Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Aug 07, 2008 6:00pm PDTSo our hope is that more than a few of you guys are enjoying the
Breakfast with Shack articles that have been going up in the mornings. As always we continue to fuss around trying out new column ideas and formats. If you would like those to continue please do share the links with your friends. There are some real obvious paths to getting a lot of traffic on gaming sites, but we're trying to be a bit different when we can instead. Hopefully you guys will support that!
As for the the videogame news around these parts for today:
- MS says digital distribution will
surpass retail
- Ubisoft sues disc replication company
href="http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/54077">over Assassins Creed piracy
- The Nintendo revolution, and why
Wii were wrong
- Dead Space written by Iron Man's
Warren Ellis
- Rock Band and Guitar Hero doesnt
pay music studios enough
- Fable 2 arrives October 21
- Damnation trailer and screenshots
- Interview: AIAS president on E3
- Blizzard loses Diablo 3 art
director
and makes a statement - Sega: Sonic criticism is 'probably
warranted
' - Bionic Commmando Rearmed trailer
- PS3 Home beta access with download
- Rubik's Cube game is shown off
- PlayStation store update
- Mushroom screenshots & trailer
- Crackdown 2 still possible
Lastly, Faylor just went out and bought Hellgate: London this evening. Just so you guys know.
Darksiders 2 releases June 26, pre-order bonuses announced
PlayStation Home getting avatar 'fighting' game
Girl Fight bringing fighting girls to XBLA and PSN
Skyrim Workshop touts 2M downloads, 2,500 mods
Xenonauts dev promises 'proper remake' of XCOM
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I wrote, with the help of mikecyb, fletch, and Squeegy's XML/JSON, a version of the latestchatty that can be viewed on my Sanyo Katana (Sprint PCS vision net) pretty well. It is limited only to the latestchatty, and you can only see replies one level deep to root posts. However, you can post new threads and reply to root posts.
The way that Squeegy's XML/JSON works sort of screws me up for nesting any deeper, it would be easy to recursively call the thread display if I could, but the way it is setup right now that isn't a possibility. So this is just the way it is! maybe he will read this and write a get for any story_id and id.
Anyway, it isn't perfect but definitely might give some of you something to do while you're on the bus or killing time.
Link:
http://www.fletchstudios.com/nemo/lcmobile.php
If you have any suggestions or want to help me make it better post away!
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Filming will begin at 8:00PM on Saturday August 9th on the ROGCON Main Stage at the Hyatt Regency Dallas (300 Reunion Blvd Dallas, TX 75207) Please arrive early... For more details about rogcon visit http://www.rogcon.com - for those of you who play videogames this event might interest you...
I have created a shackmeet for this event. http://www.shacknews.com/shackmeet/events.x?id=5174
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I tried playing the first few levels, but the bad guys are really tough, there are quite a few of them, they're well armed and as aggressive as ever. A bit too tough for someone with only one and a half inches worth of bullet time and 100 health perhaps. I'm wondering if it's meant to be this hard, if it's meant to be played with a transfered character or if I just suck.
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If someone gives me a general idea for something I have enough creativity to design something around the idea that's usually pretty decent but I can rarely come up with something new. It's really fucking frustrating. Is it just something I'll never be good at or are there ways to train yourself to see things differently?
/rant off
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I remember a year or some ago that one of the shacker's was related to the guy who did Zim's voice and he did a message for the shack... anyone have a link?
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Time used to be when, even with a full time job, I could play through every single awesome game and still have time for to play the neat-but-flawed experimental games, sleep, and have a girlfriend.
These days, the awsome-avalanche (awesome-vanche? aval-awesome?) just. Never. Ends. It's both great and depressing. I want to play through all the fantasti-games out there, but there's just no fucking way! If the game isn't some super-powered home run of a mega-title, it sits on a shelf and gathers dust, while the paragons of the industry struggle for space on my schedule.
My current meal consists of Ninja Gaiden 2, No More Heroes, Final Fantasy IV DS, Rocket Slime, and even Metal Gear Solid 3. That's obscene! And I still want to pick up Soul Calibur 4, STALKER, Lost Odyssey, The Witcher, and Call of Duty 4. I mean... how the hell am I supposed to pull that off before the fall onslaught?
It's a great problem to have, but still...
How about you guys? What does your backlog look like?
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What would you consider their best disc? I'm looking to buy one of of iTunes and can't decide which one to get.
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In this year, I will:
Visit my grandfolks (possibly for the last time )o:
See the Mediterranean
Spend more than 100 bucks on a bottle of Scotch
Get a motorcycle.
Here's to the future!
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What does he need to do to get around doing that every time?
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LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWL
http://www.macrumors.com/iphone/2008/08/07/8-people-bought-999-99-i-am-rich-app/
I know opinions vary on this, but I for one think that dev was a fucking genius for thinking of that.
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I bought a huge picture of the Flatiron building from Ikea today to decorate an otherwise lifeless wall. It's a big 2x1.5m canvas but gives off some kind of paint thinner/permanent marker kind of smell. It's not very nice. Am I going to die when I go to sleep?
http://www.shackpics.com/files/gonnagethigh_ac5musfb6f0a50d8fk92.jpg
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What are good brands these days?
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One time he called me and told me that some punk called him a fag over team fortress. He was livid.
I used to be a huge gamer, but I just don't have the time anymore. sad :[
Any of you people have parents that game?
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http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/08/08/georgia.ossetia/index.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7548715.stm
http://img.lenta.ru/news/2008/08/08/stopsheling/picture.jpg
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i think i'm done with nintendo. seriously, all it is is buying new hardware. and what do you have to play on it? jack shit. maybe. MAYBE a decent release every.. year. six months, optimistically. i have four games for it, zack and wiki, metroid, mario, and zelda. tada. i have spent, to date, 370 dollars on this thing. not counting the games. count that up, say.. 180. 550 bucks. really. that surprised even me, i think, in relation to how much fun i've had out of it.
and before you say oh, well it's a party-style console, yes, but even my friends are bored with playing it now. so where the hell does that leave me?
controllers, nunchuks, zapper, wiimotion plus, wiifit, blah dee fuckin' blah. maybe i'm becoming the typical 360 audience, but look at my gamertag, i haven't been on that in months either! so it's not which is better than the other.
am i being picky, or a tightass, or what? is thinking like this after 2 years not giving it the benefit of the doubt? i can't remember what the 360 had going for it after 2 years. i think i'm seriously just disheartened by it all and i wanna be done with it.
anyone wanna buy a wii? >:(
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is there going to be a shack guild?
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Ya, they are real commercials that I see all the time.
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Things that I'm having issues with:
- email sometimes downloads, sometimes just sits with a "message not fully downloaded" greyed out body and wont let me click the download rest of message button
- more often than not, the app store freezes out and kicks back to the main screen when i try to hit install. No, it doesnt install, it just hangs and crashes.
- text messaging is slower than shit. the touchscreen is fine but its so lagged out that you end up going too fast for it and it screws up. i remember typing being way faster on my buddy's 1st gen
- 3G browsing on rogers is a joke. I get the error 302 70% of the time, and when shit does load, its slower than edge. Thats probably a network issue in canada, but fuck, still
- battery life is crappier than advertised, even with push off, 3g off, and manual email checks. Barely a day.
- how the fuck is it i cant copy a phone number out of a text message or email and use it to update a contacts info. Someone sent me their mobile number through email, and i had to get a pen, write it down, then manually add it into the phone. My fucking 2001 motorola could do it all on phone, wtf apple.
- on that note, what the fuck is with the contacts? How come i cant make contact groups on the phone? one big contact list is useless to me when i have work contacts, personal contacts, etc. If the option exists, they dont make it easy to find
thats it for now. I really hoped i would like this phone, but right now its a major purchase regret
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I only got 29, but I am no native speaker, you know?
http://codebox.no-ip.net/controller?page=misc.QuizCommonWords
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My main point of posting this though is: Jurassic Park is 15 years old? HOLY SHIT!
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Here's a couple pics...
http://flickr.com/photos/akedaveo/2742288611/
http://flickr.com/photos/akedaveo/2743127108/
http://flickr.com/photos/akedaveo/2742290363/
http://flickr.com/photos/akedaveo/2743129054/
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http://consumerist.com/5034408/homeowners-in-denial-everyones-house-is-worth-less-except-yours
I have a friend just like this... he's lived in his house for less than a year and he's convinced it's gone up in value (there are dozens of foreclosures in his area), which isn't really a big deal really except he wants to sell his house and buy a new one now. WTF?
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Mine just shipped!
SWEEET!
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This looks pretty amazing - Look at how "long" the "Main lightning" is visible.. Pretty insane FPS for that highspeed cam.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU3YFZlXaag
It died :(
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