Evening Reading
by Nick Breckon, Mar 02, 2009 5:52pm PSTEmpire: Total War tomorrow. Can't wait to play with Shackers after the multiplayer patch.
- Wii Shop channel adds Ogre Battle
- Need for Speed Online screenshots
- Midway looks to offload Mortal Kombat, cut ex-employee payments
- Dawn of War 2 tops weekly PC sales chart
- Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. demo released on PC
- Tenchu: Shadow Assassins sneaking to PSP
- Empire: Total War campaign multiplayer detailed
- Toys 'R Us selling used games
- BioWare opens Montreal studio for Mass Effect 2
- Gibson loses Guitar Hero court battle
- GSC releases early S.T.A.L.K.E.R. build
- Watchmen MMO coming to iPhone
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
Minecraft for Xbox 360 dev working on 'Adventure' update
she loves toys with squeakers in them. however, save for two, every fucking squeaky toy i buy her she kills within an hour, no matter how "strong" or "chew proof" they are.
she's small, so she can't get some hulking plush as she can't get her mouth around it. but i'm sure some of you have tiny dogs that also chew everything. so what do you buy them, of the squeaking variety, to keep them happy for longer than an hour?
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 2 replies.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/apple-announces-nehalem-based-mac-pro/
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 20 replies.
Really irritating that Vimeo doesn't, even including ones that are captured by the uploader.
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 34 replies.
Pictures:
http://www.aggybong.com/IMG_3640_resize.JPG
http://www.aggybong.com/IMG_3641_resize.JPG
http://www.aggybong.com/IMG_3643_resize.JPG
http://www.aggybong.com/IMG_3644_resize.JPG
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 26 replies.
Thoughts?
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 8 replies.
I found a patch that lets me run in 1280x1024 and everything looks great. Only thing that's bugging me now is the quicksave (so slow compared to modern games). The still like the quest journal; it's much wordier than modern RPG games, but I like reading detailed summaries of stuff I'm involved in. Plus, it doesn't hold your hand or tell you exactly what to do or where to go (ahem OBLIVION); it just points you in the general direction. Bravo for such an old game to hold up to the test of time!
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 22 replies.
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 78 replies.
The full story in reply, it's a bit long, so:
TL:DR: Geek Squad couldn't fix a problem with the LCD monitor diplay models in their own store for nearly 48 hours.
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 48 replies.
I'm not arguing it would be a positive thing for ardent pc gamers necessarily, but wouldn't it make a lot of sense from MS' perspective to unify the two platforms, increasing sales without costs of developing complicated ports (aside from patches to make keyboard & mouse compatible) and probably increasing xbox live account signups a massive notch too.
Do you ever see anything like this happening, not this generation but next possibly?
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 6 replies.
well, a gal i know lives with her boyfriend and he's great. she goes away for the weekend (leaving her laptop) and the boyfriend's raunchy friend (she knows this, this is all cool by her) stays in the second bedroom.
she returns to some shitastic porn websites still loaded on her laptop. rolls her eyes, but unfortunately, the poor quality of these sites left the handy gift of redirecting her randomly to viagra and porn sites when she is using her computer.
me being not anywhere near her, and knowing no tech people, her boyfriend took the computer to geek squad.
they cleared out all her settings, cookies, cache, whatever. hell, they may have run her norton, but while the problem didn't happen as frequently, the shit still went to porn sites all the goddamned time.
it took me downloaded avast and new virus definitions to find a single fucking trojan.
now, as i said, i understand the limitations and overpriced nature of geek squad, but seriously folks. she could have done this herself (had she not had norton, which apparently didn't have this trojan in her database.) what a fucking rip off.
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 74 replies.
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 5 replies.
I spent a lot of time over on TweakGuides before it was shut down for the second (and final it looks like) time and the general consensus there was that integrated audio solutions are enough for most gamers and could match the quality of a dedicated audio solution like an X-Fi. I've never agreed with this personally, I can tell the difference between my old build where I was using a Realtek chip and my new system where I'm running an X-Fi Titanium (upgraded from an earlier X-Fi Xtreme Gamer) like night and day - there is no comparison, the Titanium wins hands down. After
What's the Shack opinion on this? I could never go back to integrated after using the X-Fi cards.
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 34 replies.
i have backtracked as much as i could but i have not been able to locate him.
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 17 replies.
I just did my routine 6 mile 30 minu53 commute in 19º weather. Nice and dry at least.
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 4 replies.
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/cinema/2009/03/09/090309crci_cinema_lane?currentPage=1
bleh
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 45 replies.
http://www.tngop.org/wp-content/themes/revolution-20/images/mortgagestickerwebimage.gif
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 25 replies.
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 10 replies.
Based on what suggestions from you guys here is what I have learned.
1. I need to somehow get BGH out of our agreed maps.
2. I need to get him to agree to allow downloaded maps and add Bloodbath and Lost Temple. I need more maps to present to him. More suggestions please.
3. I need for forget playing random and stick with a race and learn a solid build order. I need suggestions which race is best against a toss cannon turtling to carriers faggot.
4. I need to be ready by tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 18 replies.
2GHz ... talk about underwhelming.
http://www.macrumors.com/2009/03/03/apple-announces-new-imacs-mac-minis-airport-extreme-and-time-capsule/
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 9 replies.
Well this genious figured out XP home was a POS half way through the office upgrades and decided to get Pro with all its domain goodness. The laptop I am currently on is a domain connected machine. I would like to copy my desktop and rest of the file over to this new laptop.
Should I just copy the documents and settings folder along with application data in order to ease the migration?
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 5 replies.
>> The gap was just 72,000 kilometers (44,750 miles), or a fifth of the distance between Earth and the Moon and only twice the height of satellites in geosynchronous orbit, the website space.com said.
Yikes!
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 13 replies.
http://www.stthomascreations.com/video/player.html
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 26 replies.
http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/blog/2009/03/_abc_is_on_a.html
WTF! Another new show that was good and different gets cancelled.
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 37 replies.
Last year we took eight months to transition 7000 or so users (to make it as painless as possible) to Google Apps Partner Edition. No monthly fee per user (which is what we were doing before moving to Google) but our users would get served ads in the sidebar. That's fine.
Out of the blue we get an email last week. "Oh yeah, we don't offer that version anymore. On top of the ads we're serving we're also going to ding you $.XX per user."
And that cost is what we were paying before.
Eight months of pain to be back where we were at the beginning of 2008.
Thanks Google. We went to you for the cost savings. At least use lube when you screw us next time.
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 30 replies.
I don't see it. Why shouldn't news get images from google?
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 7 replies.
He must of seen it on Digg. It has 79 diggs right now and I think it needs between 100-120 to bump to the front page. If anyone has a sec to help me get those last 20 diggs.
digg.com/tech_news/New_Tool_Calculates_Rental_Statistics_on_Google_Maps
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 20 replies.
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 6 replies.
Soooo.... tell me something, in naxx, how hard is it on thaddius to not switch sides on the boss when the little + turns into a - i mean really? we kicked and replaced like 10 pug guys today cause they cant manage that. and on top of that, who the hell cant pull at least 4k dps on that boss, i mean f you don't fail at stacking up, 4k dps is 100% more dmg, so you would normally be pulling 2k... 2k is easy in a 25man. i don't get it /endrant
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 70 replies.
This is kind of funny. French presenter at the Cesars has a planned nipple slip as she is portraying an air-headed starlet, except Emma Thomson isn't aware it's a shtick and runs up on stage to help her with it. The presenters face after is pretty funny.
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 5 replies.
I don't know how good that damage is (it's up to 822 after my last defend mission + level up to 16) but I love him all the same.
I love this game.
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 56 replies.
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 6 replies.
Didn't like the demo at all, but man that looked cool
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 2 replies.
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/environment/la-fi-wind-bootcamp1-2009mar01,0,6425035.story
"Technicians must be hyper-vigilant in an occupation that combines dizzying heights, tight spaces, high-voltage electricity and spinning metal."
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 11 replies.
1. They have a new album coming out today. Amazon MP3 has it for $3.99. I gave it a listen and so far so good, although I don't find it to be all that special. :( http://www.amazon.com/No-Line-On-The-Horizon/dp/B001S6HZTE/ref=amb_link_83789591_2?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=browse&pf_rd_r=1H4EQ49VEC6GDS48H855&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=470912571&pf_rd_i=163856011
2. Anyone know when they're going on tour? The girlie's birthday is next week and she's a huge U2 fan so I figured tickets would make an awesome birthday present. Unfortunately, no tour dates have been announced (except that they're playing for the professors at my school's main campus this week WHAT THE FUCK).
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 16 replies.
This should be quite the showdown...
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 57 replies.
I'm writing a survival horror kinda thing for a class, what's a building in Detroit that looks like it would be a place civilans would flee too, barring the standard police departments and hospitals?
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 18 replies.
European Track Pack #3 on 3/5:
"Break It Out" Vanilla Sky
"In the Shadows" The Rasmus
"C'est Comme Ça" Les Rita Mitsouko
European Track Pack #4 on 3/12:
"What Have You Done" Within Temptation
"Hier Kommt Alex" Die Toten Hosen
"Carolina" M-Clan
Jimi Hendrix Track Pack #2 on 3/19:
"Freedom" Jimi Hendrix
"Angel" Jimi Hendrix
"Foxy Lady (Live at Woodstock)"
Queen Track Pack #1 on 3/26:
"We Are the Champions" Queen
"Fat Bottomed Girls" Queen
"C-lebrity" Queen + Paul Rodgers
(Seriously, this is it, Activision?? Someone does not understand the success that Rock Band has had with lots more music to dl each week).
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 3 replies.
http://chookspot.blogspot.com/2009/03/lest-we-forget.html
Within hours, Australian generals had green-lit the aerial deployment of koalas, kangaroos (including the infamous 5th Explosive Joey Battalion), wombats and even echidna espionage units over the front lines. The results were devastating - while it was common knowledge that koalas possess two sets of genitalia, it was not until March 3rd, 1989 that we learned koalas have the ability to fire a pistol with each hand.