Evening Reading: Now He Only Eats Guitars
It's funny how our own passion can wind up working against us like that. If it helps any, my remaining doubts dissolved within the first few steps of my return to Rapture. It was both as I remembered it, and not. The world retains its period atmosphere but with an added layer of decrepitude. The best sign is that both these first two nights I've spent there the experience retained the original's intensity that requires me to leave Rapture thirty minutes or so before I want to go to bed so I have time enough to settle down. If you're curious for more, along with the comments below we started a BioShock 2 chat thread and discussion first thing this morning.
And for something completely different, there was the rest of today's news:
- No PC version of Dead Space 2 for you (or me)
- Ghost Recon 4 named 'Future Soldier', out this fall
- Diablo 3 female monk character revealed
- Ubi plans greater push on sequels
Google has struck again. This time with some sort of social aggregating Gmail widgit. You can check it out at buzz.google.com
Polish newspaper slips, includes pedobear as an official 2010 Vancouver Olympic mascot
Along with eating while snowed in, DC residents also evidently showing a spike in condom demand
http://idlethumbs.net/blog/system-shock-2-structure-and-spoilers
I never finished System Shock 2. I'd bought the first one the day it came out and was blown away by it. The 3D and game systems were remarkable. SHODAN was a revelation that games could have protagonists that were original and intriguing.
I was so excited for SS2, and so disappointed when I played it. The gameplay seemed gimped. I felt it re-tread too many things from the first game, and removed things that I loved, like cyberspace. And SHODAN, again? Puh-leeze. Never finished it. I think I was going through a "new games are made for babies!!!" phase, which I'm glad to report that I got over soon after that.
One of the things that young Mr. Remo mentions is the intricacy of the controls in SS2, especially in contrast to modern games. This is interesting because they talk about this very subject in the latest Irrational Behavior podcast: http://irrationalgames.com/insider/irrational-podcast/
The ex-Looking Glass team (Ken Levine and another dude) talk about the way they approached game design - and controls - with Thief and System Shock 2, and how GTA 3 was a real eye-opener for them in terms of reducing control complexity.
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I need to make a directory of files into an iso
Tell me your favorite tool for doing this.
Thanks
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Alright shack, it has been 7 years since my last build of a computer, managing to eek out half-life 2. I'm still sitting on an AMD XP 1900 ~ 1.6 GHz processor and a geforce ti4200 graphics card.
Please pick apart my budget conscious proposed build: http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=17548067
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For all two of you still playing this old shit, Malba Tahan from the Strangebedfellows.de forums has created a mod for SS1 that adds a more standard FPS free look function to the game. Once installed, just press E during the game to switch between mouselook and the game's standard controls.
A video of it in action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMNqZ-NzG6E&fmt=
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NBC Scrubs Conan from the NBC Archives
http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/2010/02/09/conan_missing_from_nbc/index.html
Dick move.
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We're going here:
http://www.ardoisesf.com/index.html
You fuckers get on your Valentine's duties yet?
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http://www.ign.com/decade/best-movies-decade.html
If you dislike giving these geniuses clicks, see the top ten in reply.
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Yes, I get there's tons of backgrounds and shit on the app store. But all of them are shit. Same thing with 90% of the app store apps. All shit. There's tons of great apps in the jailbreaking "scene". Sure there's some that are illicit, but the vast majority of them are legitimate shit that people can use. Like a terminal program. Like SSH. And none of them on the app store because of Apple's bullshit rules and deals they make.
Never thought i'd say this because I love my iPhone, but if they continue this trend with the next phone, i'll switch to something else. Even if it's inferior. As long as it lets me have my phone the way I want it.
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Two black wireless controllers.
One charger cord.
One rechargeable battery.
Gears of War 2
GTA
Halo 3
Modern Warfare
Skate
Forza 2/Marvel Alliance
Guitar Hero 3 and guitar
Rock band 2 (game only)
PGR 3
Devil May Cry
It also has a live account attached to it that I just renewed for a year.
The manufacture date is 2007-09-02, so it's still covered by the 3 year RROD warranty.
People told me between $400-600. Make a fair offer. Shipping $30.
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ShackWest Server XTREME 2.0 - NOW WITH LINUX is online!
due in no small part to the awesomeness of rydogg1!
NOTE: Vanilla maps tonight, because I didnt have time to load anything on the new server.
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Finished it and it was awesome. Couldn't get it on with Miranda or Kelly though but I was able to tap Tali after finishing the game. They still don't show what they look like :(
I'll just have to play through and try to tap Miranda and Kelly. Too bad you can't try to get it on with all of them.
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Who's done it? I'm looking to get rid of a couple of monitors, both Dell 2005FPWs -- thinking $100 per or $175/pair OBO. It occurs to me that anyone buying a monitor locally will probably want to verify in person that the monitor works, which means letting a stranger walk into my house. That honestly doesn't sit so well with me. Call me paranoid, but given the range of weird shit that's begun with a simple Craigslist interaction, can you blame me?
(I live without car in a city so delivering them myself isn't an option.)
How would you handle this sort of transaction? Should I just hock them on Ebay, factor in the cost of shipping, and forget about it?
Speaking of which... anyone in the market for a monitor or two?
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I have linked a couple couch to 5k runs I did here to a site that can store workouts from my garmin forerunner here, both times late at night, when i'm sure most of the shack has already gone to bed.
link here: http://www.runsaturday.com/Profile/Blog/UserName/re_verse
Anyway, today I got an email from the site owner thanking me for all the new traffic I've brought their way. That is insane, that just a couple of links from here can make a noticeable difference to an already active site. Pretty cool.
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I don't want to feel like I'm throwing money away when I paint something shitty :((
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I won that ME2 giveaway last week and i didn't know it was for 360 only :\
Or you could buy it for me on Steam and i can send you the 360 version and save yourself the 10 dollars.
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I lost 2 items today. The first time I thought I spaced out and sold the wrong item but it just happened again and I know for sure it was a bug.
I got a new blue science console from SB24 battle. Equipped it, vendored the old one and went off to do a mission. A few map changes later and it's gone and replaced by the one I had sold 10 min ago.
I thought, I'm getting old maybe I am losing my memory but I took a look on the forums and many other people are reporting lost items after map changes.
http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?p=2020371#post2020371
Of all the bugs there could be this one just sucked the will to play right out of me until it gets fixed.
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Look what I got in the mail today:
http://troz.shackspace.com/100_0724.JPG
Thanks, Shack / Gamefly!
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http://www.apple.com/trailers/disney/aliceinwonderland/
It looks to be trippy as hell, hopefully I'll be able to see it in 3D.
AITOO?
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http://filmdrunk.uproxx.com/2010/02/viking-larp-action-comedy-looks-bad-ass
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