Evening Reading
by Nick Breckon, Jul 28, 2009 6:00pm PDTPlayed a round of Defcon during lunch today. Completely forgot how satisfying that game can be in small doses.
News:
- A fresh batch of Borderlands screens to check out
- Ubisoft explains Splinter Cell, Red Steel delays
- GameStop sale offers $20 deals on F.E.A.R. 2, Street Fighter 4
- Forza 3 screens feature Euro-sport compacts
- Weekly PC sales charts: Monkeys, Sims and Zombies
Chatty: Diablo III, Dragon's Dogma
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
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They sent some pictures and a DVD that are all assuredly hand-signed by Miley herself, and not a laser printer somewhere in an office building. I'm gonna put this on my resume.
XOXOX
pancake humper
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Me and a select group of friends are massive fans of Pandora Tomorrow (PC) Multiplayer. Its been a little gem for a while now that we bust out and play and have immense fun. (I'm talking of course about the Spy vs Mercenaries). Recently we were playing it and we sorta realised its quite buggy and that is holding it back quite alot.
I then found out that Chaos Theory and Double Agent have the same game mode which some how i didn't realise. And i was wondering if anybody was a fan of this game mode and had tried them all. From what i say in reviews, Chaos Theory is very similar to Pandora Tomorrow but Double Agent has changed quite a bit (they say for the worst).
Is Double Agent better than the previous ones, and if not is Chaos Theory better than Pandora tomorrow and does it fix alot of the bugs?
Which is the definitive version?!?
"You mean the light that turned green as I was coming to a stop?"
The pause here was really awkward and to not comment on it would leave something out of this story. "Well, when you come to a red light you need to come to a complete stop before proceeding."
"Even the red lights that are no longer red because they have turned green, thus signaling me to go? You want me to stop at the green light?"
There was yet another really long pause. This was a quick conversation and he never took the insurance card or license out of my hand. I was just holding it out the window at this point. I never broke his eye contact and I could see the gears turning in his head. But in the end it was "just next time make sure you stop when the light is red. Have a good evening."
"Will do, you as well."
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Sebastian - Ross Ross Ross
Listen here: http://www.monstunes.com/2009/07/sebastian-ross-ross-ross/
If you dig Daft Punk, Justice, MSTRKRFT or Danger, then you need to listen to this!
Today we will dive ears-first into the incestuous waters of the French Electro scene! Dance music as a genre has always been a little too eager with the remixes and remixes of the remixes and 4-person collaborations, but electro, while being awesome, is one of the worst sub-genres for this. Sebastian is at the dirty, pulsating heart of this musical orgy, a rising star in the world of electro and one of the premiere artists on the Ed Banger label (also home to fellow french Electrists Justice and Mr. Oizo). He’s from Boulogne, France and has released an album’s worth of original tracks and several albums worth of really crazy remixes. I say crazy because Sebastian has a very distinct and interesting sound.
It’s the kind of music you might see Optimus Prime dancing to in a club on Cybertron - Transformer Dance Music. It’s crunchy (like metal being crushed in a compressor crunchy), and glitchy and funky and rough and dark and yet infinitely danceable. Imagine a collaboration between Soundwave and zombie Michael Jackson recorded in a steel foundry and you’re beginning to get the idea. The Wiki article calls it “Futurist” but I don’t know what that means so I prefer my description. I mean, the VSMOTD even sounds like the Transformers “transform” sound effect!
Sebastian kicks all kinds of ass. I wish this is what they played in dance clubs here. I would go dancing every night.
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It's Fat Princess and Killzone time.
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I bought a new bike today. A *new* bike. Heck I've never even had a new car, this is exciting.
http://www.starmotorcycles.com/assets/content/images/600/08vstar1300_red_1_f14abba5.jpg
1300 liquid cooled V-twin, EFI, belt, 2-1 pipe, red. So hot. So far on the list I have: leather wrapped bags, bug screen. Got her for $3000+ under retail, now is a good time to buy a motorcycle.
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Still, I fucking love it so far. Running and jumping and all that shit with 4 guys shooting at you is so intense. I caught myself leaning in towards my monitor it was so intense. Definitely flawed, but it's great in spite of them.
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I've always been against big media companies, the new laws regarding copyrights and the Internet and so forth. I think privacy and freedom of speech come first, artists and content producers getting all the money that belongs to them second. Piracy is not right, but it's a much smaller problem than most of the problems the world will create for itself if we forget about the lessons learned in the past regarding individual rights.
But something isn't right on this side of the fence either. Spotify rules and I've been using it for moths now, as have most of the people I know in the IT field of business. It's a great, great service, almost all the music I could want it there, and it's free/cheap. And yet, lately I find myself listening to several of these people go on, and on, and on about how annoyed they are at the fact that Spotify advertises between the songs. We're talking about 1-2 ads every half an hour, or so. "This completely ruins the service for me", "the ads are SOOO annoying", "this is complete bullshit, fuck this service".
For 10 euros/dollars (can't remember which) a month, you get the ads removed. You also get a 320kbps stream instead of the 160kbps one. If I even so much as HINT that they could actually pay 10 bucks a month for having unlimited access to almost all the well known music in the world, they will either laugh and ignore it, or plain get upset at me. An easy to use service that offers you exactly what you need just isn't good enough if it costs even a penny. After all, mp3's don't cost a dime.
It pisses me off knowing that when I take part in discussions about legislation and piracy, a large part of the people who are "on my side" are actually pampered, greedy fucktards who don't feel that they have to pay anything for anything, and instead of actually admitting to being the greedy fucktards they are, they mask that shit with some pretentious babbling about greedy, rich media companies and their rights. And the frustrating part is that I practically agree with them, even if they themselves have no real opinion, just an excuse to take for free something that wasn't free to produce.
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Post the game you currently have installed on steam with the lowest metacritic rating. What's the "worst" game you still bother to have installed?
Mine are tied with PA Adventures and Titan Quest at 77, though I don't really play either of them much.
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Having to hear the phrase "smell my finger"
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In a long-awaited pairing aimed at taking on Google, Yahoo will handle ad sales while Microsoft gets the real prize: data on who's doing what online
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jul2009/tc20090728_826397.htm
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Seriously owned with the Pyromancer last night.
And then seriously SUCKED FUCKING MONKEY BALLS RAGEQUIT with Magebane.
Two passives, one teleport skill and a manabase nuke.
Bah.
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i would cum in my own ass and then go ass to mouth if they released Pilotwings, Pilotwings 64 and Blast Corps
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http://www.giantbomb.com/quick-look-wipeout-hd-fury/17-1087/
This game looks awesome and I don't even really like Wipeout.
also, I love Giantbomb
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I fuckin' lol'd.
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This game looks really good to me. Hope it will be!
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Ok so in Europe they have bidets - right, we all know that. However, I see many different kinds of bidet and this one puzzles me the most.
1. It's about 10" off the ground - far too low.
2. The spout is that of a bathroom sink - does not go in "the right direction"
3. You can close the tub for it to fill up with water. WTF?
Some euroshacker needs to explain this one to me because it truly seems like the worst bidet design possible.
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I've used the logitech x530 (http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/speakers_audio/home_pc_speakers/devices/211&cl=roeu,en) set for over 5 years and two missing speakers later, I think it's time to upgrade. I remember that set was $50 brand-new but that was 5 years ago.
Looking to spend a hundred bucks or so. A subwoofer is key, but 5+ speakers is not 100% necessary. Is logitech still cranking out decent speaker sets?
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OK - so, I am attempting to set up a DD-WRT that will act as a Bandwidth Limiter for traffic that passes thru it. The problem is that I don't want to use NAT - so I'm running it in Router mode. So I've taken the network that we are on and broken it down to two subnets (IP's below are examples:)
Outside Interface - 192.168.100.82/29 192.168.100.77 (gateway)
Inside Interface - 192.168.100.85/29
I have a system plugged in to it as 192.168.100.86/29 with 192.168.100.85 as the gateway. I can ping both interfaces on the DD-WRT, and the DD-WRT can ping to the internet via .77, but I can't ping from the workstation plugged in at .86 to .77 or anything on the internet. >:(
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