Morning Discussion
by Chris Faylor, Nov 12, 2008 10:47pm PSTAlright Thursday, let's get this party started.
Then again, I'm not sure it needs much help at this point, considering that the World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King expansion launched this morning across the globe. With over 11 million subscribers worldwide, that has to be one huge party.
Me? I kept playing around with the Xbox 360-Netflix stuff and watched a couple episodes of Friday Night Lights last night. I was never one for football, but much to my amazement, I'm very much enjoying the show.
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
Demon's Souls servers extended again
Resident Evil: Chronicles HD Collection coming in June
Sony patent would interrupt gameplay to display ad
Weekend Confirmed 114 - Diablo 3, Max Payne 3, Lost Planet 3
New Zone of the Enders project underway
http://www.amazon.com/Can-Has-Cheezburger-LOLcat-Colleckshun/dp/159240409X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1226630166&sr=8-1
another sign of the pocky-lips.
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in reply!
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http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/13/world-of-goo-has-90-piracy-rate/
Oh and for the people that pirated the game and decided to buy it.
Carmel informs us that he's seen torrent sites with "500 seeders and 300 leechers" and has received emails from people who initially stole the game but ended up buying the full product; unsurprisingly, they make up a "very small percentage." He concludes, "We're doing ok, though. We're getting good sales through WiiWare, Steam, and our website. Not going bankrupt just yet!"
Seriously, how are publishers supposed to not make non-intrusive DRM when people steal even after getting their demands for no DRM and low cost.
Fucking shameful
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http://www.red.com/epic_scarlet/
The world changed today, folks!!!!
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http://www.burstofbeaden.com/theroadweb.jpg
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Please halp!
http://www.dkrause.us/
Self explanatory in FireFox... WTF IE7?
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.....isn't this just Serious Sam with better co-op features? Thats the vibe I got. Boom boom while millions of enemies swarm until you get to the exit. Maybe it's just me but I think I've had my fill of that from Serious Sam 2's Co-op. Limiting weapons in a game like this is also an odd choice, since I get really tried of shooting the same gun over and over when it's just a room clearing shooter. Being rambo in Doom or Painkiller with regards to weapon supply makes them more fun, so being limited when the game isn't supposed to be Counterstrike kind of feels off.
I don't know, I'll try it again but thanks to Valve limiting the demo to only 4 days from now apparently they don't want to wait while I make a decision. Maybe someone should remind them not everyone is caught up in the hype and need a demo to decide. One sitting isn't enough to make a call on an MP game for me.
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I took my motherboard out thinking their might be a short of some short, I dont see anything out of the ordinary in particular but looking at where the motherboard risers rest undernearth the motherboard, below the screw holes, where they usually rest on a small circle of metal dots or solder points i guess, a lot of those metal dots are missing on a few spots. is that something that could be an issue?
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Give me some book recommendations that are classics but aren't super long and really tough reads.
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Anyone else see this? That is a fucking GREAT deal!
http://store.steampowered.com/sub/1134
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I think I'm going to just keep playing with no mods for now. There are some ones with good ideas, but they can be kind of buggy.
Like this Balance Overhaul: http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=334
The new perks don't work. There are 2 of each on the list, the old and the new. I tried taking the new version of the one that gives you a SPECIAL point and it didn't work.
Since I found these mods I kind of quit playing, trying to get them to work, and I was going to restart. I think I'll just go back to my first game with no mods so I can get back to playing, heh. Hopefully in a week or two the balance overhaul mods will be more complete.
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his music group, Thunderheist, is playing the Babylon (317 Bank Street) at 11PM. come out and make him wonder why all these geeks are out clubbing on a Thursday evening.
note: don't show up earlier unless you want to watch Obie Trice and D12.
the band's website:
http://www.myspace.com/thunderheist
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Wouldn't it be a better solution for the PC to just have games do their own matchmaking, do their own lobby creation and whatever the fuck else, and then just allow you when you want to invite a friend, to send them something over MSN to broing them into the game? You see those "link to this page" links on the web everywhere - so why not just have "link to this game" stuff you can copy and paste into a chat window in MSN that when clicked on will signal the shell to launch the game and connect to the machine specified? Or maybe something else like it, but which uses things we already do, our email, our instant messaging programs. Whatever the solution is, I'm sure there's something clever that can be done to facilitate that through existing infrastructure.
I understand that these things might be difficult to implement, and developers would find it desirable to just use someone elses technology the way they license engines, but that's not a good thing in and of itself. Gamespy Arcade proved that well enough. PC is after all the platform of non-homogenaiety.
What's so great about these things? What am I missing that everyone else seems to get?
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http://mattlrr.wordpress.com/2008/10/31/halloween-costume/
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/health/14hiv.html?hp
maybe. But is anyone surprised stem cells were involved? Thanks G-dubs.
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/11/images/20081112_d-0077-5-515h.html
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anyone have a link to the "Do they know?" post?
i know there's a ytmnd to it and everything, but the googles has failed and stupid shack search has failed
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1. I've been playing since about 10am. Got the CE no prob at a Best Buy, no reservation.
2. DEATH KNIGHTS FUCKING ROCK! I started one just to have it on the server and ended up playing him all day. Holy shit is the DK fun to play. You feel like a fucking killing machine. The armor is bad ass, the sword is bad ass, etc. Love "Death Grip".. gonna have to get the mod that plays the Mortal Combat "GET OVER HERE" every time you cast it..
3. With the DK, I can pull 4-5 mobs and solo them no problem in HFP. So much different than the Warlock i'm used to.
4. LOL 1.5 HOUR QUEUE TIME ON MAL'GANIS RIGHT NOW... fuck. shouldn't have logged out to eat a quick dinner.
5. I forgot. the beginning quest line for the DKs is FUCKING EPIC! Holy shit was I impressed.
tl;dr - WotLK is fun, Death Knight are the shit.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY&fmt=22
Normal YouTube "high quality" is format 18, this is format 22, which I was told was 720p (hard to tell; still clear compression artifacts in fullscreen mode, but scaled small it's obviously way better than normal). I didn't know they went that high.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I0QN-FYkpw
and people laughed at him, regarding the economic problems we have now.
Even Ben Stein disagreed with him
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new watchmen trailer hits yahoo tonight at 5 pst, 8 est
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i picked up a canon 50mm 1.8 today only to take it home and notice something INSIDE the lens: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3025/3029420392_ed7922c950_o.jpg
you can't really see it in that photo, but it's a straight line a few mm long. you can also see it in the viewfinder just down and to the left of the center AF point.
should i take it back?
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