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Evening Reading: Putting the Oughts to Bed
Garnett Lee
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If you'd told me last New Year's Eve that a year later I'd be writing the last Evening Reading of the decade on Shacknews I'd probably have looked at you dumbfounded. Sitting here doing it this evening I couldn't be more pleased with how things have worked out. Getting reacquainted with Shack has been great. We've got a great team, a great community, and fantastic support to carry us into 2010 and well beyond.

We've been posting our games to look forward to in 2010 today. I'll have mine coming tomorrow along with a collection of our resolutions for the New Year. Hope you'll take a moment to check them out and add to the conversation when time allows. Have a fun and safe New Year's Eve whatever your celebration plans.

I'll leave you with this great quote my friend Sterling tweeted earlier today: "The world isn't coming to an end. It's already tomorrow in Australia."

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  • Unleashed legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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    December 31, 2009 6:00 PM

    gah gonna take forever to download crysis and then mwll! cant wait!!!!

    • [deleted] 1426145827 legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      December 31, 2009 6:03 PM

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      • boomstickah legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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        December 31, 2009 6:03 PM

        seriously. Definitely the deal of the holidays.

    • yosemiteclimber legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      December 31, 2009 6:03 PM

      Open another socket!!!

      • Matt Burris legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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        December 31, 2009 6:34 PM

        The Phoenix firewall is stuck. We're running out of time!

    • chrisschutz legacy 10 years
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      December 31, 2009 6:31 PM

      It's been stuck at like 200-300k/s on steam for me. So glad I waited for a sale, though.

    • Arcanum legacy 10 years legacy 20 years mercury super mega
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      December 31, 2009 6:37 PM

      You may want to restart Steam if your Crysis download is slow. I just did and my download speed went from ~150K/s to ~1.5M/s.

    • Nitrium legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      December 31, 2009 6:38 PM

      You should try switching to the south American or greenland/Finland steam content server.

    • photonzach legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      December 31, 2009 6:43 PM

      No shit. Crysis is taking forever to reinstall..

    • chadg033 legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      December 31, 2009 6:49 PM

      Bought'd. Can't wait to play MWLL.

    • iamgoat legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      December 31, 2009 6:56 PM

      Has anyone actually played MWLL yet? What are the reviews?

      • TexasGameJunkie legacy 10 years
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        December 31, 2009 7:18 PM

        I've played about 10 matches so far.

        Overall it is a beta for sure. There is a lot of potential to this game. The sound effects are nice when they work. I noticed that sometimes there were no sounds for lasers, player movement and other stuff. The enviroments were neat but some times tricky to navigate with a lot of clipping issues. Some trees I could plow down with my tank and other times, a little hill would flip him over. I felt a lot of times that my weapons were not really having that much effect. Getting a joystick to work is like rocket science sometimes. Be prepared to invest serious time to get a configuration that will work for you. The graphics are good, definatly better than previous Mech games but no where close to Crysis itself. I eagerly await future versions of this game and really hope for a single player campaign. Multiplayer is definatly the better ping wins.

      • sanchez legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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        December 31, 2009 7:33 PM

        shackserver has been near full for the past few hours

    • aasyranth legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      December 31, 2009 6:56 PM

      I'm almost half-way through with the Crysis download. I'll ask Steam to give the bandwidth I was using to you when it's done.

    • Omning legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      December 31, 2009 7:10 PM

      39kb/sec :( KHAN

      • Omning legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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        December 31, 2009 7:11 PM

        Do I need to install Warhead or just Crysis btw?

    • Omning legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      December 31, 2009 7:12 PM

      Is there a mirror for MMLL download? they've exceeded their bandwidth and I can't get to their page.

    • Clay legacy 10 years legacy 20 years mercury super mega
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      December 31, 2009 7:17 PM

      I joined the shack server, couldn't find people to shoot :(

      • trOmblyj legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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        December 31, 2009 8:00 PM

        it helps to ask your teammates where the action is, they'll usually provide a grid location and you can head there. Or just watch the horizon for mushroom clouds - twice tonight I asked where shit was going down only to see a huge mushroom cloud on the horizon seconds after I asked.

    • Haxim legacy 10 years
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      December 31, 2009 8:29 PM

      Anyone played Crysis with an older machine (more towards the min reqs)? I love me some Mechwarrior but I don't know if it's worth trying on my rig.

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