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1Today is the federal holiday of Washington's Birthday in the USA, celebrating the great man who'll save children but not the British children.
Residents of the USA might have today off work, or perhaps they might not. Here at Shacknews we're in a half-holiday state, where we're doing a few odds and ends but are not pumping video games as hard.
The rest of the world: today is Monday, proceed as per usual.
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A game in which you, potentially a black midget with a mohawk and a cape, must fight against a supervillan with cocks for arms that shoots sperm.
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I'm at a point where I must choose between Shaw and Telus. Anyone want to share your experiences with any of these ISPs? Bell doesn't offer their services in the west but I hear bad things about them anyway.
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I'm taking today off (in that I'm not going into the office but still doing some stuff remotely) so I expect to log another chunk of time in it today. Got to play A LOT over the weekend and as I said late last night, it is exactly what I was hoping the original STALKER would be like.
So far some impressions now that I've reached Pripyat proper - there is some degree of enemies leveling with you as I returned to the first area and the bandits there are dropping a better quality of gun (not just sawed off shotguns and AKM's). I like the emission mechanic, as it forces you to plan your travel route if you haven't seen an emission after a while, and it can create some tense situations - I was caught outside and overloaded the other night and just barely made it into a derelict ship in time.
Having a blast in Pripyat, see you there!
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Voodoo 2 -> Voodoo 2 SLI -> Geforce 2 -> Geforce 4 Ti4200 -> Geforce 6600 -> Geforce 8800 GT -> Radeon 5770
I went with the XFX 5770 1GB. Has ATI fixed their drivers yet?
Oh Jesus I hope this thing is quiter than my 8800 when it runs games, it sounds like a jet engine.
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What's the details on APM in SC2 versus SC1?
I just read this: http://www.sc2armory.com/forums/topic/12165 and they discuss "the reduction in APM and attention cost caused by an improved interface" ... are they basically saying that SC2 will require less "actions" to accomplish the same tasks, and that this is a problem in the eyes of progamers?
I just started watching SC tournament videos, they're a blast, but I'm looking forward to watching SC2 games, if only for the graphics upgrade. It would be sad if SC2 gets ignored by the progaming scene because its not hardcore enough due to a more efficient interface...
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It was interesting, at least. I think the biggest lesson to be learned with this stuff is that even when you have a problem with a clear-cut, testable and verifiable answer, people will still come out and argue authoritatively for the wrong side. Some just don't know enough, but most seem to misinterpret the issue or mentally add in their own restrictions and rules that just aren't there. Because of these kinds of things, people who should be genuine experts will still be wrong. The pilot in the Mythbusters episode comes to mind.
It just illustrates that when it comes to subjects with more gray area, and which are influenced by personality and priorities as much as facts (gaming, politics, religion, food, almost anything else discussed on the shack) people will never even approach any kind of agreement, even if a given choice does objectively make the most sense or work better.
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http://bit.ly/cJ3Zk2
key quote: "It's not only the effect of 3-D, ['Avatar' has] just shown that if you do a movie in 3-D, you can ask for more money and that's the trick."
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I don't know if I'm late, but maybe somebody didn't know. If its way too late, nuke it. :/
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http://www.thehunter.com/pub/
It is an online hunting sim. Dubbed: "The most realistic hunting game you will ever play". They are right. It is free, so you can sign-up download a client accept a mission, and you are ready to go.
Pros: It is very pretty for a free game. The ambient noises are great.
Cons: Not in-game help. No in-game mission viewer (you select a mission on the website, but you do seem to have a waypoint or mission info once you are in-game). INSANELY slow, I did not see any deer for the 30 mintues I played.
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Settlers of Catan is a given; how does the Seafarers expansion affect the game? Should I stick to the vanilla version with them?
How about Carcassonne? I've heard some mixed things about the rules in that one (something about farming?) that might present a bit of an entry barrier.
Right now I've got Ticket to Ride in my Amazon cart, but I'm totally open to some more suggestions.
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I can't get the remote to operate the switch.
The switch is in the harmony database, and I've tried the learn command stuff, and still nothing.
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The answer is a watch. I don't quite get it. The phrases stopped there and came back again seem to be the revolutions/movements of the watch's hands, and is I went to the Crimea and I came back again indicative of someone carrying the watch?. What obvious thing am I missing?
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Have a look, its called Memory5 by ryan hays.
http://www.thisiscentralstation.com/community.aspx
Plants vs. Zombies is available for iPhone now. It's a pretty good adaptation, but it's a little less amenable to mobile-style gaming than Peggle was. Whereas I can pretty freely let my attention flit between Peggle and real-life, PvZ requires careful concentration for the whole level. It's still tons of fun, but much more of a commitment to squeeze games in while temporarily bored.
It is only $3 so there's pretty much no reason to not try it anyways.
http://www.popcap.com/games/iphone/pvz/
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I'm turning into a Terminator at the end of the movie right quick. This fable 2 style be mean and you will look like a demon is kind of annoying in this game. Should i spend the 50k platinum for the face fixing machine? How much worse does this get? I wonder if my nasty face will carry on into ME3.
Don' post any spoilers other spoilers even behind spoiler tags in this post please unless it's about the topic, I have not completed the game yet and just wanted to talk about this aspect.
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We shall play CS:S after the JBPH tonight on Fox.
We will be playing on the Dallas CS:S server. Information can be found at www.shackwiki.com. The time will be 9pm CST.
Be prepared to get goat raped by _jon
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"We're very sorry for the concern we've caused and have been working hard ever since to improve things based on your feedback," Google Buzz product manager Todd Jackson wrote in a statement over the weekend. "We'll continue to do so."
The "concern" at the heart of the problem is thus: When Google Buzz was launched, it automatically listed you as a "follower" of all of your most frequent Gmail and Google Chat contacts. Even worse, it made your followers list public knowledge to anyone following you, essentially negating the whole idea of having a private address book....
Of course, you could just turn it off and use Facebook and Twitter to follow your contacts' random musings on the weather, American Idol and what have you.
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http://www.tmz.com/2010/02/15/conan-obrien-beard-hawaii-photo/
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http://www.cracked.com/article_18396_6-man-made-natural-disasters-just-waiting-to-happen.html
I've come to the conclusion that we should have a mission in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. where we repair the sarcophagus... because we definetly aren't going to be doing it in real life.
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http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Panasonic+-+VIERA+/+50%22+Class+/+1080p+/+600Hz+/+Plasma+HDTV/9708761.p?id=1218167802733&skuId=9708761&st=panasonic%20plasma%2050&cp=1&lp=2
So I go and ask the salesman to measure the box for me; I wanted to make sure it'd fit in the trunk of my car. Comes back, tells me measurements, and all seems well. Pay for the sucker and get it to my car.
Couldn't get it fit nor could I find a way to anchor the trunk down with string, all the while I had about 5 people come up to me and say "You shouldn't put a plasma tv on it's side, the pixels will shift".
That was a good 2 hours wasted. Returned the TV and that was that.
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LOL the arrogant fucks are at it again. I can't wait for GT5 to get lower scores than Forza due to diluting the franchise with stupid shit no one wants and recycling sound effects from as far back as GT3
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Looks like 9/10 of the books are out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malazan_Book_of_the_Fallen so I guess I'll be busy for the next 4 months or so!
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Wait wait wait wait wait....
I just found out from The Daily Show* that Hawaii has had government healthcare for 40 years and it works great. How the hell have the Democrats not showcased this at the front of their messaging this entire time?!
* http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/thu-february-11-2010-lee-daniels
WTF is exFAT and does anyone know if the PS3 will be able to read it? If not, how the hell can I format this thing as FAT32?
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