Evening Reading: Weekend Confirmed
by Garnett Lee, Nov 13, 2009 6:13pm PSTOkay, I'm as big a Final Fantasy fan as you'll find but that release date video today; what was up with that? It was so much like an infomercial I half expected dude to start into a spiel on how his life improved since he started using some male enhancement product. On the other hand, only a three month wait for the North American version. That's close enough that I can resist importing the Japanese version over Christmas.
I'm happy to have the weekend here so I can continue getting good time in with Dragon Age. My Dalish Rogue just hit seven and I'm ready to find the duelist trainer. Other than that I downloaded Modern Warfare 2 over Steam to check into the PC side of the multiplayer. And then there's NFL Sunday. It's Cowboys / Packers which puts me and a couple of my best friends on opposite sides. So we're getting together to grill, watch the game, and then play Mario 4-player!
Here's what's been happening today:
- Final Fantasy 13 Release Date Reveal Video
- Dino D-Day Mod for Half-Life 2 Rocks the Nazi T-Rex
- 36 Minute Live-Action Short Film for Assassins Creed 2
Relatively quiet day around the Net. Must be the impact of it being Friday the thirteenth.
Israelis working on portable version of human microwave weapon
Pour one out: Remebering Ol' Dirty Bastard five years after his passing
And lastly, it's not our new show but I did sit in on this week's Kombobreaker podcast to talk about Modern Warfare 2 (if you aren't sick of hearing about it by now).
Super Stardust Delta launches with day-one DLC
Unreal 'Samaritan' demo requires ten times Xbox 360's processing power
Sony spending $50 million on Vita marketing campaign
Minecraft Pocket for Android adds zombies, Survival mode
Nintendo acquires Mobiclip
http://www.youtube.com/user/alicsibu
Guitar player covering Ronald Jenkees]s's tracks.
Stay Crunchy - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fMFt_QpQDo
A fun Beat from Outer Space - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0mx3DPUwzM
Messin with a guitar sound - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sqbvUt3skE
Dude can play. Seriously. :)
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The Favela mission is no better, with what must be every single civilian in the country armed and part of the "militia" which is apparently trying to kill you, for reasons never explained. The story is totally incomprehensible, the action sucks, the graphics are amazing (when you can see them through the red, blurry, cracked haze) the sound effects are overwhelming, the music is beyond irritating...just miserable.
Multiplayer is awesome, when I can find a relatively lag-free game.
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http://img121.yfrog.com/img121/6818/left4deadasmoviecharact.jpg
In case you can't read it from the picture:
Left to right
Ron Perlman as Francis
R. Lee Ermey as Bill
Ellen Page as Zoey
Dave Chappelle as Louis
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Are TM Nations Forever and TM United both free games? Nations Forever I have in steam but I don't remember buying it and I have United also for some reason ??
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Anybody want to play versus while I'm waiting for Dognose to get back home from California?
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Now Microsoft wants me to go to Walmart and request a new adapter. Sounds like this is going to be a fiasco. Off to Walmart I go...
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Who wants to play multiplayer tonight? I do. I want to play with shackers.
Xbox tag: soggybagel
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for some reason i doubt 13 or my corporate (sonysellout) home ever will
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRkQQTK9eDo
if i ever loose my home in this bankrupt county, and this was my last home (sony co.), id might commit infinity war type suicide on myself!
LEGALIZE IT, WUT WUT
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RE: http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=21386157#itemanchor_21386157
Yes, my Professor confirmed exactly how the program is suppose to run. User has to input a whole sentence, at once, and the program converts particular letters and display the enter converted sentence.
Problem is, we've never been taught to take input beyond a single character; we haven't learned about strings yet. I don't see how this is possible then, unless I'm missing something. Any help, nudges in the right direction, or insights are appreciated.
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Ignore them?
Mute them?
Report them?
It's so irritating that I never really play unless it's coop with friends. Damn I need to build a new pc.
Does anyone think that annoying sound that only teenagers can hear would work? Just set it up and play it when they start acting stupid.
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Pittsburgh Shackmeet! with details this time. http://www.shacknews.com/shackmeet/events.x?id=6484
What I've got so far:
Saturday November 21, 2009, meet at the Pittsburgh Hofbrauhaus http://www.hofbrauhauspittsburgh.com/ thinking sometime in the early evening around 6? Maybe as early as 4 if people want to do that. There will be beer and food aplenty.
I've got a house in Cranberry, it's about 30 minutes North of the city and I'm offering it up for continued shenanigans. I've got a spare room, an air mattress and a couch with a pull out sofa if anyone needs to crash here. ThomW has claimed one spot but he is bringing a sleeping bad and an air mattress of his own. I've got a 360, 3 controllers,SF4, SC4, several other games and Rock Band (only 1 guitar and only 1 RB1)[quaded has volunteered to bring RB2, TB:RB and all the extra accoutrement]. Anyone is welcome to bring stuff.
Who is still coming? So far we've got ThomW,,quadeh(+1), h o s t i l e, AskedRelic (twice according to the shackmeet page) down as attending. Possibly attending are: watcherxp, theangrywaffles, StuMan1337 (Update: StuMan1337 is NOT coming because he works for the same company as me and the mother fuckers are flying him to Argentina). Also Dink is going to stop being retarded and bring his brother to the shackmeet, if he knows what's good for him.
Some people who expressed interest but did not sign up on the shackmeet page: ADSliv, DHAvatar, and newek. I'll probably shackmessage these bums soon and see if they can commit.
So let me know if you are coming for sure and if everything sounds good to you guys. ThomW is making a decent trip to be here, lets show him that Western PA doesn't suck as much as everyone thinks.
Come on dudes, you've got to show up. It was ThomW's birthday yesterday and askedrelic just got dumped. He needs drunken shacker support.
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Goodbye Creative.
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The best way to get a group going would be to get in the Shacknews COD:MW2 chat room, this will make things easy to see who wants to play. Also if anyone needs an invite post here!
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http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=20886024
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=20940590
Here are the commercials they made. 3 short 0:30 second clips with my uncle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22DJ4w_binE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CuE5V3AKVo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsebGJ_wwiw
And the bonus commercial they shot there for the Vietnamese market. A 2 minute rap video starring Vietnamese hip hop star Phong Le. Funny shit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFFIPEXxv90
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Lost my DVD burner last night, its a Lite-ON, ihap422 8 VL14, was working great the other day....it now sees my DVD +R as DVD+RW and wont accept them for burninng, any suggestion. its almost new, purchased it in March of 2009 - argh! i have cleaned the lens and still nothing....
-maybe a batch of bad DVDs but they work fine on other PC.....
-takes awhile to load the bogus DVD
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http://www.shackpics.com/viewer.x?file=droidUpload_g7l5sp36obwaqx29b9f9.jpg
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I'm looking for suggestions for a wireless mp3 player for my home stereo to let me play mp3s off any computers on my home network into my living room stereo. That's really all I want - not interested in internet radio or any other crap, just basic mp3 playing.
Any thoughts?
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