Morning Discussion
by Jeff "geedeck" Gondek, Aug 21, 2008 3:05am PDTWhat's up Shackers? Good bit of news coming out of Game Convention at Leipzig, you should check that out. And we've got more info on Samba de Amigo for the Wii, which really should be a whole bunch of fun without the frustration of buying/breaking morocco controllers.
For the 360 gamers, there's word that the Force Unleashed demo is out and not half bad, and PS3 users will likely get that tomorrow. And for your viewing pleasure, there are nifty trailers for Wrath of the Lich King and Warhammer MMOs.
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
Photon changed the live draft date+time to Monday, Sep 1 at 6pm Pacific (due to a request by mwasher, I think). Is this ok for everyone else? http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=17719684
Personally I would prefer an hour later, but, how long do these things run? 2 hours? More?
Which shacker is everyone in the league?
- howdoiplaygame -- Papaboo
- Concrete Unicorns -- mvanduzor (urban dead guy)
- Jesus Wept -- deathlove
- John McCain's McNuts -- ?? yahoo username: takethesewords
- Zakazi's Grapists -- zakazi
- Regina Roughriders -- Zol4481 (urban dead guy)
- Cutler's Crusaders -- ?? yahoo username: jake
- Cult of Chaos -- ]pm[chem
- Harvester of Sorrow -- h@rvester
- Emulsificators -- calibanx
- Washers of Men -- mwasher
- Photon Torpedoes -- misterphoton
I guess I just don't know John McCain's McNuts and Cutler's Crusaders.
Players: you can pre-draft using either the Yahoo pre-set list or custom rankings, if you may have trouble attending the live draft. League link:
http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1/315374
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,407702,00.html
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http://metallica.com/index.asp?item=601119
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http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article4557935.ece
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Damn nastalgia.
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Pretty good game, far from great. Get it if you still love Star Wars post-prequels. Everyone else? Rent it or skip it.
The setting is fun, and the environment is very interactive. You like Star Wars? Enjoy.
Unfortunately, the combat really lets down in a lot of places. Combos are limited and commit you to long animations that leave you vulnerable. And switching between attack types has a lag that's just long enough to make combat frustrating. Blocking is pointless, it only allows you to get pinned down. Using force grip totally immobilizes you, which can be frustrating The camera is the game's worst enemy, and you can't rotate manually while gripping an object/person/droid/TIE Fighter. I spend most of the game trying to get the camera pointed in the direction I wanted to go until I came to grips with the fact that you're basically invulnerable in the demo so I just hacked my way through things. It could easily be played as a button masher, and sometimes that makes battles easier due to the crappy camera. The force meter bar is sort of useless, I didn't get a clear feeling for how much energy each power used, and I found situations where it wouldn't recharge even though I was standing around with everyone dead. Whoever decided blasting open doors so that I start each fight with half my energy is an asshole. How is that fun? Also, targeting is worthless and you can't cut people in half. Come on. =(
The demo's boss requires a quick time event, and triggering it is awkward and random. Especially since all of your conditioning up until the boss has taught you to keep your distance and throw things at him, rather than close the gap and trigger the event. Totally out of place and obnoxious.
C+
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More accurately, my girlfriend's dogs. We walk them three times a day, and they always save a log for under my desk, or in the kitchen, and sometimes they're kind enough to glaze it. There's no way to stop them, I've tried every humane way of doing so, and I'm finally giving up. They are dachshunds, three females, and they're retarded. They shit everywhere all the time and cannot stop, they can't learn anything let alone how to go outside...and worse of all, my girlfriend is oblivious to this fact and loves them to death. We have to keep them in a large cage at all times now unless we're awake and they've pooped outside recently - but this doesn't stop them from shitting in the cage - which is in the kitchen. I've suggested we put it in the laundry room which is a room that is technically outside the front door but was added on (with air conditioning and everything), but "it's too hot out there."
Since I can't fix the problem, I figure I'm going to alleviate the pain - kind of like Tylenol. No I'm not going to accidentally leave the door open so they get hit by a car, ahahaha, why would I ever think of something like that? I have a bonus check coming up Shack, and I want to fix this once and for all in a Tim Allen kind of obnoxious way. First of all I'm moving them back into the living room - we have a TV in our room so we never go in there, and I definitely don't eat in there *blech*. Our house is small though, and the living room is right beside the kitchen. Also I'm tired of them sitting there whining constantly anytime we open the door or try to eat. I was thinking of getting three smaller cages, as opposed to one large cage. One of the problems is anonymity - we can't tell who was shitting the most, so they're all innocent, according to her. Also I have a feeling that it's a communal thing - they do it less when they're alone in there. With this, three matching automatic air freshener dispenser things, and maybe one of those ionic air purification units...as well as a fan placed alongside the third cage such as to blow the air across all three cages.
TLDR - Shack, please suggest more obnoxious ways of masking the pungent aroma of dog shit.
Game day again. Will probably be a tough one, but our opponent is kind of...inconsistent. They had a comeback win against the Fins, but barely beat the 1 win Boston Vampires. So I think we definitely have a chance.
Got a couple players who didn't get to full energy for this game. Guess I should SM them.
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HOLY SHIT WE'RE PLAYING!
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Many of the benefits/differences between the Mac/PC go back to one basic business decision: do you allow for more flexibility or more performance? Increasing one generally decreases the other -- the more possible machines you have to run your software on the more possible problems you can have. The Mac is seen as a better performer because Apple makes their own hardware and (as far as I know) you can't just add devices to it like a PC (at least not to the same extent). PC's are seen as a better platform because you have more control over the hardware -- you can add devices, swap parts, and build your own computer. You get more options, but the stability of the overall system goes down.
The question is: What do you think is more important, options or stability?
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How do I make vista use Media Player Classic in the Autoplay menu? I want Vista to always use MPC to play any video including DVD's. Currently it only lets me use Windows Media Center and Media Player.
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2. Percosets work really well, except they make me sleepy.
3. Assassin's Creed, epic fail.
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HOLY SHIT can you believe both the mens and womens 4x100 relay teams both fucked up the baton passing? BAH how lame.
Wrath of the Litch King Intro... holy. fuck. unf!
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So the news has given us an interesting update. Our quaint little subdivision received 26 inches of rain the past day and a half and this resulted in a road being completely destroyed. Pictures are now up for me to share with you all.
http://patatlife.com/fay/fay.png
This is the start of the destruction, it begins at the bend of the road.
http://patatlife.com/fay/fay5.png
Same section zoomed in a little. You can see pipes!
http://patatlife.com/fay/fay4.png
This is the house that is next to it. The road is destroyed around 80% of the house.
http://patatlife.com/fay/fay2.png
This is what it looks like behind the house.
http://patatlife.com/fay/fay3.png
Same section zoomed in. Interesting tidbit, there was a stream that ran through here and it was never more than 6 inches wide, yeah it was barely a stream. Now it's about 12 feet wide and raging! That's how much rain we got.
To make it even better, that part of the subdivision uses that road to even get out of the neighborhood so they now have to carefully drive their cars over and park them with the houses on the other side, they are essentially cut off now. It will make garbage day interesting.
That's the story here are some more pictures but they are all 2 mb HUGE quality.
http://patatlife.com/fay/fay6.jpg
http://patatlife.com/fay/fay7.jpg
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http://patatlife.com/fay/fay9.jpg
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13-0 lol GO JAYS
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My wife and daughter both have 30GB Zunes but want smaller MP3 players, so I'm going to get them the 8GB Zunes.
Therefore, I have two near mint condition 30GB Zunes (one is brown, one is black) that I'm selling. $125 for the black one, $150 for the brown one (they seem to be somewhat rare).
Anyhoo, if interested, shackmsg me. I'll list them on Amazon if I don't hear from a Shacker within 24 hours.
My two favorites:
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/38718
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/johnson_johnson_introduces_nothing
and a new one that's pretty damn hilarious:
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/michael_phelps_returns_to_his_tank
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-must be 1080p
-best buy must carry it
-40" or bigger
-more inputs the better
So what's the best bang for buck right now shack? 1100 should get me a pretty damn nice tv right?
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need help with tv problems in reply.
i have one of those westinghouse 32" hdtvs that were so cheap a couple years ago and for the most part its served me pretty well, but lately i've started having an annoying problem with it. basically, for the first 5-10 minutes after turning it on for the first time, the colors go all wonky. the amount of time it takes to go back to normal seems to be getting longer and longer, but so far it was always return to normal at some point. any idea wtf is going on here?
pics:
http://www.shackpics.com/files/1_r5h50rcsod587lkkmawm.jpg
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