Morning Discussion
by Alice O'Connor, Feb 22, 2010 5:00am PSTWe welcome a new member of the Shackstaff aboard today as long-time Shacker Brian Leahy joins us from G4TV.com. Give him a big hello, everyone. I'll be doing my part to help Brian settle in by graciously allowing him to give me a stern thrashing in StarCraft II and saying hilarious British words.
Faces may come and faces may go but video games, video games never change. Monday, let's rock.
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38 Studios, Harry Potter Kinect - Shacknews Daily: May 25, 2012
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AITOO that hopes a bird will shit on Chloe's at some point this season? I swear that bitch pouts no matter what....
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Aliens vs Predator Survival mode is intense!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZBqQoGNhR8
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anyone getting bad performance in the Beta? i know DICE gave the Dual Core guys some loving, but since the patch, for me and a mate of mine, the hit detection feels worse. i havent had a problem with hit detection before the patch. also i drop down to 15 FPS at times :(
Q9550
GTX 260 OC
8GB Ram
Win7 64bit
ive tried running in Dx9 and the other tweaks, but i cant seem to keep a good FPS when the S hits the F and a lot of mayhem is going on.
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Google results seem a bit shakey?
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Having read the reviews, I was expecting this game to be really bad and that they had fucked up the chemistry of the original - the most scary and immersive game I've played (never tried System Shock or Deus Ex though).
Guess what? This game rock all the way into hell and back. I'm totally in love with the melee system (once you get the grip of it), the trophy kills are satisfying and the multiplayer is superb (apart from pure DM). I've read compaints about the aliens being underpowered in MP and the marines OP but I think that people haven't really learnt to play classes apart from marine yet (e.g. the alien focus attack instead of spamming E for trophy kills).
I find the single player campaign very good as well (I seem to be in a very small minority here) but it's quite short. Marine is pretty much similar to quake 4 but more scary (not as scary as the original AvP though). However, I find that it's still of sufficient size to relative to other recent games when combined with the unique and well tailored multiplayer.
All in all, this game has made me lose all the credibility I had for game reviewers. I am in love with Brutal Legend as well though (apart from the RTS bits), so maybe I'm the odd one out.
Yes, the game is different and quite difficult to master, but no way if it's a bad game. Way to go Rebellion!
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It's almost comical how bad Comcast's upload speeds are.
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http://planetbattlefield.gamespy.com/fullstory.php?id=161816
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I'm thinking wave 2 this week, maybe? Surely they want more than 3000 people at peak times... @_@
Dear Lucky Bastards: Tell us of your lamentations and your victories!
Others: ahh... link videos?
All i have is this crappy video, sorry -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym8AYEUqINE
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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i45a85038cbfe6e22a2fe854815c6bb1d
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Both 'shmup' type games, with upgrades, etc.
http://www.kongregate.com/games/Ninjakiwi/bloons-super-monkey
http://www.kongregate.com/games/Vibe13/starmageddon
More of a thinker, a crossword with numbers.
http://www.kongregate.com/games/pyramizo/crosnum
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The reviews seem to be extremely good. Lots calling it a classic, masterpiece, genius, etc.
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Just finished watching Leon (Blu-ray). Definitely a classic.
Also from 1994 are Shawshank, Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump, Interview with a Vampire, True Lies, and more.
http://www.imdb.com/year/1994
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These questions were given in a piece of paper, not verbally.
- If I buy a meat pie with ketchup for $1.10, and the pie costs a dollar more than the ketchup, how much did each cost?
- A particular species of lily starts growing in a pond and each day it doubles its surface area. On the 48th day it has completely filled the pond, how long did it take to cover half of the pond?
Its depressing how many got these wrong, or took a long time. One dude apparently sat there drawing circles and lilies for ages :(
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http://ie6funeral.com/
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Next Up: Either The Neverhood or Sanitarium.... SHACK PICKS.
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Well, I think I'm going to get rid of it and get a different screen. I don't want to get another DELL monitor or have to pack it up and return it. I bought it for a total of $253 with tax and CA disposal fee. Amazon retails it for over $300. I still have all the packaging material and I've only used the monitor for four days.
Does any one in the so cal area want a 2209wa monitor for $240. It's brand new and it's easier than having to wait for 2 weeks for it to be delivered.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-FjEF1p_G4
WHOAHHH!!!
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Also having a good subwoofer makes the effects all the more better
http://stgdz.shackspace.com/Shack/house/Hometheater/downstairs/tuba/firstsweep.png
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http://blog.twitter.com/2010/02/measuring-tweets.html
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I call it: Women's Curling
Her lithe body pushes off from the hock
and she yells at her sweepers to let it curl.
Then her throw lands in place: the new shot rock.
Some people claim that the sport is a crock,
but I am entranced by the sight of a girl
who is sternly focused, pushing off from the hock
Still I watch for the sport and would not knock
the skill to send forty pounds of granite hurling
down slick ice before it stops as the new shot rock.
Players of all ages and sizes cause some to mock,
so I dare these critics to give it a whirl.
I'd laugh as they fall pushing off from the hock
While I root for the U.S., I cannot block
out the image of the Russians, their faces swirl
in my mind as they land the new shot rock.
I cheer our team on as time falls off the clock
and our skip calls the shot, settling in with a twirl.
Her lithe body pushes off from the hock,
then her throw lands in place: the new shot rock.
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This server is WAMP. On a unix based server it would take maybe a second to insert these 5000 rows.
Not my choice to run WAMP..
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