Morning Discussion
by Jeff "geedeck" Gondek, Jan 28, 2008 10:07pm PSTTuesday is pretty exciting, right? No? Well Hot Coffee was, remember that? But were you also offended by it? Do you pretty pretty pinky promise, under a court valid oath? Then you too can be $35 richer.
So we did a little Civilization: Revolution sweepstakes, check here for the possibly amusing responses, I'll have the results up later today. On the topic of Civ, it looks like we might not have a Wii version anytime soon but hearing rumblings on the quality of the DS version more than makes up for it.
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Every multiplayer game should have a built in optional filter that lets you opt out of playing with losers. I just came out of a Halo 3 game, where this fucking 8 year old kid with a rank so high I've never even seen it before, dominated everyone ten times over. It made me so angry I just shut my xbox off.
Srsly, I'm a casual gamer, and as such only have MAYBE 3 hours per week to devote to gaming (due to job, wife, LIFE) and I hate playing against people who have no life other than the life they've made for themselves through playing games all day long every day. The do not play with clan members option in COD4 cannot come soon enough.
I suppose this is why I've gradually migrated to playing single player games with most of my free time.
I did stuff when I was a kid, other than play games. Now it seems that 90% of the games I play are dominated by these obnoxious pre teen losers who clock 40 hours per week. While growing up there were maybe a dozen of these kinds of creatures in my school, but the ratio must be increasing at an exponential rate.
Halo 3 is a great game, but not when it's rendered unplayable through 99% of games being plagued by 4-15year olds who can't stop calling people fags with cocks in their mouths. I hope they all rott to death in many deep ditches dug accross the world.
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My wife and I have been trying to hit up as many of the great restaurants in the that we can, I want to take her someplace new. Some of the top places we've been and enjoyed:
French Laundry
Cyrus (Healdsburg)
Bouchon
Chez Panisse
Boulevard
Where else should we go?
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Why do you play this game?
Most of my friends from DAoC (which I played very little anyway) moved over to WoW so I figured I'd fire the account up again. I made it to 42 before quitting last time and I don't see myself getting even that far this time.
I was more forgiving at release when I found bugs and such because the game was brand new. Coming back years later and finding the same exact bugs and problems I had at day 1 is a bit ridiculous. Quest monsters starting as low as level 8 that I have to kill dozens of for a single drop (How does a boar survive without intestines?). I can only imagine the end game. Servers have been down 3 times in the 1 week I've been playing, and to top it off I hear that the level cap is still at 60 for non-Burning Crusade players, which would basically mean you can forget about raiding anything ever again.
So what's the deal? Why does everyone flock to this? Am I missing something? It seems like everything they've done since release has been one big fuck you after the other to their player base.
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http://www.astrology.com/livereadings/
Since she writes and edits for NBC, and they needed a voice and likeness for iVillage's "Oddcast" e-Astrology hub-bub, she stepped in. I asked her awhile back when she showed me a prototype why her cartoon-self kept bobbing her head around and she told me "because she's a whore."
Enjoy!
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PS where do you find the setting to toggle the medic's healing gun so I don't have to hold down the fire button forever? I want to give that a try.
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I'm using foobar2000, it's nice and lightweight but it just feels too minimal at times. I have a Zune so I have to use the Zune software for syncing, but that's all I use it for. I'm just looking for ideas on what to try out. FLAC support is a plus.
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Time to get an LCD replacement but budget is very much a part of the picture.
I found this one that is really inexpensive and seems to get great reviews. Any thoughts on it or anyone have one?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824254005
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Check this game out, if you haven't already!
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DAAAAAAAYTOOOOOOOONAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zvJaeSFgTzY&feature=related
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Upcoming episode of Mythbusters on Wednesday (Jan 30th) at 9PM will tackle the "plane on a conveyor belt myth". They're going to use a 400lb ultralight on some conveyor in Alaska.
Link - http://www.boingboing.net/2008/01/28/mythbusters-tackles.html
Schedule - http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-schedules/series.html?paid=1.13056.24704.3913.x
I don't think the plane will take off. Still, Adam said even the pilot guessed wrong.
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http://robotmantheblog.com/2006/10/25/so-i-guess-i-got-kicked-off-another-my-little-pony-forum/
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34 Playable chars The only one not in that screenshot is supposedly Star Wolf
The previously unreleased chars are
Luigi, Marth, Jigglypuff, Falco, R.O.B., Cpt. Falcon, Lucario, Ganondorf, Ness, Mr. Game and Watch, and Young Link
Not a bad list. Too bad Mega Man isn't on it though.
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Peachtree is looking pretty good (yes, I know they are owned by Sage).
I'm going to be doing most of the accounting and inventory stuff, so any recommendation would be welcome.
Unless someone has a better solution.
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I think I need a new stand though.... http://shackpics.com/files/6apnwobet2kmg4ydckkz.jpg
Got a fucking steal though, 400 bucks! (Guy buys busted sets and repairs them)
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Anyway i've been working on some of the promotional stuff and i've nearly finished the poster. We wanted to take different approach from the usual garish contrasting imagery of most club posters at the moment.
Let me know what you think, although its missing most of the text at this stage, i realize its not gonna be eye catching in the conventional sense but that wasn't really the aim.
http://shackpics.com/files/xru2ounxip6curxj5d62.jpg
cheers.
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For some reason, I took some pictures of it being done. It came out pretty freakin' good -- despite my lack of more ingredients (all I had was pepperoni and mozzarella and romano cheese). Onto the pictures!
http://www.elrepositorio.com/pizza/done.jpg <-- out of the oven, looks pretty awesome!
http://www.elrepositorio.com/pizza/ohgodsogood.jpg <-- oh it's going to be great I love it in my mouth
http://www.elrepositorio.com/pizza/goodthickness.jpg <-- this was taken at its thickest point which means it's pretty thin which is awesome
I'll have you all know that it was really good :D
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I have flashcards left by my predecessor that are in jpg format. They are just photos of the flashcards she used. http://nighteyes.shackspace.com/My%20Stuff/Japan/School%20Stuff/Elementary%20Flash%20Cards/AroundJapan/FlashCards491.JPG
Is there a way to easily clean it up so that when I print it out, it wont print the filler off-white but only the word, boarder, and image?
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This is like the tenth time I've had to fix this. I open up shitfaced windows media player, go to library, and clearly my 360 is on the allowed list. There is an exception in the Windows Firewall for Windows Media shitface sharing as well. Wtfucking fuck its so god damn aggravating.
Its the year 2008 and its still a pain in the god damn ass to watch porno
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My improv troupe is currently WINNING a poll for best improv troupe in Austin. The publicity from this would help us out a lot, so I am asking the shack to please vote for Look Cookie on this Austin 360.com poll for the Best Improv Troupe in Austin
http://www.austin360.com/alist/content/alist/youralist_index.html
Your help in decimating the competition is much appreciated.
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Kid Icarus game in the Assassin's Creed engine. :D
coworker is watching the new SSB intro
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