Morning Discussion
by Jeff "geedeck" Gondek, Jan 11, 2008 3:53am PSTGood morning Shackers, how are you doing today? It looks like CES has pretty much wrapped, and our ever vigilant Nick comes with tales of gadgets. I know, gadgets, CES, who would have thought? In other news, Valve brings another studio into the fold. I'm a bit surprised that Left4Dead is still considered a while out, but only because of how good it looked at QuakeCon07. So yeah, what are you guys playing this weekend?
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
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=15948965
This cold-brewed coffee is delicious, really good stuff and quite convenient once it's made. One thing though, it's almost TOO smooth. It's missing a little of the bitterness I've come to expect out of a long espresso.
Overall I highly recommend trying some cold brewed coffee if you have a chance and you like coffee.
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have any of you been keeping up with Macross Frontier?
found a link for the first episode with subs: http://www.stage6.com/user/TheBlueKnightS6/video/1990130/Macross-Frontier
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What are some other good science fiction books? I think the only book i've ever read is Ender's Game, which i loved.
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Repost from ( http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=15976742 ). I found out why I wasn't able to connect to the couple websites (the Chinese didn't hack my computer afterall :'( ) But what I found out is that somehow the providers of the two websites have blocked my masked Ip from the router. How can I get around this? I've tried changing the static ip of the router, changing the ip assigned to me by the router, etc.
The funny thing is, I can get to the sites by connecting directly to the modem. Help Shackers, you're my only hope!
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https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/618
Text to Image - allows you to turn a whole bunch of url's for images into the image on a new window. Great for looking at porn that is posted on the Shack
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http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns/
I haven't played it in probably two years, but I used to love this game so much. Anyone up for installing it and finding a server for some Shackers to conglomerate on?
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Communications keybinds in TF2; in reply.
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/confusedus/2185454557/
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list your favorite widgets - ill start:
iStat Pro (everything you will ever need)
http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/status/istatpro.html
Then the ESPN news feeds, and the ski reports. I need more useful widgets!
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http://www.steampowered.com/nvidia/#
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then you feel relieved and you laugh
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I suppose they are, after all I did buy an 8800gt just to play Crysis, but I fear that the lack of sales will significantly endanger the rest of the supposed Crysis trilogy, and it simply should have come out along with the next generation of graphics cards. Honestly the game feels fairly fluid at 24 FPS on high, but people are not used to that.
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Anyone (everyone) come with us tonight and do some damage in Deathfist Citadel.
I want to kill a couple nameds (including the emperor) and Eriu and I just can't quite manage it. Need a little more DPS. (Especially for the one that charms, the bastard). Or a primary tank so Eriu can flip to DPS mode. Anyway, we just need more bodies.
So, tonight, cancel your other plans and help me us kill some orcs.
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That other content includes the forthcoming Medic achievement pack, which will add several new achievements for the Medic as well as a significant gameplay tweak for the class.
"It's a large scale modification to the core of the game," Walker hinted. "It'll debut in a limited fashion through the Medic first, but it'll be affecting all classes eventually."
Any predictions/speculation what this is going to be? I'm stumped but definitely excited. Why would it go to the medic first? So many questions...
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So, I honestly wasn't that surprised by everything in the editor's list, because if you have seven or so people discussing these kinds of issues, everyone can compromise a bit and conclude on choosing something that wouldn't be a knee-jerk initial decision. But everybody's knee-jerk decisions are what write-in readers polls are.
And I guess I don't have a problem with any particular result, as I just do with the greater message. In a year when more and more people who wouldn't play games started picking them up, accessory-based games went from niche flops to sales chart powerhouses, and the world seemed to turn on it's head, Shackers thought 2007 was basically all about Valve Software and their episodic content? B'uh-whaaa?
I guess despite the honest work the guys here have been doing to widen the net and make this a more inclusive gaming site, the core visitors are still people with Windows gaming rigs. Wonder how much that'll change by '09?
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How public/private are your traffic stats (viewers per day, etc.)? If an advertiser asks for them, do you tell them? If they're running an ad, and they ask how many views/uniques we're getting per day, do you tell them?
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That and it's going to be an awesome game either way.
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080110.wking11/BNStory/Entertainment/home
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I haven't played Phantom Hourglass all the way through yet, but I have played the rest and would have to go with Twilight Princess. I have a lot of nostalgia for the first two, and LttP is top down 2-d perfection, but overall I think TP really nails it. The beginning is slow, and some of the characters are questionable (Malo, wtf) but wow do things pick up. The last boss fight is epic. The story is great. Graphics are great. Fantastic game.
Here is a list of all of them:
The Legend of Zelda
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
A Link to the Past
Link's Awakening
Ocarina of Time (Master Quest)
Majora's Mask
Oracle of Seasons
Oracle of Ages
Four Swords
The Wind Waker
Four Swords Adventures
The Minish Cap
Twilight Princess
Phantom Hourglass
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hayden panettiere with her skin peeled back and ribs showing : extra hot
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II think my new meds are working.....
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http://www.sendspace.com/file/hc492z
The very end of this demo includes a huge bunch of engineers on one side... it was intense!
Anytime while playing back a demo file, the Demo Playback window can be brought up by pressing Shift-F2 or the demoui command. The Demo Playback window allows to pause and resume, change playback speed or move your camera viewpoint.
And you click on the "Drive" button down at the bottom; that will let you navigate (with certain limitations) around the area that the current frame is playing in. Seems to work best when several people are in view for the current frame.
After clicking "Drive" button, then either hold down the W key (or whatever is your forward key in the game) and maybe also left click with the mouse to change the angle your view is facing.
delete link:http://www.sendspace.com/file/hc492z
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I wonder how hard it would be to set it up where it filters packets based wither it's coming from a specific steam id instead of an IP address... that'd be handy to have running on a TF2 server that only allows certain steam ID's to play on it with them having to type in a password.
Obviously, it'd have to first figure out the first few packets based on it's content for a specific steam id; then allow more packets from that particular particular without further filtering.
Hmm.. something to think about.
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I passed my qualifying exam for my Ph.D. program today! They failed more than 20% of people...way more than in the past few years. Ack.
But now I'll be Dr. Ovate in a few years. Thaaaaank god, time to drink, sleep, and play HalfLife 2, not in that order.
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I received a postcard from my sister in China the other day. She is currently learning chinese.
Well She wrote some signs and I have no fucking clue what it means. She wont tell me.
Help me with the translation!
http://www.animalbeach.net/ref/gallery/00-single/2008on366_010.jpg
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