Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Apr 01, 2008 6:00pm PDTWe did ponder an April Fools thing around here but decided against it after realizing
the real joke would just be having our website online for 24 hours straight. Hilarious
huh?
- Algae is hot
- Gas stations like candy bars
- Clues at
Stonehenge
- Olympics + China + Internet =
href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7324155.stm">Wha
?
As for the the videogame news around these parts for today:
- Rainbow Six Vegas 2 Sells Nearly 2
Million
- Ubisoft Joins Steam
- Assassin's Creed PC Preview
- Report- Eragon Dev Stormfront
Studios Closing
- April Fools: Blizzard,
href="http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/52008">Microsoft
,href="http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/52018">3DRealms
,href="http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/52019">Guild Wars
,href="http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/52011">Konami/UbiSoft
Lastly, I still cant stand Internet Explorer. I'm cutting myself right now having to
deal with this terrible thing. Mostly the awful password / forms management nonsense and
slow handling of larger divs/tables. The good news is I did track down a couple of small
IE bugs around here. The bad news is I hate this browser so much it is difficult to
convince myself to fix it even though so many people use this awful thing. HATE. HATE.
HATE.
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




Here's a thread with the different "bonuses" you get depending on who you buy it from. The collectors edition is like $90.00 but holy shit, it looks loaded. Every collectors edition has the following + whatever the special addition is you get depending on where you bought it.
http://forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=50058
Collectors edition:
Ring of Acheronia (Exclusive In-Game Item)
The Drinking Cape (Bonus In-Game Item)
Hand-Finished Collectors Edition Box
Hyborian World Faux Leather Map
Unique Bonus DVD
Official Age of Conan Soundtrack
Age of Conan Art Book
Five Free Guest Passes
In any case, there are apparently 3 server types. PVE, PvP and RP-PvP, but even the PvE server will have PvP in the "borderlands"...so I'm wondering if it might just be better to play on a PvE server so as to enjoy both aspects. I'm sure the shack will override me on this however :(
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Of these 46 folks, 22 of them have advanced to between levels 18 and 14, and there were 16 people online and playing at 11:50 PM Eastern tonight.
Nice work everyone!
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excuse me being late to the party and my pop music ignorance, but when did chris rock start singing? is that his son? the fuck?
http://www.youtube.com/v/XfbBEAuARfk&hl
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Changed Medigun Ubercharge meter to drain faster for each target that still has Ubercharge beyond your current target. This means there is a penalty for having multiple people being Ubercharged at one time
Fuck yeah. Hated that BS.
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With all the Creative sucks threads, this looks like a nice alternative. :)
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Picked up "The Orange Box" today just strolling right along installing till the end of the first disc I get this
Steam.exe (main exception): Unable to load library Steam.dll
I reinstall'd steam, that didn't seem to work. Is there and easy fix to this that I don't know about?
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How can anyone listen to these things?
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I have the ip address of the computer I want to connect to, plus the username is password, what else I need to do? It's not letting me connect. Curse this program. >:(
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16F_V8dlYPY
What is the remix of Aerodynamic in this video? It's NOT Aerodynamite as someone suggested earlier, but I thought was getting closer with that.
Unless various combinations of the word "Aerodynamic" and "remix" are not the right engine-feed, every source I'm using--Google, Wiki, last.fm, Napster--is tapped dry and the only reference to the song I have is this video. And it's not giving up the identity!
Someone here has to know this, or else I'm going to be stuck listening to this 30s clip :(
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I'm getting a little bored of AAA formulas and want to see what's going on out at the edges.
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http://shackpics.com/files/solvechristislookinggood_cqjwwlvcximt2eq339ga.jpg
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mine are in about this order: Baltar,the XO, XO's wife(cause she was so fun to hate--good actress), Adama, The President I liked their acting and their characters the most.
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I just read The Terror by Dan Simmons. Fantastic book, highly recommend it. I've read his hyperion series and Illium and Olympos as well. All good reads.
What was the last good book you read?
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fuck. Fucking snipers, fucking hell, how the fuck? fucking grenade. Jesus christs. WHAT THE FUCK. HELICOPTER OH FUCK FUCK OH SHIT. I JUST SPAWNED GODDAMNIT. It's like I get tourettes as soon as I load the game.
The game makes me so angry but I love it so much. Good angry? I started off being so crap and getting killed seemingly at random all the time, but now having prestiged once and being half way to doing it again I feel like I have reached a connection with the game. When I play i just zone out and swear a lot and more often than not come top.
I can't wait for the new maps. woo.
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Lately I've developed an unusual obsession with chocolate milk. I don't know why, maybe I'm low on calcium or vitamin D or something.
Anyway, I was wondering if there was anything I could add to chocolate milk that might be tastier and/or have alcoholic content.
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I was doing some random googling and I came across this article:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9507E1D91E31F93BA35755C0A9629C8B63
which states:
Moreover, the Y chromosome is subject to a higher mutation rate than other chromosomes because it is perennially confined to the male germ line. Male germ line cells and their DNA divide very, very fast to keep up with sperm production. Most mutations occur when DNA divides. So the Y is intrinsically unstable. By my estimate, in about 5,000 generations -- 125,000 years -- male fertility will be roughly 1 percent of what it is now. Mutations in Y chromosomes are already known to reduce male fertility. So I see a slow decline in men's fertility until, eventually, men can no longer breed naturally.
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827151154 (can't figure out how to link directly to the review)
Cons: My first disapppointment with a Newegg purchase, guess I was overdue. Do a web search on sata drives and you'll see that these things only work on some pc's. Tried it on four systems: 64bit Windows, Vista, 32bit Windows, Vista. The 32bit Vista won't boot now, even after pulling the sata burner out.
Are SATA burners a bad idea? A quick Google turned up something about early SATA motherboards being incompatible or something. Anyone know what the deal is?
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my dvd burner won't recognize dvd's. i tryed playing a dvd a few days ago and it wouldnt play, so i ignored it and played it on my 360. now it won't read my c&c3 kane's wrath dvd.
/gun
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/gallery/2008/mar/31/lifebeforedeath?picture=333325401
^^super eerie life and death pics.
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With the 9800GTX and 9800 GX2 out, which card makes the most sense to upgrade to? The 9800 GX2 seems quite pricey...
Bonus question: is Vista 64-bit working fine with drivers, games and such ("fine" meaning as good as VIsta 32-bit)? Because 4GB of RAM + upwards 1GB of memory on graphics card means I'd be missing out on using a lot of my RAM unless I switch to 64-bit.
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So im working on my first map which will be a CP type map, after finishing the 2nd control point I fliped the map and made a quick CTF map.
if anyone would like to test it out to give it a beta try and give me feed back here is download link:
http://www.venguard.net/ctf_depo22.rar
screenshots:
http://shackpics.com/files/ctf_depo220000_28ln693dhrqhqnss8c9q.jpg
http://shackpics.com/files/ctf_depo220002_ydxfebsrnkqtz7i6pko1.jpg
http://shackpics.com/files/ctf_depo220001_e0p81xn6no96i7u9sxcl.jpg
(ps. dont expect much only started using the editor last week)
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For some reason it won't display at my TVs native resolution (1368x768) with the inbuilt card I can get to 1280 and with an 8600 I can only get to 1024
>:(
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I need to know who made this.
http://trashpile.net/upload/white%20whale.png
WHITE WHALE, HOLY GRAIL!
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Amadeus (Dir's Cut)
Good Will Hunting
Hard Candy
Hitman (Unrated)
The Burbs
The Goonies
The Monster Squad
Rendition
Running with Scissors
Shoot Em Up
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I did find out that I can see the future.
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=8669249#itemanchor_8669249
That was 4 years ago.
Also this.
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=10105448#itemanchor_10105448
I'm amazing. Really.
I've decided I fucking hate bosses in games, HATE !
For example, after an oddity where I had to replay a lot of GearsOfWar, and stumbled onto the second beserker .. fuck this game.
Seriously, an encounter where practically nothing you've learned in the game before have any bearing, its such a stupid cheap ass gimmick.
Any games that require special weapon X, special tactics Y (where neither X or Y has really been used extensively before) and to really put the nail in the coffin, a time restraint. fuck you... with a rusty nail.
I didn't give up, so I'm still consider myself a 'gamer' (whatever that is) but it wasn't any fun, not to mention my fucking stupid AI partner that just stood there getting killed repeatedly... over and over again, equipped with the intelligence of a log. fuck that.
I'm just know I'm going to hate this game even more after RAAM... to bad It's kinda neat otherwise.
whenever i play Well (CP) or Well (CTF), if I run into the middle section (where the trains cross), and turn sideways to look to where the trains come from. BSOD. every time.... wtf???
what is it about that part of the map, graphics, sound, that cause my pc to bluescreen??
so bizzare.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0fVl0MDCoo&fmt=18
A-W-E-S-O-M-E!
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