Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, May 16, 2008 6:00pm PDTAhhhh yeah. Weekend! I shall play play some GTA4 this weekend for sure! I can feel it!
I ran through the GRID demo a few more times and I still pretty much dont like drifting
challenges. Always feels lame.
- Yet another flying
dude
- Bladerunner heading
to Olympics
- File sharing on your
iPhone
- Godless killing machines
href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/scienceandsociety/2008/05/tit-for-tat.html">in politics
As for the the videogame news around these parts for today:
- Console Makers: everybody wins!
- PlayStation 3 2008 game release
lineup
- Ken from Street Fighter is black!
- Nintendo DS selling like crazy
- Blizzard evluating World of
Warcraft overhaul
- Gears of War Co-op confirmed
- Sonic Unleashed preview
- Golden Axe: Beast Rider preview
and screenshots
- Resistance 2 screenshots
- PixelJunk trailer and
href="http://www.shacknews.com/gallery.x?game_id=5321">screenshots
Lastly, challenging being fake on the internet href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24670474/">in court
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
In-reply because it’s kinda long.
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 98 replies.
TF2 @ 1680x1050, everything maxed out is glorious and I'm reinstalling STALKER right now. I am going to restart that one with everything maxed as well and play it the way it was meant to be played.
I should have AoC by Wednesday or so as well and will have a little more money to spend on a couple of games. What else will give this card a workout?
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 51 replies.
http://spazzium.shackspace.com/IMG_0049.JPG
Just look at that! Shameful!
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 30 replies.
TF2 Tournament Team Names
Decided by popular vote, Felraiser and company have chosen The Feek Squad
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/feeksquad
What are the rest of you punks calling yourselves?
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 42 replies.
xbox tree sisty pro
pink wireless controller (not gay)
gta 4
beautiful katamari
rock band
I have a wireless network, what is the recommended adapter as I'm sure the MS version is overpriced...
also the manual says not to use rechargeable batteries. is that bullshit, or do I need to go buy the recharge station thingie, cus batteries are expensive :(
and do i have to do anything special for that 2 year warranty thing?
i guess i still need to sign up for live again...been years since I cancelled it for the XBOX 1
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 65 replies.
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=16457855#itemanchor_16457855
I did when I saw this op-ed he wrote on getting into the game industry linked from Kotaku:
http://www.gamecareerguide.com/features/540/oped_from_the_outside_looking_in.php
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 5 replies.
I just want to say thanks, Shack. You guys are totally awesome and I'll miss being able to hit latestchatty every day. You guys rock! Also, European menz send me a SM if you're interested in possibly meeting up, or something like that. I'll be checking periodically as I make my way around.
See yall in August! :D Last Post!
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 9 replies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqGsZzwPD94
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 16 replies.
I created a guild for my friends and I tonight after hitting 20 and getting off of Tortage (Woo!).
Anyhow, if you want an invite, send a /tell to Bantis - It looks like if you send me one when I'm offline, I'll still get it, and SHOULD be able to invite when I get on, even if you've logged.
Still loving this game, although getting off Tortage has left me with a few issues now. I think my biggest right now is I just wish this world was seamless; while technically, even WoW isn't seamless, it's by far the best attempt. EQ2 does a decent job of giving continuity in a non seamless world too. AoC just feels a LITTLE too broken apart. I ended up in the Stygian hub after Tortage, and to get around from there, I take a boat to the "outdoor" area. That area is done really well, reminds me of the Commonlands in EQ2, but with more polish.
My only other real complaint is its just a bit jarring to go from being hand-led for 19 hours to be dumped into the "real" world. Overall though, I'm really enjoying myself, there are TONS of quests, I've never really felt like I was grinding, and combat is a blast. Tempest of Set has been a lot of fun, but I'd love to try a few other classes.
The one thing that REALLY sucks though is knowing if I roll a new char, I'm stuck going through Tortage again; while I enjoyed it the first time, I'm not sure how fun it'd be the next time through. It took me about 8 hours the first time, so hopefully I could cut that down a bit.
Oh, and one last worry (which at this point is completely unsubstantiated). The world feels like it may actually be a bit on the small side. I'd probably compare it to launch EQ2 (which was REALLY small). It's just the vibe I'm getting, and judging some stuff off the world map. Who knows though.
Oh, and why the hell isn't there an easy way to tell what another player's class is!?
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 25 replies.
http://code.google.com/android/images/adc1r1_deck.pdf
The first round winners for the google android phone applications. There are some REALLY cool apps in here. The biometric iris scanner, golfplay, androidscan, a bunch more! I haven't been keeping up on the iphone and custom apps, last i checked you had to jailbreak it to do anything cool.
Anyway, from the looks of it, the apps alone are going to make android phones rock the shit out of anything iphone can throw at it. I've been waiting for this damn thing for a long time so i can finally graduate from my motorola throw away 30 dollar phone. I'm totally humping myself over this shit.
YEAAA ANDROID BUDS!
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 8 replies.
But today I signed a work contract. I will be the CTO of a web development company / advertising agency in Munich.
Woho. I'll have a team of 6-7 designer and programmer to manage and will finally get some cash :)
Being a student is nice and all, but I am glad I found a job so easily
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 10 replies.
http://www.wwtdd.com/photo.phtml?post_key=6621&photo_key=15961
http://www.wwtdd.com/photo.phtml?post_key=6621&photo_key=15971
http://www.wwtdd.com/photo.phtml?post_key=6621&photo_key=15981
NWS Taylor Swift all wet.
http://qaboss.com/index.php?option=com_qaboss&project_id=7&project_name=Battlefield%20Heroes
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 10 replies.
http://shackpics.com/files/IMG_2034LargeJPG_50ugeh6ftffbpugbn6ef.jpg
Anyone else got any "gaming artwork" decorating your home/office?
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 71 replies.
pls to be adding me to yr friend list ("sixtydays"). I don't even know anyone with a PS3/360, which makes multiplayer 10x less fun.
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 6 replies.
Is there a 'trick' to beating the Templars in Assassin's Creed? I seem to just bend over for them and let them ream me with steel. The little 'blade-slap' they do, then smash you while your sword's been knocked is murderously hard to counter. In fact, I don't think I've countered it once yet. I am seriously stuck in the funeral portion, where I've got to take care of Robert deSable, and he calls me out and I get jumped by like 6-7 Templars. They then force me to bleed heavily all over the place and load then run back to the boneyard to repeat the process.
Even the ones in the wild I find very tough to get rid of if I cannot stealth-kill them. Counters that are terribly effective against everyone else are just terrible against Templars. :(
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 5 replies.
haha.
wow, at least its not user editable.
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 2 replies.
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 8 replies.
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 11 replies.
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 5 replies.
Here's the setlist in you are into that sort of thing:
http://www.radiohead.com/msgboard/dim.html?ID=269196324
also, encores annoy the shit out of me. and there were 2 of them.
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 23 replies.
on that note, how do you guys clean your cast iron? i try to get every bit of that black crap off the bottom with a plastic brillo pad type thing, obviously i fail. sometimes i put a little salt for some help with the grit.
also, google reader is awesome and pixeljunk is fun.
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 33 replies.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/05/16/airforce.relief/index.html
TLDNR; Relieving the hassle of relieving our fighter pilots.
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 2 replies.
crickets
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 19 replies.
http://testingstuff.muxtape.com/
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 21 replies.
His eyes are bright and glassy. I suspect that he's deraaaanged!
Japanese version of the Office.
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 31 replies.
http://www.rathergood.com/bacon/
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 2 replies.
I want something easy, quick, and tasty. Good GTA food, if you will.
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 16 replies.
is there an f'in guide on this yet because
a: i want to add friends and apparently don't have the IQ or patience to figure it out
b: want to fatality everyone, but can't seem to figure out of to replicate how i randomly do it.
thx! ps dark templar is pretty fun so far, but i might play a conq on the pve server with shackers.
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 6 replies.
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 15 replies.