Morning Discussion
by Jeff "geedeck" Gondek, Mar 29, 2008 6:31am PDTGreetings once again Shackers, shall we kick off a weekend chatty? If you want to catch all the prime grade news of the Shack, then Highlights of the Week is for you. There's even a ShackCast in there! In community news, megarust32 points out that Prey is a steal on Steam this weekend at $5 and DrWaffles would like to note for anyone that hasn't played through gaming classic Grim Fandango, now you can at least watch through it.
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On the other hand, it makes the shack an entirely different beast. It's like we have no institutional memory anymore, so we just live in the moment. It'd be a great social experiment to have the shack without search for a prolonged period of time and see how the dynamics around this place change. I imagine it'd be much more leveled out regarding who's popular and who's ostracized, because it would take much more effort to record and reference previous moments of idiocy or greatness of any given user. We would also value consistent positive contributers much more, because unless you're on all the time you're going to miss something - which makes those individuals who consistently contribute something positive to the shack very valuable.
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OverloadUT
Somename
Sam and Max
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However, based on some of the banter here on the Shack, I have started to broaden my horizons a bit. I must say that I really like The White Stripes, The Vines, Goldfrapp, and a few others I've seen mentioned. As for pop, I kinda like Feist and Hem. American Hi-Fi is pretty good too.
Death Cab for Cutie is a bit hit or miss, but I do like it for the most part. Believe it or not, I'm even kind of digging Daft Punk. They remind me of Art of Noise.
Any others I should keep an ear out for? I hope to God that Search works tomorrow because I'm gonna crash in a few minutes and I'm gonna troll this thread to see what's out there.
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I have recently been working on a shackstats website, since shackstats.com is now dead. I am currently in the process of indexing all the posts, and at the blazing speeds its going, I expect it to be up to date in around 3 months. (I have purposefully slowed things down, so not to increase the traffic here massively)
You can see what I have created so far here: http://geordish.homeip.net/shackstatsweb/
If you take a gander, and let me know if there is anything that you can see is missing that would be useful, or anything that is blatantly broken.
This is running on my home connection currently, so it will most likely be really slow, and I will have to disable it if it gets too much!
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How do you setup a steal gambit? I don't have steal listed under my options to choose from there's just a question mark even though everyone has the steal technik. Do I have to buy this somewhere or what?
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Right? I miss it so much :( PLEASE COME BACK SS!
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I shit you not, I have no idea how they taught it to do this, but that's the most human-like thing I've ever seen an animal do.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LHoyB81LnE
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So 50 is doing a benefit concert in some war torn middle eastern country, but unfortunately they are unable to pay him (what?). So 50 hassles the concert promoter and threatens him for payment.
To make payment they decide to give him a diamond encrusted skull as payment. 50 is apparently cool with that, who wouldn't be.
But on his way from leaving this miscellaneous country the diamond encrusted skull is stolen!
So the rest of the game is 50 tracking down his diamond encrusted skull and killing the people that took it from him.
Also it is using Unreal Engine 3.
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But I have one question: Why the heck is Rob Schneider circa "Judge Dredd" in my party?
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Why?
Well, the 360 is going to cost me $80 to play online for another year, the PS3 is free.
The 360 doesn't do HD movies, the PS3 gives that free.
The 360 is LOUD.
The PS3 has HDMI.
I've come home and the play and recharge kit is absolutely broken, doesn't hold its charge, obviously Nicad battery, thanks microsoft, you cheap bastards. So I need to buy one of those too, more $$$.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=547008&in_page_id=1
yet another ignorant article on how awful videogames are: when I played I was stabbed to death with a pitchfork amid fountains of my own blood ... that's a result then, Ann!
also, spot the dreadful photoshop
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http://diemotherfuckers.ytmnd.com/
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I went yesterday because Gamefly has been holding out on a few games I've been wanting for a bit, namely Army of Two and Lost Oddysey, so I got Army of Two yesterday, but that $8 makes me reluctant to do it again.
Anyone know if Hollywood Video charges the same?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lNFRLrP014&
Back in the days of the Soviet Union, the Soviet Red Army had an official choir composed of male soldiers and musicians. It still exists. The Red Army Choir performs throughout Russia to this day.
Now consider the Finnish rock band called The Leningrad Cowboys. A little while ago, they held a concert in Russia, in which - to the screaming applause of Russkie teen-agers - they got the Red Army Choir to join them on stage for a performance of "Sweet Home Alabama."
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I've never seen a Sondheim musical before, but I wasn't a fan of the operata style. Depp and Burton always work well together and to be honest, that's all that held the movie together in a watchable format for me - great visuals and Depp's singing wasn't bad either. But the plot was really weak, the songs themselves were kind of... stupid? And yeah, I wasn't a fan of it at all.
Ali G getting clocked on the head with the kettle and the pie menu song were really the film's only saving graces.
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/tjphelan/2373362827/
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After staring at my screen for a few seconds, she goes "that looks nice". She's also a big LOTR nerd -- loved the movies and read all the books -- so I tell her that part of the fun of the game is just wandering around the world, discovering new areas and vistas. I open up the in-game map of the area, show her where I've been, and tell her I'll be heading to The Shire pretty soon.
At that point I think she's hooked, but then she mentions how she's not sure she could reconcile the massive amounts of time she might spend playing this game. I've never tried to argue this with anybody, since I've always been a gamer and playing games is one of my main hobbies. Anyway, has anybody else made this kind of case to their spouse before? And if so, what worked for you? In the meantime, I'm gonna go check her PC's specs and see if I need to buy her a new video card for the LOTRO 7-day trial.
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erm, lol?
Max Mosley, one of the most powerful men in world sport, was under pressure to resign as boss of Formula One’s governing body last night after he was exposed enjoying a Nazi-style orgy with five prostitutes.
Mr Mosley was caught on video by the News of the World with five women in an underground “torture chamber” in Chelsea, where he spent several hours allegedly indulging in sado-masochistic sex
Speaking in German and brandishing a leather whip, he beat the women after allowing himself to be subjected to a humiliating inspection for lice and an interrogation in chains.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/formula_1/article3649197.ece
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http://www.gametrailers.com/player/32413.html
Here's part one in case you missed it:
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/31944.html
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http://bop.nppa.org/2008/still_photography/winners/index.php?cat=OPY
(1st Place, Photojournalist of the Year 2008)
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I hear there are countries where it is not so easy? What's up with that?
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Beat the game awhile ago and wanted to play it again, just to fuck around and see what sort of trouble I can get in to...
...do I seriously have to wait through the old mans shpeel every time I want to play or is it possible for me to load from the Guild hide-outs in each city? I tried letting the game save from there but when I load the game next I have to pick a memory and then listen to the dude talk about the mission.
Not to mention travel to the city by horse.. aaargh.
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who needs rock band when you can just rock the fuck out???
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Pretty typical romantic comedy with a slight simon pegg slant to it. Entertaining, but worth a rent, not a night at the movies.
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What are you spending yours on?
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Is it historically correct?
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Download: http://www.dayofdefeat.fi/temp/cp_redstone_b2.rar
Changes In Beta 2:
- Timer set to 10 minutes
- Small fixes and tweaks
- Prop model fixes
- New route to 3rd and 4th Control Point in both sides.
- - Helps balance captures in the last two control points.
- Center area cleaned from sticky spots
- Added more light sources to center sniper-windows
- Re-arranged health and ammo supplies
Level Design / Custom Models:
- Arttu "skdr" Mäki / http://www.3decade.com
Custom Models / 2D Art:
- Pekka Jauri / www.pekkajauri.com
Thanks to:
- Valve
- Shacknews
- CAMP
Screenshots from B1:
http://3decade.com/cp_redstone/beta1/cp_redstone_b1_001.jpg
http://3decade.com/cp_redstone/beta1/cp_redstone_b1_002.jpg
http://3decade.com/cp_redstone/beta1/cp_redstone_b1_003.jpg
http://3decade.com/cp_redstone/beta1/cp_redstone_b1_004.jpg
http://3decade.com/cp_redstone/beta1/cp_redstone_b1_005.jpg
http://3decade.com/cp_redstone/beta1/cp_redstone_b1_006.jpg
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I'm trying to find some footage from the 2000 Olympics on youtube, and 90% of the videos are from gymnastics :(
Is this what US television coverage is like?
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