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Morning Discussion: Scrap Metal
by Chris Faylor, Mar 10, 2010 5:00am PSTToday's Morning Discussion is not brought to you by the letters BT--if it were, dear Alice wouldn't be on her fifth consecutive day of wonky Internet connectivity and I wouldn't be penning Morning D in some half-awake state. Cheers to you, British Telecom.
In other news, Scrap Metal is now available as an Xbox 360 download. It's a top-down combat racer--imagine a cross between R.C. Pro-Am and Twisted Metal--and I've really enjoyed what I've played thus far. The various missions--sometimes you're going after one specific target, sometimes you're just straight-up racing--mix things up enough so that things don't get too mundane, plus unlocking / upgrading / customizing all the different cars has an oddly addictive hook. My first car? Pink with a big donut on top.
Is it worth the 1200 Microsoft Points / $15? I'm not sure, I haven't put in enough time to really say, but if you're interested, that free demo is certainly worth checking out.
Update: "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated. No, I live on as a couch-surfing techno-hobo relying on the kindness of strangers." - Alice
So the results of last night's thread: http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=22376692#itemanchor_22377135 show that Saturday is the best night so far, but only by one vote. I'll wait to make sure that's okay tonight, so feel free to keep voting here: http://doodle.com/u4c4c834idn4mxvg if you can make it a different night.
Part 2 of this endeavor will be where to eat! So do any SF/Bay area folks have any recommendations of good places to eat near the Moscone Center? Anyone have any specific kind of food they want to get?
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Lots of good info/guides here to get you up to speed:
http://www.crazykinux.com/2007/07/all-eve-online-guides-you-ever-needed.html
What's up with me:
- Outgrew my inital clone
- All my first/second tier learning skills are level 4 Except charisma skills-It's always a dump stat anyway
- Still have two 11day skills before I can pilot CoverOps & Assault frigates
- While ratting in low sec I had a guy drop in and scramble my punisher. When I turned on him and started tanking the pirates and shredding his Rifter he turned and fled. Felt pretty good (but would have been better if I'd had a scambler and thus gotten a killmail--lesson learned).
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80s-era stand-up cabinet game. Had you and one other player flying planes around the screen dropping bombs on ships that passed below you. Each bomb would eat away a certain amount of the ship in a vertical column, if that column got low enough the ship would start leaking. Enough leaks would sink the ship. You could also shoot down enemy fighters that were flying around and get their wreckage to collide with the ships.
I thought it was called Tigersharks, but that name search brings up nothing. Anyone remember?
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I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, aid me in my search for a mini notebook.
Being forced into technological trampery by my failing ADSL connection has reminded that having a portable computer of my own would be a wonderful thing. Rather than slouching on a cream leather sofa right now, I could be hunched over in Starbucks--other coffee houses are available--pretending I'm writing my novel instead of actually working for a living. Or a pub. Or anywhere that's not imposing on someone else. Plus, I could even use it when my connection wasn't broken!
I'm looking for a mini notebook with a ten or eleven- inch screen, 2GB of RAM and enough processing power to run PopCap games. Anything beyond that would be a bonus. Specific models would be nice but advice on brands and lines is just as useful. I've only ever desktops so this is all a mystery to me.
Warmest regards,
Judith
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Can you guys do a test for me?
Open this url on your favorite browser?
http://www.vfc.co.mz (dont worry, no malwares or anything)
and then
http://vfc.co.mz
Is it working?
its working for me on Firefox but both IE7 and Chrome pop out a download window, like its not interpreting the html page (php).
Weird.
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For the second time after playing this game all night I woke up feeling terrible. This dream involved terrorists that tried to kill me while I was trying to find cover. Even after I woke up I couldn't get the images out of my head. I figured this is happening because this game is so close to what real combat must feel like.
Is this happening to others as well?
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I have knifed enemies in the back from a good 11+ ft away. I am sure this was exacerbated by the realities of internet play and net code because I was chasing the guys down. The point remains that I shouldn't be able to clean out a squad by warping from guy to guy with my knife.
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