Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Nov 19, 2008 6:00pm PSTSo I cough a lot of the time whenever I use Qtips. What the hell is wrong with that?
NOTHING.
- Best tech
href="http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,1852747,00.html?cnn=yes">of 2008
- Webcams for eyes
- Chainless bicycles
href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/11/19/chainless.bicycles.ap/index.html">are hot
- Lady really likes
Sean Connery
As for the the videogame news around these parts:
- Wheelman update and release date
- Xbox avatars updating every two
weeks
- Grand Theft Auto 4 PC video and
details
- EA planning Bloom Blox 2 and kills
Blueprint
- Xbox 360 NXE release problems
- LucasArts veteran releases a new
adventure game
- Capcom wins Dead Rising lawsuit
- Mirror's Edge PC gets PhysX
- TrackMania DS gets a release date
- DiRT 2 for PC and consoles in 2009
- Game installs on Xbox NXE: is it
worth it
? - Sony loses $18.5M in patent
lawsuit
- Dont install Halo 3 on your HD
Lastly, the new Xbox dashboard isnt really as annoying as I was expecting. It is really
pretty much just a copy of the PlayStation crossbar and the Mii stuff but they did a good
job. The HD install stuff is absolutely great for speeding up load times and getting rid
of the annoying loud as all hell dvd drive spinning.
Daily Filter: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13: The Masters, Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion
Dear Esther Mac port confirmed
Killing Floor hits a million sales, discounted on Steam
Jam Live Music Arcade announced for PS3, Xbox 360
Metal Gear Online to quietly die this summer
So, did Brick die for anyone else during the hotel escape? I just want to know if that was dynamic and not scripted like Theo's death. I'll quickload when I get home and try and save her ass if it's not required that she die.
By the way, Vault-Tec bobblehead FTW!
It looks amazing on my desk. I moved it from next to my PS3 downstairs to my PC upstairs where he smiles at me and tells me to touch his head.
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How do I join the shacknews group so I can play on shack servers?
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http://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/Stobber/avatar-body.png
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if it's widespread enough i'm hoping it'll get patched soon =/
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http://wootoff.mancide.net/
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everything is EXACTLY as it was at the last backup, down to firefox asking if I wanted to resume a previous session!
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what's the scoop on a new splinter cell??
:D
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So yesterday my Death Knight dinged 68 and hopped on the zeppelin to Northrend.
Wow that place is fucking awesome. I landed in Warsong Hold and immediately got thrown into the war.
What bugged me though, was the lack of ingame opening cinematics. Landing and picking up quests to get the idea is a bit.. well. meh. On top of that i think the Burean Tundra (or whatever it's called) is a bit too diverse. Insect war at the town, Kealt'has and its undead army, a fog thingy at the coast, fiery types in the mountains. It's a bit of a mess methinks. I like the one theme per zone way better (zangarmarsh being a good example).
Questrewards are awesome. Most of my L55 starterkit was replaced by big phat stats in about an hour. Including a killer blue 2h axe.
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"The Zune Pass subscription service currently gives consumers on-demand access to millions of tracks for $14.99 per month. Starting today subscribers will also get to select 10 tracks per month to keep and add them to their permanent collection (an estimated $10 value). "
Pretty damn sweet.
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Anyone still playing this game? I just got it from gamefly yesterday.
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How do shackers like their ps3 as a media streamer?
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Looks like 360voice has gotten over their rough patch, we are also at 40 members in the shacknews group. We need more tho! We must surpass Giant Bomb's group because we all know our members are much cooler than theirs.
http://www.360voice.com/group/564 | lampsandlime
As far as the challenge, there is still no change in the top 3, other than Umbr and TwoGirlsOneApe pulling away from the rest of us ever so more.
It also looks like almost everyone has switched to an Avatar gamerpic now. Anyone figured out any cool tips for getting different poses?
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also, why does it not reset when i unplug the power cord?
who makes design decisions like that?
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For those of you who don't know, Stone Soup is a free Roguelike (aka turnbased 2d dungeon crawler). These are traditionally ASCII based which can make them a little tough to really get into, but someone's make a tile pack so that you're playing with graphics somewhere in the ultima 5 range of quality.
http://enne.walker.googlepages.com/stonesouptiles
If you're running OSX 10.4 and want to give this a try, let me know.. I had to recompile it to work with our version of X11.
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Seriously, buy the fuck out of it.
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I found this on aftonbladet.se (swedish newspaper). They say that is is from USA Today but I have not found anything there.
http://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/recensioner/spelnytt/article3816181.ab (in swedish)
*Releases in 17th February.
*Named "The Lost and Damned".
*Takes place in Liberty City.
*Niko Bellic is just a side-character in this expansion. Instead you play as Johnny Klebitz, a member of the motorcycle gang Lost .
*Will show you a whole new side to Liberty City (rival mc-gangs war?)
Is this new information? It was new to me anyways.
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Still capped at 100 friends :(
Installs to HD are great, except I installed one game (COD4) and now I have only 640 mb free. :(
I'm still turned off by the cutesy avatar wii wannabe stuff. At least you can pretty much work around it with the old blade system. Menus are definitely faster.
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I just got accepted to the Samuel Adams beer panel, and I can invite up to 5 people. SM me email addresses and the first five will get it. But please, make sure you are at least 23 and do like good beer, I don't want to give these away to you Bud Light drinkers!
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So my wife's computer (Windows XP) has suddenly developed this interesting problem. At the login screen, she puts in her password, it logs in, briefly shows her the desktop, and then immediately goes back to the login screen. Has anyone encountered this before?
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im thinking of getting this:
http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&sku=320-7641&redirect=1
whats everyone's thought on this thing... i get suckered by high numbers (80,000:1 dynamic contrast)... so wanted to see what everyone else thinks
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oooh ouch.... dont you need, you know... power, to... you know... play your electronic music 'live'?
makes me wonder if justice is just daft punk w/o the masks.
lol
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