Evening Reading
by Nick Breckon, Feb 16, 2009 6:00pm PSTHappy President's Day. As president Michael Wilson would say, "Let's paaaartttyyyyy!"
A few things happened:
- Watchmen beat-em-up episode release dates
- GTA 4 Lost and Damned multiplayer modes revealed
- EA to make sporting goods
- Death Tank hits XBLA
- Nintendo teases Wii Shop channel surprise
- Details on second Mass Effect DLC pack, Mass Effect 2
- Burnout Paradise legendary cars coming Thursday
- CitiesXL screenshots bring city back
- Forza 3 maybe coming this holiday season?
- A bunch of new MadWorld screenshots
Splinter Cell Blacklist co-op modes partially detailed
FIFA 14 on PC won't use Ignite engine
Ace Attorney Trilogy coming to iOS next week
Far Cry 3 editor jazzed up with Blood Dragon shinies
Epic Mickey 2 for Vita coming June 18



BSG finale to run three hours. how many eps are left til that finale?
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I'd like to learn more about the more advanced uses of lighting, when to use diffusers, when to bounce, how to do it, when to use a flash, etc. Anyone have any recommendations on websites or books?
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mining and pirates!
http://www.kongregate.com/games/CasualCollective/the-space-game
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Okey dokey my little chicken chasers, one more post about Fable 2 then I'll stfu and talk about other things that everyone else discussed months ago.
Finally finished the main storyline last night, it was a fun time. It comes highly recommended from me, and I'm glad I finally got a chance to get through it. It has great atmosphere, it's not frustrating, and some interesting mechanics. It doesn't do anything great, but it does so many different things well that it never gets boring.
I know others have mentioned disappointment at the ending, but I think Fable is in a funny position for that sort of thing. It's more a game about atmosphere and choices, and it's mechanics don't really lend itself to elaborate fights or puzzles or anything. The choice at the end was no choice at all, did anyone not save their doggie?
Some other thoughts:
- I think I might have missed some dialog from Lucien at the end, I was so keyed up for a final showdown I gunned him down the first chance I got
- Reaver seemed to get off fairly lightly, given his behavior. He set me up multiple times, and killed poor Barnum! I was hoping for a chance to give him a good whack with an axe after Lucien was taken care of.
- I thought I might be in for a final battle with Theresa as well, but maybe they're saving that for another sequel?
- Why do all bad guys in fantasy games have to build a giant black tower? It must be cock related.
Now it's time to buy a new HDD so I can get Knothole Island (as well as the Lost and the Damned!).
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The Descent: part 2 trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTKZo3y6gEs
check it before its taken down... I really liked the first one
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I have this PC here, trojan free now ( http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=19224840 ) and the last part that I'm trying to deal with is a weird error having to do with the DVD drive.
Basically, no DVD drive (drive D:) shows up in the My Computer explorer window, and when I look it up in the Device manager, there is a yellow ! next to it, so I click properties and it says:
This device cannot start (code 10)
After looking online for hours, nothing is working. I've tried the registry editing that is listed almost everywhere, I've taken the drive out of the computer, removed the driver from the device manager, removed the IDE drivers, rebooted a ton of times, and nothing is working. The drive is visible in the Bios, and even in Windows it opens and closes and spins up if you put a CD/DVD in. However, no matter what I do, I can't get this thing recognized. (...or started I guess)
Has anybody seen this? Fixed it? This is driving me nuts, and I doubt that getting a new drive will fix it. Halp!!
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I really wish in this age of online consoles, parental controls etc, that I could somehow enable 'uncensored' songs on games. Not that it's a huge dealbreaker or anything, but sometimes I'd like to have in-game soundtracks where ODB can say 'bastard' :(
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Are we gonna see another big crash today?
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Man told police in upstate New York he beheaded his wife, authorities say
Police: Woman's decapitated body found at a TV station that the man founded
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/02/16/buffalo.beheading/index.html
speechless
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I really want to learn Illustrator because I tend to need to work in vector a lot. I'm fairly proficient with Photoshop, but Illustrator just confuses me. Anyone have any good recommendations (ie: links to tutorials) on where to start for people that are pretty familiar with Photoshop?
Best thing I've been able to take out of Illustrator is Live Trace/Paint for cleaning up drawings.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjwQCwfGpOI
That's pretty freakin awesome.
http://www.pushsquare.com/552/dantes-inferno-protagonist-is-a-muscular-six-foot-knight-armed-with-deaths-scythe-runs-at-60fps/
*facepalm*
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http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2243952.ece
Does the world really need multiple submarines patrolling silently underwater with 32 nuclear missiles ? Under what scenario would they actually use these nukes
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And I hadn't played them since I built a beefy new computer just over a year ago. So I get to crank all the settings to the top and giggle with glee at how smooth it runs. And everything is awesome.
Until I get to Episode 2. And things start looking a bit odd. First, I reach the overlook on ruined City 17, portal storm rushes overhead, she cries "look at the bridge!", I dutifully look, and Poof! the bridge vanishes instantly to its collapsed form. I miss the entire cool looking collapse animation deal! WTF? So then I head towards the cave right by it, only instead of looking into a cave, I'm looking into [SKY BOX]. I step forward through the unknown, and it all looks ok inside, but behind me, in place of outside, is [SKY BOX]. Move forward into cave, at one junction to lower part of cave, more sky box transition. Reach the first zombie who is sitting against a wall, he makes zombie noises while not moving, then pops from sitting to walk animation, skipping the stand up sequence! Shit like this continues long enough to be clear that something is messed up.
I have the 182.05 drivers, which I guess are beta, should I roll back? I've tried turning off both PhysX and SLI, and cranking the video settings down to min, to no effect. WTF?
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Any of you planning on attending this most excellent rock festival? For those not familiar, hell I just found out about it last week, there is a veritable cavalcade of metal bands schedule to play for a two-day event.
Most notably, for me, Alice in Chains has just announced they will be headlining and hopefully unveling some of their new material. The clips on aliceinchains.com blog sound fantastic...anyhow, if a good number of Shackers are planning on attending, we should plan a little something.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62Y-GFVt00o
After 2 years of iphone this is what we get, here lets slide this, oh it didn't move, lets slide it again.
This on the other hand looks pretty good
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2AOukFSz5o
Nine Inch Nails going on hiatus? :(
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Cops and Robbers is so awesome.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/gallery/2009/feb/15/michael-jackson-auction?picture=343232869
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http://www.jdunderground.com/forum.php
Came across this site when I was doing a google search for something entirely unrelated. It's as odd and random as this place, but with a bunch of angry unemployed lawyers instead of angry unemployed gamers. Now we know where bean and ra1n go to post when they get worn out on the shack...
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/feb/17/pride-and-predator-to-give-jane-austen-extreme-makeover
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=52928
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I set up a script to run when people log on and log off. Well it deletes all of the files out of the %temp% directory but leaves all of the folders. Also, in the Temp internet file folder, it leaves all of the cookies, but deletes all the temp internet files. What do I need to do so I can make it delete all the folders and cookies? I want everything in those folders deleted.
del /q /s /f "%temp%\*.*"
del /q /s /f "%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\*.*"
del /q /s /f "%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\*.com/"
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEZ2iW9Hyi0&feature=channel_page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfWjgQeI6_A&feature=channel_page
Weeeeee
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Team Fortress 2
* Sticky bombs now get a reduced close range damage ramp up (like Rocket Launcher & Syringe Gun)
o Ultimately reduces damage done by sticky bombs to enemies <512 units from the Demoman
* Moved the unlockable system over to the new item backend:
o Added a warning dialog to the loadout screen telling clients when the server they're on could not get their loadout
* Made "tf_damage_disablespread" a replicated convar, so clients can see the value of it on the server they're connected to
* Renamed "mp_stalemate_at_timelimit" to "mp_match_end_at_timelimit", to better explain its function now that stalemate is optional
* Fixed muzzle flashes & shell ejections still playing when viewmodels are hidden
* Server tags can now be used to include or exclude servers from the list
Team Fortress 2 and Day of Defeat: Source
* Protected several more commands from client exploitation
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I spent a few hours last night working on a new song. Sort of a softer lullaby-style song.
http://vantage.shackspace.com/audio/mine/Vantage%20-%20Needsaname.mp3
However, it needs a name (it's also not quite finished).
Please listen to the song and A: Tell me what you think, then B: Suggest a name! :D
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Street Fighter IV is out.
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