Morning Discussion
by Jeff "geedeck" Gondek, May 15, 2008 7:09am PDTRemember kids, when joining password protected game servers, don't keep your caps lock on. In other shocking and/or obvious news, World of Warcraft is really successful and more will be coming this year. And I appreciate Chris disproving this rumored 360 update, even if it breaks my little heart.
Skyrim Workshop touts 2M downloads, 2,500 mods
Xenonauts dev promises 'proper remake' of XCOM
Binary Domain demo available this week
Shack PSA: Angry Birds on Facebook today
Resistance: Burning Skies dawns on Vita in May
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3167833
Better than nothin'
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Is it worth picking up?
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http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=p8Z6HyJbGXZaau_uWgIxNWA&hl=en
here is the east coast list sorted by team and with draft # listed.
west coast will hopefully make some headway tonight!
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Does anyone get uncomfortable, self-conscious, or feel weird when standing outside with a pillow? Earlier today I was helping a friend move, and was carrying a pillow and mentioned how weird it makes me feel to stand outside with a pillow. My friend agreed with this and said he also feels really strange about it. We couldn't really figure out where it comes from though. It's like I don't want the world to know I sleep? Or maybe it looks like I am having a slumber party or I am some wandering vagabond looking for a place to crash. I have no idea, I'm not really conscious of why that is happening for me.
If it were just me I would chalk it up to me being severely damaged and neurotic like in every other case, but since he instantly communicated the same feelings about carrying pillows outside, I just have to ask. If you think about this, and aren't sure, I would appreciate it if you could grab a pillow then go outside then walk around with it for a bit and then come back and tell me.
The other side of this is that when I see other people carrying pillows outside (rarely), I think nothing of it. In fact I probably don't even realize it most of the time. So that would tell me I don't have some previously built in cultural charge about this. I do see those organized pillow fights that go on in some major cities but I just think "gay" and move on. It doesn't have anything to do with the pillows themselves so much as it is just people being gay and typical. Like how I want to punch the "free hugs" people. I don't know.
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I hate it. The one thing that keeps me playing this game is the story. I hate all the walking/travelling, cliff racers (especially the cliff racers), and errand-boy quests. It reminds me of Ultima IX. But Ultima IX was a far better game (except for its exceedingly lame puzzle-filled dungeons). FAR better (far older) and the graphics were almost as good.
If the new Fallout is like this then EPIC FAIL.
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Step brother's laptop seems to have lost details on the main C:\ partition. It's a Dell, and it hasn't been touched since the factory, so it's got that recovery partition, and utility partition, or whatever they are.
Booting from the XP CD and into the early stages of Windows installation, I see that the particular drive, C, that has windows installed is 'unknown' as far as file system goes. It should be NTFS.
Does fixmbr restore the once-existing file system without forfeiting existing data on the drive? In what capacity should it be used? How the fuck does something like this happen?
Any other steps you guys would take? I'd ghost this bitch but if the file system is fucked, I doubt it's readable, right?
Thanks dudes.
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A thief in Paris planned to steal some paintings from the Louvre.
After careful planning, he got past security, stole the paintings and made it safely to his van.
However, he was captured only two blocks away when his van ran out of gas.
When asked how he could mastermind such a crime and make such an obvious error, he replied, "Monsieur, that is the reason I stole the paintings.
I had no Monet,
to buy Degas,
to make the Van Gogh.
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We were at a job where a guy was bad and did bad things. We wrestled with the guy and the dog was barking! Then he sniffed my hand :D
Then we went to some bad dude's house and we busted down his door and were all "yo we don't want no trouble" and the guy was in his bedroom with a huge knife! Then we all had our guns out yelling at him and then the puppy dog jumped on the bed going woof woof but translated into english that means DROP THE KNIFE OR IT'S OM NOM NOM TIME MOTHERFUCKER and so he did and we won and there was a scared lady and we all went back to the office for coffee and scones.
TLDR: I dare you to find a housecat that will do the stuff above.
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Guess its back to Just Caused (which I'm not finding a lot of fun)
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When strange things happen,
Are you going round the twist?
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Let's go FLYERS!!
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Go shack!
Who has the best record? Lampshades are at 4-5-0 iirc. Seattle Grand Cru 6-3-0. What other teams am I missing?
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I need a source of body armor in the northern end of town.
Am I missing an underground shop up there or maybe a hidden location?
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How abouts a The Ship Shackbattle? It was one of the most innovative and fun games to come out in the last several years, and most people that bought it should have a "friend key" that they can give to someone to try it out for like 7 days.
If I was able to get a server up (probably by begging one of the Source server admins here) would you play?
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there are no words
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Lesser added, "We had to provide more drumsticks than there actually were in the world, so we used all the drumsticks from all the suppliers out there, and then started making our own. Maybe one day the world will have more drummers because of us."
from http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=18665
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For example, when I was in Iowa, I was invited to have some beers with alarm cock. Of course I was excited, because meeting shackers is awesome and I have only met one other shacker before. My coworkers on the campaign invited me to join them for dinner the night I was supposed to go geek it up with my fellow shacker, so I politely declined saying I had other plans. Confused, because on the campaign the only people you associate with are other campaigners, they asked me how I knew this person. My response? "Uh...I'm part of...a society...I can't talk about it."
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I've already got an iphone, and the novelty (and usefulness) has worn off. Yeah, I know the 3g phone is just around the corner, but I'm still not really that interested. Constantly getting 'could not activate EDGE connection', mail client blows. When not on a wireless network, it can never connect to my mailserver, so I go hours without getting important emails. Even manually checking for mail either times out, or takes at least 45 seconds. Applications crashing, slow, etc.
Already got a blackberry pearl and curve. Pearl isn't bad, but typing out big emails on a standard cellphone keypad is no fun. Curve sucks. Slow, shitty OS. Plus, both have had the trackball die after only a few months use.
Google apps is my life, so I'd like something that would integrate well (or supports the google mobile apps) with it. Android is miles away from actually being public, too
Anyway, what do you guys use/recommend? Preferably something that works with Cingular
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