Morning Discussion: It's Your Birthday!
by Chris Faylor, Sep 09, 2009 7:00am PDTTen years ago, had you told me that September 9, 2009 would see me staying up super late (or early) to beat a Beatles-centered music video game (complete with plastic guitar and wireless microphone) in one go, well, I probably wouldn't have heard you.
I would've been too busy trying to convince my parents that I needed money for the just-launched Sega Dreamcast. I ended up getting a job. Ah, those teenage years, back when Sega still made consoles! Wouldn't have believed that'd change either.
Anyways Dreamcast, I just wanted you to know I was thinking of you on this, the tenth anniversary of your North American launch. Remember when we'd pull out the maracas on special occasions? We certainly had some good times, old pal.
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Nah. I would've been too busy trying to convince my parents that I needed money for the just-launched Sega Dreamcast. I ended up getting a job. Ah, those teenage years.
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This explains a lot.
Ok so how to do this.... leave a post in this thread detailing your sad story on why you want/need this free card. The more pathetic the better! I will come back here at 4pm Eastern and pick a winner.
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Tivo is Dead now... Why would anyone want to pay a monthly fee!
http://www.engadgethd.com/2009/09/09/media-center-cablecards-freed-from-oem-requirement/
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If you read his thread "Ask a Dev" it answers tons of questions and fixes that are coming to the game. Some notes, new dota items will find there way into the game, hero fixes/buffs across the board.
Pollywog electric attack will have better range (currently if u shot the melee creeps in a group it would skip the ranged one) Nymphora might finally get that buff to her second spell, Nullstone fixes across the board. Cant wait for the next patch.
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My current Win7 RTM desktop: http://i26.tinypic.com/1zh2paf.jpg
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- As I understand it, Dreamcast 2 is not an actual console, rather it's an abstraction layer that runs on multiple platforms. You boot to Dreamcast 2 via a channel on the Wii Menu, a new category in the 360 dash, or what will be the replacement for OtherOS in the PS3 (that's why it was removed from the Slim). The licensing that was needed to do this was insane.
The benefit to doing this rather than just use a multiplatform game engine is that Sega has complete control over everything that goes on with Dreamcast 2. It has its own networking service, for example, which is reportedly not quite as good as Live in its first release but far superior to what Nintendo offers and a marked improvement over PSN (cross-game voice chat, yay!)
- Jet Set Radio 3 and Streets of Rage 4 are launch titles
- Mizuguchi is helming RezurrXon and Space Channel 5 Action News Team
Any other rumors?
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i know you straight men dont care but i think this is a great move, shes a funny comedian and a huge upgrade over drunk paula
http://www.nj.com/entertainment/tv/index.ssf/2009/09/american_idol_ellen_degeneres.html
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Communist Party T-Shirt on sale for $9.00!!
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Need something to read and talk about while at work.
How are the recent shack legion members liking it? What are your dislikes?
While it doesn't look alot like EQ, it plays similarly. The grouping, the combat, the long(er) levels - combat is satisying and proceeding along slowly makes for a better sense of accomplishment in my opinion.
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Default key for voice is "b" Cliff!
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Password: shackut3
Start time: 10 PM EST.
*note: As always, 6-drink minimum. :)
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No, there's a gradient in the top of the window now. OUTRAGE!
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Seller is paying $6100 of closing costs, LendingTree Loans is telling me that the Mortgage broker I've gotten a quote with is estimating loan origination and underestimating the title charges which they don't care about because they'll just say "oh, yeah, we were wrong and now you owe this"
This is the most confuckingfusing frustrating shit I've ever gone through.
Anyone got good tips or know wtf they're talking about?
ER'd
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Seller is paying $6100 of closing costs, LendingTree Loans is telling me that the Mortgage broker I've gotten a quote with is estimating loan origination and underestimating the title charges which they don't care about because they'll just say "oh, yeah, we were wrong and now you owe this"
This is the most confuckingfusing frustrating shit I've ever gone through.
Anyone got good tips or know wtf they're talking about?
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I need something to play tonight and I am torn.
BF:Bad Company or Psychonauts ?
and yes, I know they are both different (style) games.
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We have a "wishlist" on the white board.. stuff we'd like to get here in the office. The list goes as follows:
[ ] E-SATA cable
[ ] Pens, Pencils
[ ] Wireless Keyboards/Mice
[ ] 22" widescreen monitors
[ ] Screen cleaning solution/cloths
We NEED pens and pencils in here.. Like.. need need. The 22" monitor thing was a joke because the labs here on campus got them recently. We don't actually really need them. But someone put it up there. I came in today, and the monitors has a big check mark next to it.. I asked someone and the pens and pencils "are on backorder" and we wont be getting them for a while...
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http://blog.chromium.org/2009/09/extensions-status-on-runway-getting.html - Extensions are on by default in the latest Dev Channel release, so if you're running the Dev Channel you can remove "--enable-extensions" and similar things from your command line. There were some breaking changes made at the same time, the post links to details.
I know this is a cue for comments about ShackScripts, so on those lines, I've tried to supply what help I can to pieman, ThomW and filthysock. I also made sure we have a bug in our database for the extensions team to look over our current APIs and make sure they're not insane and making it impossible to write the LOL script or something like that. Beyond that I can't really help :)
In other news, the milestone 4 development cycle (what the Dev Channel is just starting on) is going to be focused on things like crashes, memory use, sluggishness, and other polish-sorts of things. There won't be bunches of new features; we're trying to make what we have slicker and better since otherwise that kind of thing slowly gets out of hand.
Mac/Linux work is still coming along. Hopefully the folks using the Dev Channel releases of those are finding things more usable and less utterly broken over time. Mac seems to have more issues than Linux at the moment so it will still be a bit before they're ready to graduate to the Beta Channel.
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Mars Matrix and Bangai-O were far and away the two games I spent the most time with. If I had to choose, I would say Bangai-O was probably my favorite singeplayer game for the system. Power Stone 2 for multiplayer hijinks.
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Slowness as in.. 15 minutes for a 10 page document. This is a networked printer, but I figure if it's a network issue than the Word document should have the same problem, no?
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Oh wait, what about that Median XL mod? Does it add quests or anything, or does it just overhaul the classes and the mobs? Does it make the game significantly more difficult, or am I still gonna need to do the /players 8 business?
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I was talking to a friend about the largest stadiums in the world so we pull up wikipedia. The biggest is in North Korea
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rungrado_May_Day_Stadium
At the end of the 1990s, a number of North Korean army generals implicated in an assassination attempt on Kim Jong-il were executed by being burned alive in the stadium.
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