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by Jeff "geedeck" Gondek, Mar 25, 2008 5:55am PDTMorning Shackers, let's begin the cycle once again. It looks like Rock Band Wii is finally happening, though with lots of caveats about what "they could most effectively do at this time". Is the Wii's online functionality becoming a more endemic issue than any amount of polygons? On the other hand, how do you feel about the fact that EA is using the online services to facilitate selling an arguably game play incomplete version?
In community news, Shacker Lowpoly shares his entry for a TIGSource game creation competition. The MMO-loving Tolkien fans in the crowd are taking another stab at LotRO, so if that's your thing then get together with them.
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I posted about this briefly last night. I could really use some help. I'm trying to play Titan Quest and having serious issues whenever I try to join a game on the Internet. I get an "unable to connect to server" error. I can host online. I can play and host on LAN.
My network configuration:
DSL modem bridged (to avoid double NAT) to my router (a pfSense 1.2 box, a BSD-based router OS) to a switch that connects to all the computers.
I also run a software firewall (Comodo 2.4). Tqit.exe has permission to do anything and everything in my firewall. I've also tried turning off my firewall.
I shouldn't have to forward ports to join someone else's game, but I've done it anyway. I forwarded the common Gamespy ports (3783, 6500, 6515, 6667, 13139, 27900, 28900, 29900, 29901) and the ports listed here for TQ (42800, 49152 - 49172, and 49272 - 49292). I did TCP and UDP for all of those. I've also opened those ports on my software firewall. According to my router/firewall logs, the forward rules are working correctly. Also, since people can join when I host, that would seem to indicate that the forwards are working.
I see this sort of activity in my firewall log when I try to join a game:
Action / Time / Source / Destination / Protocol
Deny / Mar 25 14:15:02 / 85.82.251.125:23189 / [my ip]:53953 / UDP
Deny / Mar 25 14:18:16 / 68.118.75.254:49874 / [my ip]:52399 / UDP
Deny / Mar 25 14:22:34 / 71.35.243.189:33569 / [my ip]:58445 / UDP
This behavior is consistent. When trying to join games, Gamespy (ugh) has the host try to initiate a new connection to my computer on some random high port. Since that connection doesn't already exist, my firewall drops it (like any good firewall should). The port changes every time I try to connect to a game (even connecting to the same game twice in a row will use two different ports). Each time I exit TQ and restart it, it uses new ports.
I actually did manage to join one game where it, in a fluke, tried to establish a new connection on one of the ports TQ is actually supposed to use. This is a nightmare.
I shouldn't have to open 10,000 ports to be able to connect to a game. Anyone have any ideas?
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PS: I don't know how you guys play online competitively with gamepads. Its like trying to use chopsticks with your feet. Ya, it works (just barely), but it depresses me every time I get taken down when I know that could have been prevented with a kb+mouse. Its not just my gamepad skill, that has been steadily increasing, but it saddens me that even at my best with a gamepad, I will never EVER, come close to the efficient killer that I was with a kb+mouse. Why can't sony/microsoft just allow mice. The whole "it creates an imbalance" is bullshit. Show me someone who does not have a keyboard and mouse in their house. Fuck, design a mouse that is intended for use on a knee. Hell I donno, give me a gamepad with a trackball. Something other than these 2 pos analog sticks. Decent for racing games, atrocious for shooters.
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Greetings to all of you from Nice!
Doing a two week french course here, the weather is great, food even better.
Wish you all could be here.
xxx flinz
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What: Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
When: TONIGHT, March 25th, 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:
http://4newbies.planetwolfenstein.gamespy.com/ETQW/
http://4newbies.planetwolfenstein.gamespy.com/ETQW/images/pb_hud_overview.jpg
If you'd like to join the ET:QW Shack Clan ( http://stats.enemyterritory.com/clan/8708 ) please send me or mansmells an in game friend request, we will shoot you back a clan invite.
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http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-920-000594-diNovo-Mini/dp/B0011FOOI2/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1206469151&sr=8-1
pretty expensive, but totally hot. im wondering how well the trackpad works...
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For which platform will you purchase GTA4 ?? PS3 or 360??
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Im gonna try and type this as coherently as possible... I've got an insane amount of funny blood pumping through me. :D
The guy who sits next to me at work fired up his laptop, opened up firefox (which i recommended to him last week), hit the restore session window that popped up, and walks away to clock in or go to the bathroom. I watched the entire process and i think that's what makes this all so funny.
What proceeded was the most hilarious thing i've ever witnessed at this boring job.
Whatever youtube or streaming media he was watching before, what im presuming was a system crash, had loaded up and started autoplaying. His tiny speakers were blasting out sounds of a woman getting absolutely nailed 8 ways to Sunday. I lost it when the chick said something like, "CREAM ALL OVER ME!!!" :D :D :D Our whole office was just laughing hysterically....even our manager was cracking up :D The dude ends up coming back, hearing all of it playing, slams his laptop case shut, and just leaves- I mean he literally just walked right out!
The crazy part is this guy is one of the most shy and innocent personalities i've ever encountered. Just the very thought of him watching porn is kind of hilarious!
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Hello all,
I know it’s late in the day but today is the first (and maybe only?) day to vote. My friend Amanda has had some very hard times, her husband left her when she was pregnant, the baby…Grace…was born then had a lot of medical problems and they thought they were going to lose her and then she developed breast cancer. (Amanda, not the baby) I want her to win this so I am taking the time to beg each of you to vote. She has entered Grace into the Movin 92.5 cutest baby contest. It’s not easy to vote, unfortunately. You have to register then locate her in the 6000 babies, yes, six THOUSAND but it’s broken down alphabetically and she is listed as Grace W and wearing pink sunglasses. It’s not the cutest picture of her but she is a very cute baby. If you have it in you, I beg that you vote for her. The prizes are pretty sweet. I would have specifics but I cannot access the web site from work and didn’t think to write it up and email myself from home last night.
The address is http://www.movin925.com/babyidolsignup.asp
I hope you are all well.
Thanks if you get the chance to vote, thanks if you don’t, just for being my friend!
Tanya
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One told her no and directed her to stand in the back of the bus...
The other told her to get off the bus and wait for the next one coming in 5 minutes.
Her Doctor btw has her on order to not stand for any prolonged period of time (ie semi-bedrest).
Gotta love Metro Transit in Seattle it appears.
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http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=185307
What would the title be? Or if other rappers make a game what could their title be?
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Rick Astley talks about rickrolling.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/webscout/2008/03/rick-astley-kin.html
He has a great attitude about it.
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Hope it doesn't suck!
Hope my wife doesn't realize I bought a new camera!
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Come get it on now! 8.12.22.228
HARDCORE - KILLCAM OFF - TDM / DOM / SAB
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1) Is chicago down for anyone else, maddog and I cant get a ping.
2) Oh dear yet more exploits :( http://www.easyscreens.info/?v=3161
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http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/51907
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I have been playing some pickup games with guys from work lately and I ran into a rule that I wasn't aware of. I was going up for a layup my shot was blocked but I retained control of the ball. It never left my hands. When I came back down the play was called a travel. I thought by the act of the defender touching the ball that nullified the travel. I didn't argue my point on the court since I didn't want to seem like an asshole but it's still bothering me.
So, TLDR, when an offensive player goes up for a shot, has the shot blocked and yet retains control of the ball is that a travel?
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WANTED: YOUR KID
Now meet George Broussard. He is co-founder of 3D Realms, a company that makes a video game called Duke Nukem. A violent "first-person shooter" game, Duke Nukem comes complete with strip bars, porno theaters, and lots of gore. Even with the "mature" rating, and all the violence and sexual imagery, Broussard wants to sell this game to your kids. "Duke is a mass-market character that can sell two million games," Broussard says." It’d be suicide to make the game unplayable by younger people."
Idell and Broussard are typical of something endemic in America today. Thousands of the brightest minds in the country devote their great talents, and use sophisticated psychological techniques, to influence your children to purchase products - o rather, to want products - regardless of whether or not they are good for your kids. Name something you don’t want your kids to have, and chances are, people are trying to entice your kids into wanting it.
What an evil, evil man.
http://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/24/tricks-of-the-trade-selling-to-children/
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Honest News. Great to see unbiased coverage on the airways again. Two sides to an argument, I guess thats why FOX easily beats the competition in the ratings game.
Now, I'm not a ranting FOX hater but I know what I see when I see it and I know this review is bullshit. I did what any good netizen would do and I reported it, then I floated it over to a group of ranting FOX haters called Digg.
http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Apparent_planted_review_celebrates_Fox_s_Election_HQ_on_Hulu
I don't expect a tiny thing like this will get a ton of digs but I am curious about how many reports it takes to get a review taken down for what could arguably be just blind fanaticism.
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hello there my internet friends!
anyone up for some ShackWest TF2 tonight from 9-11pm Pacific?
Its been a few weeks since we got together, and well, I miss you. Please come and play with me.
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http://www.joystiq.com/2008/03/25/final-fantasy-vs-dead-or-alive-round-2/
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/technology/technology.html?in_article_id=489653&in_page_id=1965
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Oh nos, after an hour or so of playing the beta (thank you very much to a fellow shacker who gave me their key) my initial impressions are:
Though the destructable environments are very neat and the explosions look very nice, and there are some pretty neat particle effects, the gameplay and controls feel very awkward, clunky, and unresponsive - very unintuitive. Ontop of this, the view distance seems very near, and a lot of the colors look very washed out, and there are definetly brightness issues.
Also, most of the time people were running around doing random things.
I'm thinking that this may turn out to be a novelty that wears off rather quickly, though let's hope not since I was really looking forward to this! It's a bad sign though when, after just an hour, I'm back to playing Frontlines.
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is 2's music like the firsts?
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http://movies.aol.com/celebrity-interview/kate-beckinsale-snow-angels
I always knew she was awesome.
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If you have a tabbed menu navigation..of say 7 tabs.
is there a way to make the last 3 tabs a different color?
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