Weekend Discussion: North America Holiday Edition
by Xav de Matos, Jul 03, 2010 6:00am PDTAs much as I appreciate the fantastic sale prices on Steam, I'm not sure when I'm going to find the time to play any of the game's I've purchased. Thankfully, the July 4 long weekend is upon us, giving me more time to zone out and play the newest additions to my collection.
My first week as the Shacknews East Coast Editor complete (with, admittedly, a few speed bumps), I think I deserve some to play a few games ... and not just write about them.
Speaking of sales, here are a few other deals happening this week to hurt your wallet and threaten your free time:
- Good Old Games: 30% off Another world and Sanitarium until Monday
- Impulse: 50% Company of Heroes: Complete (and a much more) on sale
- Direct2Drive: Daily deals to celebrate the site's recent redesign
- GamersGate: Celebrating America, with a few interesting offers
What are you playing this weekend?
Chatty: Diablo III, Dragon's Dogma
FileShack: Unity of Command, Skyjacker
Daily Filter: Planetside 2, Deadlight
Weekend PC digital deals: strategy-o-rama
38 Studios, Harry Potter Kinect - Shacknews Daily: May 25, 2012
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
Everyone keeps recommending this cooler (http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=41337), but from what I've seen in installation videos, it looks pretty involved and I seem to recall other LGA775 coolers that snapped in.
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I have created a private league in Blood Bowl for shackers to compete in! This is a cup style league with eight teams participating. There are two pools of four teams followed by an elimination round. We're using the classic, turn-based rules.
To participate, create a new team and apply for the private league "Shacknews Cup I" The password is sandylime.
Feel free to post here, SM me, or contact me in-game (my coach's name is zebosausamite).
Blood Bowl for PC is on sale right now on Steam for 50% off, so join us while it's cheap!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/11170/
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It installed itself alongside a recent Steam purchase, and now I can't access my Fallout 3 saves.
Good job Microsoft, you're really progressing gaming there. >:(
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7UmUX68KtE
shrimpies!
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Suggestions on where to stay and what to do go in this thread!
Hint: we don't gamble (I might play a hand of blackjack or poker)
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My biggest challenges that I've overcome is getting a farm going as early as possible, re-routing a river into a reservoir (and not flooding my fortress in the process) and putting in a well.
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Earlier today, I was at a barbecue at a relative's house. A friend of this relative, with a special needs (autistic, I believe) son, was visiting too. Before he walked in, the relative told MY FIANCEE and me that "[the son] is non verbal, but..." and then looked at MY FIANCEE, "...he has a foot fetish, so if he asks you to take off his shoes, just be stern and say, 'No.'" At first I didn't quite know if he was serious, but then the son, who was probably no older than 13, walks in and starts gazing around the room. Almost immediately he looks at MY FIANCEE and starts staring at her feet.
Later, we're all outside gathered around the grill shooting the breeze when the kid comes around again and walks up to MY FIANCEE and gets her attention and then points to her shoes. So she tells him, "No." and he walks away. A few minutes later he sits down next to an empty chair and gets her attention again, and then stares at her and taps the chair as if to say, "sit here." So she again says, sternly, "No!" and he kind of moves on. Later we're sitting (at the opposite end of the grill area) and he looks at me and points to MY sneakered feet. So I put my hand up and tell him, "NO."
I had no idea kids that young could even form fetishes. The whole thing was creepy, especially the longing, deadpan look on his face when he kept trying to foot-hit on people (and it wasn't all MY FIANCEE. At one point the kid wanted another kid (8 years old) to open the door for him but the kid shouted, "Dad! He wants me to take him inside, but I won't because he's going to try to do feet with me!" at which point I giggled.
Is this sort of thing common at all? I wanted to call the kid Lil' Phil.
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Bolange,
The Confucius High Priests have convened and weighed in on your recent arrogance towards the Greek Empire and accusations of developing destructive technologies. The decision has been made: remove all Roman units - including ships - from Greek borders or risk losing those units.
Until a full public apology is issued, all Greek naval units have been given clearance by the both the Greek Monarchy and Confucius high priests to shoot-on-sight any Roman vessels.
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Anyone playing this? Being in Japan, the game doesn't run well at all with my ping. I was wondering if players in America deal with enemy characters skipping around. Trying to hit people who strafe back and forth is near impossible.
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I get home from the store at about 8pm with beer. I crack open said beer. The second the bottle touches my lips, my pager explodes and my bosses are calling me. "EVERYTHING IS DOWN, GET TO THE DATACENTER RIGHT NOW".
Power outages suck, folks. I'm going to be here all night..
Hope you guys are enjoying your 4th of July evening :(
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Thanks.
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I haven't bought anything on the sale yet.
Let's say you have $50 to blow and you own none of the games except GTA4, Red Faction and Trine, how would you spend it?
Then tell me how you would spend the double of that ($100 :))
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Getting a little sick of elevators though.
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Should I? Looking for some new SciFi here to fill the summer void.
I'm a massive TNG fan, and like everyone else enjoy Firefly. I even choked down Defying Gravity just to have something to watch. The bits of BSG I've seen have not impressed me on account of the awful characters, but that's another option. So for character drama Farscape seems like a fit. However I do also own the TNG Technical Manual, and long to be deeply technically satisfied by thoughtful presentations of future tech. So will I hate it?
Also, over in SA's TVIV people have been recommending cancelled shows, and this one is too cheap to pass up: http://www.amazon.com/Odyssey-5-Complete-Peter-Weller/dp/B000ELL1QC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1278315053&sr=8-1
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Going to see what a retail mac store looks like today in London, I've never seen one.
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So shack, what's with the hating? I'm someone who likes almost everything in terms of media. Or at the very least I can see why someone else might like it. The list of music genres I generally don't like amounts to all of 3. I'll watch and enjoy almost any type of movie except torture porn, and the only the video games I categories I don't like amount too "Farmville" and "Mario" (Yeah don't ask, but I did like a lot of Sunshine actually)
So as someone who always tries to find something to like about a category of anything, what brings you to hate something? To say, "aggh I can't stand that shit!" and then the people who like it on here call you broken.
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http://www.ohgizmo.com/2010/07/05/chase-lets-users-deposit-checks-via-their-iphone
The future of checks is here.
No, actually, their future lies in the crapper. Stop using them you antiquated yanks.
http://gizmodo.com/5579627/farmville-groceries-are-real-and-tastier-than-pixels
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http://www.gametrailers.com/user-movie/gta-iv-crossing-the-street/346639?playlist=featured
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Thank you both for being so incredibly awesome! I appreciate the hell out of it.
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I don't know who's worse, them or automan.ca from iron maiden on Wednesday
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Any settings/opt tips for the witcher? Is the problem that I'm at 1080P?
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So hot, so mesmerizing......
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUFMQEugZWo
The segment at the end when he joins a free for all lobby packed with boosters is funny and reminds me what the average player base for that game is like.
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