Evening Reading
by Nick Breckon, Sep 16, 2009 6:00pm PDTJedi Knight tonight, I think. Or Red Faction. Or Batman. Steam is on a roll this week.
A bit of news:
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer preview
- World of Warcraft: Cataclysm screenshots
- Pink Floyd not ruling out rhythm games
- Xbox 360 250GB hard drive not being sold separately
- Star Wars Jedi Knight games arrive on Steam
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
Sadly, I stumbled on this fucking abortion of an advertisement:
http://images.roushimsx.com/MCKids.jpg
There is literally nothing right with it. From the white kid about to kick the black kid in the junk to the fucking horrible layout to the amazing use of awful 90s lingo. We need more totally rad shit like this.
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Stay away from it, Shack. I didn't think Transporter and Transporter 2 were amazing films or anything, but I was just looking to watch a movie where someone kicks ass and stuff goes boom and this was atrocious.
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http://consumerist.com/5360860/danish-government-promotes-unwanted-pregnancies-tourism
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I thought about it and the only two titles I'd really want would be Academy/Outcast. Otherwise, the rest look extremely dated & would probably look fucking terrible on my gigantic monitor. I know there is a cult following for Dark Forces series, but I could never really get in to them. I think DF 1 & 2 were good games, but they certainly didn't have as much of an impact on me as Academy & Outcast did.
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I'm on a domain server and need to connect with compmgmt to another computer which is on a workgroup.
Both computers are on the same local network.
I have the credentials to login as admin to the other computer, but i dont know how to input these on compmgmt before connecting!
Is this even possible?
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This is the guy that's going to do it: http://sailorsgravetattoo.com/
He's the best tattoo artist I've seen in my area, and he's super nice too!
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Watching/hearing Maddog play as Louis is more fun than it should be
Sorry I suck so bad guys but I very much enjoyed shooting some zombies inna face :D
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I played the Batman Arkham Asylum demo on PC last night, after about 5 miniutes, and they my screen went blank, and my comp froze up, had to hard reboot. I've had other problems as well, red artifacting in the new Wolfenstein, new Wolverine game, pretty much any graphics intensive game. Only games that work 100% okay is Valve games (TF2 L4D etc) and HoN. It is starting to piss me off.
Hardware:
BFG 8800GT @ stock (w/ Zalman cooler - might have fucked me on the warrenty :S, also there are a few devices on the card that I needed to put extra heatsinks, which I did but some fell off :()
Q6600
help :(
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http://www.smashingpumpkins.com/pages/news/announcement-from-billy-corgan-about-new-smashing-pumpkins-album
one song at a time is kind of lame, though.
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I think I just got a Facebook virus. There were taskbar exectubales like freedy(something).exe. I deleted fles that popped up with hijack this.
Now I still have internet but most sites don't work and AVG updater or S&D can't search for updates for some reason? Any ideas?
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alexxxxxxxdude i'm looking at you.
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This sucks.
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http://niemann.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/14/good-night-and-tough-luck/
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090917/ap_on_re_eu/eu_eastern_europe_missile_defense
PRAGUE – President Barack Obama has decided to scrap plans for a U.S. missile defense shield in the Czech Republic and Poland that had deeply angered Russia, the Czech prime minister confirmed Thursday.
NATO's new chief hailed the move as "a positive step" and a Russian analyst said Obama's decision will increase the chances that Russia will cooperate more closely with the United States in the dispute over Iran's nuclear program.
Premier Jan Fischer told reporters that Obama phoned him overnight to say that "his government is pulling out of plans to build a missile defense radar on Czech territory."
"The same happened with Poland. Poland was informed in the same way about this intention," Fischer said.
He said Obama assured him that the "strategic cooperation" between the Czech Republic and the U.S. would continue, and that Washington considers the Czechs among its closest allies.
In Poland, officials declined to confirm Fischer's remarks, saying they were waiting for a formal announcement from Washington.
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"The United States is reckoning that by rejecting the missile-defense system or putting it off to the far future, Russia will be inclined together with the United States to take a harder line on sanctions against Iran," he said.
Czechs and Poles, along with some other Eastern Europeans, have complained of what many perceive as neglect by the Obama administration.
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The decision to scrap the plan will have future consequences for U.S. relations with eastern Europe.
"If the administration approaches us in the future with any request, I would be strongly against it," said Jan Vidim, a lawmaker with Czech Republic's conservative Civic Democratic Party, which supported the missile defense plan.
Dumb motherfucker, this will certainly piss of the poles who have a history of seeing the west betraying them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_betrayal#The_Phony_War
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- Already got an iPod Touch with my email engraved, so can't really sell it on (can you get it polished out?)
- I'm out of contract, but fucking hate how it's 18 month iPhone contracts, yet the phones are refreshed every year.
Did anyone just end up buying a contract free one? What do you guys do when the inevitable upgrade rolls around, just skip each second time? Sell it on? What?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIQC8CKQKn8
I gotta get this again on XBLA and get 212% completion again.
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Probably banned due to the characters being less interesting right abrasion? lol.
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found my x360 hddvd drive, now i can almost watch those hddvds i bought in the usa.
except, i haven no idea where the power supply is :(
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I'm using it to backup three audio CDs to my hard drive. Once it's done, I label/rename the files and then move them into a completely different directory.
When I do this to the next CD, it insists on going out and finding the files I had previously renamed (from the previous rip), moving them BACK into the original output folder, and renaming them BACK to what they started as. Then I have to spend twenty minutes figuring out which "01 Unknown Artist Track 01.wma" is the first CD and which one is the second CD.
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What is a good but cheap thing I can drink that with soothe my throat, and maybe even help me cough less. Someone I know suggested tea made with Thyme, but I'm looking for other suggestions.
>:(
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While it was a stupid-funny movie, with the pacing of a video game, I was laughing my ass off through almost the entire thing. It did go a little too far with the King of Monsters BS at the power station though. My wife didn't know why she agreed to put this on her queue - and I subsequently reminded her that this was payback for making me sit through Danceflick.
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wow, definitely something to strive for...
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One last thing, Ubuntu makes OSX 10.5 look like a retarded sloth when it comes to OpenGL performance, especially if you have the sadistic habit of trying to play games in OSX like I do. Snow Leopard is even worse due to some opengl driver regressions apparently. Tack on the ancient driver Apple uses and you get poop performance from an otherwise almost perfect OS :(
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Looks like all your crazy censorship of video games is working! Well done!
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/09/17/germany-ax-attack017.html
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I can honestly say, I don't like it in the can...or any other way for that matter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBBcZjxd-bk
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