Morning Discussion
by Jeff "geedeck" Gondek, May 16, 2008 5:00am PDTEveryone give a big what what for Friday. Hooray Friday! Apparently I should have never opened my mouth about having too many plastic drum sets around the house, for Konami hath spited me. Maybe it's meant primarily for the Japanese market? Here's all the other stuff Konami announced. Plus the staff actually previewed the new Silent Hill and Castlevania.
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
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
Shack PSA: Mass Effect 3 demo out today
Daily Filter: The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition, MLB 12: The Show
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Hey, there's only a week left until OverloadUT's kickin' bachelor party, and I want to see more sign-ups! There's FREE FOOD and fun bachelor party entertainment. You've just got to get yourself to San Rafael or Novato, CA. Full details on the event page from Overload's brother: http://www.shacknews.com/shackmeet/events.x?id=4840
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So anyway, whois up for some GTA4 now :)
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http://vimeo.com/album/14542
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Beer They had some new SN "Southern Hemisphere Harvest". Anyone tried it yet? I bought a couple of them
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It's worth $7,200 on ebay now. :(
http://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/16/geo-metros-going-for-big-money-on-high-gas-prices/
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I found Dogfish Head 60 min. IPA at the local Trader Joe's here in a suburb of Chicago. I've never had it before, and I'm so happy that I might cry.
*sniff*
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I'm thinking about picking up the Darkness since it's 13 dollars used on amazon (and only 20 new). Crackdown seems interesting but I have GTA4 so I think I'll pass for now. Lost Oddesy looks it'd be my cup of tea but it's still 40 bucks for a used copy.
I like sports games but I'm probably going to wait till next year to pick up NCAA 09 and whatever else.
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Draft is underway. We're at pick #18 now! A lot of quality picks will be made today. Monkeygonetoheaven has the current pick.
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So this morning at work I see a note on the fridge. Apparently someone's lunch got stolen and they weren't too happy about it. The note was rather interesting so I took a picture:
http://shackpics.com/viewer.php?file=thief_fabgjmyc33ll6oj7yq5h.jpg
The best part? There's been ANOTHER note on the fridge for the past two weeks saying that a routine cleaning will take place on 5/15, and all unmarked items will be discarded. oops
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Studio Movie Grill - 75 and Royal - 7:55pm Saturday May 17nd
MKCluney wants to go to Studio Movie Grill becAUSE they bring you beer, and I want to go there because the waitress girls all wear black polyester and ponytails :)
XOXOX,
Mike Fuckabee
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LOL what the hell was she thinking... great choice of attire for national television.
also... quite a few more casualties yet to be counted...
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http://devblog.thebehemoth.com/?p=137
should be showing up on XBLA in a few months barring any major setbacks in the certification process.
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what are some other business models similar to how a gas station makes little to nothing off of the gas itself, but because of location and the mechanics of getting a driver to stop, they make their monies back in terms of higher margins on their beer, milk, bread; basically, they only can hold the gas, but make no money off of it, but thats ok because of the high margins on the other stuff.
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I want to get a new antenna for my Linksys WRT54GL or whatever the fuck it is. The connections on the other computers can be intermittent and I think it is due to poor signal (the tomato status screen shows a connection quality of 20).
So what are good antennae for these routers? Not looking to spend a fortune and don't need any thing ridiculous. Most of the computers on the network are just a floor above the router and probably within 20 feet of that range.
I shot down the other helicopter and dropped off Little Jacob. I managed to crash the helicopter right after I answered the phone with U.L. Paper, so I have no idea what the conversation was. I reloaded my game hoping I would get the phone conversation again and I was in an entirely new apartment! What did I miss?
Honestly, that is one of the few things that annoy me with the game besides lack of checkpoints. There have been a couple times I missed phone conversations because I died while on the phone right after missions.
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Age of Conan Menz
We took our poll, and last I checked PVE is still ahead of PVP by about 10 (if you add PVP + Goon PVP).
Here's how I stand on the issue personally. While I'm leaning towards PVE still, since you still get Border Kingdoms, etc, reading the Goonheim forums does make we want PVP a BIT. However, I don't think the Shack can muster any sizable PVP force based on everything that came out of closed beta number wise.
So I'm currently trying to decide between PVE or Goonheim. They've got the numbers (and know-how) to actually succeed at this, which is one reason I really am considering PVP. I have no doubt they'll have a City and a keep in border kingdoms before we know it. It's really a fast track towards being sure you'll enjoy what AoC has to offer. However, I think a few of my friends are going to go PVE, so it's a tough decision.
Regardless, it'd be nice if we could come to some type of consensus; I see it going one of three ways. A few jump ship to Goonheim and the rest roll PVP, we all go to Goonheim, or we try out the RP-PVP server as a group since the maturity should at least be a bit higher there.
Lets try to figure this shit out by today so we don't have EVERYONE split up tomorrow.
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It was the very first Aussie Shackbattle that I have been involved with and omg it was so fun (and funny).
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We're gonna do another GTA IV Shackbattle tonight! Since my dog already died in the middle of the last one, I can't imagine anything that will prevent me from seeing this one through tonight. With any luck, if tonight goes as well as last week's did, we'll make this a weekly event.
So here's the deal: Around 9pm EST I'll invite everyone on my friends list into a private game. If you're already on my friends list and get online after we've started, I'll invite you when I see you come online. If I'm not on your friends list, then add me before or during the Shackbattle to get invited. My gamertag is Xevo1979
I look forward to seeing everyone again tonight, we'll probably play Cops and Crooks, Team Mafiya Work, Cannonball Run, and maybe a few others. See you there!
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