Evening Reading: California Faylure
by Chris Faylor, Dec 16, 2009 5:00pm PSTOutside of a few events here and there, I've never really worked side-by-side with my coworkers in a physical capacity. For the past forever, it's mostly been me at home in my pajamas, mashing away at the keyboard and accidentally drinking out of yesterday's coffee mug whilst rambling into a microphone that may or may not be on.
But working in an actual office, that's a relatively new experience. Sure, I'm not exactly side-by-side with Garnett or Jeff--they're a few cubicles away--but my visit here to GameFly HQ has shown me that it's not all bad. It could use some cats, though.
But enough talk, let's get to today's news:
- Team Fortress 2 Soldiers Getting More Rocketmen Gear
- Assassin's Creed DLC Trailer Fills in the Gaps
- ModDB Readying Digital Distribution Service
- Digital Comics Now on PSP
Lastly, words cannot express how dumbfounded Garnett was by
the latest trailer for Hot Tub Time Machine, nor how disgusted he was when I told him I loved it. A movie with almost no script, tons of improv and John Cusak? I'm so there.
P.S. Iron Man 2 now has a trailer. Thanks EagleSweet.
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
So since it seems like a lot of people have trouble in the beginning of the game and give up quickly I thought I would write a quick guide to the beginning of the main quest to point people in the right direction. I don't know if anyone will actually use this or find it helpful but I hate to see so many people giving on such an awesome game. This is only for people who are having a lot of trouble in the start and don't want to pick through a large strategy guide figuring out what to do.
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Here comes another action-packed, fun-filled year of world domination brought to you by the winner of the first Civilization 4 PitBoss Shackbattle! Join us for fun activities like slaughtering Frenchmen, stealing gold from native tribes, and cowering in fear at the sight of wild bears! Marvel at your shiny new axemen before your neighbor's macemen crush them underfoot! Lose month-long wonder races by a single turn! Watch Huayna Capac get stone in his starting city's radius and pump out all the ancient wonders before your first settler! You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll hurl!
WHAT IS THIS?
It's competitive multiplayer Civ4 played at the rate of approximately one turn per day. Expect this to take the better part of a year. We expect you to be committed.
WHAT YOU NEED
- Civilization 4
- the expansion pack Beyond the Sword
- the latest patch (3.19 as far as I know)
- internets
- patience
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http://depletedcranium.com/interesting-data-from-pew-forum-study-on-american-beliefs/
Yes, 16% believe in an evil eye curse.
16%.
PS. They have equal voting rights to you.
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call the Nestle Crunch Hot line at 1-800-295-0051. when it asks if you want english or spanish, just wait for about 10 seconds.
so dumb.
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any ideas about why my iPhone's battery would go from 70% to 2% between 10.30pm last night and 7.30am today? this has been happening all week. and it just started out of nowhere. no changes whatsoever to my setup.
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They asked them to censor themselves and they did, for a while
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiiQPqmYE1A#t=8m30s
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http://www.shackpics.com/files/iPhoneUpload_7cs23lm0rhpelxmhf2mr.jpg
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Will I like Mass Effect if I don't really like any RPGs outside of action RPGs?
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Like, for anyone that felt burnt out from VII and VIII but really enjoyed the SNES games, you owe it to yourself to try IX sometime. It's very much everything that you wanted from the previous two games but did not get.
Not to say it didn't have some wtf retarded character designs, silly as fuck jumps/twists in the plot and some horrible god damn melodrama, but damn if it wasn't fun as hell.
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How do you deal with contractors you have to work with who pad hours? (Say, 24 billable hours to write ~60 lines of code...)
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http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/iron-man-2/trailer
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But man, fuck Xbox Live and the 100 player limit. I feel like we could have had many more people if Microsoft would just pull their head out of their ass. I can't believe Halo 2, a long dead retail title, is what keeps the corporation, Microsoft, from enabling more players. I'm going to write MS today, and you should too.
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Note that you'll need a Squeenix account to sign up. Right now it's working alright.
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What's the highest and lowest ranking games you have for each current console/handheld platform? Anyone have both the top and bottom games for any one system?
PS3: http://www.metacritic.com/games/ps3/scores/
360: http://www.metacritic.com/games/xbox360/scores/
PSP: http://www.metacritic.com/games/psp/scores/
Wii: http://www.metacritic.com/games/wii/scores/
DS: http://www.metacritic.com/games/ds/scores/
I'll throw mine in reply!
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Its been a year and a day now since I've married her, and I have no idea how I ever got so lucky.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/re_verse/4192288654/
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GOG have Tex Murphy 1+2 for free until Dec 24
http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/tex_murphy_1_2/
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http://www.shackpics.com/files/iPhoneUpload_xp2qazk603k4cam0pssb.jpg
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Cant buy FC2 for $5 because it doesnt list my Canadian Province.
Is there a work around this? If not, fuck it, ill wait for steam to put it for 5 bucks.
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the winner of this contest is really awesome.
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12/17/2009 06:42:00 ARRIVAL SCAN[I] HARRISBURG, PA, US
Hope I don't get a box full of sand.
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Anyway, check out this Xbox Millennium Falcon mod, complete with instructions:
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-mod-xbox-into-Star-Wars-Millennium-Falcon-N/
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tags: Dantes Inferno
coincidence? or am i just hungover and out of it
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http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/ironman/
FUCK. YES.
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http://i.imgur.com/BYwAx.jpg
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiiQPqmYE1A
Listen to the very end (or skip to the last 40 seconds or so.)
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