Morning Discussion

by Alice O'Connor, Jan 05, 2011 5:00am PST

I'm still catching up on my RSS feeds from November and December. I haven't the foggiest what I was doing then but it apparently resulted on me getting very behind on reading things I very much enjoy. Hey! Let's go on a magical mystery tour together!

Amnesia: The Dark Descent developer Frictional Games wrote a splendid lengthy piece on 'How the player becomes the protagonist' in its spook-o-rama.

'Costumes: the Wearable Dialog' is a bit of an illustrated crash course in costume design. While its focus is on comics, the principles absolutely apply to video games too.

Inspired by the book Destroy All Movies: The Complete Guide To Punks On Film, Everything Is Terrible! produced a seventeen-minute, four-part compilation of 'punks' in movies--parts one, two, three and four. Movie punks are such strange and wonderful creatures, absurd caricatures of caricatures, that I find them delightful. As you well know, movie punks are not workplace-friendly so do not invite them to yours.

Do your part for society and make dolls--action figures, if you will--poseable so they can ride dinosaurs and do other things unbecoming of girls, lasses, women or ladies.

That's enough links for today. Do you like links? Of course you do. Did you already see these on Digg or Reddit or Clickit or Punchit or Rockit or Sockit? Good for you, sunshine.

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By: Slowtreme x Show Full Post

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Shit, I wasn't able to watch 5 hours of Caprica last night and they didn't post them on hulu, maybe it's still early?

Jan 05, 2011 6:41am PST

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Ooh, Kindle app for WP7 is out, and it's quite nice. Time to buy some books.

Jan 05, 2011 5:11am PST

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Ooh, Kindle app for WP7 is out, and it's quite nice. Time to buy some books. : Dave-A
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  which W7 phone do you have, and can you post a review? (of both W7 and the phone) : JohnnyRey
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    My review: http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=24579318 As an update, as soon as I removed the SD card... : Dave-A
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      Thank you! I want a w7 phone so very badly =( : JohnnyRey
      
      Oh, and you can quickly navigate around an audio or video track by holding down the next or previous trac... : Dave-A
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  Can you download books on any kindle enabled device once you buy them? : MagicWishMonkey
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- word perfect 7? : Dravenport

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ilo milo is out on the marketplace!!

Looks awesome: http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/Product/WP7_ilomilo/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-D8024D530923

Buy Link: http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/Product/ilomilo/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d80258410a1b?cid=search

Jan 05, 2011 6:52am PST

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ilo milo is out on the marketplace!! Looks awesome: http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/Product/WP7_ilom... : barichnikov
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  it's been out for a long time :) http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/12/ilomilo-and-the-super-sec... : pancake humper
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    I played it over the holidays, cute game : Slowtreme
    - The music is so good : pancake humper
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    yeah but the game is actually out now instead of a secret demo thing. : barichnikov
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      It was always out. You could buy the full version from the demo. : pancake humper
      
      They cut it off a week or two ago : Dave-A

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OK so my /modem/router died last night. It's a 2wire from at&t that I've had since the summer of 2007. I did some digging about the problem and everyone seems to agree that it's not the router itself but the power adapter. It's a 5v 2a job. Many people said to get a PSP ac adapter and it works just fine. Does that seem right to any of you? I'm going to run to the Gamestop near my place to pick one up and see if it works. If it doesn't, do I really have to buy the same box from At&t or can I buy what I want from Best buy?

Jan 05, 2011 7:07am PST

OK so my /modem/router died last night. It's a 2wire from at&t that I've had since the summer of 2007. I ... : dudehoyt

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ATTN: Dark desktop menz

http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper_beta/details/2470/the_moonrise.html

Jan 05, 2011 7:05am PST

ATTN: Dark desktop menz http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper_beta/details/2470/the_moonrise.html : boring gegtik

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By: yoonix x Show Full Post

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It seems that some of you shackers have an interest in this DC Online Universe beta of some sort. The 10th reply to this post can have my key.*

* I'm not very good at counting so it could be the 5th reply or the 15th reply that gets it, but I'm going to try to give it to the 10th reply. I'm seriously pretty bad at counting.

Jan 05, 2011 5:34am PST

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It seems that some of you shackers have an interest in this DC Online Universe beta of some sort. The 10 : yoonix
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- I like beets. : Hemotoxin
- 2st reply : Chipwarrior
- 3nd replay : Hemtroll
- yep, i'll give it a push as well. : lcizzle
- 10th reply : slickdoody
- 5th or 15th reply depending on which one gets it : Hemtroll
- Padding the replies (I already have a key). : Rehevkor
- that's what she said. : michael walker
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      I refuse to suck your vagina! : aaarrrgh
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- hooraay! : aaarrrgh
- 9th : Dontdrop
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      Be sure to fill us in on how much fun you had for 2 hours after the download. : tboomer2
      
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      approximately 3.4 funs : Hemtroll
      
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      That's madness. Any funnness over 3.0 is unfathomable. : tboomer2
      
      after 2 hours you've seen everything there is so it drops to 0.73 : Hemtroll
- i got a key but no download? : graceofdragons
- damn, i want a beta key :\ : das_runt

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Does Tom Waits just 'write' music to see what he can get away with?

"I can get my fans to buy anything!"

Case in point - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7C1O1tNGks

O_o

I love a lot of his music but some of it is bizarre, more bizarre than usual with him.

Jan 05, 2011 6:48am PST

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  - too obvious :( : losimagic
  - I love this man. : dumb.
- No, he's very much an artist type so he just makes whatever he wants. : jimmy_legs

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By: the archvile x Show Full Post

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RPS posted the list of EA games getting their online services shutdown. Just like last year, EA used the excuse of "this represents less than 1% of player share". Very long lisr, with some 2010 titles and a lot of 2009 titles.

So tell me again, what's the value add to EA.com? Also keep in mind that EA wants to make more of their games reliant on online content. This should be fun when they put 30% of the game in the box and make you download the other 70%.

Jan 05, 2011 5:55am PST

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If Amazon sold dairy, meat and produce, I'd never step foot inside a store again.

Jan 05, 2011 5:30am PST

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If Amazon sold dairy, meat and produce, I'd never step foot inside a store again. : slickdoody
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The imperials are coming!

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/01/04/insanely-awesome-solar-eclipse-picture/

Jan 05, 2011 5:36am PST

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The imperials are coming! http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/01/04/insanely-awesome-s... : cerealSAM2
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- Oh man, that's awesome. : Creepin_Jeezus
- The Death Star will be in range of the planet in 15 minutes. : giant boy detective
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We Doodle people!

I just noticed that within the plus friends list you can now view and add from your list of followers. I know some people were asking about this last night, and I'm pretty sure this option wasn't showing up for me last night. I just added 9 more shadowed to my list using this.

Jan 05, 2011 6:28am PST

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- Shadowed = shackers : Mansmells

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http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/01/trends-suggest-industrialized-world-may-be-hitting-peak-travel.ars

Jan 05, 2011 6:21am PST

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/01/trends-suggest-industrialized-world-may-be-hitting-peak-trave... : boring gegtik

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sniff joo

http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/7631/taxe.swf

Jan 05, 2011 5:26am PST

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sniff joo http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/7631/taxe.swf : gnomish
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  - ^ Ditto. : Hemotoxin
- creepy. Also, it should tilt as you move it left and right so it swoops like a bat. : cerealSAM2
- Would be better if mouse1 triggered a sniffing animation. :( : enyakk
- Holy mother of balls : Chipwarrior
- hahah nice : scanline
- WOOF!!! : CrustaR
- DASHIE ATTACK! : Rotten Deadite
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Do you think we'll ever see HD re-releases or ports of Metal Gear Solid 1,2,3 or Resident Evil 4 on the PS3 / 360? I'd love to replay (or in MGS2 and 3's case, simply play!) those games but my Gamecube and PS2 are in storage somewhere :(

Jan 05, 2011 5:46am PST

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- MGS3 is getting a spruced up re-release on the 3DS. : Rehevkor

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