Evening Reading
by Nick Breckon, May 15, 2009 5:00pm PDTPlayed a decent amount of Killing Floor, the zombie survival mod-turned-retail game from Tripwire. It certainly still feels more like a mod than a retail game, but I sort of like it with the right group of people.
I do wish that you could build actual barricades in both this game and Left 4 Dead. I have a gaming fetish that can only be sated by piling random objects in front of a door and playing hide-and-go-shoot. This explains my intense love of Resident Evil 4.
And the nominations for Most Interesting News of May 15 go to:
- Activision, for new Guitar Hero 5 details
- Activision, for Tony Hawk features full-scale skateboard controller
- BioWare, for new Mass Effect 2 trailer
- Take-Two v. 3D Realms, for more pre-trial craziness
- Valve, for TF2 Spy update shenanigans
And the winner goes to.. Valve. A truly brilliant twist on an already entertaining marketing campaign.
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
Or at least that there were enough episodes till Lost came back on.
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It's entered into the Make Something Unreal contest. It's VCTF and it's a blast to play. The hook is that you can shoot the glass in the walkways and you can turn the energy bridges off by shooting the control panels and turn them on by touching them. Or just use the "use" key on them, but shooting them allows them to be shut off at a distance.
http://www.fileplanet.com/200345/200000/fileinfo/VCTF-HangingGardens
I'll post non-FP links tomorrow. I think this map has a good chance of taking some prizes.
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I've been posting away in the MD like a doofus. Seems like we've got a few guys who think they can be the neighborhood bullies trying to throw their weight around. Let's see if we can't gear up and teach them a thing or two.
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The iphone is the most intuitive electronic device ever created. I'm not saying "best," but if you gave it to someone who's never seen a computer they'd "get" it.
Case in point: my two year old son.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9GZRXevbps
When using our home computer he doesn't "get" it. He doesn't understand why you have to use this mouse thing, and why he can't find which apps he wants to launch. He's learning the keyboard quite well, but for some reason the whole idea of a mouse to manipulate things on a screen just doesn't jive with his brain yet.
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Meet Dug:
http://www.cgexplorer.com/2009/05/04/trailer-up-meet-dug-the-dog/
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except deadly shadows
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I need some help with my PS3, I don't know what the fuck!
MKV files seem excessively quiet on the thing, they work fine but I have to turn my amp 'up' to 20 (99 is almost silent 1 is loudest)
My TV stations, Xbox 1, PS2 are all quite comfortably loud around the 40 to 60 mark on the amp but the PS3 is quiet as fuck when playing back movies.
Am I doing something wrong here? What's the dealio?
(Why the hell is it backwards anyhow? Why is 0 loud and 99 quiet?)
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Come and get you some!!!
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Collage students turn a dorm building into a 4 color display that plays games
http://www.dailymotion.pl/video/x99pe6_piwo-3-potezny-indeksowany-wyswietl_school
It starts with 'music videos', check out the song at 14:30, Games start at 20 minutes in
project page (in polish) http://projekt-piwo.pl/ from http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/15/164239
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or is it fake
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Apparently we both were moaning and saying "OHH GOD THAT FUCKING HURT" and then fell back asleep for another hour or so after it happened. I don't remember that part, I just remember waking up and then immediately being knocked unconscious again. Is there a name for this phenomena? SLEEP BUTTING or something?!?
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If you are on a secure site (https), and you download a file from it, can your ISP register the names of the files you are transferring, or does it really work like a sort of VPN where no one can see any of the traffic requests between you and the server?
An easy example is a secure banking site where you can download your account records as a PDF.
For background: at my company we deal with a lot of very sensitive information that is prone to industrial espionage. We have an https service we can use to download files from work into our laptops if our VPN keyfobs are lost. Some files you could download have the actual names of very confidential projects in the filename. Just wondering how truly secure that stuff is.
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I started playing the other day and am pretty horrible I promise. You're sure to win!
http://www.wgt.com/members/Degenerate/default.aspx
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GEGTIK VS ME
Serious Business.
-First Match: His Abel, My Ryu.
I blitzed him early, absolutely destroyed him first round. He learned. He came back and beat me the next 3 rounds straight to take match 1.
-Second Match: As promised, Dan VS Dan.
I win 3-1, it was a fun match, the best round occuring in round 2, where he was thrashing me badly, only to have me come back with several unanswered attacks, only to fall short.
-Third, and Deciding Match: His E. Honda, My Ryu
I wanted revenge for my poor showing in the first match, telling myself that I had simply gotten comfortable. I win the first round competively. He wins round 2 competively, and destroys me round 3. I switch my game to be more actively defensive and keep him at a distance, and I take round 4. Round 5 is an epic battle where neither of us want to give an inch. We are all over the stage, dodging, sticking a quick attack, countering, dodging the whole round. We are both almost dead, and I throw an ex fireball that knocks him out of a torpedo, and we both go in and try to crossup, we both miss and fall back to our sides again, and TIME OVER
Your winner, by a sliver, AROUNDTHEFUR1380!!
Goddamn was this a tough match. I expect to see him again in the finals, if I can keep winning.
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Have I just found a new Windows 7 feature?
I swear, in Windows XP if you re-boot the machine with your USB HDD unplugged, then plug it in after boot it will not give it a d$ or f$ or whatever share - is this my imagination or not?
I have $ shares for all my drives under Win 7, even one I definitely know I plugged in this afternoon and I haven't re-booted since, I think.
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If what I hear is true, my face will be melted clean off. Shack alerted.
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Wario Ware: Smooth Moves.
What. The. Christing. Fuck. I think I have ADD now.
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So far, I'm playing this, my wife is playing it, and all 3 of my kids are playing it (4, 9, and 9). I have definitely played worse MMOs. For example, Chronicles of Spellborn is much much worse. I can't believe I just wasted 30 minutes doing the tutorial and wondering around the starting area in that game. Ugh, it's like a 13 year old just discovered heavy metal and wrote an MMORPG script. So terrible. The voice-overs are cringe inducing.
On the other hand I haven't found anything to hate in Free Realms except that not everything is free. It's awesome that my 4 year (that has just started reading) can play by himself and have fun and be completely safe.
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Now when I watch Hot Fuzz, all I see is Scotty. I thought all I would see is Nicholas Angel in Star Trek but nope, the exact opposite.
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- is it worth keeping?
- are there any must have apps for it?
My initial thoughts are that it seems ok but I am thinking I should try and switch it for a more modern one. What do ppl think?
What is everyone at in championship mode? I have about 1800 GP and hopefully will get to G2 tonight. That is with about 12 champion wins and 15 runner-ups.
Here is a good video describing all of vipers useful and worthwhile combos - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRHCC5aBeD8
360 Bracket - http://www.bracketmaker.com/tmenu.cfm?tid=322286
PS3 Bracket - http://www.bracketmaker.com/tmenu.cfm?tid=320951
also paging MeenMunky - need to schedule our shit
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