Contact Info
- On Twitter: Steven is @DarthMolen and I am @JPuent and @FueltheFighter
- email us: darthmolen@thepowergeeks.com and jpuent@thepowergeeks.com prcole@fuelthefighter.com
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The Power Geeks #25
by DarthMolen on Nov.18, 2009, under The Latest Shows
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What We Are Playing
- Steven – Mac vs. PC argument with John (1-button mouse story I’d like to tell), MW2, Bejeweled Blitz (DAMN U JEREMY), Torchlight
- Jeremy – MW2, Bejeweled Blitz (Oh Yeah… monster Score!! 342,250), Torchlight – Lots of thoughts
Tech,Gaming, and Geek News
- PS3 offers Facebook Integration in 3.1 (Cole)
- automatic purchase and trophy updates
- trigger points for future development in games
- other “marquee” features? grids for photos and different color backgrounds for different profiles.
- We’re always covering all the other platforms, why not PS3
- Xbox 360 has this now too… I like running slideshows on my big screen
(we also have Twitter.. Last night I tweeted from my 360!)
- Gov’t Using PS3′s to break encryption (JP)
- Remember when the U.S. gov’t classified a PS2 as a “supercomputer” and restricted imports and exports?
- (lots of things like this have strict export rules almost all of Cisco’s products do as well due to their encryption/ decryption capabilities)
- Ditching a $8,000 system from Dell for a more efficient $300 system
- 4 million passwords per second per PS3
- in possession of 20, plans to buy 40 more
- All being used on computers siezed with a warrant and suspected of child pornography
- When PS3′s first hit they were worried that other countries would use them for Missile guidance systems because they are more powerful than the chips in most of the worlds missles
- Remember when the U.S. gov’t classified a PS2 as a “supercomputer” and restricted imports and exports?
- Palm Finally gives up the cat-and-mouse of maintaining ITunes sync with Pre (SM)
- Over the last few months, Palm and Apple have been playing cat-and-mouse
- WebOS would allow syncing of ITunes, Apple would release new version that blocked it
- Finally, the latest version of WebOS does not have that support anymore (1.3.1)
- Directing attention to competitors, on the new Google Droid phone
- (I think the only way this is an iPhone killer is if you drop it on one! they are heavy!!! Remember bag phones?? Exaggeration… but it IS heavy)
- Bing Caps 10% of US Searches (Cole)
- A lot of experts thought Bing (Microsoft’s new search engine) would fizzle
- Up to a 9.9% market share in the US and going up .5% per month and putting pressure on google
- Who’s the big loser? ppl are jumping ship from yahoo (down to 18% overall)
- I think the big loser is anyone who was relying on yahoo for their searches anyways?!?!??!
- Russia Recalls MW2 (SM)
- This over the “no more russian” scene that everyone is talking about
- Spoiler alert! You get in bed with the russian mafia and walk through an airport slaughtering everyone
- Remember when Germany banned Wolfenstein because it had nazi trappings in it? N/M you were killing them
- Has political correctness gone too far in games?
- how about the world??? I do not believe in this PC Crap!
- Modded 360??? Want to avoid having M$ brick it? Simple soldering could help you avoid it! (JP)
- This can help you if you have a modded system and it’s not bricked yet… and you don’t want it to get bricked…
- This can’t help if your system is already bricked though
- Apple Tablet Rumors
- “high-end graphics card” that will offer picture at a “stunning resolution” greater than the iPhone and iPod touch.
Product Reviews:
- Torchlight – Single Player
- Steven –
- Great dungeon crawler,
- There are treasure rooms once you get down, run around and get as much gold before dying…
- Gemming and enchanting just feels blah, there’s no beef to them so far (horadric cube in D2 anyone)
- I keep going back for more
- Steven –
- MW 2 – Single Player and Multi-Player Review
- Steven
- Single Player -
- Lots of explosions
- plenty of bad guys
- no character development?
- Difficulty rubber bands a lot
- Gave up trying to get through a byzantine shanty town (Favala ftl)
- Multi-player -
- Sheer bliss! Everything u loved in MW1 + lots of other stuff.
- Interactive environs
- customizable tags
- death streaks
- upgrades feel paced right
- Single Player -
- Jeremy
- Steven
Deal of the Week
- According to multiple online sources… those of you wishing to join Steven in WOW will be able to purchase it at Best Buy on Black Friday for just $5.00
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Contest
Keep listening for more contests to come.
Look for more contests to come in the future…spread the word… the more listeners we get… the more stuff we can get to giveaway to you guys!
Intarweb Goldmine
- Trapped Thief dropped drawers
- Would be NINJA impaled on fence in Seattle
- Looking for a perp in an assault
- they find a guy impaled on a 4 -5 foot fence
- Cops say Alcohol may have played a role… you think???
Doghouse Systems
- New System – Under $1000 – Still handcrafted with care
DoghouseSystems VS
DoghouseSystems VS
-Performance in WoW is still great: 40 Frames / sec @ 1920 x 1280
-Don’t forget their laptop which has 2 graphics card built in, the mobius, at a mid-line desktop price
-If you want all the bells and whistles, they can handcraft that too, just call them up during normal business hours, they’ll talk with you, find out your needs, and recommend the system that you need (not the one that costs the most)
-877-DHS-DHS2 (347-3472)
-Don’t forget their laptop which has 2 graphics card built in, the mobius, at a mid-line desktop price
-If you want all the bells and whistles, they can handcraft that too, just call them up during normal business hours, they’ll talk with you, find out your needs, and recommend the system that you need (not the one that costs the most)
-877-DHS-DHS2 (347-3472)
Jinx
- Lifestyle apparel for your inner-geek
- Men’s, Women’s, all sizes
- Specific Collections? They got them,
- World of Warcraft – Home is where the hearthstone is, Baby-T = “My other stroller is [Epic]“, Tanks, Your Welcome
- Boys and Girls Club Fundraiser – selling 1000 of limited T (designed by the kids from their local club) with EVERY Penny going to the charity (JP)
- They even have hats – Quest-giver hat
- Stickers, Patches, Pins
- Go online jinx.com or call them @ 1-888-JINX-COM - 888.546.9266
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