Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Mar 24, 2008 6:00pm PDTWell, Army of Two is.... ok. We're in China now or something and it has managed to keep
our interest on and off over the last few days, but certainly doesn't ever have that feeling
of "I cant wait to play more" to it. Probably worth a rental.
- XM + Sirius
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- Food prices going up
- What white people write
about
- Future cigarette!
- Android phones soon?
- Blu-ray
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As for the the videogame news around these parts for today:
- Blu-ray Patent Issues
- Sonic Unleashed
- Rock Band Wii Dated
- Battlefield Bad Company Pay Scale
- Rainbow Six Vegas 2 Issues
Lastly, we added a new tag this evening much to my enjoyment. Take a look at this
parade of shame! The delay tag.
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
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shack / pw: shack or similar.
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Whoa
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Everyone has, or at least should have, a favorite movie that no matter how cheesy or many times they have seen it, it still gets them to laugh.
Maybe it's Goonies, with Chunk, or whatever his name was, screaming "Hey you GUYS!"
or maybe it's the Star Wars movie series and you LOVE whenever anyone says "May the Force be with you"
For me... it's a little movie called Lake Placid.
As a Comcast HBO subscriber on the west coast Lake Placid is available for free under the On Demand menu. I discovered this tonight and promptly forced my family to watch it... well, they didn't have to watch it, but I took over the damn TV and that''s what I watched!
Between Bridget Fonda, Bill Pullman, Oliver Platt and muthafuckin' Betty White... this movie rules. It's as corny as they come, and just enjoy the hell out of it.
Please to be listing your cheesy ass movies that you love to be keeping in the closet.
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Desktop: Yay
How can you not? (It's on by default). It feels so jerky without it. Fact: If you purposely switch it off on the desktop, you're a weirdo.
Games: Yay
I've been using it since the beginning and am used to it. I played a lot of q3 and got used to it there. In theory I like the idea behind turning it off - No matter how fast you move your mouse, your turning distance will be the same and therefore more precise... That sounds great, but each time I try it just doesn't feel right. Too jerky for small movements and if you get rid of that by lowering the sensitivity then it takes too large a movement to spin all the way around. With mouse acceleration on you get good fine grain control but when you need to spin around fast you still can.
So what do you guys use? Anyone here go from using mouse accel to none and feel you're better for switching?
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...then I realized how much the game pales in comparison to GTA :( The shooting parts are pretty good, but the pacing of the driving sections is unbearable. It's like playing GTA with nothing but the shittiest granny-wagons, being forced to drive under the speed limit around a city that is largely flat and boring. And all of the missions force you to take tedious, uneventful drives across the entire city. Back and forth, back and forth. Oh, and the checkpoint save system means that if you screw up at the end of a section, you're taking the same uneventful drive again.
I had to quit out of sheer boredom :( They need to remake this game and just remove all the uneventful driving. Some of the chases are good, but the ferrying around at 30 mph from waypoint to waypoint is completely unnecessary.
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but what happend to the shck blog?
TLWR: This Saturday (the 29th of March). Sevenish. McCoys.
www.google.com/search?q=McCoy%27s+Kansas+City will have everything, of course, such as a menu, location, etc...
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250GB 5400rpm drive vs. 200GB 7200rpm drive. =?
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Any input on the 8800GS cards? Looking for something cheap yet not sucky. Looking to get decent frame rates on a S939 4400X2 with 2GB RAM and XP MCE 2005.
This 7300GT really blows. After a little research, the 8600 series has been readily dismissed, but really don't need the 9600GT/8800GT series power and expense.
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Is it as awful and this says: http://www.notaddicted.com/node/173
Really really tired of WoW, but nothing compares .. :(
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I wanted to "watch" a show while playing a game the other day. I have been "watching" South Park for the last couple days so and was tired of it. So I decided to go with an anime series that I had already seen. I don't normally do this because most my anime is sub-titled. But my Neon Genesis Evangelion has the English dubs. Dear god they are horrible. It has been such a long time since I have listened to English dubs. I mean, why can't we get good voice actors over here?
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For future reference, it'd be handy if you labeled a disc full of extra materials as something relevant, like, bonus disc. Sticking in the ever-generic "Disc Six" just to find out that I'd actually watched the very last episode of Veronica Mars like, ever, was not really a super pleasant surprise.
Let's try to work on that next time!
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=543994&in_page_id=1770&ito=newsnow
it's like the elephant just went around to all his stoner friends! Check out the slothbear!
lolololol
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http://www.idiotcomics.com/
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But yeah, I can get over that pretty easily. Teammates seem to stay out of the way and take far better cover than they did in the first game. I'm playing on Realistic mode, and although the enemy AI still gets off some uber bullshit shots, they aren't all round as cyborg accurate as they were in Vegas 1. I've found times where i've been able to flank them without them knowing aswell, which has led to some pretty sweet moments where i've been up taking cover up against a corner, a dude has run towards the corner with his back to me and i've just blind fired around the corner and made him crumple.
What's everyone elses opinion so far? I've yet to try multi
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6626464599825291409
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He came out with a new animation: Kings of Power 4 Billion %
It's just as wtfawesome and stylized as the last one.
Some mirrors (321mb):
http://www.jonypawks.net/kop4b.avi
http://www.8chan.net/probertson/kop4b.avi
http://mirror.8chan.net/probertson/kop4b.avi
http://www.cetteboite.com/hosting/kop4b.avi
http://krazykimchi.com/zmisc/kop4b.avi
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trying to spec a new PC is a total pain the ass.
There isn't one good solution for what I'm trying to build (HTPC / TF2 box). The new 780g AMD chipset would be great if it was cheaper as the Intel integrated stuff sucks for HD. The ATi 3650 seems like the best bet for a drop in gaming card for 720p but apparently comes in 2 flavours of RAM at various speeds and there isn't really any benchmark info.
boo.
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WHEN DID IT BECOME 1994 AGAIN?
Seriously, WTF mate:
3/25 - Counting Crows
3/25 - The Lemonheads
3/25 - Morrissey
4/1 - Moby
4/1 - R.E.M.
4/8 - The Breeders
4/8 - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
4/15 - Everclear
4/22 - Blind Melon <== BLIND-FUCKING-MELON DUDE
4/29 - Portishead
5/20 - Alanis Morissette
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