Morning Discussion
by Jeff "geedeck" Gondek, Feb 08, 2008 6:00am PSTHow is everyone doing today? There's a change or two in the air, but we're glad to have you guys and gals with us. I think what would kick the day off nicely would an in-chatty contest that everyone can take part in. We know that the Shacknews, it gets you chicks... and if you've noticed the banner at the top of the page, there's that and many more fine quotes. But what other one-line phrases can you suggest that represent Shacknews? Reply here, and to make it fun, one random submitter will win a copy of Savage 2: A Tortured Soul.
One chance for Savage 2 not good enough? Then don't forget you have three more chances with our other, slightly more involved contest for the creative types.
So I spent a bit of time with No More Heroes yesterday and continue to really enjoy it. Just made it to the fifth rank, and let me tell you the battle for it was pretty mind blowing. And I also got a gold medal in lawn mowing! :( Oh god, I just played a lawn mowing mini game. Someone hold me.
In the ShackBlog today, we mourn and celebrate lost games:
FileShack: Unity of Command, Skyjacker
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
Resident Evil: Chronicles HD Collection coming in June
Sony patent would interrupt gameplay to display ad
Weekend Confirmed 114 - Diablo 3, Max Payne 3, Lost Planet 3
New Zone of the Enders project underway
Suggest a quote for the Shacknews banner. It gets you chicks is of course a fine starting point, but what else encapsulates your Shacking experience? I'll pick a random submitter to win a copy of Savage 2, and we may very well pluck the best ones to go up top. Contest will be open until I do another chatty (ie Weekend Discussion) where I'll announce the winner there.
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is an xbox live gold subscription tied to a gamertag , the console or the harddrive?
I have 4 gamertags on my console and Im wondering if all 4 will have gold access because one account has paid for it.
thanks
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqOq61KP4jw
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There are difficult or less-than-common occurrences that you have enjoyed. Worthy of a self-high five, so to speak.
- Headshotting a scout as sniper
- Critical bonesaw kill. Against a heavy
- 'Tis better to burn out, than fade away: get two or more kills after death as pyro
- Three backstabs in succession. God, this feels amazing and makes any respawn timer worth it
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http://gamedev.sessions.edu/?p=8
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Do you know of any decent places to get dinner on a Saturday night near Washington Square Park? I'm looking for something more than the dingy corner taco shop but less the Michelin-rated establishment with a 2-hour wait.
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This will be a nice step up from my E6400.
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/end shill
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/shoesonwrong/2143819323/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shoesonwrong/2144612652/
Jackass
i'm trying to install this new deck i bought (2nd hand) and every time i hook up ground and +12v, i blow the 7.5amp fuse that powers my clock (and the deck doesn't get any power). i have no idea wtf would be causing it, anyone have any ideas?
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yes, I know they are part of the history of team fortress, and yes engineer would be pointless without them, but are they really that necessary?
I find most games to be just cock blocked by excessive sentry nonsense. There would be much more flag carring and exchange of control points without them. You cant even get down to a flag in 2fort4 without new sentrys being built back upstairs after youve cleared through them. I just find there is always a human element to the game that can be trumped or beaten, but a sentry in a good spot with an engineer able to hide and keep repairing seems unfair. I just wish there was a solo aspect to take on a sentry/engineer 1v1 like there was with TF1 and TFC.
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My 8800GT won't communicate with my monitor. My monitor (http://www.revioo.com/media/images/news/1/8571.jpg) has a cord with adapter ends that look like this: http://dmmsupport.com/modules/KB/Image/Image/Accessories%20-%20images/DVI_adapter.jpg but my video card however looks like this: http://www.kvm.com.au/images/products/DVI-FF-0.5_thumb.jpg
Should these work together? They do fit but clearly are different. My 8800GT didn't come with a cable to connect to my monitor.
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I've found the Nokia 2630 for $135 at http://www.hi-mobile.net. It seems half-decent, it's slim which I like, and I'm glad it's not a flip-phone since I'm sick of those.
Anyone have anything good or bad to say about the 2630? I don't want to pay much more.
My priorities are voice quality and a slim form-factor. I don't care about photos or music at all.
Halp???
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Confess your gaming sins! The other day I was playing a friendly game of TF2 on one of the great Shack servers. As usual, I was getting my arse handed to me by the entire other team. After trying a number of classes, I decided to have a go at a Scout. I run out of the beginning area and ... and there it was on the ground: a 100% ready teleporter. My team was doing pretty well -- surely nobody else is going to die in the next 5-10 seconds. We're at the opposite end of the map. It'll be OK, nobody is around. And I did it. I took the friggen teleporter as a scout, and the second those pretty lights flashed around me I realized that somebody was walking up behind me. "You've got to be kidding me, PurpleTentacle" I heard, and hung my head in shame. No, no I'm not kidding you. I'm retarded and stupid and I'm sorry, so very sorry.
So Shack, what multiplayer sins have you committed?
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tell me about your city. what sucks and what is cool? hows the weather and traffic?
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About every other day the people above me fucking blare their music (they're doing it right now) like they're trying to justify the cost of some obnoxious system. It's almost as loud as what I'm trying to listen to on my computer right now.
Is this acceptable? It's 7pm, and this is the only real beef I have with them. They don't do it at crazy hours.
The people below me, however, do it in the morning, though, and it's below my bedroom. It's not quite as loud, but it's woken me up a few times.
So yeah, is this normal; just something you have to accept? It's just obnoxiously loud for anytime of the day imo.
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http://gallery.mac.com/jvalice#100166&bgcolor=black&view=grid
Mac Pro
Peryn Xeon Quad Core 2.8ghz
4gb of DDR2 FB-DIMM memory
Geforce 8800GT 512mb card
16x DVD-DL writer
750gb OS X drive
320gb Secondary OS X drive
150gb 10krpm Raptor "Windows ubergaming drive"
Crysis, SoaSE, and Steam ready to rock and roll. :D
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So, just watched that finally...the "Unrated" version. I really didn't like it that much. From the standpoint of it being a action flick, then yeah it was fucking insane...but from the standpoint of this being a Die Hard film...I don't know. Of course once we went to Die Hard 2 and 3 it got really fucking crazy stupid anyways so its not really the idea of me "suspending disbelief" or any of that. More its just John McClaine is now John Terminator Robocop Rambo.
A few things that annoyed me. Justin Long...some people said they liked him in this....I fucking wanted him to die from the moment I saw him. People talked shit about Transformers and its product placement but I felt this was just as bad. The entire nerd/techno crap just reminded me of how shitty Transformers nerd techno babble was too.
I did think Maggie Q was super hot. I thought the action was crazy...but I guess I didn't find it that enthralling.
5/10
I have a client who basically wants a simple site where they can post news/links to articles under a bunch of different categories and have people receive a daily e-mail briefing of the articles. These are NOT tech savvy clients. They probably don't even know what RSS is.. but
Anyways what's the best prepackaged CMS to handle something like this? I was thinking just wordpress I guess. Is there a wordpress plugin or service for e-mailing rss feeds to people?
Since these are not tech savvy people I imagine they are going to want all sorts of goofy improvements/features that aren't supported out of the box with wordpress so I'm sure i will have to customize some shit. I've used wordpress before but I've never customized it or written my own plugins. Is it pretty simple?
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I'm trying to understand all the REST routing stuff. Specifically adding routes to registration and sign in/out pages for a user controller. I'm currently using:
map.resources :users, :collection => { :login=> :get }Since the user will GET and POST to the login form should I include both verbs? What about for a registration page? Should the registration form be both GET and POST or should it use the REST-y post to /users to register?
Also any links to Rails 2 specific documentation would be appreciated - it seems like everything I read is for 1.2 or earlier.