Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Jun 30, 2008 6:00pm PDTDiablo 3! YAY! Now to just wait 3 more years for it to actually come out... :(
- New jugs for
href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/06/30/eveningnews/main4221765.shtml">you to
handle
- Display your
dead body
! - Resistance to
AIDS
- Rocketeers try, try
again
- Atom smasher about to
href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/06/30/doomsdaycollider.ap/index.html">kill us all
- Sprint comeback?
As for the the videogame news around these parts for today:
- Diablo 3 announced!
- Upcoming Rock Band DLC
- PlayStation 3 firmware date
- Age of Conan is #2!
- Soul Calibur hits XBLA Wednesday
- Sony preparing DS competitor
- Minnesota pays ESA $91K in legal
fees
- Sins of a Solar Empire patch 1.1
details
- Xbox 360 price drop coming
- Spore Creature Creator popular
- PS2 games coming to PS3?
- Star Trek Online approaching
- PS3 firmware features detailed
Lastly, Wall-E was unsurprisingly pretty good. Not quite the consistent level of
awesome that The Incredibles was, but the sense of wonder/amazement at times was just
fabulous.
Resistance: Burning Skies dawns on Vita in May
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
why....why...whyyy does blizzard announce their games and then not give a release date.. Now they built up the hype for this great game "diablo 3 of course" and liek always were going to be waiting another year at least........ just stop it already
reply if u agree or disagree :)
Comedy Folk and Lovers of Faylor's Brother (ER'd)
My little brother has a new comedy clip up, and once again has been entered into another contest:
http://www.rooftopcomedy.com/watch/JimmyStewartCopKiller
The contest is really easy. In fact, by watching, you've already done your part, as it's a competition to get the most page views! Whoever gets the most views by tonight will receive some sort of swanky video placement on several sites.
Apparently no one else from college competitions was entered into this contest, so Reid is pretty psyched.
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Megan Fox is apparently territorial.
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1. Saw Wall-E today, loved it. Pixar can't make a bad movie. Also the "progession of art" style of story telling during the credits was awesome, though I didn't get to stay through all of the credits to see the rest.
2. Beat No More Heroes a few days ago, and I think that game ranks up there as one of my favorite games of all time. I just had a huge grin on my face the entire way through - I really can't think of much that I didn't enjoy about it. Note about the "real ending": First I viewed the ending, then went back to view the "real ending" and fought that guy, but barely lost. Unfortunately haven't had time to go back and beat him, so if you talk about anything after/during him please note it.
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When I walked out, there were two of the test center staff waiting for me. One took my license and vanished around the corner, then came back with the result sheet. Then he asked me "How did you score so high in the hazard perception test?"
I almost shat myself, thinking they thought I had cheated. But then they explained that it was the highest score they had seen and wanted to know what the technique was as lots of people who fail always asked them for tips. They arent supposed to help people, but they can always hint.
Pants need changing now. I scored 49/50(43 for a pass) on the multiple choice, and 70/75(44 for a pass)
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Recommend me an assassin build with some survivability since I'll be playing it in hardcore. I've never played one before and the skill trees have me baffled as to what to do.
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Makes the 1st iteration of the in-game XMB look really lame ;-(
The No. 1 things for me would've been private voice chat and game invites. Not there. The custom soundtrack feature is also kinda botched as they require existing games to be patched and can't stream the music from my PC. Achievements (Trophies) are not mandatory for developers to implement and there's no notification if you've unlocked them. All of this was working on the 360 from launch day on in freakin' 2005.
I love my PS3 for its exclusives and for being an awesome media center, but how many additional years does Sony need to simply copy basic multiplayer infrastructure?
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http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2008/06/to_masturbate_an_elephant.php
NWS
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To unlock five weapons for Battlefield: Bad Company you have to jump through ridiculous hoops:
http://badcompany.ea.com/page/dynpid/8616/
Does anyone know where I can just get the codes? Most of these sites aren't working anyway so I can't register for their spam.
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Do you build a new settler first no matter what? A worker then a settler? Build a barracks and fuck a settler?
What about tech? Do you go for founding Buddhism or Hinduism? Screw religion and trade for it later?
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I picked up Bioshock yesterday and ploughed a few hours into it, taking my time and searching through everything. Wow, this is great stuff, I love the atmosphere, the visuals are great, the story is gripping, I just love it! I've held off on getting it at full price because of the short play time and lack of replayability, my bad :(
Anyone notice the similarities between the musical score in Bioshock and There Will Be Blood? It's awesome!
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highly recommended, refreshingly good. That is all
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A full sensor in a D300 body with slower fps (due to full sensor) (5fps, 8fps with grip) and some other extra goodies.
http://greyscalegorilla.com/blog/2008/07/01/nikon-d700-is-announced/
http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2008/07/nikon-d700-is-d.html
Hands-on preview by DPReview
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0807/08070103nikond700previewed.asp
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Spoiler video?? Fake? You decide. Got it off the blizzard official forums.
http://levio91.blogspot.com/2008/06/diablo-3-knight-class-revealed-leaked.html
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Whats the easiest way of doing this to get the medic / pyro weapons? Most of the achievements seem to be mental, and there's nothing telling me how much I need to unlock to get additional weapons
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in reply.
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http://www.theage.com.au/news/articles/seven-unveils-hobbled-tivo/2008/07/01/1214678017036.html
We don't have enough tv channels to really justify this so disabling the internet and network features is just retarded
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If true, BOUGHT.
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Picked it out at random from the hippy video store around the corner from my place and I have to say that I was quite impressed. For those of you that haven't seen it, it's a french animated film about this Iranian girl and some of the major events that surround about 20 years of her life. Highly recommended for those of you that can get past: 1. It's French 2. Subtitles 3. A different animation style.
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What do you think of the service? I will be ordering broadband as soon as my phone line gets connected, and Be is available in my area. 24Mb/s down, 1.3Mb/s up, no caps, and £18/month all sound good to me.
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I mean it's great to finally get to play "Sweet Emotion" and the like, but at this point I would much rather have some Aerosmith-flavored Rock Band DLC.
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Would you be in favor of, against, or indifferent to the idea of a modifiable UI a la World of Warcraft?
Let's assume that unlike WoW, the stock UI would be perfectly fine for playing all through the game - the modifiable UI would be there simply for people that like to tinker with that kind of stuff. And LIKE WoW, the API would only allow modders to get at information that Blizzard wants you to be able to get at.
Me? Strongly in favor of. I probably had more fun UI tinkering in WoW than I did playing the game. I wrote a few of my own big mods and had a TON of fun doing that. Pretty much any game I get really attached to, I want to code for. UI mods gives me an easy and useful way to channel that desire. :D
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$115 for 640gig seems insane
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http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=UR1CR0aFkv4
contains big spoilers tho...
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