Morning Discussion
by Jeff "geedeck" Gondek, Feb 01, 2008 6:15am PSTGood morning everyone, hope Friday is treating you well. Lots of EA news from yesterday, Chris wrote up his thoughts on the company in the blog. If you haven't checked out the ShackBlog by the way, you should. I think it draws a really good line between our straightforward news on the front page, and the more flavorful articles of early ShugaShack days. There's even a RSS feed for it, where the news comes to you. Do you know how hard it is to import those from Soviet Russia? You should feel special. So what are you playing this weekend?
Yesterday, all these ShackBlog posts seemed so far away:
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



but there is one movie that i can't view completely. life is beautiful. i have till today only seen parts of it because it just tears my heart apart. i am always getting in a sad mood when the 3rd reich and the mass murder of jews is the topic. a tragic comedy is just to much for me.
so how is it for you? any movies that make you cry?
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My new Nikon D3 was finally delivered yesterday!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23382621@N02/2234018321/
Took some test shots last night in low light @ ISO 6,400, and this thing is absolutely amazing. Nearly completely noise free! I'm heading out into DC today to give it a thorough working-over at some of the museums (Smithsonian first!).
I am stoked!
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The new DS Lite announcement on the front page ( http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?story=51096 ) got me to thinking. I've got me, the wife, and two munchkins in the house. I(Wii) own 2 DS lites (both black) and are going to be picking up a third (Cobalt/Black for me. So, what have you got and how many?
2 - DS Lite
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I can't wait to get home and try TF2 on it.
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Mainly valves Playtesting:
I don't know what special school valve gets its playtesters from, but they sure do sound dim when you listen to the commentary for episode 2. One area was completely redesigned because one playtester was stupid enough to keep on running around in circles for 30 minutes during the antlion guard tunnel chase.
I mean, wow. Valve spend probably days dumbing down the level design because stupid people can get lost? I shudder to think what episode 3 will be like, perhaps easy mode will just jump you directly to the ending because the playtesters kept on drooling on their keyboards and shorting them out.
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Matches Scheduled & Matches TBD:
Good to Go
megarust vs. xevo - Saturday Feb 2 @ 6pm Pacific - NKOTB
rosewood vs. sockmonkeh - Sunday Feb 3 @ 8pm Pacific (or 30 minutes after SB) - ShackWest
Zaun VS. Jackass - Tues 5th at 7pm Pacific - NKOTB
Tentative
lowpoly vs. furious styles - Weekend of Feb 8/9/10 - server TBD
NastyJack vs. lakren - Monday Feb 4 @ 5pm Pacific - server TBD
skankcore vs. Waffles! - Monday Feb 4 @ 7pm Pacific - server TBD
????
Maddog vs. Virus
nyranger66 vs. brickmatt
RULE UPDATE - SPAWN CAMPING
Spawn camping is NOT allowed. Harassment is fine, but anything 'determined, deliberate and destructive to gameplay' is not fun, and is not a part of the shack tournament. You can push a team back to the spawn, but dont just sit there and mow people down as they try and get out. (now I know there are parts of Dustbowl where its part of the gameplay, like the first point, and thats fine. but there are also parts where its not.)
this is supposed to be fun, right?
I'd hazard that spawn camping is only fun for 50% of the people playing.
you can still dominate a team without spawn camping.
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TF2 Sound Ringtones
http://helpmewithmygameproblems.com/wiki/Ringtones (at the bottom)
I'll make some more next week when I'm back in town. Feel free to suggest any others. I'm using the Heavy "singing and more" one now.
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I have a 1gb avi file that I made using Camtasia. The video is only 45 min long and I need to get the filesize down to about 200 megs or less.... what's a good way to do this? I thought I could do this in VirtualDub but I'm having a hard time figuring out what to do. Any suggestions?
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Hey guys, for someone who has to give sporadic remote support to different users from different companies, what do you guys suggest ?
- https://www.logmein.com/
- http://www.crossloop.com
- http://www.teamviewer.com/
- https://www.gotomypc.com
- https://www.copilot.com/
I would like to avoid VNC or ULTRAVNC because that needs port forwarding and for multiple computers, it's a hassle to configure/maintain on the client side.
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http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2250245,00.html
That's good news. I was worried about who they were going to get. I'm glad they're turning it into two films too, so I have more to look forward to. haha
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supergreg = sacha baron cohen??
imdb says so http://imdb.com/name/nm0056187/otherworks. this is blowing my mind.
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I'm so glad the camera man died, what a douche.
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i was just going for 100% but the second (!) boss (which was really easy the first few times) totally raped me, and i was built to the 5th form going in as well. D:
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http://www.mmo-champion.com/
Some highlights include:
* Warlock summons work in instances
* Paladin Retribution loot re-itemized to not suck so bad
* FISHING DAILY QUESTS!!!!1
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I made an Amazon Prime order. It was split into two shipments, one came UPS the other Fedex. UPS arrived a day early. Fedex was supposed to arrive today and is AWOL. Yay!
:( So much for having my gaming space heater this weekend
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LOL at Indy
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=16146667
With one frag, a shotgun, and some luck, I got through that bitch on veteran. I'm up to protecting the Abrams. Wow. This is sick.
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(Or any dedicated team member can reply)
How many players on your team have been delinquent when it comes to practice/scrims? How many have you rarely seen online and have basically written off as 'not going to play/show up'
So far for my team it's 2 people out of 12.
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What?
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64.21.131.112:27015
usual pass
IGI
10/24
Come on in you /"$/"$/"$
http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/540076210.html
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I'm thinking Trillian, anything else? GAIM perhaps? All I'd really need is aim/yahoo support.
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