Evening Reading
by Nick Breckon, May 22, 2009 5:00pm PDTEnjoy the extended weekend, Shackers. I will be playing many a game. After completing The Last Express--highly recommended, by the way--I'm moving on to Blade Runner. I'm on a point-and-click bender. I even bought Myst for my iPhone.
News:
- Drown yourself in Heavy Rain screenshots
- New Battlefield Bad Company 2 screens, trailer
- Poison Ivy infects Batman Arkham Asylum
- Metroid Prime trilogy Wii update coming to North America
- Diablo 3 media reintroduces the Fallen
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
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I'm setting up all my shit again, including Foxit Reader... you gotta be real careful though, it asks to install 2 different toolbars and wants to make ask.com your default search provider.
The install has about 10 checkboxes you need to uncheck. As I was going down the list, unchecking boxes, the last one on the list was "Install Firefox plugin", when I unchecked that... every other checkbox in the dialog magically became checked again. Had to uncheck them all again. No joke.
Foxit is fast but I wound up cancelling the install. Do not recommend.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdoKjbKPjEc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAwCQYjr6IE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iVJP8D-DJE
You might wanna just watch the last vid, it's the last 8 minutes of the run. Oh and sorry if the quality sucks they just finished upping, should show up in high quality a bit later.
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it feels clunky. i kept getting killed and not being able to find who was killing me.
im not sure i liked the controls either.
that said i think i might try the demo again before i make my final decision.
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I would have to say AC/DC and Rush are my two guiltiest pleasures. Despite all the good music that comes out, I could easily save my money if it meant I would have enough to buy CDs from those two bands.
Right now, I'm listening to Problem Child off of the Dirty Deeds CD and I am absolutely rocking.
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Holy balls that movie was bad. It's all over the place. The dialogue is horrible. And when I say horrible I mean down right 3rd grader written screenplay horrible. The scenes cut back and forth with no real transition. Sometimes you feel like you are watching another movie entirely.
Anyone that enjoys the terminator series should avoid this movie at all costs.
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At a bar tonight, and start talking to this cute blonde girl. This super fucking stupid no-game-ugly-badly-dressed (black) guy is al l up in her friend's grill, and trying to put his arms around them before I start talkiong to them. Things go well im talking to them both while my friend talks to 2 other girls. THe black guy is fucking mad dogging me so bad it's hilarious. We chat for 30 mins or so the blonde is all touchey and so ami. things are goig well. Then her drunk friend leaves and doestn come back. The blonde is like, i have to find my friend BRB. She never BRB's. Whatever. We leave and get pizza. I come home and facebook-stalk her. send hersome bullshit message and what the fuck kind of BRB was that? Will update shyack if it works. she also invited me to some event tommorrow but I already forgot what time etc,. I found her thru first name and school.
the black guy had on this huge fake gold watch that looked like 3 compasses glued together. he kept trying to show it off. guy had no fucking clue. he was also like 30 and they are 21. guy was sooo annoying. </blog
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I bought a core i7 920 and gigabyte x58 based mainboard. I've put it altogether with 3x2Gb OCZ memory and a GTX 275 xxx (XFX). When I turn it on I get no DVI signal?
It's not power as I've got a 620watt corsair, and yes I have power going to both sockers on the GTX 275. I've tried DVI, I've also tried the DVI-VGA adapter. I've tried each of the memory modules on their own. I've cleared the CMOS multiple times. I've done everything I can think of to try isolate it but no go.
I've called up and they are coming out to replace the GTX 275, but since it will take a week is there anything else I can try in the meantime that I might have missed?
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WTF? No, I mean seriously, wtf?
I especially love how they have places where you have have to go left or right in a T junction, and in both directions you have people shooting at you with expert accuracy, so it doesn't matter which direction you're going, someone will shoot you in the back.
If they had a way of actually ordering your guys around so you could go both directions at the same time that would be fine, but they don't so they shouldn't design stupid fucking shit like that.
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US Army Will Upgrade To Windows Vista
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Holy crap!
I need to inform you all that Dahanese and Mikecyb are amazing human beings, in case you were unaware!
As many of you know, I was recently diagnosed with ALS. I arrived home last night to find a package on my doorstep. I had just received all my new PC parts from Newegg the day before and wasn't expecting anything else. Closer inspection revealed that it was from 2K Games. Hmmm, what in the world could this be and who was it from?
I brought it inside and my wife and I gathered around the box as I slowly unpacked it. Low and behold, it was a care package from Dahanese and Mikecyb! It seems Mike (the sneaky bastard) bought RE4 from me to acquire my address!
You guys and gals will not believe all the cool loot they sent me! I will get pics in a bit and post them for you all to witness my new collection of games and goodies in all its glory.
Dahanese and Mikecyb - thank you both so much! My wife and I are sincerely touched by your kindness.
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Well after explaining that to her, she said that she had always thought the phrase was referring to a "gift-horse" i.e. a horse that gives gifts, sort of like Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny. She had never liked the phrase because she felt that referring to someone who was giving you a gift as a horse was pretty rude, and why would you look them in the mouth anyway?
Otherwise, she's a pretty smart gal.
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Memorial day Madness
I can finally get Call of Juarez and Brothers in Arms for 5$
Debating on Jericho for 5...
rest in reply
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http://starbucks.mirror.waffleimages.com/files/0e/0eba642f1abf2e5dd9aac09b03f5f6def2223e68.jpg
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaMVg4vJDFA&feature=channel_page
This is the tool my friend used to make that UT3 map I posted about a while ago.
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Canon Digital Rebel XS Kit + EF 75-300mm lens for $495 - 4% Live.com cashback.
This isn't a top of the line DSLR or lens, however it'd be an excellent starting point and better than just about any point and shoot available if you don't mind the bulk.
if you've been looking, this is an awesome deal to pick one up.
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Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAvsYbhWoiU
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xGeH3zaots
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nqwfjErNvs
Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIY8T2DKodQ
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Right, so I've been running an "experiment" with the new TF2 unlock system. I've created a VAC secured listen server on my system and left myself AFK on 2fort all night while I slept. It's been exactly eight hours now and so far I've only acquired a second Axetinguisher. Prior to this long AFK session, I've also spent eight hours actually playing the game actively on different servers. In that time I unlocked another Sandvich. So in 16 hours total I have two unlocks; doesn't matter if I'm afk, doesn't matter what class I am, doesn't matter if I'm actually playing the game.
At this rate, it could conceivably take 144 hours just get all of the unlocks. I still fail to see how this is better than the old achievement system.
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For some reason my antivirus software sends an alert message every 10 minutes. How can I identify which process tries to access the evil file on Vista?
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they can kiss my ass.
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Lvl 6: http://mrc32.mybrute.com
And watch me topple this chick and her pet BEAR (WTF?): http://mrc32.mybrute.com/fight/229949724
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Dell never ceases to amaze me
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http://adac.24h-rennen.de/index.php?id=3785
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On this late night I thought I would share with you my newes't commercial that is going to run nationally on TV....
It's out early on the Interweb. :)
Got to work as Ozzy's Bodyguard. (really nice guy and can speak just fine by the way.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPp3ws8J7S8
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