Lone Shadow Gaming Community

Half-Life 1/Natural Selection

2008-11-20T08:58:54-08:00

If for some reason you don’t own Half-Life 1, or want a spare Steam account with it for friends, it’s on sale for .98 cents for the tenth anniversary of release.

http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2

Also, Natural Selection 2 is in full time production and has gotten the money it needs to progress. Natural Selection was such a unique and fantastic game, I’ve never experienced anything else like it. I remember I loved 1.04 but hated either 2.0, 3.0, or both. I don’t remember. I’m going to download it and try it again for kicks just because it was so fantastic. The games used to be really long and were a ton of fun to play. The brainless combat mode sucked, but the core game with structures, command chairs, etc., was fun as hell.

New Xbox Experience

2008-11-19T05:04:06-08:00

The entire fucking 360 had a revamped interface with tons of fat new features and it downloaded and installed faster than my PS3 firmware update that just fixed some keyboard support, what a piece of shit.

Anyway, here’s my avatar:

Much better than Miis.

ELECTION PARTY 08

2008-11-04T23:15:43-08:00

Left 4 Dead

2008-11-05T16:57:56-08:00

If you pre-ordered for 360 or PC either way a demo is available to us all tomorrow with one or two maps featuring online co-op, I’m going to be all over this shit (for PC).

Wrath of the Lich King

2008-11-14T03:00:03-08:00

It’s funny how Blizzard are constantly overshadowing themselves. The new zones, quests, items, etc. all make original WoW look like crap and makes you not want to play anything but the new content. I know not many people here play it, but it’s pretty impressive, for an MMO.

What Are You Listening To?

2008-01-28T23:58:54-08:00

A nice thread to get this empty-ass forum going - just talk about what you’ve been listening to, a song, an album or two, just whatever you’re into lately.

Bonus points for album covers! Just hotlink em from amazon or something.

Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity

Kid Koala - Your Mom’s Favorite DJ

Hello #uname!

2008-11-18T16:19:18-08:00

I just received 2 E-mails from shadowxor at loneshadow dot com saying that I have 2 personal messages from “wetgirl” (titled “Hello #uname!”.)
I checked this site but didn’t see any pms in my mailbox, so I followed the link in the e-mail and was redirected to my PM box of the archived LS at
http://vps.kg13.com/~shadow/forums/index.php?
so yeah, this spam bot apparently joined 15-November 08…

I just thought I’d let you guys know that spam bots are registering on the archived site. You should probably close registration or even take the archive down?

Prop 8 and Family

2008-11-13T18:47:47-08:00

I was sent an email to join in a rebute of prop 8, which im sure most of my CALI buds have gotten. I forwarded the email to many people encluding my grandparents and this is what i recived back.

Dear Aaron,

Your Grandpa and I voted yes on Prop 8. God created marriage for a man and women. It’s in the bible. I have read and studied the Holy bible for many years. Marriage has nothing to do with legal rights. Marriage is a spiritual union of a man and women as becoming one in the eyes of God. The gays have just as much legal rights as every one else. If this Prop is repealed it will force Preachers to marry gays and that would be infringing on the Preachers rights and beliefs, and the congregations rights. It pains me deeply to see these people trying to force their way upon me and people who believe what the bible says. I have nothing against gays. As you know my half brother John Charles Zimmerman was gay. He was a very kind and gentle person but I did not agree with his lifestyle and that was ok with me as long as he kept it to himself, that was his business.

Bye for now. Love, Grandma

I was sad to know that my grandma was one of the people who think that marriage is somehow a christian only practice. Or that the fictional story called the bible is absolute RIGHT. Or has missed the fact that Marriage is no longer as important as it was 300 years ago, its more about the final commitment not a spiritual finale. I dont see how they are trying to force there way on anyone, they want acceptance from those who force religion apon everyone. She says she has nothing against gays but she doesnt agree with there lifestyle… not consistant, It was ok as long as he kept it to him self, that was his business… yet he cant even marry someone he loves in private, not consistant.

Its sad to know that people still think this way and will for many years, but even more so that this is my grandma, and only elder that iv had my whole life, I understand that she is old and in the past but I wonder how she would feel if she knew about Kaleb. I didnt even bother to argue because someone like that is far from convincing. I said…

Dear Grandma,
I understand how you feel, and I figured that is what you would say, which is fine with me. I just feel differently about the topic but I thought I would share the opportunity with you anyhow.

Love you both very much
aaron

Im not gonna ruin a relationship with my only grandma that ive had no problems with ever, over something that cant be changed or wont effect me. They could keel over and die anyday so I will leave things as is.

I miss games

2008-11-11T22:42:20-08:00

Man i havnt played a video game sence i beat Phantom hour glass in july. How long have any of you gone with out playing a game? this has to be my longest break.

I’m a Mac…I’m a PC.

2008-11-14T03:32:12-08:00

I don’t even care which you like, even when I used to hate Macs I thought the commercials were funny.

However the new I’m a PC commercials are annoying as fuuuuuuuuck. And what was with their short lived Seinfeld ads that cost them a shitload but ended up sucking? They need a new marketing department.