Morning Discussion
by Alice O'Connor, Dec 15, 2009 6:00am PSTChris is currently en route to Mothership GameFly so I am afraid you're all stuck with me today. Sorry about that. Chris would never be so cruel as to insist that we all listen to SomaFM's Xmas in Frisko stream all day, making the threat that he would shut down Shacknews if you didn't. I'm not for a moment suggesting I will, but Chris most definitely wouldn't and he isn't here today. You should listen and then donate to Soma.
He certainly would never be so cruel as to link to Jingle Rock Bell by Metafilter user PinkStainlessTail, the most wonderful and irritatingly insidious Christmas song ever.
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
I created a second character with a focus on magic last weekend and played through most of the game with him. It started off as easy mode and eventually got a bit annoying since I could barely damage some enemies despite raping most others. I had some fun with the coop play and even took down a few black phantoms, though I ultimately decided to scrap the character (but not before going on an NPC rampage in the Nexus).
Now I'm playing a strength/endurance/melee-focused character with the goal of dominating in PvP. I dispatched my first victim last night in no time flat and plan on upgrading my equipment while keeping my soul level down to give me an edge against people playing more casually. There's something delightfully demented about being able to invade other people's games with the sole purpose of killing them.
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Why the fart is my rogue getting out dps'd by a paladin or deathknight with equal gear?
I'll be the first to admit I don't know what I'm doing but this is my basic build:
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#fhfZ0gc0xcbZxbRbIhzdAzqc
with daggers.
It focuses on Honor Among Thieves from what the description says.
Do the DPS recorder mods count in AE for the DK? I can see that, but how is the Paladin out-damaging me?
Anyone have a link to a high dps / raid spec build? Should I move to swords (i have a couple in the bank that would make it an easy switch)? Fists? I can't backstab with those can I?
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Damn straight i'm going to bring back the M word. I am continuing this fool's errand to make a program in a language i don't actually know:
(there's no preloader so if there are missing images, just give it a refresh when its all downloaded)
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/26301/finalproj/automatic.html
First of all, this program just has to work. Its not going to be used online or to wow anyone; but shall be used on my laptop for some test subjects /w eye gaze equipment. The way ive achieved that above page is a for loop reading in xml locations for images and tweening each one using the Tweener class i found online. To give an idea of what i mean:
Tweener.addTween(Clip,{x:-150, time:2,delay: delay, transition: "linear", onStart:showUp, onComplete:hideAway});Why the hell is it so god damn juddery? I think 15 minutes of testing with the above video is going to make people throw up.
Thanking Yous in advance.
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orgcaptainnemo and I are going to 5 Guys at Thornton Place this Saturday at 2pm. You guys can join if you want, or you can fuck off. I'll bring my shacknews shirt and we'll leave it at that.
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WoW breakup stories from DC101's Elliot in the Morning radio show I posted about the other day:
http://www.filefront.com/15143271/warcraft.mp3
ca. 11 min. - 15 MB
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I've located a beach I would like to see. Its even more fun to zoom out.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Puerto+Villamil&sll=-0.925483,-89.427788&sspn=0.003851,0.006968&ie=UTF8&rq=1&ev=p&radius=0.24&hq=Puerto+Villamil&hnear=&ll=-0.92596,-89.429178&spn=0.003851,0.006968&t=h&z=18
Post your mental vacations!
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He was fired, finally, after originally only being suspended with pay.
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Colour-Blind option in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
At present, people that are red / green colour blind cannot tell friend from foe in the online matches, as their names appear in these colours, and the radar uses the colours too. This is causing frustration and putting them at a distinct disadvantage unless playing in Free-For-All matches.
Serious question: are people with red-green color blindness able to distinguish between the red / blue colors used in the TDM / CTF of the Quakes, the Unreals Tournament, TF2, the Halos, etc.? Has this really not been a problem until now? Or was it just not enough of a concern until a team multiplayer FPS with a red/green IFF HUD sold more than 7 million copies?
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I have just learned that there is a Fawlty Towers map for CSS.
SOMEONE FIND IT AND GET IT ON A SHACK SERVER!
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http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002WC80M4
I didn't really like it, but if I bought it for $5 then I would've totally gotten my money's worth.
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http://www.fukung.net/v/20159/0865ec5f30491c6f97039628a92ebd84.gif
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My only regret is that it feels like I'm not seeing the real quality of the graphics on my 4:3 CRT television. I suppose it's just something I'll have to put up with until I get a better monitor to play these games on.
But whatever. I'm officially declaring that Sony got my money, and that I'm 99% sure I got my money's worth.
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WARNING: Crappy iPhone pics
The cover
http://www.shackpics.com/viewer.x?file=MonsCDJPG_nzwokk1iirxubaq6kfo2.jpg
Signed copy! WOHO!
http://www.shackpics.com/viewer.x?file=MonsSigJPG_bedhzz79a3tfkg8wi9cu.jpg
iTunes automatically recognized the Album and track titles. Sweet!
http://www.shackpics.com/viewer.x?file=MonsImportJPG_yd0ikvduk1sk1vo0s7di.jpg
Unfortunately iTunes is picking up the wrong Album Art :( No worries, just replaced it with the one found at http://www.monstunes.com
Thanks Vantage! You are a cool dude and the music is awesome.
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The problem is people are able to boot "unsigned code via a fairly rare exploit (xbox without dashboard update)" via homebrew consoles or something. This is from some guy on the SA forums since the IW ones are a goddamn clusterfuck. Also this was around for World At War but could only be done in private matches....but since there is now that Private Matches glitch where you can start a private match with any settings you want and glitch it so actual random people get pulled in to it via matchmaking you now have a double whammy of a bug.
in conclusion. LOL
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These are what I had printed for my entrance portfolio. What do you think, shack?
http://bit.ly/7XzkwY
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Got it a couple days ago and online is pretty sweet. Up to 32 players per game, I was kinda surprised to see almost 300 people playing online last night. This thing is going to make the Christmas holiday so much easier to bare. Haha.
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http://store.steampowered.com/app/23310/
Just not sure if goofy Square RPGs hold the same calling as they used to. When they were awesome. And called Chrono Trigger.
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haha!
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