Morning Discussion
by Alice O'Connor, Jan 14, 2011 5:00am PSTI'm still catching up on my Inter-reading, and beginning to suspect that people are in fact writing new things all the time, so here's another wodge of links for you this rainy/snowy/dry/damp/wet/hot/cold/sleety/arid/scorching Friday/Saturday.
A collection of Czech and Polish posters for Godzilla and other Japanese monster movies. They're very stylish and cool, though 'Son of Godzilla' is curiously unsettling.
Branding blog Brand New takes a look at THQ's new logo and concludes that while there are a few problems, "it is a bold improvement over the previous one."
A video trip down the London sewers, complete with gawping at fatbergs and sniffing out how posh an area is. Pleasant lunchtime viewing.
Telephones ruin society, Wondermark discovered. Not your 'iPouch' or whatever it is you crazy kids gush over, but those old wired telephones (you don't believe me but these genuinely did exist). Back in 1889. It's been downhill since then, we can all agree.
Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara preview: classic arcade revival
Final Fantasy XIV gets reborn on August 27; collector's edition detailed
Mirror's Edge 2 found on Amazon Germany
Destiny live-action CG trailer directed by Jon Favreau
Atari to auction off game assets in July
Civilization 5: Brave New World trailer delves into new ideologies
What the community thinks of Xbox One
Rumor: Microsoft's NFL deal cost $400 million over 5 years
SimCity 4.0 update offers 'launch park,' new region
Need for Speed Rivals announced, coming November 19



My new toy just got here
http://www.shackpics.com/files/camera_6lwovvvqr2oraxh1zp2g.jpg
Please hurry up battery =(
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http://trac.edgewall.org/
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http://pressxordie.com/2011/01/14/portal-2-to-have-pc-ps3-co-op/
Lots of other articles are citing this one, but I can't really gauge the validity of the site.
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Why the fuck did I watch that. I actually only made it half way, it was getting too rough so I read the wikipedia and fucking Christ.
Anybody have any positive real life stories? Something like Dognose playing L4D with his son for the firs time?
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So I have an old iAudio M5L, 20GB, and I'm extremely happy with it. But - I'm running out of space and need something with more capacity (like 60GB or 120GB). The following is a must:
- No synchronization, just file system you can copy files to.
- Browsing folder tree instead of using tags.
- Able to read FLAC and OGG.
- Easy to attach to a belt (preferrably sold with a pouch you can attach to your belt).
- Sound quality on par with iAudio.
- Preferrably - no touch screen, not even a color screen - what for, really? I want to listen to the music, not watch movies.
Well, there is no such device on the market, or at least I couldn't find it. The new iAudio X7 is too big and I don't think how you can carry it around comfortably, and Zune or iPod is using synchronization. Are there really no options on the market? Help me Shack! :(
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Great going stupid economy, let's just give the moon to the RUSSIANS!
the poster of this thread holds no prejudice against Russians. He loves their women and vodka.
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She just e-mailed me this:
i had a dream last night that you had a sacral decubitus ulcer. it was weird. mom changed the dressings. she had stacks of suture removal kits (we use them for packing, as they come with scissors and forceps), and tons of ABD pads (abdominal gauze pads used for heavy duty soppage of drainage), and gauze stacked on your little dresser.
Next e-mail:
and it smelled really bad.
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May be a dumb question: is there any legitimate reason for a file called rootkit.* (it was xhtml, xml, or something similar) to appear to be running from your router? Can rootkits even be installed on a router?
Full story in reply.
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I've taken up the responsibility of promoting ZeroSignal's Team fortress 2 server which resides in your very favorite continent -- Europe (UK to be specific).
Back in the weekend chatty I asked what time would be best for a regular TF2 night and it was unanimously decided that spending your Sunday evenings with Team fortress is the superior way of living. So come and slaughter some peoplez!
Shit will go down on:
7PM GMT Sunday
Time for Americanos (mathematical skills of hirez):
It should be 12 noon Pacific, 3pm Eastern
Everyone's welcome (even crazies from across the big pond, they're getting surprisingly good pings too)!
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I am obsessing over cable management at the moment. I looked inside my Antec 900 case last night and I said it's time to retire this case. I think I'm going to pick up that CoolMaster HAF X some time this weekend and clean up my case. I think I've had the 900 for a few years now so I got my money's worth. I'm pretty excited about hiding wires.
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There's a Shackmeet/LAN party this weekend, tomorrow at the Geedeck homestead. This is more of a reminder than advertisement, but if you're around the Columbus, Ohio area then you should drop by starting around 5pm. I'm agnostic as for what to play, but hypothetical options look like Starcraft 2, Left 4 Dead 2, Worms: Reloaded, League of Legends, Quake Live and whatever else people want to play. Plus 360/Wii if that's what you're looking for. Oh and there might be a beer or two.
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That is: RBN 1.0 (supporting RB2) will be turned off on Feb 14. Any songs awaiting peer review/etc. will be removed from the cue. Then they will turn on RBN 2.0 the next day.
If you are still using RB2 and haven't yet upgraded to RB3, you will no longer be seeing any new songs come out on RBN.
For those that have RB3, that means you can likely expect new RBN content appearing in late Feb as people pump through the peer review.
(RBN 2.0 adds the ability to author keys and backup vocals and other new RB3, except for Pro Guitar/Bass, at the present time)
http://www.rockbandaide.com/10680/rock-band-network-2-0-arriving-on-february-15th/
Now that my Sandy Bridge is operational and ARMA2:OA has seen an FPS increase from 20fps to 80fps I'm sure I'll be spending some time in there. But also Settlers 7, and some other games in my library to test out my new CPU.
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http://www.giantbomb.com/quick-look-ex-swarm/17-3680/
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http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/14/teenage-engineering-op-1-synthesizer-now-available-for-pre-order/
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the amazing arab choir
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could i beat it in a night?
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DVD mens
is there a reason why transfering/burning a DVD video to and from HDD takes a lot longer than normal computer files burned to a DVD?
it takes like 20min to transfer the files from this video_ts folder of a corporate video that's like 2gb. while a normal file 2gb large only takes a fraction of that time.
burning is the same way...takes like 30min on 16x to write DVD video where computer files of the same size can be done in minutes...
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I know that is vague but that's all I can remember.
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sorry to all those wish i never returned
I have a section that aligns fine in Chrome and Firefox, but not IE.
Anything I need to know about IE (aside from it sucking)?
Thanks for any advice.
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https://www.avengercontroller.com/store/index.php/avenger.html
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Simpsons: XXX Parody. I haven't seen this yet as I'm at work, but I'm going to guess it's NWS at least a little bit.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFFPfgujnGw
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http://www.bloodlinechampions.com/home.php
Apparently it released today. It's one of those Free-to-play models. Anyone played it? What do you think?
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