Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Mar 20, 2008 6:50pm PDTKinda on the road right now but you guys need a new chat thread for the evening! Will fill this thing out for you guys late tonight.
Daily Filter: Planetside 2, Deadlight
Today's Filter features an air combat trailer for Planetside 2, a plot trailer for...
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Weekend PC digital deals: strategy-o-rama
Do you like strategy games? Then you'll love this weekend's sales at digital...
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38 Studios, Harry Potter Kinect - Shacknews Daily: May 25, 2012
Join Garnett Lee on this episode of Shacknews Daily. Today’s stories: 38 Studios...
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Minecraft for Xbox 360 dev working on 'Adventure' update
Minecraft XBLA is getting a small update (1.7.3) for pistons, and then developer...
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Demon's Souls servers extended again
Its servers scheduled to shut down at the end of this month, Demon's Souls has...
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Resident Evil: Chronicles HD Collection coming in June
Capcom announced today that the Resident Evil: Chronicles HD Collection will hit...
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Sony patent would interrupt gameplay to display ad
Sony has filed a patent that would introduce in-game ads in a whole new way: by...
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Weekend Confirmed 114 - Diablo 3, Max Payne 3, Lost Planet 3
Diablo 3 and Max Payne 3 continue to keep the Weekend Confirmed hosts talking in...
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New Zone of the Enders project underway
Kojima Productions has revealed that it's working on a new Zone of the Enders...
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Carmageddon ploughing into GOG
The original Carmageddon is due to screech onto GOG "in the coming months,"...
13Kinda on the road right now but you guys need a new chat thread for the evening! Will fill this thing out for you guys late tonight.
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I'd seen Control at a festival, so it wasn't my first time.
they were both so fucking good. Especially together. Very complimentary because they focus on such different aspects of what happened.
I'm still amazed at just how much Sam Riley looks and sounds like Curtis.
Martin Ruhe's cinematography was gorgeous in Control.
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http://jimhillmedia.com/blogs/jim_hill/archive/2008/03/17/as-disney-gets-nervous-about-narnia-pixar-now-sets-its-sights-on-mars.aspx
I had heard rumors, but this sounds more concrete
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flYDTlVxH-s&feature=related
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http://www.lolcatbible.com/index.php?title=Main_Page
That's the bible translated into the LOLCat speak. It's nice to know that there are people out there with even more free time than I do.
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a) The patch is on Marketplace and PSN now.
b) Does anyone have the OXM disc they'd be willing to send me? I'll send you shipping monies.
<3
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DO NOT TAKE IT TO CLASS.
If you do take it to class, don't bother trying to pay attention, it is way too distracting. I have an hour fifteen minute class every Tuesday/Thursday and I had it in class, what follows is my level of activity during class.
1-10 minutes : Paying attention
10-20 minutes: Check e-mail (twice just to be sure)
20-25 minutes: Pay attention
25-60 minutes: Shack in class
60-75 minutes: Start the stopwatch function and proceed to try and hit the lap button when the tenths of a second fall on one minute exactly...
d0pamine is in that class with me too, we should have just skipped that class...but anyway, this thing rocks. Anyway, it is neato, that is all.
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What are your monthly expenses vs savings like? The wife and I just took on our first mortgage ($330,000 unfortunately) and we can just afford it. We're only able to save about $500 extra per mont over and above all of our bills - what's normal? How much extra do you have each month to live comfortably?
I'm wishing we had more extra each month to save a cushion fund to offset potential interest rate increases 5 years from now when our closed term expires.
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But now I need advice on what stereo system to pair with it. The wife will definitely be piping music from her PC to it, but so far she's fixated on Bose, which I know gets much hate around here. So please, offer me some reasonably-priced options... go!
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who is ready for population around 500 million?
who would let this be erected in their state, country?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones
1913
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hey if i do a ctrl-t that opens a new tab WHICH IS FUCKING AWESOME \m/ . . \m/ but you know what would be so awesome that my FUCKING FACE WOULD MELT RIGHT OFF OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOD?
if whenever i hit ctrl-t and it opened my new tab it went to google.
holy shit. i bet there's a way.
first person to tell me gets a surprise. the surprise is: (don't click until we have a winner): there is no surprise
raped
don't click that until it's over either.
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Tonight's games contained the slate of usual suspects. Chance, Pancake, and sauer advanced through Act3 to Act4, which involved two different A3 boss kills. Xenguard (L61) was around for a while bringing the pain in A3 and A4. Gabriel and I, along with a couple others part-time, cleared a boatload of ground in early A4 doing side quests, eventually getting them all (before the portal from Medea to you-know-where). Nali's ternion oracle has uber AoE for late normal.
Personal report: I'm up to L40 now, dinging on the last A3 boss kill. This has been good; Xenguard dropped me a couple more items to balance my gear, but most importantly I was able to put on a blessings of the (grail?) amulet. it has mega, mega all-around resists. This means I now have 250 DPS, which is so-so, but I average about 75 across all the resists. The first 5 are all 80. Stun resist is over 100. I also have pretty decent avoid projectile: I dominate every other archer I've seen so far. In a few more levels, I will be able to put on a Tracker's Hood for a huge DPS boost (I am lacking DEX for it right now). I'm at ~4500 or 4700 HP. I also have 3.5 mil gold so I can respec pretty freely now, which is nice. After putting on the blessing amulet, I got rid of the +elem resist bonuses to heart of oak, which freed up 6 more skill pts for now.
Things are going well! I'm hoping Nixx and other lowbies catch up soon. We will be doing more act3 runs this weekend, I imagine ;)
hardcore challenge: like Diablo 2's hardcore mode, I will retire this char and start a new one if I die.
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http://www.ncixus.com/products/26780/PVT88PYDF4/XFX/
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http://www.collectionsetc.com/ESAL.aspx#
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http://kotaku.com/370503/some-resistance-2-art
In before: OMG!! They totally riped-off TF2 style
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straferunning
READ UP NOOBS ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noobs ) IF U WANT TO GAME U HAVE TO LERN THE SKILLS STUDY HARD
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article3591734.ece
Gangster looks like really cool and Jumper looks like a film that could be enjoyable if you didn't take it seriously.
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This video is not available in your country.
what have you done YouTube?
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There's been some interest in our Shacknews Flickr group. This is a great chance to show us your work as well as get some critique from your peers. So be sure to join up! Once you're approved, go through the pool and leave comments on other Shackers' pictures. I always get a warm fuzzy feeling when someone leaves me some comments.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/shacknews/
While you're at it, don't forget to join our Assignment Group. This is an excellent way to improve your photography. I'm pretty sure we're going to be doing these bi-weekly. The current assignment is self-portrait. So go and take a self portrait of any kind and post it to the assignment group. Be creative!
http://www.flickr.com/groups/shackassignments/
I'm going to link a few of my favorites from the pool here. I'm using their flickr account names so if you have no idea who some of them are...neither do I.
devnullgt: http://www.flickr.com/photos/24788970@N03/2343051475/in/pool-shacknews
ConfusedUs (self-pimp) http://www.flickr.com/photos/confusedus/2343395967/
Nick Merzetti: http://www.flickr.com/photos/merzetti/2339030077/in/pool-shacknews
Siggi Jarl: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jarl/341446258/in/pool-shacknews
ratsinis: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ratsinis/308320072/in/pool-shacknews
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http://stadium.dallascowboys.com/
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lol :)
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