Morning Discussion: Thanksgiving Edition
by Alice O'Connor, Nov 26, 2009 7:00am PSTToday the USA celebrates Thanksgiving, a holiday everyone around here is reluctant to explain to me but I understand involves some excellent minimalist fashion so I suppose I'm happy to take the day off work to celebrate too. I can get behind any holiday which involves fantastic hats. Enjoy your turkey, American football and family gatherings, gang. The other 95% of the world's population, well, have a splendid Thursday. Or Friday.
We'll have a few little features for you good folks tomorrow, and of course should anything earth-shattering happen in the world of video games we'll keep you updated.
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
Steam knocked offline on Sunday by power failure
Corsair HX1000W CMPSU-1000HX 1000W ATX 20/24PIN ATX 80A 12V Afc Modular Power Supply W/ 140MM Fan
Corsair Obsidian Series 800D Full Tower Case EATX 5X5.25 4X3.5 Hotswappable 2X3.5INT No PS USB 1394
EVGA P55 Classified 200 ATX LGA1156 DDR3 SLI CrossFire 6PCI-E16 1PCI-E1 Sound GBLAN Motherboard
Intel Core i7 860 Quad Core Processor Lynnfield LGA1156 2.8GHZ Hyperthreading 8MB Cache Retail Box
Corsair XMS3 CMX4GX3M2A1600C8 4GB DDR3 2X2GB DDR3-1600 CL 8-8-8-24 Core I5 Dual Channel Memory Kit
EVGA GeForce GTX 275 CO-OP PhysX Edition 633MHZ 1280MB DDR3 PCI-E Dual DVI-I HDTV Out Video Card
Samsung SH-S223L/BEBS 22X SATA DVD Writer Lightscribe OEM with Software
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA2 3.5IN 8.5MS 7200RPM 32MB Hard Drive
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Edition 64BIT DVD OEM
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Hey, I get off-post passes this weekend, so I'm hoping to catch a few movies/drinks. Anyone down? Reply/SM!
Pfc. disposition
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Was just wondering, do you also get any future games that are added later free? I'm still thinking about getting it.
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Also, does anyone by any chance have a spare MAG PS3 Beta Code? I missed my chance to get one like 5 times. And to make sure this bullshit post doesn't make me sound like a complete troll I shall impart some of my wisdom to you, fellow Shackers: Honey on the cat hair makes a mustache.
Actually that's wisdom from IdleThumbs but hey, who's counting?
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it keeps them on their toes.
also helps simulate real world power outages and how dev/test systems would cope.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWJGHOpm9Lo&sns=em
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"this is my friend's internet girlfriend. After meeting via their mutual TF2 clan..."
http://208.116.9.205/10/content/20431/1.jpg
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I am so jealous.
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http://punchdog.shackspace.com/Temp/Turkey__001.jpg
Happy Thanksgiving Shack!
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My brother's picking up a PS3 and he's a huge fan of BC.
I googled and searched the usual suspects, but couldn't find one
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Who's running what? 32-bit or 64-bit?
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Amazon is going to have a deal on Ass Creed 2 at 5:30 AM! Wtf, I won't be up then!
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1:10 remaining
I hope they have the C&C3 package deal, my dvd drive is broken.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrtANPtnhyg
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Any idea what the hell you can take or do about an esophagus that hurts a lot when you swallow? Like, breathing is fine, but swallowing hurts just above the chest area and only then. Sucks.
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1) It's terrible. Like, mind-numbingly bad. I was expecting it to be mediocre, even decent, but seriously? I know they're trying to capture the whole breathlessness of being 17thing but it comes off hugely inept.
2) Does Bella have palsy, or tourettes? Or some sort of condition that causes her to have these enormous spasmic facial ticks? I really hope that's not supposed to be acting.
Does Russell Means show up at some point? I think it's wrong to have a movie with Native Americans and not include Russell Means.
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This is kind of crazy
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http://www.freep.com/article/20091127/FEATURES13/91127001/1319/Shoppers-brave-cold-rain-for-Black-Friday-deals
Seslie Taylor, 20, of Detroit, an assistant manager at a Northland Mall store, braved the elements herself to buy gifts for her nieces and nephews despite having to show up at work the next morning.
"This is my third year shopping with friends. My budget is $5,000 this year because I just got an apartment," Taylor said.
An assistant manager in a store, 20 years old, has a "budget" of $5,000 on gifts? Get fucking real. Odds are she doesn't even make $25,000 a year. This country is so full of people that are beyond fucked when it comes to managing their money.
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