Evening Reading
by Chris Faylor, Mar 14, 2008 6:00pm PDT"Bow down to the thrasher," Aaron Linde just told me. Not really sure what's going on with that, but I hear he's been having some problems with creepy crawly spiders lately.
By the by, make sure you folks play it safe this weekend. Remember, one in four!
- Feds are losing stuff
- Tom Cruise rocks out
- Astronauts give robot hands
- Military drops bathroom bombs
- Maarten's country okays public gay sex
- Meanwhile, Faylor's town is scared of turnips
Meanwhile, a look at today's events in video game land:
- SOE Likes PS3
- Sony Claims 2008 as Year of PS3
- Alone in the Dark Gameplay Footage
- LoTR Online Gets Mines of Moria Expansion
- Free Burnout Paradise DLC On The Way
- Mr Driller Heads to XBLA
- Mass Effect 2 on 360 First, PC After
- Microsoft Disses Blu-ray, Loves Digital Downloads
- GTA 4 Multiplayer Detailed: 16 players, 15 modes
Darksiders 2 releases June 26, pre-order bonuses announced
PlayStation Home getting avatar 'fighting' game
Girl Fight bringing fighting girls to XBLA and PSN
Skyrim Workshop touts 2M downloads, 2,500 mods
Xenonauts dev promises 'proper remake' of XCOM
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"Taco Bell economics" where profit is made up on inexpensive items through volume.
Is there a typical formula to determine, for example, that selling 100 each per period of a US$0.50 item is profitable, but selling 80 each is a loss?
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http://www.own-age.com/vids/12876
:D
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In reply! With no ill-typed tags, I hope! (Note, its a little redundant, but whatever. TLDR 29th of March, in 13 days, unless many of you vote for the 12th of April).
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OH MY GOD SO GOOOOOD
I've played a good amount of games with tsuba online and with randoms and am having a blast. The online setup is pretty weak but the game is so much fun I just try and ignore it and focus on the good things.
I do wish I could do 1on1 games with random people instead of the always 4 way games. It's to bad there isn't any real matchmaking options like that.
I also went through gamewith.us and added everyone that added me. I'm about to hop online in 20 minutes with tsuba if anyone wants to play some games as well.
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I managed to get 9/10'ths of the data off the 500gb WD drive on to another 500gb WD drive.
It also died as did my third 500gb WD drive.
Admitedly they've been in my drawer for 4 or 5 months so it may be ok now but I believe there must have been a bad batch of these things, infact 2 of the 3 drives were fresh replacements from the store for another 2 which died, I have had 5 out of 5 WD 500's fail on me.
(Almost regretting moving away from Seagate here, thank god my 3 750's are fine)
Thought this might help someone too, since some of you may have 3-7 month old WD 500's - may want to backup, incase.
Also yeah it was porn, it was 15 years worth, it was the vast majority of shit you fellas have linked since I started posting here 9 years ago, from wunders over-rated 64mb (iirc) lesbian porn to god knows what else, Teratogens stuff and Randomnulls stuff, there was stuff from emule there was all kinds of things, there was stuff I hand picked just based on the actress name who was hot.
There was 180gb worth and I don't miss it for a goddamn second - that stuff will destroy your ideas of sex if you watch it too much, absoloutely give you the weirdest ideas of what's normal.
Sensible viewing is fine but 180gb? 15 years, thank you WD, thank you.
I have about 2gb of still pictures of women ONLY in it, attractive simple women, if I want to rub one out (I don't yet) then I can look and imagine doing things with them, not see 14 black guys pile drive her asshole and then make her lick the cum off the carpet fires up emule
Good luck with WD drives fellas, your internet penpal, abrasion.
P.S my only regret is I couldn't share it all with you, I know some of you would've loved access to it, sry.
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Super Smash Brothers Brawl Shackmeet Extravaganza of Awesomeness postmortem
So yesterday about 15 people (10 Shackers) came to my house and we brawled it up. Much fun was had by all! I have never heard an entire room erupt in yells and screams as many times as it did last night, usually during a very exciting sudden death round. I have some replays we saved that I'll need to watch to relive those moments.
Super Smash Brothers Brawl was on with everyone playing from the start to the end of the Shackmeet. It's very difficult to get sick of that game!
We started the evening using the "rotation" feature, having the two winners swap out. I wanted new and rusty players to get to stay in a little longer so they could figure it out while the good players played a little less often. After a few hours of that, we did a couple tournaments. In the interest of letting everyone play as often as possible, we did 4-person matches and it was intense. To be able to get a multiple of 4 players in the tournament we had to fill in the blanks with CPUs. We decided to make every CPU play Luigi on a very easy difficulty. It was pretty damn funny when Luigi won the first bracket. The most amazing thing happened during that and the following 4 tournaments we did: Without exception, the stupid skill 2 computer got the smash ball every single goddamn time. It got to the point where all of the spectators were cheering for Luigi to get the smash ball. Because he was skill 2 he would always use it and waste it completely. Everyone falls asleep and then he just stands there shooting fireballs. It was awesome.
After the tournaments we went back to rotation mode, this time swapping out the 3 losers as we had more people show up and wanted the rotation to go faster.
A few notes:
► King Dedede won the "fuck you giant penguin rapist" award as Pebby managed to win many times in a row with him. There is something frustrating about losing to that penguin jerk.
► Pikachu won the "fuck you shock mouse" award. I doubt I need to explain why.
► SSBB's rotation feature is fucking awesome. It is implemented so amazingly perfectly and it made it very easy to have 15 people all rotating in and out and getting to play about evenly. You don't even have to swap around the controllers specifically. When it says you're up, you just grab any unused controller and press A. You can even have 8 controllers hooked up (4 cube 4 wiimote) and it knows what's up. When it's your turn you can tell it you want a break and it'll throw you to the back of the line. So awesome.
Thanks to AltZero, dahanese, mikecyb, Ajax, edlin, Zhaneel, Chris Remo and Jake2000 for coming! Also Miresse and I thank you for not spilling a single drink. I was impressed.
Also, I think your collective awesomeness might inspire some of my friends who were there to at least start lurking here. You guys really gave a spectacular example of why the Shack is so awesome. I hope to hold another one of these again sometime.
And of course, the photos:
We fit pretty comfortably in my living room: http://www.apartment167.com/otherimages/shack/shackmeet2008/SSBBShackmeet_1_Web.jpg
Eyes glued to the TV: http://www.apartment167.com/otherimages/shack/shackmeet2008/SSBBShackmeet_2_Web.jpg
I hate you Dedede! http://www.apartment167.com/otherimages/shack/shackmeet2008/SSBBShackmeet_3_Web.jpg
Alcohol was consumed (I took this picture after I cleaned up most of the mess):
http://www.apartment167.com/otherimages/shack/shackmeet2008/SSBBShackmeet_4_Web.jpg
And there was cake!
http://www.apartment167.com/otherimages/shack/shackmeet2008/SSBBShackmeet_5_Web.jpg
Thanks again for coming everyone. I had a ton of fun and it was nice meeting those of you whom I hadn't met before.
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It's a fantastic, flawless and absolutely riveting game. Through out the game I just kept finding new things that amazed me about this game.
If you like RPG's... hell if you like good games, you owe it to yourself to go pick up The Witcher. If not now, then when the Extended Edition comes out in May.
Flawless victory, Projekt Red. Flawless.
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http://shackpics.com/files/JaySuit_466r7yls7shg2i5q6glf.jpg
Now let us see you lookin all spiffy so (much like I will receive shortly) we can all make fun of you too.
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Rest in Peace
Watched him die. Started up Halo3 Friday night, and as it loaded the map the screen slowly distorted. Shut it down. No video. Doesn't red ring. Doesn't work with other cables.
I gave the tech support some shit when they said the coffin would be here in 3-5 days, since they'd originally advertised overnight mailing support.
Spring break is next week, too >:(
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Who has the money?
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oh god! i never noticed, but denzel's pinky is FUCKED!
http://forum.ebaumsworld.com/showthread.php?t=57014
any other celebrity disformities?
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i missed the first ep but saw the 2nd, gonna watch the first today when it repeats.
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Cancer. Deployment. Ewww. Last day on US Soil and then to parts heretowithin unknown! Should be fun!
P.S. I hope the world does not implode on my watch.
This is sort of a thanks.txt until I get back, Shack loads like shit over satellite, Ill check in from time to time. Behave yourselves.
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Momofuku Ko blew my fucking mind. End to End it was pretty much perfection. In addition one of the pairings was the best sake I have ever had. It was filtered but tasted like nectar.
http://www.wallywine.com/ps-16422-143-nv-sake-kamoizumi-komekome-500ml.aspx
I recommend you buy a fucking case of this stuff.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyN4ViZ21N0
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what do you health nuts bring to work to eat for lunch? tired of spending 8 dollars a day on lunch for shit that'll make me 100lbs overweight by the time i'm 40.
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I've tried playing it before but the first level promptly turned me off. But I'm willing to fight through it again.
So what type of character should I play this time and why?
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www.shackquakelive.com
It has a few interesting features like an RSS feed of the "shackquakelive" Google calender that lets people easily see upcoming games, etc. You can easily join and schedule events from Google Calender by just adding the "shackquakelive" calender. But even if you don't belong to the calender, the RSS feed will let you see the schedule.
I've also broken down the install guide into two different methods. People were getting confused and thinking the information being offered was absolutely necessary to get in the game and play, and it's not.
Hmmm, lets see. Also, a server monitor link. And some other stuff like a guide for better settings, etc. Any changes to the server or map additions in the future will be noted here.
Anyway, hope this makes it easier for people to get involved. It's really quite easy to get shit installed and play.
Oh, and if anyone have a vector image of the shack logo, I could really use it...
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http://wikileaks.cx/leak/FBI-pedophile-symbols.pdf
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