Morning Discussion
by Jeff "geedeck" Gondek, Jan 28, 2008 4:44am PSTSo how is it hanging Shackers? Things are still a bit quiet with the week starting, but we do have some new screenshots from Mercenaries 2. The previous game was probably been my favorite open-world style game and I look forward to the new one, though it has quite the competition this year. I'm not sure if I mentioned Nick's latest Replay Couch, so make sure to check this TF2 Shacker-highlighting episode.
From a land, only known as... the ShackBlog:
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
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Wow, Zero Punctuation wasn't lying about the manual to this thing. :P
So, I hear the US version was censored. Any way to restore said content to the artist's original vision?
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I'm considering getting back into making video games for fun. I've already made several mini game engines over the years, but the games themselves were never completed. However, it's been some years and I know graphical libraries have advanced beyond QBasic lines and dots and Windows GDI. I'm mainly programming in Windows/Linux with C/C++ and 2D graphics (maybe 3D later), so I know DirectX is a good route (I have a book on it), but I know there's wrappers like Ogre and XNA. I've also programmed in Flash (and made an engine), but I'm not fond of the VB-esque "code in widgets." Any recommendations for a good and flexible library to use? If all else fails, I can always reinvent the wheel and make my own custom wrappers around DirectX.
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I had some of you the other day ask about this and I thought I would go ahead and post up here..
As some of you know, I had the opportunity to try out for American Gladiators at an open call this past Saturday. The day couldn't have gone better!
If you want to read about the day, I've copied over what I posted on a Myspace Bulletin the other day in Reply.
So this afternoon, I get a call from casting saying that they'd like to see me tomorrow for a CALL BACK and video interview for the NBC Network execs to see!!!!!
Oh, and in case you don't read the reply story - THIS IS TO BE A GLADIATOR!!!!
I can't tell you how satisfying it is to have this happen to me after what happened 8 weeks ago with this!!
PLEASE! Cross your fingers, toes, or anything else that can bend that way for me tomorrow!! :)
Maybe, JUST MAYBE - Dookeyfingers will be taxing fools in the arena WITH LAMPS AND SAND!!!
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Suddenly I'm in the mood for some Turok.
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http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&u=http://www.pconline.com.cn/diy/graphics/reviews/0801/1210234.html&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhttp://www.pconline.com.cn/diy/graphics/reviews/0801/1210234.html%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG
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Ideas?
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2244240,00.html
And if people still refuse to learn, let's force them into it. Replace all supermarkets with complex remote-control vending machines that dispense food only if you can successfully navigate your way through a 25-tier menu system. And make it illegal to pass the food to anyone else. Before long, we'll starve the idiots out of existence; manufacturers will never have to simplify anything ever again, and we'll enjoy a golden age of buttons and options and adjustable sliders and a/v input connector 1. Now that's progress.
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http://www.thebudgetgraph.com/site/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1&zenid=0adb49c481d9fa49779ca349278055f2
For those that are curious as to where exactly your federal tax dollars go.
The map is interactive, so click to zoom in and drag to move it.
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"If a disease kills a large number of turkeys, the supply curve of turkeys will shift leftward. This will result in a price increase, which will then cause the supply of turkeys to shift rightward."
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http://helpmewithmygameproblems.com/wiki/All-Pro_Football_2K8/shackleague - Wiki
http://online.2ksports.com/league/?p=360&l=7930&t=APF2K8 - Shack Lime Bowl tournament
http://online.2ksports.com/league/?p=360&l=8139&t=APF2K8 - Lime Losers runner up tournament
Congratulations to Tremetal on winning Lime Bowl CCCP!
He managed to win all 7 games before him and crushed his opponents like the Norse invaders of yore.
In the championship game, he intercepted cltcprd's Randall Cunningham 3 times and held Earl Campbell to 55 yards while his own Christian Okoye almost crested 100 yards.
To cltcprd's credit, he did have a late comeback to narrow the gap to 7 points and stifled Tremetal's WRs, Alvin Harper and Rob Moore, to just 4 receptions and less than 80 yards combined.
Final score 28-21.
In the runner up tournament, Deathlove's Chicago Beasts faced Luna's Red Flag Aces in the championship.
Luna's linebackers shut down Deathlove's rushing attack for the most part, forcing him to go to the air. The Aces' defensive line then took over, Dan Saleamua and Keith Millard sacking Joe Montana 7 times and pressuring him maybe a dozen times more. Montana eventually got a pair of long range connections late in the game to score.
John Elway faced difficulty as well, intercepted 3 times, but the Aces were able to capitalize two times on Barry Sanders runs of greater than 70 yards. Both plays were flagged, but each time it was defensive encroachment. Refrigerator 'Lardass' Perry couldn't help himself. Sanders ended up with 180 yards.
Final score 36-23.
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Half Life: Full Life Consequences
"a nine-year old's Half-Life 2 fanfiction narrated and animated -- with spelling intact"
This made me laugh this morning...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHxyZaZlaOs
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ive been working in a hospital for the past year and while its really intesting, it pays shit. I knew this going in, and my intention was to just do it for a year so i can have "clinical experience" as a bullet point on a grad school application, and now that the one year mark is around the corner im thinking its time to switch gears from "work for experience for school" to "make some fucking money for a change"
but i dont know what!
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http://gizmodo.com/349584/real+world-calvin-builds-snow-machine-creates-backyard-mountain-overnight
lol @ mom "its a molecular process" ... haha
damn, if that was my kid, i'd buy him whatever he wanted to build shit ... genius!
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Yay for talking trash again in TF2. Now I have to hop on a server to test it out.
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http://shackpics.com/viewer.php?file=k7ml3si3la9evbg9z97r.jpg
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But, my guitar seems limp and it has broken, rattly parts in it...
How fast is the turn-around on replacement parts from EA?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soWwa_Xwy7U
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I have a stupid rect that I want rotated 90 degrees on the Z, but can I figure out how?? Nope.
I can fold it, I can split it, I can twist it, I can copy and delete it... but rotate it... no way.
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR,
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I'm looking to do an even trade of games with a fellow shacker, since we all know these PS3 games are damn expensive, and since shackers are awesome people to trade games with.
Looking to trade Uncharted and Assassin's Creed for any 2 of these:
Ratchet & Clank
Lego Star Wars Saga
FolkLore
Burnout Paradise
UT3
Resistance: Fall of Man
IF anyone wants to just trade 1 for 1, that's cool too. I loved Uncharted, but after beating it on its hardest difficulty, its time for us to part ways. :( Shackmsg me!
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Chilis now has a Southern Smokehouse Bacon Cheeseburger.
The bacon is triple the thickness of a normal piece of bacon and is seasoned with brown sugar and chili pepper
http://www.chilis.com/
those little burgers look good as well
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