Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Jul 30, 2008 6:00pm PDTSo we got to see Wolfenstein today which was fun, expect to see a write up on that tomorrow afternoon along with some new screenshots and video of the game. We will also be doing live updates from the keynote tomorrow evening. That starts at 6pm SHACK TIME.
- Unmasking anonymous
trolls
- More ice in
your tea
? - Spoiled eyeballs
- More on China Olympics
href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/07/30/olympics.internet.ap/index.html">internet access
As for the the videogame news around these parts for today:
- PlayStation 3 greatest hits line
- Spore a week from completion
- Nintendo reports bigass profits
- Crysis Warhead screenshots
- Red Alert 3 beta begins
- Richard Garriot is still batshit
crazy
- BioShock creator talks about next
game
- Armored Core: stupid name
- Rise of the Argonauts trailer
- Losing faith in Nintendo
- Microsoft denies high XBLA prices
- Vivendi halts Bourne games
- Google testing in-game advertising
- Game reviewers are lazy
- SimCity Creator screenshots
Lastly, I'm pretty sure my playing Diablo 2 in the evenings has gone beyond just more research. At least I can tell that I'm already tiring of the game again though. That thing sucked me in for a damn long time when it came out.
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
i want it to be all-inclusive (alcohol too) and have snorkeling included and off the beach. i don't want to spend a goddamned fortune but i don't want budget travelodge-and-denny's world.
i'm sure shackers have done this kind of thing at this place before, so help me not read through tons of tripadvisor shit that always just confuses me more, and tell me where you would go. or did go.
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When is the next good (and good-looking) MMORPG going to come out?
Looking at warhammer online, the game seems polished, but it's been in development forever and the graphics are on par with WoW.
Looking at pages like mmorpg.com, mmo vault--these sites list many MMOs as "in development" but many of these games seem to be in production at small studios which will likely never have the means to finish, publish, and support an MMO.
Which in-dev MMORPGs are being made by reputable studios currently?
(KOTOR MMO- BIOWARE?, UNTITLED BLIZZARD MMO?, CHAMPIONS ONLINE - CRYPTIC STUDIOS?)
In 1 or 2 years, I will have time to play an MMO, and I dont want to settle for Warhammer online and its quake 3 graphics. Is there anything on the horizon?
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Sawyer wrote RollerCoaster Tycoon almost entirely in assembly language, a difficult feat considering the game's complexity. Some functions were written in C to interface with the Windows operating system.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RollerCoaster_Tycoon_(video_game)
ho-lee shit that makes me feel forever inferior
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I'm set up on row B20. There's a shacknews banner there and plenty of open slots. Let's congregate there. Please bump this a few times as it's 1:30 and I've been standing in line for 7 hours and I'm going to bed!
Woo!
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Sure, the lack of co-op play over Xbox Live is a bit of a loss but, my god, this is more than I was expecting for a Geometry Wars sequel. This game is absolutely fantastic, looks amazing, and has a lot of fantastic audio tracks (and neat little tricks that tie into the gameplay). The six game modes are all a lot of fun as well.
Buy this and play it or I will personally kill you.
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080731.wmanbus0731/BNStory/National/home
TLDR: Two strangers seated next to one another on a bus, one begins to stab the other in the throat and then decapitates him, bring his head to the front of the bus once the job is done.
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what do i do to make my iphone better than it is? what apps do i install, etc
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It was incredible, and I feel a hole in my heart now that it is over. I haven't been a big TV viewer for a long time, but I know I've been missing a lot of good TV (especially HBo/Showtime stuff).
My question: what series should I move to next? I need a replacement for the Sopranos, so it has to be something of a pretty high quality level. What great series have I missed on TV?
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I'm proud of this one, took me an hour to get the balancing right. I really only wanted to do 2 pieces, but had to settle for 3
Mission 2 Mars 3 piece unpowered
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=148928
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i got my eeepc today
one can ftp a video via the web browser (firefox) and have it stream it .
thats fucking awesome.
in so many ways
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yes, all you elite phone users can go ahead and say you leave it on silent all the time, but for those of us who actually leave our houses a ringtone is pretty necessary.
mine is this at the moment: http://socksandthecity.net/Top%20Gear.m4r
i edited it down from ~40 seconds or so to fit within the iTunes limit. i think it works pretty well.
so what do you use?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYjny4qNy24&fmt=18
Yup as usual, its fucked up.
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The Lampshades absolutely destroyed our scrimmage opponent today. http://goallineblitz.com/game/game.pl?game_id=79021&mode=pbp&hide=1
While it's fun to watch, it's not much of a test. I wish we had a real opponent, not one that is rebuilding and has so many lower level players.
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I've had it installed for about 9 months now, and Windows Explorer is still driving me crazy. Very frequently I will open a folder, and it will have magically changed the sorting, or the grouping, or the view type (icons, list, etc.) from however it was configured the previous time. This wouldn't be so maddening if I understood what logic Windows was using to configure my views, but it seems completely arbitrary. It's been said that madness is when you do something twice and expect different results, but that's exactly what's happening to me.
Can anyone tell me what it's doing?
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It's for interesting stuff. Stuff that is useful. Not 99% of the shit that's there now.
I don't want it used like the Shack mod's +inf. They +inf funny stuff all the time because it lets them highlight a funny post. That's what [lol] is for.
If I wasn't so lazy I'd collect the names of the people doing it wrong and Shackmessage them and ask them to stop doing it.
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http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/news/autoexpressnews/225669/mazda-sharpens-up-its-act-on-new-3.html
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http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0319121/
WHOA. By the way, this movie holds up incredibly, incredibly well. Still as funny as ever, and it even out-actions most action movies by having an incredible score from Basil Poledouris and visual-effects eye-candy that doesn't pull you out of the movie even today. It bests even Hot Fuzz in terms of providing great action and even better comedy.
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9 out of the top 10 games are nintendo (wii/ds) and 1 ps2 game.
1. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games, Nintendo DS
2. Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga, Wii
3. Wii Play bundle, Wii
4. Wii Fit, Wii
5. SingStar Party Hits bundle, PlayStation 2
6. Mario Kart Wii, Wii
7. Dr Kawashima's Brain Training: How Old Is Your Brain, Nintendo DS
8. Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Wii
9. More Brain Training from Dr Kawashima: How Old Is Your Brain?, Nintendo DS
10. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games, Wii
I hope this is just mid year xmas layby.
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If somehow they could extract the talent from Heath Ledger and inject it into Parker Lewis, we could have a pretty convincing continuation of the Joker:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corin_Nemec
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link: http://www.thelebaron.com/test/chrislebaron_reel.avi
wish me luck!
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I'm looking for recommendations for a reputable online supplier for comics. I'm trying to find Issue #1 of the Dead Space series and I can't find it locally. Not a huge comic book fan, just liked the series. But I missed out on issue 1. And I don't know what I don't know when it comes to ordering online. Rather get recommendations than take a shot at some random site Google finds for me.
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I must save my porn. My beautiful porn. :(
I take back the recommendations I've made previously for the WD external drives. Top quality device lasted a bit over a year.
What's better out there right now in the world of external drives? Seagate or Maxtor?
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want the full creature creator for free?
"The full Spore Creature Creator will be available at your newsagent with your daily paper! Available exclusively with the Herald Sun (VIC) and The Saturday Daily Telegraph (NSW) on Saturday 2nd August 2008, and with The Courier-Mail (QLD) on Saturday 30th August 2008. See your local paper for more details."
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,24076181-5017712,00.html
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http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,25642,24107191-5014117,00.html
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