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by Chris Faylor, Jun 02, 2009 7:20pm PDTAnother eventful day on the E3 2009 front. So eventful, in fact, that Nick Breckon and I will continue to burn the midnight oil here our in our hotel room--located conveniently across from the Los Angeles Convention Center!--as we continue to write about today's various bounties, including Dragon Age: Origins and Fallout 3's "Point Lookout" DLC.
Don't forget to keep an eye on our E3 2009 section for all the goods that the conference has brought about thus far. As for now, we're off to find some sort of nutritious edibles.
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Why am I so excited? Because doing the VSMOTD meant that I got to listen to Lamb of God all day at work while I wrote/researched the post, hahaha.
Here's an excerpt:
Where Laid To Rest is gritty, sparse and muscular, like a fight between two tough-as-nails street fighters, Blacken The Cursed Sun is like a freight train hitting a house. That final scream at 4:20 is EPIC. The whole song is epic. Also, if you just simply, for some bizarre reason, cannot stand Blythe's excellent vocals, check out Ashes Of The Wake below, which is purely instrumental and features guest guitarists from Megadeth etc.
Things to do while listening to Lamb of God
* Muscle cars off the highway while weaving in and out of traffic at 160kph, imagining that your car is an M1 Abrams Tank.
* Go to the gym and lift really really heavy weights while scowling at everyone around you.
* Clean your house WITH A VENGEANCE. That dirt will be so scared of coming back, your home will sparkle for months.
Read the rest and listen to the VSMOTD on my website:
http://www.monstunes.com/?p=178
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Good stuff! http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/02/sony-announces-new-ps3-motion-controller/
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My sweet 5 year old daughter has started saying she doesn't like people with black skin and is VERY vocal about it. Not really sure where she got this from. Nothing my wife or I or her brothers do or say would give her these ideas. A few months ago we had a child in our daycare that said his father didn't like people of other racists but it was such a non-event I can't imagine it that sparked it.
So far we send her to her room when she says anything remotely like this and tell her to say she is sorry to the person but her comments and actions are getting worse. Even her teacher has expressed concern. :\
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I exclude obvious comedy concerts like Richard Pryor: Wanted; Eddie Murphy: Raw; Any Katt Williams; Doug Stanhope etc.; I am referring to major studio theatrical plot-film releases. Here they are:
South Park Movie
Young Frankenstein
Airplane!
Naked Gun
Naked gun 33 1/3
Borat
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Pink Panther movies with Peter Sellers
The Simpsons movie (!!!)
What am I forgetting in this list? Besides most feature length Marx Brothers film? Y'all are going to answer "Grumpy Old Men" and "Trains Planes and Automobiles" and "The X-Files Movie" and "There's Something About Mary" but I am talking about GOOD comedies where you laugh more than twice.
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I have another LAN this coming weekend.
Now I need again a list of good, simple, cheap and or free games to play, demos are fine, full games are fine, mods are fine - I'd strongly prefer things withOUT a heavy learning angle, things which can be copied from one machine to another are nice without requiring an install.
Last lan, for reference.
Soldat was surprisingly popular (google it, it's a modern day abuse)
L4D was good but I fear its popularity with this crowd has diminished extensively.
TF2 was popular but can be played online
Flatout 2 is always a quick blast.
"1nsane" is really good fun
I wanted a 3D simple flying shooter and had trouble isolating one (be it eval, demo etc)- sadly they didn't seem compatible with modern OS's (XP32, let alone the Windows 7 64bit build I use now)
I found Red Baron 3D and some other package very similar - both of which simply didn't work :(
(Any suggestions on something like this? A simple mouse controlled flight game could be great)
Standard Quake 1 and Doom 2 matches will occur as will Quake 3 and they are always fun for 1 to 4 hours but it'll be a long LAN - so any suggestions would be nice - also something not requiring a monster PC.
Yes, I'm going to be re-posting this in the next chatty too, so you can't hide - make yourself useful and be the person that suggests the winning game, you'll get abrasion credits, which you can redeem for prizes.
(Previous here)
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=20063108#itemanchor_20063108
I really am hung up on the simple 3D dogfighter though - very simplistic too, Red Baron 1 was so fun.
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Here's a trailer (shakey cam) of the new Van Halen Guitar Hero.
Would like to see a cleaner version, but it looks pretty decent.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/06/02/secret-us-nuke-site.html
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People (mainly Americans) pronouncing "the" as "thuh" even if it's followed by a vowel. Since I just viewed the AvP trailer, "thuh alien" sounds stupid. It's "thee". Thee alien. Thee egg. Thuh unit. Learn to speak.
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The Sims 3 inspired me to write a review. I've never written a review like this before but I had a lot to say so I felt like writing it all down in one place was a good idea!
It's written with the specific goal of answering the question "What is new?" and after you finish reading it I hope I have answered that question for you.
I have not thoroughly proofread it yet mainly because this took a long fucking time to write and I want to take a break from it but I'd love some feedback.
Here it is in its original form:
http://greglaabs.com/2009/06/02/sims-3-review/
I will reproduce it here it in reply...
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What have I done.
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http://losangeles.craigslist.org/sfv/cas/1202646900.html
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This man is ready for the zombie apocalypse. Are you?
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This is a publicly traded company so names and other identifying features have been changed. Anyway, a friend of mine is a higher-up at this small company and they had a deadline coming up for a filing that would make or break the company. Some fucking up has occurred on the part of many people, and some computer problems transpired as well. The people spent a lot of time during the course of the weekend trying to get in touch with the admin because he's supposed to be 24/7 (and he gets 150k+ for it). Unfortunately, while he did pick up, he promptly hung up on some people. Come Monday. The guy shows up to work, people ask him to fix shit, he starts bitching that people are always asking him to do things blah blah blah. CTO drags him into office, chews him out and fires him on the spot. Come Tuesday. Half the company computers are infected with viruses including the computers which have some documents instrumental to the filing. Files get sent off to the printer and the printer gets infected as well.
I think this network admin is unimaginably fucked at this point.
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http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=20060744#itemanchor_20060744
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/goodmagazine/sets/72157618896371005/
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http://www.amazon.com/LittleBigPlanet-Playstation-3/dp/B001IVXI7C
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I'm moving to Berlin in a month or so and i'm just trying to get my stuff in order before i go!
Right now i work doing freelance web design, i make enough money from that and other side projects to survive, and i intend to keep this going when i move to berlin. I'll be working with the same clients i work with at home, so from my perspective nothing will have changed, i wont be looking for work in berlin etc... but how does this affect me legally when it comes to tax and so forth? All my payment will be going directly in to my British business account from British clients, so will i be breaking the law in germany by doing this, or am i ok? I'm planning to be there for 6-12 months if that makes any difference.
Secondly do i contact my local council or whoever to inform them i'm leaving the country? I've had trouble with the council charging me council tax previously for properties i moved on from years ago and other similar issues. Or can i just finish my tenancy here and fuck off without saying anything?
Lastly my passport is due to run out in 2010, i was hoping to replace it before i left but i'm having to travel elsewhere before I leave for berlin next month, so it would be to chancey to replace it and hope I recieved the new one in time (also don't wanna pay for the crazy fast track passport thing) Will this be a problem returning from berlin on this passport next year? As long as i return before the expirary date (july i think?) Reason i ask is some countries like the USA some time dont accept a passport as legit if there is only a couple of months to a year left on it. Thoughts?
Thanks for the help
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I asked a saleswoman last night if there was any flexibility in the price, and her response was "not really." To me, that's a yes. She said they have promotions going on right now that would get me 14.5% off the price. I'd like to get that up to 20%. Any advice on how to do that? Is it possible?
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http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/922/tlgtitle.jpg
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ATTN! MACE! and CrustaR! This isn't quite the mace comic yet, but just a little something I drew up. It's a kind of a "what if" scenario, as in what if mace and a t-rex ever met.
So here it is.
http://bluemunky.com/maceVStrex.JPG
if you can't tell he's choking himself with the t-rex's tail while he fucks it in the ass
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anp_E7fyaaU
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http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/6/3/
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My website got exploited by some asshat, I've just spent the last couple hours cleaning up the shit left behind. Basically embedded an iframe that exploited that adobe reader vulnerability a while back. On the bright side, it got me to clean out my webspace which was full of crap and set permissions to what they should be. I think everything's back on the up and up.
Can I get a few dudes to check it out and make sure you don't get any warnings about a potentially malicious site?
DO NOT CLICK THESE LINKS IF YOU HAVE NOT UPDATED ADOBE READER
http://bit-shift.com/ and http://bit-shift.com/gallery
Thanks dudes.
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