Clanless Fun

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The Atari Flashback runs off three AA batteries, loads in games from a mini-USB connector (although how those games will be distributed is still up in the air) and features a 320 x 240 screen with AV out.

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Reminds me of the good old days…..

With the latest patch Blizzard changed the arena and honor rewards. So it’s quite obvious I wanted to check out the new items.

I ignored the announcement by Blizzard that they copied the Arena vendor to the Alliance barracks in Stormwind and in the Horde Barracks in Orgrimmar, and went to Area52 in Netherstorm. Once there it seemed everybody ignored the announcement .

Krixel Pinchwhistle’s (NPC - Arena vendor) house never looked so small and deadly .

You will rock with these flashy T-Shirts that sport cool animated glowing Transformers. 2-AAA batteries power the lights and the battery pack hides neatly in a small interior pocket inside shirt. A button on battery pack controls Animation style and the pack can be removed when you want to clean (hand wash only) the shirt.
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Transformers
More than meets the eye
Transformers
Robots in Disguise

VLC media player is a portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, etc) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and streaming protocols. With this baby there is no need for additional codecs.

Change-list:

VLC media player versions 0.8.6b and lower suffer from a security vulnerability in the CDDA, Vorbis, Theora and SAP plugins. More technical details are available in our advisory. An updated release of VLC is available which includes a few other fixes as well. We strongly recommend all users to update to this new version.

Various bugfixes, notably:

* Windows Vista compatibility
* Cropping in Direct3D
* Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
* RSS filter string overflow
* Few memory leaks
* MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)

CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:

* Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702)

Demuxers:

* Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI

Decoders:

* Updated FLAC API compatibility

Input:

* Support for new v4l2 encoder API

New localisation:

* Arabic
* Persian

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Blizzard has released the latest World of Warcraft patch, updating the MMORPG to version 2.1.2. The patch starts off Arena Season 2, resetting all ladders and offering new rewards. Additionally, the patch offers new art for raid items, and the usual balancing changes and bug fixes, like:

General

• Arena and Honor Rewards: As part of the inauguration of Season 2, the costs of all Arena items and Honor items has been reduced.
• Improved Mend Pet, Abolish Disease, and Abolish Poison no longer play sounds when there is nothing to dispel.
• Players can no longer fail with skinning at maximum skill.
• Spellcloth: Creating spellcloth will once again only summon one Angered Nether-wraith.
• Some new cooking recipes are available from Kylene in Shattrath City.
• A recipe for a superior resilience gem has been added and is rumored to be held by the residents of Halaa.
• Procs: Most procs are set to trigger only from spells that cost mana, but inadvertently disallowed spells that cost a percentage of base mana. That bug has been fixed and so such spells will now trigger many procs they did not previously trigger.
• Players will no longer slow down to walking speed when closely following another player.

The patch also includes changes for some classes, items, quests, dungeons, raids, the interface, world environment. Read the full list of changes here.

“Last night, Valve representatives confirmed to Shacknews that the studio’s upcoming trio of Source-powered games will ship for all announced platforms on October 9, 2007.

Today’s news follows rumors originating last month that the PlayStation 3 versions of the games would be delayed into 2008. Valve’s Doug Lombardi noted to Shacknews that development has been progressing well on all three platforms.

Electronic Arts is distributing the games at retail as a package entitled Half-Life 2: The Orange Box, which also includes the original Half-Life 2 and last year’s Half-Life 2: Episode One. It will sell for $49.99 on PC and $59.99 on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Previously, the company intended to sell a slimmer package, The Black Box, which would not include Half-Life 2 or Half-Life 2: Episode One, but those plans were cancelled last month. It is expected that Steam customers will retain the option to purchase only the newly-released games.”

Source: shacknews.com

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The use of smileys here is now the same as used on the forum.
See the picture below for the code. You can test them here .

“With Episode Two, Team Fortress 2, and the compelling Portal, The Orange Box is going to be a commanding package for anyone who likes single- or multiplayer action games. Sure, Episode Two was supposed to ship last year, but it appears the delay will be well worth the wait, as Valve is packing a lot of gameplay into the package. We can expect The Orange Box to ship this fall.”

To bad they canceled the “Black Box” now you get an extra copy of Half-Life 2 and Episode 1 when you already got them.
Could give away the product-code though, so who of ~FUN~ doesn’t have Half-Life 2 ?

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