Chuckpebble

Just wanted to get one of these rolling and I figured, "What better way to drum up interest than a creepy cover art 'shop?" Maybe all of these threads can have similar artwork? (Hermie?) Here's the online stuff: After creating a new character, you can choose City when loading a quest, which takes you online. You then agree to a T.o.S. (thats the first I've seen one of them in a console game) Next you select a server, and then within that server a city. After all of that, bring up your options and go to: Online>Player Search>Gate Search Your name and ID will be in the top of this window. I'll keep the following stuff updated as people add their info. Player List: EU Players US Players Chuckpebble - QK76QC - WiiSpeak & Keyboard

Yes absolutely. Regardless, the first time I left the village at night... just WOW. So you got a Lagiacrus and something else? Cool! Can you post pics? EDIT: So I finally watched the "Quick" Look at Giant Bomb. Pretty good. I like how they named their hunter Goldblum. To anyone who's watched it, its a good representation of how you'll fare with the game in the first 2 hours, which is to say, you'll be confused and maybe a little overwhelmed. Don't worry after 5 hours you'll be fine. Here's some of me playing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jcCEUe-PNU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CuTTr9pxjk Note that I edited out the load screens.

Yes, akin to this.

Well, in the US, there is a bundle that has the game and the Classic Controller Pro, which I didn't get, but is quite popular and may be sold out at the moment. The cool thing about that is if you buy the bundle you save $10 over getting both items separately. What I was actually talking about was the box which is only available in Europe. Its a cardboard treasure chest that includes: Game Classic Controller Pro in black Wii Speak Lagiacrus Figurine Yes, I can sympathize with your concern here. It doesn't feel cruel and grotesque to me though, it feels pretty tame compared to bisecting dudes with a beam sword just a few weeks ago. I did however feel kind of shocked when I was first asked to kill something. There are these herbivores that are grazing in a meadow while you're on your way to visit a base camp out in the field. The village chief told me that I should kill one and carve some raw meat to bring to his son at the camp. There were 3 big ones and a little guy just milling around chewing on grass. I was kind of shocked at this request because the things are totally docile, I was just walking right among them and they didn't seem to mind me at all. I then decided that two of the larger beasts were the parents of the little one and that it was OK to take out one of the three larger ones that wasn't part of the family. I killed the one that was farthest away. Shut up, that was the loner, I know it. Anyway, after the deed the chief mentions that every part of the animal is used. I stood over the carcass and carved it twice for raw meat before it disappeared like so many felled trees in animal crossing. I was still a little weird about it until I returned to the village later and found that besides what you carve from the animal, you also get other resources from the kill when you log your hunt in the town. So I came to the realization that the animals in question are basically cattle. Being an omnivore myself, I no longer have any regrets about this. As far as the other critters go, there are these little guys that look like deer. Turns out you get the best drops from them by NOT killing them, but knocking them unconscious. Everything else that I've killed was either trying to eat me, an icky bug or a fish, and fish don't have any feelings, so thats OK too. Tell me about it, somehow my semester worked out so that I have 3 differential equations tests, 2 tests and a final, in the next 3 weeks in a row. I really shouldn't be playing this game right now.

I saw an unboxing of that on the Tube. I won't link it for fear of spoiling it for you, though its easy enough to find I guess. Looks sweet. Consider me jealous. Caveat. I don't think we're allowed to hunt together. There's NA, EU and JP servers that don't interact with each other unfortunately.

Yep. I'm going to do any online ventures with a keyboard handy too, though. Seems that only hunting companions with a wii speak can hear you. Strange and kind of a let down if true.

OH GOD! I just saw the big dog gif grid! Holy S that IS creepy! At first I thought it was two people walking around with some thing over their upper torsos, horse costume style. I'm typing this while curled up in a ball under my desk. Send food!

The whole "Green" PR spin frankly sickens me, however, I'm not averse to the potential alternatives for manuals. Since the PS3 and 360 are the ones getting this, I'm guessing that their solution will be an in game manual available while paused. These could be really sweet with interactive demonstrations done in engine and stuff. The other thought I have is, why not make the game disc some sort of hybrid that can be put in a computer. You can then mount a partition on the disc and download a PDF manual to your computer. Of course that could easily just be a file on the devs website as well. This is already what I do when I score a used game with no packaging. http://www.replacementdocs.com/ I'd actually like all of my games to be a box and a disc if I could go to a website and download a PDF manual. I could then easily reference them on my laptop or web enabled handheld device.

Why not. That little blue light makes my day sometimes. 7863-4950-1077-0617 Also, anyone here have Monster Hunter 3 yet? I'm thinking about starting a thread but I'm having a hard time thumb-inating the title.

I read on GAF that the Mac beta invites are going out now and its a closed beta with the only available game being the original Portal. It saddens me because its starting to look like "Coming in April" is really "Coming in April to a select few with just one game." Oh well, Monster Hunter Tri.

Roger Ebert: "Damn kids, get off my lawn!" I'll just keep walking down the sidewalk paying no attention to an old man who can't embrace change. It is after all his opinion and he's entitled to it, but it does not affect me in the least. EDIT: And a day later, a sweet comic that visualizes what I said. Nice.

Ha, that ain't hate. Its honesty. Man's got a brawl avatar for the sake of pete. I say this as a Wii owner myself. So Jake, do you have anything to do with THIS? I'm so wantin' that stuff, shame I don't have a useable steam client at the moment. I made the mistake of trying to enable the interface beta in crossover and never recovered, so I deleted everything and decided to just wait for the mac client. So, can I buy the game from steam on the web and expect it to work on Mac and PC like all of VALVe's games?

Ah yes! Thank you my man. So maybe they haven't played Perfect Dark. Also, Final Destination. No items. Fox only.

Wait, I thought you or Chris brought up "slappers only" in a previous cast. Wasn't that something from Perfect Dark? Or was that Goldeneye you guys were talking about? Don't take any offense, I wasn't yelling at you guys, just my iPod, like I said.

I'm listening to the cast now and I'm yelling "PERFECT DARK" at my iPod. I'm pretty sure it was some kind of power up that you could use in multiplayer. If I recall correctly, everyone slowed down when you used it, including you. It just afforded you more accuracy. Maybe someone with the XBLA version can confirm this...

I loved this episode. Very good stuff. And its not just because yours is the only podcast that I listened to this week that didn't have excerpts of in it, but that certainly helped. I listened to the whole thing on youtube, and while its good, I'm kind of tired of it now.I love the flow theory stuff. I wonder if it relates at all to that weird phenomenon that occurs when you're stuck at a part in a game. You get to this one part and keep trying and failing until you put it down. You come back to it after some time away and just breeze through it. It may only be tangentially related to flow, in that you're so worked up with frustration that your performance is affected. I've found recently that the Virtual Console has a neat way to avoid this. If I get to a point and I start doing poorly I just hit the home button and suspend the game at that point, indefinitely, until I can come back fresh and cool. I may be totally wrong with what I've said, I take it Flow Theory is more based on multiplayer competition than single player games where you run into rough spots, but maybe some of you can see where I'm coming from. EDIT: This is what I immediately saw when I gazed upon that awesome space marine image above. Peyton Manning of the Indianapolis Space Colts

Chris, Jake? Things going well? Games being played? Jake, ever get the urge to go over to Chris' apartment and make a bird noise in a microphone? Maybe you guys can give us a holiday episode where you just say "wizard" while bells gently jingle in the background? Nothin' too huge, sub-podblast would be great. Micro-podblast maybe. Well, if I don't hear from you fellows, happy holidays. ps - send Nick coal

Holy poop, I'm in! I generally play on the SourceOP servers. Mostly arena. Dudes is good there, but the servers are usually pretty full. Yeah, shouting podcast stuff isn't cool. Temporarily changing your name in the console however is very cool. One of the best times I had was when a Heavy Medic combo was going by Fox McCloud and Falco Lombardi. I changed my name to Wolf O'Donnell and pretty much the whole server followed suit. Good times. Anyway. Enable the console and type: setinfo name "WIZAARDS" to change your name. It resets when the server changes level. http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198014969493

Was "Rouge" (sic)? Doesn't matter, laughed my ass off the whole time picturing my wife's cosmetics bin. Maybe Rouge Warrior is the stuff Kratos puts on his face.

This was pretty funny to watch unfold whilst lurking on GAF.

So I went out to pick up a sandwich and when I get back to my desk, I find that my cool Portal TF2 wallpaper has been replaced with a picture of two scantily clad dudes in a gay pride parade. And these are not the type of dudes what should be scantily clad, ever. I know exactly who did it. And I'm gonna get him, but I don't want it to turn into a war where we change each other's desktops to increasingly NSFW images. I wanted to be a little more subtle. So, I made this little CSS file that I'm going to set his browser to use: p {color: pink !important;} body { background-image: url(http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:iE1rqVyNC8i1oM:http://www.blogcdn.com/www.urlesque.com/media/2009/03/penispacifier.jpg) !important; background-repeat: no-repeat !important; background-position: center center !important; } What do you think? Too much? Personally, I think its perfect. I'm quietly biding my time right now. Waiting till he leaves his computer. I'll recount the results after I do it. So, to make this a real thread, anybody have any good office prank stories? Love to hear 'em.

So here's a quick guide for the upcoming holiday... I can show how to do this quickly in Safari and IE/Outlook express. Firefox has a user defined CSS file as well, but its buried in a really hard to find folder and you can't manually point it to any file you choose, so that kind of ruins the fun of it. Step 1. - Create a new plain text file and save it as something innocuous with a .css extension. Then paste the following code into it. /*Change text and background colors*/ /*body, p, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5 { color: pink !important; background-color: purple !important; }*/ /*Change background image*/ /*body { background-image: url(PASTE IMAGE URL HERE) !important; background-repeat: no-repeat !important; background-position: center center !important; }*/ /*Change hyperlink font to webdings*/ /*a { font-family: webdings !important; }*/ Step 2. - Save the CSS file to a network share where you can easily edit it and your victim has access to it. Step 3. - If you're using Internet Explorer and Outlook Express, on the victim's computer go to: Start > Control Panel > Internet Options Click Accessibility Check the box next to Format documents using my style sheet Browse to and select your custom created style sheet. If your target is using Safari, go to Preferences Under the Advanced tab and browse to your file by clicking the drop down next to style sheet. Alright, setup is complete! On to step 4. Unleashing hell! Some basic understanding of code is required here. Everything in the file I had you create is actually commented out. /*stuff*/ is used to comment out multiple lines. To turn something on, simply uncomment a block of text by removing the /* before it and the */ after it. Change text and background colors Use anything you want here for the text color and the background colors. red blue green orange yellow etc. should all work fine. white on white should get a few WTFs. Be careful not edit anything but the actual color name, without adding or removing spaces. Change background image All you need to do here is paste a URL between the brackets in URL(). Find any suitable image, animated gif, what have you, and paste its actual URL in there. Good to go. Change hyperlink font to webdings This one is very noticeable. You can also use wingdings 1 2 3 etc., just make sure to enter the name exactly as its listed otherwise it might not work. These fonts aren't available on a Mac so find appropriate ones. Here's a sample:

Shame its only PC and Xbox live, I'd pay $19.80 to have 3 chicks come to my Animal Crossing town and pick all the weeds.