Evening Reading
by Nick Breckon, Oct 28, 2008 6:00pm PDTHello from Seattle. I was getting ready to take a nap before the rest of the fools Shacknews crew arrives, but I figured it would be fun to aggregate some links instead.
Tomorrow we hit up Valve for some action previews. Exciting!
The videogame news for today:
- Tomb Raider: Underworld Demo released
- Guitar Hero Hendrix DLC announced
- GH: World Tour Drums have issues
- World of Warcraft infection spreads to 11 million
- Motorstorm 2 DLC coming in weekly installments
- Just Cause developer cuts 50% of its staff
- Spore Parts Pack screenshots
- LittleBigPlanet servers acting up
- PlayStation Store for PC gets stand-alone software
- Call of Duty: World at War beta on FileShack
- Valve confirms early Left 4 Dead demo for pre-orderers, and pre-orders top The Orange Box by 95%
- New Left 4 Dead airport screenshots
- Microsoft planning Xbox Live avatar store
- Final Gears of War 2 trailer released
- Grand Theft Auto 4 PC possibly delayed a few weeks
FileShack: Unity of Command, Skyjacker
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
http://www.mtvmusic.com/video/?id=288244
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No joke, I am stuck at the birth scene at the beginning of the game. After the prompt to enter my sex nothing happens. I'm left staring up at (daddy)? and I can press the e key and hear myself cry.
This must be a video setting or control issue. I've tried every key and nothing does anything except 'e'
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So what're yours?
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asdfshadffuasdf;asdfjksldj
FUCK.
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My normal contributions (per paycheck) to retirement remain mixed.
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Hillary Duff has done.. er.. something to Depeche Mode's Personal Jesus:
http://www.dlisted.com/node/29002
It's worse than you can imagine.
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wtf, Barack :(
anyone got theirs?
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The game seems a bit overwhelming at times. I started doing a quest and the guy gave some really vague directions so then I started exploring a bit and then supermutants attacked me then I ran out of ammo then I ended up in a minefield and a sniper starting shooting me so I went after him and beat him to death with a police baton then I forgot where the guy that originally gave me the quest was.
Then I figured I'd take a break to play LittleBigPlanet but it said it was connecting to get the EULA and is now a big blank screen. It's kind of ridiculous.
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Any of you guys watching Dead Set? The first two episodes were pretty awesome. If you like Zombies and don't like Big Brother then I confidently say you'll love it! It's on 4OD if you missed it on TV.
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Too bad we missed you guys!
* You must periodically connect to the Internet to authenticate the Software and refresh your license. If your license needs to be refreshed and you are not connected to the Internet, you will not be able to use the Software until you reestablish an internet connection and refresh the license.
* You agree that a breach of this License may cause irreparable injury to EA for which monetary damages would not be an adequate remedy and EA
i guess i haven't noticed it before
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http://www.shackpics.com/files/remorandom_rvhocpegxrirjw4r7u9o.jpg
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I simply wish to be 100% certain there is no "monster level scaling" like in Oblivion? I've read a couple of reviews but those ones didn't touch the subject. For me RPG's are very much about developing my character and getting revenge on the bunny that killed me when I was lvl1, and Oblivion was simply not something I could enjoy for the sole reason of the creatures scaling as I leveled along.
So, if someone or something stomps my ass in FO3, can I be 100% certain in all cases that if I come back much later, I will able to return the favor? (excluding some boss/max level type of monsters)
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Expelled had a lot of charm and a charismatic voice and a good use of variety of voices.
In all, I'd say it gets 4 Goebbels out of 5. The problems I found was that it didn't really personalise the victims and "enemy" enough. Though the intended audience no doubt already has a clear view of who's threatened and who's doing the threatening, so I suppose that can be forgiven. Also, the use of faux-amazement got a bit too grating in the long run.
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AR-15 Build Episode
The parts: http://www.shackpics.com/viewer.x?file=IMG_1568JPG_npfz6mivq0ti233vgru3.jpg
Stag Arms upperReciever 1/9 twist barrel
Stag Arms Stripped Lower
Stag Arms Lower Parts kit
Stag Arms 6 position Tac Stock
Installation of the Magazine Catch: http://www.shackpics.com/viewer.x?file=IMG_1570JPG_4qxp3n5bk0ua0xf7l2db.jpg
This was easy, probably the easiest. You just install the spring, push it through to the other side and screw on the button. Then push the button all the way back through and then spin the mag catch until the button is all the way seated.
Installation of the Bolt Catch: http://www.shackpics.com/viewer.x?file=IMG_1574JPG_2id1i6mddi0kxrt2yzs1.jpg
This was the fucking hardest. You drive in the pin through one of the posts, then you take the spring and the buffer and place it into the hole near the bottom of the bolt catch area. Then you take the bolt catch and put it into place, against the tension of the spring/buffer assembly, and use a punch to push the pin through the entire assembly. This is terribly hard to do without scratching the receiver, which is why I covered the entire thing on one side in painters tape.
Installation of the Swivel Point : http://www.shackpics.com/viewer.x?file=IMG_1575JPG_on5ohpjblys8hanle0f0.jpg
Not so hard, but the small spring detent is hard to get to stay all the way down while pushing it through.
Installation of the Trigger Guard: http://www.shackpics.com/viewer.x?file=IMG_1582JPG_7c2xzdj9jgcq0mk6m9gf.jpg
This was tough because the pin shown there has to be supported on either side so that it doesn't break the receiver while you are punching it. It requires a nice amount of force.
Installation of the Trigger and Hammer: http://www.shackpics.com/viewer.x?file=IMG_1587JPG_emz086u85bmjrecpf55u.jpg
Super Easy. Just requires two pins.
Installation of the Safety switch: Forgot to take picture
Super easy x 2
Installation of the Stock: http://www.shackpics.com/viewer.x?file=IMG_1589JPG_q3tw5z6aulujjxgzvgrl.jpg
Screwed on, compresses rear swivel detent. Again, easy as pie.
Installation of the Buffer Spring: http://www.shackpics.com/viewer.x?file=IMG_1593JPG_qkcff0k7lemth9sab8fn.jpg
OMG easy. Spring just slides in.
Completed Product and tools used: http://www.shackpics.com/viewer.x?file=IMG_1594JPG_fy6szp9kzbh1hent05s6.jpg
Completed Product Plus my HK P30: http://www.shackpics.com/viewer.x?file=IMG_1600JPG_dvd7g1k872b1mhcfcceq.jpg
All in all, took about 30-45 minutes. Cleaned everything out afterwards and its working flawless. Gonna test it out this weekend. Total cost, about 712 bucks. I think Imma build another one.
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http://www.aintitcool.com/node/38902
Terrence Howard was perfect for James Rhodes. Why fuck up a good thing?
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First official image of the Nissan 370Z
http://www.motorauthority.com/gallery/2009-nissan-370z-coupe/2009-nissan-370z-001.html
It's certainly quite different - I'm not sure I like it yet.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfd5g8Y_Jqo
Synchronized Presidential Debating
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What other short term fitness programs have you seen on line?
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Ok, so this game is pretty awesome - however, I'm not 100% happy with the way the magic system works. I was wanting to roll a pure caster character, but I find myself getting killed left and right if I don't melee.
In the first game, you could max out a certain ability to the point where you could just spam it (as long as you had mana obviously), and basically never have to melee or use range abilities. For example, the lightning spell on Fable 1 would eventually hit multiple targets and do lots of damage without having to charge it up.
I thought the new system was pretty cool at first (ability to charge AOE's, or targeted DD), but there isn't any good way to kill enemies without having to charge up the spells - and the entire time I'm getting beaten on. Now, I might be fucking something up - as the only spell I have is Shock (which I'm trying to level up as quickly as possible). Should I be taking something else as well?
Also, what's the deal with no mana bar? And also there seems to only be a handful of Will abilities, compared to Fable 1 that I remember having many more. Has anyone successfully beat the game as a pure caster class?
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This game is pretty much gaming perfection for a action game, I started it last night and got to the construction site with mona and its just as good as it was the 4 other times I have played through it. Has anyone ported over the max payne 1 maps to max payne 2?
Outside of tron 2.0, half life 2, half life 1, what other games can sit in the action gaming perfection?
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So, as mentioned before, i just got some running shoes, and i have never run before in my life. I'm planning on starting this week, and doing it a couple of times a week until i get used to it. I'm easily distracted, so i need some running music.
So, in this thread, name some awesome running tunes. Please keep it mainstream, as i'm trying to use stuff i've already got. It can be pretty much any genre, hip hop, pop, oldies, classic rock, dance, etc. I'm just trying to get some shit to listen to while i hate myself for running on seattle winter mornings.
TL;DR - give me some awesome running songs. what are your favorites?
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This was a headline on drudge "Texas man found guilty of using home as sex club..." which of you was it?
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Is the iPod Touch pretty much just an iPhone, sans the phone and camera?
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It's a no-smoking house and we're playing:
Left 4 Dead
Call of Duty 4
and either
TF2 or BF2
I have room for 2-3. It's an older crowd (mid-20s on up) so we're looking for roughly the same age range. You can drink a brew but (and this should be obvious, I'd hope) we're not interested in hosting people who plan to get tanked. We're there to frag, baby.
PM me if you might be interested - we need to add some reliable gamers to our group. Also, no bad sports, please...we're just there to kick ass and chew bubblegum, and we're all outta bubblegum. (That last part was for Dognose.)
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hooray
Fallout 3 PC Problem
Every few minutes the game freezes. The music continues, but the game has locked up.
Anyone had this problem?
Intel Quad Core 2.4ghz--2GB ram--GeForce GTX 280--Vista 32--SB XFI Platinum
I am kicking myself for not getting this on the console.
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=18309962#itemanchor_18309962
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Well I was looking at buying Dead Space 2, I usually buy my stuff through Amazon so I was checking this out and I noticed the huge amount of negative reviews. Wow I thought this game must really suck, but no the reason for the one star reviews is the insidious copy protection!
I wonder how many people have been put off buying this because they saw it had one star and thought it must suck, turns our Spore and mass effect have similar reviews due to their intrusive copy protection.
Not a good thing imo, I wonder how sales are being affected…
linky:-
http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/product/B0010DX5L2/ref=cm_cr_pr_link_1?%5Fencoding=UTF8&showViewpoints=0&filterBy=addOneStar
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