Morning Discussion
by Chris Faylor, Nov 21, 2008 7:00am PSTHey Friday, about time you showed up. Sheesh.
In an effort to make Bob Barker proud, I recently got my cats spayed and neutered. I figured they'd be a little groggy afterward, maybe even a little pissed off, but nope. Didn't slow them down at all. They were still running around all night, and thankfully, no stitches were torn. Somehow, I don't think I'd cope that well with losing my fertility.
Oh, and Steam? Please stop tempting me to play Left 4 Dead. I have work to do. Yes, I know some of my friends are playing right now and.... well, okay. Just one match.
Girl Fight bringing fighting girls to XBLA and PSN
Skyrim Workshop touts 2M downloads, 2,500 mods
Xenonauts dev promises 'proper remake' of XCOM
Binary Domain demo available this week
Shack PSA: Angry Birds on Facebook today
Resistance: Burning Skies dawns on Vita in May
Shack PSA: Mass Effect 3 demo out today
Daily Filter: The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition, MLB 12: The Show
Cradle trailer shows off Ukranian indie adventure game
WoW Monopoly, StarCraft RISK announced at Toy Fair
Comedy stuff i've seen in the past year:
- How i met your mother up to season 4 (i think)
- Big Bang Theory (season1 only)
- Two and a half men (up to season 5)
- Arrested Development (up to season 2)
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OK, so when you have no rolling papers....what is the best substitute? (Apart from smoking used rollies in the ash tray).
Shop is shut...it's 12.30am here.
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1) what the shit is going on?
2) is there any way around this?
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I have to say, whether rumour or not, I couldn't think of a more uplifting book than this to send me off to death. Despite the success of the movies and the obviously massive fanbase that was created through them, nothing can touch the Lord of the Rings trilogy in book form...and Tolkien's entire universe (Silmarillion, A History of Middle Earth etc.) as a work of literary genius.
So much was left out of the movies, even the extended editions which included a lot of material only fans of Middle Earth lore would recognise (like the reference to Melkor's Balrogs, Cirdan the Shipwright, Ungoliant, and the guy at the end of Return of the King....Sauron's first in command).
I'm going on a bit of a rant here, but I had to voice how much this trilogy of books rocked and changed my view on literature...and at a stretch...my view of the black and white divide between good and evil.
Also, Tolkien was a good friend of C.S. Lewis (Narnia) and H.P. Lovecraft (Cthulhu to name one)....which made him a legend and an awesome judge of character.
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I was playing 4v4 last night with some Shackers and we had the greatest moment ever. We were playing the forest map, and had been going back and forth, my team was doing fairly well, but the other guys got us got us pretty good a few times. Well, I was on the infected side on the last part of the map, where the survivors have to hold off the hordes in the farmhouse till the big armored APC arrives. Well the Survivors (I apologize to my fellow shackers, I don't remember who all was playing besides Socksta and Postal) were doing quite well. It was getting a little frustrating cause we'd spawn and get shot down very quickly. They were really on the ball. We got a few good hits in and they were getting down in health, but the APC arrived and that was pretty much the game. All they had to do was get in and they won. They headed towards is and two of them got in, but one of us spawned as a Tank and chased them inside the APC, trapping them in there and the other two got pinned by a smoker and a hunter (IIRC). It was amazing. They were literally seconds from winning and we got them.
Then we switched sides and got pretty well creamed but it was still so amazingly fun. I don't remember getting this wound up during the last seconds of a game since the early day of CS when someone is disarming the bomb just at the very last second and you don't know if he's going to make it or not.
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haha! hello drucifer
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Time till play before install: 1 minute 1 second.
Time to install: 11 minutes 53 seconds.
Time till play after install: 57 seconds.
I then proceeded to jack a car and go on a killing spree. As the cops were chasing me, I drove into a underground tunnel at which point everything except for the cars and the ground disappeared and kind of turned black. :( It eventually came back, but so far I'm not convinced that this installing thing is really all that great. I guess not having the DVD drive spinning all the time is a bonus though.
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Is 12 cents a mile a good deal? I couldn't tell if Jack's "Hornberger!" line was mocking him or respectful.
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Happy 1 year anniversary to Crysis!
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081120/od_nm/us_obesity_odd_1
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i'm getting destroyed in L4D because i can't get my microphone going in Vista.
What i've done:
Tried 2 different mics
tried all sound 3.5mm ports
updated sound card drivers
here is what my sound panel looks like , it never shows the microphone as being plugged in because it expects a pink 3.5mm on the front panel of the PC, which i dont even have a front panel
http://img222.imageshack.us/my.php?image=clipboard01hs8.jpg
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Can we get rid of the dedicated co-op servers and get more vs? Maybe just 1 co-op? They are never being used and vs is getting really popular :(
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Just received my gfly packet.
Add foxhavvk.
Let's roll.
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i have no friends
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Why is Top Gear not in HD? Is HD not a big thing across the pond?
My prostate pumps at the thought of Top Gear in HD.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4h7mo2RRCo
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Outland is so cool and pwning everything in sight as DK is even better.
Holy jesus these bastards are overpowered!
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http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/our-international-approach-to-search.html
Goes over all the stuff they have to do for international searches. So much freaking work. My head hurts just thinking about it. I have enough problems figuring out how to do joins in tables, let alone that shit.
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I've created a "Shacknews" club. I'm not sure if you can just search for the name of the club (which is Shacknews), or if you need to send me a message first (VincentGrayon, yes, without the 's'), but I figure that way we can keep track of who is in the beta.
I can't see much that can be done with the clubs yet other than simply having another separate space to fuck around in.
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I've been a Blackberry use for some time now and so far, after playing with the G1 for a couple of hours, I'm ready to make the change.
Shack, it there anything I should know about the G1?
Major flaws? Software/hardware limitations?
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http://www.totallycrap.com/videos/videos_penguins_lucky_escape_from_3_killer_whales/
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Thoughts?
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I am looking for a wireless microphone system that can be used in the field. I need two mic's to be active at the same time.
Anyone have any suggestions for products that they have used?
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Also, I have a quicktime video that won't play on my iphone. wtf? Anyone know why a QT movie wouldn't play? iTunes says its not compatible when I try to transfer it.
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http://consumerist.com/5093960/this-is-not-a-good-method-for-transporting-shopping-carts
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