Morning Discussion
by Alice O'Connor, Jan 26, 2010 1:15am PSTToday sees the North American release of Mass Effect 2 and, more importantly, the revival of an old favourite Shacknews tradition--the launch day discussion post. So please, keep your Mass Effect 2 out of Morning Discussion because people are avoiding spoilers, or perhaps live in Europe and the thought of anyone playing ME2 before Friday fills them with a furious rage.
So. Something else, then. Read any good books lately? It's not quite a book but I've been enjoying Judge Anderson: The Psi Files Volume 1, a phonebook sized collection of stories from celebrated British sci-fi comic 2000AD starring Judge Dredd's splendid psychic chum Judge Cassandra Anderson. There's a small exhibition of frequent Anderson artist Arthur Ranson's comic art at Orbital Comics near Leicester Square in London, if you're in the area and fancy seeing some rockin' pictures.
New game releases of May 20-26
Killzone: Mercenary shoots onto Vita on September 10
Trion Worlds hit with more layoffs, Defiance team impacted
Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault defending Vita next week
Game & Wario was originally going to be pre-installed on Wii U



Was letting the council die considered renegade or paragon?
I let them die because it seemed stupid to sacrifice firepower to save a few people instead of focusing on Sovereign.
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Stones Throw had a contest to remix a track by Guilty Simpson
http://stonesthrow.com/news/2010/01/guilty-simpson-before-the-verdict-track-leak-and-acappella
...and I won it! There were about 100 entries.
there's no mention of it anywhere except the Twitter page ( http://twitter.com/STMBBeatBattles )
but you can hear the track here if you wanna:
http://drop.io/battle150page2/asset/jvox-before-the-verdict
/shill
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Chima is like Fogo de Chao, except it's in Charlotte and Fogo isn't.
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If it completely dies and I have to buy a new monitor, what's good? While mine is obviously a piece of shit that fails after a few years, it does have good viewing angles and decent color. It's an MVA panel I think. Are there any reputable brands doing VA panels still or is it a choice of cheap TN or pay out the ass for IPS?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymCP6zC_qJU&feature=player_embedded
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It brings up the interesting notion of the secondary Steam Market. You could ostensibly make money by buying a ton of games when they're mega cheap then undercutting valve once the prices go back up to normal.
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I play alot of 360 games as you probably are aware and i think it's high time we started having some regular shack battles especially with bad company 2 dropping here in a few weeks. So show of hands, first off who's getting bad company 360. And secondly what's the best way to organize these so that we get the most participation? I vastly prefer a good custom game of MW2 with shackers than anything in the public arena.
What do you guy's think?
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In Half Life (1) there are two computer voices speaking in Black Mesa, one is feminine and talks to you during the tram ride, the other is very robotic and does announcements every so often.
The feminine voice is a voice actress, but the robotic voice is supposedly from an actual Text To Speech program. I want to find this program.
Here's a soundboard if you're not sure which voice I'm talking about:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/34839
What do you guys know about this? I've been googling instead of doing my job all morning and I can't find out which program generates this voice.
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It's an RPG/roguelike/turn-based kinda game. Kinda hard to explain. The character creation is deep, you get about 10 choices starting at conception, each step adds a stat, or money, or adds to a skill. It doesn't exactly explain what the attributes do until you finish character creation, but once you get in game the character screen has mouse-over tooltips. So I went through character creation looking at each choice, and restarted a couple times until I knew WTF was going on.
Gameplay starts at the age of 12, so you are fairly weak in fights at first. You might want to do some school (possibly Combat Training, depending on what type of character you made) to start, and/or build up the viillage some. My current game I built up the store first so I could buy a better weapon at the beginning.
Once you're able to move around the dungeons you'll find plenty of armor, but doesn't seem to be as many weapons. I haven't gotten into enchanting yet, sounds like it could be powerful.
Nice guide, doesn't really spoil anything (there isn't much of a story): http://www.kongregate.com/pages/my-pet-protector-2-guide/?gamereferral=pet-protector-2
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we were hoping to find one with darts, pool table, shuffleboard, etc, but anywhere else that might be fun for a small group (6). apparently there's a piano bar around there, anyone been?
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http://www.vg247.com/2010/01/26/darksiders-to-get-360-screen-tearing-patch-tomorrow/
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How do the Normandy's updates change the final mission? Because both the updates that I bought (new cannons and improved shields) were featured in the story line animation. Wondering what would happen if I didn't upgrade. :)
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Anyone excited for 4.0? I hope this is the release that makes my 3G not run like crap. My iPhone has been running dog slow lately and I can't figure it out. I've restored it, i've reset it, I've deleted stuff. But it still takes a lot of time to start typing or flip between pages. Also my GPS is completely broken now but I think that's a hardware issue.
Lets also talk about the next iphone release the 4G or 3GSS. I'll be eligible for an upgrade but I don't know if I'm going to bother with an iphone unless it has something interesting. I'd like to see an OLED screen, decent camera, and a fast processor. I'd also like a real GPS with turn-by-turn. Every other big smart phone has a decent GPS & software, but we are stuck with using google maps and half ass GPS+triangulation. I'm not going to pay $100 for a stupid tom tom app when I can buy a goddamn tom tom for $40.
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http://www.searchfreefonts.com/free/cock-boat.htm
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npcDI9z43OU
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It was the upstart rock star of the Internet in early 2009, roaring out of relative obscurity to become one of the most exposed -- some would say overexposed -- services on the Web.
But since the middle of last year, the number of Twitter users has flatlined.
Compete, a Web analytics firm, says the microblogging site's number of visitors hasn't changed much since June and that its roughly 22 million visitors in December was about 770,000 fewer than its highest number, which was in August.
i wonder how facebook will doing in a year or two.
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A little bummed that the cool N7 cover is not on the actual case. Instead on the steel case is a full body image of Shepard and a full body of a Collector on the back. The steel case comes sleeved in a paper case that has the N7 logo on it. The art book is slotted inside the sleeve.
Very excited to start playing tonight.
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/evilbenius/4307444086/sizes/l/in/set-72157622537455693/
There are more pics in this gallery if you want to see the inside, you can even discover my real name!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/evilbenius/sets/72157622537455693/
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The reason I ask is because I want to buy a game as a gift, but I want to buy it now while it's on offer, and hold on to it until I find someone to give it to. Is this possible? It either wants me to send it straight through steam, or send it via e-mail...
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Skate 2 looks fun, I think it has splitscreen, not sure though.
Crackdown is on my list since people said its good. Borderlands/Left4Dead 1/2 I already own on PC so I won't be repurchasing that.
Anything else?
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http://www.shackpics.com/files/logoPNG_nnm7yb25aqrpcdu9hl06.png
I have this logo so far for our soccer team here at UNT. We were using office to make this because the other guy helping me and I are not photoshop users. We want it to say MENS SOCCER at the bottom of the circle but can never get it looking right. The thing we were using to curve the text keeps flipping it upside down and mirrored but won't sit right.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ec1RnWg9EI#t=2m16s
http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/7464/sc2teamjacehall.jpg
D:
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Amazing Race on the 14th too... TV is back!
I have a new netbook with win7 on it. Has a webcam built in. Shows up in device manager all nicely. Win7 doesn't have an app that lets you view webcam and take pictures like winxp did in My Computer.
What are you webcam sluts using as an alternative?
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http://tv.blogdig.net/archives/articles/January2010/22/Solitary_Returns_with_40_January_30.html
Solitary 4.0, Friday. There aren't many shows I have a hard time watching, but this is one of them, and it's kind of awesome for it.
Also there is a woot off in progress
http://deadspin.com/5456518/when-prank-wars-go-wrong-update
School pulls the Blindfolded Half Court Make You Think You Made It gag on one of their teacher / coaches, says he'll win Final Four Tickets if he makes it, crowd is supposed to make him think he made it, etc etc...
He made it. There were no tickets.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qciVXUHTN10
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