Morning Discussion
by Alice O'Connor, Jul 02, 2010 5:00am PDTBlack & White allowed players to synchronise their in-game weather with the world outside their window but on this sweltering hot and muggy day, my heat-muddled mind is crying out for a game that'll do the exact opposite.
I want to be playing a game which shakes a fine dusting of snow over everything in summer, turning lakes to ice and blasting icy winds through my speakers from left to right. "Lawks-a-larky!" the comical British-y NPCs would exclaim. "It's colder than a witch's tit and no mistake!" Yes, yes I feel cooler and more at ease just thinking about it.
Please, video games. Yes, it's pointless, expensive, impractical and derision-worthy but I need this. You remember all that fun we had together? We're friends, yeah? Please?
Chatty: Diablo III, Dragon's Dogma
FileShack: Unity of Command, Skyjacker
Daily Filter: Planetside 2, Deadlight
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Minecraft for Xbox 360 dev working on 'Adventure' update
Demon's Souls servers extended again
Resident Evil: Chronicles HD Collection coming in June
Sony patent would interrupt gameplay to display ad
Weekend Confirmed 114 - Diablo 3, Max Payne 3, Lost Planet 3
I'm dropping the shacknews part...cause I'm lazy
The Dark Six
Complementing the Soveriegn Host and its focus on the light of civilization, the Dark Six represent the darkness of the wilds. The two pantheons were once combined, but a great schism separated them. The Dark Six now Oppose the Host on all fronts.
Eberron Player's Guide
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Robert "Dembo" Dembowski.
I was his fireteam leader when he first showed up to division and remember being on CQ (24 hour company level duty) once where I got to know him pretty well pretty early on. The unit deployed to Iraq again, shortly after I ETS'd (got out) and I always felt guilty about not going back with the guys I had become family to. When I found out he had been killed by small arms fire I was working a dead end armed security job walking around some supermarket in NC.
http://www.gwpatriotblog.com/2007/06/spc-robert-h-dembowski-kia-524-2007.html
Trevor "Blum" Blumberg
Blum was just back from the units first Astan rotation when I showed up and in a different platoon, but always ready to tell me "hey man, you're fucked up, here's what you need to do" when I was adjusting to life in the Army. He was a good leader and well respected in the unit. I remember visiting the Airborne and Special Operation museum in Fayetteville NC and seeing a picture of his rifle, boots, and dogtags with another friend of mine kneeled infront of them crying. He was KIA within our first week in country. His family opened this in his honor: http://www.blumslanding.org/
http://militarytimes.com/valor/army-sgt-trevor-a-blumberg/256792/
Israel Garcia.
One of the first guys I knew in Battalion since we were both cherry's (new guys) and man that guy made me laugh my ass off. He had that stereotypical Mexican accent that would make you smile just because it's right out of a comedy. I deployed twice with him in the 82nd before he moved units to the 173rd and was KIA in AStan. The firefight which took his life was fairly big news, maybe you guys would remember it. I think something like 13 guys lost their lives in the fight. He nicknamed me "Miclo" from that movie "Blood in Blood out" for some reason. If you watch the youtube video below, I'm in a couple of the squad photo's we took around our first deployment with the 82nd. I miss him a lot, and watching the video is pretty emotional so i thought I would get a little bit out here.
http://tankerbabelc985.vox.com/library/post/sgt-israel-garcia-awarded-silver-star-posthumously-on-29-august-2009.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccREdys6wgM&feature=player_embedded
I try not to emo this place up but thank you for reading. Drink a few beers for these guys this weekend when you're hanging by the grill with your family and friends!
Strike Hold, Airborne All The Way.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7o2vSzxAKc
because you know, doctors get paid a lot too
also because that is some darn good GMod posing
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F Trials HD in the ASS
F this noise
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Did they weaken the launcher grenades or am I just bad with them? I started playing again and I remember that I before was either sniped or killed from a grenade launcher a few months back. I tried the assault class and the most kills with grenades I've gotten is by shooting them exactly in the chest so they die from impact, and the grenade doesn't explode.
I shoot a grenade at the ground between 2 people running at me from like 10 feet away, it explodes, nothing happens. These things feel like water bombs, every time I tried to use it instead of bullets I got killed because the grenades don't seem to hurt them really.
Also what is up with the pings? I read they changed the pings, but its still that strange ping display in server browser. What does that number even mean, and why does it sort it like the lowest ones are the better ones? I go to servers that are said to have a ping of 30, boom 185 in game. Some different values, but never the one that is shown there. Why can't it just display things like the source browser? Same for the chat system, its still not perfect.
tl;dr: Are the launcher nades weak for anyone else and how do I find a server with a good ping from the server browser?
Still love the game though, its great that you finally get points after death.
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Damn, Arnie has some killer one liners, my favourite was "KNOCK KNOCK"
I lol'd
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Is there enough interest to do a shackbattle of this sometime during the week?
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i plug the phone in using the aux jack to listen to music in my car. with my 3G, this worked perfectly, but since i got my new phone i have very slight feedback whenever i plug it in. i tried a new cord this morning and it's still there (although possibly better.) the feedback comes and goes - if i pause the music, unplug the wire, and put it back in, it usually goes away, but always comes back when i turn on the music. usually it's just static, but sometimes there's a slight high pitched squeaking noise.
is the iphone fucked up? what's the remedy other than buying yet another wire?
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http://consumerist.com/2010/07/how-did-they-make-that-old-spice-commercial.html
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http://www.giantbomb.com/quick-look-wipeout-the-game/17-2860/
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Onlive just emailed me with a offer of 1st year free with no commitment after the free year.
Installing now.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7UmUX68KtE
And now we know the source of all terrible Youtube comments
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL7yD-0pqZg
It keeps getting better.
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Is this a decent choice for her?
http://tinyurl.com/24t9nx9
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Anyone playing this game? I just installed, going in.
Pretty damn tempting, damn you steam!
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I've just been browsing a couple of user videos on youtube and it looks dull as dishwater..
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http://flannigans.org/main.html
And I thought I was going to make it to the long weekend unscathed.
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http://nik.bot.nu/img/orig/4/6/466139.jpg
Potential NWS may happen if the link breaks or does not work at all.
What luck have you guys had trying to sell your old 3g? I want to get rid of this thing so I can pick up the new hotness. Craigslist? eBay? Does anyone want to buy my iPhone 3g 8gb? :(
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