Morning Discussion: Festivus Edition
by Alice O'Connor, Dec 23, 2009 5:00am PSTI got a lot of problems with you people! Unfortunately it's more than my job's worth to tell you them and I'm not sure the Festivus celebration is afforded legal protection.
Perhaps you have grievances of your own to air? Surely you have something to say about your fellow Shackers or video games over the past year. It's the healthy thing to do.
On a cheerier note, please do share any Festivus miracles too.
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
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I suppose one could simply reply--Save $ over the year for gifts. This isn't always possible for those in the lower-middle class and below. This is especially true now, when one in ten of us are unemployed, when salaries have been lowered (and we still counted ourselves lucky), when living month-to-month is considered a gift unto itself.
Its impossible (and frankly fiscally retarded) to spend hundreds of dollars at the end of each year by a list of relatives and friends, crossing out their names as you go down the line, fulfilling this necessity for $30 followed by some worthless $50 token-of-my-friendship and so on and so on. It is wasted money. In a time of penny-pinching, we're throwing piles of cash into a giant fireplace, where the proverbial yule log burns it into the ether.
Stress overwhelms and suffocates any Christmas spirit to me, readers.
tldr - humbug.
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http://www.shackpics.com/files/Picture003_ksyh20kzs0nfye0gqh6r.jpg
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Oh, and a picture of my wife-to-be and I at a pool in Disney World: http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j303/tviceman/n657705611_5597271_1126.jpg?t=1261596289
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/24/business/global/24auto.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
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I, Sailor of Fortune, have received much cargo today as part of the Shacknews WE2009 Initiative!
Much gratitude goes to Megara9 for assembling the largest WE box I have ever received!
In chapter'd reply as it is Massive
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Dumb question time: Do you guys think you could knock out a professional MMA fighter if they gave you the chance?
Say they gave you a free shot just standing there and you could take your time and hit them as hard as you wanted to. My friend and I were arguing this the other night and he is certain that someone my size (5 '10, ~170lbs) would have no chance whatsoever of knocking out someone like Fedor.
My argument is that it's completely possible, would just have to hit them hard enough in the right spot. I realize these guys take punches all day, but it's not like they can ever get immune to something like being knocked out - even if it's by someone my size, or can they?
What say you shack?
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Is it really near impossible to get custom text sounds on to your iphone?
I don't want to jailbreak it, or do anything that would void my warranty - but I got a sweet Star Trek communicator noise and want it to be my text sound. I found out how to load custom ringtones into iTunes, but the text sounds are treated differently.
Google only shows me how to do it with a jailbroken phone via ssh.
Also, iTunes sucks.
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Is there a way to force it to look for these channels? Is there likely something else that I am missing?
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I'm on the phone now and would like to download to it some music I bought a few mins ago but didn't have time to xfer over the USB. Any way to do this? When I go to the album in iTunes it lolls like it wants me to repurchase.
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My girlfriend is away for Christmas so I'm planning on just working on my iphone game and trying to finish a single level off, today I added muzzle flashes, lights on the bullets and blood splats from enemies getting shot... do you think the blood splats are too exaggerated at the moment?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgS3LoL3-Bk
Tomorrow I'm going to wake up early and start modeling the player model properly, he's going to be a badass bear with an eyepatch :D
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How much can you bench, and how much do you weigh? What's a good goal depending on your weight? Right now I can pretty much 5x5 my bodyweight, which is 180lbs.
I'm wondering what a good goal would be. 225?
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What's this effect I've seen on newer Samsung LCDs, it's a kind of blurring... Hard to define, but it's really annoying. Is this a new 'feature' or is it just poor quality? Anyone else notice this? What is it? I haven't seen bluray on these TVs, but DVDs and cable do it.
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http://www.techreport.com/discussions.x/18195
Personally I kinda like the new UI if that is what it will look like. Of course a lot of times these early mockups don't match how the final product will look.
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Brethren,
The holidays are here! Let us celebrate the festivities by shooting each other in the face with assault rifles!!
Stand under the mistletoe with Maddog_Delphi97!
Join _jon as he strives to break 1,000 Forced AlexXdude Ragequits (FARQs)!
Hear the elusive ass-street echo his festive mating call of "CAWW!!"
Stop shooting! That's just Harvester's crouching terrorist spray!
Be on the lookout for a rare sighting of the endangered permabanned FPSDavid!
Come sit on Orange Pylon's lap and tell him what you want for Christmas!
Save your nickels! Christmas special: Hot soup for just 5 cents - "Get it while it's hot!"
Counter-Strike Source
Dallas
9 PM CST
BE THERE!!!
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I want to play some modern games that feel like MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries. I'm talking about an action simulator, where you pick missions with different difficulty/rewards, buy and repair your equipment, and alternate between a management interface and action gameplay. I don't even know if this genre exists. What's out there that I should play?
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When I'm out with friends and one brings out a camera or something I have this weird reflex where I cover up my face and get slightly annoyed, so they've taken to snapping sneaky shots when i'm not looking.
The worst thing is FaceBook, when they post pictures featuring myself, I don't even look at them before I remove them from my wall, and I don't even have a picture of myself on my profile page...just a series of changing randoms.
Is this like, some kind of phobia? Not being able to look at pictures of yourself? I've never encountered anyone else like this lol.
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so who's home and wants to play some MW2 for an hour or so?
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good lord. i have not set foot in one for probably two years. i don't consider myself especially impatient or "quick" but i am constantly annoyed at how slow most of the shoppers walk and how little they are aware of their surroundings.
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Who else is focusing on buying packs? I like getting more than one game for my purchase. So far, I've got kings quest / space quest pack, and the Atari 80 classic game pack. What others am I missing? What do you think the best deal is? I know the Eidos pack is extremely tempting but I just don't have the cash for it.
Also, it's not surprising that MW2 isn't on sale at all. I swear, the Modern Warfare series never goes on sale on Steam.
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I got a note in the mail today that my WE shipped from <shacker name withheld> requires an additional $9+ for the post office to deliver it to me.
What should I do? Pay it? Ignore it and have it go away?
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Also it was horribly written. You'd think they could spend slightly less on imaginary biology and slightly more on a writer.
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The error I get is "There has been an internal error initializing your transaction. Please contact support for assistance."
I submitted a support ticket and I hope they resolve it soon! I have more gifts to buy!
God I love Steam
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/26620/Misc%20Pictures/SteamGifts.png
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY0NEQd3_co
So brutal, visceral and downright fucking intense.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCVkYUjRWGg
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Is this a movement, or what? It sounds like something that's festered in dark corners for centuries, and dragged into the daylight every so often to a bewildered public.
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What are some decent tasting healthy alternatives to delicious food? I'm being bombarded with sugar, and fat and all things yummy this break and need to mitigate the damage in-between.
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