Morning Discussion
Friday night is the village-famous bingo night in Wainthrope-by-Roe. As ever a community minibus service will be picking up ball-crazed bingo fans from the outlying area so slip on your best frock and glam up your Zimmer because it's certain to be a night you won't forget until your next funny turn!Mind you don't stay out too late though, as on Saturday Ms. Cholmondley-Mainwaring, 52, will be leading a fascinating morning of debate covering topics including "To starch or not to starch?" "Dress to the left or the right?" and "Those foreign people--chase them out or burn them?" We understand that last topic is why Mr. Henry Bysshe-Pringle-Fletcher, 117, has been politely asked never to attend again, the horrid withered beast.
I'm interested to see what will end up in Mass Effect 2's daily fake 'news' updates on the title screen in a year or so from now. You would be surprised by how quickly people slip into gibberish and nonsense when required to write daily blurbs.
What I have enjoyed:
Watchmen
Y the last man
Lucifer
Fables
The Walking dead
I have got "up to speed" on TWD and getting bored of waiting for the next one. My new Job is around the corner from one of the biggest comic book stores in the country so I need to know what to look for... suggestions?
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I'm deciding if I want to do one of those or get up at the crack of dawn tomorrow morning and just go to a comedy defensive driving course. :[
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Has anyone managed to reduce the mouse lag to sensible levels? Turning off everything and going 800x600 helped but it's still bad. It's a major obstacle to enjoying the gameplay.
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I think Amazon took the "Harry Potter Box Set" to literally : /
the two final boxes aren't even that good, not that it matters so much. Bought it to have a new hardcover set of all 7 anyway (the old ones are for my brother and sister)
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Mouse movement with the sniper score when zoomed in is awful dog shit bad. It doesn't allow for small corrections...it seems like it steps small amounts when I want fine movement.
Anyone else have this problem?
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When someone uses the word "couple" to indicate quantity, for example:
Give me a couple of those.
Is it supposed to mean they want two? I've heard people use it when they meant something other than two.
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Lokdown, delonix and I completed an epic 10-part L3 storyline mission last night. The final mission had multiple enemy battleships. It was pretty crazy -- thanks to lok for tanking all that crap! My stupid new char has finished every learning skill he's ever gonna get except for one, and I'm finally training fun things before I respec to INT/PER later this weekend and kick off my combat skill training.
Goonwaffe continues to get its organization and leadership straightened out. A new alliance has been formed, and a couple corps from the former goonswarm have not been invited. One is BTLS (Battlestars), which was apparently pretty good in combat but pretty crappy on the forums. I can't sum this all up better than two guys from Ars Technica's eve thread have, so let me just quote them:
"Goons like to pretend they all hate the game and don't give a shit about any of it, especially the organizational/planning stuff that "normal" alliances focus on. Of course they do care about all that stuff, otherwise they would have left Goonfleet and joined Groon long ago. At times like this where everything is up in the air the facade breaks down..."
"If anyone doubted how seriously goons take their posting, they just renamed the alliance after the guy that runs the forums and kicked 2 corporations who are full of terrible posters."
Of course, the criteria for good posting in goon forums are way different from the shack's.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEFfX9NnwJ0&fmt=22
The face stab is hilarious.
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GameServers.com BFBC2 BETA Chicago #9
TS: Rydoggs Info here: http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=22060436
How to find the server quickly: http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=22057558
GOGOGOGOGOGOGOGO!
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If you have fond memories of Dark Cloud, you are going to love this game. It really captures that same charm. Classic Level 5.
If you didn't play Dark Cloud, I'd say it's a stronger game than Lost Odyssey, in terms of pure gameplay and depth of skill development.
I STILL haven't had a chance to play some 4 player co-op, so add me (ClamClub) and hit me up. 'Should be playing over the weekend. 4-player with this battle system is going to be very interesting!
More musings in reply.
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Interesting to hear the ex-Looking Glass team talk about the way they approached game design with Thief and System Shock 2, and how GTA 3 was a real eye-opener for them in terms of reducing control complexity.
SpaecKow, don't listen to this :(
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http://www.ilavhalloffame.org/members_08.htm
Turns out he has some old pictures of my grandfather but he also flew with my grandfather. But this guy, holy crap does he ever remember stuff and to the detail. He has been telling me stories of how he setup landing strips, tested pilots(he flew most of the planes in WW2 including the P47) and he also downed three torpedeo bombers during the war.
Man some of the stuff he has been rattling off is just absolutely amazing.
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- Portal/TF2/Ep2
- Bioshock
- Rock Band
- CoD4
- Halo 3
- Mario Galaxy
- Forza 2
- A ridiculous number of other titles like Stalker, Assassin's Creed, God of War 2, Crysis, Crackdown, EDF2017, Skate, Metroid Prime 3, Okami, Uncharted.
Some of these games might have been overshadowed by the fact that they've had incremental sequels since, but from the perspective of the time it's a ridiculous list. I'm still working my way through some of the games that came out that year.
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When I go running, My wife comes along. I find I run better with music, but don't have an easy way to do that with the wife.
I'm wondering. Can the Iphone connect and transmit to two bluetooth headphones at once?
I'd love an answer to this.
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1st question would be what is our soul, what makes us, US.
2nd, Until we have a way to store our "soul" into a electronic device (basically store you in a computer) then no.
3rd, Does a computer running a full complete 100% simulation of our brain waves, neuron activity esentially be me? could it answer questions the exact same way i would?
Give it 300 questions, would the answers be the same?
4th If our soul can be stored, might as well be uploaded into a robotic body and become a cyborg.
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I'm still really digging this new beta. What does everyone else think? If you're playing and you haven't already applied to the shack group, you really should: http://tigerwoodsonline.ea.com/groups/profile_overview/208
There's a few admins now (thanks stonedonkey) so you shouldn't have to wait long to get in. Also, be sure to add the other shackers to your favorites so that everyone gets a nice XP boost from having fans.
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new single for those who don't know http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vi_QLimLGM
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TURN OFF VOICE DETECTION AND USE PUSH TO TALK!
Just got through with some Bad Company 2, but I think this applies to all games. We do not want to hear you constantly (CONSTANTLY) running your goddamn mouth to your friend who is watching you play the game. And when we ask you to turn on push to talk and you refuse? Yeah, fuck you asshole.
And before some hippy says "But ArcKnight, why don't you just mute them?" I say "Why don't you sit on a pole and rotate?" why should everyone else in the channel have to mute your dumb ass instead of you not being a goddamn fucktard?
Jesus Fucking Christ.
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Dungeons and Dragons
It's over. Year and a half. Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil. It's over.
Jesus it feels surreal. I have never had a group stick this long together. It stands to reason then that I've never been in or ran a campaign this long.
Last night was the climactic ending. The group took on the Lord of Evil Elemental Fire, and won. I think I managed to build an encounter that, while very long (3-4 hours,) was exciting the entire time. Success was not once a certainty until it was actually over.
And man, the post-encounter wrap up was so good. At the last minute I figured out a way to make their victory seem even more awesome and it worked! I had picked out some excellent music to use at the end as well, and when I was done with all of my side of the storytelling, each player did some lengthy roleplaying, setting themselves up for their Paragon Story (tm) - which is a huge awesome event we're doing next week.
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http://kotaku.com/5464839/want-the-heavy-rain-demo-right-now-heres-how
Me wants. ;(
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http://www.celebritydetective.com/Celebrity_Homes_John-Travolta-house.html
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Is there really any disadvantage to using the dev release? Would all my extensions still work? Also (last question, I promise) when I do decide to upgrade to either a newer public version or a newer-ish dev release, is it easy to update?
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Are the best episodes about something Picard and Picard only goes through? Are all the episodes? Do they focus on individual characters, etc? It has an endearing cheesy philosophical appeal.
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A study released today has issued stark warnings that the supply of original ideas from which all video games are based on may run out within the next two years...
Not all game production companys have been caught unaware however; a senior at Activision Blizzard told NGR that “we have been expecting and training for this for a while now.â€
“We believe we, and many other large game companies, have the ground-work in place to allow one single idea to be stretched much further than previously thought possible.â€
It is also expected that idea hybrids will become more common, with announcements of Madden of Duty and Bejewelled Clone Hero being just two recent examples of what many are calling a short-term, yet viable solution.
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Example
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/Sonnets-Titelblatt_1609.png
Never, spelled neuer.
And here the common use of v where the modern spelling uses u.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/Shakespeare_grave_-Stratford-upon-Avon_-3June2007.jpg
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