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by Nick Breckon, Dec 17, 2008 6:00pm PSTFinished off Defense Grid: The Awakening last night. Despite the goofy name, and equally goofy storyline--then again, a storyline in a tower defense game is inherently goofy--the game was pretty fun.
Rather than your "tower" being destroyed the second enemies reach it, the sci-fi mechs and monsters instead carry away your cache of energy orbs one or two at a time, which gives you a second shot at them as they exit the map. It also can create a ridiculous chain of events, where orbs linger in the middle of the map as you desperately attempt to bulk up your rear defenses.
Worth $20 on Steam? If you're not already burned out on tower defense, I'd say yes.
- Mobile internet will
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- The Volt engine factory
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- Natural disaster
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- Solar is the
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- 4G PC cards incoming
The news for today:
- Xbox avatars get formal wear
- Tomb Raider Underworld patched
- Free Peggle Nights level pack
- Konami making Metal Gear Solid, Silent Hill iPhone games
- Stormrise trailer and screens
- EA swaps in 360 footage in Wii Tiger commercial
- Microsoft says Xbox 360 disc scratches only affect <1%
- Batman: Arkham Asylum grabs Hamill, Conry voices
- Nintendo settles Wii controller lawsuit
- Pirates/BioShock director doing Second Life flick
- Crysis Wars patched
- Resident Evil 5 US demo due in 2009
- SimCity iPhone released, impressions
- Take-Two nails down Rockstar talent
- Analyst says Guitar Hero hasn't peaked
- Take-Two posts big profits on GTA sales
- Red Alert 3 expansion coming in 2009?
FUNNYMAN EDDIE MURPHY will play The Riddler in the next Batman movie, The Sun can reveal.
I know, lol, the sun, etc. But just the thought of Eddie in the Nolanverse as the Sgt. calls it makes me laugh.
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this is courtesy of burningtrees
Verdict is......it is indeed the awesome! Now, the thing is with this WE package - the first thing you see when you open it up is a color copied, nicely manicured nut bag. Bravo trees! He tells me later they are [fry]'s pair? Take a look shack, it's pretty impressive....can you refer me to the shaver you use? Anyway....that sets the tone immediately, and I'm all into it.
There are some other highlights like a squishy Sumo guy and some other balls, more random junk like a vintage lamp and PC parts. Notable is a fresh copy of BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL! This is good because I've always wanted to play this....I keep hearing how it's a great game.
Thanks a ton trees! You're the man and I promise to lay it on you on XBLA in the near future. And I guess [fry], you have the sweet knowledge and bragging rights that my wife, pregnant wife no less, has seen your balls up close. That's leverage man.
I'll make this short and sweet and link you to the picasa album here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/kainen/2008WhiteElephant#
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I got http://www.fonts.com/findfonts/detail.htm?pid=427420
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Starting in early november, my computer started giving me a blue screen saying "Hardware Failure, please contact vendor"
so ok, i thought something was overheating, and put an extra fan. Problem went away for maybe a week and a half. Then again i got the damn blue screen. Rebooted everything was fine again until 3 days later it would boot to windows and it would just give me the damn blue screen.
Now i've bought a new 650watt powersupply, still gave me the damn error
Got a new Case, memory, and heat sink/fan today and freakin A i got the damn error again?
what else could it be?
i thought for sure it was the memory since we ran some tests on it and they came out bad. but the only thing i have left to replace is the damn video card, HDD, or the motherboard
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I wake up. "Hello!" GEAAAH!!! I nearly jump out of my chair, scared to see a Brotherhood of Steel paladin with his laser rifle out. He was friendly, though; he was following me past Falls Church back to Megaton. He then figures out that he needs to stay back at Falls Church, and heads out of Megaton. Mkay, that was interesting.
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Right now over my wireless network my upstairs PC gets about 60-70% signal strenght from my WRT54g v5.
I cant tomato it so and my signal issues are really starting to annoy so which piece of hardware should i update:
Wireless card for my PC (Its a Linksys Gen1 G wireless card)
Router (listed above)
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i just got a laptop from a client that died, and he'd like me to slave it so i can get some info. no problem. except it fucking reeks of BO. i mean it stinks so bad it makes me wonder if he didn't rub the entire thing in his arm pit.
i pull the HDD and even that is making me want to burn it. how the fuck do you get an internal HDD to have the stench of strong BO?
it always amazes me how people can hand strangers a laptop that is just downright filthy or nasty.
i'm tempted to just trash this shit and tell him it was unrecoverable.
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So the installer for Mbam got to the "finishing Installation" point and then froze. I had to go into task manager to close the installer. Tried running the program from the shortcut it put on my desktop and no luck. Decided to reboot the computer so I could run it in safe mode. Well while in safe mode, the program still didn't install. Tried restarting windows and when it gets to the point where I should be seeing a desktop I get a black screen with a mouse pointer.... and that's it.
I let it sit there for a while hoping it would get past this point, and no luck. My PC is completely fucked. :(
Looks like I have to do a fresh install of windows now.
P.S. I still want to kill the asshole cock sucking mother fucking ass clown dip shit cunt whore who created this software that royally fucked my computer. >:[
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Epic produces some great art. Rushing through the areas you can totally miss it.
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I've gained some small proficiency with the guitar. At last I can begin what will be my greatest project: I want to use my guitar prowess to impress the ladies.
What are the songs that the ladies can't resist? They need to be easy enough to master, and yet cool enough to look impressive while I play them.
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the pound is almost 1to1 with the euro and the dollar is almost back to 1.5 to 1 euro.
madness.
I'm so glad I decided a while back to get paid in euros at my job, I can fly to the london to go shopping and save a fucking ton of cash
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I also want to point out, that out of the Nissan 240 SX, the 2 Honda Civics that I have owned all that I have had to do was replace a clutch in my 240 SX. IT had over 90k miles in it at the time and was the first car with a clutch that I ever drove and I drove the hell out of it racing all the time. Also, one of the Honda civics that I owned had over 175k miles on it and I had to finally replace the shocks on it. Finally, the other Honda I owned I had to replace a battery in it. So yeah, proof why I will only buy foreign from now on.
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I emailed her that I was actually out xmas shopping for her. She says "don't bother"
She's must be pissed I'm on vacation out joyriding while she's working.
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9:00 AM CDT 6 August: Survivors in urban areas are having little success at finding medical help. For the United States as a whole, hospital beds in surviving hospitals total 80,000, while severe injuries total 20,000,000. About 9,000,000 people in the U.S. have severe burns on much of their bodies, while only 200 beds in burn care facilities survive in the country. Many remaining hospitals lack even emergency power, due to the EMP attacks. The vast number of injuries force doctors and nurses to try to ignore patients that cannot be saved or have non-life threatening injuries. Many survivors in urban areas are in the process of fleeing to neighboring areas in search of medical care and to escape fires; this puts them in the open, often exposed to fallout.
I think that setting would make for some great fiction, but other than Cormac McCarthy's The Road, which maybe, sort of, had something to do with the subject I've never read a good book about Global Thermonuclear War. It doesn't seem to be a popular subject in contemporary fiction. Does anyone have any recommendations for me? Maybe even books written after the end of the cold war?
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We now have a standalone, downloadable installer for those of you who were having trouble with the web-based installer due to proxies or whatever. Read http://www.google.com/support/installer/bin/answer.py?answer=126299 . We don't recommend this unless you have to use it, because it can have problems updating, and we push updates _frequently_.
Speaking of which, we sent a Dev channel update this morning. Full notes at http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel/release-notes/releasenotes1015439 ; highlights:
* More Hotmail fixes (note, Hotmail sucks and requires you fake the Safari UA string to get things to work at all)
* Fixed lots of problems with file extensions in the "save file" dialog
* Better PDF performance
* Fixed some monitor positioning problems (not the "maximize on second monitor" problem; that IS fixed on trunk however)
* Middle-click onto a tab + move away before relasing no longer closes the tab
* Added F1 help key accelerator
Finally, we're going to be making some changes to the Dev/Beta channels soon. Up until now, "Beta" has been the more stable channel, and "Dev" less stable, but we've still tried to keep Dev pretty stable. We're going to be moving to three channels soon, adding a "Stable" channel. All current "Beta" users will move onto "Stable" and get updates once a quarterish. (Compare to other browsers that ship major updates once every two years or so!) Current "Dev" users will probably move to "Beta", getting updates around once a month, which are mostly stable. The "Dev" channel, which you'll probably need to explicitly switch back to, is going to get much more bleeding-edge, and basically ship code directly from our trunk every week or so. This gets you new features and fixes fast but there are guaranteed to be rough edges.
Once we make this change we'll probably push our current trunk code (which has TONS of changes over the 154 series of builds) to the new Dev channel. Think 10 months of WebKit work (including 100/100 Acid3 score, I think), middle-mouse autoscroll, full page zoom, lots of fixes to window sizing/positioning/working with third-party apps, some new multi-profile UI tendrils, the beginnings of our Greasemonkey and extensions work, and much, much more!
P.S. Gegtik there is no Mac version yet
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But fucking christ. If I am in the middle of deploying 5 PCs, writing up technical documentation and switching between a few e-mails and I have just all my shit open there is no god damned need to restart at that very moment.
At the very least ask before you fuck me over, and respond to shutdown /a. This fuck whatever you are doing, I'm rebooting because IE7 has been patched is fucking bullshit man. Bullshit.
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Did they just recently make the FMT=22 vids hella huge?
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How much would I be looking at spending to get a reasonably good quality inkjet for photographs, that won't cost more in ink cartridges than it would cost to get the photos printed at a store?
Any recommended models? This would be for my Mum, so I don't need anything too amazing.
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GG i'm staying home fuck this. People are stopping their cars in the middle of the freeway. WTF. News is showing live Dept of Trans footage of people stopping in random middle of lanes of I-405.
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20-28cm of snow expected in the area in the next couple of days.
fuck i wish we had a snowblower.
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Why would anyone do that?" you ask?
I could care less that it's not an actual "vegetarian" meal (being that it is cooked in the same fryers as the other chicken meals, and the condiment is mayonnaise made from egg products). I am however very allergic to poultry, and sometimes I get cravings for that KFC taste, and I've tried 2 of these sandwiches so far... and they're not bad! AFAIK they have been available in the U.S. since the summer, but we got just them here in Canada not too long ago. I wish the pattie was thicker like a 'Big Crunch' sandwich, still I would buy again (but only when I get that craving).
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http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/index
Couldnt think of anything better for your headlines, espn?
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http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSTRE4BG6TA20081217?sp=true
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that is a strange mountain... Utinni!