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by Chris Faylor, Dec 23, 2008 6:59am PSTAfter four days of sporadic connectivity, it looks like I've regained reliable internet access at home just in time. I'm not sure I could take another day working from Borders :(
First off, working in public is scary and distracting, as you never know who you're going to run into. Second, you can't look at all those cool and funny websites everyone's talking about, like What Would Tyler Durden Do. And third, the staff starts looking at you funny after your fifth straight hour of loading up nothing but video game websites.
On the plus side, I played a lot of Fallout 3 over the weekend, and I'm looking forward to sinking much more time into it across the coming weeks. I'm glad I waited until I had oodles of free time, as I don't think I'd be able to handle playing in bite-size sessions.
im taking a road trip to florida with like, at least 65 of my friends. what a convoy this is gonna be on i-95
skydiving all week long in florida at various dropzones. go ahead..say it
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What are some bad Bale movies? Not non-blockbuster titles, but genuinely horrible movies where Bale was the primary figure? I haven't seen all of his work, but I can't think of anything he's been in that I didn't like.
Worst one I can think of is Equilibrium and I still rather enjoyed it, but not on the same level as some of his newer pieces.
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HEY. my brother, duncandun, is banned, but like the faggot he is he signed up for white elephant anyway. so i've gotten permission to post his write up.
he received a box of crap from newlywed shacker extraordinaire, re-verse. in reply is his write up. it's pretty cool imo so check it out!
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I am completely screwed (not the good way). We're heading up to my boyfriend's parents' place either tonight or in the morning for Christmas, and I haven't gotten him anything. We are not big spenders like many of you, so our Christmas gift to each other this year was Rock Band 2, which he still managed to surprise me with yesterday (I thought we'd get it in a week or two; he did this whole thing where he asked me to come down to the car to help him bring up groceries and then it was in the trunk and then that's all we did last night because it was really fun and the drums are definitely better than the others I've used).
So we decided to just get each other small, ~$25 gifts. I don't want to give him a gift card, I don't want to use his Amazon wish list (both because I don't like doing that unless I'm super desperate and because I don't know who else has used it without going through Amazon at this point).
There is one book I'm going to pick up for him (I still have to go out to grab the small gifts I'm giving his family in a few minutes, but I know what I'm getting, so that's not a big deal), but I need something else. I was going to do something from ThinkGeek, but I couldn't find anything I liked and obviously it's too late now. I don't think there are any stores where I could get him goofy or random at the place I'm headed, but it is sort of a mall.
Does anyone have any ideas? He's a little less geeky than I am, by which I guess I mean I'm better with computers and have had more really strange non-social friends, but he plays video games (we only have Wiis, no 360 or anything, and his computer is old so it won't run anything new) and likes the same kind of goofy random shit people here do. I'm really trying to come up with something else. We both play frisbee. Those are our only notable hobbies. I accidentally lost his FC Copenhagen hat about a day after his dad gave it to him, but it's too expensive to really be worth replacing it. He might need a new hat though.
And oh fuck he's home.
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Make recommendations that every PC needs!
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Someone at Sony obviously confused Played with another Podcast and I'm sure will soon be fired for this mix-up. :P Seriously, this is came out of nowhere today!
Oh and get this, the embargo is until Feb 2nd of 2009--ha! Still, very cool though--x-mas came early?
http://img385.imageshack.us/img385/4048/killzone2jj9.jpg
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For some reason I took some time to write thsi out today while I had some downtime at work. I was going to give it some real time and make it soemthing cool, but I've run out of time and energy and will drop it in here as is. I keep thinking that something like this has been done before, but I don't remember seeing it on the shack. Apologies for any awkwardly phrased lines, like I said, I ran out of time and energy.
Twas the night before shackmas,
and all through the shack,
all things were just normal,
the gay was on tap.
Steve dressed as Santa,
and Maarten his elf,
Faylor: a reindeer,
all by himself.
Phil was complaining,
his wife is a bitch,
Voodooraze had the pump out,
his nipples did itch.
Some were tf'ing,
and stacking blu team,
Fry chose a coma,
'Til 2018
Most shackers were chatting,
they all love the cock,
and from the front doorstep,
there came a loud knock.
With prostate a pumping,
Mace ran to the door,
from the porch Maddog called out,
"you're mothers a whore"!
Dognose was now sleeping,
and dreaming of duke,
ArB had a new shredder,
he'd upgraded to nuke.
Burning Eye was at preschool,
to find a new mate,
Rosewood punched a waiter,
while seething with hate.
Sikanders white elephant,
was now within reach,
Tastywheat got prepared now,
for failwhale breach.
Wtfs jeans were tearstained,
and red were his eyes,
he'd been stood up again,
and he'd gone up a size.
Jbury was screaming,
his fridge was alight,
GeorgeB was still posting,
with no Duke in sight.
eXcess has gained shack cred,
for dating a star,
while Jimbo Ro in the garage,
He was his car.
As the chatty rolled over,
at the end of the year,
we looked back on our posting,
it was all pretty queer.
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I haven't heard any discussion about it.
hopefully is better than the live action movies
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Mine is Limp Bizkit - Significant Other
Seriosuly. What the fuck Morgin. :(
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My sister is an excellent mother, but the husband has got to buck the fuck up. We are putting on their shoes to go outside, and he is sighing with every movement and then mutters
"its...soooo haard." Yeah, nice one, pissing and moaning about being a parent, while your child is in your arms.
Then later he cooks them food but they run off to keep playing and he slumps at the table with his head in his hands , and despairs to noone in particular "ooohh reeally?"
I've got almost 3 days left of this, i'm gonna be drunk and blurt something out soon.
Phil? He has a right to bitch but not around the kids ffs....
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All I want for Christmas is some TF2.... Some TF2.... Some TF2!
2nd to last ShackWest TF2 Night of 2008!
ip is in my profile. message me if you dont know the password.
all maps (except ctf_aerospace) are in my shackspace under /tf/maps/
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Try to connect to a new wireless network, can't connect.
Turn off encryption, connects fine and can choose whether it is a home or work network.
Turn encryption back on, connects fine.
Another example of Vista sucking so bad I'm surprised there isn't 100 class action suits.
Daddy is buying a new TV and the whole shebang with a Blu Ray too. The TV is a Samsung 52" 1080P 120hz: http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-LN52A750-52-Inch-1080p-Touch/dp/B001418WF4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1230069074&sr=1-1
Receiver is a Denon AVR 1909: http://www.amazon.com/Denon-AVR-1909-Independent-Theater-Receiver/dp/tech-data/B001BKND5W/ref=de_a_smtd
My question is what speakers should my dad get for these? I think he was going to buy these: http://www.amazon.com/Mirage-Nanosat%C2%AE-satellite-speakers-subwoofer/dp/B000FBPH2K/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1230069281&sr=1-1
But I told him it did the receiver no justice, and I assume his limit for speakers is $500, so I need recommendations cause this is not my forte. TIA
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Anybody want to play some versus Left 4 Dead with me and Skull the Troll?
:D
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A rant + request for help, in reply
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http://www.diii.net/blog/comments/g4tv-on-diablo-iii/
even though he says they are working hard on finishing all the single player content, i still will not believe we'll see this game until late 2010. I WANT CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK CLIT CLICK CLICK CLICK
another shacker eliminated from the diablo 3 pool today,
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=p0G5-T3OdB9E0HfNR2aHXeg&gid=0
that's two and hundreds still in the running for a up to $150 collects edition of d3 when it's released.
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Tsar Bomba wins! Right after the Asteroid impact
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Been a long while since I had a chance to post on Ye Olde Shacke...
I just got myself a last-gen 15" MBP (which I absolutely love) from my friend for $1200 because he wanted to buy a new unibody MBP - mine has 2.4ghz, 4gb ram, and the 8600 256mb. I already installed Vista via Boot Camp and have that partition loaded up in VMWare Fusion. I've installed Adium, Office 2008 (got it for $20 through work), and Firefox under OSX and Witcher EE & Civ 4 on the Vista side.
My questions are thus:
1) What are the essential apps to get for OSX?
2) What are some good games to run on a laptop, especially a MBP? I'd like stuff that I can use the trackpad only for, but if needs be I will be picking up a VX Revolution (or something along those lines) soon?
I know there are quite a few here and I'd appreciate any input. I'm really interested in getting into digital art and I'm looking for good tutorials and/or books. There's a ton of sites out there but I'd appreciate some first hand recommendations from fellow Shackers. I've got the following tools to get me started:
Photoshop CS2
InkScape
Wacom Intuos 6" X 8"
Any other software (inexpensive/free) recommendations also appreciated.
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I checked out this one, and it looks pretty good, despite having a single one star review.
http://www.chansoftware.com/
Maybe I'm missing out on a more popular app. I want something where I can scan in stupid club cards and stuff that I don't want to carry around, but still want to have a password on.
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"Sir, have you accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior?"
Crestfallen, I said, "Not anymore" and closed the door.
10 minutes later, the doorbell rang again. Much more slowly I went to the door, opened it, and lo and behold, a very strange man who was wearing a suit of brown stood at the door! MY WE HAD ARRIVED!!!!
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