three weeks) and I don't miss at all. But when i have TV available, i end watching the most banal crap till 1 or 2 in the morning, or eating my dinner in front of a pointless tv show instead of having it outside like i do here.
Its like a mild drug, isn't it? I'm fine without it, but when its there, its hard to resist :(
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http://www.gorillaz.com/item.php?N=tiles&URL=tiles
a Mahjong-ish tile game that is for one reason or another on the Gorillaz site.
http://solrflare.shackspace.com/cake.jpg
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I heard a "new" song on the radio the other day. i don't know it it is new since this is the first time I listen to the radio in about 6 months. It was alternative rock, souhnds a lot like Arcade Fire/ Fallout boy but not exactly. In the chorus it says "its the end of the world." At least I think. (and no, its not the REM song nore a cove its somethning i haven't heard before.)
Any ideas?
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Although i didn't take it, I found one! This is from the Galapagos, I cropped myself out of the pic(I'm about 2 feet away from it)
Anyone for a caption?
http://picasaweb.google.com/filthysock/IhasA/photo?authkey=Mr5W1bfs6cI#5129291654603197474
or is now very uncool?
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what are you fellas up to?
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Here is a Hellgate skill tree website to create your build outside of the game. Very practical if you want to plan what you want to be.
http://hellgate.ingame.de/skilltree/blademaster/?lang=en
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So far I have zero people to trade with. <sniff>
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=15483139
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http://www.foxhawk.com/Files/Images/wootgate.png
(Quest tracker is photochopped out in the bottom right)
Now who wants to start a nightmare elite hardcore character?
To those not in the know, nightmare mode adds difficulty, elite mode adds difficulty, and hardcore adds difficulty plus the penalty of permanent death. yikes
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I want Gary Lineker around to announce my life's proceedings.
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