Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Jan 13, 2009 6:00pm PSTOk... I think I have managed to fight off the urge to buy one of those fancy 17"
Macbook Pros. I had to do a dns block of apple.com and freeze my credit card in a block of
ice, but I managed. I'll be ok. Damn it I think I'm gonna buy one. CRAP CRAP CRAP.
- Crayon physics inspiration
- CES and recession?
- Crazy pilot
href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/13/national/main4717884.shtml?tag=topStory;topStoryHeadline">faked
death
- Sleep and disease
As for the the videogame news around these parts:
- Macho Man hits Left 4 Dead!
- Bruce Springsteen hitting Guitar
Hero
- Fallout 3 patch 1.1 released
- Fallout 3 DLC coming January 27
- Mirror's Edge DLC gets release
date
- Call of Juarez prequel announced
- Star Ocean: Second Evolution screenshots
- Castle Crashers DLC this week
- Fable 2 DLC screenshots
- LucasArts cans Indiana Jones game
- Final Fantasy 13 footage
- Please delete your Midnight Club DLC
- Sony losing $1.1 Billion in 2008
- Mirror's Edge patch 1.01
- Rock Band 2 Wii DLC has arrived
- PlayStation 2 breaks 50 million in
sales
- Phantom of the Opera composer shopping
game idea
- AionGuard revealed
Lastly, look at your hands! Are you href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/scienceandsociety/2009/01/want-to-get-ric.html">gonna get rich
Killing Floor hits a million sales, discounted on Steam
Jam Live Music Arcade announced for PS3, Xbox 360
Metal Gear Online to quietly die this summer
Mad Riders: Techland's ATV racer coming to PC, PSN, XBLA
Notch 'can do' $13 million for Psychonauts 2
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I have an issue with birthday presents. I have two 8 year old sons. One we adopted last year, Tyler. My own son, Marshall, has a Wii and a ps2 and my adopted son feels left out that he doesn't own a game system of his own. Now he has full access to all the game systems in the house, including my 360 when it isn't being shipped back to Microsoft, but there isn't one that he can call his own. Fair enough. He was rather down he didn't get a gamesystem for christmas so my wife promised him he could get any system for his birthday in May. He wants a 360, all is well and good. ....
However, Marshall heard of this and his birthday is in February, 3+ months before Tyler's and he is upset because he wants a 360 for his birthday as well. I'm at a lost as to what to do at this point. in a perfect world, Tyler wouldn't have learned what he was getting for his birthday. I am concerned if i get Marshall any console for his birthday, Tyler will be disappointed at losing what he has built up in his mind as an arms race even when he gets his 360. i thought about just buying them a 360 now and saying its for both of them to share but I'm not sure that will help.
So, I need ideas for Marshall's birthday and how to handle the situation with Tyler.
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http://www.eightbitcock.com/
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Check out the awesomeness of an inexperienced director working with amateur actors from a script finished the day of shooting.
It's glorious.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Xbm5D_sN5c
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I laughed.
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After thinking a while about it, it's about shaking hands with other males. Given the percent of males that masturbate, just thinking about it gives me the shivers (bad kind).
Now.. on the other hand shaking hands with a hot female that I suspect might have been doing the little finger-shuffle makes me all giggity.
Anyway, that's all I have to say.
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So I was really hoping this patch would allow me to play continuously without crashing out of every session I've ever played. So I patch up, go to play, BAM, now it crashes in 1 minutes. FUCK
OK maybe it's a windows 7 issue. Boot to vista 64 partition, patch up, play it, bam it crashes in 1 minute again! It crashes as soon as accepting your VATS targets. Both times.
THIS GAME IS BROKEN. First game I've ever bought that was so broken that I can't play and I want my money back but that's not going to happen.
Apparently I'm not the only one with VATS issues browsing the forums. Anyone else?
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http://theridiculant.metro.co.uk/2009/01/exploding-banana-head-man-we-salute-you.html
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2 pieces of whole wheat bread
2 hot dogs sliced down the middle
Mayo
Mustard
Ketchup
Parmesan cheese
garlic pieces
onion salt
salt
pepper
http://bluemunky.com/hd.JPG
http://bluemunky.com/hd2.JPG
http://bluemunky.com/hd3.JPG
What are you eating?
(All this made possible by the wonderful world of weed)
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When running Windows in Bootcamp on a MAcbook (or any other Mac, for that matter), how do you right click using just the trackpad? Specifically, the newer "buttonless" trackpad.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E81uWNfRHbs
I love Band of Brothers and hope this kicks ass!! *fap fap fap*
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On Jan. 26, there's going to be an annular solar eclipse.
On Feb. 9, there's going to be a penumbral lunar eclipse. (this is pretty much an eclipse for the moon where the earth is in the way of the sun. so the moon will be completely dark in the sky.)
On July 22, there's going to be a total solar eclipse.
Anyone else know of cool astrological events going on this year?
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I've been reading everything I can find out about this phone. Apparently the CPU in it has built in opengl so 3d games are conceivable. Someone mentioned that that same CPU has been used as a PS1 emulator.
Not that I'm really interested in games on my phone, but I remember someone saying it wasn't possible. The first version of the SDK isn't allowing access to the graphics subsystem yet from what I hear.
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However, when I bought it, I got it from Best Buy, and bought the additional Best Buy two-year warranty plan, because I've read over and over on the shack how unreliable they are (and, lo and behold, they are unreliable!). Here's basically the experience I had a Best Buy last night when I brought in my xbox, my original receipt, and my warranty information:
The Best Buy representative took my xbox and told me to go pick out another one from the store. I went and found a Jasper-spec machine on the shelf (which was also a holiday bundle with Lego Indy and Kungfu Panda!), and brought it back to the customer service counter. After a few minutes of working with the computer, I was given the brand new xbox on the spot, was told my warranty was still valid since it was less than one year (within one year, they will replace the machine how ever many times you need it without question; after a year, you can replace it once and then have to sign up for a new warranty), and handed a $55 store credit card because my original purchase price was $349 (for a 20 gig system), and now the price is $299 (for the 60 gig system), so they credited me the difference.
So, to sum up, since I purchased my xbox at Best Buy and bought the extra warranty, I was able to walk into the store and exchange my broken falcon 20 gig xbox with a new 60 gig Jasper bundled with two games with no questions asked, given a store credit for the recent price drop, and told I could do it again if I needed to, all within a 15 minutes.
I highly recommend that anyone buying an xbox do exactly what I just did. It was completely painless, and frankly, kinda awesome. :)
http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/PopupProductDetail.aspx?cs=04&l=en&c=us&sku=A1319014#Overview
this looks good, shackers what say you?
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FutilityCloset/~3/511759400/
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But really, the mechanics were highly polished and worked well on the console too, so this is hardly a surprise. The game's problems are other things we've all discussed before.
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Go!
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I am probably getting as CPU and GFX:
Intel Core2Quad Q9400
XFX GF 9800GT XT Extreme 512MB PCI-E, 1800/650MHz, DDR3.
Question is - which board/ram to go with? My PC dealer suggests these:
Intel Motherboard DP35DPM
Apacer DDR2 2GB,800MHz,PC6400 Golden Cover
Neither convince me. Also pricewise I am trying to balance out the price/performance - it should not go over 1250 USD, not going for the maximum here. Operating system will be Vista/Windows 7.
One more thing - I'm looking for components that will "hold out" for around 3-4 years. My current PC is a AMD Athlon 3200 XP with 2 GB RAM and an XFX 8600 *sadface*.
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I can't remember the name of the map, but I finished a map 11 & 0 on CoD: 5 tonight.
First artillery, first dogs, first 10 kill streak.
I told ThomW that those guys I was playing with should have their X-Box Live tags revoked because of it.
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I must now eliminate college debt :(
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