Talk Amongst Yourselves
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Hey all hope everyone had a lovely weekend, I finished Mass Effect once again this time as an engineer (This is my third, and went 100% on sniper rifles on Medium difficulty), and they’re pretty badass in Mass Effect 2, especially with the drones they can summon, such a luxury against well covered foes 😀
I’m REALLY enjoying golden sun: dark dawn now, so many memories come back from the very similar gameplay 😀
I had a man shower yesterday – massive sausage fest. Mark was there.
I’ll leave that up to your imagination.
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It was a shower of sausages. I sucked down so many sausages.
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O_O
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/me pops up his furry head, whiskers a twitching
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Sorry, your comment has been removed from the Apple “Comm” Store…
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You know last week I was wondering, I haven’t seen Ben post in a little while… and then lo and behold you come back to me with this one.
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I’ve been on a dangerous quest!!
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Well, my pale Kotaku brethren, given my naturally tanned nature, and the fact that I have laughed at any of you that have posted about sunburn, I figure this is only fair.
I got sun-burned yesterday. I was at a picnic, and between about 11am, and 3pm, spent the whole time in direct sunlight. Disappointingly (and amazingly), I was the only person at the picnic to really get burned.
So, to all you pale people out there, I feel your pain. But to a much, much, lesser extent.
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This is a true victory for gingers everywhere.
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I’ll just need to get revenge by developing a tan, getting all the chicks, and then getting horrific amounts of skin cancer.
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It’s just like the legends fortold.
“Lo, after many many generations smiting the red headed… the sun did turn his hateful gaze upon all mankind. His lance of energy scarring all colours, sexes, races and creeds in a searing miasma of reddened flesh”.
I knew this day would come
*weeps*
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Yeah Blackman I got sunburn to for the first time i’n like 7 years. I roasted which is not fun at all it reminds me why I never go outside.
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True story – awesome games journalist James Cottee (who does the voice for DARREN on Good Game Spawn Point) actually carries around an umbrella when it gets too hot.
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The same James Cottee that used to work at OXM while Kevin Cheung was editor?
…for some reason I stopped reading it once those guys all began leaving for other things; it didn’t feel as awesome… but then I started reading PopSci and was surprised to see Kevin again! (however, he’s now sold-out and with the Foxtel mag. and I refuse to read it :3 )
Actually, does that happen Mark – do journalists get people who regularly follow (stalk?) them between magazines/websites?
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Sold out? Mate, it’s a job, the audience is real and it pays the mortgage! If you want to hear me wax lyrical about games every once in a while, without being bound by lame industry politics, follow me @ScientificNinja
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Sadly for me, it’s been only a bit over a year since I last got sunburned, and about it was about 8 years before that when it happened before. I haven’t been outside enough lately, so I’ve finally begun to lose my natural tan colour, which is really saddening.
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FatShady (assuming you’re able to access the Internet during the week),
In response to last week’s “and some more tiny birds.. Top score so far is 156,597. How u guys going?”
http://img29.imageshack.us/i/tinywings.png/
Another worthy challenge between arch-nemeses!
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Damn you guys and your awesome reflexes…I’ve only been able to manage just over 90000 so far. I will never be able to even come close to that impressive score, Batguy.
P.S. How’s the Batbaby?-
He’s absolutely perfect. He’s healthy and eating, sleeping and growing without problem at all. And cute as a button to boot!
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My dial-up doesn’t want me to see the image(CURSE YOU DIALUP!!!!) What’s the game? Is it for PC?
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It’s Tiny Wings, an iOS game that Mark recommended a couple of weeks ago. The image showed that my current top score is 201,955.
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lolwut? 201,955. Sweet baby jesus…
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Cool thanks, I’ve got an iPhone 3G, so I’ll have to get this 😀
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Who are you… where did you come from? Why are all your gaming scores so… amazing?
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He’s Batguy, he comes from the sky. He uses echolocation to make his scores high.
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Oh crap, that wasn’t supposed to rhyme. Hmmm…although if I’d said “His echolocation makes his scores high” then it would have been okay. Kinda like a song. Every superhero needs a song. But I’m sure someone else (Qumulys?) would do a much better job than I.
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Teehee. That and bloody minded persistence. The same life skill that gave me good grades at school and dragged me through a PhD works really well for games. Repeating things over and over and over till you get it just right does wonders for posting high scores or finishing “impossible” games!
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See, I get distracted easily. Usually by a 2-yr-old climbing onto my lap saying “Watch birdie? Yoohooooo!”.
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At a young age after watching The Lone Ranger at a cinema Bruce Twaine’s parent’s were brutally murdered in front of his eyes.
The image of his mother’s ruby necklace broken never leaving his mind, young Bruce vowed to fight low scores for the rest of his days.He traveled Europe and Asia for a time seeking out the best teachers.
He has returned to Emo-am and now is the best game scorer there is…
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Dude that was not a call for you to kick my ass.
I have been trying to get over it. made it to island 8 once or twice but can’t beat that score.
I will just come out and say it that you are the most awesome gaming dude and save myself from public humiliation. I am sure within a few weeks you will be beating me at Trials and we can all get some rest. I seriously have no chance of making over 200k.
Well played sir.
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If it makes you feel any better, it wasn’t a personal attack – I had already reached that score when I saw your post, but figured that if you were without Internet there was no point posting it till today.
I’ve tried to beat that score again myself and haven’t really come close. The unique terrain each day can actually make a big difference!
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Mark Serrels has a lot to answer for. Tiny Wings has been affecting my sleep ever since his endorsement.
218,243 is my current best, with a 28x multiplier.
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I’m at 22x multiplier now. Playing mad catch up.
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Well I’ve moved into my new place and its made me very happy! I seem to have kept all my fish alive in transit, though it’ll probably be today/tomorrow I’ll find out if the water I’ve put them in is deadly. Moving fish is a pain in the ass!
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How does one ever move fish – chuck em in a binbag filled with water?
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I thought you just took them off of the frying pan and into a tupperware container. Makes for very easy transport.
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I thought you’d just kill them off, move to the new place, , then buy some new ones that look similar, and act like they’re the same fish.
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Man, I feel you pain with moving fish. Stupidly in my new place, I got a 7 foot tank, and its filled… I’m dreading the day I have to move them all.
What kind of fish do you have there?
I’ve learned a few important things over the weekend. First of all, if I watch Justice League cartoons late at night, odds are I’m going to wake up at 3am on the couch, feel absolutely wretched when I’m meant to get up, miss the train and then have to skip my morning coffee to get to work slightly less late than I would be if I showed up with a magical beverage to restore my consciousness. Justice League may be awesome, but I need my coffee, so for the next half hour or so, before I can find an excuse to sneak out, things are going to be tough.
Also, I learned that it is possible to make progress on almost dead projects. On top of that Buttercup thing I do, there’s actually a webcomic I write. It’s been probably a year since it was updated but we finally put together scripts for a couple more strips. Proper full page things, not three panel strips, although we came up with one or two of those too.
Yay for progress!
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I now have in my possession a large flat white with one sugar. Crisis averted.
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I’ll take a cappuccino plz!
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Trust me, there’s no chance of any coffee within my reach being drunk by any one but me right now.
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Can’t find the link to the web comic…
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That’s because I forgot to post it :p
Here’s a link: Asinine Circus. Carlos (the artist) is working on the new content but you can get a glimpse of the new art style and whatnot over at his Deviant Art page.
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So… I downloaded the Crysis 2 demo from Steam. Pretty unsure of what to expect. Would my graphics card be turned into a toasty capacitor pie? Would it be disappointing to be thrust into a urban environment? Well, its a mixed bag.
Its definitely beautifully made, the signs of consolism are not as apparent as other games of late. But, (given its just a demo mind you) I really wish it had some more detail settings rather than just Gamer, Hardcore and Advanced. That’s it.
I can only assume we’ll get better settings than this for the full game because…
I had this sluggish lag from my mouse movements. It also had aiming help activated which when disable helped a little, but the lag was still there. I could have played it for more than 30 minutes, but laggy mouse movements really made it unenjoyable for me as I hurriedly went back to Minecraft.
Graphic wise my card (4870 X 2) coped glitch free. Which is unusual given that practically all games have been woeful on it this last year. So that’s a big tick. But I am really left wondering if the mouse lag I had was the game making sure my card had rendered each frame properly. I’d be interested to hear if those of you with a more powerful card had a better response. (The in game water was very nice I must say)
The biggest downer though was the demo is only a multiplayer experience. Which I guess would be ok if I could find at least ONE oceanic server! I mean, there were no Aus servers I could find. That annoyed me. So, was that the source of the lag?
Did it leave me wanting to pre-order it on Steam? I’m not sure, its really pretty, but I think I’ll wait for reviews on this one for now….
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Well, I should be getting my new Wireless Broadband sim tomorow, it’s got 20gb a month (10 on peak/10 off peak) so I’ll have to download this and try it out 😀
Let’s see how my nVidia 9600GT copes…-
This is where more graphic options should be implemented. Mine is struggling, but there’s not much I can change to help. 🙁 Bloody uninformative settings, gamer, hardcore and advanced? Which one is which? Low med and high at least everyone knows… grrrr…
Oh, btw, the download will be 1700Mb of your 20GB limit. How the hell are you surviving on dial-up…??? *astounded*
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It has been hard…
Nah, not really, I spent the weekend playing Minecraft Singleplayer with the difficulty set to hard, spending the nights fighting monsters with nothing but my leather cap and a wooden sword…
I only died once in about 5 nights, didn’t lose my leather cap either 😀
Yesterday I spent most of my time programming with XNA working on my Asteroid Evader! game.
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were there any options in there for v-sync?
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Ahhh, just had a look, disabled v-sync, responsive improved greatly. 😀 On a second look, I noticed the “Press Start to Continue” thing.. *rolleyes* and also of note was the very average looking modeling of some objects, I really hope the full version offers more. Not personally for me, but I think Crysis is a huge influence and drivers of the “upgrade” industry. There’s just such a lower incentive to upgrade these days as in years gone by. If I were ATI and NVIDIA I’d be pumping money at crysis devs by the truckload.
Anyway, Thanks for the vsync advice 😀 helped hugely, but It’s still not a day 1 purchase I fear.
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You’re very welcome sire! Always happy to help as you no doubt know by now 😉 Also, on the modeling front, I think if you had a directx 11 vid card, you would be pleasantly surprised in the difference. Though the models may look a bit drab at the moment, from what I’ve read, Crysis 2 only runs in dx9 or 11.. no 10 for some reason, so if you don’t have dx11 card, you’re gonna miss all the nice fancy crap.
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Yeah, I totally forgot about the difference dx11 could make! (what would I do without you!!) I would love to hear some others who’ve tried it with dx11 cards comment. That may just tip me towards upgrading down the track.
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I’ve read a rumour somewhere that Crysis 2 is shipping without DX11 support, and that it will be patched in later, and apparently that at least the beta, and the leaked version, have no DX11 support, which is kind of annoying, as it does have some very cool optimisations in it. If anyone has played the beta with a beast machine though, I’d love for you to prove me wrong.
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Blaghman, dunno if you saw my reply last week, but next time you’re on steam or msn, gimme a holler and I can help you out with those new comp questions you had!
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Back at work this morning after a month of paternity leave *sob*
Internet, please distract me from my pain!
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Whenever I’m feeling low, well, I’ll let this song explain: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqR_SwwByMM.
If you’re lucky, you can do the same, and it will save you from your days of doldrum. What’s that? It’s hard to watch youtube videos at work? Well quiet you problem makers.
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Your pain of being back at work or your pain of having a child?
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Of being back at work. I’d happily spend another six months at home with my family if we could afford it!
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Geez, my Mum was back at work a week after I was born, the only reason my Dad wasn’t at work at that point was because he had Appendicitis (Okay, my Mum had an excuse, I was in hospital for the first six weeks of my life).
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Poor Batguy, I bet you’ll miss him like crazy. On the plus side, when he’s old enough to walk and talk hearing him call out and run excitedly when you get home will be the most awesome thing ever.
Oh, and if it’s your wife’s (are you married? I forget, sorry) first day home alone with the baby, you might want to bring her home a small gift because this can be quite a stressful day. 🙂
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This sort of sage advice is why you must never leave this place.
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Seconded. Stop by the store, grab milk nappies etc. and a box of chocs and flowers.
Oh, btw, its great to hear batbaby’s growing well and is healthy 😀
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I bought a small thing of chocolates for my wife when I went back to work after the birth of my daughter
… but my first day back at work was the best day that the wife and bub had ever had, so I slunked into a corner and ate the choccies myself.
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HAHAHAHA!
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So I took the Mrs to the Chemical Brothers on Friday.. and damn.. talk about awesome! Show opened with a set by Art Vs Science, then followed with 2 dj’s. The first was a bit of a douchebag, but the next guy was not too shabby. But then… talk about blow my mind! Around 2 hours of the best mixing I’ve ever experienced! It was phenominal! And the bass! I swear my body is still vibrating! The laser/light show was mind blowing too! Had I been trippin on acid, I prolly would have melted in a pile of mush! Was a pretty decent atmosphere too. Only a couple of idiots when I was expecting dozens! And it only sprinkled a little bit when I was expecting it to bucket down! Total WIN!
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“talk about blow my mind!”???
Sorry, if you want to be accepted here, you shoulda said “talk about mow my blind!” 😛-
Oh my aplogies. My brain was working properly this morning. Next time I’ll make sure I’m groggy and fingerfuddled before I post 😉
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So, is she now itching to go see other concerts?? Mind you, they may be a let down after CB…
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heheh funnily enough i told her the same thing. She might never experience the same awesomeness again! It really was that good. She did love the whole scene though. Dunno if she’s dying to go to any at the moment though. She definitly would have liked to go to Tool when they were here, but that’s been an gone and unfortunatly we missed out due to a big bill coming in just at the wrong time. Not sure if there’s anyone else coming soon that she would be that psyched to see though.
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Yeah I hate that return to reality thing after a good concert, always is a little bit sad. The worst was coming home from last year’s Splendour in the Grass. It was like coming back to a different world.
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I really used to enjoy going to a mate’s after a concert, sitting back, relaxing having a few…beers and talking about how great it was!
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I’m so glad my stupid saying has caught on. It’s my legacy! xD
Blind. Mown.
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Woops, that was for you Batguy!
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Hey Batguy, you’re forgetting one thing…
What the hell is that!?!
JIMUUU!
Sorry for the shortened PD session. Watched a film before we played which was a bit taxing so I was all sleepy :3 I was kind of getting the hang of it though, we should play again! Was laughing so hard to begin with though, I kept walking into walls and staring at the ground.
And if you didn’t see it last week, I praised that awesome awesome pokemon comic. It was awesome!
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I did see that. And thanks for the game.
I never know when I’m available but usually after 8pm any night.
Good news everyone! Ocarina of Time 3DS will include Master Quest!
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/292223/news/ocarina-of-time-3ds-includes-master-quest/?cid=OTC-RSS&attr=CVG-General-RSS
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YAY!
I never finished that. Got to the last temple, made a chest appear and couldn’t figure out where the damn thing was!
Damnit!
You know what I love about uni?
I only have it 3 consecutive days a week!
This, in-turn, entails a 4-day weekend… EVERY WEEK!
Man life is awesome! 😀
Also, reminder to peeps, tonight is the last chance to get in those CCG entries! I’ve only got 2 so far, and the prize is something you’ve all been begging for for a long while!
One last thing: Mark, you popped onto Minecraft yet?
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I had my first go. But will email you guys my details so I can jump on the server!
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Looking forward to having some Scottish blood on the server! xD
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Are you using that skin I made for you? 😀
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BLOOD?? Skin? This game sounds GORY!
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SHIZ!
I forgot about that!
Will have to bang one out at lunch!
Thanks for the reminder, where do we send em again?-
tadmod at hotmail dot com
😉
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damn.. i forgot about this too.. oh well.. I’m too lazy and a bit busy today to be able to draw up my idea. :0
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CCG?
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…and prize?
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Did you get my entry?
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Sorry to burst your bubble here…
but I have a 4 day weekend too! HAHAHAHA 😛 -
I’ve got 24 hours per week actually on campus, with most of it between 8.30-11.30am and 3.30-6.30pm Monday to Friday.
…so unless someone wants to share a day off with me, you all suck! :'(
Jimu I read the flash rebirth and omfg it was bloody more confusing than gl rebirth. The flash went into some lightning zone thing then he ran back i’n time to catch the anti flash with kid flash who is from the future. Then he saps the other flash decendance when he touches another flash. But the artwork is incredible these comic artist are wonderful i’n the way they convey emotions. Anyway my question can u recommend any other flash comics .
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I’m sorry I can’t. There is an ongoing Flash comic that Geoff John’s is writing that will lead into FLASHPOINT. Should be a few books available.
I was a Spidey fan as a kid, these days I follow creators not characters.
You Should check out Justice League: The Nail by Alan Davis, Flash features a fair bit.
If I were you I would check out more Geoff John’s stuff if you haven’t been already, he’s practically running the DC universe like BNDIS! over at Marvel.
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I should add.
If you like the emotion the artists convey you should definetly read Ultimate Spider-Man when Mark bagley was pencilling.
Brian Bendis(the writer) admits to often removing dialogue because Bagley’s pics said it all!
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I forgot to mention, there was a Buttercup update on Saturday, which you can view here: The Adventures of Buttercup, Part 4: I Hate Those Melbourne Players
Part 5 should be up either this evening or tomorrow evening. I haven’t actually written it yet, but I took far better notes this time, so it should be a lot easier to put it all together.
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Link to webcomic?
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I replied up above, but in case you missed it, here’s another link: Asinine Circus. Admittedly, you aren’t missing much.
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Couldn’t find any actual comic…I am dissapoint.
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@Jimu, the layout is a bit wonky, but there’s a navigation bar under the image on the front page. I’m sure at some point we’ll fix it, but neither of us are that good at website layouts.
@Blaghman, so umm… thanks!
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How dare you mock the bizarre way I speak on the internet, designed as it is to mirror the strange way I talk in real life!
Also, you’re welcome.
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I mock because I love. Also because I’m bored. Mainly the boredom thing.
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Don’t worry, my anger was mock too!
Did that sentence even make sense? Probably not. I can relate to being a dick while bored though, although, I’m a dick all the time, so it’s not really a special occurrence for me.
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It makes sense if you tilt your head and squint, which is good enough for me.
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Just got around to looking at your work, and I am very impressed.
So, ummm…
Good Work!
I was going through some stuff over the weekend, and I found a copy of Assassins Creed that I got with my video card a while back. I never played it cos when I got it I had already played it. Any one want it?
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SHEESH, You can’t even give stuff away these days!
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yeah! whoda thunk it!? I would have expected at least one bite!
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Need to jiggle the line a little, make em think it’s still breathing!
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Question to Kotaku
I still have an original fat DS (don’t laugh). Anyway this thing hardly works, but last week it stopped working altogether. It just doesn’t charge at all anymore. Even after switching out the battery and using a new charger.
I was about 5 hours into a game of Radiant Historia and I’m finding it to be one of the best DS rpg games I’ve played in a long time.
My question is this. Would it be too scummy of me to just download the ROMS of all the games I own and an emulator? Seeing as I just purchased my ludicrously overpriced uni books, it’s going to be a while before I can join modern society and buy a DS lite. And I don’t want to have to wait 2 or 3 months and find I’m just not interested in my old games. I’m not too big on downloading games (although I do have snes9x and Seiken Densetsu 3/Chrono Trigger and a few other roms worth playing, but who doesn’t?)
Also, I need more suggestions for stuff I can do on Photoshop. I was planning to do something this weekend, but then I decided to be a lazy bastard. So yea, suggestions are welcome.
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DO IT!
Just make sure you remember to buy that lite.
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I also own (and use) a DS Phat. Honestly, it still works fine and there hasn’t been a feature worth replacing it for (until the 3DS of course).
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Agreed. The only thing I better on the lite is the screen brightness. The phat is still superior for, you know, actually playing games because the d-pad and buttons are big and responsive. I’ve lost the original stylus but my Pac-man one (http://www.ncsxshop.com/images/products/large/0706/pacman_stylus_shop.jpg) is superior to any pack-in anyway.
I still use the phat as my primary DS and only resort to borrowing my wife’s lite when the game is too dark for the duller screen or I’m out of battery.
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I’m a DS Lite guy. Don’t like the DSi. DS Phat is too phat, yo.
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I went LITE cos the top screen on my PHAt went shaky, like the picture is headache inducing.
Still good for ADVANCE games though!
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I want to switch to a DS lite. The battery life on those things is amazing.
My DS fat has an almost 2:1 battery ratio. Meaning for every 1 hour of play, i have to charge for 2 hours.
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Am I only one who loves the XL?
The screen is bigger and I can’t go back to my Lite now, it just seems as tiny as a Gameboy.-
Never played one properly. I do miss the Advance backwards compatability.
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you’re not the only one! I love the XL aswell. I’m a sucker for big screens! It’s not so big that it makes the graphics look terrible, but it does add a whole lot of wow factor for me.
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DS Lite all the way. Perfect form factor & size, and nothing on the DSi was worth the upgrade.
Plus the lite has the best battery of the lot.
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DS Lite is fantastic, my GBA was the original non-backlit version so I enjoy being able to play GBA games on the DS Lite and actually see what’s going on. That backward compatibility is the reason I never bothered with the dsi.
I originally had a phat though but I sold it to buy the lite.
MARK!
What’s with all the F-bombs on article names?
I’m gonna get fired here!
Alright, well, I’m bored, I mean, really, bored, so bored, that even working at things I enjoy (writing and coding) seems like a bad idea, so I did what any good little egotistical person would, and looked my name up on Google (as I said, bored). Apparently, I’m an ex professional sports person, who now has a Ph.D. in sports psychology (or something), and I am known for rescuing some woman while I was out kite surfing (and being badass).
So, according to Google, who are you (Mark, you’re not allowed to do this, because I just checked, and the answer is really boring)?
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Most interesting one…
(1937 – 2003) inventor, entrepreneur and founder of S.Worth, Inc. He was an active business and community leader in Northeast Indiana. S.Worth’s dedication to promote the advancement and export of American technology enabled provided the growth and recognition of an international company.
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Best one, I’m nobody! My human name is too rare in the world today xD
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I did a search and found things about me really. But was pretty happy to find this! My kotaku MvC3 comp entry which, although didn’t win the comp, seems to have won some fans: http://fuckyeahnicethings.tumblr.com/post/2924169808/justintrr-marvel-vs-capcom-3-by-dane-krams
This just made my day 😀
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My browser only shows the Marvel half, nice Spidey…very 3D.
In other news…ANOTHER F-BOMB! I’m so fired!!!
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Evidently I’m a british punk who doesn’t understand english(an example “does anyone have da glitch wer u go into da…”), I’m also a casual commenter on the APC Magazine website, I wrote the Little Lamboman007 English Dictionary and Thesaurus, evidently I already have an xbox 360 and Gold Membership…
And I’m also a frequent commenter on Kotaku and Gizmodo and own a Lego goth(sic) wampa cave set… 😀 -
When I started high school, I googled my own name. It was interesting to see all the other mynames out there, but there was nothing about me.
Now I google my name and I’m like HAHA take that other mynames! I’m more popular than you now.
Then I remember that all the reasons I’m up there are slightly embarassing 🙁
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well i just found me, which is quite diturbing, i found my old kotaku reader review where i gave my real name, and then i found a link to my schools online newsletter where i was mentioned, and my twitter and facebook came up…
thats actually scary how much info people can find out about me just by finding out my name…
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I’m only me :'(
Hey… what happened to the collabratory thing? Seems to be a bit dead? I nearly forgot about it actually, just gave it a visit and it made me a little sad to see it that way :'(
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Is this the thing where you guys were gonna make games together?
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MadTod got swamped over the holidays, and now that he’s back at uni, it’s been postponed, but I think he wanted to get back to it once he’s settled in.
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I also with the sawamping.
If I can suss a way to draw and hold the boy at the same time(like I have done with controllers) then I would have heaps of time!
Mark Serrels
Will you ever attend to this:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/03/ask-me-stuff-gdc-edition/
???
Or do we have to re-ask this week?
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Ah crap – mad time difference made me forget. I’ll try and get to it!
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Cool. Otherwise I’m going to sound a little obsessed when I ask the Good Game question for the third week in a row…
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Noooooooooooooooo!!!!
Just went to play Yakuza 3 which I’ve been looking forward to getting back into all weekend but…my PS3 appears to be busted.
Turned it on and the light went green, then yellow, then red and flashing.
It’s a Phat PS3 and it’s out of warranty. Even if I could afford to get a replacement(which I can’t), I love my shiny PS3 and hate the slim ones.
🙁
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Don’t you have two PS3s??
My mate’s did that so he traded it in for a slim, they take em at EB. Wouldn’t tell me how much he got. I’m guessing they anally raped with price!
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Yes, but my husband’s PS3 is in our bedroom. We mostly use it for watching blu-rays and downloaded stuffs. Oh, and I play Nier on it on the weekends when it’s his turn to use the loungeroom TV.
All my other saves, including my Yakuza 3 one are on my PS3 as are all our Rock Band and Guitar Hero DLC.
If I was to start Yakuza 3 in the bedroom, I’d have to do mandatory golf again.
But because we haven’t backed up our saves for a while, if it really is broken, all my stuff, including my Y3 save will be gone anyway. I’ll remove my HDD before sending it to get fixed, but the first thing the PS3 does when you put a HDD back in is wipe it..-
OF COURSE!
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“If I was to start Yakuza 3 in the bedroom, I’d have to do mandatory golf again.
Do you really want to broadcast to the world what you and your husband get up to in the bedroom? :p
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The silver lining is…THATS one less game to stop you playing Deadly Premonition…maybe…sorta
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You know what? I actually giggled a little when I reread that sentence but didn’t think anyone would actually go to the gutter with it. 😛
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That definitely justifies the sadface.
Coo sa loca tah setta da noleeya basic?
Porko blastoh tah murishani da naga tah.
Kava porko da blastoh? Ree porko…
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Ya wanna wonga? Ya Jabba no watta…
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Now I’m replaying the whole scene in my head.
Why do I even know this…
I’ve got to get a girlfriend man.
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Is that from Episode 6? I’ve only seen Return of the Jedi once. Some of those words aren’t in the Huttese dictionary I found http://www.completewermosguide.com/huttdictionary.html
I must be the worst Star Wars fan ever. Why? because of all six films, Episode 1 is the one I’ve seen the most…
Episode 1:///
Episode 2:/
Episode 3:/
Episode 4://
Episode 5://
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Was that from Episode 6? I’ve only ever seen it once. I must be the worst Star Wars fan ever, because of all the films, Episode 1 is the one I’ve seen the most…
A small tally
Episode 1:///
Episode 2:/
Episode 3:/
Episode 4://
Episode 5://
Episode 6:/
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Jabba was added into a scene in the CGI “enhanced” re-release of Episode 4, where he confronts Han in a hangar on Tatooine. At least, I think that’s what happened.
Otherwise, yeah, he’s in Episode 6.
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Another interesting fact about the worst Star Wars fan in the galaxy, I’ve only ever seen the “enhanced” version of the original trilogy…
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I thought the CGI Jabba was there to replace a fat-suit Jabba. Damn, it’s been so long since I’ve seen the non-‘special’ editions.
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Fat Suit Jabba wasn’t in the origion ep4.
They filmed the scene, but couldn’t get the mobility out of a puppet, so it was cut… or it was recut when Jabba became a Hutt instead of a human in six.
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Gran Turismo …the new one(5?).
Is it as good as the last, my uncle wonders if he should buy a PS3 to play or not.
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It is a fine game still, as good as earlier Gran Turismos. But not the improvement most were hoping for.
It does everything GT3 and 4 did, but doesn’t build on it. There are plenty of cars, but all the standard models look bad. The menu is the worst menu ever designed.
The AI is unchanged from earlier games. But if these are the things that don’t bother your uncle (eg if he enjoyed GT4), then it is a perfectly decent purchase.
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Well, the driving physics are MUCH better, but there isn’t a lot that has changed from GT4.
Yes, there is damage, but it isn’t implemented as well as was hoped.
There is 16 player online, but it’s hard trying to find a room that isn’t filled with knobs, ie, wreckers.
Not a lot of new tracks, and they still haven’t put Grindelwald in.
Overall, the game is better than GT4…. but not by much.
If he does get the PS3, he’ll definitely have to get the update for GT5 when he connects it to the network.
Hope this helps. 🙂-
Cheese
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Myer has a 320 GB PS3 package going for $559. It comes with Gran Turismo 5, Killzone 3 and Little Big Planet 2. That is very very good (well I say so anyway ..)
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Thanks veegee, but my uncle has been in Japan for years!
I’m sure he’ll suss out a good deal…
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So I bought the game Magicka this weekend.
a) Saw trailer for Magicka Vietnam (looks interesting)
b) it is $10 on steam
So far it is a very good game. Nicely done humour throughout, and the magic casting system is very unique.
Anyone else playing this on Steam?
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I watched my brother play and it made my head hurt. He seemed to be enjoying it though.
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I’ve been following this YouTube series of TotalBiscuit and Yogscast playing it co-op while commentating. Just so much epicness. I wish I could play it but unfortunately my computer specs are pretty low.
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I watch the same series. The yogdcast boys have epic voices. Love it.
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Tad Mod
I just sent u my entry for CCG, did you receive?
I feel so stupid.
I posted this;
“Any room for a new player in the kotaku community minecraft server?
I was off sick last week so I decided to give it a go and sure enough I’m addicted now.
I asked near the end of TAY last week but nobody replied. I’m going to be and optimist and put that down to all the kotakraftiens using vent instead of TAY to talk to each other now.
If I am welcom my email address for the detials is g_m_it(at)hotmai()l dot com”
this morning, then when I get up to check it I discover I posted it on last weeks TAY because I double checked there was no reply to my last one before posting.
I blame it on the fact that I just finished 12 hours at work dispike being still sick and knowing that I only had five and a half hours to sleep before getting back up to come in tonight.
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FatShady be the lord and master of the server and he has not had internets lately so he probably missed it.
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That’s right, I remember fat shady mentioning that now. Oh well. I’ll keep building my fortress network in single player while I wait.
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I did actually read it but never made it to comment (actually when i tried this site was all stuffed up…)
As long as you are willing to contribute $25 or so when asked to do so, I think there will be room. The server technically has 10 slots available, but we have bever used more than 6 or so at a time. We we could risk it and have up to about 15 or so users, as long as we understand that if we have 10 on it, thats it!
Perhaps I do what Notch did and say anyone who got an alpha code is more important (first 10 get preference!!!) but would be happy to have you join.
i’ll see if i can send the e-mail from my phone now.
Thanks for being patient. My internet/work issues are HUGE lately.
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Also i know Mark was out of town… but he promised he would show his face and NOTHING!
Let us know when you are going to jump in so we can all welcome you appropriately.
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Thanks! I got your email. Just replied. I might try logging on tomorrow around 10am ish but I probably wont get much time until Wednesday.
I’ll have to get someone to take me on a tour to show me everyones projects so I don’t double up on something. I’m thinking of making the giant “REMEMBER ME!” bender statue.
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During the flood I was posting in the last week’s TAy well into the next. Nohandle had to go back a week in his delorian and give me a ride back to the now which is now the then but for me it was THE FUTURE!!!
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e-mail sent mate.
One serious question guys:
I’ve been oblivious to the contending best PC game ever called Deus Ex for the past 10 years it was released. Should I get a Steam account just for this game or can anyone point me in a direction where I can buy it one off?
I can predict that if I get a Steam account, there’s no going back.
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I’m just gonna dive straight into the third. I watched some youtoobz of the first and it looks dated and I know I won’t be able to get into it enough(even though I’m playing plenty of Perfect Dark!).
I read the second wasn’t so great.
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I think the third one is the first anyway because it’s being made as a prequel isn’t it?
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The first was better than the second in a few ways, the most glaring being the removal of multiple ammo types for each weapon. Still good though, the interesting ways to use augs and the custom weapon upgrades are always fun.
Honestly, DE1, yeah it’s PS1 era/style graphics but it’s worth it. I reckon you could skip 2 and not lose any sleep.
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I dunno how competitive they are price wise, but…
http://www.gamehead.com.au/PC-Downloads/RPG/Deus-Ex-Game-of-the-Year/103028
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Can get it here too..
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The steam version of Deus Ex comes out bugged, you need to get a fix through forums to stop the game going in turbo speed mode. It’s installed without optimisation for the processor power of today’s technology, don’t ask me why it just is.
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Ooh good to know, I bought it during the xmas sales but still have not played it yet.
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You’ll notice right away when dialogue gets cut short every time a paragraph is being said or something over the radio, and also when your footsteps sounds like a mouse scuttering across a floor :P. Oh yeah I got it through xmas sales too
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$4.99?! ;O Thanks wellbot!
Jimu: I don’t know if my computer will be able to handle the 3rd game… I think I will try out the original Deus Ex first : )
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Yeah, I gettin it on 360, a borrow/hire to begin with and then…
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very welcome indeed! Hope you enjoy it as much as I did the first time I played through it 🙂
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It’s an incredibly good game, even if the graphics are a bit dated. The story is really interesting, and some of the gameplay is very cool (allowing you to be almost totally non-lethal on missions, if you want).
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OMG! It’s National Bacon Week!
http://www.australianpork.com.au/pages/page219.asp
Bacon is the answer to everything.
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What is France?
France is bacon.
Yup, your logic is airtight. Bacon is the answer to everything.
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Bacon is the food of gods to be sure! But it does have limits. Some americans just seem to think that ANYTHING with bacon = awesome.. i say NO!
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But american bacon is 100 times awesomer than our bacon so I can understand their thinking.
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to quote one of australias most beloved politicians… (NOT!)… Please explain!?
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It’s hard to explain. It’s not pale and porky like ours is, it’s dark and smoky and crispy and awesome.
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AAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL RRRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!
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Hurray for fat & sodium (& protein)!
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Who are sodium and protien and what did we do to deserve this?
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Bacon gets a whole week. International women just get one day. 🙂
So on the weekend me And Sughly played some Perfect Dark while the Mrs STREAMED KOREAN DRAMA FROM THE INTERNET.
If anyone else is keen please look for me after 8pm BrisTime and my handle is my gamertag!
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Purfik DUCk
PURHFICK DAAAAAAAAAAAAHKK
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I’ll be there again, I swears! We should try some challenges some time too, those are cool. Though I’ll probably fail miserably on this controller :'(
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I’m telling you, you get used to it!
Also, I have 3 challenges I just can’t beat. Two king of the hills and a hold the breifcase/one shot kills. Both against expert simulants.
I go back and try every so often but I just can’t do it!
More challenges open if I can beat them! So frustrating!We have less than a month!
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For whatever reason, my interest in the Trauma Center games was sparked on the weekend. The first game on the NDS is actually one of my favourite games. There are only two major problems I have with the game, first is the plot. Don’t care about it in the slightest, luckily early in my first playthrough I discovered the magic of the Select button.
The other issue is Angie’s “Hey listen!” interruptions. Sometimes it is necessary to stop everything to teach a new skill, but once you’re out of the tutorial all it does is get in the way.
Anyhow, Trauma Centre: Under the Knife is awesome and the second DS game was pretty nifty too. Unfortunately, I never played the Wii games. You see, I was incredibly excited for Second Opinion when it was announced as a launch title for the Wii. My excitement waned somewhat when I found out it was being delayed here. By the time it came out here, nearly 2 years after the US release, I’d lost interest.
Now I want to pick it up and there are no local stores that stock it. Although every Big W I walk into seems to have a million copies of New Blood.
If I was writing this as an article or a blog entry, this might all be leading up to a point, but I’m not, so really the only point of this is to say that I like Trauma Centre and Atlus screwed up in keeping my interests intact.
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I hear they are the same game only difference being the interface.
Not sure how true that is.
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That’s essentially true from what I’ve heard, the missions are definitely the same.
Trauma Centre is quite probably the best use of the touch screen on the DS. So when the Wii was still shiny and new, I held the hope that the games would show just what the Wiimote was capable of.
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To me stylus as scalpel makes sense.
Wiimote as scalpel? Not so much.Not that I know what I’m talking about as I haven’t played the game!
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I’ve sent a membership request to the Kotaku Au collabratory.com group, can someone add me too the group? I’ll be able to help with coding and stuff, I can program in C# and am good with XNA. I hope to learn UnrealScript sometime in the near future, because making games with UDK sounds cool.
Also, I think the group needs a new name…how about “Leather Cap Society”?
Hey Mark,
http://www.gamearena.com.au/news/read.php/5092345?latest=1
Does this mean we can have Xbox Live Indy Games now?
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Also, does that mean we’ll have confirmation… and then have to wait for it to be actioned by parliament…or is that the ballgame, and an r18 rating will start from that date?
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Could it be???? The decision to be made will be on my Birthday!!! I’m totally gonna act dumb and all surprised when they give me my present. Nicely played AG’s, nicely played.
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You’ll be the Belle of the ball!
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/me twirls
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http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/03/03/letters-to-an-absent-father-mare-odomo-pokemon-comic/
In case you missed my LATE and dissapearing comment last week.
…Sughly liked it.
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Loved that comic spoke to me. Very smart comic
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USM??
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I loved that as well, very touching stuff.
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It’s true, I did!
JO
Voices of a Different Star, love it!
Thoughts??
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DISTANT DISTANT!!!
BrAIN fail…
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Yeah I thought it was great, very well done.
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Yay, just got home. Shtooopid uni. Anyway, me being in a gaming rut, I started writing. I used to love writing short stories. It may be good, it may be crap, but here is what I have so far. I’d love some feedback (what you liked, what you didn’t. Unlike my brother, who said he didn’t like it and left it at that.) if you guys can be bothered reading what I have so far. Literally, it’s only 2 pages, won’t take long. Though if you do read it, I wrote it with the intent that you read it slowly, and not speedread.
http://notoriousr.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/first-compile.pdf
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Hm, my first reaction is that it’s a bit unsettling (like all horror should be!), sort of in the vein of the Saw or Hostel films.
The focus on the victim’s physical reactions was really well done, but given that I’m squeamish anyway I might not read on ;).
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Not really the type of story I’d normally read but I thought it was quite good. I liked the pacing to build up tension.
Going from your note for chapter 2, am I right in that it’s someone who grew delusional watching to much pokemon and is trying to build himself a mewtwo?
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Yeah, i get bored. I normally type silly file names and stupid pokemans references. I once submitted an assignment labelled ‘Why Pokemans are teh awesumz’. I realised this after it uploaded. Lucky I checked. That would’ve been awkward.
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Haha. I know the feeling. I do much the same thing with my story. Whenever I stop writing for the day I throw in an alternate ending that usually involves the world being destroyed in some bizarre manner. The most popular one so far seems to be the one involving genital crabs taking over peoples nervous systems and turning them into zombies.
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I kind of do a similar thing, but with names. I suck at names, in my latest project, every character, thus far, is known simply by a letter. Anyway, I had one English oral, where for the name of the village thing it was set in, I just used the placeholder name “Partytime” because I could easily just find-all and replace. I sent a copy to a friend to proof read, and he was just like “wtf.”
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I keep the program from when my sister graduated uni because it’s got so many names from so many nationalities. When i can’t think of a character name I just open it up on a random page and pick the first name I like the sound of.
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Too early, I will read later. After food…
Hilariously, after three years of trying, I finally got a USB wheel and pedals to work with the original Nascar Racing. I’m quite happy. 😀
Hey to whoever runs the Kotaku Au Collabratory page,
I’ve sent a request to be a part of the group, just thought I’d let you know here, because I doubt you’re going to go on there for a while…
Also, I think the group needs a new name. How about “Leather Cap Society”? 😛
Hey friendly chaps of Kotaku.
Just curious on your thoughts about gaming on a Mac Book Pro.I’ve had my eye on the 17″ bad boy for quite some time…
I’m basically in the process of potentially picking one up, due to my love of all things film and editing and have always loved the way a Mac has accommodated this, amongst other great traits.
Yet another thing I’m equally passionate for, is gaming. I know Steam is available for Mac, but lets face it, the games on there are quite rubbish.(if u were to compare to Steam Win)
Is Mac OS X really an exact duplicate of a Windows related laptop? and therefore in that respect able to have the best of both worlds ??For example, do they recognise Win related patches like DirectX?
I know it may not be able to go toe to toe with an Alienware behemoth, but is it close?
Will I be able to run/install Windows games, and also on OS X and use Windows Steam ??
I know these questions are perhaps best answered by the “genius’” at Apple, but thought I’d extend the question(s) out to the awesome crew at Kotaku.
Thoughts, theories and anecdotes most welcome!!
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The new ones are beastly. I have last year’s 15 inch, not really doing much gaming on it tbh, so can’t be too much help!
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I’m not really clued in on the inner workings of OSX, but I know you can dual boot windows and OSX on their latest machines now they’re running intel chips. So that could solve all your problems.
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Dual booting seems the way to go. Best of both worlds – you can keep OSX (eeewwwwwww), and still have Windows for gaming.
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Depends on how you plan to use your lappy, but I’d definitely recommend a 15″ – much more portable and same spec as the 17″.
You can upgrade the res of the 15″, so screen real estate shouldn’t be an issue.I’ve owned the last 2 generations of 15″ MBP and I’ve been realllly happy with performance, size, weight and build quality.
It’s primarily used for work, but I’ve got steam installed and have used it at LANs as a spare.
Native performace is acceptable, but nothing incredible – latest generation sounds much more kick ass though.I’ve used VMware Fusion before steam was available for mac and performance was (unsurprisingly) pretty horrible.
Booting into Windows would definitely be the way to go, but I haven’t set this up yet myself.If you can justify the extra cost, or you need to run osx for a specific purpose, they are a really awesome machine.
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A Mac laptop is not an exact duplicate of a Windows one, if they were what would be the point?
OS X and Windows are two fairly different operating systems, so there are a lot of things you can do in one but not the other. Gaming is one of those things where there are a lot of games that do not run on OS X. Steam for Mac makes it pretty clear which ones you can run in OS X though and everything else can be done by dual-booting Windows on to the machine.
You’ve just got to remember that Windows applications do not work in OS X. More often than not there is equivalent software out there, and in some happy cases, superior software.
You should definitely step into a Mac store and have someone explain what I’m trying to say slightly clearer.
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OK, something I might actually be able to help with!
Amusingly, the most powerful computer in my house, is a 3(I think?) year old Macbook Pro(Yes, we’re behind the times). OSX has no support for Direct X, all graphical rendering is done via software renderer’s, or Open GL. Due to sub-optimal use of Open-GL today, and the fact that they often use wrappers, instead of running it natively, games will typically run worse on an equally specced computer that is running OSX(there’s also other matters of optimisation, but let’s ignore them).
As mentioned, you can dual boot them, which gives you all of the functionality of Windows on that side, and all of the mac uses on the other. Alternately, if you have excessive amounts of RAM, there is a program I’ve forgotten the name of, that lets you run Windows inside OSX in a, umm, window.
Personally, I’m quite happy with the MBP, my oldish one is able to run pretty much any game, although, typically on fairly low settings (dual booted).
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The software you’re thinking of is VMWare fusion or Parallels. Both of which require a metric assload of RAM to work well, but I’ve heard from people who have metric assloads of RAM and they say that they work pretty well in those circumstances.
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I maxed out the RAM on my 2008 model MBP and had no problems running the Tales of Monkey Island games in VMWare fusion (before they were released for OSX).
Though I’d seriously recommend buying the smallest possible RAM configuration, then upgrade from one of the numerous mac-compatible memory retailers online. I saved myself $200 that way.
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Hey Blaghbuddy, the name of the program is Parallels Desktop for Mac.
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Woops, didn’t see Trjn’s reply, just forget I said anything…
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Thankyou all for those who replied.
I appreciate you guys for shedding more light on the issue.Whilst I understand that the new Mac Books may not be best rig for games, sounds that with the right programs it should be more than competent and be able to almost able to enjoy the best of both worlds…with the odd caveat.
Cheers guys.
May need to do some more research before I full make my decision.
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Red Dead Redemption at JB HI-FI for $49. Pretty decent for an instore price, and I am sure everyone here would recommend this to anyone who is yet to play it.
Why is it so early? :'(
Stupid time. *shakes fist at cloud*
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Oh man, sometimes when I walk the dog at 7:30 (AM), there’s nothing but old people roaming the streets, out doing their morning exercise.
OLD PEOPLE EVERYWHERE-
Sometimes, when I’m bored, just to mess with the old people, I go for morning jogs (I can’t do them anymore, too unfit :/) in bare feet, just to watch their faces. Good fun.
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Don’t worry. It’s better now.
Big thanks to Mark for coming and checking out our creations in Minecraft! It was a hoot, especially when he entered my pit of shame 😀 Hope you can squeeze in some more MC time during work hours! (For research purposes of course) 😉
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I started a new project. By myself I am thinking weeks but should be awesome. Go out the front gates of town and head diagonally left under the sun. There is a mountain there. Go to the right and look up. You can see it from spawn point.
If my directions suck sorry.
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HAHA! Thats an awesome idea!! Are you planning a full set?? Will take you a while, but its looking freaking fantastic!
If anyone is is looking to find it, follow the new highways to the underwater tube ross finished last night (nice work mate :)), FatShady’s WIP is in that direction.
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glad you liked it. took a few hours and im not finished one single row. I was up til about 1am working on it.
If i do say 5-10 rows, that is a few weeks/month of work right there…
I was really pleased with it. I figured out a technique that makes it easy also.
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Oh yeah good to have mark along also. I want to see him start building.
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Damn! I missed all the fun! I logged in for a little while yesterday, but I was all alone!
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Mark are you coming on again tonight? I should be on there at 8:00pm Sydney time if I get me wireless broadband today
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Yeah, reckon I probably will for a bit. I’m going longboarding after work for a bit, but need to get on and learn how to build!
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If you ever get stuck, read this
http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Tutorials/Beginner's_guide
Or you can be manly and just try to figure it all out on your own 😀
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I’m trying to connect to the server now but it keeps saying ” Connection lost – Failed to login: bad login.
FatShady MBA sent me the IP and said he’s added me to the white list. Would it be something on my end?
I tried jumping in a few random public servers and they seem to work.
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Hey Gorzilla, send me an email to jeffkent (at) pacific (dot) net (dot) au and I can at least let you know if your using the right IP numbers.
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I can see there is an IP address trying to connect but not sure if its you. make sure you enter the details
IP:Port number just as it was shown to you in the e-mail.You are def on the whitelist as of last night.
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Hooray! I just tried again and it worked. I didn’t change anything so I’ve no idea why it wouldn’t let me before. Now time to go exploreing.
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Special thanks to Qumulys and Blaghman for the guided tour.
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Just cause I have not said much lately. I just have to share a cool thug I did. I managed to control (full touch control and all buttons) an iPod touch using an iPhone.
Was bored so I jailbroke my old iPod 32g touch again. I wanted a simple media player where I can drag and drop 700mb files straight to the device without file conversion and sync with iTunes.
I did this but there was nothing really interesting about the jailbreak. I did get xbox media centre but that has not been optimized yet.
Anyway found an app called veency which gives you a pc interface to The iPod touch. Just using a mouse you can do everything wirelessly. Then I thought. What if I use team viewer app on iPhone to remote desktop my pc which can then see the iPod. And sure enough it worked. Not the most useful of things but cool all the same.
Just sharing.
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Btw. No film studios or app developers were harmed in the making of this post.
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Also I hate iPhone typing while on a moving train and no edit feature. It will now be known for the ages that I did a cool thug. THUG LIFE!!
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http://www.kotaku.com.au/2010/08/your-kane-lynch-2-winners-are-fcked-up/
I still haven’t forgetten….
You’d make/are a great thug.
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hehe. good comp that one!.. I enjoyed that. Took the damn photo in the bedroom one night. Had to prop the camera up on draws to get the angle. Wife walked in and just laughed….
Also a funny note, the comp required you to have the K logo somewhere not photoshopped. I went to all the trouble of taking the pic i wanted, then forgot about the logo.
Not wanting to cheat, i drew it on my hand, took a second photo, then cut out my hand and replaced the original.
Also, the background in that photo was actuially in daylight, so i used my limited Photoshop skills to make it night… I liked that pic!
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also, that scar on my head, it was a real picture of someones staples in after a caesar… wife had only had them about 6 months earlier so when i was looking for a gross scar.. that is where i started…
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Gross scar? Man, your are either a very brave man, or your wife never comes in here 😀
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dude, I love wifey and she is beautiful, but it was 13 or so staples right across her belly.. that is gross!
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That is the coolest thing that has no real use since women. Lol I kid the dishwashers happy womens day.
Holy cow, there realllly needs to be some kind of licensing system in place before people are allowed to raise children… This guys… oh wow… poor kid..
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread670820/pg1
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That is just so wrong on so many levels.. wow.. just… wow…
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Is that for serious??
He should call The Ghostbusters (not the real ghostbusters, the one with the Gorilla!).
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When I rule the world, I will hand out breeding licences sparingly, and administer painful spayings liberally.
All in good time.
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UGH.
His posts beneath the first one (replies to people on the forum) are even stupider. if that’s possible: “It seems like its a tracking device of some sort.??????”
Illiterate and ignorant.
Hey guys
Just a quick one
Civilization Revolution for 360 for $16.95 – yay or nay?
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Tanx 4 the PD multi. I am so tired, stayed up a whole extra hour playing with you!
We need to do a counter ops mission one time for the acheivement!
Also we could get 3 -4 players going if we manage to have me you Sughly and theres one other…my memory betrays me…
GOO FUN!
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GOO fun? I’ve been playing too much Dragon Quest!
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Hey that sounds prettysweet. I can be the runt of the group 😀
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I was runt last night! Played on hard and I died…
Still fun though, the boy only ever woke up when I was in a safe place, which was handy.
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It’s Banderdash! AKA James Mac!!!
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Where?!?!?
Look Busy!
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On LIVE owning a copy of PD!!
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T’was indeed goo fun. I’m up for it again some time, either continuing co-op or trying something new like counter-op. Just need to fit it in around your schedule and getting back to the Minecraft server.
I had forgotten how good this game is. Although the aiming is hyper-sensitive on the xbox!
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tHERES A SLIDER IN THE ADVANCED OPTIONS for the anal-ogg (Sorry, gogo gadget capslock!).
Or you could buy one of these bad boys:
http://store.razerzone.com/store/razerusa/en_US/pd/productID.226325100/parentCategoryID.43736600/categoryId.55256600And I’ll gladly take that DA2 DL code off your hands!!!
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So last night I was feeling pretty blegh and instead of finishing up the next Buttercup entry, I accidentally Chuggaaconroy’s Let’s Play of Pikmin. The whole thing.
Entertaining, but not so great for my download quota.
Anyhow, I should get the next Buttercup entry done tonight, so anyone interested should look out for it this evening. Or just check in tomorrow morning.
On top of that, I was thinking that it might be a little fun to break things up somewhat and start doing another series of articles. At the moment I’m considering going back and playing old(ish) games that I enjoyed to see if they hold up. Starting with Trauma Center: Under the Knife.
Anyone interested in seeing that sort of thing, or would you prefer more Buttercup?
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What other oldish games did you have in mind?
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Anything I have fond memories of that I can get my hands on easily. So things like Sonic 2, pretty much any Zelda game, or anything else I can pick up and play for a few hours to get a good feel for the game.
Maybe even something like Gears of War, simply because I played that game exclusively for the co-op content. I’ve actually sat down and played it from start to finish on the hardest difficulty with a friend, which is why I have fond memories of that game. So maybe going back and trying the campaign by myself might work.
It wouldn’t be a replacement for Buttercup, just an excuse to play games other than Demon’s Souls and Marvel vs Capcom 3. Even then, I haven’t really thought this through, just an idea I had this morning.
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My picks from this list are:
Sonic 2
Zelda games-
I’ll keep that in mind.
Seeing as I have twenty minutes of my lunch break left and no more food, I think I might crack out my laptop and try to write some of the first half of the Trauma Centre piece. See how that goes.
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Well, it took ten minutes more than I had, but I wrote up a rough draft. I’m starting to like this idea. Tonight I shall finish off the next Buttercup entry, post it and then edit the first half of this Trauma Center piece before going to actually play the game.
I’ve been far too productive for my own good in the last few days. If you can consider doing what I do productive.
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Write everyday, you will get better. Doesn’t matter what it is.
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I try to. Although now that I’ve officially shelved the novel I started for NaNoWriMo (it just wasn’t working), I’m having to come up with different projects to keep myself occupied.
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I wish I took my own advice.
And remember anything other than doing it is just procastonation…I wish I took my own advice.
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I read the Asinine Circus…tis’ amusing. I espescially like the Goddam Batman!
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Thanks. That’s probably my favourite of the strips we actually put out, even if the shark wasn’t suspended in the air by balloons like I’d originally planned >.>
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Your top ten has no hand held games!
I suggest (with my big mouth) Pokemon White.
Both Ozgameshop and Dicky Smiths are sweet deals!
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And black, I’m not a racist!
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Saw that, funny thing is Sughlt asked the same thing!
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Haha, PA is stealing my funnies! I should get paid for that, shouldnt I?
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On that note, it seems mostly everyone else has pulled Pokemon down to match Dick Smith.
DSE is $47 online, $49 in their catalogue, Target is $48, JB’s $59 has allegedly been pulled down to $49 ($69 with the guide).
Of course Ozgameshop is there, but I want mah Pokemons on Thursday.-
They posted mine last week, so I have my fingers crossed!
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If you get it before me, imma gonnabe so mad
real madWish I lived in Melbourne though, just for Dungeon Crawl. Apparently they got their first shipment on Friday, and it got snapped up like, uh, something that sells really fast.
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Not sure if it’s addresed to home or the PO box.
If it’s home that’s great, if it’s the PO box I will get it Friday no matter when it turns up!
Or next Friday…NNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooo…
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I think it did…
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DE POGEYMANS HAS BROKEN STREET DATE
…At some stores. Maybe.
Some Gametraders seem to have, the larger Dick Smith stores list it as in stock on their website. My local DSE is sticking to tomorrow. ='(-
My mail box is sticking too it, I am dreading the inevitable after street date…
Already a definite with DA2!
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All for you Jimu (apologies to all for the linkage):
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Nice list, I love everything except GTA which is a fine game that I never play.
Also you wrote “releive” instead of “relive” for SM64 DS…which sorta kinda works.
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Dragon Age 2, PC master race stuff:
http://social.bioware.com/page/da2-patches
High-res textures if you’ve got a computer capable of DX11.
Downloaded it this morning, before all the servers potentially get clogged up once it’s out in America.
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What are we getting on 360 graphics wise?
Half as much?(I need it in Layman’s terms, numbers and such mean little to me!).
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To be honest, I don’t really know. I’m not much of an eye candy person m’self, and I think the main difference is DX11, so I’m a really poor judge. I remember seeing a comparison of Metro 2033 DX9 vs DX11, and I don’t think there was a mind blowing difference.
Even DX9 DA2 demo on PC looks pretty nice (and apparently the DX11 option didn’t work), so I’m not sure it’s really anything to fuss over.
No doubt the guys at Digital Foundry at Eurogamer will needlessly pick apart the details of the pretties when it’s all released though.-
Yeah
I used to check all the graphics comparisons of multi-platform releases before I bought my 360.
I never noticed anything too huge. Sometimes one game would look better on PS3 and another on 360.
I did noticed a big difference when I played ME2 on a mates ridiculously giant expensive PC.If the gameplay is fun I tend to forget about the graphics anyway.
I’ve put more hours in on the DS than the 360, but thats’ partly because of portability.
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Man learning about HTML is boring. At least the teacher is hot.
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but once you get past HTML into CSS, and then later(if you’re lucky) dynamic web content, it gets really fun!
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HoTMaLe?
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I had a boring web class last year. The teacher was an oldish woman with too much makeup. Not cool.
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Sadly, the physics department doesn’t have any hot teachers… but they’re all extremely awesome and that makes up for it.
…unlike those maths department goons who’re not only ugly, but the most socially stunted people I’ve ever come across…
Anyways, at least there’s something going for the class, Dire! 😡
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Don’t expect hawtness from the physics department. Physics is where the Least Action is.
(If you don’t get it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_action
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Ack! And I thought maths jokes were bad…
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@ Suhgly
I stole your email address from your website and sent you an email.
READ IT!
Get back to me
Cheers
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Oooo, email! Looking/replying…
Notoriosr
I read your short story, it was effective. I felt a little queesy worrying something disgusting was about to happen.
Few problems.
Grammar, spelling etc was off sometimes, easlily fixed.
Repeating words that did’nt need to be such as the line that read something like:
“The wet drop fell into the wet eye” that just sounds odd to me. Moist eye perhaps??
Also No list of Pokemanz…I am dissapoint!
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I read it too.
Some good visual style there, but I found the perspective you were writing from to be slightly self-indulgent. Which is fine if you’re writing for yourself alone, but as soon as you want other people to read it you’ll need to think more about your reader, and how to engage them.
I think if you wrote from a more traditional third person perspective your story would be very engrossing.
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That never seems to bother me (perspective) I thought in this story it added to the uncomfortable feeling, which I’m sure was intentional.
I read this book once that was told in present tense(i think) and didn’t even realise.
It grated on a freind of mine the whole time, it’s one of his favourite books but he just didn’t like the one aspect.-
Yay feedback!
Thanks guys. The wet eye thing, I was just confused. Moist eye didn’t really seem to fit, and I was kinda stumped. So bleh.
As for the perspective, I’m not terribly sure how I would go about doing that. I’m not exactly the most literature heavy guy, and I have fallen asleep whilst reading Brave New World and Lord of the flies. When I wrote it, it kinda just popped into my head and I went with the flow. I might try rewriting it in a 3rd person persective if I have time over the weekend. Thanks again for the feedback (you guys and the other guys on page 2!)
Also, pokemans. I will show you mine. In due time 🙂
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I just had another read of it and I guess you’ve edited it since. With the wet droplet/wet eye (or cornea in the version I read) bit, the first wet is unnecessary.
Something you could do to increase the tension is to switch from passive voice to active voice.
Instead of ” Adrenalin is secreted into the bloodstream, giving strength to the start resisting” try “Adrenalin secretes into the bloodstream, giving the strength to start resisting.”
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That was no edit, it was MY quote fail!
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Don’t look now, but there’s a deranged man on last week’s TAY screaming bloody murder about dial-up…
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This I have to see!
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I leava da comment, he will be very ahappy!
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Nope, you just confused him. Well, at least it stopped his [unmanly sobbing]™… 😀
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What’s on Good Game Tonight (Mini Edition)?
Tonight on #ggtv 8:30pm abc2, Fight Night Champion, Bulletstorm, and Beyond Good and Evil HD and possibly moar
http://www.ebgames.com.au/news-816-Get-the-mythical-Pokémon-Victini
Dates and locations for Victini.
Has anyone done this before? Do I need to go inside and announce my nerdism or can I just loiter outside in my suss looking trenchcoat and hat?
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PS: I don’t own any trenchcoat, just getting visions of mums dobbing me in to the police.
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I’m hoping I can do it elsewhere, due to the slight problem that NONE OF THOSE ARE IN CANBERRA! OUR POPULATION IS NOT THAT SMALL, IT WOULD BE BENEFICIAL TO YOU TO AT LEAST TEMPORARILY SET UP THE APPROPRIATE EQUIPMENT IN ONE FRIGGIN’ STORE! GGGGGGGAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!
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You think they’d do ONE!
Most of QLD’s are close to the CBD.Toombul and Chermside are doing it and they are suburbs apart!
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All they need is a wireless router, their stores are already connected to the internet, so there’s presumably a limit on how many stores they’re allowed to do it at, but it just seems bizarre.
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You should be able to loiter.
When Big W had a giveaway event (I think it was Mew), they had it set up as a mystery gift over local wireless connection.-
That’s what I wanted to hear!
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Yeh, for that mew event I just went into big W, found a quite corner near the DVDs, wipped it out and did what I had to and then put it away again hoping nobody had noticed.
Then I went and downloaded mew.
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lolol! This thread is too funny 😀
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BWA HA HA
Where DO you buy one of those trencoats??
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Thanks for the heads up, Jimu!
With regards to distance – go for it. I got Jirachi by loitering in the games aisle at Big W, while some friends managed to get it from the manchester department half the store away (along with some weird looks from an old lady…).
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OK, good news, I can stop worrying. I mean, you can stop worrying. *cough*
http://bulbanews.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Australia_gets_in-store_Victini_eventApparently any WiFi will do, so that’s good for me. Although, it probably still sucks for anyone who lives in more generalised country areas, and doesn’t have WiFI.
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Well then, I need to sort out that router of mine!
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This is all I need to know about the new transformers film:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/06/michael-bay-on-transformers-2_n_831942.html
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I was so hoping that it was going to say something about the movie’s cancellation due to Michael Bay being shot (or something). Explosions are not a substitute for plot. It didn’t work in Modern Warfare 2, and it doesn’t work for Michael Bay.
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Michael Bay! Explosions! Michael Baysplosions! Splosions Bay! YEAAHH!
Robot Chicken is hilarious.
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Haha, that’s so good. Prepped a film off 14 pages of writing lol. Ah man, what a surprise…
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To enjoy these movies you need to go in as if your about to watch a comedy.
Die Hard 4 was one of the funniest movies I have ever seen, they just kept trying to top themselves with ridiculous and then…Kevein Smith, FATTER than ever!
What a laugh riot!
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Kevin Smtih!
How the hell did Clerks cost 30 grand to make?It was two guys, one set, and a black and white camera. He even wrote the dialogue… so he didn’t buy a script.
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It did?
Who gave him the cash???
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Out of interest, does anyone else play World of Tanks on a regular basis?
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Great news, everyone!
I’ve finally got a phone line (and consequently the interwebs) at home!!! 😀
YAY!
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Wow, that took way longer than it should have. Did you at least get your first month free? They definitely owe you something.
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When I was with Dodo we were internetless for over a year. They never did figure it out, I moved out and the guys joined up with TPG.
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I’ve been in that position before. Definitely not fun, but if you’re anything like me you managed to play a lot of Mahjong while you were netless.
Then again, you probably aren’t anything like me :p
Mr. Rabbit!
Are you going to put up the next Buttercup or do I have to throw you in the Pit of Despair?
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It’s up! I must have gone to bed just a whisker too early.
I really enjoyed this episode, too. I’m wondering, do you ever, I mean does Buttercup ever go ’round a corner, bump into an enemy and shriek in surprise?-
For everyone else’s reference: The Adventures of Buttercup, Part 5: Sweet, Boring Revenge.
It took me twice as long as normal to write this latest one. Mainly because I kept getting distracted. My dog was barking at the neighbours’ baby, my friend was pestering me on MSN and my attention was trying to focus on Reddit instead of writing.
At the moment, I think it’s more likely for Buttercup to go round a corner, bump into an enemy and die a gruesome death.
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Oggob,
And pretty much anyone. I have no idea what JB Hi Fi is doing, at all.
So here, they have the Hero Edition for $189:
http://www.jbhifi.com.au/games/infamous-2/
But here, they have the Hero Edition for only $117:
http://www.jbhifionline.com.au/game/ps3/infamous-2-hero-edition/644213
And that can’t be the special edition, because that’s here, for $109:
http://www.jbhifionline.com.au/game/ps3/infamous-2-special-edition/644193
WTF?
Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaark!
I’m not gonna be around for Ask Me Stuff, so can you take my questions here? 😀
1) Will Australia be getting the Nyko Power Pak+ (http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/03/nyko-doubles-the-battery-life-of-the-3ds/) and if so, when?
2) Can you just bump and then answer the Ask Me Stuff from last week? Pwease…? :3
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That’s a good idea actually. Maybe I will bump last weeks.
I can’t say for sure about the Nyko – but if they don’t release one I’m sure someone else will – I’ll see if I can get in contact with the right person and find out.
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You’re the bestest!
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WELBOT!!!! I blame you for this….
http://www.news.com.au/national/pauline-hanson-eyes-upper-house-seat/story-e6frfkvr-1226018035549
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Plz explain?! :0
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“welbot
March 7, 2011 at 5:32 PM
to quote one of australias most beloved politicians… (NOT!)… Please explain!?”You called her beloved and then she decides to get back into politics. Coincidence? I think not. 😛
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hahah i knew what you were referring too.. I was just being a smart ass 😉 It is kinda freaky! :0
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…on a related note, I’ve no idea who to vote for because everyone is equally hopeless.
So, I eagerly await the advent of the Kotaku party – with Mark, Elly and Seamus as our representatives.
Make it happen! 😛
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Strangely enough Seamus’ sister is in politics.
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Vote 1 Seamus’s Sister: She’s related to a pretty cool dude.
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Just do what i do…don’t vote.
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I am very lucky, I live in Canberra, the libs are so very, very useless, so voting is easy.
Anyway, rather than not voting, I support the massive throbber, where you ummm, draw a massive veiny throbbing penis on your ballot, then draw a little square next to it, and put a 1 in it.
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I WOULD do that, but then they’ll fine me…
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How would they know?
The only reason I didn’t do it in the federal elections was because the person at the ballot drop thing was this sweet little old lady, and I was slightly worried she might catch a glimpse of it, and that would be awkward.
Or are you one of those lucky bastards who got their name off the electoral roll?
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Voting is anonymous, so if you show up then it doesn’t matter what you put on the ballot. You can turn in a blank slip, a legitimate vote or a intricately crafty picture of a giant knob (or if you don’t feel like drawing Tony Abbot, a penis).
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Heh. Heh.
That’s the kind of joke I’d make, I’m not sure if that’s necessarily a good thing, but I thought I’d let you know.
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Yeah…no …yeah.
I know how it all works. You get your name ticked off a list when you enter or something though, right?
The reason they never fine me is they’re not sure where I am. Every few years I get this freindly letter saying something along the lines of:
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Yeah, one of my teachers got off the electoral roll by moving, and not telling them. But yeah, if you’re not on the roll, you might get in trouble. Alternately, you could pretend to be someone else, and then hilarity will ensue if they come in later (all you need to know is their birth-date, and address, they don’t check ID or anything!).
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Pretending to be a dick is probably okay though.
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Last election my dad was asked for ID like his drivers license and since we literally live a half minute away from the nearest voting place, he just walked down and didn’t have it on him. The first time in decades they asked for ID for some reason.
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So then you go back when your 18 ready to pop the card…and they don’t.
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Yep. PS3 is definitely broken. I’d been given advice to turn it off for a day or so and retry but no, still not working.
So not only will I have to start Yakuza 3 again, but we’d just bought a Move and De Blob 2 which had actually been successful in bringing my husband out of his Red Dead induced gaming depression. Now he’s all big black cloudy again because he doesn’t want to start over. *sigh*
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Oh and Welbot, we’ll have to postpone our Rock Band shootout…all our DLC was on there. 🙁
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damn! well we could always have it here.. i dont’ have a shitton oof dlc, but I do have enough music to keep us entertained 😉
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Noooooo.
I’ll shead a tear for you. I hate it when hardware dies. Especialy when it takes software with it.:'(
Inspired by all the good writing on here lately (I’m looking at you Trjn and NotoriousR)and my tendency to imaging more then what you see is happening in a game, I wrote an adventure based on my foray into minecraft.
http://gorzillastory.wordpress.com/minecraft-diaries/
Disclaimer
the following story is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to any person, living, dead, zombie or avatar, is purely coincidence. Except of cause of those parts that aren’t.
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You mention good writing and then you bring my name up, I’m not entirely sure the two things are related :p
Anyhow, this is a pretty good start. If I was writing it, I’d try to focus more on your character’s reactions to what is happening instead of just describe it. That’s simply because you’re using a first person diary format, with my Buttercup stuff I went with the close third person perspective so that I could focus more on describing what is happening.
Something that I do which you might want to consider, when I finish writing a piece I go and do something else for a little while. Then I go back, read it over with a fresh eye and do a few edits before posting. It’s very easy to stumble across little sections that could be slightly tweaked and you’re going to be able to fix most of the typos that are bound to pop up.
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I’m not sure if i’ll continue with this one, I’m worreid it’ll turn it day 4: dug a hole
day 5: dug some more holes
day 6: dug a deeper hole, filled it in, then dung it out again.
day 7: went looking for a good spot to dig a new hole.-
Day 5:
It seems the others are obsessed with digging. I don’t know why but I feel compelled to join them. Maybe I can discover why they feel so driven to spend so many hours digging.Day 6:
My hole digging efforts have lead me to discover some useful resources. Maybe if I keep mining through the landscape I can find even more.Day 7:
Just keep digging, digging digging.Day 8:
Oh god! Why can’t I stop digging! What madness is this that drives me to explore the underground so fervently?Day 9:
Found some gold, I think I’ll make a hat with it.If you don’t want to keep going, that’s cool. But if you enjoyed writing the first entry, I’m sure you can have some fun with it.
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Day 10: Started digging with explosives, much more entertaining.
Good work, very enjoyable.
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Lol, I may have to steal some of that, particualy the “Oh god! Why can’t I stop digging! What madness is this that drives me to explore the underground so fervently?”
I think everyone who’s played minecraft has had that exact thought.
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Feel free to steal whatever you like from that comment :p
The best part is that I haven’t actually played Minecraft.
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Everyone seems to be in a writing mood, I’m also writing a Minecraft story, though this one has nothing to do with FatShady’s server.
Loved your story, you had two paragraphs about my creations 😀 The community notice board and the telephone booth, and the sign in front of FatShady’s house. It originally said “Please take off your shoes” but I changed it to say pants 😛
Also, what do you mean by non-existent public transport!? Didn’t you the train track going to the stadium? 😛 Can’t wait to see how your system works 😀
Man I’m missing FatShady’s server, but hopefully my broadband will come soon.
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I have actualy noticed that but i havn’t had a chance to fiddle with it> i got the impression its also a work in progress
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Nah, it’s done, just get a minecart, hop on and kiss your butt goodbye 😛
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I freakin love psychostick – greatest metal band ever! 😛
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHnr72AsgIU
PS. It has some swears.. so don’t listen if you’re at work or are a pansy.
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On progress on the Devin Townsend front?
It’s OK to say you don’t like it, I won’t take a fence.
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Haha that is entertaining.
Day = Made
Day = Made 10x over!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIT3WlIyy1Y&NR=1&feature=fvwp
Totally safe for work 🙂
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Bwahahaha! That was an unexpectedly hilarious ending.
After unlocking my steam copy of DA2 last night, I can safely say….
It’s not as good as origins. DA2 to Origins is like Invisible War to Deus Ex, which is such a disappointment.
And I genuinely thought it would be good. Going to a Mass Effect 1 > 2 jump would have been good, but no.
I can’t even change my party members armor. No kill animations. No spell combos. Skill trees that are minuscule. Party members just show up with no framing story. Ugh.
I’m going to write up a Reader Review after a few more days playing, but it’s such a disappointment compared to DA1.
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Seriously? That sounds lame.
I shall stick to waiting till it is cheap then.-
It’s still a good game on it’s own, but it really doesn’t compare to the first game at all.
Honestly, Not being able to change my own party member’s armor made me rage a fair bit. 🙁
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Yeah, not that Origins had a heap of choice though.
My mage wore maybe three different robes for the whole 50+ hours I played it.-
You’re doing it wrong. You need to play as a Warrior-Dwarf named Fistbeard.
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Oh… Right…
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I’m totally doing that one day…only without the fistbeard.
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Fridge Largemeat. Or Kirk Stonechest. Chuck Ribsteak. Lumber McBrickfist.
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Shit Yeah.
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You called?
Dwarves are always prime candidates for awesome names, maisdafhFVR
Shit, snapped another keyboard. Typing is hard when you have bricks for hfbayhn
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Could be worse, I snapped another one of my beds last night… Perhaps I should invest in a stronger bed, these weak bed’s can’t stand my stone chest…
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I constantly have people coming up and taking a bite out of me, and there’s nothing I can do about it, except to them smash them into a table and get horrifically drunk!
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I can’t help it! You taste too good!
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Also, Bioware claimed that tha=ey would add kill animations to the mages as well…odd.
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I’ve seen no unique kill animations for warriors, rogues or mages.
🙁
I don’t see how a sequel can feel like it was the first game released of a franchise, and have the original feel like the one with more content, options and features.
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How were the dialogue options?
World changing? Character changing? Mission changing?
I replayed the demo a few times and it seems no matter what you say there is little difference. A character may take offence and then they say what they would have said anyway.
Although I did spot in the level up screens the abilities that are locked depending on a characters liking of you.
Much like the stat boosts of origins.-
Dialogue seems to boil down to “3 different ways to say yes”, and the world itself feels really disconnected from the first.
Also, The whole decade of storytelling would work if I didn’t get friggin’ jarred around so much. Just “Wham, you’re on a ship”, then “Wham, 1 year passed”. Also, there really doesn’t seem to be a main villian or any sort of plot “goal”. Everything just seems like busywork, too. “Get x amount of gold”, “kill this monster in this dungeoen”, etc.
The more I’m playing this the more I’m tempted to just load up DA:Origins and keep playing as my Dalish Elf who hates humans. At least then I would know where I stand in that world, in DA2 I just feel like I’m going through the motions.
Vague, I know, but I don’t like spoiling stuff, even if there is nothing much to spoil.
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Sounds like why I’ve never bothered replaying ME, you can be nice and save the galaxy or be tough…and save the galaxy.
Damn, glad for the warning though, will stop it being a FF13.
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On the note of armour, they say that they don’t let you change it directly because it would mess up their style or something.
I guess they figured alot of people would rather Isabella stay in her skimpy cloth instead of, you know, something that covers up and protects flesh from copious amounts of stabbing and slashing.
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That is true in a way. I was dissapointed when I gave morrigan a new dress that her boobs were covered. And the mage hats? PPPfffftt!
I did notice an option in the demo to make hats invisible.They should make it so the same armour looks different on different characters. So boobs ladies’ boobs are always visible and Wolverine would never wear sleeves.
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Wait, which one is “Boobs Lady”? Isabella? Or Bethany? Or is she “Busty Sister”? What about redesigned Flemeth? Is she like Inappropriate Boobs Lady because she’s a billion years old? What are Aveline and Merrill classified as?
These are important things that need to be clarified!-
Read carefully, I said “Boobs Ladies’”
And it is important. If Ming’s boobs got covered up in Lost Odyssey I would have cried a little.
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I could understand that move for a game like Mass Effect, but it’s just… annoying in DA2.
This is what’s really pissing me off, actually. I know it’s petty, but I feel like “These are MY party members, I should be able to outfit them how I want! What, do you think that would be too hard for some players to do? Are your target audience too stupid to realise that the light armor should go on that rogue?”
Don’t tell me it would mess with their character models, it worked perfectly fine in Origins.
Why…. Why would they remove this? Why fix something that isn’t broken?
MY FIST DEMANDS SOME F***ING ANSWERS. *bangs / headbutts desk*
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The armour got a bit too generic for me in Origins, I’d spend all this time collecting individual pieces only to find it was the same armour with a pallette swap.
Then some of the different looking ones weren’t very powerful so I would’t end up using them.
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From my understanding (from the Bioware forums, I think. I forgot where I read this), it’s not so much that it was broken, or that it messed with character models, it’s that they tried to craft individual characters, and part of their individuality is how they look. For example, to the creators/character designers, they might feel it inappropriate to equip Merrill up in chain mail just because it has a higher armour stat. It makes more sense for her to be in leather armour because, as a Dalish Elf, it makes more sense that she be comfortable in a flexible armour that’s easily crafted in the woods, rather than heavy platemail or enchanted robes, which the Dalish may not have access to.
I’m not saying I agree with being unable to directly equip their armour (for gameplay purposes, plus I reinstalled DA:O last night to see what I did in my save, to find Oghren in Legion of the Dead armour looking totally badass), but I can sort of see their reasoning behind it.-
All they had to do was design a few different armours then restrict which each character can wear.
Not completley remove an option.
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Oh. That’s… really disappointing. :/
I was hoping for something outstanding, but I loved Origins and if it doesn’t match that in terms of story and gameplay then.. I dunno. It would be a bit of a letdown.
This strikes me as going too far to attract new players (read: people who have never played an RPG in their lives). Removing party members’ armour (ME2 rings a bell here) and having squadmates show up randomly just seems odd.
I’ll reserve judgement until I can play it properly myself, but even with the demo it was a little disconcerting. The things that made Origins great might’ve been lost in the sequel.
Does anyone remember a article where they talked about comic reader apps for the iPad?
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Comicsalliance.com
Has some good articles on all of them. Everyone has made some VERY odd choices. There is no way you can read all your comics in one app…same company or not!But go there check it out, if you can’t find any, give me a HOI.
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Articles, not apps…I don’t own any devices that do apps.
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Something to learn from this – don’t lend games to people… http://damnyouautocorrect.com/6108/punishment/
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The moral of that story is don’t take games from people unless you’re after an ass tickling.
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God this site is too funny, I’m crying with laughter… http://damnyouautocorrect.com/5990/a-boyfriends-love/
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ohhh just one more, lololol (wipes away tears) – http://damnyouautocorrect.com/5927/dinner-directions/
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I knew I was doing something wrong when I was cooking.
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Yea… that site… go there when you are in a bad mood. You’ll cry a lot, but it would be from all the laughter.
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Funniest site ever.
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I got confused…then I laughed.
I used to own FF6 on PSX and I don’t remember lending it to anyone. Seems to have mysteriously vanished.
Also my Bust-a-move 2 arcade edition? So scratched it’s unplayable. I had to ebay a new one.
Another story, I borrowed my freinds Resident Evil 2 once and got so drunk I DISINTERGRATED a disk. It was in so many peices and I have no idea what happened!
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Haha! I can’t say I ever hurt anyone else’s game, but many of mine have been returned in this fashion. Now I am a game nazi.
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I lent DKC3 to a mate in highschool and his sister deleted all the files just to piss us off!
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i have had to wipe tears away from my eyes, while working in a small room with two guys i don’t know. That is super funny.. must read more, but can’t control laughing…
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Haha, I know right!
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http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/03/08/bootleg-toys-superhero/
This is so funny I almost died!
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Robert Cop haha!
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… I like how there’s “welcome you” in Chinese randomly on the cardboard for Spider-Foe
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The mish-mashed last item TOOK…ME…DOWN!
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If you liked those you’ll like this. http://www.cracked.com/article_19056_the-15-most-unintentionally-hilarious-bootleg-toys.html
Some toys appear on both lists but the Cracked list has some Super Hero ones that the other list missed.
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Oh man, Spiderman in his fisherman hat nearly made me pee my pants with laughter.
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I saw that in real life. Pretty sure it was official. Was at a Kmart. Not much bootlegging going on at Kmart.
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Have you seen the Marvel hero transformers. Official from both.
Venom turns into a gorilla or something equally bizarre but the rhino becomes a rhino.
Theres also those millenium falcons that change into han robots…Classic. Official and Classic.
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I forgot about a similar item that a mate of mine bought me. They were from a $2 shop in newtown or somewhere?
A paid of socks (hot pink and fluffy mind you) with a large cardboard label
“Bed Cocks”
I will have to take a pic of them. I have em in storage somewhere.
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@ of my mates bought a grater from the same $2 shop without knowing about the other because in another laguage it was called
“multiple-rape”
I think it was “Multi-grater” in english.-
That @ was supposed to be a 2, I just like to start my sentances with capital…twos.
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That’s freaking hilarious. I love Cracked! It’s my go-to geek-related LOL-till-your-pants-split site.
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I laughed so hard I had to stop looking a few times, especially at Darth Vader: Traffic Cop
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So, I’ve started back at uni. Studying to become a doctor (no, not a real doctor, I will only be able to heal philosophy… I think I’ve used that joke before) in creative writing.
(PS I don’t know what clown decided to make creative writing a field in which someone can get formal qualifications, but I’m going to take advantage!)
I’ve got my own little cubicle in this open-office plan, but it’s much much nicer than the little cubicle I have in this open-office plan at work.
So, I’m sitting here, should be working, but instead I’m thinking, “I wonder what’s happening on Kotaku.” After masquerading as Mark’s wife for five minutes, I decided I would update you all on my life, because I’m sure you’ve all been wondering what’s been happening with me lately.
… yep.
Anyway, the point is, it’s good to have afternoon access to Kotaku again. I feel a bit like I’ve just won extra visitation rights in Family Court.
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In other news, I have been practicing lots and lots, and can now sing Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na) all the way up to the first chorus without taking a breath.
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Nice, didn’t know that was an option.
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Yeah, it takes a bit of practice, but you can improve your lung capacity. But I think it’s probably more to do with the efficiency with which you sing the notes (i.e. using as little breath as possible).
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I should do a winky face to indicate joke, shouldn’t I?
Anyways, yep, you can do pretty much anything to get a doctorate these days. Unis pride themselves on being open to anything, as long as they have a staff member who can supervise.
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No no, all is good. I realised my question was a little ambiguous and decided to leave it for humorous reasons(to me).
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I know someone who’s got a doctorate of Spanish.
A doctorate… of Spanish.
SPANISH!
What the hell is that?
If you can speak Spanish, a doctorate doesn’t let you speak more Spanish… it just means I subsidise you for a few more years of avoiding actual work!-
A doctorate of Spanish is exactly the same as a doctorate in English.
If you wanted, you could probably do a doctorate relating to the French consonant shift, although that might be classified as history more than language.
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If you can speak the language then the docorate doesn’t let you speak more of the language.-
It can be useful for certain really specific stuff (my teacher for Japanese has his doctorate in bowing rituals and silence in Japanese culture o_O).
Also, people do doctorates in obscure stuff like 10th century manuscripts and ancient books in that language… and they would pick up a fair bit more of it if they weren’t fluent or a native speaker already.
/shrug
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Stop being reasonable… Bring the rage!
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I got nothin’.
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I am working in Homebush for the next 2-3 weeks (have already been out here for 1.5 weeks so far. I usually work in Sydney and live in Campbelltown so while the commute is normally bad, having to catch 3 trains each way that takes about 2 hours each way kind of sucks.
I need to be out here so i just have to suck it up, so i came up with an idea. I never usually get time to watch TV/movies because gaming gets in the way, as do wife and kids/housework etc.
So here is my idea, watch 2 full length movies a day on the ipod on the train. I figure i got an MBA using cityrail, watching movies should be easy.. and it is.
Over the past week, I have watched:
Conviction
Final destination 1
Yes man
Green hornet
secret life of bees
the town
bra boys
Charlie wilsons war
Temple Grandin
The investion of lying
Evan almighty
I still have a bunch more to watch.. just wanted to share my making the most of a crappy situation.
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Good work, I read comics personally. And sometimes DS. Not very good at gaming on the move though. Train’s not so bad.
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Woah… Fats, you’ve watched some really, really bad films. It’s a good idea but… maybe work on your selection there?
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What Sughly said… although admittedly, I haven’t heard of a few of those.
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Macho man’s a Film Nazi.
Like games you have to remember some people come in for different reasons. Do you really think he should be watching a fantastic film on the noisy train anyway?I like my arthouse, but sometimes I want to watch something for a few laughs. Sometimes I just want to see Downey Jr getting pissed and making a fool of himself in super armour. And sometimes I wanna see some of my favourite game designs/music on the big screen.
I love art, but if everything was art there would be no art.
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Bah, I’m not suggesting arthouse films, that’s just the other extreme. There are PLENTY of good films that lie in between. I’m so over the arthouse line, I get it from all my old friends from high school! It’s as if there’s this group of incredibly bad mainstream over-hyped Hollywood films, and then anything that falls below that is some upper class stuff that the average Joe feels they don’t need. Baloney! It’s worth taking the time to look into good directors and writers yourself because often they just don’t have the marketing budget to compete with the crap Hollywood are force feeding everyone.
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but thats not the point… if I know its a bad film before then i would not have bothered. I am really NOT a movie guy, so watching and not knowing what to expect is the fun part. Some of these have since been perma deleted from the ipod and soon HDD, others may have earned a place in storage… but when the only other alternative is my fruitless attempt to beat batguy at Tiny Wings, this is the best option.
I will say, Temple Grandin is awesome, especially because my in laws are going through the process of diagnosing a child with either autism or similar so it provides an insight into that.
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This one, Temple Grandin, I haven’t heard of actually. Seems pretty interesting, the person it’s based off anyways…
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Charlie wilsons war
The investion of lying
Evan almightyNever saw the others.
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That’s awesome FatShady. I did a similar thing: did 2 years of research for my PhD proposal entirely on public transport to and from work.
It’s the worst feeling to feel like commuting time is dead time.
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I sleep.
Usually because I’m up at 5am to catch the bus and it’s hard to do anything else productive when they’re so full it’s actually beyond the authorised capacity.
(Fun fact: I catch it from c’town Shady!!4!)
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So I put my son to bed for his nap, unplug the nuked PS3 and grab the one from the bedroom to play in the loungeroom. Put Yakuza 3 in to restart playing…15 minutes later it’s still installing game data. Grr.
My son’s naptime is half over and I still haven’t managed any gametime.
I miss my shiny phat PS3 beastie. 🙁
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What’s the deal with the forced installs on PS3 anyway?
I install whatever I am playing on 360 but it’s good to know that if for some reason it isn’t an option that I can get away without it.
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Blu-ray may be the future, but the read speed of the PS3s drive is like 4* or something, compared to the 360, which has its DVD at 16* (both guesses, anyone who knows the actual amounts, feel free to correct me. Now, there are some advantages to the slower Blu-Ray, in that the data can be compressed less, taking load off the CPU which might have to do some decompression, however it’s pretty negligible, as according to recent intel things, read/write speeds are one of the main bottlenecks in modern gaming.
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Really?
I always just assumed that at 1* for a reader it would be a set bitrate, but I guess that doesn’t make any sense whatsoever, given a 1* dvd can be played as a full quality dvd movie, and the blu-ray is the same (full quality blu-ray movie). Thank you for pointing that out.
Now I’m left wondering what is causing the discrepancy, given stuff usually loads faster on 360 vs. PS3, even if they’re just using the disc…
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there must be something they do to it in the ps3 that makes it slow.. that’s weird. If you look at proper blu-ray read times it’s a shitload higher than that, and it really needs to be for reasons as you said. It needs to read a hell of a lot more data in the same time to put out a higher picture. Same applies (thought it doesn’t have to) for writing. I can burn a 25gb blu-ray in 20mins, or a 9gb dvd in about the same.
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According to wikipedia, a Blu-ray writing at 1* speed will write at 36 MBit/s, which would take approximately 90 mins to burn a single layer disc. DVD is 10.8 MBit/s, which would take around 60 minutes to burn at that speed.
It gets confusing, because the different pages vary between referring to thing in Mb and MB. Or, at least, it gets confusing for me.
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I really need to stop reading the Final Fantasy articles.
All they do is piss me off! The articles themselves seem to be always slagging the series off and then all the commenters make all these very broad generalisations and assumptions.
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(I refuse to type this entire thing in caps, but can you imagine that everything is in capitals, and that there is no punctuation? Ta.)
Every Final Fantasy is the same, just look through the series, and you will see that any change is simply for the worst. If it’s not the MMO feel of FF12, it’s the corridor of FF13. The characters range from insipid to downright moronic. The entire purpose of FF8 seems to be that Rinoa is useless, and the whole game appears to revolve purely around rescuing her from the moronic situations she puts herself in. FF10 seemed to show the world just how poor Squeenix are at writing characters and scenes, for example view this scene here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5FTJxfV3pc Now, I shall give you no context to the scene (I have no idea, I’ve only really played 8, 13, and bits of 7).
Everyone (sweeping generalisation) can see that every Final Fantasy is exactly the same, and they should really change the formula, it’s always “save the world.” Well, I’m sick of saving the world, maybe I just want something different.
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They should make one where you are trying to destroy the world, mix it up a little.
It would be a good context for all the power and destruction you unleash and for why so many people/things are trying to stop you.
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I’d play that, but only if character design was of Pixar quality. Otherwise you would have a bunch of annoying unrelatable characters running around and being annoying.
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SPOILERS!
SPOILERS!
THERE ARE FREAKING SPOILERS COMING!
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See Final Fantasy XIII for this exact thing.
/SPOILERS
(I warned you like three times, don’t get mad)
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Y’know if you just didn’t state what I am sure is obvious to everyone else, Blaghman’s comments would have gone straight over my head!
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Oh really? Maybe I will look up a plot summary, could be interesting.
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Only FF8 to any great extent.
It is the gameplay more than anything, turn based combat doesn’t do it for me.
They also seem to require a fair amount of grind from what I can tell, but I admit my experience is limited.
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Love LO, but wouldn’t recommend. Not a lot of grinding but it’s turn-based.
I’ll have a think, maybe there is something else. They aren’t all turn-based.
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Also, though not a main series FF, FFTA did a pretty good job of you being a jerkass character trying to rip down the foundations of the universe where your brother, father, and friend seemed pretty darn happy in.
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The first one for GBA.
Remember, your brother was wheelchair bound, your dad just couldnt get a job, and your friend was constantly teased about her hair colours. You three were sort of the rejects of your class and people picked on you.
Warp to Ivalice, and your brother is no longer a paraplegic, and is a prince or something. Your dad is the highest Judge of the land, commanding respect from all. Your friend teamed up with a Viera (I think?) and had a badass clan going.
But then you were all like NO THIS ISNT MY LIFE THIS ISNT REAL I WILL DESTROY THE CRYSTALS THAT ARE FABLED TO KEEP THIS WORLD IN ORDER and then you did, plowing through endless waves of soldiers only trying to prevent their world from being destroyed.
That hurt…
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What ridiculous arguments did I miss? I’m trying to work on my trolling.
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Just type “Final Fantasy” into the Kotaku search bar and there are billions.
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I’m far too lazy to do that, what do you take me for, an energetic intelligent person?
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Sorry, My mistake.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/?s=final+fantasy
Well, here’s a link, mostly of other games…
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Since everyone seems to be into writing these days, I have decided to do some too.
I present to you: Legends of Minecraftia!
http://legendsofminecraftia.tumblr.com/
Or just click my handle
Thoughts? Constructive criticism? Non-constructive criticism? 😛
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I think I may have accidentally started the Great Kotaku Writers Flood of ’11. Awesome.
I’ll take a proper look later this evening after I get home, but so far it looks rather nifty.
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This is worse than the post-christmas parody predicament!
Bravo sir, bravo.
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You’ve more than earned your community kudos 😀
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Not bad, I would call the land Mojang myself.
The bit at the start sounds a bit confused, you seem to switch between first person and a narrative recount before settling on the latter. (not sure if that is the correct terminology)But yeah looking good.
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Minecraftia. I like it
you write about Minecraftia in the province of Singlplayia while my story was in the fatshadyserveria.I have to agree with Jo that changing perspective can be a bit confusing (I should know, I tend to do that myself all the freaking time) but I sorta took the first two paragraphs as the introduction to the book and not party of the story itself.
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Fixed the perspective issues and have indicated what is the introduction, and what isn’t.
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At uni. 3 hour networking lab. I think I’m feeling a sensation similar to hell at the moment.
The only thing that’s pulling me through is the fact that this leads to a 4 day-weekend…
Only 2 hours left…
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Where are all my photos?
I’ve lined up all these buyers and I have no product!
The addicts make me unconfortable. Good thing Nohandle is still on a plane or he would have cracked down my door already looking for that Elly pic!-
Sarky Marky should be sending them along shortly! 🙂
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I just went to dig out the pics i took of the wallaby in my backyard with the joey in its pouch, but damn.. such crappy quality.. I’m too ashamed to show them 🙁 Makes me glad I don’t have that phone anymore at least 😉
@ Bish
MAH WHITES ARRIVED, will be playing TONIGHT!!!
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Noooooo, i’m going to try and pick up one tomorrow. I havn’t pre orderd though so I just have to hope.
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FALSE ALARM , It was something else entirely.
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I HAS DE POKEMONS
YOU DO NOT KNOW HOW MUCH I AM SQUEE’ING RIGHT NOW
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I was reall pissed off last night, I hope mine arrives at least by tomorrow so I can do some weekend gaming.
So jellyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
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Not quite the same as jelly, but:
http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/05/thumb160x_umad.jpg
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Uni was so crowded today… bleh.
I vaguely remember saying that I would share what happened at Armaggeddon Expo (which was more than 2 weeks ago :p)… well here’s a pic:
http://twitpic.com/44enbt
I hope someone knows who they are…?
I have yet to open the Red vs Blue DVDs I bought (and signed by those three guys of course), but I will find time for them.
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ehehe my wife just looked at that pic and said.. “Very nice! How much?!” :0
What does it say on your shirt?
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Nice, meet any other cool peeps?
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Oh wow dawdle, I love Rooster Teeth! You’re very lucky! 🙂
And also, you never mentioned you were that cute! I’m disappointed in you. I was expecting less…
Every good looking Kotaku member makes me realise I’m less than the average! 🙁
It’s okay though, I’m 6’6″. I win.-
Just become a pro wrestler. If I was 6’6″ that’s what I would do. No doubt.
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The problem is that I have no muscle mass. I’d be in the “Epic-ultra-super-mega-featherweight” category.
Fear not, however. I’m working on get some for you.
The day you see “MAD TOD TANNEN” in the ring, you’ll know I made it! xD
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And then, when you’re trash-talking an opponent and hold the microphone up in the air for the audience to finish your sentence, it’ll be all like:
Prepare to have your… BLIND MOWN!
…and everyone will go crazy. It’ll be awesome. Please give us all some tickets so we can watch when you come on a tour of Aus.
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Don’t despair! You probably beat me, I have been told by several unrelated groups of people that I look like a serial killer.
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Guys, you won’t believe this – but I’ve been told by multiple people that I look like Simon Pegg.
Honestly – this crazy, crazy world…
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I got told that I looked like Leonard from the big bang theory. I think people are just obsessed with relating us all to pop culture.
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Really, I don’t see it…
I’d have said you look like Boris Bekker
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@Jo: Ahahahaha! I’m not hideous, it’s just that most of my mates are ridiculously handsome. At least I’m suave to the extreme, lol.
@Mark: Off topic, but I found an old tape of you doing stand-up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-D-0FgkrTTkI think your Scottish accent is a lie! At least you’re hilarious! xD
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TadMod, you can never be sure. I’m called ugly by many girl, but more than several have called me hot/cute. So I have no idea how good looking I really am to others, though I think I’m not much to look at either
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damn work keyboard, how dare you fail me! This is treason! 😛
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Yeah, same sort of situation here. Most of my mates are handsome though, so it’s hard to compete xD
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Hah well I don’t have many guy friends to compare with really, but usually just looking around while walking in a city or a shopping centre I feel like “the thing” and should just go back home to hide :P. I think I scare girls when I look at them at the train station or on the train to and from work lol
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you do not know how jealous i am, i wish they also went to perth 🙁
DAMMIT I WANT MY RVB BOX SET TO BE SIGNED ARRRRRRRRRRGH
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Thanks guys!
@wellbot: Well umm… I’ll assume that’s a compliment. 😛
@Jo: There were Marvel comic book artists and voice actors doing autographs, but I didn’t really know any of them. My main purpose was still for Rooster Teeth! haha
@TadMod: Thanks, but I believe height > everything. Just saying.
@Grandmaster B-Funk: Don’t despair! They said now they have more employees at the studio, the ‘original’ RT people can leave the office and tour to other countries a bit more often.-
Who was from Marvel??
What is this expo? Whre is it??
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http://www.armageddonexpo.com/au/sydney-general-info/
This was the Sydney one, it’s also going to be in other cities as well (but the Rooster Teeth people won’t be there).-
TASMANIA?
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Wow! You’re very lucky to meet the RoosterTeeth ppl! I am so jealous. Also I agree with TadMod, you are gorgeous. 🙂
I love Jack and Geoff with their Achievement HORSE videos, it’s hilarious
just had another visit from my little wallaby friend! got a vid this time of it eating some bread I put out for it!
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You put out for it?
You are a desperate, desperate man…-
lol you sir.. are a sick man 😉
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You’re giving it to a wallaby and I’m the sick one?
Well I never!
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It’s SO CUTE!
I mean, something manly… pshhh…
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Awww that’s adorable, little wallaby loving his noms 🙂
Good quality on the camera too
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Man, that Wallabot ™ sure shoves the bread in!
Minecraft City Planning
I have finished construction of my first space elevator to allow fat travel between the town centre and the outer regions. The first one is near the Mortal Combat Tribute. It appears the ideal location for the other end is right on top of the community notice board or Fatshady’s house
Objections/preferences/alternate suggestions below please
NB: The skyboat net should be kept in straight lines for best results.
NB:the skyboat net should be kept in straight lines for best results.
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Maybe you shouldn’t build it on FatShady’s house. Otherwise it will end up like this. People take off pants when entering FatShady’s house, people get on space elevator, people get to destination, then realise they left their pants behind 😛
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LOL
that’s probably what would happen. I wanted to keep the tower a good distance from the Pantheon as I’ve heard people want to keep the view of it clear (and i’m one of those people, it looks amazing) I was thinking about putting the elevator tower on the house buthaving the station extending behind it.
Have a look at the completed end to get an idea of what it looks like.
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Sounds good but I have had bad experiences with boats: they tend to get stuck and then either explode or go shooting away from you, which would be bad that high up.
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To the best of my knowledge the lift itself has proved safe excepting user error. Blaghman demonstrated that it’s not a good idea to jump out when you’re half way down. I even had a disconnect half way up and thought i’d spawn either drawing or drowned. When I logged back in i was still in the boat on the way up.
It also seems to be good idea to keep the boat near the centre of the stream.
That being said, RIDE AT OWN RISK
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Acutially I just realised there is land un built on just North of the notice board that should be perfect. It dose mean, however, If we need a branch heading east it’ll probably be close to (and go over part of) the lava lamp.
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I was thinking of an upgrade to my house anyway.. just let me clen out my chests and you can have the old place. Part of it must be heritage listed now because it is the oldest building.. so perhaps the facade can remain???
JIMU!!!
Morrowind – goty – xbox
Ebay
11 hours… at the moment it’s just under $30… snipe away
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PAL??
And I’m at work, can’t ebay AT ALL!
Dammit!-
Shit.. maybe next time i should bid for you if i see it cheap enough….
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Is alright, I still have infinite hours left in oblivion.
And fallout
And whatever other games I am still playing…
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Apologies to all the non minecrafters.
I would like to thank everyone who is assisting me in the building of the Colosseum, I will most definitely take all the glory once it’s finished(have no doubts), but at this point in time (and until I lay the final block), you guys are invaluable. I’ll probably post a pic of the work thus far when I get up later today (at about 2pm), so the rest of you can marvel (or DC, it’s up to you).
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Lol, your more than welcome. As I said, your creations are works of art, moving trifling mountains for you is just the minecraft way.
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I leave for one week, ONE WEEK!!!, and this happens!
AAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thought you guys might be interested!
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Nice!
Also of note, his “Miyagi’s ‘Wax on, wax off’ Super Defense” side art. -
That’s totally wicked!! DO WANT!!
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Very cool! Interestingly, in the comments there is a Batgirl! We’d better keep an eye on Batguy…. 😉
Also Jimmy Mac – I have your code!
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Sir isaac of clarke!
Woooop
Sir Asimov of I cant remember the othe sci-fi writers name, D’OH!Go Jimmy Olsen, I mean MAC!!!
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I love you… and I’m not just saying that.
And it’s not for your body, which is ruggedly hansome.
It’s not for your visage, which reminds me of a younger, better looking, more athletic Boris Bekker.
It’s not for your accent, which has the dulcet tones of a sexier, less lispy Sean Connery.
It’s not for your ‘Mad Halo skilz’, which I’m told are well and truely 733t.
It’s not for your editor abilities, which are greater than a combination of J Jonah Jameson and Perry White.
It’s not for your encyclopeadic knowledge of the Australian games industry, which is encyclopeadic.
It’s not for your car towed skateboarding abilities… which make Marty McFly look like a pedestrian.Look, I could go on… but the simple fact is, you’re awesome.
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Crap, I forgot to say Thanks.
Thanks Mark.
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Hey Mark,
Do you want me to send you an email… or are you going to send me one?
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Could you shoot me an email?
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Abba-solutly.
Scent.
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And it smells like SUCCESS!
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GREAT SUCCESS!
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Yay, big thanks to welbot, q-bo and Blaghman for the help last night, welbot in particular who’s been providing lots of advice in building a new computater. Now to move my 60gb of steam games onto the hard drive……
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awww shucks! you’re welcome man! Have you ever moved steam stuff before? If you have any issues, lemme know cos I’ve successfully moved my steam stuff from one drive to another before.
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Yeah, I’ve moved steam stuff before. It’s pretty much copy-paste, right?
Maybe now I can run Crysis which I bought for $2.50 or something ridiculous like that over the holdiays.
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Not so much copy-paste. I think you’ll need to do a steam backup from within the steam client. With 60gb you’ll want to make it into one image onto a spare hdd. You can span it across dvd’s though, but that could be a royal PITA.
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Minecraft fans, allow me to present your current real-world grail…
http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/collectibles/e7fa/?cpg=154H&link
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But… there’s no leather caps!
Man.. i just recently got Tattslotto V Capcom, which makes this so damn tempting…
http://store.gameshark.com/viewItem.asp?idProduct=4736&idCategory=253
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Those Mad Catz sticks are rather dandy, I have one I use for SSF4 and MVC3. The only bad thing is that they don’t magically turn you into a decent player.
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How true. Button mashing all the way for me!
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Yeah – probably the only thing that would stop be buying a stick would be the fact that it wouldn’t stop me from sucking harder than a starved prostitute…
Wait… that analogy is horrible…
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So very true. Last night I tried mastering a combo with X-23 in MVC3. It went something like: L, M, Decapitating Slice, M, H, Launch, air M, air M, air H, L. Talon Attack, Charged Ankle Slice (OTG, Rage Trigger.
I felt pretty comfortable doing that to a training dummy, so I tried it against the CPU. It became: L, M, H, Launch, air M, air M, air H.
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*goes cross-eyed*
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Welcome to the world of fighting games.
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Ha! The second one describes me far too well.
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only because i’m lowbrow… and just love that cheesy look
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ಠ_ಠ
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Both those pics cheered me up immensely 😀
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How about a cute overload to go with that smile, cutie?
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OMG. Cutest thing ever. I want them to do it with dolphins next.
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Awwwww! Too much cute!
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Blah… before I have a whinge, how awesome is this!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3bhsNa5Cmg
Perfect morning coffee viewing.
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That was the only good thing about that awful, awful episode. Pointless and boring and full of needless wankery. Partway through, my husband said “I wish I could UNwatch this episode”.
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Oh the song/dance routine was sooo cringe worthy, and it kept going… All I can say, is I’m glad he’s using again 😀 But, the bit above had ridiculous zombies, it made up for a relatively lackluster season so far for me!
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Pills here!
BUNNINGS go efffff yourselves. I want you to go down the nail-gun aisle and wedge one of those puppies right up your tail pipes. Also, all those who work writing OH&S standards, I hope you paper-cut your eyelids off. That will teach you to work with paper without protective eyeware.
Bah
Seems I can’t get a job with them because if something falls of a top shelf I can’t put it back…. How lame. >:-(
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What a crock! If things often fall off the top shelf they’ve got a huge OH&S problem anyway. I’m not going into Bunnings anymore in case something falls on my head.:P
That sucks for you, Mr. Cloudman, and I’m trying not to be insensitive here but I’m afraid I’m just a little glad it happened because it birthed the most awesome rant I’ve ever heard. *hugs*
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Can they do that???
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That sucks man, surely that is discrimination or something. Don’t they have 12 foot shelves anyway?
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Sorry to hear dude – that’s just plain shitty…
I think, more to the point, the reason you didn’t get the job is because you’d probably know a bit about the hardware you’d be selling, as opposed to the people already working there that as soon as you ask something as simple as “where can i find a tape gun”, responds with “oh… uh… um… it’s… um…” *looks left, right, up, down, left, right and left again… paces a few steps left, looks up, paces a few right, looks up* “ummm… it’s… um….”
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Thanks for the support everyone 😀 Maybe I’ll score the dream job of Kotaku comment approvalist *hint hint*
vor jimu
http://imgur.com/gallery/AUDCZ
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Yeah! Seen that one classic!
For me it would start in the middle
then have a pokemanz free panel
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Awkward Zombie is teh oarsomez
As much as I dislike using Metacritic as a barometer for a game’s quality, I just took a look at some of the numbers for DA2 and it’s not exactly encouraging stuff. Most of the professional critics gave it a solid, or even good, score, but.the.really interesting numbers.were.in the user reviews.
The overwhelming majority of.user scores were negative, and the average of all of them was 4/10. I’m not sure if this is some kind of coordinated campaign, but it.didn’t look like it from the reviews… which were.fairly scathing. One comment summed it up as “Designed by focus group”.
I wonder: has Bioware made.a mistake in “streamlining” the game for a wider audience? Or are hardcore RPG people overreacting?
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I went through the thoughts on the Bioware forums and it seems to be fairly mixed, mostly in favour of semi-haters. They say they don’t like it but they’re still playing.
I imagine people who love it are too busy playing and don’t have time to write a review…
POSITIVE THOUGHTS
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I haven’t played the new DA yet (still need to finish Origins), but I honestly doubt the simplifying would be as bad as the user reviews would suggest.
People complained about how “dumbed down” Mass Effect 2 was, but to me it just showed how unnecessary some elements of the leveling system were. I’m all for culling vestigial gaming elements.
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Ozgames just sent mine today sooooo…
I preffered the gameplay and RPGishness of ME1 over ME2.
It’s an each to their own situation really. Some people down like RPGs that much and others love them.
I think money-wise Bioware have made a smart decision, but maybe they should have turned off stuff and then added in the option to switch it back on so that their old-school Baldur’s Gate fans wouldn’t feel so betrayed. -
The issue many people, including critics, had with the simplification (as.far as I’ve read) is that this wasn’t just streamlining vestigial gameplay elements, but inexplicable cutting of things that people loved.about DAO and RPGs in general. Several reviews from gaming journos even used the word inexplicable…
It looks like there were also problems with the overarching story, and feeling.disconnected.from Hawke’s journey.
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I’m feeling very disconnected! My games still in the poast…wwwwwwwwwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!
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Poast, kinda like a post kinda like a roast.
SPELLING FAIL!
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I’m sorry to keep doing this.. but this is so damn metal!!!
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I watched it with the sound down..I think I get the idea.
mmmmmEEEEEEEEEEEETTTTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL!!!
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dude… it’s a gif… it doesn’t have sound… haha
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Niiiiiccccccccccccce
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/me adds sound effect
“Blllllaaaaaaaarrrrrrrhooooommmffff gargggggg whooshoooluurrrg kersplashosh.”Love how the guitarist sidesteps a tad. 😀
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Okay, someone is going to have to explain this to me because I clearly don’t understand it.
It is unacceptable in an office environment to arrive 5 minutes late with a coffee in hand. Yet it is perfectly fine to show up sans coffee, do barely any work for the next hour due to lack of caffeination and then disappear for ten minutes to get a coffee.
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I used to be a cleaner for years before I became an office shit-kicker.
I am shocked at the laziness and high expectations of people who work in offices.
If I went and popped out for a coffee and cigarette as much as offic workers do when I was a cleaner I would have received a written warning!
If I stood around chatting as much as an office worker I would have got another.Offices are so lax and people come and go as they please, often to a “meeting”.
These same people used to come down from the office and make sure all the cleaners were on their knees scrubbing week old shit stains off of toilet floors but it’s fine for them to sit back and watch a bit of youtube!
Double Standards…
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The only reason I held my cushy job, was because my boss was extremely lax, with that in mind however, while working for this engineering firm, I got payed to (payed by the hour, btw): Sit at work on Facebook, refreshing Kotaku for an entire day.
In another related point, I didn’t have a payed lunch break, so when I stopped for lunch, so did the money, however I could spend as much time as I wanted getting little snacks, grabbing water, and generally farting around how I wanted and still be payed for it.
I miss that job.
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As an office worker myself (who doesn’t drink coffee or smoke), I am similarly unimpressed with office workers and their work ethics.
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It’s all about image. They see you show up five minutes late with a coffee in hand, they won’t be happy.
If you’re there for an hour, then go off and get a coffee, they see you as a hard worker.-
Funny how the appearance of hard work is valued more than actual hard work. Then again, I don’t do any hard work, so I really shouldn’t complain.
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Dear Mark,
http://imgur.com/gallery/2S3tO
Sincerely,
Captain Awesome
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can’t… stop… posting…
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I heart X-zibit memes, dawg!
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Why is Christopher Eccleston standing behind Vader??
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HOW CAN THAT BE REAL!?
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http://imgur.com/gallery/5xhKR
That’s how
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Chuckle Clap ™
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This is the very definition of awesome.
Check out my singing debut, losers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QS0q3mGPGg&feature=channel_video_title
If you listen to it too much, your balls will ignite in an epic fury unparalelled by anyone.
I’m a total fricking rock-star from mars,
Winning,
Charlie Sheen
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The meme that just keeps giving. Thankyou CS
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1hLduV1p88&feature=player_embedded
i liked it when you did this bangin club track.
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Perfect time for a new Hot Shots movie, yes?
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PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE!
I almost DIED laughing during Hot Shots 2!!
Theres always like 3 jokes happening on screen at once!
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Yeah, but it wasn’t all I hoped for.
I lie… it was all kinds of excellent.
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NOOOOOOOO Only Taddy can use clubs or spades in his name!
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What about me!?
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So with the whole Buttercup thing, I appear to have fallen into a schedule of doing two a week.
I’m trying to work out if how I’m doing it is the best way to go about things, so if anyone would like to make suggestions this would be a perfect time to do it.
At the moment, my method is pretty simple. I play Demon’s Souls for a short period of time, generally around two hours or until I feel like I’ve reached a point to cover two entries. Each entry is about 1200-1500 words and takes maybe an hour and a half to two hours to write (including editing).
So it should be relatively easy to set a schedule of say updating every Tuesday and Friday. Or I could stretch things out a little and try to commit to three updates a week (Mon/Wed/Fri?) but I’m not sure I want to do that.
The other option is to do two Buttercup entries a week and one non-Buttercup entry. So, perhaps Mondays and Wednesday do a Buttercup post and Fridays do something else. This is probably the easiest option for me to be able to write more content.
Still, I’m not writing for the sake of putting content on my website, I’m writing because I think people are enjoying what I write. Seeing as the majority of my page views come from here, it seems fair to ask what everyone here would prefer to see.
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Monday wenesday with a dif one friday!
Also do some fanfic or somethin!
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Another thing I was considering was working some sort of story into things, instead of just reporting what happens in the game. The only problem is that I like to plan that sort of thing, and it’s hard to do when I don’t actually know what’s going to happen in the game itself.
I also have an short story planned to explain how Buttercup got from Florin to Boletaria. I just want to put that off until I’m a little deeper into the game, mainly so that if I hit a wall actually playing it I can fall back on backstory.
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I really enjoy your writing style, and I’m very much a fan of quality of quantity, so I say if you have a schedule, try to make it so that you’ll last as long as possible without burning out. And whatever you write is bound to be good.
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Thanks. So far two Buttercup posts a week seems like a winner, and then I can throw in a third post on Friday about something different.
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Does anyone else here NOT like the new combat for PC in DA2?
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I’ll let you know after I play the game tomorrow.
I actually wasn’t too much of a fan of DA:O’s system. I was pausing the game so much (even with the tatics) that it felt like I was playing a turn based game. -
Only played the demo (mine’s in the mail) but I was fine except for having to tap attack all the time. But I hear you can change that back in the full game.
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Apparently you can’t change it back, you just need to keep mashing the ‘A’ button until you unlock talents and map them to the other buttons.
Or so I read/hear.
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Don’t say that, I read on Biware Social there weas an option!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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Jo
Do you like action RPGs?
Cos if you do Nier would be worth checking out!
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That is another one that I have noted but not got around to acquiring.
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I love it. It takes the genre and turns it on it’s head…conceptually.
A lot of it is subtle riffs on the silly shit that games make you do.
Seems clunky at first and looks dated but it’s a good solid game with an excellent magic system.And the music? SENSATIONAL!
You may have heard about the horrid fishing mini-game? Yes, it’s bad. But the only time it’s mandatory is once and as long as you go to the bright red X on the map(I didn’t because of sleepiness) it is easy and lasts about 30 seconds.
As long as odd looking character animations and a generic looking outdoor setting don’t put you off, you will find it to be a fun, mature game.
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I found the fishing a whole lot easier once I found out that you can start “reeling” the fish by just pushing the stick back, not pressing a button. I’m probably about halfway through it atm, and really enjoying. Graphically, it’s pretty bland, but I read a review which said it was PS2 era graphics, and quite frankly, if you could find me a PS2 game that looked like that, I would actually die of shock.
Also, it’s a game which has a hermaphroditic character, which is always a… ummm, well, maybe not plus, but it is different.
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Mmk, just bought myself a copy.
Not sure when I will get around to it though; between Minecraft, a ton of anime and soon NFS hp I have little time to spare. Not to mention continuing Planescape: Torment and about 20 steam games I bought at christmas and have not touched.
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Wish I had so much spare cash I could do such things.
I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOO jelly!
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I just got to the fishing part…frankly I prefer it to the fishing in Yakuza 3. Y3’s fishing is awful and counter-intuitive but I’m finding Nier’s fishing quite fun.
The music is absolutely sublime. I don’t care about anything once some of that music kicks in.
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[insert ridiculous attempt to emulate Nier’s music here]
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Yeah, but, Y3’s fishing music!
Do do do doo, do do do doo, do do do do do do dodododooooooo!
(yes, because that is exactly what it sounds like)
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Gamers gate 5 year aniversary sale.
Most notable to me is Amnesia for $8
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You make me wish I had a gamin’ putener.
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I’ve always intended to play that game but I keep forgetting to find the time.
http://www.bluemouth.com.au/pokemon/
I wanna be the very best, like no-one ever was…
I’m back!!! 30+ hours of cancelled flights,lost luggage and other such adventures 🙁
Back at work today and 651 comments to get through, that’s my afternoon set….
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Ouch that must’ve been a pain. Otherwise, welcome back buddy! 😀
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How was it?
Welcome back!!!
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Thanks guys 🙂
No epic posts, having enough trouble catching up.
Apart from the home trip the rest of the holiday went quite smoothly. Saw La Boheme at the Met ( i understand and even slighly appreciate opera now, but don’t think i would go again), went to MOMA and the Gugenheim ( Art is always amazing)and went a bit shopping crazy.
Maaaaad jet laaaaag though…………-
Mad Jet Lag is the name of my funk trio!
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Just to continue my film rant from a previous thread, I wanted to link this article I read recently. Really hits home on why I don’t like a lot of mainstream films these days, and does a good job of explaining why they got that way: http://www.gq.com/entertainment/movies-and-tv/201102/the-day-the-movies-died-mark-harris#ixzz1FPnuMBRo
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One of my favourite lines is this – ‘Give the people what they don’t know they want yet is a recipe for more terror than Hollywood can accommodate.’
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And I’m not trying to start a flame war on this topic, I honestly think it’s an important and well written article that should really shine some light on a few areas of film production and history many people aren’t really aware of.
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I tend to come from the other perspective. Hollywood makes crap, always has always will, no suprises. When it does pop out something amazing like Inception then I smile and say “GREAT”.
I don’t expect another any time soon.
In the meantime there is always foreign film, animation, indie fil, student films, the odd TV show and some random web created concoction to keep me happy.
Also there is always going to be great books, comics , games and whatever else to keep me happy.
Just cos I want more Inceptions doesn’t mean there isn’t a MASSIVE audience out there loving the fact that another brainless rom com is on the way.
I’m happy to live in a world of diversity and am glad to know that not everyone thinks and does the same things I do.
On that note, if Serrels ever mentions goddam Mx again I am going POSTAL!!!
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Yeah but see, I don’t see the difference between mX and a lot of these films. mX to print media is what Transformers 2 is to film. I don’t really see the difference. Diversity is one thing, but hordes of people wanting the next bad Hollywood tripe is just another product of being raised on bad Hollywood tripe and not knowing any better.
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That was a joke , brudda.
An admition that I am just as finnicky as you!
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Admission?
I have spelling FAILitus todayz
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Ah yep… sorry 🙁
I get a bit worked up when it comes to film. If that wasn’t obvious already…
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What did you just say about FINAL FANTASY???!!!
Is funny, I don’t get so worked up about comics. I guess so many others do it for me. And it comes with the territory.
Never experienced the RPG polarization until I started to frequent Kotaku.
Still learning…
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Don’t start me on the mX.
That is all.
Since the Kotaku community is so full of creativity, I’m sharing this competition with you guys:
http://ausdroid.net/competition/gingerbread/
If have the Google Nexus S on your wishlist, now is the time to do little to no effort to win one. : ) I have yet to finish my submission.
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/sadface
Mark, if this isn’t tomorrows LunchTimeWaster, I will be sorely disappointed.
http://www.kongregate.com/games/Chronodrax/antimatiere
Blind. Mown.
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That was awesome! Except… I was pressing something and skipped whatever it told me at the end 🙁
What did it say…?
Jimu did you ever end up getting a Dead Space 2 -> Dragon Age 2 armour code? I realised that I should probably, you know, play my copy DA:O before I even consider buying DA2, so it’s gonna be ages before I’d use the code anyway.
Better that somebody who actually wants it gets it!
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I did and so did James Mac, any one else want one???
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Would seem not.
I was only going to give it to somebody who really wanted it (as you had demonstrated quite loudly), rather than someone just after a random freebie. So I guess it will just go back into the box to wait for a commenter of less discriminating taste…
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Can you PD any earlier like 8pm?
If I don’t have Pokemanz in the mail I would like to shoot you.
And I’d like to shoot you too Sughly
and you Banderdash!BANG!!
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I would for sure (I think you said you were in QLD, making it 9pm for me?), but tonight is bad. Tomorrow or Saturday should be cool though.
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Kewl!
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I’d love it, if you don’t want it. 🙂
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OhhhhK…. Drop me an email at batguy.kotaku@gmail.com!
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You have a special Kotaku email?
I just give out my real one… -
Sent 🙂
My emails have a tendency to fall into spam folders, apparently…
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Sorry, wanted to ask this quetsion but it was from a few pages ago.. AmbroseIV, where abouts in c’town you from. im in rosemeadow, but lived in Raby for most of highschool (Robert Townsend)..
Always nice to meet others nearby.
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Went to uni with a guy who came from Raby. Was always proud his suburb was named after a disease 😉
Not gonna throw names around in here, might discuss with you elsewhere another time.
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After a while you become immune to those jokes… c’town is a surprisingly small place. everyone knows everyone.
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I’m actually in Mt Annan, so it’s more Camden than c’town… still, it’s only a 5 minute drive.
And I need to travel up’n’down between c’town and Wollongong every couple of days for uni – straight through the middle of Rosemeadow.
I know this is an Australian site, but small world! D:
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Sure is mate.
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Have broadband modem, will now conne-AAAAHHHHH!!! Must activate service!?
t minus 30 mins to broadband and counting…
I”M BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!
😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀
I HAVE BROADBAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀
(wooh, smiley overload)
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w00! non mobile broadband ftw!! hopefully your lag will improve significantly now!
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Wha-!? Who said anything about non-wireless broadband?
No, I’ve still got mobile broadband, just got a new modem and plan. I’ve had to live on dial-up for the last week. I don’t have much lag with wireless, luckily, as I live very close to a mobile phone tower 😀
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I found out a few days back (and subsequently forgot), but apparently I probably have a ticket to see Distant Worlds: Music from final fantasy up in Sydney in mid April (has the Sydney Symphony Orcestra playing, and Nobuo Uematsu in attendence).
Was wondering if anyone else is going / had heard of it prior to right about now / is insanely jealous (I don’t know, someone might be, don’t question my logic).
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I wish
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I’m going!!
My husband bought me a ticket and flights for a combined Mother’s Day/Easter present.
I get to stop being a mother for 2 days because I’ll be going solo. I’m so excited!
Which session are you going to?Oh, and I’m not sure if there’re any tickets for it left but for $50 you can go go to a special meet and greet thing with Uematsu and the conductor afterwards.
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SHUUUUUUUUTUUUUUUUUUUUUUP!
Damnit, I don’t need to know these things! I can’t spare the time or money!
Also, “going solo” my mind went straight for the gutter!
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I have no idea which one I’m seeing, and sadly I don’t have one of the meet and greet ones. 🙁
A friend of my sister’s had the ticket, but then couldn’t go, so it got offered to me, so I’m just waiting on confirmation and details for it. I guess it’s a good thing I’m unemployed and not at uni, so I can get away with spending some time in Sydney.
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Oh I so want to go to this. Are there tickets left and where do I find them.
I think the music is by far the best part of Final Fantasy as a series.
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According to Ticketek (http://premier.ticketek.com.au/shows/show.aspx?sh=FINALFAN11) there are tickets available for Friday 15th April, but there’s I think a couple of other pages you can buy tickets at, whatever the case, it’s at Sydney Opera House.
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Also, they’re looking to be very limited, I just checked, and one section had a whole 12 tickets available, so if anyone is interested, I’d recommend going quickly.
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Chuloooooooopaaa
Can’t find my previous post too see if you answere or not.
But any progress on the Devin Townsend checking out of?
And feel free to tell me he sucks, if that the case be.
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He is pretty freakin awesome
Listening to Vampira as we speak. Funny ass clip too 😛
I love the style of music, so yeah, Devin in pretty bloody damn freakin cool in my books
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Ive seen so few of his clips, will have to yooootooob em wun daye.
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I’d liek to add that bend it like bender is also pretty damn rad
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The clip or the song?
I like em both but was a little dissapointed by the clip because my freind WHO KNOWS BETTER, claimed it was anime.When it is clearly rotscoping with anime inspired designs! UGH!(Now I’m an animation NAZI)
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I can’t decide if I like Devin or not.
Some songs are freaking awesome but others just seem a bit meh to me.
Perhaps I admire his talent but his style is not for me.
Which album would you recommend the most?(I know you weren’t talking to me, just thought I’d chip in.)
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If you prefer heavy then I recomend City which is actual Strapping Young Lad, but Devin is singer, songwriter guitarist.
For more catchy(still very metal) you can’t go past Infinity
Also if you can handle funny theres Ziltoid, which is a musical.
After there is always
Terria
Ocean Machine
Ki
the list goes on.Physisist is prolly the most boring along with all the other SYL, all good but less good.
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Yeah I’m a fan of Ziltoid and largly enjoyed Addicted and Ki.
SYL was always a bit thrashy for me but I’ll check out City and Infinity.
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SYL was Devin’s cure for being the poster boy for 80s rock band VIE.
He got the shits and started what is essentially PUNK METAL, but then he did City which is prolly my favourite METAL metal album…if that makes sense.
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Mmmm triple smoked ham, jarlsberg and pickle sandwich!! I’m in heaven!
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I had lunch with some friends from Uni. Steak and cider, good stuff.
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Is that the name of your new DA:O dwarf??
http://www.gamecritics.com/dale-weir/cosplay-jades-flawless-mortal-kombat-kosplay
Sorry ladies, I wasn’t using my brain to think when I posted this…
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Wow… that’s something something something. You’ve really something something, Jimu.
Something something Jade something.
…er… what were we talking about? :/
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I dunno, SOMEthing.
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I found my DS and Trauma Center! I know what I’m doing tonight, you guys can see the results tomorrow (assuming everything doesn’t go horribly awry).
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Okay, I was going to put up something tomorrow comparing my memory of Trauma Center and the actual game.
The only problem is that I just played the game for almost two hours and it is actually really draining. I’m not going to get any writing done and I want to play more of the game before actually writing anything about it.
So that’s ruled out and the only other thing I had in the pipeline is a short story that I don’t think will be ready to post by tomorrow. Unless I can pull a thousand word opinion piece out of my rectal cavity, there isn’t anything to put up.
Sorry guys, but looks like I won’t be updating my site again until Monday but from next week I will be going with an actual schedule. Mondays and Wednesdays there will be new Buttercup material and Fridays will be random article day.
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Nooooooooooo. How will I get my Buttercup fix on the weekends?
I’m interested to see how the Trauma Centre thing works out though.
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I felt a little guilty, so I started to write an opinion piece on the train. With a bit of luck, I can finish it off during my lunch break and upload it.
Sure, it’s not Buttercup, but it’s something.
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Just set up my new desk. It’s huge! 1.8m x 0.9m. It’s literally as long as my bed, and almost as wide. I love it! I’ll probably get another monitor sometime soon because I has unlimited spaces. Does anyone know a good biggish (maybe >=22″?) monitor? No Acer though. I shall never trust Acer.
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Huge desks are awesome. I used to have a desk that was litteraly as big as my bed because it was a bunk bed/desk with the bed above it.
I still miss it.
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I had one of them in high school, used to headbutt it all the time!
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Haha, when getting something from the back of the desk? I learnt that one the hard way.
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Oooh, forgot to add, because I’m reinstalling everything, are there any good programs I should install. Not like Firefox and Steam and other essentials, but other lesser known programs that people can’t really live without?
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TeamViewer is always handy.. AC3 Filter, DivXPlus, Haali Media Splitter.. all depends on what sort of stuff you regularly do.
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I assume your using Windows 7 64? The windows firewall is pretty good these days, but a little known program called Windows7firewallcontrol can give you some added benefits. It basically sits in your tray like a 3rd party firewall, but uses the windows one instead. It gives you pop-ups when things try to access the internet. Mind you I had to lose it because it had a slight problem with a media server I was using, but prior to that, it was very handy.
As welbot said though, really depends on what you plan to do with it. For instance, most ppl hate the gadgets thing, but if you have memory and desktop space (when you add monitors) I find a gadget called All CPU Meter is very handy. Lets you know if a program has stalled by keeping tabs on what each core is up too. -
Probably a bit early to be using these, but Revo Uninstaller is just all kinds of awesome.. as is malwarebytes.. not the kind of things you’ll use everyday, but damn handy to have around just in case 😉 I’m sure you know about malwarebytes, but revo uninstaller is just great. It basically trawls through your system and makes sure that EVERYTHING related to a program is uninstalled, which usually results in a much cleaner registry over time!
See this:
http://thechive.com/2011/03/09/daily-afternoon-randomness-48-photos-7/chivery-today-26/
This is how you do Hipster comedy.
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GOD DAMN IT!!
I saw that picture yesterday in my pic post frenzy. It gave me a great chuckle. but i didn’t think people would get it… sad clown 🙁 -
THAT RAWKZ!!
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I lol’d.
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I wish I could pull off wearing a scarf. Or even a hat for that matter. Jesus, even finding sunglasses that suit is a real challenge.
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But I always imagined you with scarves attached to your chair a-la Steven Tyler’s mic stand and streaming out behind you like a superhero cape as you raced(and beat) mothers with their stupid jogging prams. I am disappoint. 😛
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No, but I have Astroboy stickers on my chair, and I do race through shopping centers. It is pretty good fun except when ppl block the way and i lose momentum. I also tie my dog to the chair (which sounds kinda bad…) and when we got for walkies, he becomes like a sleigh dog, awesome fun, until he stops to sniff a poop.
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I don’t think this has been posted yet.. 750 odd comments.. I tried to check them all! anyway this one is for the Firefly fans out there!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-yHSaP0Dyg&feature=player_embedded
I don’t know if I would have broken up with my last girl friend over it.. cause you know she was hot.. but it did always bother me!
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I came across this yesterday and had a bit of a giggle.
Fun fact: my husband and I met because of Firefly/Serenity.-
Amusingly you’re not the first person I’ve heard say that!
And I just remembered I never got the Firefly DVD’s back when we broke up.. Perfect excuse to purchase it on Blu-Ray!
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When I first met my (now) wife, she’d never seen Firefly.
So on our first date, we spent about three hours talking, and then about ten hours watching Firefly…
Second date was 30 minutes talking, then six more hours of Firefly+Serenity, during which she fell asleep. But I married her anyway.
Don’t worry, we started talking once we got that important stuff done…
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But she didn’t even cry when Wash died! Sacrilege!
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Not liking Stargate is a deal breaker for me.
In the interests of inclusiveness I present the Kotaku AU Minecraft gallery:
https://picasaweb.google.com/116162067641891706026/Minecraft?feat=directlink
We can’t all participate in the construction, but we can all marvel at the results together. Check it out!
Fellow participants can let me know if they have some images for the gallery, or if they want me to go take screenshots of particular features.
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OMG, now everyone will see my hole! I was planning on doing something like this so you saved me heaps of time! Oh, if you get a chance, you’ll have to try out LB Photorealism texture pack here http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=1021&t=136785 its as big a jump from standard to mixcraft the moon is a real stand out in it.
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aww i’m honored you remembered my little tribute! Spectially since it’s pretty much the only significant thing I’ve done thus far :0
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I was scrolling through and just saw you say “now everyeone will se my hole”… :O
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Nice work boys, some good stuff there.
When did link join the English army circa Crusades? Looks like a Christian cross on his shield
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in the early NES games he had a cross on his shield instead of the tri-force
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KOTAKU COMMUNITY CHALLENGE!!1
See if you can listen to this song AND watch the clip without thinking “WTF” at least once!!!
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Not a single wtf.. there was nothing strange about that at all for me :\
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Dude.. i love all sorts of metal and messed up stuff… but really??? not a single wtf??? even the lyrics?!?!
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I’ve listened to many a song with much stranger lyrics than that :0 Even old school songs like alexander beetle by melanie! If you’ve never heard it, go look it up 😉
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For me this morning, it’s aus metal!
http://www.myspace.com/heiferband/music/songs/i-just-wanna-kill-you-26216203
http://www.myspace.com/dreamkillersoz/music/songs/Verbal-Violence-69992035
Two of my all time favs in the aus metal scene!
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Clips that make me go wtf are like this one..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IG2LDXahaWYI think.. WTF?! Why aren’t there awesome games like this in existence?! :0
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this one’s also kinda cool 😉
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I didn’t WTF either…but probably because I couldn’t stand more than 15 seconds of that awful excuse for a song. 😛
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Hear hear!
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1 more hr to go in my tute.. I don’t really like 9am classes : (
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Chin up, you started a new page!
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These new pages scare me. Can we go back a page?
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Which reminds me of the bestest book ever. The Monster At The End Of This Book.
Literary genius.But also, Cookie Monster and the Cookie Tree was awesome too.
Shut-up, I like golden books. :-/
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Little Golden Books were/are totally awesome! I had heaps when i was a kid.. fond memories of the little engine that could and the poky little puppy!
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There’s a monster at the end of this page….
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Haha! I wrote that before I’d seen your next comment.
YOU TURNED THE PAGE!!!!!!!
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GAH! /me supergluzz teh interwebz shut
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you guys crack me up 😀
heading over to my bf’s place to bring him lunch & then we get to finish Marvel Superhero Squad co-op on the 360, this game feels like it never ends… Drags on & on. Then i’m looking forward to going thru the new AC: B dlc ‘the davinci disapperance’ : )
Man… Uni… *sigh*
I’m glad i’m only doing it part time, i don’t think i could handle it full time.
Between uni and work there is just so little time in the day. This was my first week and i already can’t believe how much work they have given me… and they say this is the EASY week… I’m in way way over my head here…
I haven’t studied for 9 years… Jumping back in like this is comparable to leaping into ice water after a nice hot shower…
Worse still is i open the books, start reading and then just stare blankly at the pages. I can’t absorb it.. i haven’t got a damn clue as to what the hell is going on.
Several nights this week have involved my stress levels hitting the roof because i just don’t know what the hell to do… If i’m like this after the first week.. how will i be in a few years time when i come close to the finish…
Luckily Bianca did her first yer commerce last year, so she’s been a amazing help… Even when i get short and frustrated, she still tries to explain everything to me in a way i can handle…
What REALLY sucks is that i already have a tonne of skills for managerial roles … yet i’m stuck unless i have a piece of bloody paper…
*sigh*
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/me hands loops a tp roll. Problem solved! 😛
I know what you mean about trying to absorb dull material. I attempted Engineering, and the mathematics in it… jebus.. I had to stop attending the tutorials because it was getting embarrassing being woken by the lecturer messing up my hair. I failed most of the tests, until the final exam, which I needed something stupid like 75% on to pass the class overall. I to this day have no idea how, but somehow I passed the class with a superb %51 overall grade.
So, I wisely changed careers and switched to Multimedia Technology for my second year. This led to an addiction to IRC and eloping in the USA….
Darn me and my short att, hey!!1 Mark looks like a tennis dude!-
This is exactly why I did a course on Software Engineering (Games).. I knew I’d be bored to tears doing anything else, and while I was bored during the process (cos I already knew like 95% of what they were teaching) it was still fun to me cos it was games development! No way in hell I could have done something like you or what my wife did. I would prolly end up shooting myself.
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This made me lol heartily! But I can’t really sympathise to a great extent since all I’ve done is creative industry degrees. It’s amazing how easy they are, anyone can pass them. People are so impressed when I tell them I’m doing a Masters. If they only knew…
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It can’t be as bad as telling people you’re doing a batchelor of arts surely!
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Haha, actually you’re right there. I did a year of that to get into film, and telling people what I was doing never brought the sense they were impressed.
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If I was to say the plus points of when I was doing software engineering, the name would be right up there. I’d say what I was doing, and then get a look of “I don’t know what that is, but it sounds damn impressive.”
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i’m switching to a b. Media to a b. Arts next sem, the media courses at unsw are good but the journalism courses are just not for me. Ironically abut 95% of the people in the journalism stream are thinking about getting a job in PR or advertising. The way they teach journalism just turns off every idea or interest of ever being a journalist.
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I’ve heard a lot of people at UNSW say that the B. Media course wasn’t that well taught…
And Arts ftw! 😀 😀 😀
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Hmmmmmmmmmmm
You have given me sage advice without even trying. I need to do some study to advance from where I am.
I will try to pick a subject of interest.
Still no Pokemanz in the mail last night. I am de-poke-pressed. Played some OutRun 2006 last night instead.
If it aint here tonight I am gonna …do nothing, except feel impotent because I can’t control the mail.
At least with DA 2 I know it’s not arriving for a while…
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If it makes you feel any better, I ordered NBA Jam 14 days ago today and it still hasn’t arrived. I really wanted to boomshakalaka tonight as well 🙁
On a brighter note, I saw your Live message – 4p PD! Woo! Is that 8pm Brisbane time?
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you’re welcome to come to my place and Play some NBA Jam with me!!
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I’ve heard about people like you… acting all nice on the internet chatrooms, inviting children around to play ‘NBA Jam’…
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Of course I jest though! Very nice gesture 🙂
Didn’t you order your copy from ozgameshop too though..?
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No, now I;m sure you were asking welbot…
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Yeah I was… but what an epic thread! I’m replying just to increase it’s epicness!
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Nah I got my copy from EB.. Pre-owned cos it was like.. the ONLY copy in brisbane :\ MVC3 came from ozgamesshop though. Arrived in less than a week!
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Gah! No fair!! ozgameshop preferences it seems. It’s because I live in Woodridge :'(
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Holy shit! Woodridge! We’re practically neighbours! I live in Springwood! 😉 My wife works at the woodridge commonwealth bank, so if you bank there, you might have seen her before!
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I told you you live on the same street!
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You know, I probably have seen her. I do all shopping/banking/pizza/beer runs at Springwood.
Woah.
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Lol invitations only open to people 18+ 😉
If you are interested shoot me an email.. dondalinger at hotmail
I might just take you up on that offer one day! Neighbour 😀
See, now I’m worried…
I bought Homefront from OzGameShop, because I’m Big Kev style excited for it, but if I don’t get it for a month after release then all the Kotakuites will have moved on to Duke Nukem.
On the plus side though, there will be patches and bug fixes by the time I get it.
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PD tonight? Make us 4 ??
4P PD tonight?
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Possibly only 3…haven’t heard anything from James Mac.
Threes good though, I have 3 challenges that 3 of us can 3…urrrr beat as 3.
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I’ll be there… someone has to lower the average skill level.
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WOOOOOOOOOOOOOP!
Don’t worry we all suck!See if we can beat some bots!!
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Co-Op FTW!
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You cant co-op 4p!
OR CAN YOU???!!!
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It is, if i’m not there I’m on the way. The boy seems to have developed a cough. But I can hug him while he sleeps and play.
Can’t read
draw
or dance
But I can shoot your face!
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I don’t doubt it. I’ll probably be looking at the floor or the roof most of the time. I used to do a little shuffle back and forward on the N64 and it would reset the aim straight ahead of you… is there an option to turn this feature on again for the xbox version? (if anyone can translate what I mean)
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Duuunooo
Used to do the same thing back in the day…was used to these controls after playing Half Life 2 and Bioshock (BOth games I love but have never seemed to finish.)
But really, you get used to it and soon you will realise how bad the N64 control was!
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But, but… the AUTO look forward! You know, I saw something in the options called ‘head tilt’ or something or rather. Maybe that’s my answer.
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Amusing story time:
Due to either a train derailment or flooding across the Nullabor (depending on who you asked…), the only store in Perth that had the new Pokemon games yesterday was EB Games. Nowhere else will get them until early next week.
Strangely, EB weren’t charging RRP (I paid $58 – not too bad for a few days earlier).
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I am JELLY
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Sounds like some dodgy EB goings-on. I don’t trust those guys…
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Due to either a train derailment or flooding across the Nullabor caused by EB!
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The delayed train shipments seem to happen at least once a year. I’ve gone to buy games on release here and stores have mentioned this before.
I only managed 5 hours of Pokemon yesterday, in the 12 hours I had it until I went to bed.
I am disappoint.
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I only get about 2 -3 hrs of gaming a day so consider yourself lucky!
Goddamit! I’m trying to watch Heat vs. Lakers but my One HD reception sucks balls :'(
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I have trouble with the SEVENS and NINES.
Don’t watch any sport so I dunno about ONE.
Just a heads up guys, the Australian Classification Review Board is meeting today to re-classify Warner Bros Mortal Kombat appeal.
If theres anyone following this sad saga of sadism, keep an eye on the classification website over the next few days.
personally, i really want to play this uncut (without importing if possible), but i really dont think this a game for 15 year olds… what a conumdrum… i hope it gets rated, but i doubt it will.
NotoriousR.. if you’re still looking for a monitor, I have a suggestion.
If you’re in the market for a 3d monitor, the LG W2363D-PF is available for about $340-$350.. it’s 23″ Full HD.
If you don’t want 3d, I’ve always liked BenQ Screens myself. They’re really well priced and picture quality is great. Can get 24″ for around $189+
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Got any deals on 22inch (or higher) touch-screens?
I’m looking for one atm, but they’re all too expensive…
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Touch screens are crazy expensive.. believe it or not, the cheapest way to buy a touch screen, is to buy an MSI All-in-one pc.. can get 24″ touchscreen all-in-one for just over $1000
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I just foud a supplier that might be able to do an AOC 22inch touch screen for about $350-$400 actually.. AOC isn’t exactly a super brand, but they’ve been around long enough now that you could trust it. If you want I can get an exact quote for ya.
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well out of curiosity, I rang and found out a price anyway. I can get you a 21.5″ AOC Touchscreen for $360 + shipping. Not sure what the shipping cost would be til I know where you are, but yer.. I can certainly help you out with something like that if you’re keen.
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lol, I second that!
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hahah happy to oblige.. it’s a slow day today.. got nothing better to do atm, so I thought i’d do a little investigating 😉
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Hmmm, the LG 3D sounds very tempting, but there doesn’t really seem to be an abudnance of info out there. Is it HDMI 1.4 3D (so I can play 3D PS3 games) or is it with the Nvidia 3Dvision (I have no idea how that works)
As for BenQ, eh. My cousin had a BenQ which crapped out in a couple of months, and the replacement crapped out in about5 months after that, so kinda not so sure about that. But, who knows. maybe they’re better, maybe they’re not.
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It’s most likely the nvidia 3d system (which is still run through HDMI 1.4). The difference is that a 3d tv has the drivers and support for the glasses built into the screen itself, whereas the Nvidia one runs it off the GPU and software drivers inside your OS.
So if there was a way to stream the video from a PS3 (or whatever) to your 3d compatible GPU, then via that to the screen, you would be able to play games in 3d that way, but I somehow doubt you could do that, and even if you could, it would surely exacerbate response time problems.
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The nvidia 3d is actually run through DVI. I just had a look at the ASUS, BenQ and LG monitors, and none of them have HDMI 1.4. I guess if you can hook your ps3 up to a dvi connection then you might be able to do 3d with it, but for HDMI, you’re prolly gonna need to get a full on 3d tv to be able to do it.
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Correction, uses HDMI 1.3, which is the same as the PS3 (1.4 was only released in 2009), GPUs are able to (presumably) output at 1080P in 3d off a 1.3 by using some of the redundant channels for more data (at a guess).
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It does use the nvidia 3d, so you need to purchase that aswell I believe. I think the HDMI is only 1.3, so I don’t think you can do PS3 3d with this one. There’s an asus monitor around for about $600 or so that comes with the nvidia pack for pc gaming, but I’m not sure of the specs, so I can’t say if it would be good for ps3 3d or not either.
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oh and as for the BenQ, I’ve been using a 24″ BenQ for about 4 years now, and I’ve had 0 problems. Same with my mum. I’ve sure some people would have issues.. all manufacturers produce duds at times, but all the ones I’ve installed over the years have been fine.
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DVI dual link maxes out at 85FPS at 1080p, which would make it fairly silly for those monitors, given they run at 120hz, according to the wiki page on HDMI (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI) (in the HDMI 1.4 section): “3D Over HDMI (most HDMI 1.3 devices will only support this for 1080i,[110] exceptions include graphics cards in computers and the PS3).”
And yes, I do use wikipedia as my citation for everything.
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Bummer. I only wanted a 3DTV for Uncharted 3, and that’s about it 😛
Hmmmm. I suppose duds can happen. I probably just wait it out until the computer market which happens first saturday of every month, and get something there, there’s normally good and cheap stuff there.
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the bus driver of the bus i’m on is playing some barely audible eerie opera music on the radio, the kind that is supposed to make u calm & sleepy but the audio quality is bad :/
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Better than the pop garbage I had to keep listening to while I took the bus. Ahhh I’m not missing the bus at all, I’m glad to be driving since I got my license and car late last year
JIMU! JIMU! JIMU!
NEIL GAIMAN IS WRITING A TRILOGY OF MONKEY KING FILMS! A TRILOGY! NEIL “THE SANDMAN” GAIMAN!
*breaths deep*
http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=30382
It’s like my birthday had sex with Christmas and today is their awesome holiday child.
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HOLY CRAP!
I LOVED JOURNEY TO THE WEST BY WU-CHENG-EN!
I LOVED AMERICAN GODS AND STARDUST BY NEIL GAIMAN!I think I just had the most awesome heart-attack! 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀
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Journey to the West is really awesome!
This sounds great.
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There is no part of this news that doesn’t excite me.
Neil Gaiman is made of win, as is Journey to the West.
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I read the first couple of volumes of the Sandman, wanted to see what the fuss was about….did not like. I heard American Gods was good, but I can’t really be bothered trying to find a copy if I didn’t like Sandman. Should I bother, or just be lazy and chill?
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You should bother! It’s very different from his Sandman stuff. It’s a really great book.
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WOW! This is goddam amazing, JAMIE JAMIE! wooooooooo!
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So who’s the company doing the 3D?
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Sughly Inc.
Too early at the moment I think.
Hope it all comes together nicely, cos if not…I will do more nothing, and feel impotent about contrlling Hollywood.
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SWEET HOLY MOTHER OF CRAP!!1
CHARLIE SHEEN IS COOKING!!!
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/bfb12aea47/charlie-sheen-s-winning-recipes?ref=nf
TAKE THAT GORDAN RAMSAY!
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I saw this on the morning show this morning! Classic stuff! If he turned that in to a show I’d watch for sure! Funny stuff!
Well, I won’t be on minecraft today, I just downloaded the Crysis 2 demo 😀
If you want to add me, my nickname is lamboman007.
Qumulyus, I sent you a friend request 😀
This is Jimu when Pokeman arrives
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BWA HA HAH!
That is CLASSIIIIIIIIC, but I chose Smugly months ago!
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Anyone want to get all 3 and help me do the same with multi restarts?
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Heh. hehehe.
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Thats so bad it’s good!
I felt a little guilty about not having any new content on my site today, so I solved it by quickly putting together an opinion piece you can read here: The Thrill of the Fight.
Not my greatest work, but at least it’s something.
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I leava da silly comment!
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Indeed you did.
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Anyone else diggin’ the John Cena vs. The Rock feud happenin’ at the moment – I really, really wanna see a proper fight between them…!!!
…and when did Triple H start to look so old? O.o
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Did the Rock actually come back on the next raw or did he do a lame live recording again?
I’m the biggest Rock fan ever – but I thought Cena destroyed him.
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Nah, everything’s live or prerecorded at the moment 🙁
And I concur – never particularly liked/disliked Cena, but with the Nexus arc and now this… he’s growing on me. Throwin’ some of that charisma back in the Rock’s face.
Irrespective of all this, they do need to fight. I mean think of the children!
WON’T SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!?!
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So went out to check the mail… not only was there a pretty package with NBA Jam inside, but also a note to pick up a parcel at the post. I was happy since I had my boomshakalaka, but was curious to find out what this mysterious package was. I get there to be confronted with a large, bulky thing wrapped in brown paper and smelling like fish. I first thought this was some joke, but get home and open it aaaaand… my DR2 JACKET! WOO!
Thank you so so so so much Mark and Kotaku and co! Not only was everything super awesome, especially the jacket, but you threw in Mass Effect 2 for 360! Just… awesome. Too awesome. So, so awesome. Cannot say awesome enough. So now I suppose I have to revisit ME1, get past this damn intro part so I can enjoy the fruits of my gift! Ah man… did I mention you guys are awesome?
I think once I have my jacket up and safely displayed, photos will follow. By the way, I tried it on (as you do)… my miniscule frame barely takes up half of it, I look extremely unmanly. But that’s cool, it was always meant for displaying 😀
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And yeah I dont know what was going on with the fish smell, I think the package has taken quite the journey. But all the pretty contents were safely wrapped in plastic! 😀
Although now the smell is on my hands 🙁
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Damn! I live one suburb away, and I still don’t have my DR2 stuff!! Who’s getting preferences now!! 😉
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I stil can’t believe that. Man! Small world…
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hehe totally! We should definitly meet up for some beverages and or gaming action someday!
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Wait, how did I miss that? That means you’re close to me too.
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Wow! totally cool! Should make it easy to get together for some gamey goodness then! 🙂 Brisbane Southside Kotaku party ftw!
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Free ME2? I am double JELLY.
I hope you still have time for our little play date…
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It’s even in a format he can ACTUALLY use 😉
***Hint, hint Mark***
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Good to have you back, Nohandle!
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Have any of you guys and gals seen the clip for Lacuna Coils’ “i like it”
it’s kinda poppy for them.. but my god i love the clip… it’s a must watch if you like general piss-takery
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sorry forgot the linky
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That was not what I was expecting. The only other song I’ve heard from that album was Spellbound and that was at Soundwave, where the performance was pretty damned lacklustre.
Still, always good to see goth metal bands imitating 90s rappers.
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Woooh
I aint heard that name since High School. Forgot they even existed.
You know who I remembered the other day?
Brujeria.-
They don’t really exist as they used to. Too much pandering to a US sensibilty.
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Anyone tried to register with AustralianGamer dot com?
I’ve been trying to “validate” for over a month and still stuck with a useless ID with no forum access…
(I realise it’s uncool to ask this on Kotaku, but I’m just trying to spread the love around)
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Join the Dark Side. Stay here instead.
I bet that place doesn’t have as many shenanigans as this place.
I swear to God I’m going to pistol whip the next guy who says “shenanigans”.
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Awesome. That means I’m safe from your pistol-whipping shenanigans. 😛
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Hey Blaghman, what’s that place you like with all the goofy shit on the walls and the mozzarella sticks?
<_<
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The Irish pub?
Uhh, I think it’s called Shenanigans or some-Arrgghhh, my FACE! My not the slightest bit beautiful face!
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Alternate answer:
I see what you’re doing, I’m not going to fall for those immature shenanigan- Fuck!
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Australian Gamer are pretty good… sure, it’s no Kotaku, but I like ’em
😛
BLLLAARRRGGGHH!!! Im da Monster at the end of this page!
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Sadly, you’re like, 6 posts too early (too lazy to count).
Nohandle I send a quick email to you just now!
On the way home from uni my bus broke down on Appin Road for 35 minutes at dusk, with no shoulder on the road.
I thought I was having a bad day, but then I got home and saw Japan on the news.
Damn :/
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On the bright side, pretty much all of industrial japan is designed with earthquakes in mind. On the downside, this was something like the eighth largest earthquake in history, their buildings weren’t really designed with a tsunami in mind and all of the Australian aid is already in NZ, which just makes things awkward.
I’ve been watching news of Japan all night, but stumbled across this.
Jimu, re auto-attack in DA2, here’s your answer: http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/141/index/6395493#6396546
So they took it out, but are looking for a way to put it back in.
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Nutters
I’m noticing some backlash on blogs around the net concerning the recent world events and youtube’s decision to display this advert on it’s front page
(http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhw471pKg51qdpi23o1_500.png)
What do you guys think?
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It doesn’t look enough like an ad, especially with Hillary Clinton featured and the huge headline.
I can see why people could misinterpret it and get anxious – or annoyed when they find out it’s an ad for a video game.
Hi Elly!
So what’s up? How’s stuff? Been playing games much? Have you given up on consoles? Are you in at the office or working from home? Anything exciting planned for the weekend? Any other questions I should’ve asked?
…I think I’m gonna go lay down…
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You’re gonna go lay down? Do I make you feel ill?
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Well… um… no – I mean, I don’t think so…
…way to twist that around and make me feel like I did something wrong :'(
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lol poor ambrose! i’ll vouch for ya! You were just following orders! 😉
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Geez Ambrose, you’re dong this all wrong. Let the master (blatant lie) show you how it’s done.
*Slides into a chair*
*smug wanker voice*
Oh, Hey Elly, how’s it hanging? What’s the Hip-Hop-Happening in your life? Do you come here often? Uhh, no wait. Uhhh, Are you Pikachu? Because I choose you! *starts singing the pokemon theme, making appropriate rock sounds with my mouth, rolling away on the floor*-
Bahahaha!
Getting shot down by Elly is considered a rite of passage by some…. It’s only sadists and sickos that come back for more. 😉 -
pfffft… *rolls up sleeves*
Sooooo, your stuck approving us knuckleheads, if you weren’t working, what would you be doing right now??
(the secret is to let them talk about themselves…observe lads)
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damn… don’t you hate forgetting your last stupid login name… grrr.
Maybe that delightful Elly will repair my previous statements name, and remove this post altogether. Giving me the appearance of being suave.
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Please, Amateurs.
Observe A True Master At Work.
Hello Ladies.
You Have No Option But To Obey My Every Whim. I Am All Powerful, So Really, There’s Only Two Ways This Can Go Down.The Hard Way, Or The Very Hard Way. If You Get My Meaning. I Think You Do Get My Meaning. What I Mean Is That I Have An Enormou-
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NO!
Just, stop.
Stop, seriously. It starts off bad enough, when implying that any omnipotent being would just rape people (greek mythology much), but then that?
No, just…
No.
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What is this, I don’t…?
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You Call Yourself The Real God? How Dare You Blaspheme So. As The One And Only God Of A Single Religion, That Considers Itself The Majority, Based Upon Inaccurate Figures Of True Supporters, And As An Occasional Commenter On This Site For Many Moons, I Feel I Have The Full Authority To Tell You:
Get Out Of My House!
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I’m finally starting to get over my jetlag and feel normal and SaturTAY is usually a bit quieter. Went and saw Tim Minchin vs The ASO last night. So funny and the music was great. Also found out the ASO is going to have a sci-fi/space theme performance so Yay!
Of all my procreating friends at the moment, some finally had a boy! Best name ever… Wolverine Awesome!!!!!! Well it’s actually Logan James, but i prefer how i say it 🙂
I also wouldn’t have gotten through the week without these two songs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni-3BFIvPN8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7htO8HZhIw&feature=related
Oh NSFW
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I think Elly oficially hates me:( I posted at 11:30 and still not approved 🙁
Hang on… who just got back from Japan??? Jeeze, some of those images of the tsunami rolling in is like a scene from a disaster movie. Truly and utterly terrifying. Putting my best thoughts out to Japan. 🙁
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Yeah, one of our regulars is or was over there for his honeymoon. I forget exactly who…was it Gobbo maybe? I hope he made it home before these disasters whoever it was. *hugs Japan*
My comments are disaperring, rather than appearing… SAVE US ELLY!!!! YOUR OUR ONLY HOPE!
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Strange things are afoot at the Circle K~
Just had an odd coincidence, switched off the news when the kids came in (Don’t particularly want to frighten them with the terrible destruction going on in Japan ATM so) switched it to the Simpsons (on cable) what was the episode? The one where they go to Japan! Battling Seizure Robots FTW!
I am losing faith for humanity… : (
http://karmajapan.tumblr.com/
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This sort of crap makes me unbelievably cynical.
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I’m with you here.
Shit like this really makes me wish I could punch people through the internet. Sure, hitting someone won’t solve anything, but it will sure as hell make me feel a lot better.
Then I read a bit further, and see this: http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhxi0rb5jj1qi050vo1_1280.png?AWSAccessKeyId=0RYTHV9YYQ4W5Q3HQMG2&Expires=1300021284&Signature=HlwFbAvBOl6qQVPTBZYnxvRj5D4%3D
I wish I could say that I’d lost all faith in humanity, but it’s long gone.
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…that’s just incredibly sad.
When people are so insensitive and dismissive, I can’t help but hope they endure some comparable misfortune because (maybe) they wouldn’t be such arseholes if it was happening to them…
Arugh, I got 1 hour of sleep before I got a call that one someone threw a hissyfit and quit mid shift and guess who’s the only person who can cover it? Arugh, argh and a thousand times arugh.
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Did you at least get the chance to play Minecraft at work?
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Thankfully yes, Finished clearing the land for my 2nd project
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