Morning Discussion
by Jeff "geedeck" Gondek, Jan 16, 2008 5:39am PSTHow is everyone doing today? Awww, come on it can't be that bad, can it? Maybe it'll cheer you hear about a scaled down Uwe Boll? Oh you mean you willingly saw that, I'm sorry. Well did you hear that the former City of Heroes developers might handle Star Trek Online? Still nothing, eh? Well if Nick's crack game journalism doesn't do it, I give up.
Daily Filter: The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition, MLB 12: The Show
Cradle trailer shows off Russian indie adventure game
WoW Monopoly, StarCraft RISK announced at Toy Fair
Jersey Shore's 'The Situation' signs App deal
Blacklight: Retribution open beta begins Feb 27
Super Stardust Delta free with Vita 3G activation
Chronovolt announced for PS Vita
Ms. Splosion Man challenge to give away steaks
The Last of Us avoids regen health
Closure takes $100K Grand Prize at IGC 2012
US researchers say they have made the darkest material on Earth, a substance so black it absorbs more than 99.9 per cent of light.
They better watch out, they might accidentally make a black hole with these things.
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Thanks Shacknews!
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Base: Red swiss chard boiled then sauteed with pine nuts, garlic, and dried cranberries.
Topping: Lamb sausage with feta, fennel, and parsley (whole foods made it)
Side: fresh french bread with butter
This is astounding stuff and is nutritious as hell. Cook, eat, enjoy. All hail Mark Bittman.
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I sooooooooo badly want to put a link on my home screen for latestchatty, but the redirect happens too fast for me to bookmark it on my iPhone. And since I can't change the url, I seem to be stuck with the old method of doing it.
Anyone have any suggestions on how to get the shack to grace the front of my glorious JesusPhone?
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If you would like to see any game written for the iPhone, what would it be? I'm brainstorming -- I think board games or card games would work quite well. What say you, Shack?
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What do you think... how awesome would a Mass Effect MMO be? I was thinking about the cryptic rumor of working on a trek mmo when it occurred to me that the ME universe would make a much much much better mmo. I that it'd make a better MMO than an RPG.
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A gentleman named algernoN8 sent me a white box full of packing peanuts. To keep the packing peanuts safe, he also included some sturdy items. Here they are!
He included this note, with a picture of a large land mammal on it.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/20697652@N03/2198276417/in/set-72157603734741851/
After this, I dug out these items.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/20697652@N03/2198277107/in/set-72157603734741851/
-Super Mario Sunshine (I hope this works in my PS1!)
-Kolibri (I hope this works in my NES!)
-IRON MAN ACTIVITY ROBOT DVD. I will watch this and see what I can learn about iron man.
- Independence Day & Dragonheart on VHS! I don't have a VCR, but it's okay because I've seen these!
- Packing Peanut (not shown - 500 other packing peanuts)
- Miscellaneous warriors, beasts and wizards. http://www.flickr.com/photos/20697652@N03/2198276597/in/set-72157603734741851/
Then I found these.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/20697652@N03/2198276919/in/set-72157603734741851/
-Jungle Command Mercenary belt
-Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual
-Star Wars novel about bounty hunters
-Elminster novels about minsters.
-IDE cable and power cable
-Some kind of font library on tape? http://www.flickr.com/photos/20697652@N03/2198276513/in/set-72157603734741851/
Thanks for these items algernoN8! If I survive eating all of those packing peanuts I might re-use your letter for next this year's WE.
I hope you're right about those totems keeping women away. Otherwise they'll all want to watch my Iron Man DVD and play D&D and I won't have time to read the Star Wars book.
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How many of the TF2 players here would be able to join a server during 12h00-13h00 EST ?
I am in a Ubisoft team that is looking for fresh meat and having a scrimmage against shackers would be great fun.
Reply if you can play and I'll see if I can get us a server for tomorrow.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikI4fN5YurY
Excellent song, but it's no Trapped in the Closet. Discuss!?!?!?
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It appears version 2.2 of UFO: Alien Invasion was released over the weekend. This is been a long running X-COM clone which has been developed on the Quake II engine.
New features:
# Air interceptions
# UFO recovery
# UFO crash sites
# New technologies and new game content
# Solaris and MacOSX port (ppc and intel)
# Random map assemblies
# eMail system
# New network and renderer code (SDL only
Trailer: http://szklo.eu.org/~mattn/ufoai-2.2-promo.avi
Download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=157793
I'm going to try this out tonight!
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Maps are Granary and Well. The other party wants to scrimmage us regularly, this isn't a one time thing.
For this one, I'm captain, and I'll pick the team since we have about 24 hours notice. I'm going to primarily pick players that I've played with on my TF2 server over the past few months and I have some players already in mind. If I don't know who you are don't get offended if you don't get picked.
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http://www.aintitcool.com/node/35301
Could be cool.
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This game is AMAZING. It's aged all right, and space combat is a blast. It's what I imagined EVE Online's to be like when I first started playing (except with a joystick... er.. Xbox360 controller).
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/science/15brain.html?ex=1358053200&en=28f109918137a07c&ei=5124&partner=digg&exprod=digg
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Just looking at the sad, watery mess on the bread takes me back to my childhood, my 8-year-old self innocently asking my older sister why she had a string attached to her nosebleed hankie and why it kept coming back up when I flushed it, her running away in tears and our mother screaming "SHE'S BECOMING A WOMAN YOU INSENSITIVE LITTLE BASTARD".
Always shake the bottle.
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Does anyone else have a Webkinz and want to exchange Webkinz mail? lmk
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Drum & Bass mix by a fairly new act to the scene, The Brookes Brothers.
http://www.skycast.co.uk/BrookesBrothers-MyspaceStudioMix.mp3 (tracklist in reply)
Nice funky sounds in this so thought I'd share it for those needing something to listen to today!
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I've got some films that I want to put on DVD. I know I've used Nero before and it resized the video to fit on the DVD but now I get some error that says if it's not a DVD format file then it won't let me.
Dublyou Tee Eff.
It's probably a newer version of Nero, so what did I miss? >:[
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Leno. Daily Show. Colbert Report. Not just that they're on, but who is writing for them? I have a hard time thinking it's just the producers and hosts writing all this. Scabs? How long is this strike going to really last? They all keep seem to be saying the support the writers, but coming back on the air distinctly is not very supportive.
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It's like Apple bought a 6 month old version (which is about when the street map was updated) database and is hosting it themselves.
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I need some upgrade thoughts and advice. In reply.
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All the captains have accepted. Right on.
We're meeting on Friday to go over how the draft will work, and to set a time everyone can be available for the draft. Once the draft is done, the first matches will be scheduled.
ALL PLAYERS IN THE TOURNAMENT
BEFORE THE DRAFT - UPDATE YOUR PROFILES
Please add the following info to your steam community profile pages:
1. Time Zone
2. Availability - Days and Time
3. Primary Class
4. Classes you will not play
This will help the captains draft a balanced team. (or unbalanced if thats their style).
ALSO,
Check out your ping to this server:
8.12.68.50:27015
I need to know if this is a good server for everyone (or at least most people).
FINALLY,
If you still want to sign up to play in the tournament, YOU STILL CAN!
Just reply with a link to your steam profile page!
Thank you, and please drive through.
third time's a charm
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Simply put, one of the best movies I've seen a long while. The Shack-hype about this movie was pretty spot on.
- Ellen Page really stands out and makes this film shine with her performance. I liked her in Hard Candy, but I loved her in Juno. I think what hit me the most was she played this highly eccentric independent young woman but did it in such a way that you could feel her "sensitive woman" side slowly come to the surface all the way through the movie. Easily one of my favorite young actresses now, and I look forward to her future work.
- Michael Cera played his part really well, even if it was GMB-ish. The guy defiantly has talent, he just needs parts that will show off his abilities.
- To top it off you got J.K. Simmons, Jennifer Garner, and Jason Bateman playing the supporting roles flawlessly. I think J.K. especially deserves an oscar nomination for best supporting male role.
Just an all around awesome flick.
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http://www.speedtest.net/result/223142685.png
HELL YES for new houses and wiring!!!
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Better than I expected. As in they got a whole lot more story and character development in there than I thought they would considering the way it was filmed. The monster is pretty bad ass, and you get a pretty good look at it by the end. I really like how they did something different and didn't follow the same formulas.
Having said all that there were 2 lots of teenagers sitting behind us, and when the movie finished they both said, "THAT WAS SHIT", "WTF?" "THAT'S FUCKED". Morons.
7.9 out of 10
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I propose that all use aussie shackers hit up some TF2 tonight, about 7:30pm Sydney time. One of the Node servers obviously. I was playing with aegix last night but I was experimenting with the Spy and getting pissed off. MEDIC IT IS!
What say you?
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what's new with PC games?
what about DS games?
Sorry this is a really broad subject, but i've been literally in the jungle.
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