Evening Reading: Oh, Glorious Evening
by Chris Faylor, Sep 15, 2009 6:00pm PDTAs the work day draws to a close, I must finally tackle the conundrum, I've been trying to avoid for hours: Scribblenauts, WET or It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season 4?
Instead of deciding, I'll procrastinate a bit longer by rounding up today's news:
- Activision CEO reveals plan to "take all the fun out of making video games."
- Next DS Zelda gets a release date
- Spawn Labs unveils Slingbox for console games
- Zuma's Revenge demo brings froggy joy
- Skate 3 coming in May 2010
And oh, what the heck. Stay tuned for a new Borderlands preview here in little bit.
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
Mine : Porcupine Tree
I just discovered this recently since they are closely tied to Opeth
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Do you comment your code as you write it, or do you go back and do it later? (Or, do you comment at all? Shame on you, if not!)
I find even when I have my design and code laid out already, I make on-the-spot tweaks and spot changes as I'm writing, which means that any comments I write might become out of date and I end up rewriting them anyway. So, I usually get my code to the point where I think it is structurall and functionally stable, and then I'll run through it all again and add the comments. I think this also helps me make sure everything is where it should be and refreshes how it all works in my head.
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http://www.akinator.com
So far it's guessed 3 out of 4 right.
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I picked it up after work and I've been having a blast so far. Some of the challenges on world 1 are pretty tough. I can't seem to get past level Action 1-7 for some reason. There is no way around it.
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Someone on AR15.com posted a Barrett M99 50BMG for sale, and I was tempted to buy it, but there's no range nearby with enough space to make it worthwhile and I don't want to spend upwards of $4 per shot.
I think I'll get a fancy gun safe and a nice Denon receiver & speakers. It seems I just missed some awesome labor day sales, but I'd like to find a good deal on the Denon AVR-1910 if anyone has any leads.
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Maarten and I are happy to report that the Legend of the Green Dragon Mobile app for iPhone has been released (finally):
http://linktoapp.com/green+dragon
Since the LoGD pages are too wide for the iPhone and require much zooming around for comfortable dragon slaying on the go (and also because we were hurting to mess around with iPhone development), we decided to create an app to remedy that.
The beauty is that no modifications are necessary server-side, so it should be compatible with many of the customized LoGD version (given the layout is the same as the Jade skin's) on any server using any language.
We parse the HTML pages and rip out the central view to display it. We moved the navigation actions into an action picker (the "wheel" you see when selecting a drop-down-menu option on a webpage) and bring up a view with your stats on request.
We would like to thank our testers and RoboticPuppyEater for their help. Make sure to use game server www.shackbbs.com to play with/against other shackers!
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I recently purchased all of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series signed by the author.
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I was selling my netbook on eBay, specifically stated that it did NOT have OS X installed on it, but that it was capable of running it... 3 days into the auction and it got removed:
The listing was removed because it violated eBay policy.
The rights owner or an agent authorized to act on behalf of the rights owner, Apple, Inc., notified eBay that this listing violates intellectual property rights. When eBay receives a report of this type of violation, we remove the listing to comply with the law.
Only copyright owners can copy, distribute, perform, or publicly display their work. eBay doesn't allow sellers to list unauthorized copies of copyrighted works, even if they're unpublished. Unauthorized copies include (but aren't limited to) backup, pirated, duplicated, or bootlegged copies.
I suppose maybe if I relist it without saying "OS X"?
Pathetic.
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http://gameaxis.com/across-the-border-borderlands-character-skill-tree-on-one-page/
Man there is some awesome stuff in there. Uh, spoilers obviously.
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http://litestep.net/
i installed it like a decade ago in my teenage years and i'm thinking about trying again. i mean it must have come a long way in that time.
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I'm all for new ideas and giving them their due, but the controls are really hindering what could be one of the greatest games of the year. Fuck.
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http://beanbuttons.com/image/hat.jpg
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9nVENReGBY
the first one if you haven't seen it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVlGm-s7Lz8
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http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a39_1253040480
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and yayfordesktops doesn't have everything 1920x1200...
suggestions? need a great wallpapers site :D
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$16 shipped for a 8GB kingston datatraveller is a good deal and I recommend snatching it up!
http://accessories.dell.com/sna/sna.aspx?c=ca&cs=cadhs1&l=en&s=dhs&~topic=eandapromotion4&dgc=AF&cid=3881&lid=77903&acd=CAqD7bLWUPI-sg1g6rtbj62IJnlJVtDF1g
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I searched but couldn't find anything but has anyone seen this?
http://www.starwarsinconcert.com/
Star Wars in Concert!
Looking to write a blog, which interface is best? Looking at Blogger, Wordpress, etc. Any suggestions or hilarious personal anecdotes are appreciated.
As always, thanks for the time.
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when i first started coming here, i was a skinny high school junior (or sophomore, i forget)
now, i'm married, two kids, a house, got a crappy little software consulting business, and a cat.
lots of stuff happens in 12 years i guess.
mmm beer
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Hopefully you've heard about Warlock's Cincinnati shackmeet:
http://www.shacknews.com/shackmeet/events.x?id=6422
May I suggest another venue? Next weekend is the 20th Annual "World Chicken Festival" celebrating Fried Chicken and Colonel Sanders!
http://www.chickenfestival.com/
Here a taste of some of the fun events planned:
Red Neck Games ---- NEW!!!
6:00-8:00 pm Friday
SANDERS COURT STAGE
Watermelon/Pumpkin seed spitting (for distance and accuracy)
Spam Eating (time trials and consumption)
Toilet Lid Horseshoe
Redneck Joke Competition (Audience participation)
Armpit Serenade (Song recognition)
Bobbing for Pig's Feet (Contestants should be blindfolded)
Burping Contest (Length of burp and song content)
Corn Shucking Contest (Timed event)
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I dozed off for a split second at my desk, then startled myself when I woke up and spilt coffee all over my keyboard/pants :(
I blam HoN for keeping me up and making me tired.
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http://improbable.com/2009/09/16/guardian-column-174/
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