Morning Discussion
by Jeff "geedeck" Gondek, Dec 18, 2007 2:09am PSTGood morning Shackers. Christmas is exactly a week away, so if you haven't figured out anything better for your significant other than a Warcraft time card then it's time to get moving. And two time cards is only better if she plays.
Things were busy yesterday in news it seems. Sony consoles have a new firmware available with flashy things and features to play with, and decent images on the next batch of Square games showing up. Possibly the coolest though? Full team play for NBA Live 08. I couldn't care a whit about the game of basketball, but even I would like to try that.
Killzone: Mercenary shoots onto Vita on September 10
Trion Worlds hit with more layoffs, Defiance team impacted
Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault defending Vita next week
Game & Wario was originally going to be pre-installed on Wii U
The Last of Us digital download lets you start playing sooner



new chatty repost
Please reply with a link to your steam profile if you are interested in participating in a Shacknews TF2 Tournament.
- teams would be drafted from all interested participants
- matches would be held on a random shack TF2 server (hey admins - lets talk!)
- double elimination tournament style - so even if you lose once, you can still win!
- Matches to consist of a TBD # of Rounds on a TBD # of Maps (looking for feedback!)
- since timezones are an issue - you'd have be available to play early/late depending if you are east/west coast
- We will even take Europeans and Canadians!
questions/comments/ideas?
I have a new steam community set up to coordinate this effort -
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/ShacknewsTF2
Everyone who posted in the earlier thready, or messaged me - you have been invited to the Steam Community, so check your invites!
Over 80 people have already accepted the invite to the Steam Community!
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http://forums.3drealms.com/vb/showthread.php?t=29639
THIS IS IT
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i've got a microsoft wireless mouse and it seems to crap out a lot.
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So the wife and I caught The Golden Compass this weekend instead of I Am Legend. I must have missed the shackhype on this one because the movie was amazing. It was so good that we left the theater and went to Barnes & Noble to buy two copies of the Trilogy; one for each of us.
If you have passed on the movie because you thought it was a children's movie go check it out. My jaw hit the ground when Iorek Brynison hit the bear king so hard it knocked his lower jaw OFF... no I mean off as in flying away... it was a monster kill..
Books are really good so far as well.
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Yeah, this is late (long story) let it not diminish the awesomeness of peetabix01. Anyway, this dude was actually my WE last year so he gets his own back now! (I still have that Rogue Trooper CD for you man, I'll mail it one day!)
The box showed no outward sign of WE-ness, but I knew from the tracking number that my dude was in Denmark, so this had to be it! http://node.shackspace.com/whiteelephant2007/box.jpg
Sadly I partly shredded the letter by mistake while opening it, but it's still legible: http://node.shackspace.com/whiteelephant2007/letter.jpg
But WTF? ANTHRAX! Oh wait, no, bread mix! Oh wait, I'm alergic! Oh wait, my sister loves baking! Win anyway! There were also a few boxes of spunk. Come on man, I said NWS but you took it too far:
http://node.shackspace.com/whiteelephant2007/spunk.jpg (ok, it's licorice and wine gums)
There were also some awesome games included! I LOVE Bitmap Brothers stuff, so yay for The Chaos Engine on PC. Hexen 2 I now have three copies of, this is fine by me. :D Best of all though MAGIC CARPET 2! I was seriously going to grab this on eBay as part of my retro rig project, so time = saved! Can't wait to play it, what a beauty this was in its day.
http://node.shackspace.com/whiteelephant2007/games.jpg
Also in there was a whiskey sampler (och aye!), Muvo (yay mp3s), salted licorice (uh, I'll be giving them to my finnish friend :D) and a BATMAN RADIO SERIAL! Sounds great. The little bag with black things is rubber ear pieces for those sony fontopia ear buds, I'm ALWAYS losing these, so I lucked out even there. A few other bits of junk (ooh, spare pick for my geetar!).
Last of all, some smutty cheap LESBISK GANG BANG DVD. lol indeed, queued for fappage later. No pix though since I had to use my parent's camera for this. Bravo good sir for delivering on that NWS check box where others would have faltered! Here is everything:
http://node.shackspace.com/whiteelephant2007/swag.jpg
Thanks peetabix01! My WE is complete excellence, totally hits the "one man's junk is another's treasure" criteria, and makes me proud to partake in this fantastic shack tradition for a third year. \o/
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I ask because Ive been using Firefox for what seems like years now and I couldnt imagine having to go back to a closed off browser such as IE. Much love for you Firefox boys! Extensions make browsing so much nicer.
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I've gotten enough non-responses that either I'm not saying the right thing, being interesting enough, or I just need to come up with something that takes less time.
What has worked for you in the past? Any other tips?
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I finally got a new computer that can handle Crysis (Q6600, 8800GT, 3gb ram, etc). However, I did notice that my card seems to be running fairly hot when playing Crysis. Are there any issues to manually setting the fans to run @ 100% while playing? Can I burn out the fans by doing that?
In any event, that game is so amazing looking. I also got Company of Heroes which I've been wanting to try out for a long time.
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i think i'll say fuck it and just go buy a new white dress shirt
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http://hrcweb.hrc.utexas.edu/albums/091207/pages/0011.html
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grouphug finally made their website less shitty.
http://beta.grouphug.us/
Now we can briefly rekindle our love affair with this site before the idiot masses ruin it by posting awesome stories about ourselves and maybe make up some hilarious ones too. I'll start:
http://beta.grouphug.us/confessions/821297054?t=1198029351
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I recommend this one by Phillipe Starck on why he designs: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/197
And this one about animal feet: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/195
Here's a short one about Dean Kamen's robotic prosthetic arm for Iraq war casualties. This is some serious terminator shit: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/82
And the one I posted yesterday, Mathemagic, where a guy beats people operating calculators to finding the answer to three and four digit squares: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/199
I've only watched a small number of the videos on the site but every single one I've watched has been fascinating.
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I suddenly need an invite, anyone send one to me at sarren@gmail.com? I signed up on the site but it seems to take a while.
p.s. it's my junk email account so i don't care about being spammed.
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http://www.esquire.com/features/what-ive-learned/michaeljfox0108
sounds like a pretty down to earth dude
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i'm about try try some in a beef burrito tonight.
reasonable alternative to corn, or am i making a huge mistake?
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I copied it to my Shackspace.
http://mrwolf710.shackspace.com/DukeNukemForeverTeaser.wmv
It's so awesome, I can't stand it.
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view from top story: http://oatmela1.shackspace.com/IMG_0154.JPG
He also had exotic pets, including a bengal cat with green eyes that looked like a leopard
and a "silver" lab.
lab: http://oatmela1.shackspace.com/IMG_0159.JPG
He drove a new jaguar R-type or something. Was a partner at a law firm. He certainly has a nice setup.
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Anyway- some time next week I think I'm going to finally order the iMac I've been lusting after for three months. I'd like to catch up on some gaming over break, once I finish up Deus Ex of course...
I already have The Orange Box sitting in my living room, and I'd like to get two of these three titles:
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
COD4
Bioshock
I've already played through about 90% of COD4's campaign. The only thing that makes it a contender to me is the multiplayer which is fucking awesome.
S.T.A.L.K..fuck it, Stalker and Bioshock apparently have really great and in depth single player campaigns and I'd like to experience those. But the question is, do I go for these titles over COD4, or get COD4 and one of these two?
Also, are there any other PC games I should consider? I don't like RTS or RPG games for the most part.
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I am pretty sure i want a sharp aquos 46" (the 64U)
Amazon has it for $1660 (through a third party, blech)
Circuit City has it for $1999 after instant discounts
Best Buy has it for $2199
Here is the catch. I have a 10% off coupon for best buy. So what i'm wondering is: can i get bestbuy to price match to amazon, or only to circuit city? I.e. will they match online retailers or only other B&M shops
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The Hobbit was green-lit today, after so much doubt it Peter and New Line would make up..
Perl 5.10 was released today, first new version of Perl in 5 YEARS.
Parrot 5.10 was released today (big advancements), Perl 6 may be coming out this decade!!!
DNF teaser?! Seriously?! Wow..
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11:53am: TWO men died and six others were injured when a mini-bus carrying members of touring American metal band All Shall Perish slammed into a tree on the New South Wales north coast.
All sadness aside, I shall be eternally condemned for laughing at the bad choice of name. Maybe the remaining six can reform under the name /{Two Shall Perish}/
eek...
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ill be on in a few mins... lets hope we dont get grenade spam'd to hell and back again like what happened last night :(
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