Evening Reading
by Nick Breckon, Aug 10, 2009 5:34pm PDTBeen playing some pretty fun stuff at preview events recently, and we've got QuakeCon and BlizzCon back-to-back this week and the next. Seems the season of concentrated gaming goodness has truly begun.
News:
- Brutal Legend soundtrack listed: in text, and Tim Schafer video
- Mortal Kombat aiming to be king of online fighters
- Nintendo president admits to lacklustre E3
- LucasArts SNES games headed to Wii
- Halo 2 blamed for Xbox Live friends list limit
- Rumor says two new races coming to World of Warcraft
Also, remember to check out the Shacknews "Become a Fan" sweepstakes. You could win a console for clicking a button.
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
This causes some terribly frustrating accidents to occur while I'm driving. For instance, I'll be driving along chasing some dude or whatever, the game will lock up while it's loading the next section, and then next thing I know, I've hit a tree! I have tried to lessen these load times by placing SR2 on my faster hard drive and defragging (I had to use junction because this is a steam game...but that's another story), but the performance increase is minimal at best. I suppose if you have an SSD drive, you might have better luck.
In any case, the developer has announced that they will release no further patches for this awful port. The best I can do is tell you to never ever buy this game...well, unless you want to make a Duke Nukem character.
http://www.shackpics.com/files/srowdukeJPG_b09c64q23f39s1f3suk2.jpg
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You know what I hate about game reviews? When they say shit like "...and you can spot the twist at the end coming a mile away... that basically tells me there IS a twist at the end, thanks jackass.. now i know to look for one >:(
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This new thing where the Shack was changed that offtopic/stupid posts were hidden from users that aren't logged on is fucking it up.
I have code that lets me log on, which would get around this limitation but the host I use is locked down and I can't use a call in cURL (CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION) that I need to.
SO ... lol shit before the mods moderate the stupid/offtopic shit. This fucking sucks.
The other thing bugging me is that the Chrome guys changed something major and the Chrome Extension is fucking useless. I'm really tired of rewriting those goddamn scripts. pieman is doing a lot of good work, but I'm not changing a line of those scripts for at least a month in case the Google guys change their minds and bring contentWindow back.
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anyone have an invite i can have? i would love you at least until the next chatty!
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I picked up some MGD 64 because 64 calories is better than 99 or whatever is in a normal lager. Considering it was MGD I expected it to taste like piss(although it's much better than some other light beers amazingly), although I didn't realize it was 2.8%. Wtf, can you really advertise that as beer unless you're in Kansas?
So beer 5 and I should have had 2 stouts. Just thought I'd save the 2 of you that might actually pick it up some trouble since the ABV isn't listed anywhere unless you look it up.
The worst part is, I've only got a Shiner Bock and a Corona to make up for it.
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Just saw that S2 put up a tutorial on the facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1139851609771&comments#/video/video.php?v=1139851609771
So all you guys who can't tell your elbow from your asshole, this may help (but not much :P)
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It feels like we know everything about the Zune HD—except the price. Well, now we know, if Best Buy's inventory system is right: the 16GB model will go for $220, and the 32GB model will be $290.
:O that's kinda hella cheap. WHERE IS MY 64GB VERSION
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-The market for his profession is in the shitter as is the city of residence
-Not even McDonald's will hire said loser due to having a strong resume (joking about McDonalds..)
-Said loser, while having worked in IT for the last 5 years, has no experience in other fields he may be interested in.
Long and short: Overqualified, under qualified, or just generally fucked depending on what I look for.
Frame of reference: 29 year old male
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2 hours of driving ahoy!
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It seems like movies are getting longer and longer now. Before, it was 75 minutes or around 90 minutes. Bam, plot, action, conclusion, done. It was a good length, you got the essential information, it didn't exceed your attention span, and it was good.
-2 hour movies? Well, those were ok, especially movies like the Godfather, and 2 hours isn't too bad.
-2.5 hours? Those seem like the average length now, and it's at the edge of my attention of span.
-3 hours or more? That movie better be damn good.
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http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/08/05/ridley-scott-developing-brave-new-world/
Looking forward to this.
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Why? Because some friends and I wanted to play Freespace 2 coop which we did, and it was awesome.
However, now that I have this $70 joystick (Thrustmaster T.Flight Hotas X - http://www.thrustmaster.com/product.aspx?ProductID=149&PlatformID=5), I don't know what other games I can use it with.
So, Shack, what are some good recent PC games which use a joystick? I'm more of a space sim guy than a flight sim guy, but I'll take all suggestions. I'm thinking X3, but what else??
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http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/ProductDetails.aspx?product_id=74143
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http://www.slashgear.com/xbox-360-gets-exclusive-netflix-streaming-no-other-console-allowed-1151790/
They need to bring that shit to Canada.
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Just got back from Target.
I love their clearance rack! The suspicion that Monday was markdown day was correct.
The haul:
Endwar Bonus Pack w/ Bluetooth headset - PS3 - $11.47
Prince of Persia - PS3 - $7.98
Motostorm: Pacific - PS3 - $9.98
Hawx - Xbox 360 - $13.78
That was an insane deal for Endwar. I got the last one. It was originally $89.99 and the prior clearance price was $66.47.
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i finally got to see my new apartment. 804 sq ft, granite counters and stainless steel appliances, view of a courtyard with lots of sun and all around just a pretty classy, well-built place. (originally were going to be sold as condos till 2007's economy happened.)
i cannot wait to move in.
http://dahanese.com/?gallery=76
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Never heard of the series (Death to Spies?) but it looks interesting, kinda like a WWII Hitman.
And the price is right
So, beside ION, dell? lenovo? asus? sony? acer? or just buy whatever within my budget on sale?
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I didn't get a god damned thing done last night :(
p.s. It's awesome and I love you guys.
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http://www.shackpics.com/files/iPhoneUpload_z0h55r1edy1sxolv39n0.jpg
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http://www.entertainmentearth.com/prodinfo.asp?prod=1&ts=2009071501&number=GE9104
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UAMWzcNKe0
I found it on youtube, heh, what a good song, I'd forgotten all about it. Starts slow but by 3:00 it's lovely.
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I'd rather my family didn't know what I'm up to most of the time and the company I keep, just to save hassle.
I've had a look but all I can see about privacy is allowing certain information on the profile page, which isn't what i'm looking for.
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