Weekend Discussion
by Jeff "geedeck" Gondek, Jul 05, 2008 6:58am PDTEveryone in the states having a good holiday weekend? Things may be a bit of a slow news weekend due to grilling and fireworks, twenty-seventh greatest killers of our youth today. That is why you are so lucky to have us to bring you Shack on Holiday, a hard hitting expose of what you should play on the road this summer. And we've got the latest of 8-bit Megaman 9 for the Wii, all I'm saying is "Spike Walking Shoes". And there are now signups for the newest World of Warcraft expansion, does anyone play that game?
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HD4870 is roughly even with the GTX280.
HD4870 comes close, but doesn't really pull even with 9800 GX2.
GTX280 is ~$500
9800GX2 is ~$430
HD4870 is ~$300
???
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/06/jenny-mccarthy-loans-boyf_n_111036.html
i guess if you're rich you don't give a shit
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http://www.shacknews.com/shackmeet/events.x?id=4846
Hope everyone had an excellent 4th of July Weekend. This is a reminder that this coming weekend there will be a Shackmeet at the Los Altos Rod and Gun Club. The meet will be on Saturday, July 12, 2008.
www.losaltosrodandgunclub.com
The range opens up at 9 AM and we can meet either on the Range at that time or at this Safeway parking lot by the Mountain Mike's Pizza between 0820 and 0840. At 0850 we will convoy up to the range which takes about 5-10 minutes and we can probably consolidate carpools. Reason why I think we should meet here before we head up is because cell phone reception at the range will be rather spotty. So it would be best to coordinate in the parking lot and use the time to buy stuff from the supermarket for the BBQ up there (more details on that in reply):
GMap: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=12850+Saratoga+Sunnyvale+Rd,+Saratoga,+CA+95070&sll=37.284724,-122.028987&sspn=0.005719,0.014184&ie=UTF8&ll=37.287302,-122.032313&spn=0.011438,0.028367&z=15&iwloc=addr
We currently have 14+ Shackers and some non-Shackers signed up with more possibly attending. I have contacted the range master and she told me she's scheduled our group for that day so they know we're coming. Also that we can use the picnic area to do a BBQ but we obviously need to bring our own charcoal/fuel and food.
Range fee is $14 dollars for Adults and $7 for children (though I am not aware of any). You pay at the shack near the entrance and you can also purchase ammunition, targets, and hearing/eye protection.
Please read over the specific details in reply:
- Food Plan
- Guns and Ammo
- Range operations information
I hope I covered enough of everything but please Shackmessage me with any questions and I look forward to an awesome Shackmeet!
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http://badcompany.ea.com/gallery/
You can add your own to the gallery by logging in and going to "my photos" on the soldier page. I'm not sure how many you can save but the unsaved section seems to hold 10 and then delete the last one when you hit 11.
http://mediasrv01.eaeurope.eu/bfbc/pm_albums/14129181_1.jpg
Xevo making a run for it.
You press "up" on the d-pad to take a shot in game.
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http://shackpics.com/files/bag001_6wznmpefhtw4d09kgldf.jpg
http://shackpics.com/files/bag002_1ew2spkau0zm61crdxe7.jpg
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That's all, really.
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First of all, I had smoked a little before the huge SHODAN reveal... that was probably one of the freakiest, most surreal experiences I've ever been through. Second of all, this game is getting a little fucking unfair as I near the end. I entered one room filled with midwives and those egg-bee things and they chased me to another room filled with about 5 turrets - all three kinds. Still, I'm glad I finally brassed my balls enough to get this far in the game, this is one of the richest plots and most atmospheric settings I've played in a long while.
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http://www.kloonigames.com/blog/games/tp
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If you had your very own real-life Horadric Cube... what would you put in it, and what would be the result?
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http://shackpics.com/files/Photo0092_k74garhkurpdyhuydb8q.jpg
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R6Vegas, GOW, and now UT3... all very fine multiplayer games by design in their own right...
but all ruined by host advantage apparently inherent to Unreal Engine 3.
Why is it that COD4 on 360 can get it so right (no host advantage visible whatsoever with controller movement as perfect as it can get... yet all of the above fail so horribly...
Playing UT3 on a "paid for" Live and on a peer1-routed DSL line (one of the best options in Canada for latency per dslreports) and having to lead my rockets and link gun like the rockets and hyperblaster in Q2 circa '97 on 56k is just wrong.
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Game Stop has the Crysis: Warhead pre-order for $30 with free shipping (Code: SAVER).
http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/ProductDetails.aspx?product_id=71736&affID=77777&sourceID=lw9MynSeamY-b44brUo0n2X41l6mn.Sk2w
Expected to ship September 16, 2008.
in before lol where is the console version
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....who started with First Person Shooters on PC FIRST
How long before you got adjusted to the console thumpad controls in FPS games?
I"m not doing half bad in battlefield bad company but in close combat gun fights If the target is moving and i'm trying to hit him my guy must look really lame swinging the gun all around and missing....Right Thumb pad is my weakness...
Most of my kills comes from me leaving the right thumb pad in place and using strafe to center the crosshairs
Its frustrating.....i want to throw the controller and break it
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I just wanted to say thanks. I didn't need all those cool bookmarks anyway, you really helped me out by randomly deleting all of them.
Sincerely,
Orange W. Pylon
P.S. HELP ME SHACK FOR THE LOVE OF GOD
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Deathmatch:
http://img71.imageshack.us/img71/5749/blahblahrm7.jpg
Team Deathmatch:
http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/769/blahblahys8.jpg
CTF:
http://img71.imageshack.us/img71/3109/blahblahfq2.jpg
Warfare:
http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/4874/blahblahtc1.jpg
They should just shut down the master server. There are more people playing Quake 4 and free games like Sauerbraten and Warsow than this.
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Background: Yeah, I'm the 35-year-old. :-( I did a mid-life career change (I used to work in an office and teach music on the side, but now I'm a music teacher in a middle school), and my current pay is way shitty. So I moonlight working in retail. My colleagues at my school are all married women in their 40s/50/s60s, and my coworkers in the retail store are young women (some are jailbait--ack!). Plus, for my main job I moved to a small town in the middle of nowhere, so it's not like I meet a lot of 20-something / 30-something single women.
So lately I've been flirting with one of my young coworkers who's in college. Except that I'm an outgoing, gregarious person, so it's probably not really "flirting", or at lest may not be perceived as such. I can't tell if this girl is interested; if she was 30, I'd just ask her out. ("Hey, wanna catch a movie this weekend?" or "Let's grab a drink after work" or whatever.) But there's a FIFTEEN-YEAR age difference with this 21-year-old, which raises the possibility of me being seen as a disgusting lecher if I've completely misconstrued our interaction thus far. Plus, I work with her. That by itself isn't an issue (this store's HR policy on employees working together is very open, assuming it's not a conflict of interest), but I don't really want to be the "creepy old guy" inappropriately hitting on young women.
What would you do?
tl,dr: I'm probably a creepy old guy with delusions of youth.
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