Evening Reading
by Brian Leahy, Jul 29, 2010 5:00pm PDTLast night, I finished the StarCraft II campaign after around 12 hours of playtime and it was great. I'll be writing up the full review shortly, but I definitely like that the game was split into three pieces. Blizzard gained so much by focusing on the Terran for the full length of the game.
Now, onto multiplayer!
Gaming News o'the Day
- PlayStation doing well, but division still losing money for Sony.
- 2D Worms returns to the PC!
- Nintendo's financials down prompting announcement of 3DS release date and price announcement.
- Capcom profits down 90%! Ouch.
All the rest
New video game releases of 2/13-2/19
Indie Jeff's Weekly Pick: Gunpoint
Daily Filter: Mass Effect 3, Alan Wake's American Nightmare
Blizzard files opposition to Valve's Dota trademark
Twisted Metal promotion blows up Sweet Tooth's truck
With the new release of Safari, I'm testing the extension bar again to see if there's still a memory leak associated with it. If not, I'll be releasing a new version that will check for latest chatties along with the usual lols/vanity/search tools.
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I guess I'll have to find some other way to kill the downtime during this wedding weekend shindig
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I am in your fair city for the next few days. Now that I'm over the jetlag I want to go out and do stuff, what should I see? I think we're doing one of those touristy bus thingies today so we'll probably see Westminster and the Tower and all that, but do you locals have anything else good to recommend (that won't cost a fortune to see/do)? The Black Friar pub looks kinda neat but I'm not sure if that's too touristy or what. I'd like to see some stuff that a first-timer might otherwise miss.
So, tell me what is good. Pip pip, cheerio, God Save the Queen.
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http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/development/img_3875.jpg
3,000 bikes now available for free hire all over London. That lot are in the centre of a traffic island. Here's a map of the locations:
https://web.barclayscyclehire.tfl.gov.uk/maps
How odd!
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mine is probably a tie between peggle and TF2. aside from loads TF2 easily satisfies cravings in 15 minutes or less.
iPhone games count.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-10809473
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Murderer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DWq4a77RZQ
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The pull over w/ sound
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHjjF55M8JQ
The whole thing (Extended w/ no sound)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7PC9cZEWCQ
3/5/2010: Pulled over for speeding
4/7/2010: 6 Cops show up at my house with a search and seizure warrant for all of my computers, cameras and electronics.. They also bring an arrest warrant for "wiretapping" and 2 additional traffic violations. I could not go to jail due to health issues (surgery).
4/14/2010: I turned myself in and spent the night in jail. I was charged with "wiretapping." Felony- 5years $10k max fine. Bail set at $15k?
4/15/2010: Bail review - Released on my own recognizance.
WTF
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all i want is to know is how well Mafia II will run on my current rig without upgrading. the anticipation is KILLING me.
on a side note, i just picked up a Nerf Vulcan. this thing is CRAZY bad ass.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBiQE4hjOsk
Enjoy
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http://textfiend.net/zerohero/?p=568
Really nice actually! Causeway Bay, an area of Hong Kong, is infested with hip little cafes, all on the 3rd and 4th floors of the buildings which tower over the streets. Lots of themes too, like the swing cafe, the sit and read cafe, the Maid Date cafe (this one) etc etc.
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But being a geek, I quickly realized that I could take it further and installed Skype as well. I set up a new account and set it to auto answer calls. So next time I go into the office, I'll call home and the dog will be able to hear and see me on the TV. But I don't really know if she's paying attention, so of course I'll need a webcam connected to the Mac Mini in the living room. Amazon has a Blue Eyeball HD webcam + mic for $40 that should be sufficient. ( http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Microphones-Eyeball-2-0-Microphone/dp/B002OHOF08/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1280445146&sr=8-2 )
Has anyone gone to these levels of geekiness for their dog, or tried anything similar?
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Come join the Russians and the Americans as they strut that ass and then get so goddamn fuckin' tired after getting to Newhope that they won't be struttin' that ass.
The server is Dallas EFF YEAH, where we drive Mercedes Benz bigass goddamn tanks!
The TS3 server is Rydogg1's, info is in my profile! Enjoy our chauvinistic pig attitudes!
The mandatory number of drinks consumed is now 7 up from 6 because we aren't pussies anymore.
Start time is 10pm EST
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i just got called a camper for getting the match winning kill with a headshot 1014 shotgun blast to the muthafuckin skull.
the entire time im running around like a maniac w/ the shotty... and this guy calls me a camper? pfff nigga plz. Anyone that has ever played with me on cod4 and watch me RAPE bloc w/ that shotgun, can back me up on this bogus totally boozed up rant.
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TREE FORT
My epic tree is coming together.
I took a screen shot earlier, but my tree is now 2x larger than this
http://www.shadowram.ca/images/Big_Tree.jpg
Basically, I climb up into a tree, lay down 1 piece of dirt, and plant tree inside/on top of another tree
and span out from there.
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http://www.speedtest.net/result/896874969.png
Yeah, I can live with that.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD49mZiyJYQ
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http://gizmodo.com/5599970/major-corporations-are-downloading-those-100-million-facebook-profiles-off-bittorrent?skyline=true&s=i
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http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/
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I like it, but damn for $200 more the envy 17 got a quad i7, 8GB ram, 2x500 7200rpm, buray.. yeah.
I still have one week to make my mind, exchange or not. Is the mbp overall reliability that much better that it totally worth it over better specs?
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WASTING MY TIME
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http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2010/07/29/pn.11.yr.old.rage.against.bullies.hln?hpt=T2
The internet should do more patrolling.
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