Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Jun 25, 2008 6:00pm PDTDiablo 3 please. PLEASE.
- Your favorite baseball player
href="http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=5237150&page=1">sucks
- Crazy moving building
- Man made tornadoes
- 50 MPG tata nano!
- Key fossil found
- Addicted to
href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/06/24/earlyshow/main4205009.shtml">social
networking
?
As for the the videogame news around these parts for today:
- Fallout 3 screenshots
- World of Warcraft tune hitting
Guitar Hero 3
- Mercenaries 2
href="http://www.shacknews.com/screenshots.x?gallery=10108&game_id=4466">screenshots
- Nintendo dates Mario Super
Sluggers, Wario Land, Kirby Stars
- Red Faction: Guerrilla video diary
- Gears of War 2 screenshots
- PlayStation 3 trophy details
- Blood Bowl screenshots and
- Blizzard confirms new game
announcement
(Diablo 3 please) - id Software on Rage mods
- NBA Live 09 screenshots
and trailer
- 20 minutes of Far Cry 2 footage
Lastly, I SAID I WANT DIABLO 3.
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Daily Filter: Planetside 2, Deadlight
Weekend PC digital deals: strategy-o-rama
38 Studios, Harry Potter Kinect - Shacknews Daily: May 25, 2012
Minecraft for Xbox 360 dev working on 'Adventure' update
I can't believe people played this shit! I mean it was fun for a bit, but I am too old and slow to compete with these dudes who have obviously STILL been playing RA3 and Q3 and shit in anticipation of destroying amateurs in Quake Live.
You spawn...and it's simple: you spawn near a weapon, you live. You don't, you die. Instantly. There is no way to evade your enemy, hide, or backtrack. You either get a good spawn or you don't. Man. I can't believe I played this for hundreds of hours..I mean it's fun. In short bursts. But I can't believe I'd play QII, Q3, UT, for like seven hours at a time.
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http://www.kanyeuniversecity.com/blog/?em3106=196808_-1__0_~0_-1_6_2008_0_0&em3161=&em3281=
This is the most offended I've ever been... this is the maddest I ever will be. I'm typing so fucking hard I might break my fucking Mac book Air!!!!!!!!
hahahhahahah oh man. Then it's just all caps after that :)
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Get rid of the +50 for the backblast, and make it +25 for the normal flamethrower.
Reason: The backburner is for the stealthy ninja pyro, who doesn't get seen, and can do a whole whack of damage from the back. If you're good enough for a backburner run, you don't need the extra HP for it. If you want to get in that close from behind, take your chances. If you can catch a team unawares, chances are they'll be mostly dead before chipping away at your extra health, (more than a soldier when medic-buffed, and faster! wtf) Any health increase was to add survivability to the entire class, since no one in pro leagues were using the pyro at all. The airblast is neat, I've gotten a few kills with it, but it's more of a defensive thing, keeping rockets away from medics and sentries, and clearing stickies from sentries.
Reduce the crit-rate from Backburner front blasts, or eliminate it even. They have the extra health, let 'em ignite, then hack away with the axtinguisher. The backburner-bearing pyros are noticeably harder to kill, and I find if I get swarmed by more than 2-3, It's almost a lost cause if they try to burn the medic, if I have one. If they split up, I can only follow one, and the other guys have crit shots at my back. They've made the class a little too useful in that respect.
If they wanna add that extra health for the backburner, give the soldier back his 40% damage reduction for close-range rockets, since those are his bread and butter. It seems like more of a nerf against soldiers than a buff on pyros.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1eFdUSnaQM
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Thinking back on the Bad Company beta, it was so much fun. I also will give a nod to Company of Heroes and Quake Wars.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgxz6QpDU94
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1- Scrolling is so laggy I can't actually use my wheel mouse. Every time I scroll, it lags behind and then accelerates in a weird way. Same with trackpad scrolling, super laggy.
2- Holy crap it's slow.
3- Full page zoom is even slower. Did I mention it's slow?
AITOO?
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After a harddrive crash requiring a full install, I've finally reinstalled TF2, but so far haven't been able to join a single game
When I get into the game I can play for about 5 seconds when a connection warning in red text appears in the top right of the screen, counting down from 20 until it disconnects me
I really want to play TF2, HALP
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I have five of them. The first five people to make me laugh, however you wish to do it, be it a joke, a video, etc get them.
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Jessica Biel is the hottest woman alive. If you think otherwise, immolate yourself.
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Rich and Gone Gold
3dFiles.com
The original Quake Finger.
Where are they now? List yours!
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I'm not selling the account, so the price isn't factored into that. I'm just selling the game and the timecard, and will sell at a very reasonable offer.
If you're interested, SM me.
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what the fuck? i was expecting some sort of action movie. instead it's a movie about a vietnam vet with post traumatic stress disorder. it was ok, but seriously? how is Rambo considered a kick ass action hero of the 80's. McClain, I can understand. Terminator? sure thing. but Rambo? mheh. yeah, he kicked some asses (ish), but never once did i feel for him the same way i felt for McClain in Die Hard.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SqJz0NgnnE
Ball girl shows up outfielder.
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I was level 27 this morning. I'm now level 43.
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1.) I'll give away 2 to the first 2 people that reply to this post.
2.) I'll give another 2 out to the 2 people that guess the numbers I'm thinking of between 1 and 250. You can only post 1 number.
3.) The last one I'll give out to who ever posts the hottest NWS picture or video (nothing that requires downloading). You can only post 1 NWS item.
So after the first 2 people reply start posting numbers. NWS posts and number guesses will count as separate even if you post them together so you can have two chances to win.
Yes I know this is needlessly complex but I'm bored.
Go.
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30 bucks for any takers.
aim: jdapper80
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What are the warranties on these things? Hopefully three years? :(
Also, not only has my 360 shit the bed, so has http://service.xbox.com/servicehome.aspx Awesome!
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So... when you see the GoW acronym, which comes to mind first? God of War or Gears of War?
WITH THIS THREAD, THE VICTOR OF THIS GENERATION'S CONSOLE WAR WILL BE DECIDED!!!
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A fix for your addiction (that you didn't know you had)
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Putting the tab bar at the bottom makes me concentrate on the page more, instead of Ctrl+1,2,3,...-ing every five seconds. I sometimes forget a tab is there and actually stay on a page long enough to read it. How about that?
PS: Something needs to be done about my New Comment-turning-into-a-Reply problem :( I saw the URL after I clicked on Post and it was an #anchor-something something (link to reply). I definitely hit post in the new comment box. I wonder what's going on... probably a Greasemonkey script I have screwing things up.
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THAT LOOKS LIKE A FACE. AND IT LOOKS LIKE A DIABLO FACE
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http://defamer.com/5019704/mini+me-sex-tape-conclusive-proof-that-our-civilization-is-doomed
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file:///C:/DOCUME~1/ICOWAN~1.HPR/LOCALS~1/Temp/StarCraft_box_art.jpg
Am I right? The Blizzard image seems 'space-ish', the eyes look just like Protoss eyes, this is either just a tease for more Starcraft II coverage or for a Starcraft MMO that will be to Starcraft what WoW is to Warcraft. I hope more than anything that I am wrong, but I just don't see anything to lead me to believe this is Diablo III related whatsoever.
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http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/?p=1991
I just played Diablo 2 for the first time (due to all the hype around this Blizzard announcement - thanks -Zero- for giving it to me!) and it was alright. The menu's and stuff were kind of dull and rearranging items is so boring and really took me out of the game (one of my major problems with RPGS) but I enjoyed it more than I thought I would.
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http://us.media.blizzard.com/232309/_images/16.jpg
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16/02/2000 http://shackpics.com/viewer.php?file=Den1_op8a1wiupcblso6r5bq4.jpg
only a few people had cable modems then :)
counterstrike October 2000:
http://shackpics.com/viewer.php?file=saferd_c0bthteld0fvdqa5xdwv.jpg
http://shackpics.com/viewer.php?file=yer_train0_z0s2iuz7v619n7sc2p5m.jpg
http://shackpics.com/viewer.php?file=yerowingnfiagain_3izyu1bmk0dvwgilrhvs.jpg
i played as n1ppl3. good times :)
I'm holding a contest, the first person to give me a quake live invite gets emailed a link to quality gaming website shacknews (Will not reveal url to anyone but winner)
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