Evening Reading
by Nick Breckon, Jul 17, 2009 6:00pm PDTThat Rock Band Network is destined for some hilarity. Couldn't be more pleased with the idea.
News:
- Mafia II walkthrough has 15 minutes of gameplay goodness
- Braid creator is making a new "puzzle-exploration" game
- MTV launching Rock Band Network, where anyone can create and upload tracks
- Call of Duty: World at War 1.5 patch released
- Some decent weekend deals out there
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
Roger Ebert had this to say about this very entertaining film:
"Knowing is among the best science-fiction films I've seen -- frightening, suspenseful, intelligent and, when it needs to be, rather awesome."
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http://www.shackpics.com/files/iPhoneUpload_htr94oqnnlt7t53agd5m.jpg
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I'm not very good at this game yet, but I'm working on it, and I've shown improvement. But once people start talking in the fucking shack channel about no feederz lolz and shit like that, I'm done. If I can't learn a game with shackers, where the hell am I supposed to go? I had really hoped that playing with shackers would supersede the BURNING DESIRE TO WIN b.s. that this HoN/DotA thing seems to bring out in people, but I guess I was wrong.
I highly recommend that nobody should try this game if they're new to it. It really brings out the worst in everyone, and I don't know why.
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His next single as part of "Internet Leaks" is due Aug 4th. JibJab is doing the video for it and released this teaser image:
http://blog.jibjab.com/2009/07/17/new-weird-al-video-drops-august-4th/
Which pretty much confirms a White Stripes parody - or at includes part of one. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Get_Behind_Me_Satan.jpg )
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Cool stuff:
-Fast levelling if you level in the right areas. In the last 5 hours I went from 39 to 43, got my mount, and am kicking ass when not being ganked.
-Mature slant to the mmo formula -- dialogue is much more mature then the typical MMO, and occasionally you'll get to see boobs.
-playing the currently most op class in the game is pretty fun. Some level 40 tried to gank me when I was about 34 and I beat his ass into a soggy paste
-fun quests, nice artwork imo, some fun raids even in your 20s/30s/40s
Bad stuff:
- non-seamless (seamfull?) world. Sucks being in Zone D and having to go to Zone C to get to Zone B to get to Zone A which is where you really want to be
- bugs aplenty
- idiot community
Anyways, if you have no games to play and are bored, you should resub for a week. I'm in the SA guild on Tyranny, send a tell to Sordloth, I can hook you up with some money or something.
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The spelling mistakes in the workout steps have me a little worried, but other than that it looks pretty solid. The cardio log looks especially useful.
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http://rationreality.com/2007/09/25/the-chicago-bulls-logo-robot-alien-menace/
mind = blown
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http://www.gametrailers.com/video/episode-66-invisible-walls/52900 (starts at around 07:14)
The singleplayer sounds awesome.
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We're both so happy to get the place but now we're incredibly poor! Yay for the great Australian dream
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Blarg, Hincapie led out a 9 minute charge today and missed yellow by 5 seconds or less.
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lol, that kind of takes you back to 19422002, doesn't it?
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So, recently ChibiJosh had a game giveaway thread with a ton of VIDYA GAEMS (whadda ya know about THEM vidja gaems??) up for grabs! For free!
Needless to say I was extremely surprised at the War is HELL(afun) package and asked for it.......
The good Josh giveth, and the good Josh... giveth?
Pictures of the spoils!
http://i30.tinypic.com/qnp5cx.jpg
http://i26.tinypic.com/2qnmotd.jpg
Thanks ChibiJosh! I will make sure to dedicate many frags in your name!
I've started this up so that we can all keep track of when we all arrive, where we are partying, and other related festivities like the LA Shackmeet the weekend before.
http://tiny.cc/UJ58W
I've updated it just now, but if you want some info on there, Shackmessage me - If you're flying in, let me know what time, preferably what flight, and which airport. There's like 4000 in Dallas for some reason.
Mods please re-inf. ER'd. The Breckon giveth, and The Breckon taketh away.
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so ive been playing a DK on proudmoore (bloodlust PVE server) as alliance and i finally am able to get to dalaran and shit now. im starting to collect stone keeper shards because i want to make another mage. an alliance mage
is gnome the way to go? my toss up is between gnome and human. human for the extra trinket slot and diplomacy and extra stealth detection. gnome for escape artist, +5% int
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I would like to take a moment to talk to you ladies and gentlemen about a game called Crysis. This game came out roughly 2 years ago and at the time it ran fairly well on most mid-to-high end computers but the public perception was that it ran like ass on everything because some retard with a Voodoo 2 couldn't run it. Anyway, the game is awesome and by now most of you probably have the hardware to pee in its mouth and make it like it. You should really play it if you haven't.
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http://www.amazon.com/Programming-C-Building-NET-Applications/product-reviews/0596006993/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1
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One of the greatest sketch comedy groups.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxMrWSTlvgg
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Disclaimer: Don't bother with the game if you're new to DotA and don't enjoy being harassed constantly by all the elitist douchebags.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMQcnpbBlEo
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When the time comes to install Snow Leopard, I want to do a fresh install and back up just a few of the things I use and cut a bunch of apps and stuff that I don't (i pretty much downloaded a ton of stuff when my mac was new and the "ooh shiny" effect was in full force)
Other than time machine, is the easiest thing to do just to back up the app from the Applications folder?
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http://rock_elf.shackspace.com/gc_ps2_games.jpg
http://rock_elf.shackspace.com/sotc.jpg
I started ICO yesterday. Thanks for the hype shack; this is a lovely little game. It looks terrible on my HDTV (is it even at 480i?), but somehow beautiful as well. I'm 3 hours in, so I guess that's about half-way. Short and sweet, just what I like.
After this, it's on to Shadow of the Colossus and Pikmin 2. I haven't played Metroid Prime 2, but I think I'll give it a miss. MP1 was incredible but exhausting. I'm not sure I have the nerves and stamina for another one.
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Anyway, will the 3D Realms mess affect Prey 2? Sorry if this has been done 100x before.
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Crowe told The Associated Press on Friday that a script based mostly on the eleventh novel of Patrick O'Brian's 20-novel series, The Reverse of the Medal, had been written, but that discussions were at a very early stage.
http://movies.yahoo.com/news/movies.ap.org/crowe-considering-new-master-commander-movie-ap
That would be sweet!
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As someone who didnt think he was that out of shape, I have to say that it really took it out of me. I am excited to keep going through with this.
Is anyone using the 1.99 couch to 5k ipod/iphone app? I have a 1st gen ipod touch and it wouldnt play any of the audio alerts. I havent messed around with it any more, but maybe its because i started my music before the session? anyone else run into that?
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/1940s Honk
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Alright so I found a nice professional camcorder on Craigslist for a fairly cheap price (about $100-$200 less then they go for on eBay), we had a couple emails back and forth, I mailed my money order. He received it and acknowledged receiving last Friday and said he had one of his employees mail it out on Friday the 10th. He sent one email on Tuesday to me saying I should have it Wednesday and that he'd be out of town until Friday night filming a movie.
It's Saturday now and still haven't gotten the camcorder and the 2 emails I have sent since Tuesday have gone unanswered, in addition an email I sent last weekend asking for a tracking number went unanswered. His Verizon hosted site (the ones you get through your ISP) looks to be deleted. So I checked his domain registration information and his film company's domain expires on the 30th of this month. It's tied to the same address that I mailed the money order so I'm assuming that is where he lives currently. I checked on my space for him and his film company my space account hadn't been logged into since last summer, but his personnel account got logged into yesterday.
I don't know if I am overreacting as I have been really excited to get this particular camcorder for a while now, but doesn't it seem a little sketchy? Any ideas on how to proceed? I guess the timing just sucks because I'm starting principal photography tomorrow on a film that I'll be submitting to the Maryland Film Festival and I really feel like it could be my El Mariachi
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