Evening O'Reading
by Alice O'Connor, Apr 15, 2009 6:04pm PDTDiscussing the delightful Starfy again today, octopi came up and I realised there are so very few video game cephalopods. How awful! Video games, please: more octopuses, more cuttlefish and more squid--even if I'm told a squid technically isn't an animal.
Your news highlights for today:
- Dawn of War 2 demo released, sale on Steam. This game is fantastic: try it.
- The PC Gaming Alliance loses Activision-Blizzard and gains SecureROM.
- We pony up $5 to investigate Steam selling a broken game and walk away tall.
- Sony Computer Entertainment Europe pull the ole CEO switcheroo.
- A king's ransom of Final Fantasy 13 demo videos and screenshots.
- Bionic Commando demo coming soon to X360, never to anything else.
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
OMFG HALP SHACK!
So one of my friends came over and she claimed that her favorite game was FFVII but she had never beaten it. And obviously I called her a cunt and ran to get my PSOne memory card to throw in my game which had a bunch of dudes at 99 with master materia on Cloud and own her face with some awesome end game material..
..When all of a sudden the shit said my memory card WAS OUT OF FORMAT!!
My roommate said not to re-format it because it would erase all of my shit on the card. Can I save this at all? Or is all of my PSOne data completely fucked?????Q???
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http://www.joystiq.com/2009/04/15/3d-realms-reaches-finite-milestone-no-duke-isnt-done/
I'm suprised that nobody else has said anything about this!
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http://www.firemint.com/flightcontrol/index.html
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my favourite GameBoy game evar will get a remake (japanese version this year, rest of the world ???)
why is this game awesome?
-you fight all kinds of stuff, from local wildlife to slimes, dragons, gangs, gods, ninjas, pirate skeletons to trees
-your party consists of 4 characters whichs classes you can freely choose from humans, mutants, robots (which get stronger with different equipment) and even monsters (which level by eating meat of beaten monsters and transforming into other monsters)
-you travel through a dozen different worlds, defeating banana smugglers, terrorists inside the body of a girl and of course some gods like Venus or Odin on the way
-one of the best GB soundtracks ever
first the original:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_Legend_II
and here the remake hp:
http://www.square-enix.co.jp/saga2/
some more info:
http://uk.ds.ign.com/objects/143/14313280.html
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zySU8m15mFg
I'm not sure what's going on here... but holy crap. :O
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Just saying that this is simply being overly superstitious or even OCD (Maybe this is OCD?) seems not to be enough, because I mean for example, not throwing away a certain item for fear it symbolizes something and come back and haunt you later...... to taking a certain set of roads when travelling because it won't end up in some made up disaster in your head. Stuff like that
This is very hard to explain, lol.
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Hope this is fun.
I'm outraged.
http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2009/04/jamie-foxx-miley-cyrus-should-make-a-sext-tape.html
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It's a W3 mod so I'd need that, obviously, but is Frozen Throne required? Is it possible to play single player? This link http://forums.dota-allstars.com/index.php?showtopic=8289 says no, but that post is also 3.5 years old. Is the entire mod really only 3 megs? I don't get it how do I do this :(
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http://www.shackpics.com/files/2b7063f0d074352eade67fdad0a1cb_t4ojl4a3b5wqi4tntm63.jpg
Look at dem titties.
from the LOST thread, credit to Bamtan.
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So I have this video, its a windows media movie file, its a project for school and we are supposed to hand it on hard media to the teacher this week/next week. My question is what do I need to do to put this on a cd or better yet a DVD so that it will play just by putting it in a DVD player. I tried the windows movie maker options that said "save directly to CD", and it burned the cd fine, but the CD stutters and skips and the video is messed up when I play it on my computer, and I also think its just playing the movie file off the cd, but not playing it as an actual movie, ie: sticking the cd i made in a dvd player wouldn't work.
Any suggestions on how best to to make a working DVD out of this? Thx
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I should probably rectify that.
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am i going to want to kill myself if i switch to ruby on rails? very little ruby experience and last time i tried rails i had all sorts of bullshit fun with fast_cgi.
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I used the hinsdale howto like 8 years ago on my original tivo, but it doesn't have instructions for the TiVo HD...
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Post whatever picture you've taken that YOU like the most.
I'll go first: http://fc09.deviantart.com/fs45/i/2009/104/b/7/Lead_the_Charge_by_Tombofsoldier.jpg
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Video games crash, I get random memory dump bluescreens, and I'm getting overall shitty performance.
Maybe it doesn't like my motherboard or memory - but I never had a single problem with XP.
Oh well. I guess it wasn't meant to be (yet) ... I'll either wait for something more official or until the next RC and reinstall. >:(
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I love how in the end there was a ton of callbacks to the first episode and in a way, showed that despite all the hard work and effort, nothing really changed and that the "war" on drugs is so ultimately futile due to the nature of the ridiculous lengths they need to go to in order to convict someone.
I'm all for fair trials but it seems the extent of the investigation necessary to put these guys away is beyond comprehension and likely possibility.
Also Omar rocking back into town at the very end was brilliant.
Also, McNulty ending up at Harbor Patrol was classic.
I must say I was saddened by the arc of some of the characters (in a good way, emotionally, not as in I didn't like their story), especially D'Angelo - though it was nice (if a little unrealistic) that Greggs pulled through. I can't still quite get my head around him taking 20 years at the end because he got guilt-tripped by his momma.
I promised myself I wouldn't but I immediately stuck in episode 1 of Season 2 and can tell that it's an altogether different kind of beast. Interesting set-up though it very much dropped back down to that involved and dense layering that the first few episodes of season 1 offered.
What's the opinions on S2 as it stands versus S1?
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hahahah
Inaugural Shack No Limit Hold 'Em Tournament
What?
$5.50 buy-in
$5 to prizepool, $.50 rake to FTP
Where?
Full Tilt Poker
Tournaments -> Private Tab -> Shack Tourney (not set-up yet)
When?
Friday 17th, 9pm EST
Aussies: Saturday 18th, 11am
Who?
6, so far.
randomposter, dromo5, childers87, graah, manicide, anhero
Anyone else register interest before and I'll set up the tournament tomorrow if there's sufficient interest. Probably need 9 at least to be worth it.
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