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I think there’s a problem with the lower text…
A puzzle perhaps?
Probably not.
FIX IT SHAMUS!!!!
(Please!)
Busted. Yes, I was trolling. We’ll announce it later. I just thought it would be more fun than enduring another round of suggestions. :)
such a dick move, but hilarious.
Good job.. :)
It would be great and hilarious if it really was a puzzle/riddle. Especially if it was difficult.
I’d bet money he did that on purpose just to troll us.
7/10 because I’m sure you’re going to confuse a lot of people.
Shamus trolling? That’d be funny in of itself.
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Testing, though i doubt this will work.
a href=”http: &quo;classid=”clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000& quot;> title=</a> is one of my favorite games! I can’t wait!
Me too. I specifically asked Shamus for this by sending him tonnes of mail… and it worked! In fact, i advise anyone who wants anything from Shamus to send him lots of emails to get his attention.
It’s almost as good as an internet petition!
;)
You know what works even better than internet peitions? Facebook fan pages. It got Betty White to host SNL!
I know! Finally, someone acknowledges what a great game this is! Woohoo!
Seconded. It’s a shame they had to ruin the delicate balance of gameplay in the sequel!
Well, Team ,a href=”http: got screwed over by the publisher, if they had the time and money to properly test the game, instead of rushing it out the door in Christmas, it could have been more than worthy of its predecessor.
Thats true I guess. So much potential wasted.
Ah well, such is the industry that we choose to support.
Also, YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! a href=”http: &quo;classid=”clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000& quot;> title= is, hands down, the best 11cf-96B8-444553540000& in existence, period. I’ve put SO many hours into that wonderful beast, I almost wish that there WOULDN’T be a Spoiler Warning for it, as I’d hate to see it torn apart. Must… not… become… fanboy…
I haven’t played that one yet. Is it available on Steam or should I confer with my local retailers?
I’d say check with your local retailer first. Since I heard the Steam version is a bit screwy.
Is there a reason why the CLSID in the “broken” link is for Shockwave Flash?
Wow. You can recognize that string?
It was actually a fragment of Viddler embed code that looked nice and long and plausible and broken.
Apparently I spend too much time on Facebook because as I read this my finger twitched to the mouse so that I could click “like.”
He can name that string in three bytes.
Well. not that hard as a well… “most” programmers know a CLSID is basically the same as a GUID which is the same as a UUID, etc.
They should be 100% unique. So a quick Googling and here ya go:
Stores configuration data for the policy setting Shockwave Flash.
That’s exactly how I found that out.
Shamus, you were absolutely right. I’ll admit that finding the door to the downstairs was a little confusing at first, but I never got lost or found my way back at the entrance. Not to mention that there are a couple of methods for deactivating the tesla coil. (Read: Why did that take so long?!) The montage was hilarious though. You guys took annoyance and made it amusing. Bravo.
I love how Broken Steel lets you grab as many of the level 20 perks as you want. I took most of them and enjoyed every minute of it. More AP? Yes, please. Free map? Woohoo! Ninja? Nice. I’ll take one of those.
You call that a tesla coil?This is a tesla coil:
http://gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2007/11/redalerttesla.jpg
Do the lets play of starcraft 2!I wanna see someone else playing starcraft 2!
That image raises some serious questions.
In Soviet Russia, Tesla Coil charges you!
…sorry, couldnt help myself.
I forgot how annoying was to get the tesla coil. The switches are obscured by all that lighting going on and the designers didn´t put any visual aid to lure the player. I guess the idea was to make it hard…but how much sense does it make to put those switches there?
I don’t know, I found them fairly easily – just jumped in there after looking around the room, and noticed them on the walls.
This is Bethesda, after all, if there is a puzzle, the solution will always be very, very near.
Or you will have picked up the solution in the previous quest.
The whole maintenance sequences did have me laughing though – how long before you gave up and checked the wiki?
I definitely agree that Bethesda stepped up the environment design in the add-ons… when you have a lot of artists working on much less content, and with tools that they are now experts with, you start to see them do much more with the same technology. I can’t think of an expansion pack which hasn’t been like that, really.
Very much looking forward to the next series of Spoiler Warning.
Didn’t watch the first season as I hadn’t played the game; was delighted that you chose Fallout 3 as I had just finished playing it.
Definitely going to be purchasing a copy of title= so I can play along as Season 3 progresses.
ps Is it true that the copy of title= that is floating around on the torrents has some malware in it that steals all your internets?
Not only does it steal your internets, it also eats all your cookies.
And takes your dog.
Bastards.
I’ve heard it even devours your strawberry shortcake and Cool Whip, too. Oh, and pudding. Definitely pudding. It also comes with a backwards-forwards compatible, permanent install of SecuROM which recognizes only Minesweeper as a legitimate game and automatically uninstalls all others.
That cake bit is a lie.
“Who Dares Wins” is a Special Operations motto.
Its also an old video game Ive used to play on commodore 64.
Yeah, the SAS here in the UK have that as their motto, possibly other special forces around the world do too.
a quick google search of the phrase turns up that 9 special operations group world wide use it as a motto.
It’s “dares” as in Daring, rather than “dares” as in “I dare you”
Ironically, Derring Do.
I didn’t know Metro 2033 was a video game until I got to the end of the novel and saw the ad… What a shame.
Most of those 9 special forces groups are SAS regiments in their own right (from Commonwealth – i.e. formerly Imperial – nations, or regiments built up from those foreign nationals who served in the original SAS regiment in World War II), whilst the others are directly modelled on the (British) SAS regiment.
So the same motto bit isn’t that much of a coincidence.
The US marine reserve battalion who use the motto are a bit of an exception, though.
“Frikkin tesla coils how do they woooorrrk.”
Favorite Spoiler Warning moment so far.
Not my favorite, but this is probably top 10.
Call me old-fashioned, but when it comes to mounts I always pick the Highwayman. Sure, its not fancy, but nothing can stop it.
Loved the intermission. The situation reminds me of Enter the Bootlord: Hunting for the Elusive Gangplank, except there the object of the search was hidden in plain sight. And this one had amusing glimpses of action.
I also liked Josh playing minesweeper with fire. Most things are better with fire.
Did Josh download a Pip-Boy mod or something?
It seems like its a lot more Chrome-y in this episode.
Or is it just me?
It’s the effect of the stealth suit. When he’s crouched he goes stealth which affects the pip-boy as well, if you look closely you can see that his arm is actually a sort of globby see-throughish sort of texture.
I mentioned this in a video comment as well, but oh well. It’s actually the “Shocked” effect the Tesla Coil and any electrical weapon places on you. Because it’s Bethesda, the effect often doesn’t disappear when Tristan takes the coil.
I was talking about when he wasn’t stealthed, the Pip-Boy still seemed rather Chrome-like.
EDIT: Nevermind, it seems Viper explained it.
Hey! Don’t diss the lava lamps. They make perfectly decent random number generators.
So we have once again concluded that Shamus’ funny. :)
It was an episode or two ago, but I could have sworn that Rutskarn actually named the next game and said “I don’t think that will be a spoiler by this episode”
I don’t have the opportunity to go back and look, but it was a point when josh was reentering the room where LibPrime was stored.
I meant I wasn’t spoiling *my* next LP, The Cyrodiil Look. It launched very shortly after that episode:
http://www.chocolatehammer.org/?p=2428
shame you didn’t talk about how familiar the start is(Arena=Oblivion).
Don’t all Elder Scrolls games have you start in some type of imprisonment?
Daggerfall has you lying on your face in a dirty cave.
I really hated those levels. Yes, they are beautiful, nice lights and palettes, but the level design. I spent a long time trying to figure out where to go or what to do. Just hated those levels… grrr bethesda!!!
The maintenance bit was mildly hilarious.
Gotta love the gunship combat reference. It is impossible to look at that area and to not think of Half-Life 2. Is it a good thing or a bad thing? Who knows?
When you give Tristan the Tesla Coil it makes me think of two things:
Why haven’t you just given it to the scribes?
Is he trying to take the credit for your find or something?
He is afraid that Reginald will attempt to enflame the scribe in question.
By the way, the Brotherhood base does seem a bit more ’empty’ now, doesn’t it?
Reginald sets everyone in that base on fire on a regular basis anyway, so that was time wasted.
What I want to know is, why wasn’t there a dialog option for “I have the Tesla Coil, but I’m NOT giving it to you unless you pay me, like, a thousand caps. And I get to light you on fire.“
Because youre not a mercenary.Werent you told that already?Whatever delusions you may have,you are not a mercenary.Period.
Oh yeah, you’re right, my bad.
Reginald isn’t a mercenary, he’s just a homicidal psychotic pyromaniac.
Because that would be ridiculous. I mean, you’d have to be some sort of mercenary to demand caps for it. A mercenary for crying out loud!
But in all seriousness, the only reason they make that Tesla coil is for you to blow stuff up with so it’s clearly in your best interests to give it to him, set him on fire several times then steal all the Aqua Pura in the Citadel, Sell it to the quartermaster, then offer to endorse her shop for a discount in future using a recording of your voice that plays upon someone entering, saying “I’m Reginald Cuftbert and this is my favourite store on the citadel”, at which point you hack the very hard lock on the armoury gate, go in, steal her stuff, sell it back to her, then set her on fire and run. On the way out you then need to set three scribes, two paladins and Elder Lyons on fire (bonus points for named NPCs) and I’ve forgotten where I was going with this.
True story.
OK, have to admit – the maintenance sequence caused me to nearly squirt coffee through my nose. The music you picked to go with it was spot on.
Who dares wins…comes from an old Latin phrase.
Josh being frustrated by how Tesla coils work (or why they wont work)…priceless!
So, was that last tunnel the Presidential tunnel? The one and only one footpath to the secret Enclave base?
I know they had helibirds for troop movement, but cleaning the rubble from just one track and making use of the tech the Enclave has, and the tech that is already there, seems like a decent use of resources for giving them a fast transport for multiple ground squads(all those scientist research stations).
They didnt have time for those unimportant things,they had a water purifier to capture.