Morning Discussion
by Alice O'Connor, Dec 14, 2009 6:00am PSTWe wish you another happy Happy Mondays Monday, Internet. Go forth and say stuff. Black Grape is also an acceptable form of celebration.
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4We wish you another happy Happy Mondays Monday, Internet. Go forth and say stuff. Black Grape is also an acceptable form of celebration.
As we all know, it is an indisputable fact that dahanese is one of the greatest Shackers ever to Shack, so it should not surprise any of you that I woke up one day to a Choir of Angels hand-delivering a copy of Borderlands for the X-Box 360 to my doorstep. I don't know how much Choir of Angel delivery costs, but it was impressive and I'd say worth the cost.
Anyway, it so happens I already own this game on the PC, and I consider it wasteful to bogart two copies of the same game, especially since I'm the kind of person who rarely plays a game more than once and I've done that already.
This is where you guys benefit. dahanese's awesomeness is being passed onto one of you. I will ship this brand-new, still-sealed copy of Borderlands for the X-Box 360 to a Shacker that meets the following criteria:
1. Has been registered at least 6 months and has 400 posts*
2. Does not already own Borderlands for the X-Box 360
3. Writes (or links, but that's lazy) the funniest post, be it a story, anecdote, picture, song** or whatever, just so long as it is in reply to this post here.
The judging will be done completely by me based on my own completely subjective sense of humor. Entries close when ER goes up, and I will announce the winner tomorrow.
GOOD LUCK
*Sorry lurkers, but you have enough chances to win giveaways. I want this to go to a regular... and as for you name-changers... let this be a reminder of how much your new nick sucks.
**Protip: I hate musical humor so if you do that, you will not win.
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Choice quotes:
» Early in our conversation about what he’s been doing for the past decade, he informs me that I “don’t know fuck,â€
» “I just realized I made a $200 million chick flick where everyone dies. What the hell was I thinking?â€
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/11/ff_avatar_cameron/
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The new 5-mans are pretty much the best of all time.
The Quel'delar questline is fucking amazing
I really enjoyed the new ICC raid bosses
cross-realm LFG is pretty much the best thing ever for the hardcore PVE'r
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http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/12/13/geek-deals-band-of-brothers-32-on-dvd-and-40-on-blu-ray/
$40.
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hey guys! guess what's in 2 weeks!
http://www.shacknews.com/shackmeet/events.x?id=6693
why is ThomW, dirge23 and myself the only definites?
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Go ahead… I’ll wait. (Phil… not THAT way, dude!)
Ok, finished your song of praise? Good – because she gives one kick-ass White Elephant, people. See this list? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical_elephants They’re all mere peanut snorters next to the pachyderm goodness she put together.
Oh, and she has TOTALLY got a crush on me, guys. You’ll learn how I discovered this – in reply…
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So, how do you all like Deadwood? I think he's amusing, and his ult is obviously very strong. A "school of ganke" hero, more or less designed to tower dive. But, his regular skills are just not that impressive and overall I think he could use a little buffing. Probably not competitive in high PSR games right now, unless his team is a perfect storm of ownage. Oakbolt is nice, I guess.
Tourney update: Lex vs Kainen yesterday was EPIC!! There, we've covered that.
I think I've found the perfect balance (for me) of competition and fun in HoN. Play non-easy mode games with all high PSR people and play whatever hero it takes to win, and play easy mode games in AP mode by myself with random pubs of all skill levels and just kick back and farm kills with plague rider, swiftblade or whoever and not be concerned about about winning or losing. Switch between the two types of games as needed to have fun with HoN. Playing in easy mode with new players is really kinda cool, because when you're nice and tutor them they are very grateful to have actually found someone in HoN who wants to help them and will answer questions instead of just calling them noob and wishing them a quick violent death.
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This is the first movie where I've begun to question Christian Bale's acting ability. Up until this movie I thought he was the key to making a movie awesome. Almost every line he delivers in his Batman voice which in restrospect also sucked but it sort of made sense I guess for Batman.
The dialogue in this movie is terrible. Its got some of the cheesiest I've heard in a movie to date.
The movie itself looked like its dipped in brown. Some of the effects are cool and I did enjoy one seen with a surprise cameo appearance but not enough to save the movie.
The asian girl while admittedly hot was just so cliche and stupid and not needed at all.
What the fuck were they thinking? They had so much awesomeness to work with. A 2 hour future battle of man versus machines would have been suffice. For the record I liked T3 way better. Also there was a ton of "I've seen this in another movie before". It's like McG (terrible director who loves himself) decided to rip from Transformers, the Matrix and a ton of Michael Bay garbage and wrap it into one big turd.
As much as this movie is shit, its nothing compared to the turd that was Indy 4. I was worried this would take its place but its not even close.
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I hope you had a great day kicking the snot out of me. I know you are enjoying the unfair advantage that IW gave you by allowing double shotguns to kill instantly, through any surface.
I'll be taking a break from MW2 as I get over this lame excuse for balance.
Signed,
A former MW2 player
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This is a reminder that Assignment #35: Contrast is due TONIGHT by midnight.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/shackassignments/discuss/72157622788618881/
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http://chud.com/articles/articles/21853/1/NIC-CAGE-KICK-ASS/Page1.html
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Locke is a bad ass.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCh1iQLOjRg
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http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2009/12/why-city-of-los-angeles-chose-google.html
Pretty cool.
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Thank you for reading my love letter.
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http://eyemsick.blogspot.com/2009/12/red-tapestry-and-terms-of-truce.html
This is pretty interesting. Letter of truce between DHARMA and Others written by Richard
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http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1946950,00.html
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http://www.asylum.com/2009/12/14/party-like-a-stormtrooper-with-imperial-stout-trooper-beer/
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i am looking for the most basic method possible for making an edible chili stew; basically something i can improvise on to make it completely awesome. cause i want to make a chili but i've never done it, and picking a recipe off the internet is a huge crap shoot
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So apparently James Cameron went to ridiculous lengths (like creating a language and working out an eco system of a fictional planet) in the build up to Avatar and created the Pandorapedia.
Pieces are now online
http://www.pandorapedia.com/doku.php
I think more is going to be added as time goes on but some of the detail is insane
http://www.pandorapedia.com/doku.php/isv_venture_star
Plus cool mock recruitment site for the AVTR program.
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Oh Jetson's, what bizarre visions of the future you wrought.
my buddy has a http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136472&Tpk=WD%20TV%20Live and swears by it. says it plays mkv files just fine over a network, even if they're 1080p.
i'm about to PULL THE TRIGGER on this purchase. any good alternatives? for 120 bucks it seems like a great deal.
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That's a list of servers hosted by re-verse (a shacker who lives in Chicago)
Anybody want to play versus with other shackers?
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I have a nook on order. I like the touchscreen idea. I tried it at the store, and the unit crashed twice, was incredibly slow in ever operation, including page turning.
I'm trying to decide if it is worth buying the nook and waiting for firmware updates, or get a kindle now.
Sigh...help me shack.
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