Weekend Discussion: Dear Internet

I can think of no better way to end a twenty-plus year run at NBC than to assemble a rag-tag group of well-known musicians and have Will Ferrell cover "Freebird."

It's truly an inspiration to us all. Good on you, Conan.

Chris Faylor was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

From The Chatty
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    January 23, 2010 10:02 AM

    Good weekend shacknews! What games are you playing?

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      January 23, 2010 10:03 AM

      Shadow Complex and Death by Cube

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        January 23, 2010 10:06 AM

        I am tempted at pulling the trigger on Death by Cube. Is it worth it?
        They should have allowed for more time in the trial version.

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        January 23, 2010 10:07 AM

        how are you liking death by cube?

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          January 23, 2010 10:11 AM

          So you ended up buying it I am guessing?

          Does it continue to be fun as the small trial sample?

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            January 23, 2010 10:14 AM

            No I haven't had any time on my 360 since it came out

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          January 23, 2010 10:49 AM

          It's pretty fun, but damn is it hectic. The pools of blood/oil everywhere make it hard to see what's going on, but if you get upgraded in the battle, you are a tiny god.

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      January 23, 2010 10:04 AM

      Halo 3, ODST, maybe try to finish off the GTA 4 expansions.

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      January 23, 2010 10:06 AM

      Borderlands! Come play with me people! http://steamcommunity.com/id/fobouspod

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      January 23, 2010 10:07 AM

      Oh I forgot myself: HoN, DoD:S, TF2, and CS:S

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      January 23, 2010 10:13 AM

      This weekend's theme is FPS: CS:S, Quake live, MW2, L4D2, TF2

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        January 23, 2010 10:15 AM

        Any maybe some st:o in between all that.

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      January 23, 2010 10:15 AM

      Batman Yay.

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      January 23, 2010 10:15 AM

      Playing some Dirt 2

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      January 23, 2010 10:19 AM

      Red Alert 3: Uprising.

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      January 23, 2010 10:21 AM

      The Witcher! Rad game, been playing chapter 2 today

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      January 23, 2010 10:26 AM

      Global Agenda and Batman. I beat Portal for the second time last night. It was weird. I beat it the day it came out and never touched it again. When I played it for the second time everything seemed new, and I forgot how to do most of the puzzles. It was kind of cool to play a game and have it feel unique all over again.

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      January 23, 2010 10:29 AM

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      January 23, 2010 10:30 AM

      Bayonetta, Mass Effect

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      January 23, 2010 10:33 AM

      Darksiders

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      January 23, 2010 10:34 AM

      L4d2 and mass effect 1

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      January 23, 2010 10:36 AM

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      January 23, 2010 10:38 AM

      DOOM

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      January 23, 2010 10:43 AM

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      January 23, 2010 10:44 AM

      Mass Effect 2 fo sho

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      January 23, 2010 10:44 AM

      Mass Effect 1! It's my first time playing.

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      January 23, 2010 10:46 AM

      I DON'T KNOW!!!! TOO MANY GAMES!!! Seriously, I'm not sure. Maybe Dragon Age.

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      January 23, 2010 10:46 AM

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      January 23, 2010 10:47 AM

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      January 23, 2010 10:50 AM

      Trying Uncharted 2 multiplayer for the first time (since the beta). Probably going to get my ass handed to me.. halp.

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        January 23, 2010 11:47 AM

        ok this is bullshit.. I went up to level 5, tried to connect to a new game and got logged out of PSN - I jump back on and it tells me "looks like you left your last game before it was over.. you're going to get a $40k reduction and a level reduction.." wtffffffffffffffff.... I'm back to level 1, this is cock!

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      January 23, 2010 10:50 AM

      Droplitz for casual play, DA:O for solo play, and L4D2 tonight for good shack group play. The last is the closeest I will ever get to an orgy.

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      January 23, 2010 10:53 AM

      Started up NFS: Shift. Damn fun game. It's like Forza Lite. :)

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        January 23, 2010 10:56 AM

        I'd love to read your review of it if you get around to writing one up. NFS:S has been on my radar for weeks but i never got around to picking it up since I got Burnout:Paradise and still have GRID and NFS:Most Wanted. But sometimes it's nice to have a more serious racer (I guess GRID qualifies for that but I'd prefer one where I can mod the cars).
        Have you played DIRT2? I'm curious how that compares to NFS:S. Haven't gotten that one either.

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      January 23, 2010 10:54 AM

      Wings of Prey but the campaign is getting hard. Also not sure where it puts the savegame file(s).

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        January 23, 2010 11:27 AM

        these stupid Nazi transports reach ppirityot no matter how i play this stupid mission argh this isn't fun this is frustrating. last mission in crappy russian planes i want to move on already to the next mission. >:(

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      January 23, 2010 10:55 AM

      MW2 and Bayonetta.

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        January 23, 2010 12:14 PM

        I was gonna play some MW2, but its now freezing up at the menu every time I start it...

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      January 23, 2010 10:57 AM

      Far Cry 2. Very slowly making my way though it.

      Also need to play thorough Rock Band 2 so I can unlock more songs.

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      January 23, 2010 11:01 AM

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        January 23, 2010 11:06 AM

        where are you in the game?

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          January 23, 2010 11:58 AM

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            January 23, 2010 5:16 PM

            Play around with the suit, there are multiple ways to any goal. For example sneaking into a compound with camouflage, reach objective and then the compound goes to hell and bolt out with speed and jumping the fence with strength and they're stuck inside and all wth was that.

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      January 23, 2010 11:08 AM

      mass effect. having a blast playing as an entirely unsympathetic adept.

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      January 23, 2010 11:11 AM

      Just started my first play through of Torchwood. Playing alchemist.

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      January 23, 2010 11:13 AM

      Batman AA and GTA4

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      January 23, 2010 11:14 AM

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      January 23, 2010 11:14 AM

      Bayonetta then Darksiders

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        January 23, 2010 5:19 PM

        I played Darksiders for a couple of days before stopping when I received Bayonetta. After beating the latter, I haven't been able to get back into Darksiders. Bayonetta had too much awesome in it, I think.

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      January 23, 2010 11:26 AM

      Eve Online

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      January 23, 2010 11:40 AM

      Liver Pickle and Hide the Sausage.

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      January 23, 2010 11:47 AM

      Bayonetta, WoW

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      January 23, 2010 12:03 PM

      Batman aa and I'm loving it, you fuckers were right. this game kicks ass.

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      January 23, 2010 12:09 PM

      GTA IV, I think I finally found a GTA game I can finish. The taxis make it doable.

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      January 23, 2010 12:12 PM

      I just started playing Darwinia after picking it up during the Steam sale. Fascinating game, very unique, amazing ambience, gets to be pretty difficult in places...I still have yet to dislike a game by Introversion.

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      January 23, 2010 12:14 PM

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      January 23, 2010 12:15 PM

      Starting up my old Mass Effect save that I've neglected since it came out. I think I'm on Feros, killing some dudes.

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      January 23, 2010 12:19 PM

      Half-Life 2 with Cinematic Mod 10. Oh man do I miss PC FPSes...

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      January 23, 2010 12:19 PM

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      January 23, 2010 12:25 PM

      King's bounty - damnit, this game is addicting.

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      January 23, 2010 12:26 PM

      Getting all of my work done so that I can play Mass Effect 2 on Tuesday! For breaks, I'm playing the Global Agenda beta.

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      January 23, 2010 5:43 PM

      Ratchet and Clank - Tools of Destruction. Holy crap it's such a great game.

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      January 23, 2010 5:51 PM

      Fallout 3 and Assassin's Creed 2

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      January 23, 2010 5:58 PM

      Randomly firing up CoD:WaW, CoD4, WiC Online and of course, joust bought the entire Company of Heroes Collection for $12.50, thanks to Steam's weekend sale... :)

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      January 23, 2010 6:06 PM

      I've been working since 3:30. I've been uploading all the photos for the past 15 min. When it's done, I'm gonna play some....Far Cry 2, damn you people!

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      January 23, 2010 6:12 PM

      Bayonetta

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      January 23, 2010 6:21 PM

      Mass Effect, Star Trek: Online Beta, MW2 Multiplayer

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      January 23, 2010 6:22 PM

      GloriousCow kicked my ass at 'Go' the other day so I am practicing for the eventual re-match

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      January 23, 2010 6:22 PM

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      January 23, 2010 6:30 PM

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      January 23, 2010 6:31 PM

      Right now, there is only Star Trek Online.

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      January 23, 2010 6:37 PM

      The Saboteur

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      January 23, 2010 6:37 PM

      Just finished Demon's Souls.

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      January 23, 2010 6:56 PM

      Risen and Little King's Story.

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      January 23, 2010 7:04 PM

      Who's in my mouth!

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      January 23, 2010 7:10 PM

      Finally beat Bordelands :(

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      January 23, 2010 10:23 PM

      Roller Coaster Tycoon 3!

      <3 Steam US store

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      January 23, 2010 10:30 PM

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      January 23, 2010 10:37 PM

      Dawn of War 2 coop with a friend, some MW2 (mostly Spec Ops probably this weekend), and maybe finally starting AC2 which I got 3 1/2 weeks ago but has been put on hold by games like Demon's Souls.

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      January 23, 2010 10:38 PM

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      January 23, 2010 11:05 PM

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      January 23, 2010 11:35 PM

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      January 23, 2010 11:39 PM

      Audiosurf and Dragon Age: Origins while waiting for Mass Effect 2.

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      January 24, 2010 3:56 AM

      Wow mostly, but we have Monopoly City to try out ;-)

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      January 24, 2010 4:15 AM

      King's Bounty Armored Princess and ZDoom are on the menu today

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      January 24, 2010 4:57 AM

      MWLL

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      January 24, 2010 5:02 AM

      Civ IV

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      January 24, 2010 5:04 AM

      Just watching Warcraft 3 pro matches. Nothing better on a weekend morning than my coffee and some good games.

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      January 24, 2010 5:12 AM

      Paintball, in a few hours. I'll see if I can get a picture of me doing my best Gaz impression.

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      January 24, 2010 5:15 AM

      I clocked MoH Airborne, GREAT game, some really nice touches and elements. Parachuting in anywhere on the battlefield and choosing your missions in any order was just really cool, an underated game for sure IMO.

      The last mission just got silly hard though, even though I thought the change in setting a bit fucking Flak Tower you can parachute onto at different levels was cool and well built.

      Now starting on The Saboteur for more WW2 fun, and I'm liking it so far! Bit story heavy but I think I've got to the meat of the actual game now.

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      January 24, 2010 5:27 AM

      Suikoden V, via emulator with a nice little hack-patch that restores the original Japanese voice acting. I don't mind dubs a lot of the time, but good jesus were the voices in this game bad. And now they're decent, aided by the fact that I can't understand what the hell they're saying!

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      January 24, 2010 5:55 AM

      Dragon Age and I'm doing it all wrong I think.

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      January 24, 2010 6:15 AM

      Beat Borderlands last night now I'm going to continue working on Mario & Luigi Partners in Time

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      January 24, 2010 6:16 AM

      Just upgraded the rig, giving Crysis a spin, great game thus far (1 hours in ;) )

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      January 24, 2010 6:17 AM

      Saturday morning cartoon > Avatar in 2d

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