Evening Reading

by Steve Gibson, Oct 20, 2008 6:49pm PDT

25% more webserver power in the cluster! Can you tell!!?!? Yeah me either. Oh well.

Almost exciting. Maybe.

Microsoft touch is
href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/20/tech/cnettechnews/main4531944.shtml">getting
hot

Moon dust for
concrete

New strong
paper

The electric mini is
here

As for the the videogame news around these parts:

Max Payne movie makes some money

Call of Duty: World at War PC open
beta

New Bungie game could hit PS3

Midnight Club: LA launch trailer

Sony to reward trophy winners

Far Cry 2 Adult Swim trailer

Recalled LBP copies on eBay

Get early access to the Xbox 360
dashboard update

Microsoft patents real-time
censorship

Left 4 Dead is being advertised a
lot

EndWar heading to handhelds

Unreal Tournament 3 expansion
content

PCGA wants to make money on
pirates

Left 4 Dead zombie screenshots

Weekly PC games sales

ESA spends money lobbying

Muslim group pissy over LBP
censorship

Sonic Unleashed trailer

Old overcrowded E3 coming back.
:(

Lastly, as most of you have probably noticed we have little game rating bars now on

game specific news items. What you may not realize though is that you are now allowed to

change your 'hype' level for a game once per week. So if the initial video kicks ass and

then you see that trailer that shows actual gameplay sucks ass you can rate the game as

such. This thing will be fun, really. So make sure to update your hype on

games when you see new info! We'll have the overhauled game library and tracking systems

to you as soon as we can.

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What would the Shack be like if every poster was culturally from the 1940's?

I was thinking how social norms and values have changed over the years. I'd be interested in how political, religious, economic and social discourse would all be different if we were posting from that cultural era instead of our current modern times.

I think it would involve more literate people, that's the only thing i can think of at the moment.

Oct 21, 2008 12:06am PDT

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What would the Shack be like if every poster was culturally from the 1940's? I was thinking how social... : windowpane
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  i probably wouldn't be allowed to post in the same chatty as most of you. : xsoulbrothax
  - omg, he's a jew! : scottythejock
  - To the back of the shack with you! You can only post in threads started exactly 30 days before today. : gakera
  - broken tags transcends race. : j0nchan
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    And this color scheme certainly wouldn't do. : cerealSAM2
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      Why wouldn't it work? The black IS in the back you know. : changejar419
      
      but its still the dominate color : Cyco52
- Why more literate? There were plenty of people in the 40's that only worked or were raised on a farm. I... : grover69
- While it's from the 60s, Mad Men does an incredible job of capturing a different era. : sgtsanity
- steve wouldn't even be able to lift the server : spaceless
- yeaaah I doubt that it would be more literate. FAR fewer people went to, much less finished, college in t... : Megara9
- Literate because people read newspapers back then instead of "lolhi2u" text messaging and CNN. Radio a... : windowpane
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  Well...I wouldn't be allowed in here, for one...
  
  Oct 21, 2008 12:54am PDT
  
  Well...I wouldn't be allowed in here, for one... : AxeMan808
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  Dear shack...STOP A pretty dame with hot pins said she wants to paint the town red with me...STOP I... : Orange Pylon
  - Peachy keen Orange Pylon. : DrZettl
  - My good friend, Sparkly... STOP Please, please, please, please please ... STOP. : BlackCat9
  - nothing changes. : disembodied potato
  - give her the ole' twenty-three skadoo. : skinlab133
  - This dame of yours is probably a fellow...STOP. : mindmann
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  I can still see there being relationship threads, drinking threads, food threads, game threads (That mono... : windowpane
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    Oh, there'd be just as much homosexuality. Just less obvious. Have you read Ulysses? : cerealSAM2
    - I don't remember that much gayness. Bloom masturbates on the beach and boinks his wife at the end. And th... : jcupitt
- My love for mr.sleepy would be forbidden. : ThomW
- I doubt it would involve more literate people, but they would probably be a lot more polite. : cerealSAM2
- I'd say, "Whaddayaknowjoe?" ALL THE TIME. : hawkeye
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  For the last fucking time, I'm not Japanese! : edgewise
  - Go back to your camp you fascist. : Chod
  - haha : Phil
- I just watched The Maltese Falcon and every time Humphrey Bogart came on screen I got an erection. I thi... : skitzo
- you'd all be calling each other "carpet-baggers" and "tea-totallers" : jimvolk

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