Morning Discussion
by Jeff "geedeck" Gondek, Nov 19, 2007 4:57am PSTShould be a short but busy week around here for everyone. If you haven't checked it out, there's a fresh Shackcast for you to sink your teeth into. Plus Faylor brings this week's NA Release List, letting you be more intimate with your wallet's mangling. I myself will be sitting around a Best Buy tonight, awaiting another morsel from the Harmonix feeding tube. Anyone else?
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
Resident Evil: Chronicles HD Collection coming in June
Sony patent would interrupt gameplay to display ad
Weekend Confirmed 114 - Diablo 3, Max Payne 3, Lost Planet 3
New Zone of the Enders project underway
Carmageddon ploughing into GOG
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Awesome interviews with the Valve guys on Portal, TF2, EP2, and everything else.. here's my favorite question, in the TF2 interview with Robin Walker..
GFW: Once upon a time, Team Fortress 2 looked like what Battlefield became. You later went the other way, opting for simplicity over the super-complexity of today's top team-based shooters.
Robin Walker: What we found as we worked on TF2 over the years and went through all these iterations is that depth doesn't demand increased complexity. TF2 is a sucker punch - it only looks simple. We're already seeing large-scale skill differences. Right now, we know the nuances. When the Shack group, who are incredibly hardcore FPS gamers, challenged out team, we totally crushed the living crap out of them.
LOL SHACK SUCKS!!!!
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do you say "same difference" or "no difference" ?
The context would be someone pointing out an alternative or option that is essentially just rephrasing an original option. I grew up hearing "no difference" then moved to the west coast where everyone says "same difference". To me, same difference doesn't even make sense.
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Then as I left for work she goes, "I can't believe you didn't make me scrambled eggs", and I said, "I can't believe you didn't rub my balls"
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in the beginning, I was only a soldier and couldn't really be any other class as I sucked royally at that game.
Now I find myself almost always as a medic or an engineer ... I love the support classes.
I want to do more as a spy... anybody have any tips for being a spy? i got a couple kills last night, but it seems that the other team always knows when I'm cloaked as them because they're always shooting at me. plz how to be blending in kthx.
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No, not Duke Nukem Forever coming NEXT WEEK in secret shipment! style rumors, but rumors of things that you can do in games... that you just can't.
Maybe it was just my neighborhood and school, but I seem to recall the NES days being rife with crazy claims that hitting such and such a button at such and such a time would cause something amazing to happen, even if it was entirely ridiculous--not that any of us could tell at the time. For instance, I remember a kid in grade school trying to convince me that in the original Zelda there was a way to equip the Triforce once you had the full thing built, and you could do a trick to equip it like any other item and use it to shoot fireballs at enemies. I always asked him to show me and of course he never did.
Additionally, there was the "YOU CAN PLAY AS SPLINTER IN TMNT AND HE'S INVINCIBLE!" claims too, but of course the game was so freaking hard that the moves you needed to pull to "get him" were inconceivable. It didn't stop us from trying.
AITOO or did other VG-generation kids go through this too? Are there any real "whooper" rumors you've been sitting on since your game-glory days?
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http://www.amazon.com/Emerilware-Cast-Iron-Inch-Skillet/dp/B000JZZIL2
Also, any suggestions on decent cast iron skillets?
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http://www.theonion.com/content/video/proposed_classified_bill_will
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So the guy who wrote the script for this game, did he get paid per use of fuck? Because it sure seems like that.
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This week I'm going to pick up an iPhone or a 360. I knew which one I was going with until about 20 minutes ago and now I can't decide. I have till Wednesday to figure it out. If it were any of you, and you didn't have either, which would you go with?
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http://amazon.com/gp/product/B000FI73MA/re
I'm kind of eh on eBooks, but with the feature list, it looks like this could be the thing that finally catches on.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2Mc8VQ_IkM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DudjNvnsfKE
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His doctors looked over the MRI reports again and found a second tumor on his brain, so they're pushing his surgery up to Wednesday. Since they found a second spot they figure that it's probably malignant and not benign, so that's why they're rushing the surgery.
Talk about a shitty situation. I spent yesterday with him and he was pretty tired most of the day. I really want to go see him again tomorrow, but I don't want it to look like I'm stopping by to say goodbye or anything, so I'm not sure how to approach it.
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I can totally see the repetitive combat of Uncharted making me drop this game after 2-3h. What was said in the latest shackcast really gives me the impression this game is not for me. Which is a shame since the really high production values and Gears + Tomb Raider gameplay seems appealing in principle. Same for Assassin's Creed. It looks interesting, but the combat and stealth mechanics seem so incredibly dumb in the video reviews I've seen. Just finished reading the Mass Effect reviews. Again, it seems like the combat is either super boring and repetitive or frustratingly hard in a just-want-to-give-up fashion.
Damn! It seems like three games full of great ideas and atmosphere have been significantly lessened by boring / frustrating combat. This seems to be so often the case. I really wish we would be at the point where games don't need to contain countless hours of combat to function or sell.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLpROhIg9eA
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its a term a friend of mine and I coined about 8 years ago. we use it all the time, and it's spread throughout our other friends, acquaintances, and ex's. it describes that anxiety you feel when you get dumped, or see your woman cheating on you, or whatever. tight stomach. lack of appetite. like a knife or two through your gut/chest.
"it's been three weeks since megan and i broke up, and i still have serious knives. wtf!"
"dude, jack saw his wife grinding some random guy at that club last night, and you could see he got knives just by the look on his face."
"your girlfriend is giving you knives when she meets her old boyfriend at the coffee shop."
with all the emo girl trouble posts lately, i thought i'd throw it up the old shack flag pole and see if y'all smoke it. and yes i have knives right now :[
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I'd fuck the shit out of Veronica Mars
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There is nothing more satisfying than walking up behind a formation of 8 or so guards, backstabbing two before the other 6 know what is happening then killing 5 more through a series of throws and counter moves and finally seeing the final guy realize he is alone and start to run. That final running jump back stab makes the game totally worth it.
Great game, amazingly cool art and graphic level. It is pretty repetitive, but in small chunks its fun.
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I got to play Resistance: Fall of Man and was pleasantly surprised to find it actually a ton of fun, I know its just a shooter with more aliens, but thus far (have not beat it yet) the fire fights are fun and same with the "boss battles". You do fight a lot of "humanoid" aliens ,but those are personally more engaging.
I know, a ground breaking story.
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I've been extremely busy with work lately so I haven't had much time to work on shackbrackets that much. This weekend, however, I had a few minutes and I put together a quick stats page for college football here: http://shackbrackets.com/stats.php
Can you guys think of any stats that you might think might be interesting or more stats that you'd like to see? Let me know and I'll add them! Thanks!
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I am heading to the store in like an hour to (hopefully) purchase COD4 and Crysis, one for the multiplayer bad-assery that will surely ensue (as well as what I'm hearing is a fun SP experience) and the other for a beautiful Single Player game. And I might try to score a WII zapper or two and Ghost Squad tomorrow. I still need to finish Ep 2 and play more TF2!!!! AAARGH TOO MANY GAMES!
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