Morning Discussion
by Jeff "geedeck" Gondek, Apr 29, 2008 3:43am PDTWe're finally at that day men (and women), thar be Liberty City, off the port bow! Of course if you've already got it, then avail yourself of our special chat thread for it. I guess you can go there even if you haven't picked up the game, this could be a spoiler but well, you might steal a car. Yep.
In other news, Steve and Maarten dropped by developer 3DRealms and checked out the elusive Duke Nukem Forever in it's natural setting, and tell us that it looks happy and healthy, but still growing. And in other news, remember this bit about Gamestop doing so nice? Yeah well, Blockbuster has taken notice.
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
I haven't played wow in almost a month, today, on my last day of subscription.....i sold everything on my character to a vender, sent all my gold to my friend on frostmane and deleted my 67 pally and my various alts. SCREW YOU WOW.
I'm freeeeeeeeeeeee!
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It's so hot that the other day I saw the Devil wearing a t-shirt and drinking Gatorade.
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http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=16834934#itemanchor_16834934
is ADD dead and buried?
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Here lately I've been noticing my ping has been jumping like crazy, like tonight I was getting 130-385 ping on a certain West Coast server, my ping in wow has been red zone(500+) on occasion and then dipping to 80 and back and forth. I'm running a Linksys router(a tomato one, too lazy to check which exactly) and Tomato Version 1.02.0931. Is there anything I can check or mess with on my side to alleviate this problem or is it most likely a shitty isp(mediacom). Flying Haxor in KC is pulling an average of 60 ping on the same server(different isp I'm sure though), so I'm wondering what I can do. From past experience I know the cable company won't do much to look into an issue like this except run new cable from their box to the house as long as the signal is in spec, or should I just chalk it up to crappy routing to the server from my isp?
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First Match is June 1
Please reply to this thread with a link to your steam profile if you would like to participate in the next TF2 Tournament. (if you did not post in the previous threads)
- Invitations have been sent to everyone who posted in the previous threads. if you didnt get an invite, drop me a shackmessage.
- If you get tagged as Probationary Add: You either have a low post history, or low TF2 hours played, or both. I have concerns about your committment. We had issues with people signing up to the last tournament and then not showing up. I need each of you to respond to the SM I sent. If you dont respond, I know you dont really want to play. Also, I am going to run a couple "probation" sessions on the ShackWest server, after captains are selected, so you can show off your skills. ALSO, probation can be removed if you get another Shacker with lots of post count and TF2 playtime to Vouch for you! Or your captain from the last tournament!
- I have terminated probation on a number of people already. please check the previous threads.
- If you signed up in the previous tournament, you will not be allowed to participate if you were not an active participant. I will send you a shackmessage if this is the case.
- You must be committed to playing. Dont sign up if you just think you might play, if there isnt something better going on. You are part of a team.
- Matches will be scheduled for every Sunday (Time in the evening, most likely 7pm Eastern/Pacific depending on division).
- Please indicate East or West division in your reply.
- If you are in the Central/Mountain area, or elsewhere. it is up to you to decided which division you want to play.
The game time will be earlier or later than 7pm depending on which division you choose!
- Rules, Maps, Etc are all still TBD.
- Deadline EXTENDED to sign up is MAY 7
- If you wish to be a captain please shackmessage me directly.
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I have a conundrum, about once a day I visit a crap Swedish news page, as I need some touch of reality in my otherwise excellent life.
However for the last few days I can't get it to load in Firefox, it works in IE but when I try Firefox its just The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading.
I've tried disabling my add ons (adblock, noscript) but it still doesn't work. I also tried faking the user agent, still no worky. So how are they doing this trickery, it must be stopped. Can anyone enlighten me ?
WARNING: this page is so riddled with ads that it chokes your computer thats why adblock is almost an necessity else one would get epilepsies just glancing at it.
page: http://www.aftonbladet.se/
Can anyone try with firefox ? , does it work ? if so, why the hell doesn't it work for me ?
TLDR: HALP COMPUTA !!!
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In other words, is there any site that would make it easy for me to just scroll through a big list of most or all of the solar-powered gadgets that have come out over the years?
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You might be surprised how hard it was to actually sell the damn thing with 7 games and component cables.
Glad that's over now.
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Anywho, post your usual clever shit below.
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HOLY FUCKING SHIT LOL.
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"The straight-A Chesterfield High School senior was arrested April 19 and faces several state and federal charges, including attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction. That charge carries a possible life sentence if he is convicted"
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/04/29/teen.charged.ap/index.html
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=16572970
It's actually quite scary. The current definition of an WMD is incredible vague and apparently it also carries a possible life sentence.
By all accounts my vehicle in GTA4 was a WMD yesterday when I bailed from it and it ran into a gas station at 60mph.
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http://boomstickah.shackspace.com/Car/dent/IMAGE_106.jpg
http://boomstickah.shackspace.com/Car/dent/IMAGE_107.jpg
http://boomstickah.shackspace.com/Car/dent/IMAGE_108.jpg
If I were a jackass like askedrelic I would hang my nuts out for the reflection but I am not a jackass like askedrelic. I am a still jackass tho. A jackass with a dent in his car. Don't ever buy a car you care about.
NEVER :(
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Person I Owe a Favor: Hey can you come over to my gfs house and setup internet?
Me: no sweat I'll come by tonight after work..what time you off?
Person I Owe a Favor: 7pm..meet me here and we can go together
Me: Doh! Kinda late but it's a quick thing ..no biggie.
Finally get to his gfs place at 7:30pm. As I walk in I see a nice shiny NEW laptop sitting on the table. I power it up and I'm greeting with "Click Start to Begin Image Installation" ...DOH!. Ok no problem..2 hours or so later it finally finishes and I setup their DSL.
Me: You guys have an email you want me to setup on here?
Them: Email?
Me: ... You guys know anything about computers or the magical Interweb?
Them: ...
I got out of there at 11:30pm and have to go back for mp3/Movie/Burning lessons along with other stuff I'm sure. They don't understand the english language well. Yeah.
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http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/280423241/
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http://shackpics.com/files/longweek_70y955cjzbzugqhw1uap.jpg
Even shack servers were ridiculous for a bit. That said, one hell of a fun map and I wish I could take stay home from work and just play all day.
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Thanks for the trips!
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/04/lsd-inventor-al.html
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" Objective
To Find A Great Career In A Position That Suites My Needs, And Abilities For Years To Come, Is Looking To Become A Professional Wrestler
Qualifications
Is Highly Skilled In Computers, Can Type In A Fast Pave Without Making Mistakes
"
My partner and I want to thank this guy for providing comic relief this morning.
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The PS3 version is much like the PS2 version of VC and SA - it looks blurry but also kind of nice almost as if it's not being rendered by a graphics chip to an extent.
(Think HL1 videos before it came out or youtube trailers, always looks more rounded and soft than the final product)
The 360 version is much more clinical looking - and probably suited to a PC gamer, accustomed to crisp LCD's at 1280 / 1680 or 1920 for example.
That being said for reading text on buildings, the phone etc the 360 wins hands down without a doubt.
I don't know if the entire engine is rendering at 630p vs 720p on the PS3 or it's just the HDR lighting (so someone claimed) but from my perspective, owning an analogue television (and admitedly having bad eyes) the 360 version is much easier to use the darn phone.
Also the phone does not support large text in low resolution, only high resolution.
I wish I had a bigger TV :/
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http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=677402
i wont hold my breath, but hopefully soon.
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gg's of Crooks and Coppers :P
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Let's add some gasoline to the flames.
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My girlfriend's birthday is coming up, and I've been doing some research on a new mp3 player for her as he old one is on death's door. There's just one problem: I HATE ID3 TAGS, and she does too. Every single player out there right now seems to not even offer a file/folder browsing method. A lot of my mp3's are ancient, and they're meticulously organized into folders by Artist - date of release - album because I have no life. I'm looking at the Creative Zen Stone's right now, because she wants something simple, but from what I've read the battery life on them sucks, and that's pretty important. I love my Cowon D2, but that's out because she hates the touch screen and its nerdy complexity. Please don't point me to ID3 tagging software, we are album people and the dates are important, damn it. Help!
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http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/280484970/
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I don't need that many really, router, switch a few types of servers (web, db).
GIS is turning up a bunch of pay-for stuff. :(
aw HELL naw
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do the OWNING yourself. do not buy PRE-OWNED games from retail outlets.
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http://www.wpbf.com/video/16030876/index.html
First of all: lol at the story itself
but more importantly: wtf is wrong with all the bystanders the find for commentary?!?!?
1. cletus slackjaw??
2. wtf bitch can't talk right
3. oh god what is that beast of a thing
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Every time I something something dooo do do doooo do do
Every time I blah blah blah dooooo do do doooo do do
It repeats a lot, it's not even that great a song but it's stuck in my head on repeat. It keeps changing key too but follows the same melody during the chorus, only a full tone up I think.
HALP? :(
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I knew i should have pre-ordered :(
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I've got a kick ass computer that is better than any "next-gen" console out there capable of running even the most demanding games like Crysis with decent frames on beyond FullHD resolutions and I have to wait for the stupid devs to port the game, that was developed using DirectX and C++/C# in most cases and could easily be ported to the PC!
FUCK THAT! :(
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I"m playing it again and I forget how to get into Tivliz Asylum. I'm throwing hella grenades at that bunker thing on the front entrance of the main building but the damn thing only cracks and won't break. Where do I enter? :(
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