Evening Reading

by Steve Gibson, Sep 24, 2008 6:00pm PDT

I got around to checking out Google Chrome

a bit more today and I was pretty impressed. The migrate of settings/passwords/etc worked

quite well and I was right at home. Of course the lack of downloadthemall and firebug

makes it a no-go for me, but if I didnt actually work on websites all day and just browsed

them, it would be great.

It pays
href="http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/AheadoftheCurve/story?id=5868121&page=1">to be
sexist

Texting
href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/23/tech/cnettechnews/main4471183.shtml">is
hot

Got any good
ideas?

Hulu is hot

As for the the videogame news around these parts:

Motorstorm 2 screenshots

Spore players threatened with
forum banning

Interplay MMO gets a new developer

The Last Remnant screenshots

Spore DRM prompts class action
lawsuit

Grand Theft Auto DS features drug
dealing

Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooie XBLA
plans

Advertising challenges creativity

Gears of War 2 trailer

Xbox 360 dashboard in November

Video game legislation sucks

EA declares Spore a hit

Peggle XBLA and multiplayer priced

Tenchu 4 trailer and screenshots

GameTap sells out

EA loves Spore DRM

Lastly, we'll hopefully be seeing a fairly significant change around here in the next

few weeks as we are going to begin integrating Shacker polling info in to individual news

items via a cute little shack

nugget. This is the first step in a broader plan to start a deeper integration of what

you guys think about games in to what we publish here. Everyone hold your breath!

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So...what exactly was Shacknews like 2 years or 5 years ago? I've only been around since early this year.

Sep 24, 2008 7:02pm PDT

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  2yrs ago, like this. 5yrs ago, like this. 10yrs ago, sorta kinda like this. : reverend~heresy
  - oh ja, and during the shugashack/quakeholio days, steve would get bored and post funny 'blog' type shit. ... : reverend~heresy
- we would tell you but there's no proof. steve destroyed it. : ejectorpod
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  http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.shacknews.com prl is bullshit >:( : Horn
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    Whatever happened to GTA: Sin City? http://web.archive.org/web/20030404092037/www.shacknews.com/oneart... : Horn
    - lol. Look at the date of that post. : TwiLyght
  - or even further back: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.shugashack.com : mtgDoofy
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  pretty much the same...
  
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  pretty much the same... : nolram
- It was chaos, man. LEFT WAS RIGHT! UP WAS DOWN! CATS AND DOGS WERE FROLICKING TOGETHER IN THE STREET ALL ... : Bean
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  The same just uglier. : NastyJack
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    i disagree, the old look has a timeless appeal : RikiTiki2
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      The interesting post were a lot easier to find, nowadays they just get lost near the bottom. : grabbie
      
      This is true, I would like to see more emphasis on the INF'd posts. : lookitzpancakes
- back in the day, the men were men... now this place is all emosync. lol : -=kodiak=-
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  was 2 years ago when sleepy was banned? : Foxhawk
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    lol I don't even remember the shack when sleepy was banned, because I'm pretty sure that's when I left an... : laurgasms
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      girls like it rough : mr.sleepy
      
      Oh yes, oh yes. : laurgasms
  - More than that I think. He was definitely here shortly after I showed up a couple of years ago. : perstephanie
  - lolo jcunter was still around : askedrelic
- The same, I guess? There has been some name changes in the process and before dthread was the default (on... : zehh
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  it was www.shugashack.com before that, a quake website (before my time) : fluke
  - I am pretty sure anyone who ran a Q2 server qualifies as an old-timer, fluke. es-spec aka Spec[V2] says : ]pm[chem
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  exactly the same except we could post mp3s for people to download :( : wtf242
  - A lot more NWS and NES stuff too : elosorojo
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    and instead of wtf242 i was named draed : wtf242
    - Learn something new everyday : .sticks.
- Used to be a lot stricter as far as getting banned for stupid posts. Either that or I just wised up over ... : bozer
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  Man, back then, flat mode reigned supreme. Vicious debates raged about the merits and demerits of flat v... : elosorojo
  - DThread was perfect though as evidenced by the fact that the current shack is pretty much a touched up dt... : ieGod
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    there was no debate, flat was fucking horrible and DThread was always better : derelict515
    - Exactly. Flat mode was like having a version of latestchatty where every poster had Alzheimer. : zehh
  - I was flat mode because I didn't get why dthread was awesome. then i just tried it and fell in love. fl... : ejectorpod
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    Vantage even made some ridiculous long post about how flat-moders were like users of the Matrix who could... : DonkeyPopsicle
    - and by thread I mean chatty/article/whatever : DonkeyPopsicle
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      I can't believe you remember those posts. I made them nearly 8 years ago! http://www.shacknews.com/la... : Vantage
      
      I remember those posts too :D : Lightbulb
  - I used Flat mode till it disappeared with the latest layout change. It worked for me because I almost nev... : Lightbulb
- It was greener. : DrWaffles
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  FLAT MODE : Slowtreme
  - :`( : Flynn
- Less news content, but otherwise pretty much the same crowd. Not as political, but thats only due to thi... : skitzo
- we all used to play games and talk about that (mostly) Seems to be more bullshit now. : Rigor Morts
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  BRING BACK "STUFF THAT SUCKS"! : Majuju
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    that was like 10 years ago : xxiv
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      what, so a decade has caused everything everywhere to completely cease sucking? : Majuju
      
      yep, in the year two thouuuusssaaaaanddd. : xxiv
      
      Nothing is stopping you from starting your own blog and calling it "stuff that sucks". Go for it. : Maddog_Delphi97
    - NEVAR FORGET! : Tissen
  - We need ”We're All Gonna Die、” back also. : doozer667
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  lots of anons, babe hunts, and 50 people whose name was a variant of "lex lethal". : DonkeyPopsicle
  - OMG babe hunts. now those were classics and need to be brought back! : med1c
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  It was more informative and filled with many more zingers than this cesspool of decay. : noobja
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    Character accounts as in, say, when Hudson posts? : graincloud
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      damn wrong subthread :( : graincloud
      
      lol i was about to get all emo on yo ass and yell: IM REAL THOUGH! : noobja
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  I remember when character accounts was popular. Not sure how well it they would work today; maybe that... : Maddog_Delphi97
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    The character accounts were awesome. They were banned as the Shack became more professional and while th... : TwiLyght
    - Just like all good things, chatty posters drive them into the ground. : Fyunch Click
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  http://gmd.shackspace.com/Shacknews%20Users%20vs%20Time.jpg : gmd
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    I'm pretty sure we have more than 8 users. : skitzo
    - hahaha : FPSDavid
    - lol : braaains
    - it took them some time to come out : pharoah mike
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  First posting used to be cool. : Geoffrois
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    Im pretty sure first posting was never cool. : Jenings
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      It was once, back even before character accounts were cool. : dognose
      
      I do remember migrating to the shack around the time that voodooextreme became a sad shell of its former ... : Jenings
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  http://www.shackpics.com/viewer.x?file=dra_vogjfvedvwy1f011fe22.jpg http://www.shackpics.com/viewer.x?fi... : sikander
  - Bring back HDR Shack! : FPSDavid
- Like this, except the posters liked games. : Vangoghs Ear
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  I've always wanted to know how many members this site has........anyone know? : niceguynick
  - 5 million, I think. : Wisp!
  - well there's me and you.. the mods.. and the rest are my character accounts. : aurealis
  - PLEASE TELL ME, JUST A ROUGH GUESS OMG : niceguynick
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  2 years ago: same, mod rules got a little retarded 5 years ago: comment system wasnt that old, communi... : Antilles_Prime
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    and Clay, Jack Matthews, and some guy named Marcus Yam were contributors. : DonkeyPopsicle
    - yeah, but that stuff has fluxed so much I couldnt keep track. things are a lot more "serious" in tone now... : Antilles_Prime
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    The rules have changed since 2 years ago? I beg to differ. : dilutedq
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      at some point they reset things and unbanned a bunch of people. i dont remember the dates, somewhere betw... : Antilles_Prime
      
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      Well, when the site changed over to the new comment system, everyone got unbanned, IIRC. That's how we go... : Vincent Grayson
      
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      hey i was even let out of my cave! : -=kodiak=-
      
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      i wish they'd put you back : biskits
      
      they see me rollin! they hatin! : -=kodiak=-
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      Remember when you could get nuked for linking to a video with copyrighted music in it? That changed... al... : crummynz
      
      Shit, remember when you had to pretend piracy didn't exist, and even discussing the ramifications of it w... : Vincent Grayson
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    Remember when The Gibson used to post in the comments regularly? Too bad. : airrob
    - who? never heard of him. : Antilles_Prime
  - this whole subthread goes back to what one mod said before. when the natives start to go wild the mods h... : Draugluin
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  10yrs ago..zero console, mostly FPS : flasher 907
  - 11 years ago. Zero anything but Quake. : doozer667
- way more exciting. the anon posting kept it interesting : mega man
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  Stuff That Sucks, Babe Hunt, RIP, both of you. ;[ : lightly inclined
  - ...the random pic of a guy shooting diarrhea out his ass and nose. : Hello Kitty
- babe hunts, post #s, and a bunch of talk about doing buffy in the pooper : retardhumper
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  A lot less people posting while taking a shit/riding the bus, I can tell you that much. : lplasmatron
  - I remember the early "posting from crapper" posts, what with wifi getting popular and all : Juno
- This post reminds me of Harkov :( : Wheatloaf
- Lots of orgies. : soggybagel
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  SHACK STORE! and no console news. I still like the name Shugashack better :( : gibolas1234
  - There was also esshack or something. Electronic Sports. LOfuckingL. : Super Sparker
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  There was the Shack Messageboard. : kramweil
  - Full of retarded ogres. There was a reason why Steve SHUT IT DOWN. SHUT IT DOWN FOREVA. : Super Sparker
  - yeah holy shit that was the weirdest part of this site. : nomaad
- Character accounts. :*( : Super Sparker
- At QuakeCon '98, in the tournament won by RiX, sTeve got pretty pissed when, after making the final round : woddemandred
- In 2003? I talked a lot more about things I can't talk about, that is for sure. I was still living on ca... : rosewood
- the same, only with more yelling hooligans : Megara9
- it would go hours without anyone posting : drucifer
- 2 years ago: More poo jokes. 5 years ago: Even more poo jokes. : Mad Brahmin Disease
- 10 years ago: Steve had an unusual poopchute fetish. i don't know if anything really has changed since th... : Tissen
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  http://www.shacknews.com/extras/shack00.jpg http://www.shacknews.com/extras/shack01.jpg http://www.shac... : Maarten Goldstein
  - for some reason I really think this needs to be put together in animated form with the intro from 2001: A... : PlanetPerfecto
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    2005 > * : deviantpaul
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      One thing I miss about that design is how prominent the interesting comments were. : Horn
      
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      Yep. I never read them since the redesign because they're somewhat hidden betwenn all the other repeated ... : MatzL.E.
      
      I subscribed to the RSS feed, otherwise I would also never read them :( : Lightbulb
      
      I look at them specifically, sometimes first. It helps knowing exactly where they are. Oh, you do already... : skankcore
      
      You could always just do a search for "SlingBlaze" : SlingBlaze
  - Giants gone gold?! : DonkeyPopsicle
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    What the hell is Fingershack? : nodebug
    - .plan file updates : moshman
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      Remember .plan files? The network protocol for fetching them is called 'finger'. : rock elf
      
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      Ah, of course :) Also, have I really been coming here for 6 years. wtf where has almost a quarter of ... : nodebug
      
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      Back in the late 90s everyone spent 50% of their day hastily refreshing Carmack's .plan in the hopes of a... : riptyde
      
      Yup... I think I checked that .plan file almost every day before the release of the original Quake. I ha... : Gwyndion
      
      Funny eh? Those were totally blogs. : Neech
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    Fuck, I remember all of them. Think I joined around design #1, and I realise that wasn't even the first. : node
    - I think I joined around #3, its nostalgia inducing. Just gone and found my old account and a post from a ... : nodebug
    - Man, I used to visit Quakeholio and started coming here more after Bluesnews and Planetquake started suck... : vov1n
  - shugarshark! : c0bra
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    Alice movie! : dognose
    - It might still happen! http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/50989 : rock elf
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    Wow, that's like looking through an old photo album, having seen each one of those designs so many times. : DinK
    - yah I know its been soo long since shugashack days... I wish I had posted back then, but I mostly lurke... : Shadowdane
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    DRM - fucking over gamers since March 30th 2001 http://www.shacknews.com/extras/shack01.jpg I think I... : marmite
    - * paying gamers : marmite
  - Bring back the 01 picture design!!! : soggybagel
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    Also in pic 00, CS 1.1.0.0 released. Fuck man. I really liked Beta 7!!! : soggybagel
    - Beta 6 was my hey day. I remember LAN parties round a friends place where the power would always die and ... : node
  - DThread was where it was at back then! wooo! : vov1n
  - I miss the green :( : OverBurN
  - Hahahaha!!! I love that in this screenshot - http://www.shacknews.com/extras/shack00.jpg - the story abou... : MorrisatCNN
  - ● 1GHz+! : SlamDunk
  - I still really like the shack05 design. : Big Luke
  - way to leave out Type-R shack : fluke
  - o shi fingershack! : d fluke
  - Good god I feel old now : riptyde
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    Which version was in Doom 3? : TheArtMan
    - That would be either shack03 or shack04. : mn3m0n1c
  - Crap I think joined around '99 and I don't remember what was the design :< : pillzer
  - God the design before the huge renovation was really amazing. It just felt so good to look at. The front ... : lookitzpancakes
  - Dear Martin, We would all love if if you guys brought back the list of Interesting Comments to the top... : Landrosradick
  - It's funny... I've been around here since the Shuga Shack days... but I had kind of forgotten about that ... : Gwyndion
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  People talked about PC games...not gayness FPS on maxigamepads. : Jimbo Ro
  - Gayness FPS games are the worst FPS games. : SpaecKow
- Once upon a time it got us chicks. : voodooraze
- Who has links to thekidds(?) end of year roundups? : 60days
- less chicks with dicks : flagg209

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