Morning Discussion
by Jeff "geedeck" Gondek, Jan 08, 2008 5:19am PSTI bid you good morning my Shacknewsian compatriots. Did everyone catch the screenshots of Lego Batman? Hard not to enjoy the character design of those guys, no? We tallied up your Game of the Year votes, and the results are here in all their glory. So you've played Marvel vs. Capcom, right? Well, as per their matching of different but compatible settings, suggest a fictional "versus" match-up and the terms (ie format) of their fight. I'll toss out a t-shirt to random replier.
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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
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I have my eye on these two cards:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16829132005
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16829127002
The ASUS I like because it's PCI-X and I have an unhealthy love for ASUS. I also really like the fact that it touts full Vista compatibility because I'd like this sound card to last me a very long time. However, it's a tad expensive.
The bluegears is a lot cheaper but still supports the needed encoders. It has the top CMI chipset which seems to be popular. It's the top rated card on newegg which is how I found it. However, I've never even heard of bluegears which makes me nervous.
The one other option is from HT OMEGA, another company I've never heard of:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16829271003
It's the same chipset as the bluegears and is similarly highly rated on newegg. I'm not sure why this one is more expensive than the bluegears though. The only thing I can see that would be nice is that it has a digital coax port which would be nice because I'd prefer to use that over toslink (the cable just feels sturdier!)
Here are my main questions:
Does anyone here have any of these three sound cards? How are the drivers?
What would the difference be between PCI and PCI-X?
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http://degenerate.shackspace.com/Shack/steak.pdf
original post: http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=15954632
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Evidence: real men play EVE
Readers of the world's number one source of MMO related content* MMORPG.com have voted EVE for best MMO of 2007, beating Blizzards Goliath WoW. The score:
EVE Online – 24%
World of Warcraft – 16%
Lord of the Rings Online – 12%
EVE also won Most Improved Game of 2007 & Best Sci-Fi / Other Game of 2007.
We asked our Shackvets to comment on this breaking news.
Here's a quick take:
<zerog83> well deserved win, this game is awesome
<reptile> I R MINMATAR
Witty screenshot competition
Did you blow up your second Caracal today? Do you enjoy parking a ship into a rock? Want to show your brandnew boat? Post a witty screenshot/movie/photoshop/whatever and win cool stuff!
Grand prize - eternal Shackfame + 5 million isk!
Second prize - one week of Shackfame + 2 million isk!
Third prize - a honelable mention
Our professional jury will select a winner.
[WTS] Grand prize - 500m isk
* i totally made that up
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Repost in reply - as what I just wrote got eaten by the latest Chatty.x - but a few people seemed to be getting something out of it.
(apologies for the inconsistent formatting)
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Earth = 4 Billion Years old right?
Farthest Galaxy Abell = 30.1 Billion Years(Comoving) away.
If we are comoving 30.1 Billion Years (even though the Earth is only 4 Billion years old) with the farthest galaxy, how did it get so far away? Does this mean that the rate at which Abell is moving is actually slowing down, or reached a constant to which we now have comovement? I know there are some seriously smart people here, so can someone put the answer in retard terms for me?
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http://www.stsc.hill.af.mil/CrossTalk/2008/01/0801DewarSchonberg.html
The irresistible beauty of programming consists in the reduction of complex formal processes to a very small set of primitive operations. Java, instead of exposing this beauty, encourages the programmer to approach problem-solving like a plumber in a hardware store: by rummaging through a multitude of drawers (i.e. packages) we will end up finding some gadget (i.e. class) that does roughly what we want. How it does it is not interesting! The result is a student who knows how to put a simple program together, but does not know how to program.
This has been a persistent problem in my experience trying to recruit people for the games industry. My favorite was asking how to compute the dot product of two vectors and his response was a very serious "I call the dot product function." :[
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I looked around and couldn't find any good debates on this subject. So I thought I would ask here. For a website that offers videos of an adult nature, which payment scheme would you rather use if you were signup?
- Pay a flat monthly rate with unlimited usage ($9.95)
- Pay a $$$ per byte amount per download ($2.55 = 100MB)
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1. It was lots of fun.
2. Shackers are good.
3. I don't suck as much as I used to. I even killed Medster a few times. Hurray me.
4. Wheatloaf gets angry. Rawr!
5. Let's do it again soon.
Thank you and good day.
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I love RPGs in general.. I haven't got a problem with fetch/kill/quests or even grinding.. now on the one hand i've quite enjoyed soloing (playing a Kerran Monk I hit lvl 13 quite quickly) and crafting seems quite thorough but I'm finding it really isn't a game you can play solo. Quests that are supposedly for my level i'll continually get my ass handed to me as the named mobs generally have sidekicks or other mobs nearby that are aggro.. now don't get me wrong that's FINE it's an MMO and you're meant to play with other people but the group mechanic just seems.. crap.
Admittedly I've not grouped with anyone except two of my friends (who are both old school EQ1 players and have been playing EQ2 since release) but once you're in a group there doesn't seem to be an easy way to track what you're doing.. It doesn't help that my friends generally can't communicate (LOL @ MMO players) and are assuming I know what i'm doing straight off the bat (after about 4 hours of playing). Personally I'd have expected a new group window to appear for everyone that details the currently selected group quest so everyone knows exactly what you're doing next (I appreciate you can see group quests in your journal but i'd expect it to be a bit more userfriendly) but its seems to be left entirely to communication within the group - if this is the case I think the only way I'll find groups bearable is if we had voice chat too.
Unless I'm missing something.. something that only a newbie could miss? Or perhaps I'm just expecting too much and my friends are muppets.
I guess I'm also wondering is whether WOW is similar in that respect? Hard to solo? Is the group mechanic similar?
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http://www.wwtdd.com/photo.phtml?post_key=3352&photo_key=5641
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http://sports.aol.com/fanhouse/2008/01/07/nbc-partnering-with-microsoft-and-msn-to-stream-the-2008-beijing-o/
NBC, the exclusive owner of U.S. media rights to the 2008 Olympics, has struck up a strategic alliance with Microsoft to stream 2,200 hours of live events from Beijing.
All the badminton your eyes can handle! In addition to the live streams, another 3,000 hours of on-demand content will also be available.
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I wonder if they're gonna charge for this, or just make it ad supported. This could be cool, there are a ton of sports I always wanted to watch but was never able to. I hope they don't mess it up.
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http://img337.imageshack.us/my.php?image=finitoeo9.jpg
Starting the packing. I will miss these things but at the same time glad to have my kitchen back.
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i just want something simple to host my portfolio.
any advice to how i should do it/what i should use?
i'm not against starting with a template.
Since at the time we were using some Half-Life art assets, and because we wanted to leave ourselves the option of someday using the portal gun in a Half-Life game, we decided that the story should in some way connect to the Half-Life universe.
What about lols?
I need more funny in my day.
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CoreAVC Pro + AC3Filter + VLC = no playback
ffdshow + AC3Filter + VLC = no playback
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZuEEq2vSaY
I'll never ever ever forget the first time I played this. It was such an incredible experience. What fun to watch. :)
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Quad Core Xeon 2.8ghz Peryn
Nvidia 8800GT 512mb video card
320gb HDD
Built in Wifi
16x Superdrive(dual layer dvd burner)
And I've got two raptor drives from my old desktop machine I'll be loading into the puppy.
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*Most important is the switching targets in mid uber, allowing to push 2 teammates in.*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvPeT-1QDPk
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two buddies just bought it for 25 euros after a 20% discount to a already lowered price (i had to do some lobby working/shilling and since they are too retarded for quakewars tf2 was my only chance).
i have my suspicions that it didn't do that well here the same way crysis performed in the us.
looking at the stats is interesting too http://archive.gamespy.com/stats/
1789 servers, 8193 players for tf2 wtf?
27040 servers, 44819 players cs:s O_o
865 servers, 5123 players quakewars
30462 servers, 59435 players counterstrike 1.6 fags all of them
anyone got some info how well the orange box sold ?
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i wanted it to be so good, and i still hope it can be good. they havent told the community or anyone what the fuck is going on right now expect they are still working on a delayed 1.0 patch. subscribers got nothing for the month of december from them.
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Hooraj! We played a game last night with great success! We started with 5, including 1 AI as the dutch playing for Sockmonkeh.
I was the English and started next to mooglebean, whose history as a conqueror (destroying Durandal 's Spanish civ in very short order) caused me to be very nervous! A village granted me very early bronze working, which then allowed me to see the copper right between me and moogle. After putting a new village there, suspicion of having encircled mooglebean's society drove me to great worry, eventually leading to the downfall of his Byzantine civilization. The hapless dutch were wiped up with the leftover forces. On the other side of the world, the scheming, rapacious Ethiopians (Umbr) struck out in jealousy at the Incan civilization (aethyr) and it's new great wall. Only Umbr and I remained, so we called it a game, having played Civ together with AI a number of times.
The next game surely calls for greater diplomatic efforts to sort out the differences that wrought such horror on our civilizations so early in their lifespan. An increase in the world size or other topographical changes might also alleviate some troubles.
I'm up for another game TONIGHT, beginning at any time from now until much later. We should, however, start earlier than we did last night so that we might include Goncyn, Sockmonkeh, and other good, hard-working citizens who have commitments to jobs and famillies.
In order to provide guidance, I'd love to start between 6-7 EST. Our scheduling is flexible, though! Make your free time known and we'll plan around you! Do not, however, confirm interest and then flake out, or state interest and then let said interest linger without confirming or denying. That causes us all kinds of trouble!
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