Evening O'Reading
by Alice O'Connor, Jun 15, 2009 6:00pm PDTAn increasingly large and loud group of birds is gathering outside, even though it's gone midnight. I keep expecting one to thud straight into my window, and then trouble really kicks off. Still, could be worse--it could be the working class.
- Obsidian's Aliens RPG still alive, Colonial Marines coming to DS.
- Who ya gonna call? No one, apparently. Ghostbusters lacks multiplayer on PC?
- New WoW battleground to add 80-player siege jollies.
- Street Fighter 4 PC benchmark tests your PC's capacity for punching faces.
- Court documents reveal more of Duke Nukem Forever legal battle.
Warning: PS3 firmware 4.45 crashing consoles
Dragon's Prophet preview: how to catch your dragon
Report: Respawn Entertainment co-founder left due to personal conflict
Oculus Rift secures $16 million in venture capital
Max Payne 3 slowly dives onto Mac this week
Looks like it's homeless though, totally fucked up fur and some sort of skin rash.
As I was typing this he jumped into my lap again.
http://www.shackpics.com/files/655_2381JPG_wdw44ap3zdyoqbvco4vq.jpg
Going to see if I can take it to the pound or something tomorrow. Seems like a nice cat.
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http://www.lensoftruth.com/wp-content/gallery/h2h_ghostbusters/ghostbusters_27.jpg
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Think you were able to ignore all the scientific inaccuracies with Armageddon?
Think you could just wave off all the bs with The Core?
Folks, we have a winner: ABC's "Impact" miniseries that is to air this fall
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uylcyx3Obcw
I... I just don't know where to begin how bad the science is in this.
Poor James Cromwell :(
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After some trouble last Tuesday, tonight I finally passed The Trooper and Number of the Beast on expert guitar! Also Run To The Hills & Powerslave but those are easy.
Yay!
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Blizzard Prepares Gaming Media For StarCraft II Beta
http://starcraft.incgamers.com/blog/comments/blizzard-prepares-gaming-media-for-starcraft-ii-beta/
Shacknews.com do you care to respond?!
I'm SO hard right now, SO hard!
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My progress has gone from "Not yet shipped" to "prepared for shipment". My rebel serpent came today so I guess I can play with the fake iPhone that came with the case...
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Its got two of the hottest chicks IMO, vince is awesome, and the dinner rub down scene was gold.
The bathroom scene where the cute red head does the hair flap thing in that nice outfit and that little laugh at the end that has ended up in MP3 form everywhere.
Those who haven't seen it, do so !
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Maybe. They're not the present, that's for sure. Not in any meaningful way, and it's easy to see why when you're trying to use them a lot. I'm using it for a space sim, but I think there's potential there for RTS games and other games that need micromanagement. When it works it's useful as it adds a third hand in a way that you can use to control stuff with. When it works.
We're a long way from perfect software voice recognition, that much I learned,, but here's my tiny little guide to get started anyways and avoid some of its limitations.
In reply
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I'm looking for help. No not that kind.
Basically I'm trying to figure out if there is a daily newsletter of the Biggest Sports Highlights (or whatever) that I can get delivered to my email. I suspect the answer is ESPN.com or Sporting News Magazine, but I wanted to check here. Sort of the Girlfriend's Guide to Sports or How not to embarrass your boyfriend at sporting events or whatever. I ideally need it to cover a variety of sports (Basketball, Baseball, Hockey, and Tennis) and the highlights of each. Big Games (Finals, Opens, Playoffs), Big Names (so-and-so got traded, #1 draft pick), and Big Plays (Grand Slams, No Hitters, Hat Tricks).
And the fun thing is that I don't need it for my boyfriend (who would much rather go shoot people in TF2 with me as a medic) but for work because I feel like a moron when I talk to the 2K Sports crew.
I know there are sports fans here and I'd like to avoid a repeat of this morning where I didn't know who won the NBA Finals (Go Lakers) because I hadn't been paying attention.
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There are 3 red lights.
This sucks so much. *runs out to buy an jasper unit* Hooray!.
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http://www.scifi.com/universe/
Ming-Na I liked her in ER
Robert Carlyle He's awesome in almost everything
Lou Diamond Phillips Hells yeah. LDP is OK with ME.
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who should i make and what should their traits be?
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Someone please send me a shackmessage with your email if you want it...
So when Windows7 comes out and I buy the upgrade disk and upgrade my copy of Vista, am I free to use my Vista disk on another OS or am I precluded from that due to the fact that it was used to upgrade to W7?
Speaking of which, I already employed some upgrade path trickery with Vista by buying an upgrade disk, installing fresh and then upgrading itself so I would have no problem doing that again on say, a Bootcamp'd Mac.
This seems like a plan to me.
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http://unite.opera.com/
basically a web server within the browser
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Optus iPhone 3GS plans and details.
http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/7193/img0505u.jpg
http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/7169/img0503wmz.jpg
WHOOPS?!
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16874169036
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SNOW PATROL - Make This Go On Forever
http://www.monstunes.com/?p=245
(you can listen to the recommended songs and read more here)
These guys are great. Part of the holy trinity of sappy "indie" arena rock with Coldplay and Keane. I JUST got back from seeing these guys with Coldplay, and it was AMAZING. Coldplay especially, but Snow Patrol was excellent too. Such a good show. Anyways, this song is awesome and way better than "Chasing Cars", their mega hit from a few years back. Check it out!
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What would be your "tacky film of choice" if you plan on killing some time with a movie and booze?
I fly home from work tonight and am planning to watch "The Running Man" on the flight for shits and giggles.
Got me thinking if other people love watching tacky flicks like me for a laugh.
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\o/
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I wondered if you could go both under and over bridges so I found one and the underneath of the bridge is like a brick wall:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=london&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=14.880788,41.088867&ie=UTF8&ll=51.517382,-0.1051&spn=0.010549,0.015857&z=16&layer=c&cbll=51.517293,-0.105076&panoid=X5j49R5mLANurQf8UadgvQ&cbp=12,158.98,,0,5
I am sure you are all as fascinated by this as I am!
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http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid9305148001?bctid=26157926001
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=20174960#itemanchor_20174960
Since there is no Shack e3 awards, what games that were shown are you the most excited about?
Mines are (in order):
Borderlands
Mass Effect 2
Crackdown 2
God of War 3
The Last Guardian
Uncharted 2
Scribblenauts
Shadow complex
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Weird Al doing the Doors...
Watch this:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp=31375030
Poor thing was stuck in a tube full of crap for 4 hours
/facepalm
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The old commuter is taking a turn for the worse atm and we have been looking for a sedan/wagon as a new car. We checked out the taurus/sable tonight and we really liked it. The interior room is spacious and the back seat leg room is just huge. The trunk was also a good size, we have some options though
sable 25k miles $16k
grand marquis 25k miles $15k
chrysler town and country with fold and go 48k miles 14K
So we are aiming for around 16 grand and its going to be the family hauler/commuter
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http://www.viewhotels.co.jp/asakusa/english/index.html
kinda underwhelming, seems like any other indian metro and much less lively...oh well. i'll try to post again soon. will visit a womens university in kobe and have a seminar and then back to tokyo to visit the edo tokyo museum and akiba. the rest of the schedule is not planned.
any hints will be awesome, i might hitthe kobe maritime museum wile i'm there in hyogo.
i don't know if i will be able to make it to roppongi, is it worth it if you are not really looking for any action? worth it watch the whole setup?
Like on some prebuilt computer cases - you just loosen them and the panel compes off, but the screw itself stays attached. Drawing a blank here.
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