Evening Reading
by Nick Breckon, May 29, 2009 5:07pm PDTE3 is upon us. As usual, Shacknews will be there and kicking out up-to-the-minute news blasts. Follow our Twitter feed for the biggest news, and F5 the site proper for all the glorious details.
Lots of news and media already today:
- Big robots are back in first Supreme Commander 2 trailer, screenshot
- Sheperd lives in the Mass Effect 2 trailer
- What are you doing not watching this Mafia 2 E3 trailer
- A very minimal tease of Bethesda/Splash Damage's new game Brink
- Football gets cooperative in Madden NFL 10 trailer
- The Matrix Online is finally going offline for good
- The 1 vs 100 beta starts on Monday
- A really excellent trailer for The Saboteur
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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So stuff and stuff.....in reply....
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http://s44.photobucket.com/albums/f35/jo22es/slim/
No proof, of course (this is just the write-up of someone's rumor, not sure where the pic comes from), but interesting.
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No matter how hard Valve tried to force the teamwork, it just isn't there IMHO. I felt much more teamwork in games like TFC and Battlefield 1942.
It just seems to be a sort of deathmatch even though the team aspect is highly talked about.
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2x Sony SS-CBX20 speakers with a rated impedance of 6 Ohms
KLH R 7000
I want to make a sound system out of this...but how do I go about this? I don't know what I should be looking for in speakers, inputs, etc. and if I want to plug this into my computer, do I need a certain kind of sound card?
HALP!
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1) winXP didn't recognize it and it's supposedly just drag and drop to put music on it.
2) the fucking earbuds don't play when the plug is locked into place, pull it out a little and they play fine but then they easily fall out.
Now I get to take it back tommorrow and try some other brand that allows drag and drop.
FML
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http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/8224/ps2games.jpg
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Vibram Five Fingers running shoes
eh?
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I went through all the network connections, see that my dad has misconfigured his new computer, but not something that should have made it invisible.
Turned off Windows Firewall, still no joy. I go to Norton 360, and sure enough, the Norton firewall is the problem. Turn it off and everything works fine. Even after reconfiguring the network correctly, Norton is still blocking all LAN traffic two and from the box. All it can do is surf the internet. So, I manually had to go in and make each computer trusted.
WTF. Why does it have to be this fucking difficult? There is no way that the average non-geek would be able to figure this out. As it was, it took me the better part of an hour to fix. Technically, my dad doesn't really need it because he's behind a router, but still.
Oh, also found out that all the network settings for his WWAN that I carefully set up a year ago have been wiped and his WWAN is WIDEOPEN, which means the firewalls are needed. I'm going to try to talk him into letting me reconfigure that, but now that everything is working, he's nervous about fucking with the wireless switch.
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Jay brought out all the staffs' kids that had been born since he started doing the show 17 years ago. Pretty cool interview with Cone-bone too.
I'm really looking forward to Monday.
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It is today! Haven't seen a post by med1c in a few days, so here's your reminder.
Everyone is meeting up at Coors Field on the 20th side at 4 p.m., we'll grab some Rockpile tickets then go from there. Gametime is at 6:10 p.m.
After years of talking about a CO Shackmeet we finally got one going (thanks med1c!) so come booze it up in LoDo!
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PSP Go pictures. Fun!
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10 seconds into the movie we get 3000 fps slowmotion superclose footage of the female leads vagina being penetrated by Willem Dafoes throbbing member, later in Willem Dafoe's privates are smashed with a wooden log then jerked off by the female lead with a bloody cum shot as reward, shortly after she procedes to snip off her clitoris with a pair of scissors in a slowmotion ultra closeup, which is probably one of the grosest thing i've seen on the screen this year.
So yeah probably gonna get pretty high ratings in the us :p
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My fledgling city center:
http://www.foxhawk.com/Files/Images/fledgling.png
Does anyone else have/play this game? I wouldn't mind some casual coop/sandbox.
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http://www.break.com/index/damien-walters-vaults-off-moving-car.html
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I know some .NET, enough that I could easily hold my own up to v 2.0. Past that, getting into WPF, LINQ, etc, I pretty much have no freaking idea about any of that. How do you guys keep up with this stuff? Are you allowed to use "brand new" technology in your day to day jobs and implement it in production? Are you given time at work to investigate how new technologies work and how they might be valuable to your company? I have a basic grasp on what these things are, I just have very little ambition to go out and work with them.
I bought an Apple iPhone developer kit a month or two after it was released, aside from just some fairly basic messing around and work on LatestChatty.app, I haven't done anything with it.
I find it hard to become motivated to learn things, mostly because I can't stay interested in something unless there's some sort of direction with an "end". I can't stay interested in doing tutorial after tutorial whos output is "1, 7, 18, 36", etc, and I really don't have any ground breaking ideas for myself in which to mess with new technologies.
It's pretty damn frustrating. /rant
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Fry: The less fortunate get all the breaks!
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Splinter Cell: Conviction. CG trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGejBtXAzYQ&feature=channel_page
Assassin's Creed 2 CG trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoxewgX9scQ
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Does anybody know how to fix the console-ized in-game server browser?
It really sucks having to exit the game to scan through more than 8 or so browsers at a time, or to even get a full list of available servers. Not to mention none of my favorites from the Steam server browser get transferred to the in-game browser.
Don't know why they ever changed it to be like this.
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How well have the games in the series aged? How do they compare to other adventure games in terms of puzzle design and difficulty?
What's the best versions of 2 and 3 to play?
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This show is pretty good. When I'm done with this, should I watch Torchwood?
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What does a nuclear madman have to do to get America's attention? On Memorial Day, the North Koreans detonated "an underground atomic device many times more powerful than the bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki," as my old colleagues at The Irish Times put it. You'd think that'd rate something higher than "World News In Brief," see foot of page 37. But instead Washington was consumed by the Supreme Court nomination of Sonia Sotomayor, who apparently has a "compelling personal story." ...
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/north-nuclear-america-2433505-korea-american
http://beautifulpixel.com/assets/LatestChatty2-1.swf
* Homescreen
* Remember state (really this time) for up to 8 hours in most of the common views
* Comment Search
* Messages Support (Read only for now, sorry)
* Stability Fixes (notably some youtube widgets, and thread with zero posts)
* Bug fixes
Submitted today. Look for it whenever Apple get's a round to it.
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