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Your needless spam is ridiculous and pisses me off. It makes me not want to help you.

Again iConomy crashed. I need to convert to a new database which is really hard, will be trying to do it tonight my time.l I have restored the recent backup.

LDShadowLady will be coming out with some merchandise soon, and is looking for some artwork that will represent her well. Submit your artwork here and she will personally look over them and pick out what she needs. At the moment, there are no specific requirements other than transparent backgrounds and it has to be cute!, so let your creativity guide you, and remember that this will represent LDShadowLady!! Good Luck!

Sony released its earnings report for the 2011 fiscal year. Among the slides, numbers and endless walls of text Sony unleashed on the world can be found a hodgepodge of good and bad news for the electronics giant, including plenty of new details surrounding its coveted PlayStation brand. THE BAD NEWS PlayStation 3 sold 13.9 million units during the 2011 fiscal year, down 400,000 units from the year before. Sony rightly points to the Great East Japan Earthquake and its aftereffects, disastrous US tax loopholes and other intangibles as contributors to its massive $6.4 billion dollar loss. But obviously, problems are far direr for Sony than that. As such, the company wants to refocus on some of the things it does extraordinarily well. One of those things, of course, is the creation of gaming hardware and software. The Consumer Products and Services (CPS) sector that houses the PlayStation brand took the biggest hit during Sony’s 2011 fiscal year (which stretched from April of 2011 through March of 2012). Sales are down 18.5 percent year over year, though the PlayStation brand certainly had little to do with the loss. In fact, Sony itself reports that LCD television sales are lower, something that was “expected from focusing not on pursuing unit sales but on improving profitability,” and that “CPS segment sales are expected to increase significantly year-on-year,” including in the realm of cameras and VAIO computers. The PlayStation brand is never mentioned. Where Sony does begin to mention the PlayStation brand is in terms of units sold in both hardware and software. PlayStation 3 sold 13.9 million units during the 2011 fiscal year, down 400,000 units from the year before. PlayStation Portable is also down year over year, from 8 million units sold down to 6.8 million units sold, though this is certainly to be expected. And PlayStation 2 is still trucking along as well, selling 4.1 million units, down from 6.4 million units from the year before. This brings lifetime sales of the PlayStation 3 to 63.9 million (analyze the full numbers here). Meanwhile, lifetime sales data from September of 2011 has PSP at 71.4 million units sold (per Eurogamer). PlayStation 2, last reported in total over a year ago, was sitting at 153.19 million units sold (per Sony). (An analysis of available data at Sony’s corporate site shows that, since stats started being kept there during the 2006 fiscal year, 54.2 PlayStation 2 consoles have been sold, with 62.2 million PSPs having been sold in the same time period.) THE GOOD NEWS The PS3 is a mere 3.3 million units away from the Xbox 360 in worldwide sales with a year’s less time on the market. It’s within these sales numbers that some good news can be found for Sony, especially in terms of the PlayStation 3. Obviously, PS2s being sold some 12 years after it came out is nothing but a net gain for Sony, but now, the PS3 is a mere 3.3 million units away from the Xbox 360 in worldwide sales with a year’s less time on the market. According to Eurogamer, 67.2 million Xbox 360 consoles are in the wild as of less than a month ago. Whether you average out units sold-per-months on the market or opt to remove a year’s sales from the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 is in a surprisingly strong place right now. If the consoles spent the same amount of time on the market, these numbers suggest PS3 would actually be winning that race. Software sales are also very positive for Sony. 156.6 million games were sold on PlayStation 3 during the 2011 fiscal year, up 8.7 million games sold from the year before. Even with a slight dip in PS3 sales, games are still selling very strongly. However, PSP and PS2 game sales are currently tanking. 32.2 million PSP games were sold in the 2011 fiscal year, down from 46.6 million games sold the year before. PS2 games sales have also cratered, pushing only 7.9 million games, down from 16.4 million the year before. WAIT, WHERE'S VITA? You may have noticed the conspicuous absence of the PlayStation Vita so far in Sony’s reports. Having only come out in the tail end of the fiscal year, its absence actually makes sense. But Vita’s sales-to-date are very much public, even if not in Sony’s official financials. During an earnings call reported by Gamasutra, Sony’s CEO and President Kaz Hirai noted that only 1.8 million PlayStation Vita units have been sold through March of 2012. “As a starting phase, I think it was a good start,” he said. “For a game platform, like Vita, the software is the key to success – how good the software is, that is the key to business success. We have to reinforce the software area in order to improve the business; that is the basic line. Vis-à-vis Vita, at this moment, there is no decline or lack of motivation as a portable platform. This is a very important product indeed for us, and therefore we still have a very high motivation to develop this further. There is no change.” All of this adds up to one thing: you can count on PlayStation Vita getting a price cut at E3. Hirai therefore concluded that “software and services must be strengthened. In other words, the collaborative approach is very important, so is third-party. And from first-party studios, the titles will be presented one after the other, so please look at them and give your evaluation based on them.” This could very well be a nod to E3, occurring in June, in which Sony has teased that it may have over 20 new games to reveal. For comparison’s sake, it’s worth noting that for the 1.8 million PlayStation Vitas sold, Nintendo has sold 17.13 million 3DS handhelds, per Nintendo’s own data. Nintendo 3DS also suffered from sluggish sales early on, as is well-known, but not nearly as bad as Vita’s stumbling sales. All of this adds up to one thing: you can count on PlayStation Vita getting a price cut at E3. WHEN IT'S ALL SAID AND DONE Now that Sony’s numbers are all on the table, eyes are firmly planted on the future. PlayStation 3 still has an incredibly strong lineup of upcoming games, both in first-party exclusives and third-party games it shares with its competition. And while the PlayStation 4 certainly exists somewhere in the bowels of Sony’s many corporate offices, we haven’t heard anything about it, and almost certainly won’t in 2012. The biggest question mark continues to be PlayStation Vita. As Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami so aptly put it, “there aren’t enough good games for it yet… Once there are more great games it should do well.” We couldn’t agree more.

You own a computer. If you don’t believe me then how are you reading this? It may be big or it may fit in the palm of your hand. It has many different capabilities but you had to pay a fair amount of money to be able to use such capabilities. Raspberry Pi is a Linux based credit card size computer that has been created to get more programming based computer to students. The small computer only costs $25/$35. While none of the accessories are included it has a slot for you to plug in everything that you need. It has a HDMI output for a monitor as well as a normal video out port. A ethernet port, 2 USB, micro USB for power, and a SD card slot which is the hard drive. The computer runs linux based software and gives students a powerful way to program without the school spending much on hardware or much cost out of their own pocket. In the video below it shows that power that such a little device can hold. While it seems like it may not be very powerful, the little computer can play high quality 1080p video without any problem. They sold out of their first batch of computers and plan to have many more as the product spreads across the globe. Source: http://www.zagg.com/...brettbristow22/

We have a bug forum. I hope that people learn to use it eventually. This was corrected well over an hour ago, I tested it with Stay_Classy.

Holy shit... amazing!

That is a very interesting and detailed walk through. I cant believe how much you need to go through for each video, but I must say, the final result is very impressive.

Looks like a pony took a dump

Hey Guys, Starting this week, Lizzie has officially annouced that she intends to livestream on YouNow weekly on Mondays, 9PM GMT. if you want to tune in, you can support her by watching here; http://www.younow.co...shadowlady.Domo And using the "Facebook login" button on the top right of the page. Dont forget to Tune in each week!

Day has been changed to Monday, 9PM GMT

no good free one. Save some money and buy it. No excuses. we dont support pirating of good software either.

My favorite of his videos. May I introduce to you and welcome, MrSolidSnake745!

Tekkit Server has been opened up for applications (See its forum or the Server Information page for further details)

Hello Everyone, Welcome to Abyssal Gaming 2.0. As usual there WILL be bugs and what not, so if you find them, you know how to let us know! We hope you enjoy the new look, increased performance and added features. Abyssal Gaming is open to everyone, let your friends know we are here to stay and prosper, no matter who tries to say otherwise! So here's whats new since the last major announcement! Congratulations to our new Moderator Mickket! Congratulations to our new Moderators throughout the last few weeks, Mark88880 and Paderson We welcome LDShadowlady officially to the network. She is my personal favorite channel on youtube. Her videos are hilarious, and are guaranteed to make you giggle like a little girl until you burst with laughter. We also launched the official LDShadowlady Public Server at the end of April, you can find out the information on our new Server Information page. We also welcome SolidSnake745 as an affiliate as well. He does some very entertaining stuff with old technology. Check out his youtube channel! 40PF Is officially running rap battles on the forums, check out their forum for more information! In the works, a new TEKKIT server (This server WILL be whitelisted and run by our new Moderator, Mickket) It will obviously require a Technic client installed. More information will follow. We have a new website logo by one of our resident artists, Ayjayo. We have brought back the nice little games and chat engine on each page. All features are accessible to all users. We are currently running podcasts every week to 2 weeks, with random visitors and topics. They are pretty interesting to listen to, and often the images that accompany are hilarious! (lol Sharpness) Check the episodes so far on the Youtube Channel We have launched an events Teamspeak server. If you are running an event and need a free Teamspeak channel, message me directly and you will be given a channel as well as channel admin to it. Otherwise its free to use; EVENTS.ABGN.NET The server is a 500 Slot, so everyone is welcome. We still use TS.ABGN.NET:9993 as our primary server, so don't go changing to that to talk to the regulars. Thank you for being a part of our community, it is you the users who make it what it is today, and for that we want to thank you over and over. We hope to see you soon on our servers, Teamspeak and forums and hope you enjoy your time here. Thank you and Kind Regards, Tarquin, Abyssal Gaming Network

I was online and heard reasoning, because you have been caught griefing 3 times. I will let a moderator be more in depth with an explanation and post the screenshots.

Yes, very impressive stuff that he does.

I REFUSE TO SAY ANYTHING BAD ABOUT LIZZIE

Google execs and James Cameron to mine asteroids Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt and billionaire co-founder Larry Page have teamed up with Avatar director James Cameron and other investors to back an ambitious space exploration and natural resources venture, details of which will be unveiled this week. The fledgling company, called Planetary Resources, will be unveiled at a Tuesday news conference at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, according to a press release. Aside from naming some of the company's high-profile backers, the press release disclosed tantalisingly few details, saying only that the company will combine the sectors of "space exploration and natural resources" in a venture that could add "trillions of dollars to the global GDP." Google chairman Eric Schmidt. Photo: Reuters The Wall Street Journal reported that Planetary Resources will explore the feasibility of mining natural resources from asteroids, a decades-old concept. "This innovative start-up will create a new industry and a new definition of 'natural resources,'" according to the press release. Planetary Resource was co-founded by Eric Anderson, a former NASA Mars mission manager, and Peter Diamandis, the commercial space entrepreneur behind the X-Prize, a competition that offered $US10 million to a group that launched a reusable manned spacecraft. Larry Page, co-founder of Google. Photo: Bloomberg Other notable investors include Charles Simonyi, a former top executive at Microsoft, and K. Ram Shriram, a Google director. The venture will be the latest foray into the far-flung for Cameron, who dived last month in a mini-submarine to the deepest spot in the Mariana Trench. The plot of his 2009 science fiction blockbuster film, Avatar, concerned resource mining on alien planets. Original Story Source: http://www.theage.co...0423-1xflj.html

Hey all, With 1.2 Finally out and Bukkit not far off stable, we are going to be finally opening our new servers. Of course as usual community Input is wanted! Here is what I have in store: Hardcore Survival - No mods that benefit the players, including not being able to sethome or /home CrazyCraft - This has proven to be quite fun for a lot of users, this is a small flat world with 1 small protected spawn region in the middle. There are no rules, unlimited resources and limited possibilities. Creative Arts - Players who have shown they have what it takes on the normal servers to create a nice looking build, you will be invited to build on this server. Although it is public, only whitelisted will be given permission to build. Public Server Upgraded to 1.2 Got a different Idea? Suggestions? Let us know. We always want your input. We hope to be opening one or more of these servers within the week, allowing for bukkit of course to be ready along with the plugins required.

Ahh the reason our membership count has been dropping on public!

Hey Everyone! Just a reminder that for the next 2 weeks everyone should support our awesome friend LDShadowlady on the King of the web competition! Simply visit the link and register using facebook or a new account and hit vote 10 times on her page. You will get 1 Votes every day to send her way! Lets get her to #1!!!!! Click Here to Start Voting: http://kingofweb.com/users/6583304427

51/49 Scurvy.

Click here for a chart of times for when the event is; http://www.abgn.net/r/w First of all, The Prize(s) First Place: A Minecraft Account for you or a friend, we will contact you with the gift code within a week of the competition. First place will also receive VIP Access to the forums, our MC Servers, Teamspeak and LDShadowlady's MC Server. Second Place: Borderlands Game Code via Steam. Rules & Important Information!!: READ THIS INFO AGAIN BEFORE YOU JOIN !!! YOU WILL BE BANNED! No PVP for the First 30 Seconds. This rule has been withdrawn due to popular demand! You may NOT break any blocks except 'Long Grass' 'Leaves' 'Spider Web' You may Craft Crafting tables from wood in chests or that a creeper destroys from a tree. You may NOT collect Crafting table and take it with you. You may craft items from materials collected from chests. You may team up together, however there is a limit to the amount of winners (See below) Once you die, You WILL be banned. This is not personal, this is just the game! DO NOT Chat in game after the beginning timer has initiated. Doing say will likely get you banned. The overwatch staff may choose to spawn mobs near you or reward with bonus items, much like the Hunger Games Staff & Sponsors. It is in your best interest to win their favor The first 4 Games are determined by the color chart in the attached table. Red Team & Blue Team will be the first 2 teams on the servers, followed by Green & Orange after the initial two complete. NOTE: Teams were selected randomly using the rand() tool and then by sorting by the number generated. It was re-rendered 3 times before the final groups were selected. Round Information: Option 1: Requires 96 Players Total Round 1: 4 Games of 24 players each - Last 4 standing per game will win You may team up! (2 Games at a time will run on 2 separate servers) (#96) Round 2: 2 Games of 8 Players each - Last 2 standing per game will win. You may team up! (1 Game at a time) (#16) Round 3: 1 Game of 4 Players. Start time 'No PVP' is 90 Seconds. This will allow time for players to get running. The center chests will be removed during this round. This round determines the 2 winners. Server Information!!: Teamspeak Server: TS.THEMCHUNGERGAMES.COM Server One: (1. Red Team, 2. Green Team) ONE.THEMCHUNGERGAMES.COM Server Led By: Loki_Cain Overwatch/Sponsors: LaztChantz, Guntagirl, Mickket Livestream: The_Puppetmaster will Stream Live Chat Stream to show deaths for those wanting to see Stream of Chat Events: http://www.twitch.tv/abyssalgamingnet Server Two: (1. Blue Team, 2. Orange Team) TWO.THEMCHUNGERGAMES.COM Server Led By: Tarquin999, LDShadowlady Overwatch/Sponsers: Twitch_xk90 Livestream: LDShadowlady will stream her POV Stream of LDShadowlady POV: http://www.twitch.tv/ldshadowlady ----------------------- Event Coordination The Coordinator of this competition is the Abyssal Gaming Network. The administrators/event leaders are Tarquin999 and LDShadowlady. If you have any further inquiries please let us know. The Moderators of this event are ; Loki_Cain, LaztChantz, SmallBeans, Twitch_xk90 and Guntagirl ----------------------- We hope to see you there and having fun, we will use teamspeak for the majority of the event as well as the forum shoutbox for announcing server lists / start / end. So if you havent already, please try to have teamspeak (You dont NEED to talk!) and the forum open and ready on the day for the beginning*. *Name Corrections: Tollian (Blue), Inquistor_Lord (Green), Hillyboy1234 (Red), barbalho0785 (Green), Unessa (Instead of Jbean99) (Blue) Please Contact me if your name is spelt wrong as it will be used for the whitelist! Download Initial Tables Here: http://www.abgn.net/r/14

Please note a Quick Update to The Event. I hope that ALL users can tune into the following stream for announcements and information. All announcements throughout the event will occur on this stream as some people cannot get into teamspeak. The Rules will be showed here as well, so missing them will bare no excuse to knowing them. This stream will go live approx 30-45 mins prior to the even starting. Teamspeak is still used for team chatting and event organisation, the Server has a lot of channels for you to use if you wish to start an alliance with someone. http://www.twitch.tv/abyssalgamingnet