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Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Jan 25, 2008 6:00pm PSTI've got a case of the Fridays!
- Your daughter talks like a
href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/01/25/undercover.cop.ap/index.html">senior citizen
- New iPhone
href="http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9059258">incoming?
- Brain map!
- Vets like bluetooth
As for the the videogame news around these parts for the week:
- Healing Guitar Hero
- Team Fortress 2 Changes
- Battlefield Heroes Announced
- More TF2 Changes
- Unreal Engine License Owners GOT
SERVED
- Grand Theft Auto 4 Release Date
Lastly, FINE I'll hop on the Shack TF2 servers this weekend some. The latest href="http://www.shacknews.com/featuredarticle.x?id=743">Replay Couch convinced me that my level of stupidity can be matched there!
Rather than the usual "portrait of someone who killed me" shots, let's post shots that are more interesting and artistic. That, or full of carnage. Here's my contribution, in the carnage catagory:
http://shackpics.com/files/qbgq6wya4agfs9mszr0m.jpg
That was me covering Vynn's escape with the intel, and destroying almost the entire red team in one boom. You can see the chunks, which I love. The death messages actually cut off, there's about 2-3 names above the four shown, and then I got that demoman when he tried to sneak by. Lightzout was a great medic, very smooth operator. Fucking awesome moment for me and my team. The Fighting Mongooses uber alles!
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Seriously, it is hilarious, fun, original, pretty and entertaining as fuck. It's like a video game nerd's wet dream in it's delivery - it's full of humor and inside jokes that had me giggling like a school girl. I knew I'd love the game about 3 minutes into the tutorial, which is actually fun and funny. And I'm not even talking about the awesome usage of the wiimote and the amazing visuals.
Remo isn't fucking around with us ( http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=16103400 ), this game is seriously badass. And it isn't goofy-only badass, it's actually badass with a nice side-dish of goofy.
Most entertaining and original game I've played sine portal, so go fucking buy it.
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There are some obvious technical shortcomings--the game's planned status as a PS2 game is evident, and there are some frame drops during the open world parts, and the driving controls are wonky at first, but those feel pretty minor compared to the good parts.
The combat is completely brutal, and I like the waggle take on swordfighting a lot more than in Zelda, where it's only used for special moves and there are a numerous patterns instead of just one general shake.
Plus, it looks completely awesome. It's not anything amazing from a technical standpoint, but the visual design is truly inspired. The graphic design work, as always from Grasshopper, is off the charts, and the general presentation is completely over the top and hilarious.
I highly recommend this game, please buy it so it is not a huge financial failure for Suda and his team, because it already tanked in Japan where gamers have no taste.
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Built a new computer, posts fine, runs fine - until it gets stressed. Then it freezes. It freezes on memtest, with no errors. It doesn't get too warm, usually up to 50C before it freezes. I have the same proc at home, clocked at 3.15ghz and it will run hotter without a problem. We even underclocked it to 1.6ghz and the same problem came up. It did complete the ram tests on sisoft. We thought maybe it wasn't getting enough power and tried a 750w PS, same problem.
The guts: Core 2 quad (q6600), gigabyte p35-ds3p, ocz 1066 ram, 500w power supply, etc. It is the stock HS+fan, but even that has supported some decent overclocks. Plus this was happening with the side of the case off.
RMA'd the motherboard and hoping a new one fixes it...but can you guys think of anything else it could be?
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iTunes is based on your location so I'd have to pay in Euro which sucks. I found the same album on amazon.com (both are DRM-free MP3s btw) but they want me to have a US-based billng adress so I can't use their offer. The album would cost me 6€ on amazon.com compared to 9.99€ on iTunes Plus.
What I am looking for are records by the band Ivy. I've got one of their records so far titled Long Distance and I would really love to buy the remaining 3 plus maybe their EP.
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£10,000,000 :(
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=wyF5rquKjas
The guy has a bunch of them under his youtube profile. It makes me sad. =[
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shack vs. valve
http://www.stage6.com/user/hirez/video/2138644/Shack-vs--Valve-(Round-2)
this is the entire second game against valve (Jan 18), from my perspective. (800x600 - 57 minutes - 1,283 mb*)
shackUSA vs. ShackAUSTRALIA
http://www.stage6.com/user/hirez/video/2136879/ShackUSA-vs--ShackAUSTRALIA
This is the first half of dustbowl (USA defending) ShackUSA vs. ShackAUSTRALIA (Jan 26 2am). I was tired so I quit after the 1st half , I'm not sure if they played the 2nd half (with USA attacking). This was a lot of fun, despite the ~150ms ping delta between Aussies and the USA. You really had to lead your shots. (800x600 - 28 minutes - 540 mb*)
*This was my first try with the whole video convert/upload process, so I'm not sure if these could be smallers or not?
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do you think i'll notice a big difference between the contrast ratio on these 2 models?
http://www.bestbuy.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0926HDS0010092639&catid=24558
and
http://www.bestbuy.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0926HDS0010086224&catid=24558
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Our apartment has an amazing view of most of downtown Portland, Mt. Hood, Mt. St. Helens and a lot of open sky. We thought it would be fun to have a telescope to spy on the neighbors look at things. So, we put this on our wedding registry:
http://www.telescope.com/control/product/~category_id=classicdobs/~product_id=09707
It's not too expensive and is very highly recommended for people looking for a good, basic telescope. What is difficult to tell from that picture is its scale. It arrived via FedEx today and OH MY FUCKING GOD, IT'S ENORMOUS!!!
The main tube is just shy of 4 feet long and nearly a foot in diameter. I'll take some pictures once I get it set up. I'm finding it pretty hilarious.
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i have pretty simple taxes. a W2, a 1099 MISC, and 1 student loan interest form. i have used 3 online tax sites to calculate my taxes.
site 1: owe govt 201, get 9$ back and 250$ back from NY and CA
site 2: owe govt 900, get a minimal sum back from both NY and CA
site 3: get 85 from govt, owe NY 80, get a large sum back from CA
...now, i could go somewhere stupid and pay HR Block 200$ to enter this shit for me and make sure i'm not an idiot. but tax programs are damned simple.
but i'm hesitant to file with site 3, because even though the numbers look great... i'm scared i fucked it up.
TLDR do i go to a stupid tax professional because i clearly can't input numbers into a website.
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I'm tempted to pick up one of these. Do you like yours? Are there any cons?
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It's gonna suck for whoever this crashes on.
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The thing is that I need a basic knowledge of Hebrew to be able to participate in the program. Is it possible to pick up a language in only a few months, given that I don't even know the alphabet of the language? I know a few of the spoken words, so I can ask where the bathroom is, but that's the extent of my knowledge. :(
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I CAN SEE THE TWIST COMING BUT GODDAMNIT
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http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2008/01/26/sahib.ca.marijuana.vending.kcal
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Discounting kids cartoon movies, I can think of a few..
Batman (1966) (Between seasons 1 and 2)
Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (1996) (Between seasons 6 and 7)
The X-Files (1998) (Between seasons 5 and 6)
South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut (1999) (Between seasons 2 and 3)
The Simpsons Movie (2007) (Between seasons 18 and 19)
Any others that you all know about?
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Sunday Reminder
Our sunday afternoon TF2 EU game is today at 4pm GMT (10am CST).
83.149.73.47:27015
Non-Euros welcome. Password in the usual place.
Second week in hyjal and and all 5 are dead.
we havent even set foot in BT yet and Hyjal is cleared, im so shocked at the moment.
i got the t6 helm too. yay
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