Morning Discussion
by Jeff "geedeck" Gondek, Apr 07, 2008 5:18am PDTGood to see everyone here, let's start this week thing. Check out the Release List for this week courtesy of Faylor, it's PC-riffic. And did you catch all the news from last week? If not, here's your Highlights of the Week. Later on I'll have the next Shack contest, so hopefully that will have people excited. Also, in community news there's a rallying cry for Shadowbane players here.
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
[UbE]b - the unblinking eye
actually thats all we played a bunch of q2 and then I decided it was too much of a pain in the ass
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Featuring the Ghosts of Gladden Fields!
Morning Discussion Repost Edition
We'd like to dedicate our first performance to the one and only dognose!
http://sapiens.shackspace.com/lotro/Duke3D.avi
Our second song is for the rubber-chicken-with-a-pulley-in-the-middle fans!
http://sapiens.shackspace.com/lotro/MonkeyIsland.avi
Next time we hope to bring more instruments and play some new songs. I found a 6-part Walk the Line piece and am dying to try it. ;) Current band members include...
\m/ KENDO
\m/ WEORIN
\m/ ARILAW
\m/ DOOMANIAC
\m/ ALATAIR
\m/ OMEGAN
STAY TUNED!
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http://www.metro.co.uk/news/world/article.html?in_article_id=136385&in_page_id=64
Under the photo: "Jenny Deaves, 39, and his father John, 39"
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This is all for charity so its a good cause, so if you can link to anything that's caught your eye recently it woul be a good help. obliviously the higher quality the video the better.
thanks guys .
I went hiking on Saturday. Like, outside with the trees and bears and hills.
I hadn't been hiking since I was in Boy Scouts, and back then it always felt like a chore. As an adult, it was a way more awesome experience. The fiancée and I went to Mt Tam and we did a mild 5 mile hike that took about 3 hours. I'm really bummed that we forgot the camera because there were some amazing views.
I had so much fun that I'm planning on doing it again possibly next weekend or the one after. It has also renewed my desire to go backpacking again; I always liked hiking way out to the middle of nowhere to do some zero-impact camping.
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* Two main heroes with completely different characters: although you'll only be able to play as Vito, the other (named Joe) will play an important part in the story, not being limited to a supporting role.
* Not a direct sequel / no story connectivity; in fact, you won't have to know the first game.
* Extensive car damage, with physical destruction model supposedly even more detailed and prettier than the one from the acclaimed Burnout Paradise (according to the journalists at press presentation) with damaged car body, broken glass or exploding gas tanks.
* Not only you'll have to stop at gas stations for refueling your car, but you'll also be able to undergo a car wash and hence get rid of all the dust that your car has been picking.
* Money important for shopping (new clothes to get rid of pursuers) or visiting restaurants, which is where you'll have your hero strengthen up a bit by eating some (similar as in GTA San Andreas).
* Pastel colors and an art style at times reminding of BioShock.
* Confirmed the presence of Gears of War-like cover system, as suggested by recent screenshot.
* Story beginning shortly before the end of the World War II, which is when Vito comes back from war duty at Europe.
* Set in a fictional American city Empire City with size around 10 km2 (about twice as big as built-up area in original Lost Heaven city from the first Mafia) with tens of unique quarters, inspired mostly by San Francisco.
* Lead platforms X360/PS3, while the PC version should launch supposedly weeks or months afterwards, although this too could change depending on the current state of the gaming market.
* Release date still wasn't specified, but the journalists are expecting the game to ship in late spring/summer 2009.
More interesting details in various print magazines coming to the outlets this week.
http://games.tiscali.cz/previews/mafia2info/img1.jpg
http://games.tiscali.cz/previews/mafia2info/img2.jpg
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I agree that our Pitboss game is completely awesome. It's a huge amount of fun to play a single game with a bunch of Shackers that takes months to complete. Because a turn only takes 5 or 10 minutes to play it's easy to commit to doing that once a day.
I will never be able to look at goncyn, sockmonkeh (sorry buddy!), mooglebean, dirge and zanzares without being reminded of the civilizations they commanded in our Pitboss game.
When we start up our next Pitboss game (which might even be soon!) more people should join. The great thing about the simultaneous nature of Pitboss is that you can have any number of players in the game without slowing down each turn much.
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Chalk
Jay
Hawk
KU
Go Kansas!
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All these years of gaming with a keyboard have taken their toll...I think I might have carpal tunnel (doctors appointment in a week to find out for sure). Do ergonomic keyboards work to help relieve/prevent carpal or do I have to give up gaming on a pc and start buying more games for my wii :(
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Opening scene with someone living their life, then they collapse dramatically, House and his gaggle of beautiful and suspiciously young doctors sit around diagnosing a bunch of disparate symptoms, can't figure out what it is, decide to treat the symptoms. Treatment makes things worse, leading them to re-diagnose and re-treat, repeat 2 or 3 times. Relatives of patient get mad/sad/litigious. House is shown to be charming yet curmudgeonly. House realizes what it is finally and administers the 11th hour treatment.
There, you've just seen EVERY SINGLE EPISODE.
It's an entertaining show, but I'm only half a season in, and I'm a little tired of the formula already.
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I don't usually have any beef with them. They get me from point A to point B, sometimes with small talk. I tip well. But recently I've noticed a change in the way cab drivers handle things here. You get in the car, tell them where you're going, and then they ask you how they should get there - WTF dude you're the fuckin cab driver! If you don't know the city, or don't have a GPS, then don't be a cab driver! Either way it's your job to figure out how to get there, not mine.
And a simple "I dunno, whichever way you think is best" is not enough. Ohhh no. Then they go on with more questions, like
"what freeway is it close to?"
"are there any one-way streets?"
"Is it by that park?"
JESUS CHRIST ON A CAR DASH! Am I off base here for expecting them to figure out how to get me from A to B when that's what I'm bloody *paying* them for??
In reply, quick spoiler check
-s test s-
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I fork out 40 bucks on there and I expect it to download faster than 20kb/s :( fucking cunts.
And this is on a 30mbit line, I get 2.9mb/s from shackspace damit cunt bum
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080407-amd-laying-off-10-of-workforce-cuts-revenue-estimates.html
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http://howdoiplaygame.com
For those that choose to point out my ineptness in playing half-life, know that I am still in Blast-Pit but I basically took almost a month off from playing. This was due to vacation and a lack of motivation due to my recent X-Box 360 purchase. I have now played two nights in a row and am now back to full motivation to continue playing.
enjoy
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115037
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I just got my Etymotic ER-6i's in the mail today, and good god do they blow my Skullcandy in-ear's out of the water. They're INSANE!
Last night, after several legendary Typhon runs, I started a new char. I now have a level 12 pyromancer aka earth caster. Something to do while waiting for other people who can play legendary get online. Earth is fun so far. Things go boom in balls of fire.
I played this guy using he x3 and xmax mods:
http://www.titanquest.net/forums/modifications-editor/13688-rel-x2-x3-x4-xmax-monsters-1-1-a.html
It's tons of fun! xmax makes the game lag a bit too much, but x3 is just about right. Monsters everywhere. XP comes fast and the game is a bit more exciting. I think if other people get the mod, we can host a shack game using it too. Or maybe they wouldn't even need the mod; I am not sure. Anyway, it's fully compat with your existing characters. What you do is, you "play custom quest", import a character from TQX, and play the game. Then the game main screen pops up again, and you start a game as per usual, but it will actually be a x3 game. When you exit, any progress you made will be reflected in your char as usual. If you want to play a non-mod game, just start a new game after that. If you want to play the mod again, play custom quest, delete the previously imported char (which will not reflect progress made previously), and re-import your char. Then play as usual.
Very good mod. It does make bosses challenging though... triple bosses, heh.
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http://www.aintitcool.com/node/36307
Woman has 7 clitorises and is a nymphomaniac whose sexual appetite kills her partners
Man has a 24 inch drug addicted penis that detaches at night and rampages around town
Sign me up!
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http://www.metacritic.com/music/upcomingreleases.shtml
What are your top picks for this year?
Mine are Portishead's Third, The Roots' Rising Down, Death Cab's Narrow Stairs.
I'm also interested to hear Coldplay's latest when it hits.
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Me and flammable ran into a bit of a problem.. We made our guild, but we didn't realize that if you're a guild that is not pledged to a nation, the entire guild will gain half experience until you either have a city of your own or are pledged to a nation. I'm trying to find us a nation as we speak, and it's not really that big of a deal (I can level people that are not in the guild so they get full exp, just until we actually have our fully functional guild).
If you're giving it a shot, we're on the server Saedron. Our server is the loreplay server, which is a number of different factions vs each other. The faction we use is this one, so you would have to be one of thesese races/classes:
Aelarnost (High Court)
Races: Elf, Minotaur
Classes: Assassin, Bard, Channeler, Druid, Necromancer, Priest, Ranger, Scout, Thief, Warrior, Wizard
The game takes a bit to get in to, and the starting area is pretty crappy - the game gets awesome as you get higher and in to the pvp, which takes literally under a day. If you're trying the game, I suggest, immediately after starting, going into the options, in to the hot keys, and changing a few keys. I change the camera movement keys to WASD (you move by right clicking around), I change the attack key to Q (or something near where my hand position is), and target next NPC (monster) to tab. Changing those few things will make it much, much easier to control.
Also, the wiki is extremely useful and is at... http://www.mordkessel.com/wiki/mediawiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
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