Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, May 30, 2008 6:00pm PDTSo a few of you may have noticed that we are swapping out the video player around here.
The plan being we're actually going to start doing embed code to let other people stream
our stuff from other websites/forums in the future as we are wrapping up some new bandwidth plans around these parts.
Will it work? We dont know!
- Solar space
power
- Tom Cruise can not escape
- The story of satellite
piracy dude
- Dude, space
beer
As for the the videogame news around these parts for today:
- Terrorists really like Fallout 3
concept art
- Beyond Good & Evil 2 going
easy
- Tom Clancy's EndWar beta
applications
- Street Fighter 4 online
multiplayer
- Street Fighter 4 screenshots
- Guitar Hero: On Tour hands-on
preview
- Wearable Gears of War armor
- Rock Band grabs Jimmy Buffet
- Conflict: Soviet Assault trailer
- More Street Fighter 4 characters
- Big Battlefield 2142 patch
Lastly, Can't wait for GRID!
I'm such a racing game pushover. Also, while you're here, why not vote for Faylor's brother tonight?
Warning: PS3 firmware 4.45 crashing consoles
Dragon's Prophet preview: how to catch your dragon
Report: Respawn Entertainment co-founder left due to personal conflict
Oculus Rift secures $16 million in venture capital
Max Payne 3 slowly dives onto Mac this week
PR company, newspaper" etc.
Oddly, there was a checkbox for "candy company".
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okay, I get it. nobody wants to give this game a shot. this is the third post I made about it, so far I had one person saying they're not interested even though it looks good, one saying he tried to play it, had a problem, and walked away, and one guy who said he's going to try it, and that was it so far. it's cool. I'm just curious why nobody wants to even give it much of a chance. why?
would it help if I made a video review and put it on youtube so you can laugh at my german accent?
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http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1817250
check out the video
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http://curiousexpeditions.org/?p=78
wow
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http://www.wftv.com/news/16348047/detail.html
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My little brother is performing tonight in the Finals for the National Comedy Competition.
You'll be able to watch his set live later tonight and vote here:
http://www.rooftopcomedy.com/events/college/watch/ReidFaylorXavierRegional
It all begins this evening around 8:30 EST, with online voting open for about two hours after. I'm not sure when he will take the stage, but I think it's some time in the middle, around 9:30 EST.
Currently, the video at that link the bit that many of you enjoyed and voted for, which propelled him to the Finals. You'll be able to tell when there's a new video, because he's now using a violin.
You can find more details and such here:
http://www.rooftopcomedy.com/events/college
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An earlier thread had us talking about the impending 4th edition. Cyntax had mentioned a piece of software that runs a server and lets a dm run a tapletop game. https://www.fantasygrounds.com/
I've personally never played D&D; I've played tons of D&D ruleset based games, and have a decent understanding of the working though. I've always wanted to learn or try, but nobody around here plays; a few of my friends have been interested, but I don't think any of us could attempt to DM when we barely know the game. I honestly regret not getting into it though; considering my life revolves around RPGs, MMOs, and writing, it seems like it'd be a fun avenue for me (not to mention the whole Game Design thing)
Anyhow, we got to discussing using something like FantasyGrounds to play some campaigns. I was thinking it would be a good way for people like me who are interested but don't know how to play to finally learn. And obviously the vets can run through their games too.
So if you're at all interested in any of this, post here, lets see what we can do!
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http://hirez.shackspace.com/TF2TournamentServerConfigs.zip
anyone who wants to run a TF2 tournament server needs these files.
please read the "READ ME FIRST!.txt" file in the zip
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Also: playing as SAS > playing as USA
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http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixelart/17123.htm#
(18 months old, but I hadn't seen it before)
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Ahahahahaha. This game is dripping with testosterone. It made me feel like a complete pussy.
The dual sniper thing is pretty fun though :D
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I'm on this desert planet that has constant meteor storms and i just fought this huge worm thing that pops out of the ground that was guarding some marines and a vehicle of some kind with a distress beacon. Are you supposed to be able to get out of the Mako on this planet, or not? Because hitting the E key doesn't do anything.
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I come to you, hat in hand, asking for 30 seconds of your time and your vote for Rob Musgrave of my Wichita State University. This guy has been everything you could want out of a student athlete, including having a GPA higher than his ERA. It is a nice lazy saturday afternoon and we are in the best part of college baseball season. I think I'm the only shacker who follows college baseball but I'm not the only shacker who votes in the please vote for ... threads. So hopefully the karma pays of for a good guy.
Bonus: A CAPTCHA that doesn't totally blow goats is used.
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They are only made better when they are PHANTOM OF THE OPERA HARDLY WORKING SKETCHES
Like so: http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1816033
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I just read this on Evilavatar:
Konami asked games press to keep quiet about the massive length of Metal Gear Solid 4's cut-scenes, claims MTV's Multiplayer blog.
It emerged earlier this month that the PS3 sequel has at least two cinematics "approaching" 90 minutes long, as reported by PSW magazine and now in the new issue of Edge as well.
Apparently, Konami was keen to keep these huge cinematics under wraps from print reviews...
"I've been told by two gaming media sources who asked to remain anonymous that Konami representatives had been asking print reviewers to keep some technical details out of their reviews, namely the length of the game's cut-scenes and the size of the game's installation on the PlayStation 3," reads the MTV blog.
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"I heard that spiders dont have any muscles and use a hydrolic system for moving their legs, does that mean if I were really tiny they would sound like giant biomechanical robots?"
there answer..... YES
awesome.
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Great read so far. The Shack Hype definitely did not fail on this one.
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I know i'm late to the party, as usual.. I played GTAA for the first time last night, on the PS3.
We played it for 2 hours and i was really impressed by the size of the city.
Graphics are nice, controls seemed simple to handle.
I always hated GTA before! The graphics and blatant violence always put me off. I remember you could kill a group of monks and get "karma points" in the first one on the PC. Never thought that to be funny..
This one looks different, the graphics are really good. The world is huge and alive, and Michele called me and we set a date but i had to leave by the part where we were reaching the bowling place.
When i leave the house (real life) and see the cars on the street i imediatly thought of GTA.
It has been a long time since i felt this way about a game.
So to finish this off, i have two questions.. Does it get boring? Is it incredibly long and difficult to finish this game?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH8yuld4DUE
aaaaargh........
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http://www.mytelus.com/ncp_news/article.en.do?pn=canada&articleID=2930414
Don't read unless you want to get depressed.
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Now I'm itching to re-activate my LOTRO account...
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ctf_launchzone (final),
I wrapped this map up tonight so it should be fully ready for the tournament if its still being played
Download from here : http://www.fpsbanana.com/maps/55386
Screenshot changes:
New Route to the underground : http://shackpics.com/files/ctf_launchzone_b30001_ibpnyw58ypbwuusrb76a.jpg
Outside Area Finished:
http://shackpics.com/files/ctf_launchzone_b30000_8frzmyzj992bohw9q5ie.jpg
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http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/themummytombofthedragonemperor/
This movie will certainly make up for the disappointment that was Indiana Jones.
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