Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Apr 16, 2008 4:59pm PDTWell, by some miracle we actually bumped over to new hardware here without any
interruption in service. I'm not sure how that happened. So uh... if you are seeing this
website, great!
- Airports digging
href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/TRAVEL/04/15/airport.security/index.html">body images
- Your password is predictable
- Social networking
href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/04/16/online.communities.ap/index.html">mini sites
- NBC wants more DRM
href="http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9920399-7.html?tag=nefd.lede">in iTunes
As for the the videogame news around these parts for today:
- Team Fortress 2 Goldrush preview
- Trackmania Nations Forever released
- Soul Calibur 4 release date
- Empire at War devs doing new free
RTS
with microtransactions - Mass Effect PC system requirements
- GTA4 expected to sell $400M in
first week
- Team Fortress 2 Medic new
achivements & weapons
- Team Fortress 2 Goldrush screenshots
- Sims breaks 100 million
- National Geographic Panda!
- Namco releases Soul Calibur 4,
Warhammer, Afro Samurai screenshots
- Soul Calibur coming to XBLA in HD
Lastly, if you happen to use wacky domains to get by your work filters, I'm going to
let websense.shacknews.com continue to work since that is generally the most common filter
crapping on us.
Metal Gear Online to quietly die this summer
Mad Riders: Techland's ATV racer coming to PC, PSN, XBLA
Notch 'can do' $13 million for Psychonauts 2
Shack Giveaway: Mighty Switch Force (3DS)
Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack preview
i forgot how many insanely hard side missions there are. i wonder how ramped the difficulty will be in GTA4
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW-v2k4_QXM&feature=related
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Writeup in reply.
Please don't Shacktag me, please.... :(
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Amazingly, everyone who picked got thier first selection, and the players are:
Action Items!
Send your email, SteamID, and either AIM or MSN contact info to pitboss@myshackname.com where myshackname=zanzares
Game will kick off tomorrow, cause I'm about to pass out. Full instructions and rules will be sent via email.
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Just of late I have to finish The Witcher (about 70% done - this game feels too long even though I love it), finish about 60% of Company of Heroes, play through Prey, and that's just on PC. I also have to slog through the last third of Condemned, sink some time into Dead Rising, and play almost all of Mass Effect (which despite being solid has been sitting in my pile since late January).
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http://www.gogamer.com/viewproduct.htm?productId=5590001&extid=900041608
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How would you join these two sentences (or sperate them so they flow). It makes up the ending of my thesis paragraph.
Learning to adjust aperture, shutter-speed, and ISO to suit the scene enables the photographer to paint with light like an artist would a paintbrush. (2nd sentence) telling the camera exactly how to expose for a picture instead of having the nifty silver box dictate it for them.
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When can I repeat the defend the city stuff?
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Spend enough time with anything, and eventually it will grow on you. So it is with this show. It's not much more than a soap opera with superpowers, but then again what comic isn't? At least here I get conspiracies and fights against fate and all that.
For those wondering where I am in the story: Exploder-boy was just locked away and sedated, The Cheerleader is running with the Haitian, and her father has been shot and mind-wiped.
As much good as there is (some interesting twists on typical drama here), there's a gigantic slice of bad. Honestly, the whole Sylar being a naive dumbshit thing was old from the word go. Honestly, the actor doesn't look the part of a murderous, brain-eating psychopath, and him trying to act as someone who is, but is hiding as a bumpkin is just short of embarrasing. This bit is both poorly acted and poorly written.
Also, emo-haircut chameleon guy is just about on my last nerve. The guy just cannot act. He does sullen goth kid and that's about it. And to be fair, his take on sullen goth kid antics are just as annoying as a real sullen goth kid. But unlike the whole Sylar plotline thingie, his bit is actually fairly well written.
So that's it. There's plenty here to like, and enough to dislike to keep it from being truly top shelf. It's entertaining but not revolutionary.
I guess I'm saying it's certainly no Firefly. But it scratches the sci-fi drama itch so far.
I'll have my final thoughts on Season 1 in a couple days.
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http://www.motherboard.cz/mb/ecs/P4VXASD2V3X.htm
with 1 gig of ram and a p4 2.4 ghz processor.
And he has a Gainward TI4200 video card (???? never heard of it)
We're playing Titans Quest and it runs horribly on the current setup.. my question to you all is what's the biggest bottleneck on the above configuration?
And how do I figure out what speed ram he can support?
Thanks!
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And no to the Elder Scrolls games, they're terrible.
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Anyone know where else I can find this? SM me if necessary. I don't want to get anyone nuked.
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If you’re the type of MMORPG player who enjoys nothing more in life than to crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of their women, Funcom’s upcoming online action-RPG Age of Conan might be just the thing to satiate your bloodlust. At a recent Eidos press event held in Manhattan, we had the opportunity to see the game demoed live by the team’s product director, Jørgen Tharaldsen.
http://www.primotechnology.com/2008/04/16/age-of-conan-hyborian-adventures/
ER repost, in case you missed it and I want to make sure everyone sees it so you all will stop ostracizing me. :[
Thanks for some of the feedback so far, guys. I will definitely take your comments into consideration when preparing future previews.
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click on the block quote
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Its kind of bizarre to see all of the Kids in the Hall doing a sketch together today - they've all aged a lot - and we've seen them all doing their own things, its just weird to see them old, but doing a sketch together.... yet they all still have the exact same personalities and idiosyncrasies - kinda cool to watch for that in addition to comedy :) - i need sleep
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http://www.elitistcritic.com/index.html
Condensed news headlines, reviews, forum? Shack has some competition.
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Got my first track pretty much done for TMNF. Still might make some major changes to it, based apon feedback here. But I think its pretty solid, very fun and fast too! This is probably a Medium to Expert Speed track as it has a few tight spots, that you have to be pretty precise to make it through.
Stuff I still need to fix/add:
- Camera change for the loop
- A few more Signs
- Track Intro
Screenshot: http://shadowdane.shackspace.com/trackmania/Nations%20Forever/tmnf_brainfart_beta.jpg
Download: http://shadowdane.shackspace.com/trackmania/Nations%20Forever/Shadowdane.Brainfart%20(Beta).Challenge.Gbx
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Now my iPod randomly stops playing, it's making a clicking sound on the inside :(
Checked my warranty, it expires today! April 17. Reported the problem right away.
Anyone know if Apple will fix this problem, and if it'll still fall under the warranty?
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Post some pics you've taken today or recently! We've had some good discussion the last few days also so we could keep those going as well.
Went for a walk around Central Park today and snapped this:
http://www.scythide.com/dp1/reading2d.jpg
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