Morning Discussion
by Jeff "geedeck" Gondek, Jul 07, 2008 5:18am PDTThe quietness of the holiday weekend should be breaking soon, but in the meantime we've got a new chatty to see it through. If you're trying to figure out if a run to your nearest gaming retailer is required this week, then I would suggest the latest Release List for all your informational needs. I think a Shacker or two may be picking up the new Civilization: Revolution, especially since a few Shackers worked on it. And don't forget there's a free Halo 3 map available for download today.
FileShack: Unity of Command, Skyjacker
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
http://www.rpgcodex.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=24932
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/grumpy old man rant off./
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Is there a way of dimming a picture thru CSS and making it normal on-hover ?
Like i have this image button that is dimmed but it highlights as i hover/click on it?
I want to do this inline, without recurring to an external css file.
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For instance, one reviewer had the temertiy to say: The film is quite special but where some films can weather extraneous or padded scenes, The Dark Knight has some distracting bloat to it which keeps it out of masterpiece territory.
That jerk!
The Batman community responded in haste. Here are some of my favorite comments.
We'll start with a doozy: This review is horrible. TDK IS a masterpiece. Take it back now, or expect a lot of negative comments. Your career is pretty much counting on this... This review will follow you everywhere from now on.
Strongly worded. Here's another beauty, this time directed at the reviewer's credentials: The guy writes that the film is special but he says it's not a masterpiece? Then he goes on to say if they were to only tweek it in the editing room it could be. What the hell does this guy know about movies? Is he a film maker? It sounds arrogant to me.
What the hell does he know about movies? Obviously not much if he thinks the Dark Knight isn't a bona fide masterpiece.
To be fair, some commentors were quite levelheaded: Nick Nunziata has his head so far up Marvel's *** that he can't give a DC movie a fair shot. This is, unfortunately, the biggest endorsement for the movie considering he said anything nice about it at all.
And lastly, to sum it up: It IS a masterpiece.
Nuff said.
These guys are great. I amost wish the movie would never come out so I could keep reading this stuff.
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My phone contract has is just about to renew which entitles me to a new free phone. I have the Sony Ericsson W950i at the moment, it's nice and all but in hindsight I hate the Sony software and it's a bitch to text with. For £99 I can get the iPhone 3G 8GB on Friday with a new contract. Worth getting? Just wondering what everyone else's experiences have been with it.
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So recently I have been getting really weird connection problems. I'll join a server, be able to play for hours, have a break then try and reconnect. Then I'll get the little red connection error and have to rejoin another server.
It seems to be completely random when it happens too.
I have recently changed ISP's so this may be a problem, just wondering if theres anything I can try first before ringing them.
Any ideas?
Im on 12meg ADSL with rate of 20000 updaterate "101" and cmdrate "101" i assume thats appropriate for my connection?
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Personally I usually go for the machine, just because I don't have to wait in line usually. At least, that's what I tell myself.
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This is such a great car. A true successor to the first m-coupe. Right now it's in the break-in period, and I can't go above 5k rpm or give it full throttle, or attempt to kill myself until I have just over 3000 miles on it. It costs nearly $70 to fill up, since it uses premium gas, so that is exciting and cool. Also my car insurance went up like uh oh. All in all, I just hemorrhaged money all over the place to have this vehicle, and that's fine because I am helping to populate the world with great design and brilliant engineering and I am populating my self with omfg.
The scoops over the gauges line up with the curving angle of the vehicle. The entire feel of the car is so effortless, so relaxed, and then you want it to go and it goes and goes and goes. It has as much go as it does grip. But the real hero is the steering wheel.
I could write endlessly about the steering wheel. It was the most unexpected and then the most satisfying aspect of the experience. You can get in every other BMW, M series or not, and the steering wheel is just the steering wheel. For some reason, in the m-coupe, the steering wheel is a work of art. It is the exact right thickness, the exact right size, the exact right softness. It is like the thing reads your DNA and responds. It is such an interface, and so with the car that you feel like you're moving the entire object when you move the wheel. It's so weird that out of all the insane design and engineering that went into this car, the steering wheel came out and just owned it all. I wish I this wheel instead of a mouse, or a tv remote, or a sink faucet. It should be on all things.
When you hate Mercedes, don't want to be an M3 owner, and the 911 is a little too 9/11: The BMW M-Coupe!
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to go here: http://ems.esportsea.com/?a=x.schedule&stageid=2023
Top half bracket
1. Feek Squad (37) v. 8. Saints of Solvechrist (18)
spreadsheet versus saints!
5. ieGodSquad (26) v. 4. The Peculiar aka NDI (31)
lakren+flammable face former LKS teammate JackhammerJohnson!
Bottom half bracket
3. 2Legit2Crit (32) v. 6. JammyDodgers (23)
I have no witty comment for this match!
7. Quack Attack (21) v. 2. Cult of Crit (34)
ducks and cocs battle for syllable rights!
The top half gets some intriguing east/west matchups, while the bottom half gets rematches of a match played yesterday (2L2C v JD) and a match from week one (QA v coc). I'm guessing hirez will post the round one maps later today. What maps is everyone hoping for?
In other TF2 news, The Shack defeated Team "Future US" last night, with team 1 winning ctf_well 3-0 and team 2 winning dustbowl 6-4.
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http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/07/star-trek-exper.html
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http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/236515.html
A lot of good choices it seems
If its not done right, then I'd rather have LEGO like silence (hear see Star Wars, Indiana Jones games for reference).
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i'm trying to set up a forum for creative collaboration with clients (i have a small stop-mo animation studio). any suggestions on good and/or cheap forum software we could use on our website for client login section?
some quick browsing gave me vBulletin, but then i realized i dont know shit. :)
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seriously that would be the coolest feature ever. especially if they made it so you don't even need a pc to use your zune.
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http://gizmodo.com/359099/wall+e-gamecube-mod-is-too-cute-but-not-too-cute-for-the-giz
Wall-E Game Cube casemod!
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A friends boyfriend was having a text message conversation with someone who he really shouldn't be talking to. When my friend asked if she could see them, he said he had to delete the text messages because "he was out of room, and needed to delete them to save space"
Is this legitimate, can you really run out of SMS space on an iPhone?
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This was pretty popular last night, so how about round 2?
What: TONS of random blue, yellow, green, and gold items for Shacker low-to-mid-bies
Where: Act I Rogue Encampment
When: Now, and for as long as someone stays in the game to keep it alive
Room: shackdump
Pass: shacknews
Want to come and take? Come and take. Want to come and give to the pile of gear? Come and contribute.
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Is LCD > Plasma? I'm not understandings
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So I haven't built a computer in years and years. I currently have an Athlon XP 2500+ and a GeForce 6600GT. It's time for a complete overhaul, but I have no idea what is what anymore. Big questions are: how do I pick a motherboard, and what kind of ram do I need?
Sony NEC Optiarc 20X DVD±R Burner Black SATA Model AD-7200S-0B - OEM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827118012
$23.99
Antec P182 Gun Metal Black 0.8mm cold rolled steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129025
$149.99
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3500630AS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148136
$79.99
VisionTek 900244 Radeon HD 4870 512MB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814129113
$309.99
SILVERSTONE ST400 400W ATX 12V 2.2 Power Supply - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817256032
$46.99
A-DATA Vitesta 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820211282
$84.99
MSI P7N SLI-FI LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 750i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130175
$129.99
Intel Core 2 Duo E8200 Wolfdale 2.66GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor Model BX80570E8200
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115038
$174.99
COOLER MASTER RR-CCH-L9U1-GP 92mm Hyper TX2 CPU Cooler - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103031
$25.99
For a grand total of $973. Computers sure are getting cheap.
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Do arachnoid leggings/greaves/leg plates exist?
I have an arachnoid helmet, chestpiece, and arm pieces. It looks cool and offers nice bonuses at my low level. But I can't get a leg piece drop. Do I just have to farm forever or does it not exist?
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Yesterday, some of you were interested in doing some runs on the Great Barrows and Garth Agarwen, specifically to get some trophies there. If you're down, post ITT now darnit.
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