Morning Discussion
by Alice O'Connor, Nov 13, 2009 6:00am PSTWere my concentration not cut open, stuffed with cotton wool and sawdust, sewn back together, arranged into an amusing pose and locked away in a glass and mahogany display cabinet upon the mantlepiece of some trigger-happy lout, I would say something about how I really would like to see better closed captioning in video games. Mm.
Today being Friday, there's a fair chance you will have more free time over the next few days. Won't it enjoy, do it? But mind not to go overboard with the fizzy pop and sweeties.
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
Minecraft for Xbox 360 dev working on 'Adventure' update
Demon's Souls servers extended again
Resident Evil: Chronicles HD Collection coming in June
Sony patent would interrupt gameplay to display ad
Weekend Confirmed 114 - Diablo 3, Max Payne 3, Lost Planet 3
New Zone of the Enders project underway
Reposting because I've noticed people like Clasifyd and manlyman asking about it. An Xbox Live gamertag has been created to coordinate the Xbox Live Modern Warfare 2 Shack Rape Squad. The list is almost full with a body count of 97. Post a reply or shackmessage me to get an invite. Original thread here: http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=21009232#itemanchor_21009232
ThomW, I never heard back from you. I sent an invite but your friends list is full; awaiting your notice that you've cleared up a slot.
As I said, there are 97 people on the list but about 5 of you have not accepted your invites for over a month and show a status of "Pending": ejectorpod, piser. Since the list is almost full, you will be purged from the list tonight to make room for others.
Note: Dr. Alco already has a Steam group set up for those of you that went with the PC version.
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Is there no way to turn on notifications for messages only? I don't give a shit someone from my Friend's list logs on or off. I only want to know if they sent me a message. I've missed so many game invited because I turn off notifications while I watch a movie, but forget to turn it on before I play a game of Uncharted 2 or CoD:MW2.
Can we please have a patented internet bitch-fest about this so it gets rectified in the next firmware update?
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http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,565034848,00.html
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So any matches planned for tonight? The deadline is very close!
Rocky and I are planning to play in the 3v3 HoN tournament in Kalamazoo tomorrow. Anyone interested in driving to Kzoo and being our 3rd? S2 is sponsoring it and some of the employees will be there! See http://www.whatistheplan.com/events.php for more details.
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Im only about 30 minutes in, this movie is fucking hilarious... she just threw up blood all over her boss i lol'd
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This is a fantastic article on the realities of the state of the industry and game design overall. More and more developers are becoming aware of the true problems with development and design, yet no one can seem to truly solve the problem yet. Maybe it's because no one is willing to try.
However, after reading the article I asked myself, why can't video games always just be a fluffy entertainment form. Is there really a need to force video games into a wide-spread culturally respected art form? It might be an unsolvable problem, or perhaps requires time, as more and more generations are born being exposed and raised on video games as the number one entertainment form.
For now, that's all video games will be. Entertainment. Trying to make a video game that questions your humanity, plucks at those heart strings, or forces you to face deep emotions that you would normally run away from is a problem which will probably never be solved because will never play a video game for those experiences foremost. If anything, they would have to be tricked into those experiences, making them a distant second to the entertainment value video games primarily deliver.
Those that are deeply passionate about video games, myself included, want to see video games grow and be respected culturally the same way film, music and literature are. This is a blind hope. Video games were birthed delivering one dimensional entertainment and still does so for the most part. Even RPGs fail to deliver characters which you will care about, because "no one cares about pixels on a screen" (Warren Spector).
And that's were the problem lies. Making people truly care about the characters presented to them.
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(because my last one was retarded)
What is your Game of the Year for 2009?
Mine: Demon's Souls
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Lol bewbs. My girlfriend just broke up with me, hold me emoshack :(
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I'm looking to get a chair specifically for console gaming. I've been looking into a few rockers and there are way too many for me to choose from.
Do any of you own any gaming chairs? And if so, what would you recommend?
The Pyramat PM420W Wireless Deluxe Sound Rocker looks decent:
http://www.amazon.com/Pyramat-PM420W-Wireless-Deluxe-Rocker/dp/B00194W4RI/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden&qid=1258148290&sr=1-2
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091113/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_lagoon_bugatti
:(
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Would windows 7 run on this thing? I have a student license that I can't install on my main machine because its even older (barton 2500, 1 gig ram, 9500pro). I would like to try windows7 out though, if at all possible.
Thoughts?
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Before I left for Europe and called AT&T to ask what I needed to do to get my iPhone to connect over here. They said absolutely nothing and it would work off they plane. They also explained the charges I would recieve and found them acceptable.
The entire time I have been here the phone has said Searching or No Service.
What the fuck do I need to do?
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I've tried adding it as a custom snapin item via MMC but it's not an available option.
halp!
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So, I put on the Zalman 9900 HSF.
It didn't seem to make a big difference. I idle around 45c, and with Prime95 after about 15 min, my temps were at 80c
That seems high to me.
What the fuck shack?
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Buy his CD. It's really amazing. and please bump this because it's damn good music.
http://www.monstunes.com/album/
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http://iamtpain.smule.com/mysongs/track/235640
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Main new stuff added
1. The ability to upload pictures via ShackPics.com, Chazums is an Android genius, you guys should thank him since he took the time to figure out that camera. It will also try and log you in to ShackPics.com so your picture ends up in your gallery and doesn't have to be re-sized as much.
2. Posts now have an indicator that shows the number of new posts since the last refresh.
Bunch of other tweaks and fixes etc.... getting new versions should be easier as well since it will launch the download for you.
Download:
http://www.stonedonkey.com/ShackDroid/latest/
Full Changes:
http://www.stonedonkey.com/ShackDroid/latest/CHANGELOG.txt
Bugs Go Here:
http://code.google.com/p/shack-droid/issues/list
i get's my phone tommorow!L@KJ!KLJ OMG
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Who else is down for some Friday evening P90X? Think I'll go with Chest and Back today.
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We got Gary the Llama and Skull the Troll here.
IP address at 68.142.120.162:27016
Also, be sure to crow like.. a crow when you're on ass-street's team.
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http://www.giantbomb.com/quick-look-new-super-mario-bros/17-1633/
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http://games.tiscali.cz/news/news.asp?id=34808&r=top
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Now I have something going at 1.1 right now and I'm all "hurry the fuck up you slow piece of shit".
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Infact the whole storyline in the last 90 minutes whut? That was very very over the top, sheesh.
Good fun totally but I have to agree with Spaeckow about the on rails part of it, I think this one was a little too on rails, I almost felt like I was playing rebel assult (cd-rom!) at points, just point forward and click. I think COD4 was overall better.
At least they didn't kill price this time <- don't click that - it's also the reason you should play 1 before 2.
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Firstly, click 1 or 2 of the .wavs here and you'll fall in love again..
http://www.thanatosrealms.com/dk/sounds.html
The music in the game was incredible...such texture and pure atmosphere.
I recall loading up the first map and hearing this particular track:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjbXb2xPdgE
My mind was blown...then to this beautiful music on the map screen...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2fcgz9NeA0
So many great gaming memories are brought right back me whenever I hear these..
ITS CONSTRUCTION TIME!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3c4j62qHIk
This will probably get lost amongst the MW2 posts but...I really miss Dungeon Keeper :'(
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