Morning Discussion
by Jeff "geedeck" Gondek, Jul 23, 2008 3:48am PDTGood morning Shackers, get your morning tea and crumpets yet? Microsoft apparently wasn't showing all their cards at E3, with the announcement that Games for Windows Live will be fully free. Why? Check out our interview with Microsoft. And Community Games are coming to the 360, we've got pricing details and more here.
Gametap announced yesterday that they're adding THQ games to the service so if you're like me and haven't gotten your Company of Heroes fix then there you go. Plus, if you haven't picked up a Classic Controller for the Wii, today may be your last legal day. But on a more positive note, we have air guitars and prize winners!
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
Blacklight: Retribution open beta begins Feb 27
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=200334
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Mine, when the Batmobile was disabled by Joker's RPG, I was like, "damn that sucks." Then he starts the ejection procedure and the vehicle starts to rumble. I was going, "WTF is happening?" Then all of a sudden the Batpod comes flying out and the Batmobile scuttles itself. I had no idea that the Batpod was freaking built in to the Batmobile. I thought he was going to eject like from a fighter plane and the find the Batpod driving itself to him after pushing a button on his belt.
It was an elegant and awesome surprise.
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I am thinking of doing this: http://www.freemacbookpro.com/
Tips? Should I? Anyone getting rid of their MBP or have any other ideas?
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dont forget the GB2A Ethiopian food shackmeet tonight!
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=17495786
to be followed by beer drinkin in addison at the Flying Saucer (beltine/tollway across from where prestonwood mall used to be)
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I was considering what direction could a 3rd Nolan Bat-film could take that would be awesome, and then it dawned on me. Rip a few pages from "The Dark Knight Returns" by Frank Miller ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Knight_Returns ) at set it 20 years in the future.
Spoilers if you haven't seen TDK.
Bruce is an old man in this story so they would need to cast an older actor to play him. I haven't given much thought as to who would be a good older Batman, but I'm sure there are plenty of mid-50s early-60s actors that could do the part justice. Bale is a good Batman, but it would look silly to throw him in old-man make-up.
Setting the flick 20 years in the future would also allow them to bring back the Joker. They didn't kill him off in TDK, and they could recast him with another older actor and not worry about all the fags on the internet that would get hiffy about recasting the role after Ledger's death. Again, I didn't put much thought into who could do a good older Joker.
Even though I would be happy if they just never made a 3rd, I would be totally excited if Nolan took it in this direction with a 3rd to cap it all off.
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Was the movie really that god-awful? Can anyone honestly recommend it for watching at least once?
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http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?t=877227
Now, all I need to do is think up of a domain. I suck at thinking names up (DrWaffles, seriously?).
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remember, at least for now this is ONLY for use within our little community. ONLY for that. do not share urls or do embeds of images on other forums or any of that stuff outside of here.
once you start doing that, usage goes way up and we have to make changes to try and cover up the costs involved in a site with that kind of traffic.
as long as you guys keep the shackpics usage within our community, we can afford it just fine.
if you wanna do forum stuff etc outside of here, get a mercury/shackspace account.
also, shackspace users, we do plan to make a few improvements to your service in the future. we have a few nifty toys that we hope to get going there.
oh, and we'll fix the .62 and .63 servers shortly. if you close all your browsers and start over you have a 50/50 chance of hitting one of the other machines in the cluster if you cant wait.
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I can't get into mail.yahoo.com
and some other sites.
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A few quick questions to help me decide if I should reinstall on my new rig.
#1) Do you need to play thru the entire singleplayer campaign to unlock the Multiplayer missions?
I have a few friends wanting to do some ArmA coop, but I really dont wanna do the SP campaign again.
#2) Did the latest patch improve optimization? The game ran (barely) with all my setting on medium or low on my old PC.
#3) Are there many coop scenarios for 3-4 guys?
#4) Is ArmA2 still seeing a 2008 release?
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http://photofile.ru/photo/fishki_net/3568632/77932205.jpg
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If you live in Dallas and like to eat food you should go too! :O
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Does anyone use a KVM switch? I want to switch between my gaming pc and my linux pc without filling my desk up with keyboards. I don't know how they work, but they're just a fancy switch right? So there wouldn't be any issues with input/output lag or getting any sort of drivers to work on vista/linux?
I was looking at this KVM http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817399019 because it's just about the only one on newegg less than $150
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I am sitting on the couch, toe completely wrapped up. This sucks balls. The doctor said he was going to give me some pain killers, but all he gave me was some ointment and some stuff called Cephalexin which is an antibiotic medicine.
The procedure was cool to watch, but the worst part was after the doctor injected the numbing agent into my toe he kept stabbing my toe to see if it was numb and he did it too early and it hurt like hell.
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http://www.shackpics.com/files/gracie_z52yq9oo5lafcyerfvpl.jpg
Every time I look at it I laugh!
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i've got an indestructible ratpad from the early quake3test days but since i've bought a new mouse it seems the rough surface is eating away the teflon pads at an alarming rate. also i've started playing at a lower sens because i'm gaming at only 1280x1024 and the high dpi are forcing me to lower sensitivity.
i was looking at something in the 20 bucks range, should be a bit bigger than the fisrt gen ratpad. nothing too freaky/ excessive though.
i know a simple cloth one does the job but those mofos are a dirt and coffee stain magnets.
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hit random image... if it doesnt work please tell me the IP address that you see listed at the bottom of the source code?
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It's old, uninteresting, and looks just like everyone else's. stop it already. *meanface*
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