Morning Discussion
by Xav de Matos, Nov 03, 2010 5:00am PDTThe battle between Schwarzenegger and the EMA/ESA kicked off yesterday. According to some reports, the pendulum is not swinging in either notable direction. Some judges appear to favor California state's position, others don't, and some aren't showing their cards just yet.
It's going to be a long process and we plan to follow it all very closely.
- For more information on the situation, check out our complete coverage:
- California Bill to Restrict Sale of Violent Videogames to Minors Argued in US Supreme Court
- Warren Spector Calls Gamers to Action on Oct. 19 to 'Protect' the Video Game Industry
- Send California Senator Leland Yee a Message by Sending Him Your Broken Gaming Peripherals
- ESA Urges Gamers to Join the Video Game Voters Network in Fight Against Proposed California Law
- Judge Declares California Violent Game Bill Unconstitutional, Schwarzenegger Vows Revenge
- Violent Games Bill One Step Away
New game releases of May 20-26
Killzone: Mercenary shoots onto Vita on September 10
Trion Worlds hit with more layoffs, Defiance team impacted
Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault defending Vita next week
Game & Wario was originally going to be pre-installed on Wii U



My parents have trouble even getting their mp3's players to sync up, god damnit this is going to suck.
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He was entertaining.
I bought Fable II GOTY yesterday because of the cheap price ($19.99 cad) and included dlc. I must say i'm really enjoying it now. When it first came out, I bought it and I didn't like it. I think its because I didn't get the quirks and the fact that it doesn't play like every other action rpg i've grown accustomed to. I'm really glad I gave it a second chance. I'm just wondering about games other shackers didn't originally like but that grew on them after repeat exposure?
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http://ca.movember.com/mospace/1024510
GO!
Played Darksiders for 2 minutes, E74.
Thanks!
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The last two episodes have been excellent.
Last night's really had a classic stargate feel when Young kept having the recurring dream from the ship battle simulator, and I really like the idea of Destiny being some sort of ultimate human/machine interface, where the ship needs the people to actually function. Plus, Eli finally has a chance to get some with cute alien nerd chick!
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I know that generally talking about your future plans for the game is tactically unwise but let's find out who's got goals in mind and who's just civ building. If we're just passing the time I'd like to wrap it up.
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http://www.shackvideo.com/the-amazing-race-launch-trailer-22514
It's my favorite show and I'd hate to see it dissed on by the GB crew, but at the same time, every Ludia QL they do is pure awesomeness.
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Out of this list, which cable modem is considered the best? :-)
â—¦Thomson - DCM235/235R - 25
â—¦Thomson - DCM245/245R - 26
â—¦Thomson - DCM325 - 1.7
â—¦Thomson - DCM425 - 4
â—¦Toshiba - PCX2500/DAZ8821 - 9.2.3
â—¦Toshiba - PCX2600 - 19.0.0, 19.0.1
â—¦Toshiba - PCX1100 - 6.11
â—¦Toshiba - PCX1100U - 6.62
â—¦Toshiba - PCX2000 - 3.2.1
â—¦Terayon - Terajet ECM615 - 1.2
â—¦Motorola - SB5100 - 3
â—¦Motorola - SB5120 - 4
â—¦Motorola - SB5101 - 1
â—¦Webstar - DPX2100 - 1.1
â—¦Webstar - DPC2100 - 1.1
â—¦Webstar - DPC2100r2 - 2.1
â—¦Joohong - SL - 2810 - 29.2
â—¦SMC - SMC8013WG - RCR - 1C
â—¦SMC - SMC8013WG - RMR - 1C
â—¦SMC - SMC8014WG - RRR - 4
â—¦Electroline - DHT - PS - NA - 01 - 1
â—¦Terayon - ECM715 - 3
â—¦Terayon - ECM715 - 7/3.2
â—¦Terayon - ECM715 - 7/3.3
â—¦Terayon - TJ715x - 9
â—¦Terayon - TJ715x - 10
â—¦Terayon - TJ715xHP - 14
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this movie has been on AMC a least a half dozen times in the last week or so yet I've never seen the entire thing. did they explain why/how the mars outpost was destroyed? all they said was that "it wasnt the weather", ya well, I need closure on that plot point
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Trailer for Paul, with the guys from Shaun of the Dead.
Looks like it might be pretty funny
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What's the current hotness? I'm helping my little brother spec out his new gaming rig. He needs everything except a monitor.
Processor: Core i7 (LGA 1366), not sure on the particular one. There's a microcenter nearby though.
Memory: 6GB Corsair DDR3 (Tri-Channel)
Video: ?????? No SLI, otherwise open to whatever is the current best. I have a GTX460 currently that I like, but I bought it for price point and to keep my c2d system running for a bit longer without anything too major.
Case: Antec 300 is a good bet
Hard Disk: Western Digital Black 1 TB, possibly a solid state drive depending on price
---side note: he's used to backing up and moving games around since his current setup is a small laptop drive with an external drive where he keeps backups of all his games, so a SSD wouldn't be much of a change as far as moving games back and forth.
Any suggestions? What's the best video card out there that's not ridiculous (price/heat/power, etc.)
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http://www.buy.com/prod/xbox-live-12-month-gold-subscription-card-gold-membership/q/loc/108/211086907.html
1C Company announces that open beta testing is underway for Men of War: Assault Squad, Digitalmindsoft's upcoming standalone expansion for the World War II real-time tactics game. Signups for the beta are being processed through this page, where you can get a key for the test, which is being conducted via Steam. Here's the description of the beta: "Players will be able to try out the new skirmish game mode on two maps with up to four players, and play other popular online game modes such as Assault Zone, Combat and Frontlines, which have all been improved. For instance players can now use Special Units throughout the entire battle."
http://www.digitalmindsoft.eu/games/men-of-war-assault-squad/open-beta
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I remember seeing my brother in law play it when the PS3 first came out, now I finally have one and just remembered the game, it looked kinda fun
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To hold myself off until Christmas, I been getting really into some of the sound Track:
Vale Decem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSgUv6uvYwg (Which translates into the humorous Farewell Ten)
This is Gallifrey, Our Childhood, Our Home: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwa6754O8SE
The Doctor's Theme (Season 5): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ze8V8fRKx6Q
The Doctor's Theme (Season 4): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khUS545w8cM&feature=related
Doomsday: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8DURP5xQCA&feature=related
What do you think? Any other favorites?
Also, I think I am ready to check out some more classic Doctor Who episodes from before the reboot. I have Netflix. Recommendations on where to start?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEubt6HpGhs&feature=player_embedded
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Move has its tech and games reviewed over a week in advance. I read the Sonic Free Riders review at IGN at it seemed alright, I'm looking most forward to Dance Central, see how Adventures is that comes free and how the interface and voice commands work with the dashboard.
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This happens about one a month and usually results in a hard lock. It appears that for some reason Windows tries spawning a window for every thread/process that's running. For example, all I had open was GroupWise and Excel, then out of no where, kaboom and all this shit shows up on my screen.
Anyone seen this before?
And before you asses give me shit, I only put the taskbar at the top so you can see all the freaky titlebars.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIraCchPDhk
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With the new Xbox dashboard update, the Xbox Live Indie Game Channel has royally been given the finger. The channel is no longer in the Games tab section, and if you use the Game Search feature, indie games don't seem to be part of any results. Obviously, you can see how this can cause exposure problems for many indie devs.
How can you make a difference (hopefully)? Head on over to https://connect.microsoft.com/site226/feedback/details/618834/xbox-live-indie-games-missing-from-games-category and vote the problem up ( click the green arrow ) so that it gains the attention of Microsoft and hopefully they revert the changes made.
You do need to register for Connect in order to even see the page linked above. AGAIN you need to register for the Connect site, even if you have a Windows Live ID already. So please, take the 5 minutes to do so. Indie devs need all the support they can get, and as an indie dev working on an XNA game now, this is a major bummer to me as well. So please, vote. Thank you!
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short foliage clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR85LvKNLBU
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This problem appeared in the last couple of days and I have gone to the ends with Google but I can't find a solution. I noticed it first when random rock-ish music started playing over my music. I check the processes running and notice 2-3 iexplore.exe processes. I end it and the music stops. iexplore.exe starts again after a few seconds though. The music doesn't happen every time and I have enough memory to not notice the effect the iexplore.exes are having on me (until the music was playing). Quick google search tells me it's some kind of rootkit but the results off Google don't describe my problem that accurately.
I've run full scans with MBAM, Super Anti Spyware and MSE and nothing comes up other than cookies.
It's a little creepy when the music starts randomly and would very much like to rid my machine of this lol.
All help greatly appreciated.
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Update:
Runing combofix atm, contrary to initial stance, says MBR infected, rootkit activity found. Sounds nasty so far.
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Is there an online action RPG for the Wii other than MH3? I don't think so but I just wanted to check.
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beef
http://ruhlman.com/2010/11/grass-fed-beef-farmer-aaron-millerits-all-about-the-fat.html
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