Christmas Eve Discussion
by Chris Faylor, Dec 24, 2008 7:12am PSTWhee, Christmas Eve! It's that time of the year for last-minute shopping, tons of family visits, and of course, the sometimes-forced once-a-year trip to church at midnight.
Speaking of shopping, things have been so busy around here that I really haven't had the chance to partake in the yuletide tradition thus far. Now I get to participate in another--scouring retail shelves for the best gift I can find in X amount of hours.
Given the holiday, I'm not sure how much will be going on in the video game industry today, but we'll be keeping an eye on things. And don't forget that you can tip us off if you see something noteworthy, interesting, or downright silly.
Chatty: Diablo III, Dragon's Dogma
FileShack: Unity of Command, Skyjacker
Daily Filter: Planetside 2, Deadlight
Weekend PC digital deals: strategy-o-rama
38 Studios, Harry Potter Kinect - Shacknews Daily: May 25, 2012
http://vantage.shackspace.com/audio/mine/Vantage%20-%20Angelus.mp3
Let me know what you think. :D
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also i am not a smooth criminal
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Suggestions?
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What are they like? Are they all just dancing and drinking?
I have no interest in dancing or learning to dance and I don't want to just stand around like an awkward creep :(
I'll probably end up staying for a 10 minutes and GTFO asap.
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Eastwood is the man, even if I never really appreciated him until fairly recently. I see Gran Torino is getting mixed reviews, but generally liked by Shackers. I may have to see it. I think the fact that he avoids heavy dialogue scenes works for him in a lot of respects -- there's something cool about letting things remain unsaid and letting the viewer fill in the blanks.
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I got one for my inlaws years ago when they got their HDTV. The basic cox remote sucks, and being able to easily switch between the DVD player and the COX DVR has been fantastic for them. They are about to add a receiver and they won't have to learn anything new thanks to this amazing little remote.
Yet when people sit down and pick up the remote and I say "Press the watch TV button" they act like I've asked them to crack the human genome. Yet those same people will complain about how they have 5 remotes at home and they have to have their kids do everything.
Actually, it doesn't amaze me. It just comes back to what I've been saying forever... people are fucking stupid.
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filtersweep for providing me with enough motivation to get back into running, after sitting on my ass for three months. I just did 6km in 30 minutes and I feel great, though it was concerning seeing chavs in dark alleys with their mistresses and pint-cans out at this time of night. Must be performing their own personal Eastenders melodrama.
A Sponge for an enthralling sense of humour. She is the Nigella Lawson of internet posters, meticulously planning her posts, ravishing them with lashes of humour and sultriness. Catherine Tate, eat your heart out.
fleabug and socksta for providing us with some of the funniest fucking community made videos I've ever seen. Thanks for all the effort, time and money you piled into them. Sheer brilliance.
Chris Remo for having the correct opinion of Far Cry 2. Seriously, fuck all these haters. Lets move to the Congo, raise children of our own, hunt Zebra while the sun shimmers on the tall grass, and avoid faction outposts like wildfire.
Merry Christmas ya filthy animals, and a Happy New Year.
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:(
We both agreed it wasn't working and had the most mature breakup in my life. It was civil and we made plans to exchange our stuff the day we called an end to it over coffee.
Still fucking sad.
Please to be recommending happy movies to cheer me up as I sit alone in my apartment on this cold winter night.
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Bioshock $5 !!!
And more awesome savings GO LOOK
Everything I've read says it's a pretty awesome product, just want to see if anybody else has experience with it.
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By the way, THANK GOD for the D-pad on the PS3 controller. Using the sticks is an ugly bitch in this game.
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OK first of all, I admit that I was a cynic. I thought this game was going to suck ass. Like, Warrior Within ass. Major super ass.
I played it tonight.
H O L Y S H I T ' D
Thoughts in reply
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I'm supposed to be driving to Portland from San Francisco tomorrow. I have a Lincoln Towncar with a rear end that sags a bit due to a suspension issue that popped up (or not).
I've got chains, hiking boots, and a katana.
Will I die in the snow?
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Oh Kansas.
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My woman got me a DSC-SR42E hard drive camcorder! It's so fucking cool cuz I've been wanting one and couldn't justify it to myself! I'm even letting her sleep in another hour before i wake her up hehe.
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holiday season over at the folks, they have a pioneer blu ray setup. played national treasure for the middle age kiddos. hooray good fun. get some more drinks. then loaded up Wall-E (which I bought) for the ladies and moms and such.
wall-e didn't do a god damned thing. for about 6 minutes. then the non skippable previews start. ok get past that. another 3 minutes of a load bar. ok the fucking stupid HUD/UI comes up. go to "PLAY MOTHER FUCKER" and it doesn't do a god damned thing. the colors changed and the "bleep" sound played. but no movie. go to scene select, try to select scene 1. nothing.
jesus fuck almighty who codes this bloated fucking blu ray garbage. everyone was looking at me like "what the fuck is wrong with your movie asshole" and I have no idea because we let it load the god damn menu bullshit without interrupting it, then we resorted to ejecting the disc and mashing buttons to try to get the mother fucking thing to play.
well that's just fucking awesome when one movie works then the next one doesn't, and the resident "experts" who were reading packages and shit had no idea what the fuck was wrong. it started up its shit but would not do ANYTHING out of the main menu UI. fuck.
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What other actresses/actors do y'all like who suffer from that same "problem"?
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http://grrm.livejournal.com/64454.html
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Being the impatient shit i was i snuck down to the lounge room at about 3am Christmas day.
I found waiting for me a brand new bike. I was so excited i ran down the hall way tell my parents what Santa had left me.
What i didn't know is the due to either present wrapping (her story) before they went to bed or they wanted to fuck, they had shut their bedroom door, which they never ever did.
So anyway i went flying down the hallway all excited when BAM i hit that door at full force. Not quite sure if i knocked myself out or not and i'm not sure who got the biggest fright me or them.
This was the last time i ran full pelt down the hallway in the dark.
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I didn't think Peter Luger was that great.
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bored xmas shackers unite!
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I just got back from seeing Punisher: War Zone with Githyanki and dognose and for the fourth time out of the last five R-rated flicks I've gone to see in the theater, a couple with a screaming baby was sitting right in front of us.
It was bad enough that the surround sound kept cutting out in the theater, but when the kid is drowning out the motherfucking GUNFIRE, you should take it as a clue that something has gone terribly wrong with your plans for the evening.
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Douchebags or cool cats?
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