Weekend Discussion
by Jeff "geedeck" Gondek, Jun 01, 2008 6:52am PDTHope everyone is having a good weekend, let's get a fresh chatty to go with this fine day. I'll have some contest results going up later today, plus if you need some reading there's always Faylor to the rescue with the week's game release list. And Nick has the latest Gibson-Goldstein index with it's review of the week's events, who were the winners and losers? Find out!
Shack PSA: Mass Effect 3 demo out today
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
For me, Diablo 3 made by the Diablo 1 or Diablo 2 team -- either is fine. Close second would be Age of Mythology 2, made by Ensemble.
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The shack seems to love to tell people how to spend their money when it comes to buying a new rig, so have at it.
price tag: $2,000 plus or minus a few hundred
must have:
-at least 4 GB of RAM
-at least 500 GB Hard Drive
-Fancy Graphic awesomeness (perhaps Dual 8800GTs?
Don't need:
-Monitor, Keyboard, mouse, speakers, DVD burner, Bluray, etc
I have been waiting a long time for this day, so do me proud.
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http://mattplays.com/
Videos I've put up for the month of May:
- Age of Conan
- Rainbow Six: Vegas 2
- Turok
- Everyday Shooter
- Grand Theft Auto IV
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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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For lockers and stuff that say I don't have enough technology skill or whatever, or electronics or something, does having someone in my party with a high tech skill make me able to unlock that stuff?
also: I already have like 6 points in Intimidation yet I keep doing the good guy stuff, and I have more paragon points than Renegade points now. I keep end up being the good guy instead of the bad guy accidentally. :(
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I will begin. Puffins cereal + chocolate chips. In a bowl. AMAZING.
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I am having a blast with it so far. I can definitely recommend it to anyone interested in racing games.
It is no Forza2 as far as technical stuff goes etc - but neither is it trying to be. The amount of different racing modes awesome. The graphics is some of the best I've seen yet @ racing games. The sound is at it should be. Everything has a polished feel to it.
I had to get used to the controls to begin with, but after a while they seemed great actually.
Haven't tried multiplayer yet, so can't comment on that.
Driving a 24 hour Le Mans (over the course of 12 minutes) is something else. It has a day and night cycle that changes real time whilst you drive. (You have the option to make it even longer if you want that btw).
I haven't gotten anything negative to say about it yet, but I've only played it for 1 day so.. (hopefully nothing shows up).
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http://www.spikedhumor.com/articles/155233/Simpsons-Map-for-Quake-III-Arena.html
Insane level of detail.
I must play it.
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Alright. Yesterday's thread ( http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=17089658#itemanchor_17089658 ) left us with a great deal of interest, and a few more programs for us to consider. Some people mentioned trying to run campaigns through a Forum; that's fine, but I'd just be afraid things might run too slowly.
There's also D&D Insider, which Ebu said would be out this coming friday. That'll require a DX9 video card, PS2.0, etc etc, so for people like Modica that may be too steep a requirement. It does seem like it'll give us the closest experience to playing live though.
Like I mentioned before, I've never played a Pen & Paper game before. I love D&D based games, and of course the influence it's had on modern RPGs. Since I have a great deal of interest in that, and game design, I've always wanted to learn. So for me, I'm hoping to finally get to experience this, since I personally don't know anyone who's played D&D seriously. I'm sure there are a few more of us who've never played but would be interested; maybe someone would be willing to run a campaign with us newbies.
Anyhow, what I'm really hoping now is that someone with experience DMing could spearhead this a bit. Since I've never played, there's only so much more I can do; but it'd be great to get the ball rolling: pick a medium to play the games, have some DMs volunteer, etc. Any takers?
Programs we're considering:
* FantasyGrounds http://www.fantasygrounds.com/
* WoTC D&D Insider http://www.maximumpc.com/article/1d6_of_new_dungeons_and_dragons_apps
* phpBB Forum
* OpenRPG http://www.openrpg.com/
* MapTool http://rptools.net/doku.php?id=maptool:intro
Dear fucking christ Shacktags don't fuck up
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My brother Reid's comedy set from last night, for those of you who missed it:
http://www.rooftopcomedy.com/watch/ReidFaylorAspen
He ended up placing second in the National College Comedy Competition, with Tim Ball taking first by "only a handful of votes."
Tim's set: http://www.rooftopcomedy.com/watch/TimBallAspen
Lastly, I heartily recommend this short film about beards:
http://www.rooftopcomedy.com/events/college/watch/TheBreakupNCCCShortFilm
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aliens? are you freaking kidding me?
George Lucas has lost it. He's done. Keep him away from movies. He uses CG for the sake of CG. And for a film series like IJ, you aren't supposed to see all those crazy chase scenes against a greenscreen or any stupid freaking CG cute little monkeys or prarie dogs.
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When you first got your guitar was the head attached? I'm just ordering a replacement (mine didn't come with a head) and they said they can't understand how it became detached. From what I can see there is no way it would fit in the box with the head on so it didn't come off it just was never there in the first place.
But... Im not.
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AIRPORT guards stopped a man boarding a plane — for wearing a Transformers T-shirt showing a cartoon gun.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1234193.ece
This is getting worse everyday...
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Street Hawk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GEgBgW1s-A&feature=related
Airwolf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXehSng0NV4&feature=related
The Fall Guy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPT3rnzXT4A
Doctor Who (Davison Years)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dxJ4NKRdyk
Friday the 13th: The Series
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9trU9y96m0
Toons:
Mysterious Cities of Gold
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFbZYPSMI20
M.A.S.K.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQdgbs0IUDg&feature=related
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I really haven't been keeping up on the latest hardware trends but I'd like to put together a budget minded system for now. All I need is cpu, mobo, RAM, and maybe tack on an 8800 or anything to replace my aging 7600 ;) RAM is pretty much dirt cheap these days but mostly I'm looking for the best bang for the buck cpu wise, and preferably a mobo that will support a bit of upgrading not to far down the road. Dual core, quad core whatever.
I'd really like to keep the price range around $500 for now, preferably lower :( any suggestions for me?
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On that note, does anyone remember a cartoon in the early 90s about space cowboys? Their spaceships each had a talking computer eye in the interface. I think the name was Starship Cowboys or something. There was a character named Gooseman.
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Weeds Season 3 DVD Tomorrow!!!!
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Season 3 begins TONIGHT at 10:30 CST.
Hey we need something new to post about since Starbuck refuses to die >:(
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I've installed OSCommerce and Zencart on my server in hopes of getting rid of some of my vinyls that I have accumulated....and the layouts and functionality of both of these software packages suck.
Documentation is pretty horrible, and the sites look like absolute shit unless you spend time learning how to make custom templates or shell out $150+ for a decent looking one.
Fuck my life
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