Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Dec 01, 2008 6:00pm PSTIf you didnt put on at least 8 pounds your Thanksgiving sucked.
- Dude, antimatter
- The geek A-Team!
- You hot for
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Monday
? - People ate gross stuff
As for the the videogame news around these parts:
- The video game release list for
this week
- Dungeon Keeper the MMO
- The Witcher heading to PS3 / Xbox
360
? - Black Mesa mod looks kinda nifty
- Street Fighter SackBoys
- Michael Phelps videogame!
- Prince of Persia hype trailer 3
- LEGO Harry Potter
- FF Crystal Chronicles coming to
America
- Skate 2 trailer
- Free Burnout Paradise DLC no
longer free
- Flagship co-founder starts Gravity
Bear
- Xbox 360 NXE breaks sound for some
- Uncharted 2 confirmed
Lastly, everyone excited about Facebook Connect href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2335707,00.asp">going live
CHANGE THE WAY YOU WEB.
Darksiders 2 releases June 26, pre-order bonuses announced
PlayStation Home getting avatar 'fighting' game
Girl Fight bringing fighting girls to XBLA and PSN
Skyrim Workshop touts 2M downloads, 2,500 mods
Xenonauts dev promises 'proper remake' of XCOM
1. Download maps: http://yosemiteclimber.shackspace.com/L4DvsMAPS
Mirror: http://home.comcast.net/~jackbauer001/deathtollvs.rar http://home.comcast.net/~jackbauer001/deadairvs.rar
2. Put them in: D:\games\Steam\steamapps\common\left 4 dead\left4dead\maps
Done!
Servers:
Rydogg's:
68.142.120.176:27035
68.142.120.176:27036
Hirez:
69.62.158.85:27018
To change it to another campaign type: "callvote changemission <mission name>" in the console
Mission names:
airport_vs
smalltown_vs
hospital_vs
farm_vs
Thanks to nem00 for finding this info and to Rydogg and Hirez for setting the servers up!
Enjoy!
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Help a brother out. I can barely survive with my Spanglish skills, and that is usually enough. But, I just got my hair cut at a new place (since I moved away from my usual barber) and the girl cutting my hair spoke like zero English. I tried to warn her about not cutting my hair too short on the sides because I have crazy cowlicks. But, she didn't get me. So, I said in Spanish "Mira, porque me tengo loco carne laguna". I knew the second I said it, that it was really wrong. She still did a great job though.
How am I supposed to say that? Is it "tornado de pelo"?
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I think the difference here is:
You are not enjoying the game as presented.
You are enjoying the experiance that develops out of the game.
Which is difficult to explain and sounds pretentious.
But, there it is...
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http://www.vimeo.com/2403900
Its not that spectacular, but I did my best, I'm still a noob at this level stuff.
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CAN WE PLEASE RECALL THE RECALLED OFFICIAL THAT IS AHHNOLD :( seriously, what the fuck are they DOING up there?
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this has ruined me now
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hmm, something is wrong with this picture or is it just because the movie is so over the top.
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(would also like to see some old Ash and Feeder songs)
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me: Francis
ps - I can't get enough of this game.
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http://www.slate.com/id/2205310/
Wow I think that's a terrible idea. What the fuck, why would we even consider doing something like that?
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In stores today or no? If so, anyone in the Toronto area locate copies yet?
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http://www.gametrailers.com/player/43231.html
Real time or pre-rendered? Any other company and I'd think the latter, but just thinking of it being the former is giving me a hard-on.
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http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/images/wolverinespoiler4.jpg
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My friend and I started a yearly tradition of sitting down over holidays and beating a game while downing some beers. Last Thanksgiving it was Super Mario World. Took us about 4 hours, including Star Road. This year it was Donkey Kong Country 1, took about 2 and a half hours.
What else can be beaten (2-player) in about that time?
Here's what I came up with off the top of my head...
Contra and Life Force are givens
Mario games
Donkey Kong Country 1
Gears of War 1
Old TMNT games
Double Dragon games
Tony Hawk 1-3 (passing the controller around for MP)
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I totally shot my teammates in the back like a man-hating lesbian as Zoey tonight.
To DM7, .jayson, and SkepticShock - my apologies. It must have been my time of the month.
I haven't played a lot of Left4Dead yet, but I really enjoy it.
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Twitter, for example. Who the hell wants to log their current activities at random times? And who really gives a shit and looks?
Myfacespacebook is another phenomenon I simply don't understand. It's not staying in touch with friends when your entire interaction is adding them, and seeing them in a list. For lots of people their list of friends extends to people they really don't give a shit about anyway. And every single page looks like shit, as if it's a contractual obligation or something.
I don't get RSS feeds* either. You're sitting at your computer, you visit the feed and are reading plain-text versions of the story. So why not just go to the fucking site directly and read it there?
While certainly major blog sites that have specific areas of coverage (political, technology, whatever) are of benefit, I don't get the personal blogs. Where people just write about shit. You're writing a diary and posting it on the Internet. That's fine and all I guess, but the boggling part for me is who the fuck wants to read some random person's Internet Diary?
Am I the only one that asks "why?" to all this shit? Or am I just a grumpy asshole? Or both!?
* Note: My RSS exception is for mobile devices, where it is indeed handy to have the data delivered to you in a very light-weight manner.
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How early do you HAVE to get up? How early would you LIKE to get up?
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I was more interested by the fact that the infection is spreading so quickly, if it isn't stopped by Valve, i'm curious to see what percentage of users will be thrown out of their accounts.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365929/
They're making a movie of the Whiteout graphic novel.
Kate Beckinsale as Carrie Stetko:
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3165952256/tt0365929
From the comic:
http://www.spinningtheinfiniteswitch.com/images/comics/WhiteoutMelt4-21.jpg
On the other hand, it's not like the casting will be the biggest problem anyway, so maybe I should just safely ignore it. But damn, this is a story I've gone around fantasizing about a good filmatisation for, and I really don't like Kate.. wait a minute, I just checked what the director has done before, and I don't give a damn about the casting any more.
They got the director of Gone in Sixty Seconds and Swordfish?
NERD RAGE ACTIVATE :(
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That means the scramble begins to replace Clinton on Capitol Hill. Among those mentioned to take her seat as New York's junior senator is her husband, former President Bill Clinton.
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http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/01/clinton.replacement/index.html
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http://www.thelocal.se/gallery/566/2/
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2 XP PCs on a network, one works totally awesome both LAN and WAN. the other, looses its internet connection after about 5 minutes and only gets it back upon rebooting. the LAN connection is still working great on both PCs. the router has been tested and is stable. my pings all time out and the broswer seems to be sending a signal out but not getting anything back. there is no firewall/anti0-virus running. please advise?
Thanks!
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[06:41] Sean ******* (HPB): They just blocked the shack at work. I may have to find a new job.
I nominate this as some sort of "fuck Boston day" so after work when he tries to catch up with everything his head just explodes.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY2EDvdytYw
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http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=jafd97yJFOI&eurl=http://www.slashfilm.com/
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So I catch up on movies I never saw that I wanted to see...
Smokin' Aces - Loved it. Was very entertained, I love those kind of movies. Keep 'em coming once a year or so. :)
American Gangster - damn, it was long. The first hour or so was a little hard to follow but after that it was very very good.
30 Days of Night - decent, pretty gory Vampire movie, but the end kind of stunk in my opinion.
24 Redemption - yikes. I seriously hope season 7 is better.
Resident Evil Apocalypse - not bad for a RE movie, but not good either.
I'll probably watch some more movies tomorrow.
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Galadriel07, my apple trees died :( I think I planted them too close to a lake.
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Science is a wonderful thing.
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Guards: Oh man, THAT GUY DOESN'T HAVE HIS HANDS CLASPED! KILL HIM!
Tedium soaring to massive levels.
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