Morning Discussion
by Jeff "geedeck" Gondek, Dec 21, 2007 3:25am PSTIt's Friday and how great is that? Pretty great. So we've got a big thing going for the holiday, in the form of the Shacknews Holiday Contest of Doom. Just the act of submitting an entry puts you into a sweepstakes for a plethora of prizes, and well a Xbox 360 Elite for the best entry isn't too shabby either.
So other news, eh? Activision did spell it out that they want someone to pay for using their guitars in Rock Band. I guess it's just too bad that their guitars aren't available somewhere that customers could exchange currency for said instruments. Seems like that could be an okay trade off, maybe? So what is everyone playing over the holiday weekend? Some lucky participant in the thread will get a set of BioShock gamerpics and theme for the 360.
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
Since I did not participate in White Elephantry but I would like to send a gift of coc… gamage to a fellow shacker. So… guess a number between 1-250 and the winner gets a gift of any Steam game of his/her/its choosing (you can choose goemetry wars for $4.95 all the way to COD4 $49.95; no "packs" pls and no Kane or Lynch either). I'll check for winnar tonight.
cheers and stay safe.
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oh and...HAPPY HOLIDAYS SHACK!!
Sam :(. I even gave my kitty a hug :(.
Anyway, looking at the... slightly less than convincing CGI apparently in alot of places, something tells me someone higher up wasn't confident the movie was going to do well and decided to make sure the movie wouldn't end up losing money. It's not being pushed AT ALL here in Malaysia either, barely even any trailers for it, just a few posters.
It looked to have been going in a really good way from the beginning (despite the deer looking off) and then suddenly veered off
I enjoyed it though despite the fairly shitty ending.
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In this thread we admit our shameful gaming secrets.
I have never played Fallout 1 or 2. I remember them being released and everybody enjoying them, but I just never got around to it.
What's yours?
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http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/
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This package showed up a little over a week ago, but I'm afraid it took me awhile to get to posting. While checking out the WE's tracking and the ShackMap, I believed my White Elephant was coming from sikander. It turns out it came from his wife, the very cute lunato!
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7fAQVDanKg ! If your speakers cranked up, you might want to turn it down a bit. The music's a bit rockin'.
All the loots: http://www.flickr.com/photos/76304932@N00/2128067238/in/pool-we2007/
♥ Very sweet note from lunato ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/76304932@N00/2128128076/in/pool-we2007/ )
♥ Puzzle
♥ Oven Mitts
♥ Candy
♥ Waterguns
♥ Canada pin
♥ Various pamphlets
♥ And many other goodies!
Thanks a bunch!!
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The GT Prologue demo from the JP PSN Store failed to do anything for me. I played Gran Turismo HD Concept to death. I really love that thing, just did another 20 laps. GT Prologue seemed like a huge step down. The visuals seemed way worse. Jaggies everywhere, bad looking track. I'm not a fan of Forza 2's graphics, but their version of Suzuka looked much better. Also the driving just wasn't fun. I fire up GT HD Concept for a quick lap and play for an hour. I barely make it through a race on the Suzuka track in GT Prologue. Let's not even talk about the lack of damage / collision physics and the nonexisting AI.
I really hope the full prologue version and GT5 itself will be good. Besides Forza 3, there's just nothing else ;-(
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Harvester is one of the few people who actually taunted:
http://www.easyscreens.info/gallery/20071221/12.jpg
Ironsharp in trouble:
http://www.easyscreens.info/gallery/20071221/14.jpg
Cool underwater pic:
http://www.easyscreens.info/gallery/20071221/18.jpg
Two awesome Heavy pics:
http://www.easyscreens.info/gallery/20071221/16.jpg
http://www.easyscreens.info/gallery/20071221/8.jpg
And finally, how not to reload your gun:
http://www.easyscreens.info/gallery/20071221/10.jpg
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1.5K to build a decent rig.
What thinkest the Shack? Any obvious screwups or ways to make this cheaper? Obviously going with a TN panel or a 20" LCD would shave off about $250, but ewwww. Also, are Creative's sound cards worth the driver hell?
Antec Nine Hundred Black Steel ATX Mid Tower
ABIT IP35 Pro LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard
Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR2 800 Kit
Antec NeoPower 550 ATX12V 550W Power Supply
Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 Conroe 2.33GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor
EVGA 512-P3-N841-A3 GeForce 8800GTS (G92) 512MB
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 (Perpendicular Recording) 250GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
SAMSUNG 20X DVD±R DVD Burner with LightScribe Black SATA
HP LP2465 Carbonite-Black 24" 6 ms (typical gray to gray) DVI Widescreen LCD Monitor
Logitech 920-000325 Black USB Wired Ergonomics Wave Keyboard
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Do I really have to spend another $100 for the wireless adapter to get this thing online?
That's kinda lame.
It's also lame that if you don't know about monoprice you have to spend another $50 for the HDMI cable.
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So my wife and I are having breakfast at Cora's, when all of a sudden I hear a bit of commotion near the front doors. I look up and see 3 girls, one with an acoustic guitar, and 1 dude pushing past the serving staff.
Then all of a sudden there's a chick at my table, holding out a donation box with a bunch of laminated info for Children's Hospital. 3 others are spreading out over the restaurant and the waiting staff is scrambling to reel them in while the one with the acoustic guitar is playing the same tune, but singing alternating christmas songs.
My wife said no thanks, I told her to get away from my table.
Now the wife and I donate a decent amount of money every year to Children's Hospital and various other charities, but when I'm eating breakfast and all of a sudden some chick is shoving a donation box into my face, my charity runs out.
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OMG the first Cinematic Titanic DVD is available!!!! :O
http://www.cinematictitanic.com/
It's Joel Hodgson (MST3K creator and star), Trace Beaulieu (Dr. Forrester, Crow T. Robot), Frank Conniff (TV's Frank), Mary Jo Pehl (Pearl), and J. Elvis Weinstein (the original Tom Servo and lead writer or something for The Simpsons) back together and riffing on movies again. This is SO EXCITING!!!!!!!!
You can click on a link in that link and watch a preview!!!!!!!
XOXOX,
Deepak
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So I'm thinking about building a alarm-clock activated light switch to attach to the toggle switch for the light on my rack.
My conceptual issue that I'm having is that I don't know the best way to generate ~1lb of force to throw the switch. Any ideas?
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Trying to get a decent set of software to clean it out as one of the trojans keeps changing his IP address on his computer after 2-3 mins after it boots up. So he can't get on the internet and I can access his system remotely. I'm most likely going to his location so need to bring everything I can with me.
Already have these tools:
Lavasoft Anti-Spyware 2007
Spybot Search & Destroy
Windows Defender
HiJack This
Avira Anti-Virus Personal Edition
What else would you download??
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUPzN7tp7bQ
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http://pipes.yahoo.com
I have two RSS feeds .... We shall call them Feed1 and Feed2
All of Feed2 is in Feed1 (feed2 is a subset).
I want to eliminate the items in Feed1 that is also in Feed2.
End result will be equal to feed1-feed2
Conceptually, I get what needs to be done, but not managed to figure out how to do it in pipes and I am sure there is a way.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQQMTFiuBwk
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The Saturday Afternoon Euro Shackbattle is at 1pm GMT today (in about 40 minutes)
83.149.73.47:27015
Password is in the usual place.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVAccWTrnIQ
This is probably one of those intense trails I have ever seen. I've never ridden it (I think its near Whister in British Columbia). I mostly downhill at Diablo at Mountain Creek in NJ (cuz I suck), but these guys are nuts. Remember stuff looks 10x bigger in real life than it does on camera.
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I've solo'd all the way here but would like to check out one of the epic instances with a group of shackers sometime.
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Aside from the obvious office supplies of course
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http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ab0_1198288359
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Does anybody know how to create a custom resolution under vista? Power strip cannot do it, and I tried editing the nv_disp.inf and reinstalling the drivers.
I have a 1920x1200 monitor and the best resolution for good fps is 1440x900. Right now I cannot enable that on my desktop or in games.
I HATE VISTA :(
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My grandparents (Dads side of the family) and one of my cousins were in a car crash yesterday, a van going the other way was towing a trailer, and the hitch worked lose or snapped or something (that's still being investigated) and the trailer bounced out infront of their '93 Ford Mondeo at speed..
My gran has broken her leg, my granddad has some cracked ribs, he's lost his lower front teeth, and they suspect he had a heart attack during (good a time as any to have one!), meanwhile my cousin keeps blacking out :/
I'm off to the hospital to tell them to get well or else in half an hour/45 minutes or so.
oh, and the Mondeo is a total write off.
So, yeah.. basically, NARG... I'll have none of that 'prayer for them' nonsense, I just needed to vent and go "ADGADFGDFGHDGHDAGAD" a bit.
and If my gran gives me any static whilst I'm visiting I'll just threaten to bribe the orderlies to refridgerate the bedpans, 'cause I'm evil like that. muhahahahaha
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