Evening Reading
by Nick Breckon, Aug 17, 2009 6:00pm PDTDidn't get your fill of Blizzard news today? Get ready for BlizzCon. It starts Friday. I'll be there. Diablo III, too. Mmm.
News:
- StarCraft 2 craziness: Singleplayer preview, video/screens, expansion talk
- Serious Sam HD trailer
- The Demoman encounters the Darkest of Days
- For your consideration: Shadow Complex
- Silent Hunter 5 announced
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
First of all, thank you to everyone for making this an epic QuakeCon for me...you are seriously a great group of people.
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The time is now, show your support of S2 Games and pre-purchase HoN for just $30 today. By purchasing your full account today you’ll receive the following:
· Reserve your Beta Nickname and Account
· Ability to Taunt in Game
· Special In-Game Icon
· Unique Chat Name Color
· Beta Invites for your friends
What are you waiting for, you know you love the game, so buy today:
http://www.heroesofnewerth.com/purchase_pref.php
Thank you for your continued patronage and support,
Maliken
S2 Games
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IP: bf1942.shackbattles.com
Make sure to update your punkbuster.
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I have been trying to download the 3.0.1 update but due to my crappy wireless net connection iTune gets a connection error and then throws away whatever it had downloaded. Why iTunes doesn't resume is beyond me.
So... are there torrents of the official 3.0.1 update or (unlikely) does apple provide http downloads of the update so I can get my browser to resume once it cuts out?
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How do I do this?
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So what the fuck is causing this? Are the parts in my computer wearing out? Is there a parasite living inside my computer slowly eating at it? Should I upgrade? Should I overclock my parts? Am I imagining things?
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oh yeah, the IP 68.142.120.162:27015
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I beat Halo for the Xbox using my feet only.
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http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sJmpiYbaE9E/SnuFYO_LXII/AAAAAAAAA7I/KmLvkka5kxE/s1600-h/BSGthePlan_3D.jpg
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Yeah, fuck you Cryptic.
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I know tons of people like to reference this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8F5YSA1Oz0
and this
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2009/06/more-on-attack-attack-crabcore-explained.html
as the worst songs ever, but I hope that this song can compete with them as the worst song ever, plus it's a cover!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LRKw_eLSko
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(still had a picture of the PS3 fat tho)
The 299$ is obviously the better deal.
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I just got home and see that I missed the thread from earlier today on The Guild music video. As some of you know, I shoot mainly commercials and music videos for a living. Felicia Day is a friend of mine and asked if I wanted to help her out on on this video that she wanted to do, I said sure. It was super low budget; me and most of the people involved were doing it for free, Jed Whedon the director also wrote the music (he also did the music for Dr Horrible), all the gear and the stage was donated, etc etc.
I come home and see that this weird indie comedy video is #1 video on iTunes. WTF? I've worked on projects for major artists with major label push behind them and they don't even come close. Two of my favorite videos from the last two years( http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=51841276 and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKz-RXSeIYA ) both barely cracked the top 25. I think the last thing I did that was #1 was a Katy Perry video from a while ago, maybe a Beyonce video briefly.
Anyway, the power that Felicia Day and Joss Whedon has over the internet nerd hordes is mighty, mightier than I'd have thought.
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http://www.sltrib.com/justice/ci_13146563
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The other week some friends and I were able to secure some interviews with several of the bands playing in this years Mayhem Festival. Our other buddy allowed us to borrow his HD cameras so we decided to put all the interviews on video.
http://www.swigged.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=427:swiggedtv-rockstar-mayhem-festival-2009
Bands include: Black Dahlia Murder (awesome interview), Bullet For My Valentine, Behemoth (another good one, imo), Trivium, Cannibal Corpse, Killswitch Engage, Whitechapel, and All That Remains. I've been doing the site thing on the side for about a year, but this is our first time trying to do anything in video. Obviously, there's room for improvement, but hey, I feel for our first time the results weren't too bad.
Let me know what you guys think. Figured the fellow shack metalheads would enjoy 'em!
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I got a link from Passwird.com and configured this for 1100 bucks. What do you guys think?
https://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/shopping/cart_detail.do?pageLink=true&bvLoadCart=1&action=add&disp_msg=0
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In today's Dev Channel release (build 201, the first build in the version 4 series), we've included Bookmark sync, available behind the "--enable-sync" command-line flag. Update, add that flag, and go into the Options to configure, and you can have multiple different computers all syncing bookmarks automatically via your Google account. Unlike Weave or XMarks, this uses push notification rather than polling, so your changes should be mirrored to all your machines pretty close to instantly.
For the open-source zealots, the sync protocols are all open-source, so it's possible for somebody to build a non-Google bookmark store.
Amusingly (to me), this release means we now have a different major version in every channel: the Stable channel is on version 2, the Beta channel on version 3 (which we've started stabilizing but will need some more bake time before going Stable) and the Dev channel on version 4.
While we haven't published a roadmap, I can say that, as ever, our priorities continue to be Mac, Linux, and extensions. Furthermore, we're concerned with the amount of jankiness (sluggish UI), memory issues, polish bugs, etc. that have crept in to the codebase since we stabilized version 1 8 months ago, so during the version 4 lifecycle I think we'll be spending a lot of time on those. Hopefully, that will mean that while there won't be a ton of new features popping up for a bit, the browser overall will get faster, smoother, and more stable.
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I used to use AVG, but they've become bloated in the past year. I tried the Avast demo, but it really slowed things down and was annoying to use.
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I need your help deciding which one to get. I've been looking at all the Fanatec wheels, but not sure which one would be best. If I had a 360 I would obviously pick the 911 Turbo S wheel. However, since I plan to use it for a PS3 480$ seems like a lot of money (it comes with the fancy clubsport petals)...
I've been looking at the GT3 RS wheel that they make and comes with the same petals. It's 299$, which sounds much more appealing, but they don't guarantee PS3 support, so I'm not sure.
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http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c2a_1250557996
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8206280.stm
Were pretty much fucked
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Yesterday, a grade 11 volunteer for my computer camp was telling me that we should use SSH tunneling to get past the firewall at work, and I didn't know about it. I'd been using VNC to remote to my home computer to Shack.
I was like: "Whoa, do I feel like an old man when the kids are telling me about how computers work."
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here's how the meeting went: hey guys, remember how much you hate it when some kid kicks your chair every once in a while... well picture this: an entire plane full of people effectively all kicking the chair in front of them for the entire duration of the flight!
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Because you louts don't read the front page, I thought I'd drop a line that CCP is making a console MMO-FPS set in the EVE universe: http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/60030
You're welcome, punks. This is your cue to start Internet spaceship drama.
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