Morning Discussion
by Xav de Matos, Jan 03, 2011 5:00am PST2010 is over. Time to start clearing space on our shelves for the swarm of new titles hitting in 2011. In the first three months alone we're going to be bombarded with quality titles. Then a steady stream of other anticipated games are going to trickle out. In November we have Uncharted 3 landing and my personal "OMGOMGOMG" game of 2011, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, arrives. Then Gears of War 3 and, well, all those games that have yet to be revealed.
This generation makes me happy to be a gamer. You know who else is happy? Credit card companies and loan sharks; the only two options I use when making mass video game purchases. What I'm saying is, I make bad decisions.
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Alan Wake Humble Bundle launches



This may share the "best game" trophy with Dota 2.
Dumb and I have been playing - anyone else? Any thoughts about recreating a shack corp?
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Managed to hit 60 last night on my human rogue. Went and bought myself one of them special flying mounts and I must say that flying around Outlands is pretty awesome.
Speaking of which, I'm in agreeance with Magus: Outlands is pretty cool. I finished hitting 58 in Sithilus which was a complete pain in the ass and immediately got out of there after finishing what few quests I had left. All of the new mobs in Outlands are pretty awesome and that giant Power Rangers looking thing (Fel whatever) that walks around is equally awesome.
How is everyone else doing in the wonderful world of Warcraft?
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http://mashable.com/2011/01/03/apple-300-billion/
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How much will the E6600@3ghz hinder a 6950? Can I finally run Crysis at 1920x1200 wtih 8xAF (don't care for AA) at ~60fps?
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so a couple weeks ago i needed some RAM for my MBP and lovely hirez offered to send me some. a couple days later, i got a huge package (weirdly ripped open - thanks UPS) to my office including the RAM and a bunch of other awesome random crap - a beer encyclopedia, nail polish, a Windows 7 baseball in a case, a bobblehead doll, an earth, wind, and fire set etc. there was also a note in it that even said "happy white elephant!" but since i knew hirez was sending me RAM, i figured he just threw in some other random shit for giggles. so i ended up giving out the random shit to people in the office (my office manager was all over the earth, wind, and fire stuff) and the RAM made me able to WoW whilst on vacation.
during vacation, i received a notification through the shackapp that my WE had been sent, but upon returning i didn't have a package - so i just sent my buddy a message that his gift to me probably got eaten and hirez nicely wrote me back and didn't call me an idiot but pointed out how much i was, in fact, an idiot.
so sadly, this is all you get of my WE unveiling because all the stuff is gone but i swear it was awesome and thanks hirez!
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I return with good news and other news. The good news: we have just added DC Universe Online beta access! The other news: We have a limited quantity so it's only available to our Mercury members.
Check it out at http://www.fileshack.com/game_betas.x
Enjoy!
-Sean with GameFly
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Oh yeah, and this is what NASA thinks: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3327114/Nasa-names-most-absurd-sci-fi-film.html
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Here's your final reminder that Shack Assignment #62: Water is due by midnight tonight!
http://www.flickr.com/groups/shackassignments/discuss/72157625598058594/
I had 3 ideas for this assignment, and 2 of them failed last night. I should not have procrastinated.
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http://www.ratscar.com/nl/gaming/producten/
But I can't find one in the US. Any ideas? To get that one shipped here would be like 60 euro which is like 500 dollars :(
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So, I'd like to change things up with the Serious Business Shackbattles that we've played off and on for the past several months.
I want there to be set squads. It will be a pain in the ass, and it might not work at all, but I think if I don't put the effort forth to try it, we'll never know if it failed or if it would have taken off. And I think the best way to go with BFBC2 is to pick 4 man squads, which will be easier to shuffle than 16 man teams.
Because I think if we don't to this, we'll continue to have problems with the balance of the matches, and people will lose interest and stop playing in them.
So, ITT, post your in-game name, and I'll start a google doc. If anyone has a suggestion for making sure all the really good players don't end up in the same squad, go for it, let me hear it.
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http://slickdeals.net/permadeal/44661/amazon.com-darksiders-game-for-xbox-360-or-ps3
Buy this fucking game!
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Guild Name: <The Grapists> (in reference to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fqq051BU2MY )
Account Action: 3 Hour Suspension
Offense: Extreme Sexuality/Violence
This category includes both clear and masked names which:
* Refer to extreme and/or violent sexual acts
* Refer to extremely violent real life actions
I'm not surprised it happened, although I'm surprised it took over a year. <The Grapists> is my alt guild (all of my alts are in this guild).
ITT, people help me come up with a new guild name.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml7ZhupDLok
lol @ 2 and number 1
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I need some way to profile a query that's taking an inordinately long time to run. I've already done an EXPLAIN and it comes back as I expect - its not using a key on one of three tables in a join, and of course that means its stepping through 25k records to find a match. Funny thing is, I'm joining on the primary key, so I don't know WTF is preventing it from joining faster.
Here's the query:
https://gist.github.com/763987
NOTICE: I didn't write this stupid query.
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What is it with Epic executives and bathtubs?
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Looks like Chick-fil-A Spicy Chicken Sandwich Deluxe for me
http://blogs.palmbeachpost.com/malled/files/2010/03/picture-42-300x259.png
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... Ps3 fully hacked now.
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Far Cry 2 is excellent: Africa, the maps, the UI, the setting, vehicles, graphics, characters, animations, guns, animals, night-day cycle, I have malaria LOL OMG I'm in a game where I have malaria!
The disposable militia and the characters are movie-like but believable, I like my buddies, the situation is FUBAR and I have a sniper rifle and it 0wns.
Sometimes it reminds me of Jagged Alliance, but most the time I'm just amazed at everything and how long has been since a SP game had me this immersed.
This is how I like my SP FPS experience, thanks shack that's all.
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i would like some case suggestions, any place i can order somes, etc, and that ships to canadia!
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110103/ts_yblog_thelookout/explorers-discover-spectacular-caves-in-vietnam#mwpphu-container
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It gives a competitive edge to something that otherwise you'd play once, beat and never touch again.
for example, for the last 3 hours I've been whittling away at the Onslaught map in Defense Grid (it's the first Borderlands DLC map)... and I've gone from ~5000th on the PC (steam?) scoreboard... to
\m/ 100th \m/
Score of 119514
I reckon there's still a little bit of tuning to be done with regards to when certain towers are placed, and indeed upgraded, but there's time to work on that. :)
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I lol'd
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