Morning Discussion
by Jeff "geedeck" Gondek, Mar 18, 2008 6:30am PDTLet's kick off the discussion of most all things great and small again, shall we? Yesterday saw quite a bit of news, with the announcement of Epic's Unreal catalog heading to Steam. That's pretty great, but it's like seeing an Olympic-sized pool and just staying in the shallow end. Where's Jill of the Jungle? Jazz? I think fairly relevant to Shackers would be news of the Puzzle Quest expansion for the XBL version, though I wonder if they'll try to do anything for those who bought it on other platforms. Also, the Audiosurfers in the house should pay heed to this free album, though to be fair I don't think the game is a requirement. Plus, ding/gratz to the big guy.
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
Carmageddon ploughing into GOG
Related: don't bark fuckin' commands at a Medic. This guy is the balls. He is healing you, healing your team. You aren't entitled to his ubercharge. In fact, barking at him to use it just makes him want to go and hit up some other pyro or heavy or something. Also, a fine little minigame in TF2 is called "protect the medic". In which you try to KILL pyros, spies, soldiers, and other enemies gunning for the extremely valuable medic.
I am not a fucking $250 call girl. I am not giving you a $50 blowjob for some assists. I am a highly-trained, mother-fucking medic. And I demand respect.
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Worst. Holiday. EVER.
Saturday afternoon was spent hiring my gear and getting lift passes and finding out where everything was.
On Sunday morning we rushed down to the ski/board school so that I could book some more lessons. With those booked, I had 2 hours to kill before the first one started. After messing about for 30 minutes Sabaki went off up the mountain on his own and my intention was to grab a coffee and wait for my lesson to start.
I stood up from where we'd been messing about for 30 minutes, board in hand, and started to walk back into the village.
As I'm carefully walking down a slope I hear a lot of French people yelling behind me and then some others in front yelling and pointing behind me. I stop and turn round to see a 5-year-old on a toboggan hurtling towards me. As he was a fair distance away I figured I could just step out the way. Sadly I stepped on what must've been the only patch of ice in the area, slipped, twisted my foot in my boot (WTF) and landed hard, straight on my coccyx.
The parents of the kid mumbled something in French and helped me up and I limped off, not realising just how badly stuff was hurt. After about 30 minutes I was in agony and my snowboarding holiday was over - 30 minutes after it begun >:(
I then spent the week drinking coffee and eating cake because there wasn't a damn thing to do in the village if you didn't ski/board.
>:(
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I took a walk down to the market by chance.
Along the way I sat a while and watch all the ants.
I wondered what if anything they would like to say.
Perhaps they wished for a better life, a better day.
If reincarnation had it’s way it could be in the plan.
All of the ants running to a fro, could someday be a man.
You say statistically, two of three will fail,
And I can’t argue that, I know it all too well.
But that means one of three was meant to be, and we’re on that list,
But if that bet still makes you fret, just answer me this.
What are the odds stardust would make people,
And they’d combine through generations to make you.
What are the odds on this big world you’d pass where I stood,
But when it’s Fate who does the dealing, the odds are pretty good.
I know I’m not a perfect person, far from it too
But I know what I want from life, you and only you
I could be happy fixing cars, or even laying tar, skin tan and dried
Would be doing well to be doing anything, with you by my side
You may not be romantic, my heart to yours sings
You may not believe me when I say so many loving things
But I would wait forever, whatever my life brings
Just to lay with you, stay with you, hang on your apron strings
I will always love you till the day I get my wings
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x86 download: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b0c7136d-5ebb-413b-89c9-cb3d06d12674
x64 download: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=874a414b-32b2-41cc-bd8b-d71eda5ec07c
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I've just launched my first full scale assault on another town. Currently waiting for my ships to blockade their harbor. I'm only doing this because I found out it costs WAY too much for 2 colonies (because of the palace upgrade).
Anyone have any marble or crystal for trade for gold/wine? I am Anarchia at 75:82.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PcL6-mjRNk
Dog seems pleased and he can use the machine by himself, haha
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I'm looking to dump my NE Rogue for RL monies. Hes PVP XFER ready, has around 3000 gold, 120 something badges, Arena points capped, S3 weapons/armor, full T4 and full T6, Gladiator Mount, Bear Mount, as well as some other misc junk. Send me a SM if you're interested with an offer, otherwise I'll hit up CL.
http://ashkie.shackspace.com/epicbc.jpg
http://ashkie.shackspace.com/epic2bc.jpg
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Caprica, the Battlestar Galactica prequel was just greenlit. I guess it's going to start out as 2 hour back door pilot.
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117982614.html?categoryid=14&cs=1&p=0
Sam Raimi is in talks to direct the next Jack Ryan film. What I heard about this is that it's going to be original and not based on a Clancy book, which is rather upsetting somewhat because the Without Remorse script (from what I heard from friends) was pretty great. Stuart Beattie is on fire. He did the original Pirates, Collateral, this, and he wrote the script for Splinter Cell which I also heard was good. He rewrote G.I. Joe (I read a portion of the draft before him and thought it sucked - supposedly the new draft by Beattie is good). Anyway.. not sure about the other rumor that Ryan will be played by Ryan Gosling.
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/36046
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What: Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
When: TONIGHT, March 18th, 9 pm est/8 pm cst/7 pm mnt/6 pm in the west
Where: etqw.shackbattles.com, pass in my profile
JOIN US!! ENJOY ACHIEVING VICTOLY WITH THE GDF OR STROGG! YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE!!
For those just starting out:
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Yes, good.
Anyway, I write this thread to humbly start a pretition for the easter sequel. It is the time of year that, apparently, Jesus died, so it only seems right to mark it with sexy nerds.
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The Presets - great electro in the vain of the more elctro New Order
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=M1ufW2INWmM
This is their new single My People that kills at festivals
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http://www.startribune.com/local/16768331.html
really secure, huh
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do the miracles only do anything in their respective spot? i shouldn't bother using them at any other point? (note - i only have the first)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeuEMeg8eQE
(the one certain guy holding a sign in the audience is major lolz)
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Mega Man
and Travis motherfuckin' Touchdown!
What say you, shack?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke
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http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww
all we need are a few snow speeders and luke skywalker and we can re create the battle of hoth
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So yeah, Degenerate... I made the steak EXACTLY as you specified, only it barely came out correctly (and me alive) because with the f'ing pan on HIGH heat, as soon as the butter touched the pan it f'in turned into a smoke stack that would get Geronimo's attention. Which in turn... set off my apartment's fire alarm... which in turn (30 seconds later) ... set off my entire.fucking.apartment.complex's fire alarm. Fucking fire truck, police, etc etc.
Apparantly I'm looking at a $500 fine from my apartment complex LULZ. hahaha most expensive 2 steaks evar.
But honestly... the steaks were rescued after I explained my dumbass self to the firedudes, the bottle of wine got finished, and it was a very nice evening.
I'm going ice skating next week.
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New Van Damme movie, basically a fake biography where he takes the piss out of himself and his life. It actually looks really good.
http://www.joblo.com/video/arrow/player.php?video=jcvdfull
Theres the trailer, I always loved Van Damme but lets be honest, he has always been a joke, but this actually looks great.
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I do have one question though, who set the car trap? Was it his own trap and he forgot or was it the alpha zombie?
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Damn...my excitement for this game is was huge.... but all the reviews out today that I've read just took it down a notch. The game is getting 8.2 / 8.5 etc.
The biggest complaint is that it is more of the same game from 2006, but its not quite labeled an expansion either. Other complaints include:
-Graphics are not on par with newer games such as CoD4, and don't really shine in general
-Team AI is still retarded and will go collect bullets for you in the middle of a firefight
-Frame rate issues
-Map scan exploit from last game is alive and well in Vegas 2 as well
-Cover system ...you think you're covered behind something solid (just like Vegas 1), but the game thinks you're not and you get wasted
-Lots of the MP maps are ripped from Raven Shield (giving us more of the same, not a lot of new)
<sigh> Does anyone have it yet, and can comment against any of that?
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What are you go to characters and what are the ones you hate. For me its Pit for a bit of speed and some arrows to keep people back and meta knight for close in brawling. I use both of the flight skills almost all the time letting the players beat each other up and then going in for the knock down.
Also I hate the snake and kirby players, stupid rocket launchers and kirby vertical weigh smash down followed by the sword slash.
Yeah this game is a lot of fun online.
Watched this movie a couple times over the weekend, if you have never heard of it or seen it, do your self a favor and watch it. I'm not that big of a beatles fan, nor that big of a fan of their music but the movie was made so beautifully and everything about it is fantastic (except for max/jude singing love ballads at each other)
http://www.amazon.com/Across-Universe-Blu-ray-Evan-Rachel/dp/B000ZLFALS/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1205873401&sr=8-3
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Talk about your sexy builds. Talk about your sexy experiences. Talk about your sexy sexy.
I'm considering some kind of nature/???? build next. Perhaps storm or something, especially if I can get some kick ass gear with my Harbringer. I've heard getting -100% cast time? for storm/nature combo just rocks everything but I don't know. Any suggestions for a non-physical damage type char?
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Want respect? Use a condom.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGrp2ppsIgo (he used one)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VpX4ZWDviM&feature=related (he didn't)
Alcohol: Makes you feel invincible when you're most vulnerable. Starring Batman!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU9hD50Qr4I
This one is pretty jarring when seeing it on the television for the first time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lky-SusSYsU
Ditto:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl7KoeVIh-k&NR=1
Morbid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRU11fGUomY
The last shot in this one always makes me cringe:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avBqDOf_C4c
This one is in heavy rotation lately:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS5f73EHRhA
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http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/18/iphone-firmware-2-0-hands-on/
Horizontal calculator mode. As trivial as it sounds, it's still looks pretty sweet.
http://www.engadget.com/photos/iphone-firmware-2-0-hands-on/705154/
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One thing I've noticed lately while cooking is that out-of-season tomatoes suck. They taste like ass. It doesn't even matter if you buy the fancy $5 a pound organic shit from whole foods. My dishes actually come out better if I buy the really nice canned tomatoes. Has anyone else noticed this?
Has anyone cooked anything awesome lately?
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http://www.newsweek.com/id/124098
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