Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Feb 13, 2008 6:00pm PSTApparently Jason Kidd is coming back to Dallas. The western conference in the NBA has
gone completely bonkers. I hope the playoffs are half as interesting as they look like
they will be.
- Latest net neutrality
href="http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206503693">bill
- 3G iPhone
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? - FF3
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3
- Is BR worth while?
As for the the videogame news around these parts for today:
- Replay Couch 14
- GTA4 Online Multiplayer
- New KOTOR Planned
- Skate Sequel Planned
- New LOTR Game
- TF2 Update Tomorrow
- PC Gaming Consortium
Lastly, it is indeed Shacker ElPopo who has managed to solved the riddle of IE having
craptastic rendering in our comments and with a quite lengthy change list it seems that
you can now slack from work on your IE machines as well. There is some ugly brutal stuff
in there to make it work but we'll take it. Yay ElPopo! Oh, if you insist on using FF 3
Beta 3, try this
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
Just got back, and I must say the movie was pretty much exactly what I expected it to be, a little better in some aspects, a little worse in others.
All in all it's just a blast to watch. The action is done well and the use of the 'jumping' isn't too over the top to keep it relatively believable. The story is slightly lacking, but honestly there is enough to get by and just a little more would only have made we want a ton more, so it had to correct amount.
The only really bad thing I have to say (I'll spoiler this for the spoiler freaks, but it's nothing major plot wise) is that it ends far to quickly. There really wasn't any conclusion ... it just ends. Seems like they may be setting up for a sequel even though it lacked a true cliffhanger.
I would recommend it to anyone looking for a fun sci-fi movie to enjoy, but it certainly isn't anything groundbreaking.
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Scrolling bug fix for shack comments
I tried my hand at making a greasemonkey script, and basically just ripped off ThomW's scripts and the shacknews jazzview.js to produce a fix for this annoying bug. If you don't know what I'm talking about, don't worry, but it is the bug where your window scrolls any comment preview to the bottom of the window. I do not know what the fuck about javascript, so if this script fucks up just uninstall it, but it seems to be working for me and others.
Download here: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/22800
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- New Badlands map obviously
- The various performance and load time improvements
- Granary: Removed spawn timing advantage from the middle (from -3 to 0)
- Added flamethrower "sizzle" sound when the Pyro is hitting a target
- Added a new timer to the HUD to show the value of mp_timelimit.
- Demoman grenades now do 25% less damage (no, not really, I just like screwing with Demomen)
I think this will be the 3rd time they've tweaked Granary in some way. Reducing the advantage of holding the CP a little bit helps, but they really need to make it easier to defend that last CP and move the spawn point back that the winning team has with 4 CPs controlled.
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DAMN YOU BLIZZARD WITH YOUR RESSURECTION SCROLL SERVICE.
DAMNN YOU ALL TO HELL.
That is all. Thank you for listening.
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The show sucks again. >:(
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Holy shit that was epic.
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[BoS] Maddog_Delphi97: cool
[BoS] Maddog_Delphi97: late friday night?
[BoS] Maddog_Delphi97: Make it late if you can.
NastyJack (NJOB): Ok we'll see
:D
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Hm... turn it off for about a week, browse xbox live, start downloading frontlines demo....RROD
Doing my 2nd RMA now, 1 week after getting it back from repair. Awesome.
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My girlfriend's laptop has had problems ever since she got it, slow loading and basically just slow everything, I've tried my best fiddling with it to no avail so the only thing left to try is SP1.
BUT is the one thats just been released a BETA or something? is it safe to try it out on her laptop or should I wait longer?
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Vote for me! :D http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=79&threadid=2154278&enterthread=y
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HD and other sizes available here:
http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/indianajones.html;_ylt=AsY7qv8MSH6wl3g1GC6bw55fVXcA
Hell. Yes.
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http://www.cncgames.com/redalert3_pics/ra3%20logo.jpg
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http://www.superherohype.com/news/topnews.php?id=6791
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haha oh wow. If it isnt intended to be a parody, then it's a horrible, horrible movie, but if is then it's one of the most genius movies I've seen.
Putting aside the fact that the plot doesn't make any sense (shipping drugs in beer bottles, yeah that'll fool the DEA for long), some of the scenes were halariously bad:
- The dummy in the car crushing scene hahaha. It didn't even resemble a person. Looked like a bad mock up of Pinocchio.
- One of the quickest sex scenes I've ever seen in a film, followed by a classic line: "That time I did hear you coming"
- Brandon Lee's horrible acting. It's a shame he didn't live longer to produce more quality films such as this.
And so, so many more.
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how are this dude's cartoons so incredible
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http://shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=16177551
http://kotaku.com/356321/new-aliens-red-faction-games-christened
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The Dark Knight
Indiana Jones
Rambo
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http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0610/heart_russell_big.jpg
still a bunch of fags
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Updated Acrobat
Updated Vista / Office
Updated Steam
Updated ATI drivers
Updated VIA Nic Drivers
Updated WMP Library to re-find old movies for kids.
Updated MS Money accounts
*sigh* now I'm bored.
post on the shack....check
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080213-are-amd-and-nvidia-destined-for-a-blessed-union.html
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is there a "it's a me! mario!" mp3 or wav out there?
After reading the article I asked, "How sweet would it be to see two T-rex's all decked out in metal armor having a sword fight on the moon? I'll tell you how sweet, wicked sweet."
Which caused stump to ask "They have tiny arms. How could they hold swords??"
Thus follows my response.
http://www.easyscreens.info/?v=2667
And behold, they where not satisfied, for {Postal}y requested to see them in battle.
Again I responded: http://www.easyscreens.info/?v=2671
With much love,
Your baby's mama.
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How to play the Scout:
http://www.tf2wiki.net/wiki/How_to_play_the_Scout
This guy...I mean, wow, just wow. I have lots of ideas for a "How to play a medic" if I knew how to do this slick editing and composition.
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http://www.bit-tech.net/columns/2008/01/28/staying_independent/1
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Take THAT, Evidence Act 1995!
However I am sad that I missed some TF2 smooshings with the rest of the shackers, and I will not be able to make it tomorrow night as I'm going to be part of an operation where I walk through lots of bars, probably chilling with a sniffer dog and being gawked at by drunk chicks. <3
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fZHou18Cdk&eurl=http://www.barackobama.com/index.php
-will.i.am
-common
-john legend
-scarlett johansson
-the dude from CSI
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