Morning Discussion
by Chris Faylor, Mar 13, 2009 6:56am PDTIt's always disappointing when naps go wrong. You lay down after work, intending to lose an hour or two--suddenly, 15 hours have passed and it's time to hit work again.
Since my plans for Thursday didn't exactly pan out, I'll be using the weekend to wrap up the second season of The Wire, and sink some more time into ...some game. I don't know which, there's too many to choose from. Dawn of War II? 50 Cent? Peggle?
And of course, there's always Resident Evil 5. Toys R Us is giving away a $20 gift card if you buy it. That makes it $40, kinda, assuming you shop at TRU. It's tempting, but I don't know. I've already got a massive backlog, and Nick's review wasn't exactly glowing.
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
Rounding up the stats ( http://alco23.game-host.org/ ) from last nights game:
"Running Currahee" award: •Dr.Alco• with 40 flags captured
"Plinking away" award: gimpix with 39 Garand kills
"I always loved the railgun in Q3" award: barrysanders with 186(!) K98 kills
"Spray and Pray" award: ?sanchez¿ with 92 Thompson kills AND 112 mp40 kills
"FUBAR" award: Mr. Dschinghis Khan with 98 BAR kills, arcane with 47 MP44 kills
"Zaitsev was an amateur" award: Sailor of Fortune with 44 Springfield sniper rifle kills, AlexXdude with 92 K98 sniper rifle kills
"Animal Mother" award: timaste with 54 MG42 kills There should be an Allied MG award here too but we need to code it into the awards, whoops
"ROCKET LAWNCHAIR" award: Arctic Fox with 49 Bazooka kills, •Dr.Alco• with 10 Panzerschreck kills
"Mashed potatoes and pineapples" award: CrimsonHandHiro with 7 US frag grenade kills, chandler with 3 German Stielhandgranate kills
"Prize pugilist" award: ?sanchez¿ with 8 punch kills
"Backstabbing bitch" award: Mr. Dschinghis Khan with 4 knife kills, barrysanders with 7 spade kills
And my favourite, the humiliation awards:
"Alright, who trimmed the fuses on my nades" award: chandler, with 5 suicides (dedication to getting the nade award, that's what I like to see)
"I never really was on your side" award: Zaun, with 7 friendly fire kills
Great games everybody!
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http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/03/firefox-31-beta-3-officially-released.ars
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Someone posted a link to an app that does a full reboot (equiv. of pulling out the battery). Anyone have that link by chance?
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http://www.shackpics.com/viewer.x?file=old_tb78lkv47ybdzhzrzk32.png
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Does it become even harder?
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has anyone here noticed colour smuding on their HDTVs? i see it from time to time on bigger TVs in bestbuy/futureshop. i always wondered about that since i never noticed it on my small 27".
but i just got a 47LG70 47" 1080p tv and i've seen evidence of this. it's almost like the picture went through the "splatter" photoshop filter. i noticed it in ironman blu-ray last night. everything is sharp as hell but ocassionally i'd see hills in the background that might not be in focus and the brown colours look smudged up.
i have it connected via hdmi and post processing all turned off so no noise reduction or anything...i notice it on my gf's t1000 sony camera too. but that stupid thing does noise removal automatically and you can't shut it off. so the resulting picture in low light looks like a waterpainting. it's the same effect on the HDTVs but not as bad.
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So refreshing for the RTS genre.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU_B3QNu_Ks
ill tell you in the video when they are done they do not look all that great...but really..if cooked exactly the way he says to cook them with the same ingredients they are really a mouthfull of amazing flavor
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
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Why does everyone feel the need to respond to totally stupid threads? I can't count the number of times I've seen a terrible thread linger on the first page of comments like an unwanted houseguest.
Ignoring stupid threads will serve two purposes
1) it'll stop shitty threads from lingering
2) it will hopefully discourage shitty posters from posting if everything they post gets ignored
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:)
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http://mancide.net/shackstats/
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It just got a steamworks update and a new map and is marked down 66% to 5 dolla
Is it worth it? Tell me about the game.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/1200/
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http://www.shackpics.com/viewer.x?file=photo2_4e5hbruw7xnpsuydv4mw.jpg
The door from the elevator landing on this parking level in my building is back there on the right - you can just barely make out the green 'exit' sign on the top of the jeep.
wtf. WHO PARKS LIKE THIS and thinks that it's okay? i need to print out some of those 'you park like an asshole' signs and put them on his car.
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What other sound cards are there at the moment that are as good/better? Im sick of the shit these cards cause. I thought I was done with all issues with this card about a year ago until a few days ago when a Creative driver-induced BlueSceen slapped me right in the face.
I want something wholly un-Creative....so that rules out Creative cards, Auzuntech cards. And Asus Xonar cards can suck my balls as well. As can Asus.
With the shit Creative have pulled this last few years I'm never buying Creative again, but with the awesomeness a decent sound card can bring (if the drivers are not written by monkeys with hammers) I can't possibly deal with onboard sound ever again.
Any suggestions?
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Anyone here upgrade their video card recently and have the old one sitting around still? If yes, is it better than a EVGA 7900 gt ko? If it is, would you be interested in trading it for an original work of art? sheepraper said the other day he has a 8800 GTS 640 MB that he would trade but he hasn't responded to my SM, and I'm not very patient so I wanted to see if anyone else here would be willing to setup a trade (of course if you see this sheepraper, I'm still interested). Last time I did this, it was with Peters4Life, and while I can't speak for him, I believe he was very satisfied with the transaction.
So if there's anyone out there who'd like to setup a trade SM me, or reply here. If you don't like my artwork, then maybe we can work out some sort of sexual payment.... no homo
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How the technology works:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasmic!#Disneyland_Technology
The show itself:
http://www.disunplugged.com/2009/02/18/fantasmic-at-disneyland/
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Double Bastard: http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/147/1056
Sawyers Triple: http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/147/12973
A crazy looking holiday ale: http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/147/46085
Cali-Belgique IPA: http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/147/43905
I don't think I've ever seen the last three in the list. Thanks hirez!
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By replacing 9 sockets that would probably cost you $5 to make, you would have kept a lifetime customer. Now I'm afraid that the warranty on my lawnmower won't be good because it has grass clippings on it.
My next emails will be going to every other tool company that offers a lifetime warranty. Perhaps one of them will value their customers more.
Thank you for the last 10 years, and good luck surviving in this economy.
I am Atlas. I am Martyr. I am Savior. I am CONSUMER.
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Is there any way to find out what forms the IRS thinks you have? Because they're rejecting my e-file taxes and it looks like I'm missing either a W-2 or a 1099 but I'll be damned if I know what it is. I probably have some long-forgotten savings account somewhere with like $10 in it fucking me up =(
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I know international routes aren't quite the cattle-car experiences that US carriers give you domestically, but when I flew Osaka-LA on EVA Air it was great. If I spend an $300 extra to go on All-Nippon Airways vs. flying American Airlines, am I going to get what I'm paying for?
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From the front page: As you liberate Little Sisters from other Big Daddies, you'll be able to either Harvest or Adopt them. Adoption apparently leads to escorting the Little Sister around levels, fighting off splicers as the Little Sister harvests the all-powerful Adam from corpses.
The moral choice issue of harvesting/saving Little Sisters in the original Bioshock was one of the better parts of the game, IMO. It had consequences and benefits, where killing them was rightly disturbing yet you benefiting gameplay wise (at least in the short run). From the brief description above, the sequel is missing the point. Either you kill them outright or you follow them around so they can vamprically drain corpses. Either way is pretty demoralizing and neither choice really has a moral upside, so there's no moral conflict -- it's more of a "gameplay" choice of getting more now or saving it for later.
I'm not saying the game is going to be bad (who knows until you can actually play it), but it sure seems like they don't really get this one aspect of what made Bioshock such a great game.
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Since I have a single rca cable for my subwoofer, does it matter if I plug it in on the left or right channel?
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- Players who are stunned by a Scout now take 50% less damage
- Increased the minimum distance to stun a player with the Sandman
- Fixed problem where clients were unable to join a team or maintain a connection to the server
- Fixed Scout taunt kill achievement firing for people who didn't actually qualify
- Fixed client crash in when creating muzzle flash effects
- Fixed client crash when determining which disguise weapon to use for a spy
- Fixed Natascha's chain not being drawn on the view model
- Fixed stun code regression that resulted in a subtle reduction of Natascha's slowdown effect
- Fixed rocket & grenade jumps not propelling players as far as they're supposed to
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I have three possible job offers, all from today.
Whole Foods wants me back, plus two others.
So likely I'll have something in the next couple of weeks.
I guess if you pound enough keys and send enough resumes eventually things snowball until you have a chance somewhere.
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After one hour, 88.75% of registrants were male, 11.35% were female.
Not surprising at all, but still. :(
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http://www.apple.com/trailers/disney/up/trailer_large.html
The dog is mega lol
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