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Morning Discussion
by Alice O'Connor, Feb 17, 2011 5:00am PSTI saw a video game yesterday, and at some point I'll be allowed to tell you all about it. Until then, you can watch a baby trashing a bar. I think that's about as highbrow and intellectual as I can manage to be today.
After my hard drive was wiped yesterday, I've whacked an old drive into my PC to at least get it running again until I can make headway with recovering my files. I've discovered a treasure trove of goodies, including a folder of text files with such useful information as my Kali serial and Tribes 2 key, and a monstrously complex modem string that I suspect is broken and does nothing useful. 2001, let's rock.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwcL0m9_ixI
I have not followed it closely but that vid sparked some interest looks real nice.
No wonder it looks rad Snowblind is making it, they are known for RPG skills, basically = quality.
I dug up this video its money holly shit I want this game! RPG fans must see start @ 1:20
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KScCmKCiZfg&feature=related ** must see **
Oh baby, nice. More intel http://www.snowblindstudios.com/Studio/News/March-2010/anouncingWITN
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Rumor of the Shackpocalypse has reached ECO’s ears. Well, actually, somebody left the barn door open and a few cows wandered out. These things happen. So here is the news.
Sometime next week, we will re-launch Shacknews with a complete redesign, a new backend code framework, and new hosting. In terms of our beloved Shack, it’s a massive overhaul.
In the new version of Shacknews, Latest Chatty stays pretty much as it is. We’ve cleaned up the db structure; rewrote some janky code, and did a minimal amount of styling. Haiku has grabbed the reins; solicited input from the Shack (apparently some folks don't like blue); and is providing some styling changes that we hope to implement by launch. These changes should make for a ‘new and improved’ Chatty with plans of more to come. The rules of conduct, though, remain the same. The Mods still prevail. We even built them a new mod tool to which they have had advance access, and they are providing additional input. Dognose will remain master of his domain.
There are some changes to Chatty. First, Chatty no longer will be tied to a specific MD or ER ‘story’, but will live on a 24-hour cycle. We will still post Morning Briefing and Evening Reading, but they are independent of the chat threads. The benefit is that posts under Morning Discussion won’t disappear when Evening Reading is published. Instead, threads will live for 24 hours after the post date of the root comment, and then will be available via comment search.
Second, news headlines and story comments will integrate into Chatty with the headline and link as the root post and comments as the thread. Now you can stay on Chatty and see news headlines, but our primary purpose was to aggregate all discussion on Shack within the Chatty application.
As for community-developed apps, we have worked with SqueegyTBS, stonedonkey, and electroly to write an API on which the community can develop and revise Shack applications. This will provide a stable and enhanced platform for community-developed apps like Latest Chatty on iOS and ShackDroid.
As for Shacknews, those of you who actually use the rest of the site will see something much different. We are moving away from the traditional blog model with its long river of posts to a format that is more visual and surfaces a wider variety of content. The home page look and feel will be vastly different. We still have a news hub, and we will continue to cover news as we have in the past.
The new Shack gives much greater prominence to the games themselves. The game pages are highly visual spaces for aggregating content from game-specific news to media to files to comments. Video and screenshots get much better treatment.
Fileshack and Shackvideo will no longer live as separate sites. Video rolls up closer to the associated game, but still has a hub page to aggregate featured and recent video.
Mercury will live on and evolve in the coming months. Storage, free email and “high speed downloads†don’t hold the same value as they once did, so Mercury will focus on services, products and discounts to provide value for Shackers. That means we are going to shut down Shackspace and Shackmail (believe me, no one uses it), and instead will provide access to another free storage service with a larger limit. We will continue to support Shackspace in the near term to allow folks to move files stored there. Mercury members can still turn off ads.
The new site will launch without the Shackmeet scheduler, but we are working on an improved Shack scheduling tool to be added after relaunch. If anything, we want to provide more support for Shackmeets and Shackbattles. Also there will be no user profile pages at launch. The existing user pages get little use, and we had to make some calls on what to include in the initial release. However, if there is sufficient community demand, we certainly will reconsider rebuilding them.
One casualty that will sadden some of you is Shackpics. With the plethora of photo-sharing sites out there, I’m sure you will find places to put those NWS pics. Life won’t be quite the same for the mods. We’ll give people some time to grab any pics they want to keep.
I know that change brings uncertainty, but I hope our track record over the last couple years speaks for itself. Steve, Maarten, and Faylor have moved on to new adventures. (Well, really, they’ve all moved to Gearbox.), but the Shack stands. We’ve invested a lot in rebuilding. Some of you will like the changes; some of you won’t. And some of you – as Garth says - “fear changeâ€, so it won’t matter what we do. Our hope is that you like the renovation, but more importantly we hope you understand that our goal is to make the Shack better – both as a site and for the community of Shackers that continues to make it thrive.
Last, I want to thank all Shackers who have provided feedback, suggestions, and help in the rebuilding process. I specifically want to thank themelon; squeegyTBS, Stondedonkey, ThomW, Haiku, and all the mods. Any bugs will be ours alone.
And now for a taste. A game page - http://www.shackpics.com/files/gamepage_kz7uoimpyull52wpgiig.jpg
and the screenshot viewer - http://www.shackpics.com/files/screenshotviewer_kdvlhym5y721om0h0fx4.jpg
Fire away.
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http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=25288641#itemanchor_25288641
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This show was awesome!! Only sucky thing is that it was all ages, so you have little kids with mommy, young teen girls dressed like whores, and little short people all over the place.
My friend took pics I'll upload some later. There was even a fake look alike running around and people were taking pix with her.
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You are gona want to see this \m/
Part 1 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRQzl5u5oeQ
Part 2 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BlDtbXW3o4 ** see the tessellation on the environment **
Video 2 is better and money, best watch them all but the first one can be boring a bit(if you want to see the games details), the beginning and end of part 1 revel the character building stuff though(part 2 has more as well).
Is that loot I see yum \m/ I am not worried at all looks great. In case some of you are worried no the game is not set in that environment for the whole game. Think the start of DA1 yes it changes :)
Tuesday can not come soon enough.
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Posting here so it doesn't get lost in the uber thread re: relaunch. Just want to let you know that we are paying attention to all of the discussion. Seems like a lot of you still want the profile pages, so we've noted that. As for Shackpics, we'll put our thinking caps on and see if we can figure something out.
And for the sole person who has used Shackmail as their primary email for 8 years, dude, I am so sorry.
Who would have thought?
Stay tuned. I might even post a shot of Haiku's CSS Chatty stylings tomorrow if you behave yourselves.
(Cue "The Imperial March')
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http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/mozilla_sets_record_straight_ie9
Firefox talking the big talk, though considering their year + release cycle compared to something like Chrome, I wonder if they'll be able to talk about being ahead of everyone for much longer. Against IE sure, but isn't Chrome beating them at nearly everything these days? When is FF4 supposed to come out anyway? I'm still clinging on to Firefox as my main browser, but I'm leaning more and more towards Chrome as it continues to incrementally improve. I realized the other day they had resolved the issue I was having with google reader scrolling like my computer was powered by a wristwatch.
I just wish the pin tab feature was a little more flexible. I'd like to be able to pin a tab without minimizing it, so I can see if I have mail/chat in gmail, and I also wish I could have it auto-pin every tab I open, cause I don't need to see the name of the site if it's got a favicon. I've developed the very bad habit of opening tabs as a sort of "read it later" to do list. I usually have 17-20 tabs open. :P
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http://notdoppler.com/burritobison.php
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So, ShackPics is going away. That kinda sucks since there's a ton of old posts that reference ShackPics links.
So, I fixed that by archiving all current images to my server and a script:
http://www.elrepositorio.com/shack/shackpics_findreplacer.user.js
The archiver is still running so uh, be patient for older images. I will try to make sure I have all the newest images until it goes down but it's your best bet to just stop using it altogether. This DOES include NWS images and there is no warning that it is NWS. Please be careful with what you click on!
Let me know if there are any bugs. I'm going to keep this up for as long as my bandwidth doesn't get raped so we'll see what happens. Additionally the images are on some ghetto cloud storage so don't be surprised if it's a bit slow coming back. Not archive.org slow, but pretty slow.
Enjoy.
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Why the fuck did I stay up so late Edition.
Multiplayer Servers!
Foo1 (PVP/PVE): foo1.sytes.net / richcunts.sytes.net / 216.139.192.52
MercFox1 : mercfox1.sytes.net / 75.101.148.242
Shadowdane (PVE/BiomeMod): shadowdane.shacknet.nu / sd.shkn.ws / shadowdane.shkn.ws
Chicken Fur : 69.169.149.253 / cf.shkn.ws / chickenfur.shkn.ws <--This still up?
m0rfus (Full unrestricted PVP) : morfus.dyndns.org / morfus.shkn.ws
Haxim (TNT Server) : asplode.dyndns.org / haxim.shkn.ws
Teamspeak : ts.shackbattles.com:9987
Server Renders and Stats!
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=24937945#itemanchor_24937945
Guides and Utilities
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=24698112#itemanchor_24698112
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Come join the Axis and the Germans as they eagerly await the release of Space Marine.
Server is the same as it ever was. Shacknews Dallas - EFF YEAH
Teamspeak is also the same. Ask someone here if you don't know.
Start Time is at 10 PM EST. Be there or be square.
As always, 6 drink minimum is still MANDATORY
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What video games are we playing tonight?
For me, it would normally be Team Fortress 2, but I feel guilty about not giving Monday Night Combat any love. I even forgot that Wednesdays are the official shackbattle night for MNC.
Maybe I should at least play around with the tutorial in MNC or something.
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http://store.steampowered.com/news/5020/
$59.99. I guess this is the new normal.
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http://www.shackpics.com/files/iPhoneUpload_5p7de9abjtwr30v2mjkd.jpg
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http://mjr.mn/dJiOio
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There's a really good sale on Adidas shoes at Amazon right now and I need new running shoes. Any opinions?
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http://store.steampowered.com/app/99830/
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I have steak in the fridge, but I forgot to take it out of the freezer until today AM so it's still frozen. I want to cook this steak so I can eat it together with about 1/3 of a bottle of Smokehead.
How do I defrost this thing? :( We don't own a microwave so that's not an option.
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http://www.shackpics.com/viewer.x?file=MarkWatts_bkkpeqgqa2fr8b0whgj5.jpg
but he's still my hero!
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http://www.rage.com/
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http://chrispiascik.com/daily-drawings/becks-dropped-sponsors/
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How do you guys overcome your skill plateaus? I feel like I'm decent at Space Marines now, I know the tricks of denying power or requisition to the enemy, etc, but sometimes I have nights where my opponents just outplay/outmicro me by far and make me feel like a total noob.
Do you watch replays of the match where you got beaten? Or of some pros far better than you? Do you try to teach yourself the race that beat you, see if you can figure out the strengths and weaknesses yourself? Any tips and tricks are appreciated.
http://www.vgblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/04/Warhammer40kSpaceMarineVideoDumped.jpg
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