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#601 Re: Management » Place of "new private messages" » 917 weeks ago
Any chance we can get the New Message notification moved to up above the Discography? I've had a new message from Atari for 12 days and I just now noticed it.
#602 Re: The Garden » Who here has satellite radio? » 917 weeks ago
I have Sirius and have since way before they took over XM and I've always loved it. they have some good rock channels too.
I like: the boneyard, classic vinyl, liquid metal (all metallica), lithium, NFL channel, and Howard 100 & 101.
#603 Re: The Sunset Strip » The Video Game Console Thread » 917 weeks ago
#604 Re: The Garden » Who here has satellite radio? » 917 weeks ago
I bought it, and I'm fucking loving it. Being able to listen to Stern live again is simply awesome. On top of that, there is actually some really good channels on here.
#605 Re: The Sunset Strip » The Video Game Console Thread » 917 weeks ago
First Madden 2010 screenshot:
#606 Re: The Sunset Strip » The Video Game Console Thread » 917 weeks ago
Max Payne 3 hurting PC, PS3, 360 in Winter '09
* By Mark Walton, Tom Magrino, GameSpot UK
* Posted Mar 23, 2009 7:09 am PT
Rockstar's Vancouver studio takes over from Remedy for third outing of ex-NYPD vigilante.
For fans of Max Payne, it has been a long wait since 2003 when the last game in the franchise was released to critical acclaim. Talk of a sequel came in 2004, when Take-Two hinted that a follow-up would eventually arrive. Fast-forward to 2008, and Take-Two chairman Strauss Zelnick once again mentioned the franchise, teasing that another installment may be in the works but again providing no firm details.
Today, Take-Two and its Rockstar Games subsidiary have announced that Max Payne 3 is indeed in development and is penned for a winter 2009 release on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC. The game is being developed by Rockstar Vancouver, the same outfit behind the controversial sandbox action adventure Bully. Finnish outfit Remedy, which developed the first two Max Payne titles, is currently developing Alan Wake, which will be published by Microsoft.
Rockstar Vancouver will apparently not be straying far from Remedy's original formula, however, as Max Payne 3 again sees the titular retired NYPD veteran battling internal demons as well as those that plague the city's streets.
"We're starting a new chapter of Max's life with this game," commented Rockstar cofounder Sam Houser in a statement. "This is Max as we've never seen him before, a few years older, more world-weary and cynical than ever. We experience the downward spiral of his life after the events of Max Payne 2 and witness his last chance for salvation."
Rockstar did not delve into specific gameplay details, and did not mention the series' genre-defining "bullet time" slow-motion technique. The publisher merely noted that "the latest installment delivers more of the classic elements and hyperintense action that fans have come to love."
When Max Payne 3 rolls around this winter, it may find itself on shakier legs than when it left off six years ago. In October, the franchise saw its first transition to the silver screen. And while the Mark Wahlberg-led action flick pulled in healthy opening-week revenues, critics were all too eager to redub the film "Maximum Payneful" (an actual quote).
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6206521.ht … bj=6206521
#607 Re: The Garden » U.S. to buy Chinese condoms » 917 weeks ago
What are the chances that they break easily?
That was exactly my thought. I mean I just read a story about chinese drywall being awful. But we're going to trust them with condoms?
#608 The Garden » U.S. to buy Chinese condoms » 917 weeks ago
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Stimulus? U.S. to buy Chinese condoms, ending Alabama jobs
By Mike McGraw | Kansas City Star
Call it a condom conundrum.
At a time when the federal government is spending billions of stimulus dollars to stem the tide of U.S. layoffs, should that same government put even more Americans out of work by buying cheaper foreign products?
In this case, Chinese condoms.
That's the dilemma for the folks at the U.S. Agency for International Development, which has distributed an estimated 10 billion U.S.-made AIDS-preventing condoms in poor countries around the world.
But not anymore.
In a move expected to cost 300 American jobs, the government is switching to cheaper off-shore condoms, including some made in China.
The switch comes despite implied assurances over the years that the agency would continue to buy American whenever possible.
"Of course, we considered how many U.S. jobs would be affected by this move,” said a USAID official who spoke on the condition that he would not be named. But he said the reasons for the change included lower prices (2 cents versus more than 5 cents for U.S.-made condoms) and the fact that Congress dropped “buy American language” in a recent appropriations bill.
Besides, he said, the sole U.S. supplier — an Alabama company called Alatech — had previous delivery problems under the program.
It's clear that Alatech's problems over the years, which apparently have been resolved, may have driven U.S. officials to seek much less expensive foreign-made condoms in the first place.
But that's cold comfort to Fannie Thomas, who has been making AIDS-preventing condoms in southeastern Alabama for nearly 40 years in the small town of Eufaula.
“We pay taxes down here, too, and with all this stimulus money going to save jobs, it seems to me like they (the U.S. government) should share this contract so they can save jobs here in America,” Thomas said.
Thomas and others at the Alatech plant said there aren’t many alternatives for them if it closes down, which is a likely result of the contracting switch.
In fact, the government is close to accepting condoms from two offshore companies: Unidus Corp., which makes condoms in South Korea, and Qingdao Double Butterfly Group, which makes them in China.
<Read the full story at KansasCity.com
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/64577.html
#609 Re: Guns N' Roses » Theory Or the Unspoken Truth?: Robin didn't leave the band amicably. » 917 weeks ago
Great idea for the ignore feature. Makes it alot easier to ignore douchebag.
#610 Re: Guns N' Roses » Guns N' Roses Names Dj Ashba As Band's Newest Axeman » 918 weeks ago
i think they should totally scrap whatever they have for the next album...and re record it all with the current band...like all 8 dudes in one room , old school recording...instead of multiple parts of many years like CD is...
That is the quickest way to have everyone leave the band. Knowing how Axl is in the studio by himself, could you imagine him pulling that shit in front of everyone?
"Okay guys take 52 was great, but I really need you guys to try it a few more times."
Let alone the fact that he'll make them redo it because of his vocals, the sheer frustration from all the other aspects would make them all jump off a bridge.
