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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How do you feel about our 4 game winning streak? One one hand it was so much fun to watch a team that was enjoying playing the game, playing with confidence, and changing their attitude around. We have a team that can win now, its awesome.
On the other hand our season has been done for a while and I was so hoping for 1-2 more losses to ensure we get a shutdown corner. Patrick Peterson is sick and would give our defense a great piece to solving our secondary puzzle.
Anyways, go lions! 2011 should be exciting with stafford, best, and c.j. all healthy and ready to put up some points.
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fucking cunts.
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Super intense movie. First movie from Arnofsky, don't know if I can handle his other ones.
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When did abrasion interview Joe Rogan?
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Daddy want!
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203418804576040103609214400.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40887450/ns/us_news-weird_news/
The birds I could understand since they probably died from shock, but now we're talking about a bunch of fish washing up dead. Fuck Arkansas.
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http://www.apathymachine.com/gallery/d/1995-1/games.png
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http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/32225/2011_Independent_Games_Festival_Reveals_Main_Competition_Finalists.php
Interesting to see our shacker-developed Flotilla among a couple honorable mentions.
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Any Torchlight experts on the Shack? I Santa'd the game to myself over the weekend and I'm trying to figure out some of the stats mechanics.
I can't find any definitive info on whether Destroyer skills like Slash or Stampede take advantage of dual-wielding; is their output based only on main-hand DPS or is it calculated from both weapons?
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Sports Champions consistently prevents a room full of people from taking turns. Yes, I have 2 wands for archery. Wait, it's 1-2 players only? And 2 player mode requires 4 wands! Isn't this a party game?
And as far as TW11 goes -- skip it until next year. It says 'Move-enabled' on the box, but that's essentially a lie. You have to navigate all the menus and sign in profiles on standard controllers. That means that a 4 player match requires 4 dualshocks and one Move wand. And if any of those controllers falls asleep (which they will, because nobody wants to use them) the game pauses.
I actually kinda liked Move-enabled MAG, but that might be because I ended up liking MAG in general.
TL;DR, 300-ish dollars later we're still using Wii Sports Resort. Bocce is fun, though.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/03/roll-your-own-jointmaking_n_803525.html
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Any recommendations for 32 gig SD memory? I'm looking at this, since I need something that can write fast enough for 1080p video.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820183273
Any thoughts?
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Weird controls and generic planets aside, don't you miss the exploration? I would have settled with fewer planets to land on but more interesting stuff to see. Climbing a mountain range with a giant fucking planet in the sky above you was awesome I thought, partially because it looked amazing. I'm not really a fan of this scanning business in ME2.
Everything else is tits though.
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Anyone else looking forward to Prominence? Seems to be somewhat of a sci-fi/space Penumbra type game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtgDw5LOFvk
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http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/03/vizio-details-specs-on-via-tablet-and-via-phone-reveals-via-plu/#comments
built in IR for universal remote is pretty nice.
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SONY must be shitting themselves this morning :(
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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2011/01/03/2011-01-03_florida_woman_michelle_ferrarigegerson_killed_by_neck_massager_in_freak_accident.html
EXACTLY what type of massager was this. Does anyone know? Anyone?
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