Morning Discussion
by Alice O'Connor, Feb 10, 2010 5:00am PST"You shouldn't do that," she sighed. "It'll hurt."
"Nonsense! You just need to concentrate." He pulled the trigger and a bullet tore through his thigh, embedding itself in the walnut-effect laminate flooring. She shook her head.
She started, "I did say..." but trailed off as he gritted his teeth, took aim then fired again.
His lower leg flopped to the ground as his thighbone splintered and gave out. He furrowed his brow and went to raise the revolver again but paused. The damned mole on his knee didn't seem so much as troubled by the whole ordeal, let alone removed.
"Ah," he uttered, raising one finger. "No, my mistake. Dreadfully sorry. You're right--it does smart a little. Could you possibly ring for an ambulance?"
The alternate Morning Discussion blurb for today follows: That snow, eh? Tsk! Can't decide whether it's coming or going. Wotta loada old tosh and no mistake, my son.
If you have BioShock 2 chat to chat, hey, here's a dedicated chat thread.
Report: Frostbite 3 games to be 'optimized exclusively' for AMD cards
Candy Crush dev exploring IPO
Castle of Illusion preview: more than a repaint
Steel Diver sequel is Nintendo's first free-to-play game
Why Pikmin hasn't made the jump to handheld
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http://www.shackpics.com/files/iPhoneUpload_y278tf2r6bid9o3il8iy.jpg
Also having fun with Flight Control. What other iPhone games are you guys playing?
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Weren't quite a few 8800 owners reporting that their cards failed recently? Well, add another to the list, mine up and died last night playing BC2. I had been experiencing hard lockups in games with increasing frequency over the last couple weeks. Windows 7 event logs were very un specific only stating that the system restarted after an error. Is this similar to what you others experienced?
I've not tried another card yet, but my mobo beeps tell me that it can't find a video card (even though its seated firmly). So the important question is, what's the upgrade card of choice these days? Radeon 5850? 5870?
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I feel sorry for those of you who deal with this shit on a regular basis. *gun*
Fuck doing this the legit way.
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/30457828@N06/4347192638/
SO CUTE! Unfortunately I tend to treat my friends like shit:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30457828@N06/4347195434/in/photostream/
BONUS:
Stuck Silverado: http://www.flickr.com/photos/30457828@N06/4346450375/in/photostream/
We're down 1 Civic!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30457828@N06/4347196740/in/photostream/
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http://www.wetafx.co.nz/features/avatar/
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Does Amazon deliberately delay shipment on items that were ordered with "Super Saver Shipping"? I preordered Bioshock 2 on Feb 8th (the day before release), and it still has not shipped. The estimated shipping date is Feb 16th (WTF?), even though the item is clearly listed as In Stock.
I can understand putting Super Saver Shipping items into the slowest/cheapest possible shipping method, but not shipping an item when it is sitting there in stock bothers me. I know Amazon is making zero money on this transaction (and may even be losing money), but I thought I would bitch to you people anyway.
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http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/10/facebook-chat-launches-xmpp-support/
(even though i dont have a facebook account)
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durfa durfa
In reply (for semi-spoilers)
TL;dr - I screwed up my Mass Effect 1 continuation by being a manwhore!
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Does anyone know of software that will burn a .cue/.bin on Vista? Preferably freeware.
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http://regmedia.co.uk/2010/02/10/bergen_3.jpg
"Viking frogmen chase Street View spymobile"
hahahaha
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/10/street_view_frogmen/
A few photos of Olympic stuff so far. I went to the torch lighting last night in Richmond. There must have been about 15,000 people there and I arrived too late to get close to the stage so any photos I took of the torch being brought in by Rick Hansen were horrible. They said that it was 25 years since Hansen's Man in Motion tour ended. I was there 25 years ago when he arrived in Vancouver, a young lad of 10. God, I'm old.
Also my first attempt at fireworks didn't turn out too bad but need to work on those some more. It was pretty fun though except for one thing and that was the anthem going to french half way through the singing. 15,000 people singing along to the canadian anthem in english and suddenly it's practically silent as the lady on stage starts singing the anthem in french since 2% of the people there probably speak the language. Hey, guess what. Everyone in Richmond is asian. We all speak english or cantonese/mandarin. Sigh. Other than that. Good times.
There are also some photos of a cool spotlight display set up at English Bay. I have to go back with a tripod to take proper pictures.
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I'm starting to play as a vanguard (close range with biotic)... does that mean i can't use snipers or riffles? I see have the option of using them but I have no cross-hair when trying to use them nor does it seem i can hit anything
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Fry: Why use my own legs like an idiot when I can use a Chickenwalker?
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I have a low-power EeeBox nettop PC that I use to stream video to my Apple TV. It works perfectly for that. No problems, ever. All done wirelessly.
You would think it would be easy to do that with a non-Apple product ,but so far every single method I've tried for streaming video to my PS3 or 360 causes unwatchable stutters. I've tried PS3 media server, Tversity and Windows Media Streaming.
It doesn't seem to be the CPU that's doing it, because it's not at 100% when I'm streaming through Tversity. I think it's the wireless connection. I keep playing with Tversity's settings, but no luck. I just get various versions of crap.
Any suggestions?
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My eyes are getting old I guess, I'm starting to have trouble focusing, things are blurry, etc.. (YES, I am going to see an eye doctor!)
In the meantime, I'm looking to upgrade my current monitor. I own a Dell 2405FPW (got it in 2005) and the first thing I noticed is how it's hard on the eyes when you play an FPS, or when anything moves fast, as opposed to a CRT screen. I eventually got used to it, but I think it was detrimental to my poor little eyes :C
What I'm wondering is what is the best monitor money can buy right now? Looking for 27-30 inches, but a superior 24" would do as well. Dell, LG, Planar, Apple, etc...
What about LED monitors? Seems like a new trend for 2010, but I'd have to try one to really tell if it's for me.
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http://www.yourhome.ca/homes/realestate/article/763020--competition-bureau-keeps-eye-on-treb
about time!
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I'm confused, is "Windows Phone" the new official name for smartphones running Windows Mobile? Or is Windows Phone the new name for Windows Mobile?
Wikipedia is not much help here either
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Mobile#Naming_conventions
Mr. Goodwrench, where did you order your copy of Stalker Call of Prpyat from that it came with a soundtrack? I got mine from Amazon and it came with a poster that has a tech tree on the back, some stickers, and the dvd case was cut in some kinda symbol shape.
So people will know if they decide to not wait for steam which place to get what from.
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He sent it from America to Germany! And today it arrived, yay.
Picture:
http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/7627/dsc01713k.jpg
Thanks alot.
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Just a reminder that our fighting game group is still going strong. There are a bunch of us online every night in the chatroom. Lately we've been playing:
- Street Fighter 4
- Street Fighter 3
- Marvel vs Capcom 2
- Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
- Street Fighter Alpha 3
Join us! We're pretty terrible at a lot of these games, so don't be worried about skill differential. Inactive members and new folks alike are encouraged to join the group (it's open) and hang out in chat (and play fighting games).
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http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/02/spider-fossil/
Pretty cool from 165 million years ago. Seems to look a lot like current ones.
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I want to make a live wallpaper for the Nexus One which has a little spider. Anyone fancy doing to the drawing? It shouldn't be too much work - just a couple of simple animations
something like this little guy: http://www.humanebugcatcher.com/images/spider-hat.jpg
If I can get it working right I'll happily share the profits
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Thanks in advance!
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Heavy Rain Review - Score: 9/10
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http://www.shackpics.com/files/MassEffect22010020916060456_w0yc1lii6ymcqsg9ivph.jpg
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http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/09/angry-norwegians-in.html
And the best part: the translation from the original article:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aftenposten.no%2Fforbruker%2Fdigital%2Farticle3509350.ece
Who chases Google with desires fork?
Who are these divers as full froskemannsmundur post in search of the car from Google Street View in Bergen?
The incredible scene was today picked up by Norwegian tvitrere after Google photographic street is launched in the night.
Photo from Google car passed Rugdeveien 39 in Bergen once last summer.
Mon, click into the address, one can only see two divers who sit in their own sun, chilling by the wayside.
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