Evening Faylure
by Chris Faylor, May 19, 2008 6:14pm PDTOnce upon a time, Steve Gibson went to a hockey game and neglected to provide his loyal people with the customary offering of news and a fresh chatty.
Then the ever-valiant Chris Faylor came and saved the day! Hooray!
The End...?
Daily Filter: The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition, MLB 12: The Show
Cradle trailer shows off Russian indie adventure game
WoW Monopoly, StarCraft RISK announced at Toy Fair
Jersey Shore's 'The Situation' signs App deal
Blacklight: Retribution open beta begins Feb 27
Super Stardust Delta free with Vita 3G activation
Chronovolt announced for PS Vita
Ms. Splosion Man challenge to give away steaks
The Last of Us avoids regen health
Closure takes $100K Grand Prize at IGC 2012
(And to think...I teach kids.)
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http://www.shacknews.com/profile.x?person=Maarten%20Goldstein
It allows you to maintain your game library, vote on games, and allow everyone to see how cool or not you are.
Notes:
- layout will probably change / be improved
- our database isn't the most comprehensive (which is why we haven't even bothered with last gen). we will work on this. should also have a form soon that allows you to submit games, or changes to games (some release dates might be wrong)
- many more features are planned but we're open to suggestions
Other than that, enjoy and let me know about errors / problems.
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dognose this is for YOU
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Long story short:
Friend's XP install got corrupted somehow. Don't have restore discs and I don't think there is a restore partition on the drive. I've already pulled off his docs and important files. I was thinking I would through Linux on it so he can at least hop online to check email and stuff. What is the latest and greatest version of Linux?
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The other day I saw a BMW 3 series convertible. I always thought those things were ugly as sin. Like shoeboxes on wheels with a hole cutout on top. However, seeing one cruising down the highway changed my view on it completely. The car was a plain, discreet creamy white. The way it glided down the road like butter made me wish I had one.
I've never been a convertible person until now.
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I need a new online game to play (cos BF2142 is testing my patience once more). I played WoW for a week or so and it never gripped me, due to the cartoonish style and automated combat. I hear its a lot different in this game.
If this game requires even an ounce of skill I may consider buying it, depending on what you guys tell me here.
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I pre-ordered through Amazon, got my access code but didn't sign up in time for the early access - oh well. But I have the client installed and updated and I'm all ready to go here for the launch.
I go sit in their forums (which are full of people sitting through the last minute delays). About 1:45am CST they (funcom) post that the servers will be Live at 2am CST. Sweet.
2am comes and goes, I'm still trolling the forums waiting. I F5 -then get:
You have been banned for the following reason:
No reason was specified.
Date the ban will be lifted: Never
I also notice that my subscription page says:
Account status Cancelled Frozen (not playable) 2008-05-20 06:55:33
If I try and reactivate it I get:
Something failed
Our brightest nerds are on the case
Please try again in a while
Since I'm banned from the forums (wtf?!?!) I can't find out what is up - what retard thought that was a good idea? I've been through some bad MMO launches before - but never one where I couldn't even log in.
Luckily Amazon had not shipped my pre-order yet and was able to cancel it.
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HOUSE tonight was Jurassic Bark sad.
Even John Wayne would have choked up a little.
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I ordered Age of Conan through Amazon, overnight shipping. They have an estimated delivery date of the 22nd, and it hasn't even shipped yet? What the fuck is up with that? Typically, they ship the day before the street date to insure you get it on the street date.
Order will be cancelled tomorrow, or sent back at their expense. I spend thousands with those idiots. The least they could do is tell me when I ordered it that they didn't have enough.
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Is it some technical limitation or a really bad oversight?
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How many of you are willing to click sponsored results on Google? For example:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=w6w&q=auto+loans&btnG=Search
Would any of you click the results in the right column (Need a Cash Payday Loan?, Auto Loans - Capital One) or the yellow shaded top 3 left column results (Auto Loans 100% Accepted, Auto Loans For Any Credit)
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I have a table with userdata and the birthday in Y-m-d format. Now, I want to get the age of a user. in PHP I would do this:
$age = date('Y-m-d') - $row['birthday'];
Can I do something like that directly in a SQL statement? I tried:
SELECT `id`,`birthday`, CURRENT_DATE-`birthday` FROM `users`
but I only get some sort of timestamp, not the age (for example 25).
Does anyone know what I am missing?
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Took Fgt to check out the Magister's terrace for the first time.
What a fucking great instance. Art, music, encounters, pacing.. even the trash was fun.
Pugged it first and then... again, but without a tank and with 1 player afk (partymember dualboxed him just for the occasional sheep). Much lols were had. It's fun to see how instanceruns come alive when you break out of the LFM TANK box and start owning that place on skills. Kael was dead halfway phase 2. Nuke ftw.
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I get no spam at all on my email account, I need to get some spam.
Anyone know of any sites I can just drop my email address into and get spammed?! lol
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http://www.codemasters.com/emails/formula1/formula1announcemnt_us_web.html
Bummer.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCmrJNDGaWA
man this game was awesome.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj10lXyg-2Q
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http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/passiveaggressivenotes/~3/293017010/
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http://shackpics.com/files/corrinneyu_6m8pf1e2flrfdcsu3jnp.jpg
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Corrine Yu, super smart and pretty damn hot programmer.
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http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/292970252/nyu-student-shares-h.html
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Remember, the unlockables are there not to improve the class's capabilities, but to give them more avenues of gameplay and expand the range of possibility for the class. Medics use the new syringe gun for more longetivity, the ubersaw for faster ubers, the Kritzkrieg for higher damage at the cost of survivability. So what about the Pyro!
Their current issues are fragility, short range, and lack of burst damage (in my opinion). So what would round out or expand the class?
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"According to one of the CGI artists at the Industrial Light & Magic studio, if you took all the polygons (CGI blocks) from all the Transformer models they created and strung them end to end, they'd reach to the moon and back and you'd still have enough left over to build the Roman Colosseum in Italy twice."
I wonder in what depraved reality that idea is actually true.
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I WANT THIS.
http://www.predictablyirrational.com/?p=240
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http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/38780/Splinter-Cell-Going-Back-to-Drawing-Board
Oh dang :(
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http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/292965886/web-zen-leftover-bac.html
http://www.mil-millington.com/
If you haven't seen this yet then you need to!
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does Francis' ability disappear after you beat the game? ive heard different things
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