Morning Discussion
by Jeff "geedeck" Gondek, May 13, 2008 11:00pm PDTEnjoy a fresh slice of chatty ala humpday. There's a whole bunch of news happening and we've got roundups covering both Microsoft and Electronic Arts. We even get a new entry in the ongoing is PC dying/resurging discussion, with EA saying it's good but different from traditional perspectives.
Alan Wake 2 would be 'much quicker' than first game, says Remedy
Darksiders 2 releases June 26, pre-order bonuses announced
PlayStation Home getting avatar 'fighting' game
Girl Fight bringing fighting girls to XBLA and PSN
Skyrim Workshop touts 2M downloads, 2,500 mods
Let's talk about....upcoming movies.
Anything cool coming out this weekend or next that we should all go to be seeing? Or should we all wait for Indiana Jones and Dark Knight?
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Well... this blows. I paid for early access and got a customized torrent client with hokey config options with which to download a 13GB file. I'm using NetLimiter to manually cap the upload—as upload bandwidth affects download by a few orders of magnitude—but it is still coming in at a trickle, fluctuating between 9k and 54k (typically downloads come down at 300k). I've had it running since Monday and it's only at 14.7%.
In effect, I've paid Funcom for absolutely nothing.
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Here are the preliminary Shack Age of Conan server selection poll:
http://www.snappoll.com/view_results.php?poll_id=269801
PvE 56% 35
FFA-PvP with a Shack Guild 37% 23
FFA-PvP joinng with the Goons 8% 5
35 Players for PvE is perfectly viable for a PvE game and PvP mini-games. You will have trouble doing borderland PvP vs the larger guilds.
23 Players for a Shack guild on the FFA PvP server is at the lower end for a viable guild on a FFA server where the other guilds are like to number anywhere from 50 to the hundreds.
5 People indicated they prefer to play with the Goons, a smart choice considering they will likely have hundreds of members.
Even incorrectly assuming the 5 people who choose to play with the goons would switch over to a shack run guild, that only gives you 28 people to play on a full time FFA server of which only a handfull will ever be online at one time. My suggestion to those who insist on PvP would be to throw your lot in with the Goons and have a much better time of it. 23-28 people is not a viable number for a FFA PvP guild in my opinion.
If everyone concerned consented to one server, we'd have 63 members on one server, something to consider. This would probably only happen with those who choose the FFA server join the current majority on a PvE.
If you plan to play and haven't done so, vote NOW.
http://snappoll.com/poll/269801.php
Note: If you had a pre-play code and haven't used it yet, you're out of luck. Funcom fucked those who haven't used their pre-access codes and closed pre-access. So I personally won't be playing until launch day.
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This is fucking awesome.
Zenit just beat Rangers (Glasgow) 1-0...
Russian anthems are drowning out the stadium noise in Manchester, Russians are running rampant across the field with the trophy, and tons of Scots are absolutely devastated. It's like some kind of freaky alternate history Russian domination of the UK.
In all seriousness, I was rooting for Zenit but almost feel bad for Rangers after their ordeal.
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Play a lot of Oblivion is obvious, since I'm still trying to beat it since I got the GOTY edition. And some TF2 of course.
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http://img208.imageshack.us/my.php?image=thehatsofjonathanparkeryg7.jpg
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After this fun subthread of memories ( http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=16958474#itemanchor_16958474 ) I decided I should link this site...
http://www.eqclassic.org/
Classic EverQuest redone properly (Original + Kunark + Velious only). Apparently it will progress much as the original game did, with the cap being set at 50 and original only content available, and slowly open up the other areas as time moves on.
I don't know how far along they are... I think they're looking for more developers as well. Seems fairly legit. TAKE A LOOK
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My parents still claim me as a dependent, I'm 22, and have had a job all year. I thought they were getting extra monies in their check for me, but she said they just got the $600 today for the two of them. Am I going to be getting any money?
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http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=34070402
I still don't know how the drummer (tomas haake) managed to pull off playing that bassdrum part, insane.
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SO GOOD. Oh my god. I killed it in 6 days and I crave more. MORE.
Season 3 highlights:
- Omar and Bowtie working together to kill Stringer Bell.
- The quote "Gay ass Gangsters...."
- WAYYYY too much Daniels ass in the last episode. It made looking at Neo's ass in Season 2 seem like a playful suggestion
- The politics in this season were much more in depth. I suck at following some of this because I'm TERRIBLE with names in general, but it was really well written and awesome to watch everything play out.
- Marlo is fucking stone cold. I can't wait for Season 4.
Gonna get Season 4 asap oh my god
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I've been dicking around with up the ante on my brewing. I already do all grain but I want to take my stuff to the next level of addiction.
I want:
10 gals (maybe with the ability to do 15-20gals)
a rims/herms system - something control mash temps
ease of cleaning
use a PID controller (or something similar) so I can automate it as much as possible
wow factor
I am either going to go with a B3 system (I live near them) or build my own.
who has gone to this level? did you make your own system? or did you buy it off the shelf?
I have no welding skill. I am a computer dork. so building the frame on my own is a bit daunting. I have a friend of a friend who might be able to do it for me... but I just don't know if I'll forget something in the plans.
any thoughts or advice?
I'm also going to redo my kegerator to incorporate belgium style taps (with a glass washer!). I'll be selling my current 3 tap system sometime in the future.
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Anyone know if a way to do this, hacked firmware etc?
Assume no new hardware will be bought even if it means there is no possible way to find a solution without.
THANKS!
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I live in a 2 story apt, and the bottom floor normally stays fine. However, in the summer the top floor cooks like 20 degrees warmer. I need a good AC solution for either:
Single Bedroom
The whole top floor (3 bdrs, 2 that are slept in)
Does anyone have any recommendations for AC units? They are probably all about the same, but i figured that i would ask. Also, cant do a window or central AC.
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I'm sure hirez will fill you all in on the particulars, but I'd figure I'd let anyone who cares to know that Nasty Jack will be the first pick in the west. Let's get this party started, right.
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When applying a chili powder-heavy rub to your steaks, do not, under any circumstances rub your eye, even if a bug flies into it.
FUkcing OW!
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Since i never got around to posting it, what better time than now?
Big thanks to BigBlack for hooking me up
http://shackpics.com/files/209771000837_s10a5onb2a8jryq0jspq.jpg
included is some broken evagelion toys, comics, xbox games, some book, jackie chan movie, bunch of cds (good music too)
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Wots, uh, the deal?
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http://icomeinpeace.shackspace.com/PICS/mtzoo_08/index.html
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http://kotaku.com/390214/vista-game-speeds-finally-catch-up-to-xp
and
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2304031,00.asp
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* To be found in 47 percent of U.S. homes.
* To be found in 6 percent of United Kingdom homes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_disposal
Interesting.
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http://www.menshealth.co.uk/Fitness-&-muscle/Dumbbell-deadlift/v2
or like:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=j8YJ_tfLPJQ
i.e. dumbbells to the side or front?
Early access is now closed. If you haven't registered with your early access code by now, you're fucked.
I pre-ordered the game, got the access code in an e-mail, but put off registering it because I'm a natural procrastinator. Now it's "sold out." This doesn't bode well for launch as it sounds like they've hit some sort of technology capacity barrier.
http://forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=93019
http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/05/age-of-conans-e.html
I'm disappointed.
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Sit and do nothing for going on 4 hours at work. Can't surf the net. Can't listen to music. Can't do much.
God having technical issues sucks...
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Next week is going to ROCK!!! \m/ º_º \m/
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Given an unsorted array of random integers, the function returns true if any three numbers add to zero.
So of course there's a brute force doubly nested for/while loop approach, but obviously he was looking for something more efficient than O(n^3). And for the life of me, I still can't figure it out. Anyone?
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(San Francisco North Bay)
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