Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Sep 18, 2008 6:00pm PDTI was thinking about how happy I am that terrible lolcats internet infection never
really made it on to my website. But then I realized to my disappointment that there was a
Call of Duty patch that did that
crap. I'm gonna go find something sharp.
- MS revamping
href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10045384-56.html?tag=newsLeadStoriesArea.0">ad
campaign
- Volvo likes locusts
- Ask ChaCha
- Anti-abortion ads on
Google
- Our market is bonkers
As for the the videogame news around these parts:
- Deus Ex designer's next game
- Mirros Edge hits November 11
- Fracture demo hits XBox Live
- Break dancing chimp in Samba de
Amigo
- Huge huge huge Witcher Enhanced scandal
- We may not be fat, but we are certainly
sad
- Prince of Persia shipping December
2
- Professor gets $100,000 World of
Warcraft grant
- Diablo 3 screenshots
- Tecmo Bowl DS trailer
- PlayStation store update
- A bunch of Fallout 3 propoganda
trailers
- Spore patch 1.01 released
- Peter Molyneux Fable 2 interview
- Wii Music rocking out October 20
- Peter Moore not red-ringed out of
MS
Lastly, we have been asked fairly regularly lately about having an "embed"
option for our videos that we publish around here. We actually currently host all of our
videos locally on bandwidth that we pay for. Unlike just about every other larger gaming
site out there though, we are not owned by some huge corporation with a gigantic budget.
It's not a simple "what the hell" kind of choice. But rest assured, we are
looking at it. We just want to avoid bouncing around on video hosting services as those
companies come and go just about every 6-12 months.
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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
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WTF am I supposed to do on the first emission? As soon as I get to the garbage the mission triggers. I can bust my ass running to that base on the middle of the area but as soon as I get there the game holster my weapons and soon thereafter the bandits close the door of the building. Apparently there's no other way to get inside, then the emission comes and I day. Also, I can't save as soon as the mission starts because loading the savegame removes around 5 seconds from the 35-second(ish) limit. What the hell?
I tried running the other way, going back to the freedom area and waiting the emission there. Fine. But as soon as I set foot on the garbage a new emission fires.
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http://www.gametrailers.com/player/40076.html
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Which means I am not. :(
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no option came up what so ever to even say yes/no.
i absolutely hate it when companies pull shit like this.
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Has anyone played yet? Thoughts/comments on the game?
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So has anyone else got WAR over here? I'm a massive mmo noob and need some assistance. Has a server been decided on yet? Me and Node are Dwarves on World Edge Mountains, but I've played all of an hour so I'd be happy to move if there was a gathering elsewhere.
I'm downloading now on my work computer D:
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Yeah my food habits are pretty terrible, basically when I was a kid and said "I don't like that" my parents just cooked a different seperate meal for me compared to the rest of my family
I don't eat any veg / fruit at all apart from baked beans and potatoes.... My meals pretty much consist of some kind of meat, and some kind of potato - so something like chicken & chips.... if I go out for takeaway I need to get them to make whatever I have plain with none of the extra stuff - it's always fun phoning for a chinese and asking them to make a curry without any peas or onions in it
"you want just meat and sauce?"
And yeah about the scurvy thing.... if I don't take a vitamin tablets I start to fall apart - mouth riddled with ulcers etc... so I pretty much have to eat a handful of multivitamins a day
So what kind of retarded food habits do you guys have?
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I just finished up adding new post count since last refresh. After that the only thing I really care about is a SM interface but that's even pretty low on my list.
If anyone has anything they really really want to see added let me know or I think it's about done except big fixes.
Screenshots:
http://www.shackpics.com/files/iPhoneUpload_oi9gg017cpgqitvrrrw3.jpg
http://www.shackpics.com/files/iPhoneUpload_hebqxmq3geod5a2lbxcc.jpg
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None of us have ever white water rafted before. It decided to be 50F out today.
This is going to fucking suck.
Light Bot. For the programmer in you.
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http://www.shackpics.com/viewer.x?file=turtlestragedy_a2e4d8z69663ftt1zzek.jpg
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http://www.vimeo.com/1764064
Since the longer video is sort of inaccessible to non-musicians, I'm hoping this shorter one will get some attention for people at least interested in downloading the song.
Please take a minute to check it out! :D Let me know if it grabs you or not.
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Well guess what .. they don't install the executable correctly. There are no shortcuts on the desktop or start menu. Installation directory has warpatch.exe which doesn't work. There is nothing on the official web site or I'm blind.
So what am I supposed to do? Hunt a different executable on the internet, boy do I I just love downloading executables. Shit like this should never happen. If I did something like this I'd be fired.
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Is this a good or bad thing?
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;(
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in reply...
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So I bought Gears of War PC for $15 at Circuit City the other day and had a fit trying to get Games for Windows LIVE online when I tried it on Tuesday
I went on a rant about it here:
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=17958783
Malloc contacted me to help me troubleshoot it and as it turns out, my router had gone scooters and needed to be rebooted. Since absolutely nothing else on my connection was giving me fits, I didn't suspect it.
So, to sum up - Games for Windows LIVE works, my router did not, and Malloc is awesome.
That is all.
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The hardware right now is, to my surprise, barely able to do a 2 vs 2 game.
AMD 3200
939 board
7600 GS / PCIe
2 gigabytes of DDR400 RAM
I've tried finding some better 939 chips but it looks like they've been discontinued. Most AMD chips I found were of the AM2 kind. So, a new motherboard is required, which opens the door for either AMD or Intel CPUs. As I understand it Intel is the new hotness, but in order to use an Intel chip I'd also have to get new RAM, is that right? If so, would the same be true for the AM2 AMD chips?
The budget is around 400 - 500 bucks , so I'd like to maximize that and keep whatever old components I can in order to spent more on other parts.
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I asked my father for his commentary on a post about the stock market happenings recently that was posted by steelsamurai yesterday evening.
Here is the original post:
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=17958210
And here is my father's response:
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=17958210
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Looks like EB Australia are now the only place to get the Fallout 3 CE here :\
everyone else has taken down their preorder pages and cancelled existing ones.
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