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by Steve Gibson, Jan 15, 2008 6:00pm PSTSo I imagine at least a few people who read this website are at least vaguely familiar
with myself, Maarten and Remo from shackmeets etc. But have you href="http://blog.shacknews.com/blogarticle.x/50736">met Chris Faylor? Yes we need features on Nick and Aaron next.
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8yr olds dude
safe
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awesome
href="http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=205800442">at P2P
traffic
Lastly, Apple indeed did reveal the latest and greatest that they have been working on.
It boils down to AppleTV finally href="http://www.apple.com/appletv/upgrade/">being close to what people expected, href="http://www.apple.com/iphone/">iPhone getting a couple href="http://www.apple.com/iphone/gettingstarted/guidedtourupdate2/medium.html">cute tweaks and a new Macbook that is pretty impressive.
I really want one, maybe I can find a used one cheap after air comes out.
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The best was wiring a bridge with explosives with my of my last squads of engineers, and just as they were sending a King Tiger and a column of Panthers across the bridge to finish off, I blew it, taking a bunch of infantry and a King Tiger to hell, the whole column then jammed on the other end of the bridge and immediately got artillery and calliope rocket shells rained down all over them.
Of course upon losing they told us we were fags, which seems standard for CoH for some reasons, as soon as its obvious that one team is going to lose, they start running their mouths for some reason.
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http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=90802
Repost? Bite me.
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So the SDK is being released in February. Does this mean we can expect software on that date, or is that when everyone can start developing their software.
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Has anyone got any impressions from this game yet?
Its very much like the original (which is great), but boy do they gimp demo accounts. Anyone else find it unplayably laggy even with low pings? I, and the rest of the team, were getting 30->90ms pings yet it was so horrifically laggy its unplayable (juddery, stuttering). A shame really.
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Had fun on ShackWest today! Thought I'd share my fav screenie from it though :D This was taken in the middle of the round... I forgot to record a demo :(
http://img186.imageshack.us/my.php?image=shackwestpracticeyh3.jpg
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After seeing this and spending two hours on Wikipedia, I don't think I can sleep for a while. It's hard not to feel minuscule and completely insignificant after imagining that.
jesus h there are some big objects in the universe
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At the very end when Capa is standing there looking into the wall of fire and then touches it what exactly was going on there? Why wasn't he dead? Was it the after life, time and space warping, or what?
The first thing I did after watching it was run to the internets to find out if the sound track is available. And of course it isn't :(
I like movies that have emotional, surreal endings. The Fountain and Vanilla sky for example. Anyone have any suggestions for more movies that have that same sort of theme?
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For a free to download and free to play game, I think it is an excellent diversion from day to day wankery.
Best Diablo clone yet, sure to tide me over until Diablo III.
I'm having a ton of fun playing the first few levels. Anyone have spare invites? Friend of mine needs in.
Check it out!
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Shack hardware recommendation squad assemble
I'm building myself a system with three criteria:
* Bang for the buck.
* Can play games.
* Pretty quiet so I can use it to record audio.
Here's my proposed list of parts to buy, once the E8400 releases in a week or two or three. What do you think? Any better choices?
Case: Antec SOLO (I would have bought the $50 P182 this morning but it was sold out)
PSU: Corsair CMPSU-450VX (450 watt, very efficient and quiet)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L (not a lot of features, but it has what I need, and is fast and stable)
CPU: Intel Core2 Duo E8400 (not yet released; 45 nm, 3.0 GHz, 6 MB L2 cache)
CPU HSF: Scythe SCNJ-1100P (overkill for the processor, but I'm going to try to use the fan as a quieter case fan in place of the Antec TriCool and run the processor fanless)
Memory: Crucial BL2KIT12864AA804 (2x1 GB DDR2 800. I'll be running Windows XP Pro, so 4 GB would be a waste)
Video: EVGA 512-P3-N802-AR (650 MHz 8800 GT. I worry about the noise from the stock cooler though)
Sound: E-mu 0404 USB (external for lower EMI, good DACs, mic/line/MIDI inputs for recording)
HDD: Western Digital SE16 WD7500AAKS (750 GB, 7200 RPM, 16 MB cache, performs very well and is fairly quiet)
Optical: Samsung SH-S203B (I have a decent burner but it's PATA; I want to go all SATA for better airflow and future-proofness. This is the current hotness on cdfreaks.com)
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hahahahahaha,
I'm glad they finally got around to letting us have them right, but 20 fucking dollars for people who already own it?
Fuck off on that apple.
I already have them on my jailbroken touch anyways. They should have given them for free, or 5 bucks or something, 20 dollars though, ugh.
But, the MacBook Air will be mine!
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http://www.neospeech.com/Default.aspx
Text To Speech.
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If a game developer pushed around a wheelbarrow full of copies of their game, you wouldn't grab one out of the bin without paying for it when their back was turned. you wouldn't take it for free if they were there to see you do it, but you have no problem taking with when its an anonymous thing. its no less wrong.
the people who make the products people steal on the net are so faceless that it hardly seems like stealing but you are in fact stealing from every one of them. not just sticking it to the corporations, you are stealing from the people who sweated over that product for months or years. the fact that you may never have been willing to pay for it has NOTHING to do with it. if you weren't ever willing to pay for it, you never should have had access to the game/movie/cd.
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I'm doing some expense tracking and am seeing some numbers I don't like. Over the past seven months it's been approximately 11%. The funny thing is looking back on where I spent a good chunk of that money it's not memorable or even worthwhile in any sense. It makes financial restraint a little easier seeing these numbers laid out like this though.
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http://www.slickdeals.net/?permadeal=11374#direct_deal_11374
$70 once you add to cart and -25 MIR = 45
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My 6800GT has been dead for a few months now. My original plan was to build a whole new machine when the Nvidia 9 series came out. But no Civilization 4 and Company of heroes makes me a sad panda.
So today I started looking at just buying a new AGP card and waiting to build a new machine until perhaps the summer time.
So should I A. Play with my Wii and PS3 until I build a new machine when the 9 series comes out (yay, I could use my free copy of vista business)
or B. get a new AGP card now and make a new machine later, allowing me to play CIV4 and COH. If so, what card should I go for?
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So if this was sent to me in error, then those in charge can SM me an address to send it to, which I will do after I play the shit out of it.
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went to my free personal training session today, and she's really awesome. seems very ass kicking, used to be a pro tennis player and played in division one basketball, she herself gained some weight due to medication bullshit and lost it healthfully, really a better regimen than my other trainers assigned me in the past... but... she's 415$ for 10 1/2 hour sessions, once a week.
now, i'll probably be well on my way to my end goal of fitness/weight/fat-to-muscle by the end of 10 weeks (with the sessions and the homework she gives), but that's a fuckton of money.
but she's got this adorable nose piercing and is really hot and had on super sexy thong. does it make me a man that this makes it worth the money?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rd8AJdcnw4A
That dude has balls of solid concrete.
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:(
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So Shack Im looking for some PC games to play... I've beaten Bioshock, Crysis and the Orange Box. Only games I can think of are "The Witcher" and COD4 and I'm not really interested in either.
any suggestions?
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Thank you Ceeva for pointing out the flaw in my noob way of build a tank. Missions specific resist tank fits is the way to go, especially considering last night's debacle: 3-4 hours to clean a stupid 2 jump L4 with 2 x Dominix = bad.
Now, since i am low on SP i have to make choices. Training up for T2 hardneners will take a long time. I might pref shelling out a few million isk for faction hardneners instead. Dunno yet. I'm an impatient man and backing out of LVL 4 would annoy me bigtime. So shit needs to improve fast. Goddamnit.
So to my fellow noobs: once you hit LVL3, starting building mission specific resist setups. You will need them in LVL 4.
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My brothers fat PS2 died. I've found someone selling a slim PS2 with no leads or controller. Will his leads (power a/v etc) work on the slim?
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Pro's: High production values. Definitely some talented people behind this game.
The sound effects are top notch. The dude / gal who worked the sounds should get an award of some sort. The weapons sound beefy and really heavy.
Cons: Everything is grey. You are grey, the baddies are grey, the weapons are grey and the environments are grey. Basically, I can't see shit. I look at a weapon on the ground and I have to look at the icon on the screen to make out what it is. Would it really have hurt them to have added some muted colors?
Can Epic design anything else but the generic giant torso'd man soldier? It's tired. I got tired of it a long time ago.
It's a rails shooter. Corridor after corridor of the same grey color. Shoot some bad guys, move to the next corridor. Oh.. a grey stone block is on the floor. I wonder what will happen now. It's boring.
Too many cutscenes. I want to play the game, not watch a movie of a game. Last play I played for 7 minutes and watched movies for 4 minutes.
The roadie run: Neat camera angle. Too bad it makes me seasick. Admittedly not their fault, but can someone enlighten me as to why? I mean.. it's a run button with the camera angle lower. That's it?
I got to the first boss encounter, and I couldn't believe my eyes. It was like I was back in the 80's. Yes, Crysis does this too and people complained about that as well. Monster does A I do B. Repeat ad neaseum. Seriously? This is what people consider "best game last year"?
It could very well be that GoW is just not for me. I am just curious what other people think, because all I have heard / read is that it's the fucking shiznitz. I cant help but think that GoW sell a gazillion units while games like Stalker which is bold, new and fucking scary as hell sell poorly. GoW is none of these things. It's Jerry Bruckheimer in videogame format. Maybe it's better in co-op and on a giant 52 inch screen?
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Is there someone out there who still has a HL2 gift to give away? (it's not for me, for a friend of mine)
Would really appreciate it!
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A simple logic flow here.