Weekend Discussion: Sky Flower Edition
by Chris Faylor, Jul 04, 2009 7:17am PDTWhat with today being Independence Day here in the good old United States of America, I can't help but recall the immortal words of renowned statesman William Smith, first imparted to me many, many years ago around this time: "Welcome to Earth."
In all seriousness, please do take care if you opt to partake in the traditional explosive festivities. Celebrations just aren't as much fun when they involve hospital trips.
New video game releases of 2/13-2/19
Indie Jeff's Weekly Pick: Gunpoint
Daily Filter: Mass Effect 3, Alan Wake's American Nightmare
Blizzard files opposition to Valve's Dota trademark
Twisted Metal promotion blows up Sweet Tooth's truck
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Thanks to Kanix for arranging this! He and his wife were there(I don't know her shackname), along with myself and Code RedBeard, KalLanta and BongSlayerB. We had a lot of fun and drank a lot of beer! Afterwards, we went to Bellevue for dinner and cheesecake, and KalLanta was kind enough to show us the giant Gordon Freeman statue at Valve. We should have shackmeets more often, and all you slacker Seattle people should come!
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Nostalgia owns and sucks so much at the same time :-(
DGM - The Alliance
listen to the VSMOTD and several other songs here
I just discovered these guys like 2 weeks ago and can't believe I didn't know about them before! They're a fantastic prog-power metal band from Italy and I've been listening to their latest 2 albums on repeat. I'd group them with bands like Symphony X, Kamelot, Vanden Plas, Angra etc, with crazy guitar solos, catchy choruses and a penchant for crunchy guitars, high class production and orchestral flourishes. If you are at all into metal you need to check them out.
Amazingly, they've never been mentioned on the Shack before! I hope that is about to change.
Listen to this band!
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A physics grenade toss flash game.
http://armorgames.com/play/4085/fragger
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As you've probably noticed re: my last few threads I'm having to furnish a new place myself. I have some things, but I'm missing 2 major pieces of furniture for my living room.
1. Entertainment center.
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/00105323 ???
2. Sofa.
Also ikea (yes i'm a fgt) I was thinking of just getting the standard sofa from Ikea, the EKTORP, with a navy blue cover:
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S69841037
Help. I don't want to be lame and buy shit that is junk.
hugs,
orgcaptainnemo
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Was considering just replacing the fan/heatsink since I read GT's are known for their overheating but am asking the shack if there is something out there worthy of an upgrade.
Don't want to pay more than 250 dollars. (but am willing to go a little over)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJessyuf8lA
K'plah! on the third one
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Yay or nay? Seems like Team Fortress lite, but I'm having fun with it.
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DOTT Remake. I'm calling it.
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So, when I first got the dead ringer back when it was released i didn't have any idea how to use it, and couldn't get it to work. so i thought it sucked and didn't understand how awesome it was.
So, last night I tryed the dead ringer again, because they were spy checking something awful. Holy crap it kicks ass. I kicked alot of ass with it at first, but then they caught on to me, heh. It's a very cool weapon, bordering on overpowered with someone who knows how to use it.
Though i think someone could also argue that the cloak and dagger is overpowered. Having used it alot, I'd like to see the recharge rate increased by like 15% or so.
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Does anyone know how to turn off the automatic re-sort on directory auto-updates? As in, you have a folder open and a new file is added or updated... in XP the file/dir handily put itself at the very bottom of the list, so it is really easy to see what's new or changed.
In Vista it re-sorts automatically and it drives me insane.
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http://www.brightfalls.net/news/618/
"Perhaps the biggest surprise is that Remedy haven’t spoken about the PC version of the game yet and the release of a PC version is up in the air. When asked about it Remedy replied saying that both Microsoft and them are only speaking about the Xbox 360 version at the moment."
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So I have all of these ear pieces bow though. What is the difference between the cones and round ones?
http://www.shackpics.com/files/iPhoneUpload_92f4eweu7now7fh3v378.jpg
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However, I just got given the ESCAPE quest and by god do I suck - I spoke to the dame and she gave me some key and something else, anyway, after running out of bullets and having to kill all the radscorps with the baseball bat and then killing the overseer too because bitch wouldn't give me what I wanted - what do I do now? I can't see where to go or whatever.
I'll be restarting this level so be sure to make it simple for me. :)
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They must have had like 40 cameras, and a couple of shit-hot high speed cameras too for the gorgeous slow mo shots. Such a great show, I don't know how they keep doing such great episodes time and time again.
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It's on! 20 Shackers battle for glory in round 2 of this legendary competition.
Join the public Steam Group if you want to partake in our lively tourney chat: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/Shackfighter
Brackets and other info in reply....
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GOOD:
- reliable and stable (no random freezes like in Win 7)
- don't have to worry about program/game compatibility
- I prefer the Classic theme over the Aero one
BAD:
- Windows is reporting my computer as having 3GB of RAM, not 4GB
- missing improvements in UI options and features
Despite the bad though, I can still happily live without the shininess of Win7 for a little while longer. Hopefully, Apple gets its Windows 7 drivers support right once Snow Leopard is out.
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I find myself constantly going back to base to heal up and buy another potion/homecoming stone just so i can get back in fight. Im the meanwhile everyone else is levelling up and I fall behind by like 2-5 levels in come cases.
Then mid game i'm behind in equipment and stats that I can't stand up in a fight against anyone.
Anyone got any tips?
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I just got a hard lock in Win 7 :( repeating noise, numlock dead, ping dead - proper crash :(
Re-boot machine and Windows is clever enough to recognise it failed, it's saved me a .dmp file but it's only 256kb and some kind of XML - shouldn't the dmp file be 6gb?
Normally I wouldn't be pedantic about a single crash but since I spend half decent $$ on hardware and I get crashes (like this) once or twice a year, I worry.
It is a beta OS but it's my first crash and it is new hardware :(
Anyone know how to translate the info?
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Go into the BIOS, enable it. Cold boot, same error. Shutdown, BIOS, disable execution protection (there are some troubleshooting messageboards with similar issues that suggest this. Cold boot, same problem. Download Securable.exe, sure enough it says Hardware Virtualization is "Locked off" in the BIOS, go into the BIOS, it isn't off...
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women get to wear flip flops to the office and men can't. this is not the america i want to live in.
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