Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Nov 14, 2007 6:00pm PSTOk... guess I'll have to pick up Mario Galaxy or something after reading Remo have a total nerdgasm.
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- Dude, robot guitar
- OJ heading to trial
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Holy fuck was that painful. I mean, I totally "get" why it was good 10 years ago. Unfortunately, I cannot ignore what I know about current games, namely HL2 + Episodes, to just sit down and enjoy what it did well.
Overall, I think the biggest gameplay... "feature" that Valve has really nailed with HL2 is the pacing. The lack of such in the first one only makes the excellent pacing in the HL2 games stand out. In HL1, sometimes I'd play for literally hours only to be rewarded with about 15 seconds of story doled out by some nameless NPC. Fuck, I think there's more exposition from the Gman @ the end than from the entire rest of the game.
I didn't hate Xen as much as I was prepared to, given people's general attitude for it. And the Nihilanth fight would have been great were it not for the the super annoying "jump back on the shitty tramp-o-things into the impossible-to-target teleporter on the ceiling that sometimes doesn't even teleport you for shits 'n' giggles and whoops you missed the water on your way back down, crash you're dead" part.
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When you encounter an annoying shithead on the server, go into the console and type "status." Get the offending players' SteamID and name.
Also, pix + divx of asshattery (by taking screenshots or recording a demo) would help.
To record a demo bring down the console and type "record DEMONAME." Then "stop DEMONAME" to stop the recording.
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YOU DID WELL
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http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dragon_ball_tournament_saga/news/1688646/
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1. The grenade puzzle: I did it with a blast from the gravity gun! Looked down and primary fire and the floor bounced me up. Would love to see more gravity gun bounce puzzles
2. The little forest bit was BRILLIANT, it had the perfect feel as you walk in and it got darker and quieter but looking up the HDR made the leaves against the sky look great. It would be fantastic to have an extended time in a forest, i think even combat would work in there.
I got a reply from a Chet Falisk
q{Thanks for the email.
We do not allow cheaters. We matching you against our steam subscriber list and you will be banned for cheating in the grenade puzzle.
Thank you}q
bahahaha :)
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Full version performance Vs. Demo performance
How are your systems fairing, is the full version more or less the same or did the demo run better?
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They don't make things like they used to..add to that the fact that you don't get what you pay for these days and it makes for one very frustrated consumer.
sigh
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IP: 68.57.107.245:28960
Pass: boxcar
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Anyway, I'm looking around for a new case. The problem is, my desk can only accomodate an 18"-tall case... can anybody recommend a good, affordable one that can be kept cool, with an adequate number of fans?
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Somehow they've managed to make a fun story and even better characters each time around, all put together with really incredible animation. Every movie I've seen of theirs has become a favorite and I really hope it continues.
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The people who had shackmessaged me should check their email. I've added you guys to WE and you have been assigned a buddy as well. There were a few users who had registered on the site and entered their address before the White Elephant registration started who had forgotten/did not know that they had to check that Participate checkbox. I've added you guys (~6) in as well and you have a shackmessage about it too. Sucks about the confusion.. I'll make sure it doesn't happen again next year.
So, 397 people enrolled. Please take this opportunity to list what sorta stuff you really dislike... or like. or whatever you want to say to your WE buddy who might be reading.
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I have been psyched about Assassin's Creed for a while now, but I fucked up and read what the shack had to say about it, now I'm torn. I want to run out and get it right now, but I fear disappointment :(
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http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_543~122041,00.html
MD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the introduction and immediate availability of the ATI Radeon™ HD 3800 Series of graphics processing units (GPU). As the world’s first series of graphics processors to deliver Microsoft’s DirectX® 10.1 support, 55nm process technology and tri and quad multi-GPU support with ATI CrossFireX™, the ATI Radeon HD 3800 series ushers in a new era of enthusiast gaming performance at mainstream price points. The ATI Radeon HD 3800 series will be introduced in two variants at launch, from US $179 MSRP, the ATI Radeon™ HD 3850 with 256MB of GDDR3 memory and from US $219 MSRP, the ATI Radeon™ HD 3870 with 512MB GDDR4 memory. The launch of the ATI Radeon HD 3800 series redefines the enthusiast segment and puts high performance gaming in reach of more users than ever before. This innovative new series of graphics products also represent the first step in the launch of AMD’s upcoming enthusiast platform codenamed “Spider.â€Â
I'd love to see some benches now :P
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I hate you because you run a sweat shop style enterprise
I hate you because your evil influence is spreading to other places
I hate you because....EA DOWNLOAD MANAGER WILL NOT FUCKING LET ME PLAY CRYSIS.
I knew I should have bought it at a store...but I needed something to motivate me while I finished a project up....now, I'm really pissed.
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Is it all Crysis? CoD 4?
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As much as I enjoy playing on them, what is the deal with the time limit matches? I think it's set to 30 mins, so that no matter what, no matter how awesome the current game is, no matter how your team got beat back to your last point, and miraculously, bloodied and beaten, your team slowly pushes the oppressors back inch by gruesome inch, when finally, on the brink of your enemy's complete annihilation, it gets STOLEN FROM UNDER YOUR NOSE BY A GODDAMN MAP CHANGE!
No warning.
No nothing.
Just BAM: scoreboard in your face. So many fantastic games get completely ruined by this, and I don't understand why the servers are setup this way. I could understand pubs, but really, on these where mostly us local shackers play, I like when a match gets drawn out and the lines move back and forth. Then your victory (or defeat) is that much more satisfying (or depressing) in the end.
There was I played on a few weeks ago, here's the IP if you want to check it out: 64.182.244.144:27015 They have the timelimit set to "no time limit" but the map changes when one team reaches 3 points. So yeah, on a map like DustBowl, you may be on that map for a while, or it might go licitly split. Either way, I'd much rather spend a long time on some awesome dustbowl games then have the map change right as I'm about to deliver the death blow to the other team.
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http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/0311_200_orgasms.shtml
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So, HI!
I just found the shirt I took off yesterday morning stuffed in the corner. I am fairly positive that is not my spooge on it, considering I haven't had sex in 4 days.
Suggestions on next action? I am trying to be calm until she awakes.
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Disconnect: Kicked by console
What do I suck that much? :(
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Countdown to people demanding a weighted companion cube mobile for baby in 3...2...1...
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18% slower, same card, same settings.
Max FPS under Vista (44) was 1 fps slower than the avg for XP which is 45.
(XP's max FPS was 55)
8800GT, 1152x864, no AA, no AF, all high detail.
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http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/zeropunctuation/2633-Zero-Punctuation-Clive-Barker-s-Jericho
LOL
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blol @ the "breakthrough" they've "been waiting for" was completely up to them - namely, moving the price point a bit closer to reality.
http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/15/sonys-ps3-sales-in-us-more-than-double-since-price-cut/
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http://www.easyscreens.info/?v=1280
http://www.easyscreens.info/?v=1281
http://www.easyscreens.info/?v=1282
if you're wondering when this breakout occured, it was during season 3 episode 26. what a slut.
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I'm finally caching up with EP7 from last week, who the fuck wrote this? The poor loser needs to get fucking laid.
I've distinctively loved S1, found S2 pretty good but slowly getting worse and now this episode, I mean Dexter is just not Dexter at ALL at this point yes I realise that's the point but I don't feel it's in a remotely believable way
writing that letter to the press about people he killed?
being passionate about that annoying english woman - and totally wanting sex, something he barely understood in s1
setting up doakes, fucking with an innocent man?
Oh man - I heard Season 1 was based on a book, Season 2 however was much more free roaming for your normal TV writers to play with and play they have, it reeks of hollywood, you find something fresh and they start to fiddle and fuck with it.
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It utterly fucking sucks giant arse at Alt-Tabbing efficiently. Takes ages for it to get to desktop, and get the game back once you jump back into it again.
Crysis does this perfectly. You hit Alt-Tab and you're looking at windows almost immediately. Why the fuck can't Valve do it on an engine that is years old?
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My mum wants to get one for my younger brother for Christmas. I had no idea they were actually still hard to get hold of. The inflated prices on Amazon and Play are hilarious.
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