Morning Discussion
by Alice O'Connor, Jul 16, 2010 5:00am PDTHello again, Internet. I'm properly back from the Develop 2010 conference now. It was jolly nice. A lot was awfully interesting and I'll have more to share over the next few days. What day is today? Not sure. Probably doesn't matter. Lovely people, just lovely.
Now to see how quickly I can read 471 e-mails and skim several thousand RSS items.
Hotline Miami 2 preview: curtain call
Warning: PS3 firmware 4.45 crashing consoles
Dragon's Prophet preview: how to catch your dragon
Report: Respawn Entertainment co-founder left due to personal conflict
Oculus Rift secures $16 million in venture capital
I dont have an HD tv.
A friend who does, brought his PS3 to my house so we could play Buzz all together.
Once we connect the console, no image is output..
Is there a way to reset the PS3 or something?
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Please respond with:
1. STEAM PROFILE: a link to your steam profile page ( like this: http://steamcommunity.com/id/highrez/ )
2. YOUR STEAM ID: ( like this: 0:1:2883 ) - HOW TO GET YOUR STEAM ID: Locate your steam directory on your hard drive, usually C:\Program Files\Steam -- find steam.log file and open it with notepad. Look for lines such as: Found existing connection 9,216.228.115.67:27030 for 0:0:8888. The last few numbers is your steam id, ie: 0:0:8888.
3. EAST or WEST: This will determine your match time. Matches will most likely be held at 8pm Pacific/Eastern (depending on division). (So if you are a West Coaster that wants to play at 5pm, you'd sign up for East; OR If you are a East Coaster who wants to play at 11pm, you'd sign up for West. Central/Mountain time, you are on your own!)
4. PREFERRED CLASSES: Please list your top 2 classes to play in TF2. This is necessary if we go the Highlander route (which is totally dependent on how many people sign up).
5. OH CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN: Do you like Gladiator Movies? Have you ever seen a grown man naked? have you ever been in a Turkish prison? Then you might be Penske Material! (We do need captains - Captains are responsible for 2 things: picking the team, and coordinating with me & the other captains. Captains are under no obligation to hold practices, scrimmages, water sports, or be JO buds. But they should try to show up every week for the match! )
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Some of the James Bond movies have titles that are sort of phrases, like
The World Is Not Enough
Tomorrow Never Dies
Live and Let Die
You Only Live Twice
Never Say Never Again (yeah I know, doesn't really count)
And then others have more regular names like
GoldenEye
Moonraker
Casino Royale
Thunderball
When Monolith wanted to do a James Bond send-up game they called it No One Lives Forever, which sounds like something from the first group above.
My question is - is there a proper term for the names in the first group?
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Lay down the tarps 'n' get aboard the FunBus!
Join us as we celebrate the plugging of the oil leak by PLUGGIN' AND BUTT-CHUGGIN' ALL NIGHT LONG!
There will be APC races!
There will be Mr. Frosty races!
There will be Cops 'n Crooks!
There will be DinoCopters!
There will be Maddog_Delphi97!
GFWL the jimmy legz, loiosh, or jonunderscore for invites.
As always, being in TeamSpeak is MANDATORY
RyDogg's Sever: ts.shackbattles.com, pw boxcar
Start Times: 9PM EST for Episodes from Liberty City, followed at 10PM EST with GTA4 vanilla
As usual, this is a 8-gallon BUTT-CHUGG MINIMUM event. (Non-alcoholic soups allowed but discouraged)
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Round 1
Division 1 - Dresden Fireflies (On the Brane) 0 - 4 Nimh's Rejects (Thornfist)
Division 2 - Zebo's Zhtyhllxxy (zebosausamite) 1 - 2 Midget's Buttbibs (midgetherder)
Division 1 - Atomic Tongue Brigade (nurglich) vs. Cthulhu's Rats (Gary the Llama)
Division 2 - The Screamin' Eagles (cygnus) vs. We Are Horny (Juno)
Steam Group for Blood Bowl: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/shackbbc
Tashtego's out and Gary the Llama's in! Go go go!
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Ok... I was just blown away by this demo done for the Breakpoint 2010 party. These guys did a demo consisting completely of particles. Not a single polygon is in this just particles and millions of them! The demo won the 'Regular Demo' category at Breakpoint!
Just a warning this thing will rape your GPU... I had to run it at 1280x800 on my GTX260 to keep the framerate around ~20-25fps.
Agenda Circling Forth -- by CNCDvsFairlight art house productions inc
Download: http://www.scene.org/file.php?file=%2Fparties%2F2010%2Fbreakpoint10%2Fdemo%2Fagenda.zip&fileinfo (Requires Directx 9.0c, Geforce 260 / Radeon 4850 or better.)
Video: http://vimeo.com/12109210
You might need the latest DX runtimes, grab them here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=3b170b25-abab-4bc3-ae91-50ceb6d8fa8d
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Any interest in a Shackmeet this Saturday? I'm in town with mrsgeedeck and our previous plans are kaputski. multisync? nyranger666? ???
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I have to say I'm very impressed with it. I am sending back my HTC Droid Incredible on Monday.
The Droid X has superior build quality, multimedia features, better GPU, and better battery life than the Incredible. I am very very please with it.
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Valve bought the team that made it, and now they're about to release a sequel on Steam:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/630/
Free!
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I have an overweight friend who is a good looking guy but well... he's big. He's always complaining about how he doesn't get any and how people aren't interested in him because of his size. Yet he also says that he is happy with the way he looks - just not happy that other people don't like the way he looks.
Should someone feel compelled to lose weight just to feel attractive to others?
I don't know whether to offer to work out with him or go jogging with him or whatever or whether he'd feel like that was insulting. But it got me to thinking, most people aren't interested in overweight partners. Does that make us ultimately shallow people? Perhaps we all are. :(
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anyway, for great justice, this is the single, most awesomest potatohead ever!
http://www.irondogstudios.com/images/tater/mek_tater.html
WAAAAAAAAAAAGH]g[r!!]r
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at work, there are a couple people who think they make the best chili around, and thusly, we are going to have a chili cook off. i love to cook, so they asked if i wanted to participate.
now, i happen to a broken individual who doesn't particularly like chili, however, i want to make a go of it. i am fielding awesome chili recipes (because i know some of you make really good versions) and this weekend i am going to make one in a slow cooker and one in a dutch oven and then tweak for the contest.
please help and post your recipes.
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Big spoiler about the end: Vanille & Fang :( And I was all agape when I saw the others turn into C'ieth. :O But then happy when they came back. :D But poor Vanille & Fang nonetheless.
So much better then my lg touch
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It appears as though my beautiful Toshiba NB205 netbook has bit the dust somehow. Thankfully it's still under the manufacturer's warranty. Unfortunately, I cannot seem to find my receipt from Fry's.
Now, the wife insists that Fry's will have a copy of the receipt on record. Which is nonsense. And I paid cash, so it's not like there's a thingy on my credit card or something.
I do, however, have all the original packaging, manuals, etcetera.
Is there anyway Toshiba will accept the thing under warranty or am I SOL?
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