Talk Amongst Yourselves
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I’ve been waiting around since 6:30 for new TAY, and now it’s here I have nothing to say.
Oh wait, yes I do…I bought Dragon Age II brand new for $20 on the weekend.
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I’ve been doing the same, which is strange because I meant to do some yard work(which I should have done a week ago…).
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=D
Amazing game DAII. Not as good as the first but still an absolutely great game. Just don’t do something stupid and call your character Tony. I had a giggle at first … then it just got annoying =P
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I heard it was kinda rubbish game that was nowhere near as good as the first one. But for $20 bucks why not? Also i heard the DLC might be better than the actual game.
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EXPLOSIONS!
DRAGONS!
BUSTY WOMEN!
TARIC’S CHEST HAIR!
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Taric? Er, Varric.
Good start to the week! /o\-
Looks like someone has LoL on the brain. Or maybe just DDDUUUUHHHHHHHHMMMMMAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHCCCCCEEEEEEYYYYYYAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!
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DEEEEEEEEMMMMMEEEEENNNNNNNNTIIIIAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!
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STORYTIME
I was walking around Central Coast yesterday going “duhmahsheeyah” in an Adam-Sandler-in-Bulletproof-going-‘Dinneylan’ style voice and then giggling to myself.
Some random people on the street seemed to think that was odd, as I gathered from the looks they gave me. -
The fact that you were carrying around a big 2 handed sword chasing hamsters yelling “DEMACIA!!!” and “I WILL NOT STEP ON YOUR MUSHROOMS TEEMO!!!” didn’t help the oddness of that situation.
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Sure, but you say that like what I’m doing is abnormal. /o\
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Also people love stepping on my Mushrooms as Teemo. They are mad for it.
It helps that I don’t know what I’m doing, so I put them in the worst possible places which happen to be totally unpredictable and so catch people out. -
Tripping on ‘shrooms is a vital part of playing against Teemo.
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loooooooooooool
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You forget Bish that you are abnormal. Rocketman said so 😛
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The real question is why are you up at 6:30??
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She has, *looks around suspiciously* children. *shudders*
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*horrified look*
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The answer: 2 year old son.
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I was up at 6:30 cos I had to be onsite to install computers at 7:30 :\ BLEH! Glad I don’t have to do that every day :0
Morning all.
I was playing Deus Ex and discovered two thugs I had knocked out for a side quest in Detroit never woke up and have since died, possibly of starvation. No pacifist for me.
So either I ignore all my hard work this far and shoot my way through the rest of the game or start from scratch and redo 20 hours of painstaking stealth all over again.
Both seems like defeat and I am no longer enthused. Sigh.
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I can’t be bothered with side missions. I would actually like to play them, but they’re just going to make the game that much longer to finish, and I have many more games to finish. Also, there’s the side mission where you have to deal with some gang and a rogue cop but I can’t finish it as it seems the only way for me to go and finish it is by passing an electric-floor corridor thing. So I’m stuck on that.
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Yeah I am a terrible completionist. I have been known to not finish games because I have burned myself out on all the side quests 🙁
Definitely should be another way, checked for fire escapes and stuff?
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I should mention that stacking up a pile of dead hobos to try use as a bridge doesn’t work.
But yeah, there’s a way through it.
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I’ve looked for vents and stuff, but either I wasn’t looking hard enough or I couldn’t find any. So I ended up knocking out a rather annoying punk who kept saying something stupid, but this was down the road from the police station so I had 8 billion cops swarming all over me. I died, and then I ragequit the sidemission.
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Do you have the strength mod? How about the high jump one? Either of those will help. I think there’s also another way in there, but you’re probably too mainstream to find it.
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There probably is another way, but I don’t care, the main story itself is rather fun and interesting, so I’m just going to stick to that. I can always go back and play the side missions if I want/have the time.
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This was so me with Fallout New Vegas. It was too glitchy to finish on my first playthrough so once DLC started coming out and it got patched, I started a new game. After redoing 90% of the main quest and a lot of the side content, I haven’t even played any of the DLC yet – meanwhile my wife has every achievement and is eagerly awaiting the arrival of the next (and possibly final) DLC, Lonesome Road, this week.
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Lonesome Road is this week? God damn. Publishers need to consult me to make sure Im not playing something else when they release stuff.
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Oh, the DX:HR chat is up here? I’ll stop shitting up the other part and move up here.
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Grab the crates from outside and use them to leapfrog your way through to the switch that turns off the power…happy days 🙂
I don’t mean to sound douchey in any way, but… can’t you just enjoy the rest of the game for what it is?
I got a bit ways through the game before being informed the guys at the start counted, but I just shrugged it off. Pacifist would be nice (because that’s a great achievement to earn), but the game itself was still damned enjoyable with all the sneaking and hacking and dragging bodies into vents. I am mad for dragging bodies around.
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Vents are fantastic. I threw a vending machine at a guy and he didn’t die, so i spent the next 5 minutes in the vent, hiding, scared.
But more importantly: WHY DON’T PEOPLE DIE IF A GIANT VENDING MACHINE IS THROWN AT THEM?
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I’ve never really bothered with achievements, but I have a friend who’s gaming time is based around getting them to the point that he’s more focused on unlocking them than enjoying the game.
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Generally, I’m not really a fan of achievements, especially when dudes like your friend specifically play a game just for them, because some of them are given out like candy. “Oh, you’ve finished the tutorial level? CHEEVO!”
But I can respect the true achievements/trophies. A Pacifist run in Deus Ex, completing all side quests in Yakuza 3, or the boss trophies in Demon’s Souls? That stuff you really have to earn. Damn good job if you get those.
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Yeah I know and I don’t really care about the chevo just the challenge of it but the chevo is a mark to say that I actually did it.
And getting this far without any kills has taken SO much effort, it is just disappointing that it has been for nothing.Oh well, throwing vending machines at people sounds fun too.
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Yeah, I getcha.
Still, stealth (for me at least) is a way more fun way of going about things, plus more XP. Recognition is nice, but it really didn’t affect my playstyle much. -
Oh, you know the worst part? I did not even need to knock them out! I first completed the mission by persuading the guy but then reloaded and knocked them out instead because it gave more XP!
So really the moral of the story is don’t be a XP whore.-
But, but, that delicious XP…
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I really should get back to deus ex. But i am at the police station and i have no darts for my tranq gun. My moral concise is saying don’t kill the police officers as they are only trying to kill me because i broke into the station. However these sacrfices need to b made!
I got Pacifist and knocked out thugs all ’round that town.
I only think it counts if you killed them with your weapon or dragged them into a gas filled chamber or something.
SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER
If you end up saving Malick (Like I did, without killing anyone she lands on a whole bunch of dude’s toward the end of the Singapore section. Don’t worry, this doesn’t count as a kill either.
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Hmm ok, maybe I will keep going and see what happens.
They did seems to get stuck in some scenery though, maybe that was the cause of death 😛 -
*SPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERS*
Man, saving her in a pacifist run that wasn’t actually pacifist on the hard difficulty when you had no EMP grenades? Complete bitch. I ended up circle strafing around the robot, firing my taser at it… Took me so long.
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I did it on GMDE.
My tactic was, cloak, sprint, taser heavy gunners, drop EMP mine, eat chocolate, sprint, taser snipers, chocolate, watch robot go down like a bitch, clean up the remaining stragglers, tea bag heavy gunners.
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SPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILER
I wanted to save her on my first playthrough, but Im lazy and assumed she was meant to die.
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Gears 3 midnight launch tonight at GAME Parramatta,
Knock off work at 9… I’ll catch a late movie and walk away with my Coll Edition with that monstrous Cog Tag thing.
The triple A gaming season is truly underway!!
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I’m just going to rock up to KMart tomorrow and pick up a copy. I work full time anyhow, so a midnight launch on a Monday was never going to work.
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If you switch around the K and M in Kmart, you almost get Mario Kart!
Another amazing observation by Bish.
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The name TARA backwards is A RAT.
Ha.
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I also work full time… But I game FULL time too.
Finished Space Marine last night.
It’s unpolished, occasionally glitchy and brutally short but more importantly, it’s fun.
Running through armies with a Power Axe in hand is a deeply satisfying feeling and being able to easily switch between shooting and melee is something that doesn’t happen in most games.
Had a great glitch where an enemy was under the solid ramp that I was standing on, stabbing me from underneath. Managed to record it too. Poor fella didn’t stand a chance when I chucked a grenade on the ramp.
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So we can expect a ‘lets play’ for space marine soon?
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Considering I still need to finish Arkham Asylum and want to do a four player LP of Gears of War… probably not :p
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Yeah I executed an Ork and found myself inside a giant rock.
Game has it’s glitches and multiplayer needs a local search option, but it is glorious fun.-
I had a great one where I was on some stairs, executed an ork and somehow managed to stomp his head in while floating above his friends.
And another where I did a shoulder charge and then instantly went for the execution, so I actually grabbed him out of the air and slammed him to the ground in one smooth motion. Actually, that wasn’t a glitch, it was just awesome.
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Snap I finished it last night also, sure is good fun. Wasn’t that unpolished considering games like homefront ewwwwww
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Space Marine makes me moist
*gurgle*
I love how we always have an explosion of comments on Monday morning, even if they’re just to say “I have nothing to say.” It makes it seem like we’ll blow through every weeks record for those first, beautiful, 30 odd minutes. Page 2 by 9:30? We could do that.
Whoa! I missed the start of TAY? That’s what I get for being addicted to coffe and nicotine.
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In other news, I’m doing a pacifist run of DX:HR on GMDE. Feels weird not killing anyone.
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DON”T knock out anyone in the hubs!!!
Apparently they just them lie there and die of starvation or something.-
Does a pacifist run prevent me from doing certain sidequests? Like dropping that dude off the roof?
Also, is reprogramming turrets and robots to kill for me allowed?
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You have to do the alternate path on the drop someone death thingy one, and I have no idea about the row-boats, but I assume if they kill anything it counts.
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Yeah, if any of your actions cause someone to die it counts as a kill I believe.
So a KO and the guy falls off a roof or into a electric floor is a kill, same with programing turrets and bots to kill peeps.
I assume all the quests can be done in a pacifist way, killing bosses is fine though. -
So annoying that I don’t know what counts and what doesn’t till I actually finish the game. By then its much too late.
Also, nice to see a completely random final boss.
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If you get experience for it (eg kills from turrets you hacked) then it counts as your kill even if you didn’t pull the trigger.
Amusing side-note: you can hack a turret and take it into the third boss fight with you. It absolutely minces him too. Shame you can’t take it with you afterward 🙁 I carried that hacked turret through half of Singapore and ended up having to leave it behind.
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Holy crap I’m tired, huge thanks to everyone who got in on the fun over the weekend with the Lame Game Marathon.
We ended up smashing our $2000 target by over $3k, earning almost $5500!
And for everyone who tuned in, a certain someone wants to say thanks 🙂
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That goat is like “Problem, Gravity?”
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Oh, cliff goat.
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Great work with the gaming and the money raising and the whole stuff that you were doing bit.
I tuned in at a few different points during the day, MK Mythologies looks like one of the greatest games ever :p
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I’m sure Dan would disagree with you on that 😛
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I don’t know. Looks like he was having the time of his life…
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Good work, I’d say that it looked like fun, but, yeah…
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Hey buddy – i was out of the house for the majority of the weekend so i missed it completely – please tell me you’ll be putting together some sort of highlights reel? I’m really bummed i missed it.
What did you end up playing through?
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Yeah it was awesome we might upload a highlights reel or something.
Personally I hed to play Limbo of the Lost, Vampire Rain, Grey’s Anatomy the Game, Rugrats Treasure Hunt and Infernal.Ugh so bad, but we all had a blast doing it 🙂
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How awesome is the original Willy Wonka and the Choclate factory? Watched it on the weekend i now can’t stop singing that imagination song!
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Gene Wilder is amazing. Infinitely better than the Johnny Depp version.
If you want to view paradise…Simply look around and view it…
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Agreed, He does the creepy weird strange guy without being a peodophile terrifically. Also he has a great voice.
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I love it when he snaps.
I SAID GOOD DAY SIR!
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I alway’s think he is gonna take a bite out of his hat. But he never does sigh
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Good Games to all the TAYBIES who played LoL over the weekend.
SteveO man, seriously, MVP of the match. Saved my ass many a time. I’m still learning the ropes with Caitlyn but enjoying the game a lot.
Techy – don’t be so hard on yourself 🙂
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i had fun on friday talking nonsense with bish and dawdle. Man those guys! Also Woo chalk a victory up to team stevo. (I did nothing)
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Yeah, good conversation!
They rest of you where kind of meh.
Hah, I joke, but not really.
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my personal highlight was how you and dawdle were telling me skittles are pretty much all fruit and ice cream sandwhichs are good for you because they have actual bread
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Trust us, we look like we know nutrition.
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Hurray, a mention!
Just remember, junk food = nutritious 😛
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I’m one that takes failure seriously. As a knight I do not like to let my allies down… I want to see my teams being pushed to victory, not crushed by defeat time and time again.
My last match I tried so hard with Kennen and I did well but I just kept getting overwhelmed in the end.
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Well think of it this way Techy – your opponents have been playing LoL for some time now as well so it’s only expected that they too will get better, yes? And we always learn something from our losses. Even the top players don’t have flawless records.
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The main problem I have is I can’t figure out what needs improving other than my own positioning. I can’t figure out team compositions at all which just sucks 🙁
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I agree with Harli dude, you do beat yourself up a bit much over it – everyone has bad games. I sucked so badly that last game we had. 0/4/0 in the first 10 minutes? But you learn more from losses than wins.
Losing still sucks though 😛
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Why Steve-O, I cannot imagine you sucking.
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Dude, you’re just on a bit of a tilt atm. Next KvK we have, we’ll put you on the opposite team to me, then you should win.
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You went quite well with Caitlyn Harli. She is very similar to dwarven sniper so that’s probably why you did so well. Mad DotA skillz yo. Looking forward to seeing how you go in pvp.
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haha. I really like her net skill – the recoil can be used in so many ways. I was knocking myself back into trees/walls/dead ends half the time though.
I also gave Annie a whirl on the weekend. SO MUCH FUNZIES
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p.s. You make Garen look broken
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It’s because most people only get one boot for him, so he can’t run around as effectively. Two boots, that’s the trick.
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Why does no one else think of this.
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Because they think that one boot is imbalanced (which it is, but not in the way they’re hoping).
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Did you find your bear Tibbers?
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Stupid bitch wasn’t doing what I was telling him to do. And I find out this morning that you can actually manually control him /facepalm
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WHAT?! You can control him? HOW?!
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Yeah they should really add that in the skill description or something.. alt+click to tell him where to go.
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It’s the same for any pet/sub champion. Shaco’s clone, Mordekaiser’s spirit, Leblanc’s illusion. You can’t control Malhazars voidlings though.
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So I made a couple of decisions on the weekend.
1st I decided I would continue to grow my facial hair/beard to see how big I can actually grow it.
2nd I decided to play through the ME1&2 all the way through again on “Super Hard makes you cry” difficulty.
On a similar note, how bout that Garrus?
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I started ME2 on “Ball Breaking Super Hard Mode.” Ragequit during the first mission after the prologue.
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I regret not doing ME2 on uber hard to start with – turns out it is the only chevo I don’t have for that game. It sits there, mocking me.
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Regarding decision 1:
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Three cheers for beards! Mine is only about an inch and half long at the moment but it’s getting there. Ignore everyone that may tell you to shave it, you WILL regret it!
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Every time I drop my beard I regret it. My face gets cold and I cant stroke it while I think.
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YES!
When my little beard hairs started to grow through I started to stroke them while I was thinking. Which lead me to the thought “hmmm I could get use to this”
Plus my face is much warmer now … beards are functional AND sexy.
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As someone with ridiculous hair (not the facial kind though), I feel I must warn you, as Summer approaches prepare to begin regretting the warmness of the fuzz. As much as I love my girly locks in winter for keeping the back of my neck warm, in the middle of summer they seem like a far less good idea.
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I have lots of hair on my head and face. While it does get warm, I don’t think I could handle being without it.
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I shaved off my beard/patchy mess over the weekend.
I now look like a 12 yr old.
Hey ladies, wanna get busy. -licks upper lip furiously-
GARRUS!!!!!
so sexy.
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… with the voice of Fenris!
CANNOT UNTHINK.
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hahaha! I actually think Garrus’ voice suits him and is fine as is.
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Beards! Garrus!
I like you ☉◡☉
wait… you can grow beards? wooow… in my 23 years of age, i am still only able to procure what can only be adequately described as a perfect imitation of a Chinese Hairless dog…
F5…F5…F5…F5
Lololol, found a leaked build of DoTA2. Was going to download it and have a look but it’s ~1.4GB and downloading at 100 bytes per second.
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SDFGwmogk!*120-318!@*#!@)*!FSDAS CASOMFFG !!!1111ONEONEON1*@!)_#*!@111ELEVEN
LINK?
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PLEASE WITH BACON ON TOP
TELL ME IF IT’S SAFE AND WORKS FINE
I’M SO EXCITED
I CAN’T TURN OFF CAPS NOW
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Well guys, we had a good run getting Harli playing LoL, all of two weeks, but we’ve got to accept it.
She’s moved on.
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We all knew this time would come eventually.
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Don’t know if it’s safe or not but it will take over 30 days to download (the download speed isn’t my connection, either). Is it against Kotaku rules to post the link?
I’ll dump it into TS next time I see you, Harli.
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Infact, not even sure if it’ll work or not as I assume you’d need a valid account to log in, si?
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ahhhhhh. balls. I just assumed that because the BETA was being distributed that the means of overcoming such obstacles would also be distributed.
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According to the Cityrail twitter, the one train that got delayed this morning was mine. The last carriage had to be closed off because the glass pane fell out of one of the auto doors and it was no longer safe for commuters.
Understandable, but then there was a delay at almost every other station because even though the doors were locked, people just hopped in through the open window. They thought they were so clever, having an almost empty carriage to themselves (seriously, they were visibly laughing at all the people packed into the second last carriage) – until they realised all the doors were locked and the open window they climbed in through wasn’t on the side they needed to disembark from once they got to the city.
Karma, bitches.
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that made my monday LOL.. also, hi everyone!
What kind of Pokemon are you?
How do you do the things you do?
Share with me your secrets deep inside.
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Dance Drowzee dance!
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hang on, i need specifics, are we talking pokemon pre- or post caffeine… this is important
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Go for both.
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okay then, well… pre-caffeine: Snorlax
Post: mr. mime… yeah i’m very annoying… and as for how i do the things i do; the general purpose magic button… also coffee…
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What kind of Pokemon are you?
How do you do the things you do?
Share with me your secrets deep inside (inside)
What kind of Pokemon are you?
Are you loyal through and through?
Do you have a heart that’s true?
What kind of Pokemon are you?Take your NORMAL type like Jigglypuff
Against the GHOSTLY Gengar the battle’s real tough
Thunderbolt’s a great ELECTRIC attack
‘Til you get GROUND down by a Marowakwhat kind of pokemon are you?
how do you do the things you do?Don’t you BUG me with a Caterpie
For a FLYING type the win’s easy
Good Luck with Muk and POISON gas
Make one wrong move and it’ll kick your GRASSWhat kind of Pokemon are you?
How do you do the things you do?
Share with me your secrets deep inside
What kind of Pokemon are you?
Are you loyal through and through?
Do you have a heart that true?
What kind of Pokemon are you?Reach higher with FIRE-go Flareon!
Think twice about ICE to be number one
WATER’s in order if you wanna to be slick
Mewtwo’s the best bet when you get PSYCHICwhat kind of pokemon are you?
how do you do the things you do?Hitmonlee’s the key for your FIGHTING mood
And you can ROCK ‘n roll with a Geodude
Dratini comes first when you choose DRAGON
But evolution’s the solution if you’re gonna win!What kind of Pokemon are you?
How do you do the things you do?
Share with me your secrets deep inside
What kind of Pokemon are you?
Are you loyal through and through?
Do you have a heart that true?
What kind of Pokemon are you?Keep on training so you’re stronger and faster
Just can’t stop ’til your power I master
My plan is this ..gotta’ catch them all
Get ’em in my Pokeball
What kind of Pokemon are you?-
Oh my God. Do me. Now.
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Slowbro.
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Oh! I totally forgot. Mirror’s edge was on sale yesterday, I bought a spare copy to gift. Anyone want?
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I’ll give it a go.
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Sure thing! I’ll send it you when I get home. What’s your steam id/email?
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I friended you. Should come up as Lobo. Failing that, Im in the KotakuAU group.
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Be sure to turn off the hud and glowing red objects.
Game looks and plays so much more awesome that way.
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I started playing this on the weekend. I am really enjoying it!
Good morning VieTAY!
Weekend was most productive.
Spent probably 20 hours on Deus Ex in the last week, still nowhere near the end. That game is a huge timesink!
I’m enjoying it more with all the augs (well, nearly all of them) – and rockets make the bosses trivial.
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Grenade Launcher has the same effect if you dont have rawkits.
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Oh, nice – I just picked that up in Tong’s bonus mission thingy.
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Lodged a complaint about the heading “ranga” just to see if they change it 😀
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Oh god… have the PC gremlins gotten you too? lol
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_DVHUEjnuU
There is a place out there you can get help.“Its not the smell” lolol
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Awesome! 😀
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Johnny English Reborn. Go see it.
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Really???
The first one was so ordinary…
Almost as bad as the Mr. Bean movie
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My love of Rowan Atkinson may cause some bias, but I absolutely loved the new movie.
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NOTHING beats his stand up show… man that was AWESOME!
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He is definitely not an untalented man.
Also there’s the whole Blackadder thing.
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Broken link is broken, try this:
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Happy Monday everyone!
1st – I am REALLY sore. Paintball got cancelled because they IDIOTS at the venue double booked, so we missed out, so instead we had a barbeque followed by several hours of playingf cricket with my AWESOME Kanga Cricket set (because it’s way cooler than normal sets).
Was a ripper – i got biggest hit of the day and bee (ahh lovely bee) was the ONLY one to hit it over someones fence. lol
2nd – Got the pre-order DLC for space marine from both game and EB – man you really get blessed with AWESOME staff sometimes. In light of that i still didn’t get to play any space marine 🙁
3rd – I didn’t get to study anywhere near what i would have liked (see not at all) – please exams be mercyful in a couple of weeks… PLEASE. I’ll be studying like a whore tonight
4th – do whores study?
lastly – i have started buying stuff for my Space Marine entry – i’m hoping it will be as epic as my mind is painting it to be… PLEASE BE EPIC!!!
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Of course whores study, haven’t you seen the West Wing? They only do it to pay for their tuition.
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can’t say i ever have watched it…
But that;s a fair pointThey should really use Austudy instead, though
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Did she ever come back after the first season?
There was a really cool “Sam and lawyer lady” thing going on there.
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I’m fairly sure they dropped that storyline pretty quickly. It seemed like it was only really there to setup Sam as the adorkable White Knight.
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Soooo many characters just disappeared like that.
Remember Mandy? The political adviser lady from the first season? She just vanished and nobody ever mentioned her again.
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I’ll just chalk that up to Aaron Sorkin and a certain white powdery substance.
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Still putting out the call for Gears 3 co-op partners for a Let’s Play.
Being good is not a requirement, as a matter of fact, it’s frowned upon.
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I may tentatively raise my hand. I’m an impatient person, so while my order from the UK takes it time, I may just buy a copy from EB and then return it after the weekend if they still have that 7 day trial period happening.
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We’ll see how that works out. I might just get a list of players and prod people when we’re about to record.
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I would be so down with it but I have no intention of buying it since it will get played once and then gather dust.
I will see if I can convince my mate to lend me his copy that weekend if you like.-
That’s what happens to most games I buy :p With Gears, playing once normally means finishing it though.
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TABTOL is.. AWOL 🙁
Sorry, forgot to run it this morning before I left home. I did run it last night to test some code out and the results were looking very interesting!*
So all you competitive taybies will get the number you crave some time round 6 this evening.
*Note: Results may not actually be all that interesting or unique.
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In the mean time, I’ll just claim victory because nobody will be able to prove otherwise until you get the actual results.
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(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻
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Hey, hey, no need to wreck the place!
┬─┬ ノ( º _ ºノ)
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(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ-}====> DEMACIAAAA!
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ROFL.
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(ɐıɔɐɯǝp)ノ( º _ ºノ)
Wait, that doesn’t look right…
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What did the table to do you Bish? You humans are always so needlessly violent. At least with machines the violence will be needed one day 😛
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I keep walking into them.
Doors, tables, chairs, if it’s there and inanimate, I will eventually walk into it and injure myself somehow.
Stupid inanimate objects!
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I almost went through a window last night after tripping on a column heater 🙁
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Yes – but you can never LOVE!
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Must be why girls don’t like me more than a brother -.-‘
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Hey guys… i was thinking…
In the interest of being classy – what’s your favorite word for the male genetalia?
Mine is Tadger
Or tally whacker
I do use the word wang quite often, however.
Bianca, in her wonderfully emasculating way, has dubbed mine Mr. Bookworm. Because he’s cute (apparently) and she wants to put a bow-tie on him… This is not going to happen.
Ever.
Don’t use the C or D word because it’s not fun and is completely unimaginative.
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Mine’s a male connector. I’m not going to say the port type, cuz that’s inappropriate for TAY
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Universal Serial Butt?
LAAWWWLLL!
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Well I can show the real meaning of Plug and Play… if you know what I mean
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but what about “safe-removal”?
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It’s always a safe removal after the data transfer is complete
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does that mean you’re hot-swappable?
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No, it’s a connection, not a hard drive
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Until you get a virus…
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I always have protection hardware and software on autorun.
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offensive to my kind human…
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More ram than my box can handle, hey? lawwwlll
Boy-parts.
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I like this – it’s modest and somewhat naive
“he-who-most-not-be-named”
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*must
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ok that just seems like it’s bend on being lord and master of the known universe via nefarious means.
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that – explains – so – much!!! always seems to be plotting stuff whilst i’m asleep, and he ALWAYS seems to be up before me
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I go for “The One Eyed Trouser Hammer.” I know that’s a term, not a word, so if I had to go with an actual word, I’ll stick with “Schlong” because it makes it sound far more impressive than it really is…
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I thought it was ‘one-eyed trouser snake’?
Hammer just sounds so much more impressive – like you could bludgeon someone with it.
But i do agree, schlong makes it sound like something you have to see, but must respect it lest it slap you in the face. Schlong Schlapped.
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Normal people might refer to it as a snake, but you need to understand, my fists are not the hammer.
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The hammer is my penis…
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nowai.jpg
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It’s true.
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I got the DVD from Amazon last week. The commentary (Commentary! The Musical!) is nearly as good as the actual show. Fillion sings a song that explains why he is better than NPH 😛
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First whores and now this. Are you feeling okay this morning Chuloopa?
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You didn’t share your favorite word 🙁
And you must remember, this is often quite normal to me – borderline filth – huzzuh!
Besides, my post before that was MAINLY comprised of normal stuff has been turned into a discussion of the west wing… at least this one seems to be staying on track.
Lessons leaned?
1. People only reply to purile stuff and don’t care about other goings on 😛-
I don’t like leaning on lessons. Not enough back support.
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I keep is simple and just use ‘man-junk’.
I do actually have to use the word penis a fair bit now becuause i have a 2.5yo son who is learning all about his own one.
It was funny, while im talking about my sons man junk, I should tell this story. Normally when he gets an ‘owwy’ he gets me to kiss it better (you see where this is going!)…
My wife and I have taught him the real word for his man-junk is penis so that is what he uses to describe it.
I was putting him in his child seat thingy the other day on the way to daycare and there ins a seat belt plug right between his legs. I must have squashed it or did something that hurt him so he looks at me, with his 2.5 year old seriousness and says “Daddy, you hurt my penis, kiss it better!”
Just so damn cute and funny!
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LOL!
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Man – that story has made this whole thread so damn worth it – that totally made my day lol
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On a related note – bee’s little sister (she’s about 6 i think). I was giving her a “horsy ride” – you know, the old knee-bounce, when she suddenly said “that feels funny on my wee-wee – do it again”
Boy – i have NEVER put a kid down so quick in my life – “sorry – um… rides over”
Jesus i felt so awkward.
Apparently she said the same thing the other week on a billy kart, with the vibrations going down the stones – she told bee it felt nice and wanted to go down again.. she thought it was hilarious.
Kids say the DARNDEST things…
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bahaha awkward,i’ll keep that in mind for my niece 😛 pretty sure people have gotten arrested for that
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*chucks kid across room, raises hands in the air and screams* “I didn’t do anything!!!”
Man, that just reminds me of the phrase ‘uncle with benefits’… so wrong!
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So…… You did kiss it better in the end right fs? I mean, you cant leave him just hangin.
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No freaking way man… lol. He did fall on his butt once and i kissed that better, and Ive done some seriously gross parent stuff (snot/poo/wee/blood etc) but I had to draw a line!!!. Kids gotta have boundaries.
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Jada used to LOVE making me pick her boogers out. As a kid, she used to get EPIC dried snot stoppers which she insisted on me removing by use of tweezers.
Actually, I had surgical precision by the end, and I must admit, getting a biggun had the same feeling of accomplishment as pulling in a 8kg salmon off the beach. -
the joy of parenting summed up so well…
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my nonna a old scicilian lady used to call it michu. which i think is meant to mean small or tiny. Man i have great self confidence about it 😛
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awww reply fail
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Seems like an okay spot to put this 😛
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I like that guy – he’s like a really stressed out marshmallow
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It’s American Kirby!
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Good morning everyone! How was everyone’s weekend? Mine was pretty crap. Developed a toothache on Friday, in the tooth that I had a root canal performed on 4 years ago, so I shouldn’t be getting a tooth ache there. Damn dentists not doing it properly. As I am not prepared to fork out another $2000 for another root canal, I’m getting the tooth pulled, hopefully today. So basically I was in agony most of the weekend (apart from Saturday night when I got so drunk, I couldn’t feel anything 🙂 )
So got stuffed around with the phone line again. The Telstra guy did rock up this time, however he didn’t have access to the Main Distribution Board and so couldn’t perform the work. Now this really pissed me off as I’d asked the property manager if there were any special conditions that needed to be met for a line to be connected and they assured me there wasn’t. However, when I called on Saturday while the technician was there, they had a go at me for calling on the weekend and then said there was no way it would be getting hooked up that day and I’d have to reschedule an appointment for either Monday, Thursday or Friday as they are the only days the keys are available. Nevermind the fact that I have to work and Telstra don’t give specific appointments, just it will be in this 4 hour period on this day. NOT HAPPY! Also, when I tried to call Telstra to reschedule the appointment, they couldn’t because it hadn’t been updated that the work couldn’t be performed, so I have to wait until today to reschedule, and all the appointments will likely be gone.
ARGH!
And I miss TeamSpeak, a lot.
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I miss you too </3
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See this kind of crap is why I’m not so proud to be working for these guys… I’m really sorry that you’re having to put up with all this Jamesmag, your presence on TS is very highly missed
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Is it really? You have so many other awesome people to talk to though! Admit it, you don’t even notice I’m not there 😛
Yeah well to be fair, it isn’t Telstra’s fault this time. It’s the strata that manages the apartment block who is at fault. I find it really odd that the caretaker is only there 3 days a week though. Usually a caretaker works 5 days a week and lives in the apartment block for free, in exchange for the work they do..it just makes it a lot harder is all. I wanted to be online by this weekend but it looks like next weekend is now the absolute earliest 🙁
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Actually I enjoy our LoL chats on TS, cuz it really feels like I’m helping you get better, as I do with all the guys/girls I give advice to on TS
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That’s good 🙂 you do help a lot..even if I don’t always follow your advice 😛
Plus, my stories right? Right?
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Mags that is no good, it really really sucks about your phone line also stupid dentists. We are all still eagerly awaiting your return!
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Yeah I miss you guys! Gaming has lost a lot of its fun when I can’t go online and chat to you guys as well!
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Far canal, that sucks man, I hope your week gets better!
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So do I…I really hope they can pull the tooth this afternoon. It’s my initial appointment though so I don’t know if they will :/ I can’t put up with this pain for much longer though, I’m exhausted because I can’t get to sleep very easily with the constant ache. All the remedies that were working at the start of the weekend, no longer help :/
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That sucks dude. It’s a shame there are no other options available either.
Lets play Monopoly!
I’m Telstra – I Win!
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Yeah it’s really a pain. I wish an ISP would just handle it for me. Really tempted to go back with iiNet, even if it is going to cost me a lot more, just so I don’t have to deal with all this crap..
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I will go into Domayne or Freedom or Ikea and flip some god damn tables for you.
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I’d appreciate this Bish…make sure it’s an expensive one..
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Next time you have a problem, look up the closest dental school, I had a root canal done at the UQ dental school and it only cost me $350. The crown will cost $1015, no other dental costs incurred. The demonstrators check every step too, so the quality of the work is really good.
HOLY CARP!!!
OZGAMESHOP ARE NOW SELLING MORPHSUITS!!!?!?!
Is there ANYTHING these guys can’t do?
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Be prepared to buy plenty of socks for stuffing!
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…or books!
Man, that is an awaesome page 1 joke right here on page 2! Awesome me!
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c’mon loops, that was the best joke of the day by dar (to me at least…) nothing? No response?)
You know.. you’d stuff books for the bookworm?????
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Sorry delayed reaction – that’s pretty clever
Joke paid lol
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I might be missing something here, but what do morphsuits have to do with video games?
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fluffed if i know…
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Not a lot of left to imagination in one of those.
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SWEET! This piece of news just decided that I’m going as Zero Suit Samus to my mate’s birthday.
Woots, I’ve have a weeks break from Uni. Now I have time to comment….ummmm…yeah…what to say…Oh I got it. FFX HD! Professor Layton vs Ace Attorney being released in english! Persona 4 fighting game! My money all gone!
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“Professor Layton vs Ace Attorney being released in english”
WHAT WHERE
WHATEVER JUST TAKE MY MONEY, LEVEL 5Oh, English Ni No Kuni PS3 too.
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http://www.gamesradar.com/tgs-2011-professor-layton-vs-ace-attorney-confirmed-release-outside-japan/
Oh yeah, how could I forget ni no kuni! I also need to get a PS3 =_=”
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ヽ(´ー`)人(´∇`)人(`Д´)ノ
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I’m super glad they announced the english release of Ni no Kuni before the Japanese version came out. I was incredibly close to breaking down and ordering the JP release anyway, as I have this strange Pavlovian response to Studio Ghibli were that Totoro logo makes my wallet open and money drip out.
Incidentally I just realised that the November 17 date for Ni no Kuni in Japan is the same date as the BD releases of Earthsea and Howl’s Moving Castle and their expanded re-release of Ponyo. I’ve been collecting all the JP Bluray releases but they’re not cheap, so I’m glad I don’t have to drop cash on a game at the same time.
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Hey all. Sorry ive been a bit quite. still getting used to the new job and some other super secret projects!!!
So MC server has been updated with a new map and is now running 1.8. I have only spent one night in it so far and that was on top of a pile of sand so not much to report.
I did however, as the chunks were loading, see a mysterious cavern/void off in the distance. I don’t know what it was but it was deep underground and was lit up (straight from the load of a completely new map!). Im trying to dig there… just to see what it is? But im not even sure im in the right place so it may take a while.
1.8 does make some cool new changes but im yet to play around, let me know if you see anything cool. Im very keen for a LCT tour to a NPC village if we can find one???
Next is my super secret project. I kinda taught myself video editing when I did the WWE comp entry and I really like it. So im making a video for an article im currently writing. Hope it doe the subject matter justice… but all going well I’ll try and get it posted within the next few weeks…
Apart from that, not much else is going on. No gaming at all for almost a week apart from iphone stuff because of this video and going away for the weekend…
ok, back to work, just dropping in to say hai!
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We killed the MC server the other night. :/
Damn experience, really needs to be optimised.
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Freaking gorzilla kept killing me and blaghs. So we would kill him back and whoever had the sword won. SOOO MUCH EXP that was sooo laggy and shit after that!
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Yeah, it did end up really naff sadly. But, it did see the debut of Mizz_2_Kool (my daughter) which was a special moment in a Daddy’s life. Sadly though, the server seems to shit itself when there’s 3 people on it, heck it was even struggling with the 2 of us, so it was a very short lived experience. Hopefully the bugs get ironed out a little better soon!
Also, if Mizz_2_Kool posts on here some more (she said hi last week) be kind if she makes little sense, basically she just likes telling everyone how cool she is 😉
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It’s weird that it had problems with the two of you, because Gorzy, Rocket and I had no problems when we weren’t murdering each other.
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Could it be that 2 connections from my one house was our issue? That would suck if it is! I’m really looking forward to us building something epic together! 🙁
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I just had a quick check, and there was something causing a massive framerate drop on my machine, although it seems okay now(touch wood). So yeah, keep testing.
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when i tried playing last night that was the problem to. It started fine then i was getting 2 frames per minute about 30 seconds after ???!
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After a bit of testing, I think it’s a certain chunk/group of chunks, and loading them causes severe slowdown. If you sit there waiting, after a bit your framerate should return to normal, but then if you go far enough away that they have to be reloaded it looks as though it gets the problems still.
I could be wrong about the cause though.
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Hi! *waves*
herrow! I need to get back into Minecraft, must make an awesome building before anyone else XD
Haha, with all the tweeting it doesn’t feel like you’ve gone anywhere!
I’m super-keen for a LCT, should be able to make it most nights this week, except Thursday.
Oh and Friday.
Crap, and Saturday.
OK, I can make it Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday!
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yeah I know twitter is where im at now. hardly get time for TAY but twitter is with me always so its just easier….
Someone write a scrpit that picks up on a certain #tag in twitter (eg #TAYAU) and immediately posts each of these tweets to TAY (using a defined list of user details).
For example, have a program that has a defined list of twitter accounts and TAY accounts, with a one to one mapping. When a tweet is made with that tag, it is posted to TAY. When someone replies in TAY, it sends it from a specified account (@TAYAU??) back to the sender…
that would work right?
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That’s more-or-less possible, yeah. Don’t particularly want to write it though 😛
I know, I know, I’m obviously not dedicated enough to the cause. Sorry!
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I am keen for a LCT!
And also actually building stuff this time…
So does that mean our old houses and stuff have been wiped?
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Yes. However, if we decide we want to, we can migrate the old stuff into the new world.
Where it will all get nuked by creepers…
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So, new diving pit project then?
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Just a notice to say how epic was the GT5 race between I and the great AnonPessi, it was a grueling 80 odd kilometers, 32 minute non stop bitumen beat-down. The lead changed many times, my little Mazda concept had him in the corners, but his NSX had the extra legs on the straights. The final big straight saw me with a seemingly unstoppable lead, but his mighty NSX roared and I watched it pass me, said a few choice words, and rounded the final corner about 1 second behind him.
Such was the epic fun of it all, that we want to set up a bigger race with mawr fellow taybies! I’m sure FatShady will get in on it! Any others?
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I’m up for it once I get internet back..
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Sweet!
So… hang on… Oh, work right?Next race will probably be this weekend? AP will be setting up the rules next, for example the last race restrictions were it had to be a 2 door car and 425PP or less. So you will have to choose carefully what you arrive with, but hit the PP mark and it should make it a close matched thing 😀
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I wish I had the internet back, but see the last post on page 1 of TAY and you’ll see the troubles I’m having!
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Ugh! No internet is like… having you goolies superglued to a ice-cream van.
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Yeah pretty much :/ it’s been a fortnight already and it will probably be next weekend at the earliest before I get it back 🙁
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That sounds fun, don’t have GT5 tho.
IN!!!!
just let me know when.
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Wooooot! Will organize the exact date and time (most likely around 8:30-9pm start so you should have a chance to get bedtime sorted first (me too). I’d say Sat or Sun most likely. But will let you know.
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yeah load times are a killer so love the idea of a nurburg or a crazy long race… 30 mins is a good time limit..
I have not played much and will be rubbish, and I have not got many cars so whatever you do, can we all use the same car and make it something that we can all get access to in the garage.
Nothing worse than searting a race realising you have the wrong car and then having to deal with that for 30 mins…
Otherwise pick one for me. I have no idea. so do you chat on PSN or use teamspeak or what? Im happy with either i guess. TS seems to be easier if that is within reach?
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Don’t have GT5 so I can’t join in unfortunately. But did I miss the pictures of the awesomely-practical-but-not-necessarily-beautiful driving cockpit?
/waves little AP flag
Gooooooo Pez!!!
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Geez Harli, it’s like you want us spreading rumours. 😛
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Well at least one good thing has come out of Mark not being around!
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New plan for Gears Co-op thingamy.
Send me an email at trjnrabbit (funny little symbol that looks like an a in a circle) gmail (less funny little symbol that looks like a dot) com if you’re interested in joining in. Make sure you tell me your XBL account.
This way I don’t have to remember who is interested every time I ask, because I keep forgetting :p
HEY BDKIAF, i forgot’s your email can you tell me again? I found out when i am getting into Cnberra.
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I was actually about to ask you about this today.
ryanmchalker(at)gmail(dot)com
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Thanks dude i have send a email. Also are you in the army or at adfa? If you aren’t i facebook stalked the wrong person!
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Ha, you may have the wrong person. I think I’m like the first result on Google though if you wanted to ensure I’m not a rapist before hopping in my car.
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It’s hard to tell wether or not your a rapist. But i would rather hop in a car with a rapist who might let me out at my destination over walking 18 km’s to blagh’s house!
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Dude and again thank you. You have no idea how thankful i am that i don’t have to rock up at a strange place and try to figure out the easiest way to get to another strange place. It is very kind of you to pick up someone you barely know.
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i just checkeD, it looks like he went tO lanyoN. now, I”m noT Going to makE judgements based purely on thaT, but I’d recommeNd a little bit of caution. 😛
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Noted 😛
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thanks Blaghman, it’s Really cool of you to be so understandING. Lanyon has a bad repUtation, But you’rE really making me feel welcome.
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anybody have any idea when the competition winners for the RAGE comp and the Space Marine Chainsword will be announced?
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Chainsword comp was extended to the 25th. So sometime after then.
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Thank christ/tracie for that
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my next post was going to be about RAGE comp. I really want to go to that event so Im keen to see who got it.
Doubt ill win but im secretly hoping that someone either won from interstate or can’t make it… I call shotgun on any unclaimed prizes!!!!!
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The internet has been kind to me lately. I will try to win for the exact purpose of giving it to you. Also did you get my present on steam?!
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I did mate. Sorry man Ive been really swamped and as it went to my work address i didnt see it at home and it was not in my steam account (because it was gifted via e-mail i assume..)
I feel really bad mate. I loved the thought but with everything else going on, im just not sure when im going to get to play it. I got Terraria a while back and I have hardly played that too…
I didnt want to regift it if thats even possible becuase the thought was so awesome and I really did appreciate it dude, But I also didnt want to waste it when i seriously dont know when id get to play it….
Not sure what to do. But seriously, thanks.
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it;s cool dude do whatever you want with it. I got my copy 7 months ago and i didn’t play it until a month ago. Seriously it was just a thank you for your fighting stick and game.
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was hoping they would have called it a bit sooner as I got locked in for work that weekend and was intending on flying over for it. if I win and you dont shady you can take my spot at the event 😉
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Tracey tweeted last week “Judging on Monday when publisher has time to go through them with me. I’m narrowing it down to top 20 today [Friday].”
And sorry Fats, I have a prior contract with TAY that supersedes your claims. Sure, nobody signed it, but, still, SHUTUP!
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Ah now I see the problem. Anyone who has used the internet for dodgy purposes would have seen the problem right away.. you started the contract with a cease and desist. See that phrase immediately makes internet folk laugh a little then disregard the entire body of writing underneath it…
Sorry man, I just didnt read that contract…
OK, a contract is a contract. So i guess I stand in line behind you? Technically I did break the terms of the contract…
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Hey BDKIAF, got the Terraria gift, thanks!
It seemed a bit confused when I tried to claim it. Said that it was expired, then said it was a guest pass when I tried again, but then installed anyway and launched without issue. So I’ll try it out for realz in the next couple of days and hopefully all is well!
Thanks again!
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I saw you were on, I hope it works out properly, Steam gifting confuses me. Should be okay, I definitely paid for the 4-pack.
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Steam’s been bugging out on me lately whenever people send me gifts, as it says “you can’t accept this as it’s already been accepted, blah blah blah.” But then the game works fine. Silly Steam.
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people send you gifts that often. Sheesh someones popular!
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Yeah, well, AP gifted me a game, and a friend of mine got a free copy of Frozen Synapse, so I got sent that too.
People don’t seem to understand that I will NEVER pay them back…
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hah It’s funny cause your a upper class snob!
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I don’t know what you’re talking about. >.>
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Almost 300 comments before 12, good job TAY!
I just woke up after staying up till 3 in the morning playing Fear 3 (still haven’t finished it so no spoilers please). It’s a good game but also a little disappointing. It lacks the pacing and atmosphere of the first game.
F.E.A.R was a horror game with shooting elements but F.3.A.R is a shooting game with horror elements. Also they took out the phone and laptop messages 🙁
Also finished Deus Ex on the weekend. I now get what people mean when they say “that ending” because, man, that ending.
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Dat ending /o\
Daysex spoilers
That said, I’ve been thinking about it. It’s a prequel, right? But they try keep with the Daysexing by having multiple endings, which ultimately will mean nothing seeing what happens in 25 years in DX 1.
So I suppose the ending is just a way to express yourself as Jensen, and what his beliefs are, and how you’ve tailored him throughout the game.
Wait, are these even spoilers? I don’t know, best be safe I guess.end spoilers
To all those that have love for the 2D shooter series, Worms. I have two copies of Worms Reloaded for PC to give away on steam. I got one for myself and one for Welbot. Any takers on the last two?
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bum grapes – i actually bought a hard copy – but good to know i’ll have some people to play against now 😀
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Kotaku worms mayhem? I’d be up for that!
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well, i feel kinda bad for putting my hand up since i a newcomer, but hey if you got nothing better to do, i wouldn’t mind one :)… aaahhh worms, it was the first game i ever bought…. that and GTA was pretty much everything my childhood consisted of
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I don’t think I got you on Steam yet. Add me up when you get the chance 🙂
SteamID: jamiedeecee
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yaaay i have friends *eyes glistening over*… i’m like that porcupine from Open Season… “buuuudddyyyy”
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If no-one else puts their hand up I’ll take one – had a lot of fun with worms back in the day.
SUPER SHEEP! \o/
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I just love trolling with the blow torch. 😛
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Holy Hand Grenade FTW!
HALLELUJAH… *BOOM! and massive crater follows*
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nah, prod… dickiest move in history and so satisfying
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I never actually get them off the cliff though! 🙁 If anything… baseball bat!
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Or fire punch!
I just love how corny their lines are. <3
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KAMIKAZE!!!!… also am i the only one that remember/miss the way they used to headbutt the grenades in the original, as opposed to just lobbing them? that was awesome!
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I’ve played Worms 1 & 2 on XBLA, quite like it but not sure how I’m like using keyboard and mouse controls. I’m terrible at planning how to kill off the enemy team though.
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I remember always hiring it on the PS1, so so so much fun!
Why is nobody talking like a pirate today?
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Because I forgot(and ninjas are cooler).
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I Agree with you. Also its fun cause my mums birthday is talk like a pirate day!
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Nuh-uh! Pirates are cooler! They have wenches!
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Arrghh-greed. I do like me a good wench.
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I’ll admit, Pirate-metal is far better than its Ninja counterpart(which is way too silent), but apart from that, ninjas all the way.
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Is it talk like a pirate day again, already?!
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Yar, that be today? Shiver me timbers, I forgot!
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Because I have a strong dislike of this event.
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Day for Gangplank & Miss Fortune in LoL!
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Oh I thought it was act like a pirate day & dismissed it cause I act like that every other day..
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“I’m going to download so much music and games today!” Is that talking like a pirate? 😛
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“Paying for games just supports the evil publishers, so I’m going to download it for free!”
How about that one?
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You can do a better pirate impersonation than me XD
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This never ceases to be amusing
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No no, he’s not just having a little nap, he’s having a little nap… face down in a pitcher of beer! He is going to drown! xD
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RIGID FISTUP BOTTOM… OUT!
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Afternoon everyone, hows it going & all that stuff?
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so far, work, work, bored, TAY, bored again, F5 TAY, work, bored,boredbored – you see where this is going 😛
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In to an endless cycle of repeating by the sounds D:
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In a lecture, waiting for class to end so I can have lunch and some PRECIOUS COFFEE!!!!
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Oh god don’t remind me I have class on Wednesday DO NOT WANT.
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ZOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMG.
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Hai Harli!
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Fair thee well, good sir.
Mine day is that of exuberance and pomposity
….ok.. i’m at work and bored.. what of it?
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WHOOO bored-at-work five o/
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I just accidentally sat on my grandparents pet bird. It is okay, but for that brief moment I felt like the worst person i’n the world.
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It wasn’t a finch was it? Whatever Trjn told you about Thailand you mustn’t try these things yourself!
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I thought it was a hampster?
Or a gopher?
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hampster?
DEMACIA!
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I knew this was coming as soon as I read the first sentence of Rocketman’s comment :p
And yes, don’t try this at home kids. The women I saw were trained professionals with years of experience.
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Oh wow.. you actually saw that sort of thing… nasty
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When you travel, it’s customary to see the sights.
This was one of the sights to be seen.
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Speaking of seeing the sights, my parents were on the island of Kos the other day, at a medical conference, so you know what was organised? A Hippocratic oath ceremony. I laughed. At them. Because they had to sit through it.
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Hahaha very funny stevo.
Pretty ironic that the bird was sat ion, yet you were the one, in the end, who felt like an arse
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Zing, you sire have a good sense of humor
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Aaaaand Chuloopa wins the Comment Of The Day Award! Congratulations man.
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Look below – it gets better
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Training with the n00bs: Chuloopa
He’s an abolute no-one when it comes to the online gaming community. Today we’re speaking with none other than Kotaku Australia’s very own Troy “Chuloopa” Cleary.
He isn’t enrolled in any teams, clans, nor does he have any kind of medical insurance, apart from dental, yet i’ve taken time out of my busy schedule just to talk to him. Lucky sod.
Hey Chuloopa! Can you introduce yourself to the Kotaku Community?
Isn’t that what you just did? I think that was pretty spot on. Plus i think these guys already know who i am. At least i hope they would.
What is it about competitive online gaming that you just can’t grasp? how is it you suck SO bad?
I think it’s really something you have to be born with. It just comes naturally. You can not practice all you want and you still wouldn’t get fragged as hard as i do. But i do like to follow “the 4 R’s”.
The 4 R’s?
Yeah. Raped, Respawn, Repeat and Rage-quit.
Interesting. have you ever tried out for any teams? There has to be teams that cater for those with special needs
Yeah. I have tried to get into a few. It actually got so bad that even Flybuys wouldn’t let me be a member. At events, redheads are telling Chuloopa jokes.
Have you ever fragged ANYONE in ANY game
Yeah. I got one frag on Hellen Keller is CS:Source. After that she just mopped the floor with me. In my heart, i won though. That once kill… it was like euphoria. If i had to explain it in lay-terms, it would be like being so happy that doves actually fly out of your arse. It was amazing.
Okkaaayyy… I think it’s time to start wrapping things up. So any tips for those who want to be as abysmally horrible at games as you?
Sure. Never give up. Never say die. You’ve got the heart of a hero. Never Surrender your will to survive. You’re standing tall in the eye of the storm, something keeps pushing you on. Never surrender. Never Surrender. You’ve got the touch – YOU’VE GOT THE POWWWAAAHHHH!!!!
Ok – That was just a mash of Stan Bush songs. About winning
You think i could come up with something myself?
Fair Point. Ok. Lastly, can you show us your gaming set up
Sure thing. It would be my pleasure.
http://media.bestofmicro.com/computer-projects-junk,N-F-257451-13.jpg
Well i’d like to say this has been enlightening, but then i would be lying. Thank you for your time and for turning up with pants
Can i have a dollar for the bus ride back. I, uh, left my wallet at home?
Security!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZKpByV5764
You’re Welcome
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aww can someone please approve that interview – it’s for the good of the public and not spam!
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you sir, are now personally responsible for me running around at work, humming “you got the touch… you got the poweeeerrr”… damn you…. sir
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GAH, reply button failure
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Not a reply fail Big-Kotaku-Brother has deleted my post and borked the thread
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It’s a wordpress site, what did you expect? for it to work, never!
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It always happens on my epic posts too, damn it
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Based upon what happens to TABTOL, I assume that the moderation filter picks it up, so it needs to be approved by Tracey, thus the delay. With that in mind, blame TadMod.
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Blaming Tad is the most efficient course of action on most situations.
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I don’t know if I can shout loud enough so that he’s able to hear it from all the way up there.
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Make Tad jokes, he can here them from a mile away.
For example: Tadmod walks into a bar. “Perhaps you should have ducked,” says the bartender. “Oh wait, that wouldn’t have helped.”
Or: Tadmod crawls into a bar. Obviously he still wasn’t low enough then.
Or my favourite: Tadmod walks over a bar…
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*hear
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gotta admit… that was pretty epic… that song made my day… *runs home to watch transformers*
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Singing Stan Bush is nothing to be ashamed of. In fact, it should be encouraged.
SHE FIXED IT!!!
<3 YOU'RE SO PRETTY AND NEAT TRACEY! 😀
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This is a giant load of wtf.
Doesn’t stop me from laughing though 🙂
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“A giant load of WTF”
Sums me up perfectly, i think
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AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
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That’s 2 things you’ve inspired me to write – what next? lol
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Just remember to include me in your thank you speech when you’re a famous author and I’ll be happy.
They grow up so fast. /wipes tear
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i don’t know if i can promise that – i might be too drugged up/drunk to remember anything.
Being famous is so, so hard!
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Oh and dude, no matter how bad you are you cannot possibly be worse then these guys – http://youtu.be/fwhzq9AHTMk
(except maybe like Jwong)
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What a massive group of douchebags – holy crap
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What.
The.
Frack?
hahahaha XDDDDD This is great!
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It would be even funnier if it was an actual Kotaku article XD
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*rubs chin*
hmmmmmm
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And… this is why I love the Foo Fighters.
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i was hoping they were going to do something horrible to those idiots… 🙁
/Let down
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If you haven’t seen it, look up Louis Theroux’s Worst Family in America. In-depth look at those douchebags in the Westboro Baptist Church.
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I watched that – they are seriously batshit crazy.. Full respect to Louis for keeping his tongue in check and being professional the whole time
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I haven’t seen that, but as far as I’m aware, they’re just professional trolls.
The vast majority of WBC are lawyers. You know what they do most often with their training? Sue the people who assault them at their protests.
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I tweeted that yesterday. Nobody payed attention. :'(
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I payed attention! I just didn’t indicate that I had payed attention…
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Point proven, that was meant to be a reply to Chuloopa D:
I’m still alive! Man that smoke/haze was sooo thick this morning! I couldn’t even get any mobile broadband reception! D:
But I’m here now and everything’s fine 😀
*Starts reading page 1 of TAY*
Oh dammit, I totally forgot about getting Mirror’s Edge yesterday. Thanks to Notty for reminding me, now my day’s not fine again >:\ (jk)
*mumbles* Stoopid Windows 8 not wanting to work properly, grumble grumble grumble.
Also, Mr. Bookworm?? O.o Perhaps we should start labelling such posts as NSFL(Not Safe For Lambo)? 😛
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Where abouts are you dude? I’m on the Tweed Coast & all weekend it’s been smokey as hell here all weekend. Apparently there was 120 odd fires across Queensland that were reported.
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You’re not far away.
This news is… welcome…
-dons rain coat-
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Also, how shit is this haze. Brisbane is lame sauce today.
Looks like Gears of War outside.
-moment of realization-
Could this be the ultimate viral marketing?
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If locusts start bursting out of the ground, I’m moving to Canada.
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What would the liberal party be doing in Brisbane?
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Building more useless tunnels.
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Oh really now. Well that is awesome 😀
Also, we have a filthy little house snatcher in the Minecraft server! D:
Someone took my house and filled my chest with their junk!
So I went and made another, better, house 😀
My very own hobbit hole! 😀
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Is that all working with the new updates?
If it’s a new world I reckon we should band together and make a huge joint project this time.-
Shotgun project lead. HAHAHA! Now all I have to do is delegate, and then get all the credit!
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Thats my bad lambo. I started making a house but it got dark so i just used yours. I also put the sign on it!
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Looked at some gameplay videos for minecraft today. Very tempted to buy it and join you guys but I need to know something first – Is there a limit to the amount of TNT you can place?
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Eventually either your computer or the server will crash…
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Don’t think that worked.
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lfgcg5qzsl1qbvc38o1_400.jpg
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No, but you can majorly screw up some of the lighting and block effects.
So you want to learn how to TNT?
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Besides the fact that gathering the mats for TNT is pretty hard.
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Your so cute harli, collecting materials hahaha
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You can place as much as you like, but as the others have said, it will crash things on you.
If you want first hand experieices with the stuff, Qbo and Hotdogwithsauce will tell some good stories.. many of them with the last thing they hear being me saying “go on, the explosion wont be that big” while I run to a safe distance and watch them exp[lode… lol…
get it man, good fun really.
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Well it looks like I was unsuccessful in winning 2 pit tickets to Mötley Crüe this Saturday at Riverstage 🙁 Oh well, I probably would’ve been thrown out for throwing shit at Bret Michaels before the Crue came on.
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I got the date wrong, it’s actually Wednesday BAH!
I have an urge to play Warcraft 3. Something need to doing?
Also, what are the chances we’ll see a Warcraft 4? Or will it forever be WoW expansions?
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Dude. The day we see Warcraft 4 get announced I will cream myself.
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Warcraft 4 has been very unofficially announced, back when Blizz first announced that SC2 would be split into three parts, they said that WC4 would be developed in the same style to help reduce aimless production time, get it into the hands of consumers faster, and so they can milk it for all it’s worth. So yeah, I think there will be a WC4, but I wouldn’t expect it any time soon.
Also, I’ve been replaying WC3 lately, it’s good fun, I’m considerably less bad than I used to be…
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Also, Blizzcon is in a month, and there are typically 2 major announcements/reveals there(one WoW, one other), so I’m hoping for something damn cool at this one. But it won’t be Warcraft 4, that would be weird if they had 2 Warcraft things in one show…
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Does Heart of the Swarm count? Because it’s probably going to be Heart of the Swarm if it counts :p
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They’d need to reveal something big about it. Like “Everyone who buys this will be given a free Zergling. No really, look, we genetically modified dogs to create these hideous little things.”
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“We’ve replaced Infestors with Defilers and to celebrate here’s some PLAAAAAGUUUUUU!”
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LAWL!
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zug zug
i LOVED WC 1 and 2…
I never got to play 3 – at least not yet – i am a sad panda 🙁
Community playdate – space marine – thoughts guys?
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I’m guessing you mean on console…
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No – if it was a CPD we’d get Tracey to do a front page thingy so everyone was involved
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I spit on your puny Space Marine playdate, I’m still waiting for you to organise a way for me to meet you in just under two weeks time. *sob*
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SHIZ!
I completely forgot – i’m so sorry strange. Exams have me in a spin again.What date are you here?
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I’m sorry I spat on your game. I just wanted the attention of someone from Melbourne. Make someone else be all organised, I didn’t necessarily mean you specifically had to organise. The only time I’ll have to meet with you guys is lunchtime on Sunday October 2.
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Ah shit – that’s just before my first exam – lol
Which area are you going to be in? I might can organise something even if i, myself, might not be able to make it
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Well if not Chuloopa I’m sure myself and Qumulys can make it right?
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We’re staying near Albert Park, I think.
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ok cool – how long do you have for this lunch?
Albert park puts you just smack bang on the borders of the CDB, so that makes a nice central place for peeps
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A few hours. Have to be done by dinner because Mr. Strange is going to see Blind Guardian that night and I’ll have to look after the kids while he’s there.
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Oooh! Me! Pick me!
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haha well that one was obvious 😛
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I’m in Melbz, pick me too 😀
If you want a Community PlayDate maybe wait for a week or so until most people’s overseas orders will be in?
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This is a good idea. And mmaybe I can convince a friend to buy it…
For the Emperor!
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Buying me the game would also be acceptable.
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your words are sage, much like the flavoring to the meal i am making tonight… *nods and rubs chin thoughtfully*
Bah, I’m trying to treat that little Neo-Kaiser like a real person but he thinks I’m arguing with him.
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obviously strange you are trying to prove him wrong with this arguement.
P.S he is a tool don’t worry about it, i tried to be friendly and nice and he still trolls.-
I think he just always wants the last word, and to him, having it is success. I was going to keep talking but I feel mean taking the last word away from him when it obviously means so much to him.
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It’s ok, I got the last word.
Everybody wins.
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Billy Joel’s ‘Big Shot’ might be about Neo-Kaiser…
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You should just go back in to that page tomorrow and have the last laugh. And he’d never even know.
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Homeboy’s 24.
It came as quite a shock.
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Also I’m gonna ask him to be my innernette best friend. And by ‘ask’ I mean ‘reply to all of his comment as if we’re in a sitcom’
Because he’s just such a downer, it’ll be like the best online sitcom ever… Played out in the comments section of Kotaku.
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I’ll sing the opening song:
dan dan dan-dan danly dan dan dan…
daaannnnnnn…
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On the one hand, I feel like I should be kind to you because one of your first posts was about spilling blood on a tv and calling it a whore and if taken out of context made it super offensive.
However, on the other, you just inserted my name into the Two and A Half Men theme.
KEEEEEEEE YEEEEAAAAAWWWWW!
-kinda like a punch, I guess… Looks more like a lady slap. Like, I’m holding one white glove in my open hand. Actually it looks more like I’m waving flies out of my face. So yeah, imagine a pissed off hipster waving a glove at you like you’re a fly. That’s the action I’m doing-
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*falls to the ground clutching knee like a soccer player*
He got me! Oh the humanity….
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I know bloody hell I’m younger than this guy!
So my trip to the dentist has left me with twice as much pain as before, yay! They tried extracting my tooth but they weren’t able to because ‘it’s too tough’ so I have to wait until Friday and get it surgically extracted. Until then I have to take antibiotics (can’t even drink away the pain) and I have some panadeine forte (which doesn’t seem to be working). And Telstra are coming Friday morning, so hopefully that works out..
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hat sucks. This thing with telstra is getting a bit long in the tooth!
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Hey-oh!
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I’m not a doctor, nor do I play on on TV, but according to QI the prohibition on alcohol while on antibiotics isn’t a medical requirement but a tradition. Apparently they used to assume men would get drunk and spread their disease before they were cured. Thus, no drinking allowed so that you might best be able to keep your pants on around the womenfolk.
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Where’s What? when we need him?
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That’s usually the case. It’s just to make sure people don’t drink too much as well, as you’re more susceptible to the effects of alcohol whilst on antibiotics. However, with this particular strain of antibiotics, drinking alcohol can cause stomach ulcers, so I thought I’d avoid it :p
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The Secons World War was also a major factor in the development of ideas about Antibiotics, as they were using them on Soldiers, and were using them as a way to keep them sober.
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I saw that new Fright Night movie last night and despite my initial impressions it was actually pretty good.
But thats beside the point because I found possibly the coolest easter egg EVER in that movie
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Well don’t leave us hanging, man. OUT WITH IT!
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is that the movie where colin farell takes the piss out of twilight. Also DAVID TENNANT!
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Oh! I saw you posted this last night in the old TAY, I wanted to ask you what you found but didn’t want to spoilerise anyone with an interest in the movie.
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No – it was LITERALLY a really cool easter egg.. all foiled up and pretty!
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Hahahahah imagine that. What a letdown…
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Yeah it was actually pretty good. Anyways in the last part of the movie David Tennant (who was brilliant in it) is wearing this shirt, an im 90% sure the picture on it was of Giygas.
I got really excited when I noticed, then I felt really nerdy…
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I know nothing about this movie, so I just Googled it and it’s a remake it turns out or the like. I was interested to check it out, so hearing something positive makes me want to check it out.
I noticed Toni Collette is in it, she;s currently here filming a movie with PJ Hogan (Director of Muriels Wedding) called Mental, me & my mates reckon it sums up our area rather nicely.
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I just found out that I won the Allure Media Emmy Ballot, netting myself a sweet $95.00 and beating Tracey, Elly and Ben (Though I only beat Ben by one point).
Life is good.
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Well congrats to you human! 🙂
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Thanking you, gallant robot!
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1. Congratulations
2. What the hell is an Allure Media emmy ballot?-
1. Thankyou
2. Pretty much, we got given a sheet of paper with the categories and nominees, and we had to pick the correct ones. The person who got the most right, won. In this case, ME! 😀
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Go Tad! I read ballot as ballet, I reckon you would be an awesome dancer.
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You could currently get fifty seven boxes of Shapes on special with that prize money.
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Someone knows how to party!
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This!
Ain’t nothing better than a Shapes party.
Heck, you could even build a box fort!
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That is at least 9kgs Shapes you could roll around in, depending what flavours you get.
NINE KILOGRAMS
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Geez Tad first Milla Jovovich and now this. What will you accomplish next?
Yeah it was actually pretty good. Anyways in the last part of the movie David Tennant (who was brilliant in it) is wearing this shirt, an im 90% sure the picture on it was of Giygas.
I got really excited when I noticed, then I felt really nerdy…
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Ooops this was supposed to be a reply, I suck at commenting
ok guys i need your opinion, i’m trying to decide on whether i should buy the Diablo 3 overthrown statue or not.
is it worth $400?
what do you guys reckon?
Pic:
http://www.superheroesbase.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/diablo_3.jpg
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If you’re a massive Diablo fan and you have the money to blow, why not? Then again it’s $400…it would want to be big, I’ve seen similar styled Final Fantasy statues for around $200 – $350 and they were pretty big.
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o yeah i forgot to post the specs
SIZE: 18” TALL (57CM) – 12.5” WIDE(17.5CM)
Material: Polystone
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That statue doesn’t lose anything in the transition from picture to reality. I was quite impressed with it when I saw it.
That being said, it is quite an expense. I wouldn’t buy that statue for myself. But, I would easily spend as much on art that I loved.
I’m helping, right?
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Yeah that did helped, most of the figurines I buy look horrible in person. I also plan to draw the statue if I get one, which should help me improve my drawing skills.
How big did the statue look anyways?
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The statue seemed quite bulky and large. But I didn’t know the price before I saw the item, and any comparative statue/figure that I have is quite small. That all helped it look big and cool on my friend’s desk.
Actually, the box it shipped seemed comically gigantic as compared to the item itself.
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Sweet as, good chance I might buy it now.
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I actually don’t think it’s worth it – but that’s just me
AND you can’t trust me – i’m going all fanboy over a chainsword! 😀
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how come you think its not worth it?
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I would advise against it. Would be worth it if it was Tyrael or something.
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Yeah true a Tyrael statue would be awesome.
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well Bish did just tally up that $95 = 57 boxes of shapes… IMAGINE how many shapes that is!!!!
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Off the top of my head, I think it’s 9.12KG of Shapes if you only buy the 160g boxes (like Nacho Cheese). 11.4KG for the 200g boxes.
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Nom nom nom, lol that would last me months
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welbot + guinness do not usually mix too well.. as much as I love it, it tends to not agree with my head.. yet hear I am throwing back a tallie of the stuff… what has divorce done to me!?!?!?! WHY KIDS I ASK YOU??? WHY?????????????
I need a hug.. for realz
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*hug*
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I’d hug you but I have germs. For realz. Still.
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*hug*
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Well I officially owe you one hug.
In the unfortunately unlikely event we ever meet you can hold me to it. -
/me puts on giant teddy-bear outfit to make the hug extra special. 😉
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*hugs welbot, steals pint of Guinness from behind and sculls it*
Hey welbot, chin up mate. Also, check your email (garthronkko).
Just a reminder that our mate Jim Wallace is gonna be on Q&A tonight (ABC1 at 9.35pm [Sydney time]).
If you have any burning questions for him, jump on twitter or head over to [url]http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda[/url] and ask away…
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sorry for the link fail :s
Batguy always delivers! (it’s this new, totally original phrase I’m trying to make catch on – nobody else steal it kthxbai).
First item on the delivery list: Last week’s TABTOL!
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Post #1: Dire Wolf at 08:31 12/09
Post #1000: Bish at 16:10 13/09
Post #2000: Jamesmag at 15:38 15/09
Post #2650: Phill at 10:26 19/09
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It seems I didn’t post last week. I’ll make up for it this week!
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I think if I posted about LoL I’d be in the top 20 every week 😛
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Best post #1000.
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I WAS SO CLOSE.
Y U STEAL MY THUNDER, AGAIN! ლ(゚Д゚ლ)
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haha Top 5 \o/
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Don’t know how the hell i got #7, but i’ll take it with glee lol
Breaking Bad time.
Tis a good time.
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Downton Abbey time.
Partyin’ like it’s 1916.
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Not quite so good.
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New episode? So very, very good.
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So very, very good indeed.
Dat Gus.
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Dat Gus.
I thought Walt and Jesse owned that episode. Up until dat Gus.
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I’ve noticed that if Gus is in an episode and actually does something, he owns the episode.
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Which episode number is airing? I don’t have foxtel, but have “seen” up to episode 7. Such a great show!
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I’m a little late on this reply, but we’re up to episode ten.
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There appears to be very few people in TeamSpeak right now… Weird.
@Strange – how were Alestorm?
Did you end up going?
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Wow, did you come here from the past?! I think I just barely remember seeing them. 😛
Yes, they were loads of fun, I think I actually wrote a mini-review for you in TAY afterwards. Something about ale and pirate girl bustage. There’s also strong rumours that they’re going to be on the next 700000 Tons of Metal cruise which would be great.-
Yeah – i probably missed that. It only occurred to me last night seeing as i basically told you you should go. haha
Really stoked to hear you liked them, though. They’re just sooo rad and really make the night just stupid amounts of fun
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If you haven’t got a GBA yet – now’s a damn good time
http://webshop.cashconverters.com.au/item/1439498/Gameboy_Advance_Sp/&storeID=107
talk about a steal!
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That’s funny because it’s probably stolen.
Finished Daysex!
I’m not gonna post spoilers, for people who haven’t finished it yet.
Just want to say: those ending.. bits… are absolutely phenomenal. Some of the best and most thought-provoking writing I’ve ever seen in a video game.
I have other issues with the last few hours, but I can’t fault the last five minutes.
The game manages to bring up so many questions about morality, technology, freedom, choice, democracy and progress – it’s just amazing. I hate the railroading of some of the last decisions, but it’s so thought-provoking.
I hope they make something similar again soon. The quality of storytelling and presentation is so refreshing.
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Which ending did you choose as your “canon” ending? An answer with a number between one and four will suffice. I chose number 4, I think it matched how I played the best. Although, I haven’t gotten around to watching the rest of the endings.
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I forget which number it was, but it was the dream of DS.
The trouble was that I felt artificially constrained to the four numbers and there was no room for nuance. I didn’t really like any of them, especially the way E described the consequences. Some more room to move and customise it would’ve been nice. Nothing really fit my Jensen.
Also, I thought four was nice idealism (and that video and its writing were my favourite), but it seemed awfully drastic and depressing.
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I finished Deus Ex around 12:30am. I was planning to go to bed at midnight but I knew I was nearing the end and didn’t want to stop.
I like the story, it’s solid. Not amazingly awesome, but really good. I like the general look and feel of the game – I think they built a really nice world here and I’d be happy to see more stories set in this world so I can spend more time there. I’ll be starting a new game tonight because I missed a couple of achievements, but I’m not going to bother chasing the high difficulty/pacifist/stealth achievements. I want to, but I know how easy it is to screw up pacifist without even knowing it, and I have no idea what would count as alerting anemies or not because there are some areas where hostility is scripted. I’d get to the end, no achievement unlocks, and I’d rage my balls off.
I chose ending 4 as my ‘canon’ ending also. It seemed the most reasonable response.
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I just enjoyed it for the body dragging simulator, to be honest.
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as being one of the few here that hasn’t played the original, and haven’t picked up the new Daysex, will i be able to understand the story? or will it be like jumping into the middle of a story and nothing will make sense at all?
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It’s totally separate…. a few references but you should be fine. It’s a prequel.
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Yarr, it be the final minute of talk like a pirate day. Arrr.
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Arr, the laws of time be a harsh mistress.
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A ball racing a triangle over flat ground?
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I would say it’s Sonic rushing through a level in spin mode off a ramp
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Splurged a bit and bought both Magicka and Minecraft last night. Haven’t played Minecraft yet, but managed to blow myself up twice in 5 minutes of Magicka – it’s fun!
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Both really fun games. Both really bug ridden, but you put up with the bugs cause they are really enjoyable.
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Aw man, so very sad.
I fully intended to get Magicka on the cheap and then forgot.
Oh well, have fun Stevo!-
He bought a 4 pack of it, he might have some remaining. Thanks to Steve-O, I got a copy as well, props to you Steve-O!
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You guys need to do co-op over TeamSpeak.
I’m sure you remember the fun that Blaghs, Bish , Rocketman and I were having.
Pro-tip: QFASA = fun times.
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No no, what we gotta do is record it over fraps AND teamspeak! That’ll be awesome, and I know I won’t be very good, hilarity will soon follow I’m sure.
Problem is I’m not so savvy with fraps (Since I never actually used it before) and editing to have both files working together into one video, etc.
I’d love to get lessons on how by any of you guys to do it on windows.
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Hahaha…Windows.
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*gives Trjn a serious look*
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Are you in pane?
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I wouldn’t be able to fit in a pane Harli…
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I FRAPSed some Minecraft stuff with Teamspeak just running in the background, and it picked up all the voices, including my own, so it can’t be too difficult!
Ah no, there are far more deserving peeps around here who actually don’t have much money to blow instead of just being cheap 🙂
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Yeah but with me I made a trade with Steve-O, Magicka for Worms Reloaded, good trade I think 🙂
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There might be a spare copy, but I have to check with some mates first. Will let you know later Jo.
Only two self-implosions in 5 minutes? You’re doing it so very wrong.
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To be fair Bunny, we didn’t have that many self implosions. It was mostly you thunderbolting us.
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Fun times :/
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I managed to hit myself more often than not, so it still counts!
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Space Marine finished.
Very good game, can’t wait to replay it on hard, I really expected more from the last boss fight though.
Now I’m going to blast the crap out of multiplayer until I finally pick up Gears 3 sometime.
Your thoughts?
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Gears 3 is all I read! \o/
I should get around to buying the space marine-ness.
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As soon as I finished Space Marine I started it again right away on hard. I also did the “Finish a chapter using only X/X and X” achievements while replaying on hard, that made it so challenging, but I gotta start again eventually to get the “The emperor protects” achievement though. Still, was fun as hell to do, vengeance launcher and power axe ONLY! Man that was hard!
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Really? Wow I haven’t even looked at the achievements yet.
Looks like Relic put a lot of thought into the replayability of the campaign. I hear that the game’s hard mode is really well designed as well.-
Yeah, it’s challenging, I’ve had to utilise a combo I never ever used before regularly. The three melee stomp combo with my power axe whenever I’m up against armies, be extremely careful when going for executions (I ALWAYS stun the last orc standing to regain health with an execution).
Yeah Relic did a stellar job on the singleplayer campaign, not once was I bored… except in the final boss battle, that was just.. urgh! They REALLY need to make that better, but the biggest issue they have is the multiplayer, it’s fricken Modern Warfare 2, with less game modes and the same no choice on which side you are, which is horrible. I want to be Chaos, this is not fracking negotiable! I also heard of bad lag issues as well.
This game is using Steamworks even if you get a retail copy… why couldn’t they use that for dedicated servers? Lazy if you ask me
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Yeah but multiplayer feels quite different to me, I think with more polish and a bigger focus on making it a unique experience Space Marine’s multiplayer could be a real contender to the big MP games out there.
But yes local search is a MUST. I’m sick of being thrown into matches with UK and US players.
I’ll be happy once the co-op patch comes out, that’ll make multiplayer so much better as I can just get a few local mates on board and tear some orcs apart 😀
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Both of the boss fights could have been better. The last one in particular didn’t quite fit.
Still a great game. Really fun. So satisfying to wade through an army of orks with a power axe.
Not sure I’m going to bother with multiplayer, but I’ll probably give it a little bit of a go anyhow. Might do up a review for this game, anything to encourage more warriors for the Emperor.
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Yeah the last boss fight was really a letdown, it could’ve been so much more epic on both battles though
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Yeah plus it really needed some dreadnaughts in there 🙂
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You’d have to have a power weapon on you at all times if they did do that, then they’d bring in Predators and possibly Defilers too. Then they’d also need rocket launchers added and the plasma cannon to be like the “Super effective against them” weapon.
Who knows they might do that in an expansion. If it ended up turning into large world combat on dedicated servers (Not as large as BF2/3 sized maps) and had vehicles in it, more players per game and choice of sides… that’ll just be so so sooooo good! More game modes would be awesome too, like say 3 Space Marines vs. 20+ Ork/Tyranid players that respawn very quickly, the goal being to survive as long as you can, and gets rotated based on performance. The three space marines would be the kings of the hill with a points style system determining who will be the space marines after the round.
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“large world combat on dedicated servers (Not as large as BF2/3 sized maps) and had vehicles in it, more players per game and choice of sides…”
Space Marine in it’s current state doesn’t seem that awesome anymore. RELIC, LISTEN TO THIS MAN.
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I concur. Relic, MAKE THIS HAPPEN!
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I played a bit more of the campaign before work this morning – i’m still loving it – playing on normal at the mo, though.
I’m up to the inquisitors lair/research centre/thingy
This game is just so boss!
Gah! Godamn my *scratch* *scratch* incredibly itchy chin and it’s pittiful excuse *scratch* *scratch* for facial hair
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Aren’t you still in school? Fricken shave it mister!
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You know what my school did if you started growing facial hair? They gave you a razor and demanded you shave it. Given the lack of shaving cream, this worked as a sufficient deterrent.
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I was lucky being unable to actually grow facial hair until I was going to TAFE strangely enough 😛
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Since I was a quiet introvert who my teachers typically liked, I was able to get away with scruffy growth at times, though I was usually shaving twice a week in year 12…
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I’ve been trying to grow a beard for years now. I thin I’m doing it wrong ;(
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Yeah I think you might struggle with that one.
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Just do what Husky did in SCV love song, draw it on with a marker :p
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Yarn is my friend.
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That does give you another option.
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Also,
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1377320/Woman-drawn-beard-robs-Modesto-gas-station-disguised-marker-pen.html
Get that Sharpie ready.
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Fluro Yellow/Pink or Blue Yarn.
May as well go all out =)
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Itchy Beard! Oh god. If I don’t shave in the next two days, I’m going to get itchy beard.
Also, don’t scratch. It’s not good for you. It’s never good for you.
Don’t give into the easy path and shave it. Us bearded folk suffer more in this life then anyone else but at the end of out lives we can look back at this moment and say … I had a magnificent and majestic beard.
Moisturise boys, moisturise.
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I moisturise AND exfoliate
To answer Virus__’s question on the previous page, I live in Australia’s Capital Bogan City, Ipswich…
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I think you’ll find that Australia’s Capital Bogan City is in fact its capital. Seriously. And they’re all cashed-up bogans, so they think they’re better than you(or that might just be me specifically, I’m never sure).
I dualbooted my PC with windows 8 on Sunday, and for the foreseeable future, I’ll be using it as my main OS 🙂
The only problem is that for some weird reason I can’t switch apps by dragging from the left side of the screen :/
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how are you finding it? i got the ISO down, but the VM i’m trying to load it into keeps giving memory STOP errors, so i’ll have to try and dual boot it as well, i’m just curious about other peoples opinion… is it based on Win7 and as such support the same driver set? i guess mu question is, how big a screw up is it going to be if i attempt a steam install on it? 😛
Also, I keep getting an “End of Stream” error when trying to connect to the MC server.
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Hmm, I’m getting a “can’t reach server” error inside Minecraft, but the server itself seems to be running, and it says you’ve been online since 8:10.
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Yeah, I was on around about then. But then it crashed when I was putting something in a chest, and now I can’t get back in. Does it think I’m still on?
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Looks like it, though, checking the log, it had a huge amount of activity at 8:03, I don’t know what that means, but I figured I’d bring it up. I guess I can try kicking you from the Server, and seeing what happens from there…
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Tells me the same End of stream thing 🙁
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Yeah, looks to be borked, I just asked Shady if he could reset it, so I guess we’ll need to play one of the millions of other games we have…
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And it looks like it’s working.
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Want me to reset it?
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nah man is all sorted… Blaghs realised that twitter was a much more effective way to contact me.. all good now.
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Yay! Thanks guys 😀
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My copy of Spacemarine, arrived last night! Yay! Now if only I could find time to play it. If I built a time-machine and went back to yesterday while I was at work I could play it all day and then timetravel back to just after I left in the time machine.
Now just need to find the time to make a time machine.
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What did you get it on, mate?
Such a rad game 😀
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360. I will hopefully get a chance to take it online this weekend. Looking forward to making some sweet looking marines with the editor.
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if you haven’t done so already, add me
chul00p4
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Decisions, decisions…to buy Resistance 3 or saves my money…or trade in for it…anyone got it? Thoughts, criticisms?
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Or Dead Island…oh the agony of decision making! Someone please help!
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Dead Island is fun, but I’d recommend friends if you’re hoping to get the most enjoyment out of it. Also it’s a glitch-ridden, bug infested mess.
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playing with friends* rather. Somehow I doubt just having friends would improve the experience…
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Cheers Blags, reckon i’ll just try and rent it from my local video library then…
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i never trade games – it’s like trading your children – it’s just wrong 🙁
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But so profitable!
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not so much for consumers lol
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Sure, if you are talking about games…
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that mentality is why i still have the original release of classics like GTA, Grim Fandango and Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen (+ all other legacy of kain games)… i’m never giving up my kids!!!!! i might have to move to a bigger house soon though, i’m running out of shelf space 😛
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totes worth it
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Believe me, i’d sooner not part with any of my games but the reality is one income coming in to the household(mine) and having an infant son, 2 dogs and paying rent is a severe drain on the old gaming finances…thank god for ozgameshop though!
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dude – it took me more than 8 weeks to pay for my Space Marine CE lol
I get an allocated $20 a week to spend on whatever non-essential consumables i need (games, clothes, books ect).
The rest goes into savings/bills/rent
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OKay question for you guys. I want to bundle my grandparents home phone with telstra’s internet so i can actually download half the steam games i have. My question is once i have that internet is it hard to swap over to a different place if i end up renting a house? I really have no idea and i dont wanna pay telstra for my grandparents internet they won’t use!
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could go with a different ISP, most ISP’s in australia like telstra lines and can be alot cheaper… it’s easy enough to roll over, granting you stay with them and you have telstra lines to the place you move to, it’ll still take a few days to get online though, unless the phoneline is already active… i was a bit effed, cause i was originally with optus, but the new place i moved to did not hae any optus lines running to it… fun insured…
So… Bee’s dad upgraded his car yesterday..
He did have a Porche…
Now he has a 2010 Ferrari California
Fudge. Me. Dead
Can’t wait to go for a ride 😀
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okay how much money does this guy have? also what will i have to do, in order to get some? i will litterally buy this guy some coffee to get some of that
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He’s a high-end consultant of some sort. Think Price-waterhouse-cooper and you’ll be pretty close. He’s pretty high up so yeah.. explains a fair bit. lol
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Is he single?
*looking for wig*-
no – but has 2 remaining single daughters – both underage so i REALLY advise against it.
NO STEALING BEE YOU DEBONAIRE RASCAL!
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HEY, a bro shall never steal a girl from another bro… but hey… so her dad, is he like an australien Hugh Heff or something? if yes, coffee? or no, Coffee?
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Hmmmm, well, is he maybe up for a little holiday from marriage*.
*would do nasty things for ferrari ride
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hoho i get it, ferrari “ride”… also i played GTA, that’ll totally be my ferrari by the end of it, and i can park it in my garage with no possible forseeable consequences… at all…
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i would like to thank thee Tech Knight of TAY for the most generous gift of Worms Reloaded… also, anyone up for some Worming(?) tonight? it’s so annoying playing worm(s?) with one self… seems to be more of a Team Activity… okay, seriously though, anyone?
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Yeah i’d totally be up for a game or two to break up my study a little. What time were you thinking, though?
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well… i need to get home from work first (5PM) then god forbid the missus will want to spend some time together, i’m thinking about 8? or after? i stay up pretty late normally 😛
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Tech-Knight gave you worms too? That sucks dude, you might want to get some worming chocolate or try a holy hand grenade.
Keen for a game as soon as I download it, but that probably won’t be tonight.
Oh yeah, I forgot to say thanks Techy for my worms!
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I’ve found that sheep are highly effective.
I did pick this game up during the Steam sale, so I’m willing to join in the shenanigans should they occur.
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well i was going to take my “super banana bomb” out on him, we’ll see what happens tonight
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So, I wasn’t around yesterday.
I know you noticed. But don’t fret!
I’m just suffering through a god damned ear infection* (*Ear infection may not be caused by God’s damnation) and had to go see another Dr.
He prescribed antibiotics and eardrops.
Sadly, proving that my handle is more than just words, I 1-uped him. I agreed with his diagnosis but further action was required.
So I prescribed myself a Cookies & Cream Storm from Hungry Jack’s to be taken immediately.
My Dr Skillz rule!
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Last night I ended up putting salted peanuts and Oreos in the same bowl, and I ended up with salted Oreo crumbs at the bottom.
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you sir, shall be my doctor from now on, i like the way you roll…. on a more serious note, hope you get better soon 🙂 i’ve had my fair share of ear infections…
also i hear that nutella can cure anything, and goes with anything, so theres that.-
WARNING: Nutella should only be used for consumption. NOT put in your ears. It will not help the infection and possibly cause an ant infestation.
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Ah, see this is why i’m not a doctor… should say on the packaging: “to be taken orally” cause that explains SO MUCH!
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EAR CANDLING!*
*does not know what ear candling actually is
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somehow that sounds like it will include something to do with Candles, and possibly some pain
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Ear candling is the pointless, and potentially dangerous, practice of lighting a hollow candle, with the other end placed inside your ear(obviously with your head to the side), with the theory that it will remove ear wax and toxins.
The truth is really boring.
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wha.. what? how?? How do they expect it to remove ear wax?
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Well, witches use candles.
It’s OBVIOUSLY some form of black magic.
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After last night it sounds like LittleJJ is going to abandon herself from my house, and while this is good in one sense, it will also leave me in the precarious position of not being able to afford to pay everything.. I seriously need to find someone who wants to share this place with me :\ Where the hell does one normally post to find people to rent rooms?
Of course i’d prefer someone who’s a gamer and likes loud music.. but beggers can’t be choosers I guess..
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Try the local paper or a real estate agent?
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aww man I so would if I could brother bot, but being down in Melbourne and also saving for my own apartment, not gonna be possible with me to do, sorry pal 🙁
But yeah I think local paper will be your best bet
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Gumtree?
Lamp Posts?
Kotaku?
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Uni’s?
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Forehead Tattoo?
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Costumed gorilla holding a sign?
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Sky-writing?
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Sponsor a race car?
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Free iPhone game that earns via it’s banner ads?
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Town Crier?
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Graffiti the wall of a bathroom stall?
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You’re missing out on the most criterion: Pants?
You could mention it in the ad or just ask in an interview. At the interview let them in and just ignore them, playing a game with co-op. They get the room if they pick up the second control and join.
Also did you get my email?
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Yes thanks Steve I did get your email. I will tend to it shortly 🙂
Ah am gawd so many posts to catch up on, ah I can’t be bothered.
Also I just totally noticed Blaghman & Rocketman are following me on Twitter, I thought I got more spam bots following me at first when I saw I had gained like another 2 followers, I was all “NO WAI! i’m popular!”
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I think you followed me first… Your confusion is your own fault! I AM FREE OF BLAME! *Runs off laughing*
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Yeah I did, Twitter was all “Hey follow this dude cause you both follow similar people” so I obeyed. lol.
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Yay I started a new page! Also whilst talking about twitter, I want to know why Vodafone is following me, I am not on their network nor will I ever be. Plus I love the Telstra Next G Network way too much!
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They’re following me too. I definitely won’t be interested in anything they’re offering after having to deal with 3 for four years.
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Yeah, they can’t even give 3G coverage here where I live it’s really dodgy.
I just realised how good the offer I am on with Telstra actually is. It’s the cap+ & for 30 bucks a month I get 220 dollars of calls & texts (they’re charged a little more than average) but I also get 500mb of data, free calls & texts to any Australian number between 6pm & midnight & then I also get a bonus 50 dollars of credit & sometimes they’ll just randomly give me 1000 free texts to use to any network, which is even better!
I actually sound like I work for them loool
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I hate when they put things in cap value. You aren’t getting $220 worth of calls etc, you’re getting $30 worth at hugely inflated prices :p
Then again, I’m paying $19/mth for “$330” worth of calls/texts and 1gb of data (TPG).
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I can’t seem to use it all anyway. I can never use up the 1000 texts if they give them to me either. I usually use about 600 or so lol.
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They’re on the Optus network, so it isn’t brilliant but they’re better than 3 and for only $19/mth it’s good enough.
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Summary – everyone is playing (and finishing) Space Marine, because it is awesome.
Also, what if your favorite word for the male appendage?
EB is selling a 250gb 360 + Kinect + Gears for $398.
I don’t know about you guys, but that seems almost enough to convince me to finally upgrade my old Arcade 360 + 20gb HDD to something shiny, new and not so bloody loud.
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So … good … must … hold .. out … for … limited edition Star Wars console.
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Old PS3 jet engine overheating is best jet engine.
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that is a pretty sweet deal, i upgraded my old dusty arcade not long ago, well worth it… it’s so quite… and when you eject a disc it gives a very satisfying “bing” sound… that sound alone was worth $300 of the $400 i paid, cause now i got the machine that goes “bing”
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It goes “bing”?
How the hell can I not buy it now?
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it’s very satisfying, enough for me to actually get off the couch on push the button (it doesn’t happen if you use the controller to eject)… so it works as motivation as well…
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You should definitely work as a saleman, that’s the most effective pitch I’ve heard to get me to rebuy something I already own and isn’t broken.
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mate, “bing” sounds sell themselves, it’s all in the design… if only more designer thought “hmmm i think this needs more bing” i would be forced to buy a lot more gadgets 😛
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So why is Microsoft’s search engine so much fail?
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i think that while they named it “bing” it does not emit, nor have anything to do with a “bing”… which means that it is not the machine that goes “bing” and there for = suckiness
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Ah, this makes sense then. Actually my new washing machine makes some awesome “bings” at the end of a cycle and it makes me happy when I hear it 😛
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As I’ve said once before, if it’s anything EB get right, it’s their console packages. They have everything you could want in a starter package.
I got my PS3 from EB, giving me GT5 A-Spec, Uncharted 2 and Killzone 2 as well as a free HDMI cable.
D: the dentist didn’t prescribe me enough Panadeine Forte to last until Friday :'( this is not going to be a good week..
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Oh dear 🙁
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Oh dear, you poor thing D: Panadeine Forte is awesome. Can you contact the dentist & ask them to prescribe more because the amount they prescribed was insufficient? Or don’t these things work that easily? haha
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I could, but they would charge me another consultation, and I’m getting the tooth surgically extracted on Friday which is costing me the rest of what I have in my bank account until I get paid next week. So I couldn’t afford it anyway. I just have to hope the antibiotics I’m on as well do their job properly so by the time I run out, they’ve started to take effect and lessen the pain..
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Shit 🙁 I hope for all the best with it. I haven’t had a tooth problem (yet) but a few friends have and it’s nothing but agony for them.
Also that’s rather rude for them to charge you for a minute of the dentists time to print then sign a prescription /sigh
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Yeah but they’re ridiculously priced anyway. I’m so lucky I have private health insurance. Without it, yesterday’s appointment and Friday’s appointment would cost me $1130 instead of the $400 or so that I’ll be paying overall..
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Doesn’t Medicare cover stuff?
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Not dentists, doctors yes, but not dentists, at least not in WA.
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Fuck! You are very lucky my friend. I dread the day I have to have my wisdom teeth out or other dental work D:
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It’s worth getting health insurance. I highly recommend it. I mean I’m on the lowest my insurance company will offer, but still covers me for a fair bit. I make my money back that I spend on it by what I save..
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Yeah, it’s something i’d need to look at when I can get a stable income. I am lucky that I only go to the doc about stupid ingrown toenails & he bulk bills me.
Word of advice, ingrown toenails fucking hurt. I have literally lost count at how many times I have had them removed, would be about 6 times maybe more =/ stupid toes!
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Yeah I’ve had them before, never gone to the doctor for them though. I usually just put up with the pain until they’ve grown enough that I can pull the skin on the side of the toe down and they pop out, with a lot of pus, then i just make sure i cut it at an angle so it doesn’t grow back in again. I always get an ingrown nail on my ring finger on my left hand, so much pain.
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Minecraft peeps – what is the Kotaku minecraft server address? I might try do the sneaky and play in my browser for a little bit, I’m over c# and SQL at the moment. If it’s private could you send it to steveo.the.deveo at the gmail dotcom.
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You have to contact FatShady, and give him your minecraft id so he can put you on the whitelist.
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Ah the whitelist <3 stopping deadshits getting on the server and stealing your shit.
My friends turned their whitelist off & someone who was a "friend" of a person on there decided to just steal all their shit for himself. Funny thing is when he stole all their shit and put it in his chests he put up a sign "Don't steal my stuff" heh.
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hehe IRONY!
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haha, I see what you did thar.
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sent details. I added you to the whitelist as SteveO but not sure if this is your ingame name.. if you are anything like Batguy then it is NOT lol.
Just let me know if its all working ok?
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It’s actually SteveoTheDeveo. Steveo would have been shorter and much easier in hindsight. Cheers man.
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Cheers fatshady it let me in.I played for a glorious 5 minutes. Then I fell in a hole and got nommed by zombies. Looks fun though.
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How the hell did I get to the top of TabTol last week? I barely posted! D:
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Yeah funny that. The week I am the busiest is the week I make it back into the top 5.
I think the absence of a few people helped.
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Haha that must be it 😛 I thought I was going to be tenth or something :/
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I was tempted this week to send in an application for the ABC to be a host on ABC3, but then I remembered i’m camera shy and it killed that idea/dream 🙁
In other news, what tunes is everyone listening to today? I am current listening to Alice Coopers new album “Welcome 2 My Nightmare” for something like the 30th time since I got it about 2 weeks back, it’s awesome. I recommend it!
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I’m listening to my iPod on shuffle, in which the newest music is Rise Against’s latest album which I put on there months ago 😛
I don’t have internets so can’t download any of the new music I want to put on there 😛
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That’s how I usually listen to music, shuffle all the way!
If you don’t have internet does that mean I am imagining your responses? 😛
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I’m at work, so I can use their internet 😛 but I haven’t got the internet hooked up at home yet. Telstra are giving me a run around with getting a line hooked up :/
There’s also only 3G reception in my house in a certain spot so using the net on my phone doesn’t really work either 😛
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Yay abusing the work internet connection for personal use! I did that where I use to work, they had cable internet. I mean I had a 25GB cap at home at the time & wanted to download GTAIV on Steam which is 15GB lol. So naturally. No one was the wiser, I did get replaced by out sourcing later on though D:
That’s nasty about the 3G reception, that must be a decent black spot kind of area you’re in.
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Haha it’s just for Kotaku! Although I did download a couple of games using the work connectiong a while back. But then we got capped and work was painful so never again! It’s not really a blackspot, you step out the door and you get full reception. The apartment is sunken below ground a little bit and something in the walls/roof blocks reception..
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Come around by Tim and Jean.
Really awesome pop syth indie band. You should check them out!
Also my ipod is on shuffle, kinda bad when whole new world comes on at work. The homo calls come thick and fast
THAT’s WHAT SHE SAID
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But Disney songs are boss. They’d probably shut up if you could sing it like this:
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Not to blow my own trumpet but I used to be able to sing the male part as well/better than him. Why oh why did I stop my lessons 🙁
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Still stuck in Poets of the Falls latest album “Twillight Theatre”…
Did we ever find out who got that Weekend Editor job?
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I think applications are still open, if the Allure site is to be believed.
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Ah okay, so we’re still in the running bunny?! 😛
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*hopes my memory is right and you were one of the people that applied*
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I’d need to actually get an application in for that to be true :p
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Memory has failed me once again! I can blame it on the Panadeine Forte! 😀 it makes me feel drunk :/ but apparently I’m still allowed to drive while on it..
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I said I was going to apply, but kept changing my mind about it. In the end, I never got around to writing a new resume for it and figured that there are plenty of people out there who are definitely better suited.
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And I did the same. Laziness five!
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Do it now, Blaghs if it’s not too late. Don’t get stuck in a laziness rut like me, it’s too difficult to get yourself out of.
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But Blaghs, you’ve proven you’re a good writer! You have a better chance than me! Plus you need the work!
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Have you been reading the same words as me? I mean, yeah, I do need work, but I would hardly consider myself a good writer.
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Well you’ve written a review for Kotaku before which was well-written. You have an example of your writing on the internet, which is more than I have 😛
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You have a good point of view, and you know basic grammarz. Just apply already.
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I’ve never actually written anything that’s appeared on Kotaku. I write many a things, but they’re all bad, so meh.
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Just apply anyway, whether you are suited for it is Allures job to decide – you might be perfect.
I finished sewing a shirt for my son this morning so we went to the park to celebrate. Got the funniest shot of him going down the slide: http://yfrog.com/nv68877644j
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Haha! That hair! So cute 😛
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Adorable.
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Little dude’s so METAL \m/
Did anyone post about LoL Champion Rotation?
http://na.leagueoflegends.com/news/new-free-champion-rotation-preseason-week-1
Twisted fate, and Orianna!
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Ooooh thanks bawble!
heirmerererewfefefedeinger
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When I first started I used to play Hermidinger a lot. Kind of similar to Venomancer, but only in that he can drop turrets (like venom wards). Other than that he is like Tinker (missiles and grenade).
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Blitzcrank! 😀
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HAA Blitzcrank
I foresee lots of Rocket Grabs in the coming week =P
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lots of “attempted” rocketgrabs xD
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Orianna’s ball is pretty fun to handle.
Good ball play.
Just throw that ball all over the place, preferably in their face.
I bet the enemy loves being around Orianna’s ball.
Can’t get enough of that ball. They love balls. Balls for all.Okay, I will stop now.
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i do love me some ball play
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Bish got some serious ball handling skill!
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I really don’t.
I know the general gist of what to do, Q to harass and zone out the other player, and with enough AP, a QWE combo can really tear into their health, but my execution is really quite lacking.
There’s so much potential there, but I can’t unlock it. I honestly look forward to one of you guys picking her up and being amazing with her ball.-
You should try Urgot, he has one skill you need to be okay with, and then can just rip through the health of everythig by mashing q. So easy.
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Ah, I don’t know. Just gotta try a bunch of people while they’re free, I think.
I can land Lux’s snare pretty well, but in last night’s game, I couldn’t rainbow laser anything for beans. The laser that has a range longer than one screen. Go figure. -
Either that or play Teemo all day every day.
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Another one I can’t play 🙁
I f**king hate you Telstra.
I wanna try Xin Zhao and Twisted Fate! Assasins ftw!
Is it me or has Doctor Who so far since it’s return been kinda lame apart from the latest episode? I really thought the first half of the season was written better or the like.
Although I am enjoying Breaking Bad & the return of Sons of Anarchy. Was bummed that Burn Notice took a “mid summer” break. Someone needs to inform the network USA that it’s actually Autumn in the United Stated, not the middle of summer.
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I haven’t really liked the episodes with the new Doctor that much. Preferred David Tennant..
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GTFO
Its not as good as old tennant stuff but still alright i think. Matt smith does a pretty awesome job. but i am a pretty die hard fan.-
while we are talking tv shows has anybody seen warehouse 13. I think gorzy was talking about it and didn’t have a solid opinion of it. I might have to download it to check it out myself. I have run out of stable material to watch thats why i am always on teamspeak now!
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I love Warehouse 13. It’s good fun. Sometimes there’s some clunky episodes but overall it’s just really fun, with great characters.
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Thank you miss strange
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Matt Smith does a awesome job I personally think a few of my friends are all “meh” but I wasn’t much of a fan of Tennant towards his end stint as the doctor.
Plus the new doctor loves bow ties & Fez’s!
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Bow ties are cool!
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Hell yes!
Anyway next weeks episode looks awesome, Craig comes back!
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I wear a Stetson now. Stetsons are cool.
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It’s almost just you. And I don’t get the obsession with Tennant, either. Matt Smith and Eccles are at least as good Doctors, if not better.
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I think eccelston gets a pretty bad wrap. I thought he was brilliant! Until Tennant, but i really like the new stories. My one critcism is the doctor isn’t as helpful as before.
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They just don’t have his charm 😛 Eccles was awesome, I don’t know. There’s just something about the new guy that I don’t like..I’ve only seen episodes here and there though. I probably just need to watch them from start to finish and I might get a liking for him..
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Thebest thing about the new episodes is the darker theme and Amy and Rory. Best companions since Martha. I like it when they actually think. KATHERINE TATE WAS HORRIBAD.She was meant to be comic relief but she didn’t agree with me.
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Yeah I didn’t like Katherine Tate. I don’t like her other shows either. There’s one on ABC that she has, an older one. It’s painful to watch. I didn’t really like Martha…I thought she was a bitch..Rose though..she was good 😉
Yeah I think I just need to sit down and watch it from start to finish…also I haven’t seen the end special things and I think they might have made the transition to the new doctor feel right, the last I watched was the last episode of Season 4 and then the first episode with the new doctor and it was a bit jarring? If that makes sense?
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Yeah the transfer episode is pretty alright, I won’t spoil it but i would watch it. If i were you!
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I THINK I have it somewhere…if it wasn’t lost when I reinstalled Windows on my home computer. I’ll try find it..
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Martha was a simpering fool. I hate Catherine Tate but Donna was an epic companion of epic epicness. She was just what the Doctor needed after all those lovesick girly girls. I think what RTD did to her at the end was horrendous and a complete disservice to her character.
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She was, wasn’t she. Donna had some good aspects, she made me a laugh a bit..I think it’s mainly her voice was really annoying 😛
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I actually think there’s something about him you might not be supposed to like. He’s got a slightly darker core to him now after everything he’s been through and everything he thinks he’s put his companions through these past few years.
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Well that makes sense, and as I just said to Rocketman, I didn’t watch the specials after the end of the fourth season, and I heard that’s when you got introduced to the new doctor? So it might make more sense if I watch them first and then watch the new seasons because it felt really jarring going straight from Tennant to Smith..
I’ve really liked the new ones, The God Complex was a particularly good one, in my opinion. And I like Matt Smith, even if he can’t compare with the dream-boat that is David Tennant.
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I like David Tennant. Whilst Matt Smith is a good actor as the Doctor, I was watching a doco with him and Karen Gillan in it and my god, that man is an arrogant smug ass. He thinks incredibly highly of himself.
I AM LATE
Opinions:
– I do not like Tom Baker. CONTROVERSIAL
– Eccleston portrayed the rebooted Doctor brilliantly. For a one season run, by jove he was good.
– Was at first sceptical of David Tennant, but he is a pretty cool dude too. Definitely quantity and quality.
– Matt Smith himself I’m a bit indifferent about, but I think Moffat’s writing has spun him into a pretty good Doctor. Doctor Who is meant to bit a bit of campy fun, but this darker, slightly more horror focused stuff? I like it.
Feeling.So.Mellow.
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maybe it’s the drugs!
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It definitely is..can’t actually concentrate on fixing computers..
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So, I’m about to begin Dragon Age II. Before I begin does anyone know if there’s any point in making sure I’m using the same hard-drive I used for Origins? Anything from an old save affect II like in Mass Effect?
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You can use a tool like this to import decisions:
http://www.dragonagenexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=2251I didn’t notice anything in particular relating to those choices, though.
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Thanks! I think it’ll be easier if I don’t bother with any of that. I’ll just start fresh. I played through DA:O so many times I wouldn’t know which one to import anyway. 😛
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That tool lets you choose which decisions you want, and then creates a new ‘save file’ rather than assist an actual import. Sorry for any confusion there.
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Oh, it’s okay, I saw that, I was more swayed by your not really noticing it impacting on much though which is why I moved on to not really being bothered.
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Fair enough.
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Just little mentions here and there really. It’s pretty cool to hear my original character be referred to.
I bought the 360.
I regret nothing but now I need to work out if the old 360 gets retired to the bedroom (to replace the PS2 as a DVD player) or sold off to someone.
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you couldn’t trade it towards the price of the new one!
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I don’t do that sort of thing and that would make it rather difficult to transfer everything on to the shiny new hard drive.
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I have considered trying to get a new job.
But then I realise I am currently playing Minecraft because our system is buggered and my boss’s response was “Cool, have not played that in ages.”
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That’s pretty awesome. I get in trouble if I’m caught playing a game, or doing anything non-work related, even if there’s no work to do..
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O gosh I hate that if you don’t want me screwing around find something that I can do. I told him I had nothing to do. He said ummm and walked away.
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Pain in the ass, isn’t it? I really want to hear back from the company my mum works for. I applied for a job there a fortnight ago but nothing yet 🙁
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I’m back! Woo! Flew in from Seoul this morning, feeling very sleepy. What I miss? Summarise, go.
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Yay! You didn’t miss anything, we were all too despondent at your loss. Blaghman tried to fill the Sughly-sized gap by telling us how bad all movies except Hanna are.
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Haha, thats so not true but, merci! Hanna, ah yes. So good. No Bris meets happened? Any on the horizon?
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I’m sure one could be arranged, if necessary.
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Not without you! And sometime in November with a possible Dr. What?, Anonymous Pessimist duo is the only thing on the horizon at the moment.
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Well I second Trjn’s above semi-suggestion. GASP! Maybe once I find a place I could throw a kotaku housewarming! Haha, my girlfriend is probably thinking ‘why do i feel like something bad just happened?’.
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I like this plan.
I’m also looking for a new place to rent. You better not claim any rentals I have my eye on!
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Hmmm, mebe. Just send me a list of all the nicest places youve found and I’ll ah… let you know if I’ve seen them too. Yeah…
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Wooo sughly is back. How was your trip bro?
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Amazing! In a word. Though post trip from Paris to Seoul to here, it all feels like a long elaborate dream.
Batguy now delivers. You have competition.
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Whaaaa!? *cracks knuckles*
Sughly! DELIVER NAO!
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Gah! I dunno. Like the great Whitney Houston once said, I have nothing.
SUGHLY! \o
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NotoriousRrrrr!
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Look! I haz the twitterz. I is cool.
I expect a full comic book of your journey no later than friday.
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You are cool. Cooler than cool. Ice… cool?
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welcome back sire!! I hope you had an awesome time!! 🙂
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I did indeed Mr. bot, I did indeed. First thing on the agenda though is to find a new place to rent, I’m getting the boot. So no longer shall we be neighbours :'(
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DOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!! I need someone to rent a room in my house!!!!!
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Haha, not sure my girlfriend/son/brother who I live with will all be able to squeeze into a room though…
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I can prolly clear out 2 rooms!
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SUGHLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Welcome back!
Anonymous Pessimist has left us… 🙁
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Tanks, tanks! I saw that with AP, in a kudos, those were pretty much all I had time to read. But then he came back? But now he’s left again?
Welcome back Sughly! Hope you had an awesome holiday!
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Merci beacoup! I did, I did 😀
SUGHLY! We’ve all been mean to Shiggy in your absence, so you should go give him some man love.
And I’m sorry, I had to fill the you shaped hole in our hearts, so I started critiquing films, including ones I haven’t seen. I think it went over most people’s heads though…
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Haha, at the movies, with David, Margeret and Blaghman. Also, noone needs to invite me to give Shiggy man love. Noone.
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Yeah. True Dat.
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YOU’RE BACK!! :D:D:D
I was thinking of you just yesterday?
What did you miss?
Space Marine is what you damn well missed.
Space MARINE!
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Is that that game about space? And marines? Does it have guns? I bet it has guns.
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Gears is out today…….
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It’s sort of a Gears of War ripoff…
#pleasedon’tkillmechuloopa-
If Loops doesn’t get you, I will…
I’ll give him first opportunity, though.
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SUGHLY!!!
Our lives have been much less picturesque (you have no idea how many times I had to re-type that to get it right) without you.
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You know, the only time I had an idea for a comic during that time was a random situation I skimmed over involving you once again. I have no idea what it was any more, or what significance there is in m telling you this, but… there you go.
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Ah ha, so you did see me stalking you in Paris.
I mean, isn’t that funny *nervous laugh*
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Welcome back!
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Merci! ^_^
Glad you back safe Sughly 🙂
Did you know you would have to look for a place when you got back?
Oh and this
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/08/30/wacom-inkling/
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Yeah I knew, lease is up, ppl want to move in. S’all good. BUT ZOMG I know about that wacom thing, so amazing! If thats as good as the trailer shows, should be an instabuy amirite?
Who’s this guy????
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Some dude.
Yay! Your back, properly this time! 😀
Now, make me a CCG comic! 😛
I opened up the Gears case to see if there was a XBL code in there. There was not.
Also, it turns out that the instruction booklet is more of a pamphlet. Literally one folded page with the controls and the url for the online guide.
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I imagined you opening it up to just a pic of that main guy smoking a cigar saying ‘just play the game already, you damn sissy’.
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Nope, just stickers.
And Chuck Testa.
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Stuff you and your reediting . Egoist guys just love their meme’s
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Milhouse is not a meme is a meme.
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They should have the pamphlets a mock up of IKEA instructions with a guy miming how to chainsaw people in half and cover diagrams.
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That should most definitely have been suggested to @therealcliffyb long ago.
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makes me miss the good-ol’ days, where proper cardboard boxes and manuals the size of the lord of the rings trilogy existed…
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My copy of Eldar Scrolls: Arena = BOSS!!!
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Goddamn it, I hate when I’ve just been dumped a whole heap of reports to write up.
I dislike reports.
The giantbombcast will have to keep me company.
Interesting, I just got an email back from Greg Smith’s office advising me that NSW now supports an R18+ rating for games, and made reference to the press release from August.
Good job guys, I sent that email on 19 July and it only took you two months to get back to me with what I’m sure is a copy-paste email that’s going out to hundreds of people right now. That’s still way better than Michael Atkinson’s office did.
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This is what happens when you expect competence from State government.
Disappointment and anger.
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and an ulcer!
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Oh, here is the email, for reference. It kind of bothers me that they’re saying straight out that they expect games current rated MA15+ to be rated as adults-only like they are in other countries, but I have to admit, based on the number of discs I’ve seen with an MA15+ right next to the UK’s “18” rating, it’s a hard point to dispute.
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Thank you for your correspondence to the NSW Attorney General, the Hon GregSmith SC MP, regarding the introduction of an R18+ classification for computer games. The Attorney General appreciates you taking the time to share your views and has asked me to respond on his behalf. The NSW Government has given its formal support for the introduction of an R18+ classification for computer games. The NSW Attorney General has undertaken to work with other Attorneys General on draft national guidelines for a new ratings system, which will detail the content thatwill be permitted in the R18+ classification. The guidelines will strike an appropriate balance between the rights of adults to play what they want, and the need to protect children from material that may harm them. The NSW Attorney General considers that, with strong classification guidelines in place, an R18+ rating should result in violent games currently rated MA15+ in Australia being reclassified as adults-only, as they are in many other countries. He has also said it is important to ensure any proposal is in line with Ministers’ agreement not to dilute Australia’s Refused Classification category. I have attached a copy of the Attorney General’s media release dated 10 August 2011 about this issue for your information. (See attached file: AG Media Release – NSW gives in-principle support to R18+ game rating – 10_08_2011.pdf) Further information is available online at http://www.ag.gov.au/gamesclassification and http://www.classification.gov.au. Yours faithfully Community Relations UnitNSW Department of Attorney General and Justice Department of Attorney General and Justice – Promoting a Just and Safe Society Visit us at http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au
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Ugh, the parsing and paragraphing is a bit off. I probably should’ve checked my copy paste in notepad or something. Anyway, yeah.
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*check email*
*still no response from Greg Smith regarding the issue from before the election, even as a resident of his electorate*Now I get that Greg Smith is a busy man, and that the emails are probably generic, mass-sent things anyway, but… a reply would be nice, is all.
i sure love haiku’s
tentacle rape for the win
oh wait, that’s hentai
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*Sigh*
Oh Chuloopa.
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Whats the matter, blag?
are you fueled by my whimsy?
or is it just gas?-
*wipes tear from eye*
Oh Chuloopa, you funny, sexy bastard, you certainly know how to brighten a barbarian’s day.-
Triangle chest hair
so perfect and brilliant
must be Chuloopa
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Well, something in my stomach area is hurting, so it’s probably gas.
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yearning for somehting
your belly aches for release
don’t forget to flush
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*slow clap*
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hold your applause, friend
for i am not yet finished
oh wait, yes i am-
That was impressive,
But I doubt you’re really done.
What will you do next?-
matter of factly
i’m running late for uni
to be continued?
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That happen a lot for you, mate?
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I love haikus too,
although each time I make one,
I screw up the ending.-
Often it is hard
To get haikus to sound right.
Nonsequitors help.-
Haiku’s are easy,
they just don’t always make sense,
refrigerator.-
Stolen from a shirt,
I believe that last poem was.
Shame on you Blaghman. -
Speaking like yoda,
I believe that haiku was,
StarWars on BluRay© -
Mangling the language
Is the only way to write,
When doing haikus.
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Modern Technology
Will be the death of haiku
Electricity
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This is a haiku I made for cheapskate, but it never got posted cause Mark was too busy…
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And now for a haiku…
I like real cheap games
Expensive ones make me cry and shout to the heavens “Why are you doing this to me?” and yes I do realise that I’ve gone over the syllable limit for the second line of a haiku, but whatever
I hate bad games too
Well, know that we’ve got that out of the way…
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Guys. Guysguysguysguysguys. And Girls, I guess.
It just occurred to me. There are mere days until the Canberra Meat.
Is it time to get pumped yet?
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I am kind of feeling meh. Don’t think i wanna come anymore :/
Haha just kidding!
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That would be pretty hilarious. “Welp, what am I going to do with these airline tickets now?”
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Stupid qantas strike making me nervous. They know i worry so they did it on purpose!
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So is there a solid plan for Sunday yet? Also, I do require a delivery address for the Rocketman you ordered.
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Maybe just dump him in Fyshwicke and see how he goes?
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Yeah, I probably should email the lot of you about that… I guess… I’ll give you an address sometime soon…
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I IS HYPED
i said I was to Jamie What and Pez!
SHOPPING WITH BISH:
1. Beeline to EB Games.
2. Loiter suspiciously, playing DS to pick up my free event Zoroark (That’s on by the way, guys).
3. Enter Coles, with $20, planning for 12 boxes of Shapes.
4. Buy things.
5. Exit Coles.
6. Look down.
7. 10 x 375mL bottles carton of Bundaberg Ginger Beer, and 3 boxes of Shapes.
8. http://i55.tinypic.com/20gfrfb.jpg
If you’re lucky, I might have a bottle left for the Can’d Meat!
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Ginger beer is the bomb as long as its made with actual ginger. The imitation stuff tastes like a bucket of sugar in soda water!
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This from the guy who was boasting he had 88 cent no brand ginger beer.
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i have some ginger i put in at home and i water it down with soda water. Otherwise it tastes like balls.
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Oh wow. That cartoon is amazing… genius even!
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Shopping on Saturday:
Go to Coles.
Walk out with 4 pack of Bundaberg Lemon Lime Bitters, 4 pack of Ginger Beer, 4 pack of Bundaberg Blood Orange. Also in the basket were ingredients for cookies, and an excess of vanilla essence. I love vanilla essence.Cookies turned out crispier than I would’ve liked, but it all worked out.
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Shopping on Sunday:
Coffeemilk
Coke
So many packets of shapes
Chips
Carrots for the Guinea Pigs
Pasta (So I can pretend that I can cook)
Chicken (see above)-
I want to come to the meat now…. D’:
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I thought shiggy was cooking us just soo much bacon.
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Yes? That was my shopping last Sunday. I’ll be buying masses of cake and icing Fridayish, and then worrying about everything else later…
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I just beat Fear 3 last night. You guys know how yesterday I said it was a little disappointing? Scratch that, it’s a lot disappointing.
It’s still a good game from a pure gameplay perspective but the story is just so muddled, bad, inconsistent with the previous games and leaves a lot of unanswered questions. The ending especially is just arr!
For those who haven’t played the games imagine it’s like watching Alien (Fear), Aliens (Fear 2) and then skipping Alien 3 and jumping straight into Alien Resurrection (Fear 3).
Also the game is really short. I finished it in about 8 hours on medium difficulty but could easily knock that down to 6 on a second playthrough.
Ok, sorry bout that, I just felt the need to rant a bit. Please continue on your day like normal.
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FEAR 3 was just a bad idea in general.
Because there is nothing in the world more terrifying than the end of FEAR 2. You just can’t top it.-
I’m glad no one here is calling F3AR. That’s a terrible name.
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Just you wait until Fefourer.
Also, not as terrible as “Thi4f”.
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And so it goes until F34R, the 34th and final entry in the saga.
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I don’t know if I entirely agree, I think the cool “Alma’s contractions are sending physic shockwaves through the planet” thing.
But yeah, the ending of FEAR 2 isn’t so much scary as… well there is a tremendous sense of WTF when you realise she’s not screaming in pain.
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BAH! Just played Dragon Age II for a bit, customised a character so he looked pretty, found that a pre-built history was pretty close to my main DA:O one, started playing and then a message popped up I’d been signed out of Live. Figured I didn’t need to be online anyway as I was playing a single player game, so I just ignored the message and went on playing. After a while I went to save but it told me I couldn’t as I was not signed into my profile anymore (apparently I was completely signed out for some bizarre reason, not just disconnected from Live). So I signed in and then it took me back to the menu screen because I’d had “a sign-in change”. All my customising and playing is gone. Have to start from the beginning again. BAH!
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Just think of it as another opportunity to create a devilishly handsome man!
Just got a text from a friend.
He’s almost finished playing Gears on Hardcore with some of his online friends and wants to try and set up doing the campaign on Insane with his girlfriend, my usual co-op partner and me.
I still want to get some Kotakuites together for co-op Let’s Play fun but there’s no way I’m saying no to the opportunity for more Gears.
Also, it means that we can probably just do Horde mode or something, which is much easier to arrange.
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Let’s play for a Horde Match would be good, I assume on the weekend?
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Seeing as interest has been tentative at best, arranging Horde mode stuff should be much simpler.
Especially because Horde mode is quite awesome.
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Or Beast Mode! Beast mode looks like fun!
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Yeah, I’ve just been looking into that.
Reverse Horde mode.
I don’t think there’s any way that can’t be fun.
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Just got a lady from work to do my tax, i am getting $1096 dollars back. Woot woot.
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Is it too late to call dibs on your tax return?
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it wasn’t but
Dib’s
Apparently it’s cause i go to TAFE i get alot more back!
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I got about $5000 back last year, because I paid my HECS/HELP off during the year. That was nice.
But this year I’ve done a few thousand dollars worth of contracting that I haven’t paid tax on yet… my “return” is going to suck 🙁
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I’ve done my tax. Still haven’t received it yet.
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Just picked up Epic edition of Gears of War 3.
Now I am struggling to resist buying the Retro Lancer. It looks so awesome, but another $148, must.. resist…
Oh wow, I knew Remember This? today, but hadn’t checked until a moment ago. Too late!
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Maybe Tracey can put up a ‘Remember to Remember this?’ so that you can be reminded to remember that you have to remember this?
Or you can carry on with Dragon Age II.
I’m fairly confident that there are several people reading this comment who will be playing Gears of War 3 shortly.
Here’s something to make it more interesting.
The voice for Marcus is almost identical to the voice used for Sal in Futurama, except Marcus doesn’t endses allses ofses hises wordses withses “ses”ses.
Now all of those boring emotional moments will be much more lulzworthy.
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Hey Locust! Bite my shiny metal ass!
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THEYS SINKIN’ CITIESES WITHS A GIANTS WORMSES!!
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…that’s because they’re all voiced by John DiMaggio. Which is awesome.
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That’s true, but it’s just amusing that he’s using the same voice for completely different characters.
A bit like Frank Welker using the Super Friends announcer voice (“Meanwhile at the Hall of Justice!”) for Nibbler.
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I started playing Dead Island yesterday. Lots of fun.
Most hilarious thing I saw was a Jenna Jameson zombie 😛
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This game is so much fun. We will have to organise a co-op night as there seems to be a couple of others that have it as well.
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Which character did you roll?
I went with ‘Who do you Voodoo’ rapper-man, as the notion of clubbing zombies with a mace appeals to me. As it no doubt would appeal to your fine Barbarian self.
Unfortunately, of the weapons I’ve found so far, the stabbity does more damage than the thunky.-
In my brief time playing it in 4 player co-op, we had 3 black smashy dudes, and one white guy who does whatever. We were a really balanced team…
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Yes, totally went for Blunty McSmashyson.
While the blades do more damage, I still find blunt easier to use as they have more impact.
You can stab away at a zombie, but it is likely to get a few hits in. Use a club and often they get knocked back enough to follow up attacks without getting damaged.
Also, very good against multiple infected. One good swipe can clear out three or four of these screaming jerks, while a blade wil often leave you exposed as it only seems to be able to deal with one or two at a time.
Just some of the many reasons why clubs are great.
Clubby the Clubbing Club agrees with these views.-
I’m currently wielding a spiked club, a meat cleaver, and some powerful brass knuckles.
And, for some reason, a crazy lady keeps paying me $70 for a bottle of water… -
HA, exactly the same weapons I am using at the moment.
Mmm I think I am only getting 50xp from her, not any money, will have to check tonight. -
Ooops heh heh, just saw Gears of War 3 sitting next to me on my desk… may have to check on that crazy lady some other time.
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I went for the knife lady because I like sharps, but the lack of interruptionmakes tackling thugs a risky proposition. Fortunately the kick is quick.
Also, although the rage is brief, it makes disecting a zombie oh-so-easy.-
I just remembered, I have not used rage once in this game. My strategy with the Thugs is to break both their arms with my hammer, then switch to either my spiked or flaming baseball bat and repeatedly hit them in the face.
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Still debating on getting this game for PS3…General consensus? Who else has it?
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Get it for 360, if you do not own a 360… get it anyway.
No ground-breaking story and many a bug, but by all the gods, it is so much fun.
Well my mum just emailed me about that job I applied for. She emailed the guy that was processing applications and doing interviews asking what stage in the application process they were up to. The position had been filled a week and a half ago and apparently all applicants had been emailed last week. I got no such email, and I didn’t even get a call for an interview, I was well qualified for the position and can’t really see how any other applicant could have had as much relevant experience as I did. Yet I didn’t get a call and they didn’t even email me like the rest of the applicants to let me know I was unsuccessful. Huge blow to self-confidence..don’t know if I’ll bother applying at other places.
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Aww sorry to hear that dude.
If it makes you feel any better I did not get the job I applied for either.-
Doesn’t really make me feel better, you deserve to get a new job! It’s just depressing that my application wasn’t even worth a call-back :/
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Well, that’s unprofessional of them, to say the least.
Try not to let it get you down, though (easier said than done, I suppose), and don’t let is stop you from applying elsewhere.-
I’ll try, just I was sure I was going to get this one, I just had this feeling. I don’t know if I want to apply..I didn’t really want another job in IT but this job had attractive salary packaging, as well as a lot of opportunity for advancement, even branching out into other areas as it’s a large company that caters for a lot of different careers so it was a good opportunity for me. So I don’t really know if I want to apply for another IT job elsewhere but I don’t know what else I’d like to do either :/
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Dude its often a case of the employers are rude dicks dont be discouraged!
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My mum works at this company and I’ve met a lot of the people she works with/for so I know this isn’t the case in this instance..
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Not the Allure job, haha I don’t think my application for that is worth a call-back 😛
This was for an IT support technician job at the company my mum works at, I applied for the job before it was advertised because I knew it was coming up. I know I have to put ego aside, it’s just disappointing 🙁
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Meant to be a reply to Trjn :/
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I’ve worked in a HR outsourcing place before, contacting unsuccessful applicants, arranging interviews and all that jazz. They generally don’t get someone high up the rung to make contact.
If it helps, it could simply be that the person who was delegated the task wasn’t competent enough to perform it.
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Haha fair enough. Well apparently the Service Team Leader was getting back to applicants so I would hope that he was competent 😛 it’s not so much the not getting the job. But just being lost with where I’m going to go from here..I have no plans, I don’t know what I want to do. I just don’t want to be where I am, I want to be in a job where I can advance further than where I am now.
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The Allure job or another unrelated job that I missed you talking about?
Either way, that happens. I’ve applied for so many jobs where I had no contact with them whatsoever or they’d promise to get in touch within a certain timeline and just forget.
Putting your ego aside makes job application much easier. Even if you have to turn it back on for interviews to make it sound like you’re worth hiring.
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The messed up part is that I’ve gotten so used to not getting a callback that I apply a “fire and forget” attitude to my applications. If I get a callback the first thing I do is open my seek account to skim over the applications I’ve made just so I know what the hell they’re talking about.
It doesn’t help that some places are so disorganised that I’ll be getting calls for interviews 6 months after I’ve started somewhere else. It’s like “dudes, if I waited on you I would have starved to death in the gutter by now”.
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Dont beat your self up mate. It hurts and its tough to explain to the police.. also, there is a chance that the application wasn’t received, or that they are all tools.. both plausible?
I know it is a crazy cliche, but everything happens for a reason. The reason is not always clear but just remember that when good stuff happens to you. I seriously live my life by this every day. You dont realise it when it looks crap but I bet you that you will soon look back on this as a slight distraction from what you are trying to do..
Its easy for me to say it mate but I have had a similar experience a while back..
I was applying for an internal job, doing the same damn thing that I was employed to do, but for our international operations team. I was immediately accepted for an interview and like you, felt that my years of experience and external qualifications made me a good candidate.
I was interviewed and left feeling good. Weeks turned into months. Seriously 8 weeks went by. I finally cracked it, after a few e-mails to HR. I lodged a complaint to the head of HR about it, as it was internal. It turned out that the job was filled over a month earlier, no one had bothered to inform me and just left me hanging all that time. I was gutted.
A few months later I was approached about a new role and here I am, a little over 6 months on from this but I have started my new job a few weeks ago.
Im not saying this to brag or anything buddy, but as much as it felt crap, you gotta pick yourself up, learn as much from it as you can and move on.
Im not being preachy or anything, just letting you know about my similar experience and trying to make sure you dont ever give up.
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Thanks FatShady, it’s good to know that people on here care (assuming you care because you went to the effort to write such a long piece :P). That sucks about the internal job, they really should have let you know. As to the being offered another job inside my company, that won’t happen. I work for a small/medium-sized business and all positions above mine are filled and will likely be filled for the remainder of those employee’s working lives. There’s no opportunity for advancement where I am, I’m stagnating and I want to get out. But I don’t know where I want to go from here 🙁
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I dont post all that much but I do care.
I was at the same place about 6 years ago as you are now. I was working in Insurance (Workers Comp) but I took a job for a steel works in Port Kembla (you guess which one!)..
Everyone there had about 30+ years of service and as a result, after 2 years, I could not progress. I applied for one job in MELB and didnt get it, so I left. I took a pay cut (about $10k pa) but ensured that the place I went to had greater job oportunities. Turns out they did, I have had 3 promotions since then and now am on about double what I was on when i started here.
I guess its a success story and I am very happy, but dont think that there wasnt a heap of rejections and a number of backward steps. Just stick at it mate.
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I will and thanks for the inspiration man. I just can’t take too many steps backwards, because I have to pay rent, pay a car loan and starting next year, I’ll be helping to support my girlfriend through uni because she won’t be able to work full time anymore..so I have all that to think about as well..
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Could be worse.
You could’ve been caught reflection perving on the hot Venezuelan dude on your bus who actually turned out to be a super tanned 50-something mother with child this morning.
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Also that other company probably only employs communists.
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Also you could have chicken pox.
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Nazi communists.
Apart from Mags’ mother.-
Is Mag in bed with a red?
Report any communist activity.
IT’S YOUR DUTY!
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And my aunty! My aunty is a manager there!
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I’m watchin’ you, commie.
-narrows eyes-
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I’m not a communist!
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THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT A RED WOULD SAY!
PROBABLE CAUSE! I GOT PROBABLE CAUSE!
-pulls out gun-
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Are you super sure that you’re not a communist?
Because it’s okay if you are. Well, not okay, but we won’t punish you that much for it. So why don’t you just admit that you’re a communist, even if you’re only a little bit of a communist or have known anyone who you suspect might have been a communist at some point in the past.
Like, if you had a friend, and that friend once wore a red shirt, that would make him a communist and you a communist by proxy. That’s fine. Just admit it so we can move on.
That’s all we need, for you to admit that you’re a communist.
Okay?
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Hey maybe that’s why all the red shirts in Star Trek kept being killed off – they were actually commies!
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And yet Scottie lived…
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don’t worry man, such is life. I sent off 30 applications and went for 10 job interviews before I successfully landed my first job so it’s pretty normal. You’re doign fine!
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Yeah I know I shouldn’t expect to get the first job I apply for. It’s just I don’t know what I want to be doing. This job was great because it was in a similar role to what I have experience in but there was opportunity for advancement and to branch out into a different area entirely at a later date, so I had room to move. But that’s hard to find, so I don’t really know where to go from here..
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Fear not young Jamesmag. You are an oyster, the world is your pearl. Or was it the other way around. Something something.
The point is, there will always, and I mean ALWAYS more opportunities to come.
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I know how you feel man. If I get back an email it’s usually “You had the qualifications we were after but we went with someone else” I actually got that back from Telstra & similar responses from a few other local places I applied, which is actually an insult I personally think, to say I was capable but they didn’t want me. It really gets you down.
It’s even worse when the job you apply for gets filled by a complete moron *cough*JB Hi-Fi*cough*
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lolol! Yeah I didnt get a position at the EB games that opened up in my hometown. Then I quickly became aware of who they hire there. My interview was flawless, talked my ass off about every system and all the new games, except that I didnt do a good job of selling his pen to him. True story.
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most depressing moment i’ve had; getting rejected from the Reject Shop /o\
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Sucks dude, but stay strong. Unfortunately this often seems to be the case when you are applying for the ONE position you would really want.
Any other time you would probably receive several corrspondences from them.
Your best bet might be to contact the HR department whenever you put in an application, that way you can get some info on what stage the process is in, whithout feeling like you might be bothering the people who may be interviewing you.
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Yeah probably. I just don’t really understand how larger companies work. The biggest company I’ve worked for only employed about 14 people so there wasn’t really a HR person or anything, we just took our grievances to our manager or to the big boss..
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That can be very hard, as you often feel like you don’t want to make a bad impression by bugging them about your application.
And being a small company, it is most likely the person doing the interviews that you would have to contact.
However, this can also show initiative on your part and the fact that you are truly interested in this position, not just going through the motions.-
Well in this case, the job I applied for was a large company, it’s just I’ve only ever worked with smaller companies so I don’t know how a larger company works, if that makes sense. I actually did call the guy handling the applications last week and he said he’d be in contact with me later on..
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Such a great comic.
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Funny story, a friend of mine worked in an adult store and we used to just hang out and play Sega Saturn behind the counter because, let’s be honest, adult shops are never busy.
Anyway, one day I got sick of playing Nights so I went looking for the best sex toy I could buy with the $10 in my pocket.
I found a mini rubber phallus attached to a chin strap.
Needless to say I bought it and wasted my afternoon flicking my head from side to side so it kept wiggling around and smacking me in the cheeks.
Goooooood times…
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you have the best stories Dan! /
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Is it just me or did a training with the pro’s article disappear?
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I guess that article…
Got gibbed.
YEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
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/sunglasses ?
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No.
No sunglasses.
I actually feel a bit dirty after using that meme.
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Feeling dirty? Here, use some of this soap!
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Yup, that appears to be soap.
On a barely related note, has anyone else noticed how difficult it can be to clean game controllers? No matter what I do they always seem a little grubby. Can’t get them back to the pristine condition they once were in.
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Clean them with fire.
And then buy a new one to replace the puddle of plastic goop.
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I guess you’ll have to wait for…
the respawn.
YEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!
Contemplating applying at iiNet as a Customer Service Representative..the wage is less than what I’m on now with commission but more than what I’m on without commission. But, there is opportunity for advancement and apparently bi-yearly bonuses, as well as getting free internet. Hmmm..
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Free internet?! That sort of liberty is much too advanced for our time.
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I’m guessing it would just be a basic plan, with maybe 100GB of data and you pay for the difference to increase the cap..
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Dear Blaghman,
Will an official email be going out for Canberra Meat soon? Just checking =]
Regards,
Harli
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Probably! Anyway, if you want my address, just ask Bish, he knows all about where I sleep!
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DAMMIT
I would say “Well played, sir”, but I am a bad sport.
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Dear Blaghman,
What she said.
Repeated Regards,
Bish-
Dear Blaghman,
What he said.
Repeated Regards,
RocketmanP.S. Monkey Penis!
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ROCKETMAN USED PUNCTUATION!
HOLY CARP!
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I copy pasted Bish’s, no need to get alarmed notty.
Also dr who -
I’m totally going to ignore that and know you meant Doctor Who.
Right?
RIGHT?
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hehehe i did it on purpose because i know you hate it
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Rocketman.
If I notice you doing it again prior to the Can’d Meat, I will hit you when you turn up. Then probably go and cry because you’re like a foot taller than me.
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Sorry Mr blaghman,
and although i am probably a foot taller . I am a scaredy little man child thing. Also don’t yell i might cry!
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Aww don’t cry or I’ll have to cuddle you
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Quick Rocketman, we have a chance to get you closer to a female than you ever have been before! (Or maybe I’m just projecting)
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I will hunt you down.
And then have a very strongly worded conversation.
And then you’ll ignore me.
And then I’ll give you a spider.
/╲/\╭ºoꍘoº╮/\╱\
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Dear ms. Trix,
in regards to your enquiry relating to an email to do with the First Official Kotaku Australia Canberra Meet, or the “Can’d Meat” as it is known, I dutifully request that you check your inbox, as an email has been sent out to the majority of interested parties.
With Kind Regards,
Doctor Sean N. Richardson, MD.
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Dear Doctor Sean N. Richardson,
Thank you for your prompt response. I have received said email and responded to it. Also, poor Ruffleberg.
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You know, if people start referring to Harli as Trix, there are going to be too many horrible little setups for “silly Rabbit, Trix are for kids”.
This does not bode.
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I’m afraid this joke has already surfaced some time before…
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Yes. It has.
I’m just aware of the possibility of it bubbling to the surface again and would like to nip that one in the bud.
Of course, by drawing attention to that, I’ve pretty much ensured that people will say it.
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GUYS
GUYS
GUYS
I just thought of a really good joke!
A snare drum and a cymbal fall out of a tree.
*ba-dum-tish*
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Eek! Meat emails. With real names!
This morning when walking to work, I saw two people making out while waiting for the pedestrian crossing lights to change. Like, really going for it, to the point where I felt embarrassed to observe it. That was odd. Then when they came up for air, turns out it was two girls. That was even odder, not that there’s anything wrong with that, etc. But not something you see every day.
Just thought I’d share.
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Question, were the two women attractive?
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Don’t ask in my mind they were!
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They are in my mind too! 😀
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Difficult to answer this without seeming even dodgier than I already do for relating the story in the first place, but: Yeah, I reckon. Coupla indie chicks.
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ALRIGHT! *high five*
Now that’s over, thank you for sharing this story 🙂
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It’s not over yet!
Question, which roads were these crossing lights at?
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We need footage! Batguy, you are now leader of the Stalkatu surveillance team!
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Come on! I thought Stalkatu was clever! 😛
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Wow..virtually every article on Gizmodo has an Apple v Microsoft/Apple v Android war going on in the comments.
Just puts me in mind of this..
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I can’t read any tech blog anymore. Half the posts are about Apple or iPhone or something, and the comments are just Apple bashing, or, as you said, Apple v Microsoft/Apple v Android
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Yeah pretty much. Also, their “Whitenoise” forum is nowhere near as good as TAY! 😛
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Except when we invade. Go check the archives for the weeks with abnormally high post counts!
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Haha yeah I saw that, still it doesn’t come close to having a TAY post count 😛
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i have been commenting in whitenoise when bored. Its pretty crap!
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Yeah, and some of those guys are bit too highly strung.
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No you are highly strung, shut up why would you call me a liar!
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Haha! I read that! He gets like that on Lifehacker too. So paranoid 😛
And some guy called us immature, illiterate gamers on whitenoise once. LOL we may be immature but we’re not illiterate!
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It’s not funny because it’s too true. :/
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Haha love when you guys got them to 100 posts 😛
I feel more at home here with you lot than the LifeHacker/Giz comment crew, they’re all souless & stuff, not nice & soulful like you lot =D
Thats a little harsh, we are just better cause we have known each other longer.
We also have me. I’m pretty awesome, so, you know, that helps.
Nah man its all cause of me. Also shapes
Do I dare inflate or deflate your ego there Blaghman? 😛
Remain tactfully quiet. 😛
Oh I meant that in a joking manner, I forgot text doesn’t translate very well to how I say it in my head lol.
It’s not that harsh, I mean there’s no reason to be so highly strung and so immediately insulting..unless Gizmodo attracts a lot more trolls than Kotaku does..
Yeah the community here is amazing! Lifehacker and Giz don’t really have a community as such. I see it as just people that browse the articles and make comments. They don’t talk about day-to-day stuff like we do. They don’t sew jerkins for people or make gifts of games or anything..they’re not AWESOME like us 😛
Yeah, there are regulars but they stick to being on topic, unlike us unruly lot who like off topic as well 😀
Yeah but that’s not really a community if you know what I mean. At least not in the sense that I see it, they’re just people that read the same news site and comment on the articles. They don’t really know anything about each other and they only talk about what’s in a sort of article. Maybe my sense of what a community is, is skewed. But it just doesn’t seem like a community to me…
They also don’t post awsome things like seeing two chicks making out. Hi5 Batguy! 0/
BATGUY FTW
that is combination with TABTOL, i know where my noms are going this week.
My noms are in 😉 and I got a “That is quite possibly one of the best reasons for a nomination ever.” response 😉 OHH YEAH
Fuck yeah!
HAHA! I agree with this! Go Batguy!
Oh good lord. I have to stop reading this thread for a couple of hours – giggling in the office is not a good look!
And it was the Brook St exit off the Warringah Freeway, Sydney, about 9:30am.
Booking tickets to Sydney…
lol jk
You have to book tickets for your WA horse drawn carriages??
….yes.
You see, the joke is that WA is so far back in time, and that I am mocking you for it.
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Ah I see, I didn’t get that because we in WA have not yet evolved our brains to your level.
Or maybe just that alcamahol?
I bought Ginger Beer today!
Close enough.
Ginger Beer is awesome. Saying that, I hate not being able to drink 🙁 like I don’t normally drink during the week. But now that I’m not allowed to because of the medication I’m on, it makes me want it all the more..
Is it major enough you need to hold off eating certain foods for a few days?
Because if not, Friday Happy Hour, amirite?
Not really sure, we’ll see what they say 😛
I saw a trailer for the Tin Tin movie the other day. Looks amazing. I still have no idea what it’s about, but I want to see it…
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Tin Tin movie?! Really? Cartoon or real people? I loved the shit out of that show as a kid!
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CG. Done by Spielberg and Peter Jackson, written by Edgar Wright (an others), with voice acting by Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Daniel Craig, Cary Elwes and more!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0983193/-
Trailer here.
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So Cool, definitely going to see this
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No youtube at work 🙁
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And music by John Williams!
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This sounds like my dream film 🙂
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Late Responses to facial hair discussion on Pg. 3 (shut up, I was at school)
Tech Knight: I have about 4.5 weeks left, and 2 of those are when I’m on break
Blaghman: Same, my Coordinator has to be standing right infront of me to see it, I grow what is locally known as “bum fluff”
NotoriousR: I hear that enough from my mum, I have quite the experience with exzema
Noobheadshot: Shaving is a waste of time for me, I do not enjoy it, why give in when I’m so close to not having to shave for the rest of my life
Strange: The First Lady: Of course I do, my skin is dry enough as it is (see reply to NotoriousR for details)
So, Hotmail’s new “Alias” feature is pretty cool. It means that I no longer have to use gmail as I now have a suitable, resume-friendly email address in which the new email goes straight into my existing email inbox!
Also, GREAT NEWS! The oral surgeon had a cancellation so I get in tomorrow lunchtime to get my tooth extracted! Which is when my painkillers run out! 😛
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That’s great news! All the best with it!
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Thanks man! Hoping it doesn’t hurt too much afterward. The last time I got a tooth taken out was when I was 7, and it was already wobbly..so I have no idea…
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They’ll probably dope you up enough to not feel it for a good while after I dare say!
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I’m pretty sure they’re just going to give me local anaesthetic. So one side of my face will be all slack while the other is active. So I’ll look like a retard when I smile 🙂
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Well there’s no fun with that then D:
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I hope they don’t put me under. Because the dentist I have to go to is a 45min drive from my house and I don’t want to still be woozy and stuff driving back :/
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Eeek! Well then, I hope they don’t for your sake!
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brb, checking email
Catching up.
Strange! Your kid is adorable, in the least-creepy interpretation of the word.
Also: DAII importing doesn’t do much. It changes a few quests and people mention your Warden a couple of times, but nothing huge. Not on the scale of Mass Effect.
SUGHLY ALWAYS DELIVERS.
That is all.
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Well, that said, ME 2 was mostly just a bunch of passing mentions too.
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True. But more of them 😛
I guess there’s only so much they can accommodate in terms of player choice, it’d be crazy to spend lots of money on the outcome of a decision that about two people in the world made (and they have stats for every choice imaginable).
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I dunno, I have been deliverless for a while now. I was going to draw something this afternoon. Then I fell asleep.
It has been decided – i need to make a Funzo T-shirt…. maybe 2… MUST BE DONE
Hello! Been smelling the scent of crepes, waffles and pancakes all day (i.e. working). What’s up? : )
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If you can offer Bish free food, can you post me waffles? That’ll totally work, right?
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There’s a vast world of difference between “works” and “works well”.
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@Jamesmag: Don’t be disheartened… just believe that opportunities will be here for you! 😀
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Thanks dawdle! They will be there for me 🙂 I just have to wait a while!
Minecraft server just died? I’m getting that End of Stream issue again 🙁
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I’ve got it too now 🙁
DA2rant.begin()
The First Lady inspired me to finish off my third DAII playthrough (I also want to have it done for the new DLC) – and I realised what’s been bugging me about Hawke. S/he’s not actually a very memorable or identifiable character.
The ‘Origins’ part of DA:O gave you a custom place in the world, a custom name and title and rank to identify with and then make a hero out of. Hawke – we’re told – is a hero whether we like it or not, and all we’re doing is guiding this particular puppet around for a few dozen hours until something big happens to the world. It’s so… detached.
Maybe it’s just because there was so much more content in them, but the Warden from Origins and Awakening feels more concrete a character than any of the Hawkes I’ve made. The Warden is iconic because of the variety of options; Hawke can only ever be… Hawke.
/end rant.
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I haven’t played much but due to the 360’s stuff-up I’ve played as both ManHawke and LadyHawke today, neither voice-actor is doing anything for me. They just don’t sound like anyone I want to be.
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Wow, you have my respect brother. By the end of My first DA2 play-through I wanted the kill myself if i had to look at the exact same dungeon seeing as I had seen it before that, and before that … and before that … and before that. I mean it was a good game it’s just I had played through DA:O / DA:A around 4 1/2 times which just raised my hopes sky-high =(.
Plus don’t get me started on the conversation wheel / combat.
/Reply Rant End
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but i LOVED ladyHawke’s voice. She was all snarky, sarcastic and witty!
Once again, Australians get screwed.
Resident Evil 4 HD – US – $19.99
AU – $29.99
Hooray! Space Marine finally arrived! Looks like I’ll be spending Friday hacking orcs to pieces.
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SPACE MARINE
/cockney accent
I haven’t played the game, but in the demo there was an excess of Cockney accented orcs yelling out SPACE MARINE. Did that stop/reduce/subside in the full game? It was both amusing and annoying.
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It does not stop.
It always amused me.
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There is no hope for this world…
http://toucharcade.com/2011/09/20/yes-there-will-be-angry-birds-halloween-costumes/
Hey sughly or any other music hipster people, has anyone heard of gypsy and the cat. I downloaded their album Gilgamesh last night. GREAT ALBUM. Kinda 80’s syth pop vibe to it but really great.
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It’s good stuff – Joan of Arc is so catchy.
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It is indeed, my favourite so far is running Romeo.
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Soooo… Who is going to give me 400+ USD to buy that Link / Epona statue?
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Really?
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True …
Still doesn’t change the fact that a want it though. (Not the awful bronze one)
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Same guy who is picking up my pixie from the vet!
Oh great and powerful TAY, I require your wise, er… wisdom. I need to get a new phone. I will not be making many calls, but will be doing a lot of messaging and me wants the apps and browsing of this internet thingy, I hear it’s all the rage.
So suggestions, recommendations, death threats, all are welcome.
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Well it really depend’s i reckon a cheap android phone would do the trick. It has a bunch of apps and its cheap. Plus if you go for a physical keyboard messaging becomes a breeze.
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I’m waiting for the new iPhone but considering making the switch to Blackberry. Why? Just because it’s an option.
Don’t really have much of an opinion at the moment though.
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Bunny doesn’t have a opinion. STOP THE PRESSES
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You best be kidding, those things take hours to start up again.
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In a newspaper people don’t say that. It would cost far to much money to do
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Thanks for the info guys, will have to do some looking around.
Went to my first 3D movie last night and saw ‘Fright Night’. I was not expecting much but was surprised that the movie was actually enjoyable. It starts of as a sort of light horror/thriller but by the end turns into an action film and doesn’t take itself seriously, making jokes at it’s own expense and quite often Twilight’s. I’d give it 3 and a half stars. On 3D, it just seems like a cheap gimmick. Apart from looking cool when blood splatters everywhere, it didn’t really add to the experience – but at least I got to look like a hipster for a while.
/begin rant
WHEN DID MOVIES GET SO BLOODY EXPENSIVE! $56 FOR A SMALL COMBO AND TWO TICKETS ON ‘CHEAP’ TUESDAY? THE LUNCHTIME SPECIAL AT THE LOCAL BROTHEL IS ONLY $50 AND YOU GET A PIE, BLOWJOB AND A COKE!
/end rant
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It is ridculously expensive to go to the movies. I pretty much haven’t been in like 2 years. As a social practice it’s fun but if i have to pay that much i want to be able to see the movie more than once!
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I have $50…..
What brother were you talking about? And is it a good pie?
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It is in Mackay i doubt that the place would be that reputable!
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Brother…?
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I hope that was a typo…
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Damn…
Yeah, typo.
I meant Mother.
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Ah yep, now I follow. Easy mistake to make, I understand.
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The only 3D movie I saw where the 3D really added something was the last Resident Evil movie. Makes me want a 3D TV every time I think about it.
And unfortunately, “cheap” movie nights never refer to the food, only the tickets(and even those aren’t really cheap, it seems like movie prices doubled over the course of a couple of years). Just smuggle some of your own food in next time.
NOTHING makes you look as cool as when you sport a set of the good-ol’ red/green sterioscopic cardboard-piece-of-something-not-very-niece glasses that was the trend in the 80’s/90’s… man those things were AWESOME!
Nice review! I’ve been pretty keen to see it actually for the reasons you put forward. The trailer seemed to do a decent enough job of doing a modern version of it.
So, back at work. What did I miss in the past 6 pages?
I spent my two days off as well as I could. I played some From Dust challanges and worked a little more on my arcade stick art!
Here’s the image in it’s 3 main stages.
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c268/cronotriggr/StickArtWIP4.jpg
I ended up going back to a fist for her right hand and I’m probably going to change some other things back to how they looked in the original pencil sketch.
ALSO! MEAT! SOOOOOOOOOOOON!
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I noticed that her posterior is somewhat lower the further the artwork progresses.
There’s a crude joke to be made about that.
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Woahhhhh, similar language and comment subject.
HIVE MIND
Also, butt-looking.-
I said what what…
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This! But I preferred the original ah… derriere, it gave it a more interesting perspective. But really good stuff! I’ve never had the patience to do linework in illustrator, never taken the time to be good enough with the pen tool 🙁
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Aw, you covered up her posterior as you progressed.
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Could say he’s giving her arse, the arse?
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As a person with no artist skill that is pretty rad.
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i am saying i have no artist skill not you dr what.
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a likely story…
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It’s true i am terrible at art!
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It’s cool, I believe you.
For now!
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she has only one eye!! *gasp*
and LOOK at the size of her HAND!
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Originally her face was turned more…
Now I have to draw another EYE!
I tried to do it in illustrator, but she ended up looking like Quasimodo. I need to draw guidelines in pencil to get it right.
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I’m impress.
I can’t draw for crap. Even my guidelines’ guidelines need guidelines. Makes everything I draw look like a railway track.
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Your not filling me with confidence about your graphic novel 😛
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Digital art, baby! There’s always a way around your shortcomings 🙂
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I think railway tracks are pretty alright.
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Who asked for your opinion anyway. Clearly you don’t have good taste man!
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YOU’RE BACK! /glee
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Yo dawg I heard you like guidelines?
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LIKE them? They are the bane of my existence. An entirely unnecessary evil. A plague upon the world! The scourge of mankind!
… etc
Already said this art was amazing. Looking forward to what you do with the colouring.
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Me too. I haven’t decided how I’ll do it yet. And I haven’t even thought about a background.
Man i am all mood swinging. I was escstatic yesterday with a few awesome things. Today i feel like i am in a hole. It’s weird how one comment makes you feel so small!
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big.
Better now?
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Thanks notty
For breaking TAY.
But really thanks
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I saw it!
Reminds me of the times when you go exploring on Minecraft and come across a straight path like that.
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saw it x2!
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I sworded it too
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You need to get yourself a rock to wind a piece of string around! Everybody wants a rock to wind a piece of string around!
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Is the point when you get angry wind the string around the rock and just let go of your anger?
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It’s whatever you want it to be man!!! It’s your rock and string!!!
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Just survive until the end of the week, Rocketman.
Maybe I will give you a bottle of ginger beer to cheer you up and it’ll be the only nice gesture towards you that I ever give, so you will keep the bottle and give it a name and keep it on your bedside cabinet so that it may watch over you while you sleep.-
Thanks bish. I shall call the bottle Tony and put cellophane wings on him and hug him before i sleep.
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Oh Rocketman!!!
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oh my… *looks around, whistling*
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i shall give you hugs
in the form of a haiku
feel better, hot stuff?-
Thanks chuloopa dude.
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One comment? What is this one comment? Was it a fellow TAYer!? SHOW ME WHO!! But what about one comment turning it back around…?
Rocketman…
Did you ever know that you’re my hero?
You’re everything I would want to be…
I could fly higher than an eagle, because you are the wind beneath my wings.Someone said that to me once. It made me cry like a baby. That said, it could very well have been said to someone else, someone’s sister or something, and it also could very well have been a woman crying next to me while I wished I was somewhere else. But, still, the thought is there. Somewhere.
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My cousin sings at weddings and stuff like that. She sings this song to make people cry. Stupid deuce he is. He enjoy watching people cry so he can say that he brought a tear to their eye. Yeah someone called me shit at my job which i take offence to. Mostly because i think i do a bang up job. The can call me dumb, fat and gay and i won’t bite but call me bad at my job that i do better then them burs me up.
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Psshh, lame-o, whoever it was. I’d love to defend you, but a) I dont know where the comment is and b) I have to admit I dun remember your job 🙁
I have a bad habit of remembering things that arent about me.
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Thanks sughly
I am a electronics technician. I fix things! -
Ooooooh ok ok, I see. Well, *I* believe you can fix things!
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HARRLIIII!!!!
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/09/the-world-of-darkness-mmo-flirts-with-permanent-death/
It’s still coming! 😀
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CHULOOPA!!!!! /flails arms wildly
Yes I saw this and came… to my senses much later after I passed out.
I SO wish I was there. The Masquerade universe is a beautiful one.
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well there’s a mental image you’ve burnt into everyone’s minds – well done.
BUT BOY AM I EVER EXCITED… about the game, that is
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And yes – beautiful in a very filthy and disturbing way – but none-the-less bloody awesome!
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Is there any possibility it’ll be set in pre-Gehenna times? I really didn’t like the “New WoD” White Wolf did. 2nd/3rd edition fo lyfe, mofos!
Also, players taking on the role of Princes and Primogen? I don’t know if I like that. I assume those are titles we can earn, like if we start a ‘clan’ (I use clan here in the MMO sense, not the bloodline sense) and that clan controls a significant area?
The only thing is I can see everyone rolling Malk. Malkavians are cool now, not like back in 2000 when I started playing one.
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i don’t know what you just said… BUT I WANT IN!
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But the clan of broken mirrors is the best.
Yeah I’m not a big fan of the new WoD either. Old one was much better and what I grew up with, so clan names and stuff have be ingrained into my mind.
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I think my friends and I are defined by the clan we first played. I chose Malk from the outset (BEFORE THEY WERE MAINSTREAM *CUT CUT*). One of my friends is a big beefy and uncomplicated bloke so he went Brujah. Another friend always wears black and fancies himself to be a broody, mysterious type so he prefers Lasombra. Another friend tends towards Nosferatu and he uh… um… well he loves sollecting information and is great for trivia nights.
Yeah, that’ll do.
Do I think I’m awesome crazy and insgightful like Malkvians? YES, OF COURSE I DO.
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Am i the only one that find it REALLY hard to get head shots in SM Multi?
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I find it hard to get hardshots in any multiplayer game.
Then again, I suck. A lot.
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Same here, *sigh* same here.
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Hahahahaha! Suck a lot! Hahahaha…
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NotoriousR aka Sir-Sucks-A-Lot?
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NotoriousR aka Sir Sucks-A-Lot?
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Oops. Sorry I was just too excited about that joke.
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He could be like my long-lost brother!
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*blinks*
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*slowly backs out of room*
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Oh wow, I just saw how the two relate. Mmm, yes, room backing out of justified…
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I’m actually a little concerned – two sexualised comments by Harli in a row?
Has the world gone mad?
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Gold… pure gold!! ROFLMAO
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Wait I don’t get it. Why is this a sexualised joke?
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This was a sexualised joke?
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*Makes gesture towards name*
Need I say more?
Lag issues maybe, I heard that a lot
Yes but there are several reasons for that.
First of all, I have difficulty using the Dual Shock controller. Not sure why I bought the game on PS3, but that does seem to dampen my ability to aim.
Secondly, my ability to aim is amazingly low. On some occasions, I can pull off several decent shots in quick succession. Those occasions are rare, more often than not, I take a long time to line up a single shot that ends up being way off target.
Finally, I have not played multiplayer just yet. Hard to get headshots in multiplayer without playing it :p
I’d like to add that i too SEVERELY suck at aiming. SEVERELY.
But still – there are SO many things to unlock from headshots, but i’m just TERRIBLE at them.
I’m actually pretty terrible at hitting ANYTHING anyway.. lol
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Another problem is the unlocks from chain kills. Now I can, and have, performed a few of these, but some of the unlocks require 60 chain kills! Bloody Hell, that will take for friggin ever the way I play.
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Haha, severely suck! Hah-… oh, at aiming. Oh… ah… dammit.
I never understood how people could aim on console.
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Even on PC i’m borderline retarded when it comes to aiming.
Hell, i use mass select in RTS’s because i can’t even do THAT right 😛
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Traditionally, you use your thumbs to manipulate the analog sticks so that the aiming receptacle is pointing in something resembling the correct direction.
Also, a disgustingly large amount of auto-aim (especially in Space Marine).
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Yeah this. Srsly guys, how do you use two thumbsticks to move someone around!? I dun gedit. When they had this business in Red Faction I was like pffft, this wont catch on, I dun need to get used to it. *sigh*
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What you do is hope that someone runs into your crosshairs.
I had sooooooo much trouble killing things in Uncharted 2 on Easy even with aiming help. I’m good at games!
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No no what you do is wait until someone goes into your crosshairs and let the CONSOLE AUTOAIM (Cuz it needs it right? xD) follow the enemy keeping it in your sights to make such a skillful and awesome ki-HAHAHAHAAHAHA! Sorry I couldn’t keep a straight face.
*switches the troll setting off* Oh my goodness I am so sorry! I somehow left that on. I am ashamed -.-
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Space Marine does that.
Seriously.
It does.
I should capture some footage of just how far the crosshairs can move without any prompting.
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I first saw it on Halo, and bloody hell I was laughing my head off, then i had to reattach it… stupid game, I could’ve dented my head!
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i am LETHAL, if someone runs into my line of fire… if not, just spam grenades in a straight line… usually works
Well, for me it comes down to having played console shooters for many, many years. Starting on the N64 with Goldeneye and Perfect Dark.
Minecraft server is down again 🙁
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I think we have to accept minecraft is really buggy with server crashes ATM. Hopefully they get fixed soon!
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I’m having withdrawals already.
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I AM YOUR SERVER AND I’M DIGGING A HOLE
DIGGY DIGGY HOLE
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1.8 Version is a great update, but the amount of bugs is concerning. Our server has resorted to players dying in pits of lava every time they log out…
It’s only 10.30 and my stomach is already starting to eat itself.. i have to wait until 1 before i can eat my scrummy lunch!!! 🙁
WHY SUPERMAN!?!? WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS?!
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I watched Doomsday last night.
The scene where Lois goes back to the farm and cries with Superman’s mum. Oh man… So many tears were shed both on and off the screen.
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and clothes….???
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C’mon man, I’m talking about a really heart-felt scene here and you ask if I tore my clothes off.
Disgraceful.
I make sure I’m nekkid whenever I watch a drama.
I Am Sam = I Am Nudie.
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I am loling! But yeah, how do people watch that film without tears? HOW!? Or for that matter, with clothes.
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I can’t watch a Dakota Fanning movie with clothes on.
I’ll let you interpret that however you want.
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That Sam being seperated from her was sad for you for very different reasons to every one else? Everyone but me…
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Hey look, someone wrote a new argument for the ACL.
Thanks, scientist!
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Couldn’t the same be said for people who watch tv or movie or read fiction. Surely these cases are fairly few and far between.
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Yeah, or read books.
Or have an imagination.
Dangerous free thinkers…
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Book bonfire time!
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I will grab all the copies of Twilight sequels and burn them first. It won’t take much for them to burn they don’t have much substance.
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HAHA ZING!
You sir are a genius
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Take that tweens!
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I notice you just want to burn the sequels…got a place in your heart for the original then? 😛
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Yes i actually like the original. It was sorta awesome. I am a softy at heart. I read all of them and was disappointed by the rest. The first one was really emotive and really lovely. Call me gay if you want but i liked it!
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I read and enjoyed all of them. So there. 😛
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I can tell why some people like them but it became really stupid in the second book. Really she saw visions of him from adrenaline rushes. What girl would have that low of self esteem that she could only get her love from that one source and crave it so desperatly? I mean i realize its about eternal love but cmon.
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nah they’ll just burst into pretty sparkles
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Unfortunately, the devil’s handiwork will not burn.
I’ll grab my Kindle.
Wait… dammit, that both won’t work and will suck.
Phooey.
We should start with the bible. You know there’s incest in there? INCEST!
WON’T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!?
In Business Law we see ‘ACL’ everywhere (Australian Comsumer Law) and it drives me NUTS because i always read it as “Australian Christian Lobyy”, so i start yelling at the book.
“you have no right to be in there, christian!! you have no right to be making laws!!! ragggeee!!!”
That’s usually when i get kicked out.
ACL – Section 18, paragraph 12 – in the case of indecision, state “won’t someone think of the children” and remain ignorant.
“Gamers, this isn’t real”
Haha, don’t be silly dudeguy, I pull flaming swords out of my chest all the time.
Great party trick.
Until the blood loss.
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The flames cauterize my wounds.. so you’re either heomphelic(sp?), or you have leukemia – you better see a doctor, dude
Prefferably doctor cox, because he’s real too
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Or me!
You know what will fix that leaky blood hole in your chest?
LIME JELLY!
AND DISCO!
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but, each time i see a hip-high object i duck behind and think that i could easily throw some biotics at that person… and each time a car drives by i get a yellow Y appearing in the lower right hand of my FOV so that i can nick it… or maybe thats just the alcohol talking… i dunno
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I can’t enter a room that has a shin high obstruction.
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I heavily bruised my leg on a wine rack in France. A wine rack. Needless to say, the French people I was with were bewildered by how that was even possible.
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but then you equipped your trusty lancer, roadie ran over to them and chainsawed them in half right? RIGHT?
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Naaaaah, I thought about it but then I just drank all the wine and then I felt better.
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But then I ate an orange and it was K.
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I had to google that. You kids these days with your memes…
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‘That’s Our Sughly’
-canned laughter-
So people take something learned from fiction, such as a way to process information, and apply it to reality, and that’s a problem because that fiction is presented in video game form?
Those scientists are going to have egg on their faces when they find out about organised religion.
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ZING!
But our Australian soldiers use chainswords against the Orks… right? RIGHT?! WHAT IS THIS!?
I’ve been practicing so I could join them some day, pressing F to throw a kick and stun my enemy before pressing E and chainswording them in half! Are you saying that’s not how it works?!
What do you mean there’s no such thing as a jump pack?! FUUUUUUU!
/silly ranting
“The research carried out by Nottingham Trent University and Stockholm University involved 42 interviews with frequent video game players aged between 15 and 21.”
There is no validity to this research. 42 interviews is nowhere near a large enough sample size to draw any statistical significance from. Waste of time, move along. Unfortunately, too many people don’t understand this, and will swallow up whatever the media feeds them. Sigh.
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maybe the gamers found out what the research was and started t troll them!
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I can kind of imagine this.
If I were participating, I’d probably be all “OH GOD THE GHOSTS ARE AFTER ME” and only eat yellow cookies and select pieces of fruit but since they have no sense of humour, they’d be all OMG CONCLUSIVE PROOF THIS GUY IS A WEIRDO ALSO HE PLAYS GAMES and I’d then be all “Can’t tell if trolling or just stupid”.
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OMG you mean video games aren’t real?
Then that means there’s no blight upon us, which means no darkspawn, which leads me to the question … who, the makers, blood did I drink for the joining?
I’ve never met anyone who has said they see item boxes or health bars after playing a game. I have heard people say they look to the bottom right hand corner of the book they’re reading when they need to know the time.
This is the most retarded article I’ve ever read. I bet it’s a handful of amusing anecdotes that support someone’s hypothesis, and provides no actual scientific evidence for the conclusion.
Press and Hold ‘X’ to hack computer…
Dammit, ppl. I woke up today with things to do. And then I opened TAY. I love you all and hate you all equally.
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Also I will take this time to say hello to all the new names! I dun remember the names any more but if you dont know me just say hello back. DO IT!
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hello
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But, but… I know you… :'(
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You had me at “hello”.
:’)
And then you went crazy, Tom Cruise. Then I backed away rather quickly./not related to actual comment really
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HAI *flails arms around*
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OH HAI THERE!
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Haven’t you heard? You can’t comment here and expect replies! It’s like twitter now, comments are made then BAM! New page. Gone forever. No one can be bothered to go back and read everything.
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But, but… this IS a reply!
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Except me, and I’m pretty sure Blaghman.
I keep refreshing older pages but nobody is responding and even though I know there’s a 99% chance nothing will be different I do it anyway.-
I read previous pages when no one has replied to anything for a while! Look i replied to your twilight thing!
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I’m still waiting for that slack tadmod fella to implement an email alert system when someone replies to one of your comments! 😉
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dude that would be both rad and horrible. My inbox would be chockers.
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yeah admittedly the idea i spruked and serrels approved would be much better. + buttons next to each threat and indicators if someone has replied since your last visit… MAKE IT SO TADMOD!! What are they paying you for? 😉
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hmmm thread not threat…. an edit button would also be handy 😉
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Hey man,
*Shakes hand*
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*Clear’s through to break awkward silence*
So, uhhh how about that uhh weather … it sure is something …
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You go outside?
Hello!
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Hellooo! Yeah I didnt really think too far ahead about where to take this thread after initial greeting but ah… yeah… at least I said hello now!
Belated hello 🙂
Yeah yeah I hate you too human 😛
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…and love? I said love too, you know.
My mission to learn to not suck at Starcraft 2 has been thwarted by the existence of other games that demand my attention.
Drat.
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wait… i’m confused… there’s such a thing as not sucking at Starcraft?
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There are rumours of such a thing.
I had planned to search long and hard to see if there was any truth to them. But alas, distractions exist.
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My mission to not suck in social settings is constantly thwarted by games. I guess it is similar! I kid im not antisocial now leave me alone.
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i’m not antisocial… i got at least 3 friends on Facebook… yeeaahh… Mr. Popular… That’s me…
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Remember: your not antisocial, everyone else is just an arsehole.
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Hey, that’s me!
But only to Rocketman!
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IT’s funny cause i am the annoying kid who clings onto a group of friends and then eventually becomes part of the group. Then the other people start to run away from them!
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The MC server is down again? Already??
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Awww, what am I going to do at work now?
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Work?
or
TAY and reddit. its a winning combo.
Trust me, I’m The Doctor.-
Do you have a house on the server Rocketman?
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I do its right in front of blaghmans maze. Its covered in window panes.
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I’M the doctor.
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yes, yes you are. But without a sonic screwdriver and a bow tie.
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But with an accent!
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But…. what?
Surely if you speak you have to have an accent! I mean, even talking ain a mootone robot voice you’d have an accent. The same accent as a monotone robot!
Just…. What?
Also Chris Eccleston had a pretty thick accent. Didn’t Sylvester McCoy play the Doctor with a Scottish accent too?
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Dam, I was just going to jump on for a bit too. I play in the browser, which crashes every half hour or so, but I’m using that as a feature to make sure that I don’t play for too long.
Ach, ah huvnae goat a clue whit ye mean. Ah’m urnae doon at’a! Ah’m richt here um a no?
Ach, yer makin’ hee haw sense!
Awa n’ bile yer heid!
For work related reasons, the name Steve Holt \o/ came up.
I had to send this video to a co-worker so that she got why I was chuckling.
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You say that like she never watched Arrested Development.
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That’s because she never watched Arrested Development.
I find that most of my co-workers don’t get any of the references I make to anything at anytime. This is the problem with a >20 year age difference.
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Who is Steve Holt btw?
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Lambo you troll. I expect more from the classy guy who links to Friday song on youtube constantly 😛
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So guys LOL tonight and/or does anyone have GOW 3 and want to give a run ?
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Methinks Gears might have to be the way to go.
Simply because Gears.
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We should set up a community playdate for the weekend for gears.
Simply because I hate joining matches where everyone is blasting each other apart with gnasher shotguns.
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Methinks someone hates fun then notty.
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I’m considering doing a comparative video review of Gears and Space Marine.
The multiplayer section for Gears will just be me being shotgunned repeatedly in the face.
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Shotguns are fine, and I think they’ve done a pretty good job at balancing the weapons (apart from the retro lancer, the recoil is ridiculous on that, and that’s my favourite weapon). I just get annoyed at going into a match and there’s just people that run up to you, shotgun you, run away and that’s the entire match. I feel like I’m the only one with a lancer, or a retro lancer or even a sawed off. It’s just boring and unfun. Hence, I just stick to matches with friends or horde/co-op.
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I don’t think that it’s an issue of balance, Gears multiplayer has pretty much always been about the shotgun to the face.
That and host advantage, which is now apparently removed thanks to the use of dedicated servers.
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I have God of War 3. Is it multiplayer now?
Wow, the things they can do with patches these days.
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Patches are great man, should have seen what they used to do with the original Tomb Raider /winks
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did someone say poorly rendered boobs
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I am intrigued with this Pai Gow Poker thing.
Anyone else had a marketing survey pop up?
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i did, i didn’t want to tell TADmod how much i earned so i didn’t fill it out!
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I got the popup and decided against filling in the survey. My answers will be false in a few weeks because I’ll be moving out of home (again) and I’m not sure on how things will play out.
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does this mean you are going to be on teamspeak less. 🙁
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There will probably be a brief (maybe not so brief) period where I am internet-less.
Last time I moved out, it took Telstra a month to give us a phone number so that we could install internet. Annoyingly, the previous tenants hadn’t cancelled the line so we were pretty screwed over on that one. Played a lot of Mahjong.
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You should have run up a massive international phone debt for them. Teach them to cancel their lines when they move.
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Annoyingly, there was no dial tone, but the line was still apparently in use.
Weird situation. Not much I could do because I delegated that task to someone else. Delegation is quite awesome.
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Yep.
I’m guessing it’s for advertising purposes, but I don’t mind helping Allure get moar money.
I’m not sure how knowing I’m responsible for buying the groceries will help Kotaku provide a better experience to me, but hey, it’s anonymous right? No harm in filling it out.
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Maybe for you guys…I’m not sure how many other 35 year-old stay-at-home Mums read Kotaku. 😛
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It was on all the Allure sites. That includes Lifehacker where that is a more relevant question.
Unless you count from an advertiser’s point of view, then it’s definitely a relevant question to know what control the people on this site have over specific types of purchases.
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What about stay at home dads? Oh wait I’m not stay at home, I’m just unemployed 🙁
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Yup, I did it once, then got the pop-up in another tab, and considered doing it again.
Hey has anyone tweeted FatShady about the MC server?
I has no twitters.
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i think he is at work i might tweet qbo instead!
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MAN ive already restarted it once this morning… ill do it again i guess.
if there are still problems i can lodge a call with the server company.. sorry dudes.
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OK so i just restarted it again. What seems to be happening is that some people are listed as being on the server when in fact they are not.. then this keeps looping so that you can’t connect (or the server is down but says that it is up???)
Anyway, a restart will work in the short term. Ill get onto it tonight.
You know how, when you change your name, it takes a while to okay your comments.
Anyone know how long?
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till the moderators approve it i guess
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YOOOOUUUUUUUU’RRRRREEEE RIIIIGGGGHHHHTTT!!!!
You win a virtual internets. Congratualiations!
(also, I’m going in to approve them now, sorry for the delay!)
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Has anyone seen any of Raising Hope? It’s not a bad show. I watched the first half at the weekend and loled heartily.
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The wife and I love it. Made by the My Name Is Earl folks, but is way better than seasons 2-4 of Earl. 🙂
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That’s why I’m watching it. Loved Lee’s guest role as the aging rocker.
I thought season 4 of Earl was getting back on track. It was becoming about the list again and not as stupid.
I like that Raising Hope has a passing mention on a news show that Earl completed his list.
Also, it has cute baby. Cute baby makes the sho even better.
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I was given a free sample of ice cream with my lunch. I was not given a spoon. I was given a plastic knife.
Close enough!
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Success! \o/
But now I have no more ice cream /o\
But my stomach is full of delicious foods! \o/
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The emotional rollercoaster that is Trjn’s lunch adventure.
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If you are hungry you can make it work. I once ate my entire lunch, Raviolli i think, with nothing more than a paddlepop stick. (my work never has forks!)
Good times.
I must say, playing all these games lately has re-awakened my inner uber-nerd…yes, my love for RPG’s(the pen and paper kind)
and after playing DE:HR it brought back fond memories of playing Cyberpunk on a rainy afternoon and more recently, playing 40k:SM I just had to go and flick through my 40k: Dark Heresy rulebook one last time…ah, those were the days 😀
TLDR- I miss the good old role playing games that actually required some imagination. Rant over.
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You are new and you didnt say hello to me in my say hello to me if youre new thread >:(
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Hello!
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Hello!
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Lol sorry Sughly, must’ve missed it.I can only check TAY at random intervals(at work).
So…..hello!
From Better World Books:
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Hello Shane,
(Your book(s) asked to write you a personal note – it seemed unusual, but who are we to say no?)
Holy canasta! It’s me… it’s me! I can’t believe it is actually me! You could have picked any of over 2 million books but you picked me! I’ve got to get packed! How is the weather where you live? Will I need a dust jacket? I can’t believe I’m leaving Mishawaka, Indiana already – the friendly people, the Hummer plant, the Linebacker Lounge – so many memories. I don’t have much time to say goodbye to everyone, but it’s time to see the world!
I can’t wait to meet you! You sound like such a well read person. Although, I have to say, it sure has taken you a while! I don’t mean to sound ungrateful, but how would you like to spend five months sandwiched between Jane Eyre (drama queen) and Fundamentals of Thermodynamics (pyromaniac)? At least Jane was an upgrade from that stupid book on brewing beer. How many times did the ol’ brewmaster have one too many and topple off our shelf at 2am?
I know the trip to meet you will be long and fraught with peril, but after the close calls I’ve had, I’m ready for anything (besides, some of my best friends are suspense novels). Just five months ago, I thought I was a goner. My owner was moving and couldn’t take me with her. I was sure I was landfill bait until I ended up in a Better World Books book drive bin. Thanks to your socially conscious book shopping, I’ve found a new home. Even better, your book buying dollars are helping kids read from Brazil to Botswana.
But hey, enough about me, I’ve been asked to brief you on a few things:
We sent your order to the following address:
…etc
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I love this company. Buy your books from them when you can. 🙂
Welcome back, Sughly!!
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Wait, sug-lee is back?
Did not notice.
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Batman eats a hotdog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIGgGV7uwU4&feature=grec_index
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*nom nom nom nom nom*
best sound effects ever
Oh man, oh man. I’m watching Day[9] play Diablo 3, and this is the best D3 stream I’ve seen. Day[9] is great.
My daughter just got back from trying out the new “Spyro” thingy, Skylanders. Mr. Strange said it was actually pretty impressive. It’s a game with a stadium-looking toy ‘portal’ attached that you place your figures on and they then appear in your game.
Your figures remember all their stats, loot and stuff so you can take them and play with any of your friends no matter what console they’re using.
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that does seem pretty rad.
You know what makes me sad, MGMT’s first album was filled with awesome riffs and catchy lyrics. I was listening to their second album and man it is so not as good as the first one. I wish bands would live up to their potential. Same goes for you Panic! at the disco.
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Agreed. But dude, stay away from Crappy at the disco. Also, M83’s new album is amazing.
@Harli – sorry i missed Sughly’s joke and thought wou were being dirty LOL – i should have known better 😛
I missed the “sir” part. hahaha
Sughly
September 21, 2011 at 10:31 AM
NotoriousR aka Sir Sucks-A-Lot?
Harli
September 21, 2011 at 10:35 AM
He could be like my long-lost brother!
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all good 🙂
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But your still Eats, and he’s still… eh nevermind.
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I am confuse at what happening.
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Oh you, no need to be shy.
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Okay.
Here’s the plan peoples and peoplettes of TAY.
Tonight there shall be Gears. Many Gears. Gears of the War variety. We shall be playing some Horde mode.
Come one, come all. It’s time to shoot some stuffs in the faces with shotguns.
Who’s in?
I might record it for the sake of mocking my own ineptitude.
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You know, we’re probably going to grab that cheap 360 and Gears pack today so I may even be able to join in. If I get over my fear of multiplayer in time.
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I bought that exact same pack yesterday.
Got to say, so far I am not regretting the shiny new Xbox, even if that Kinect will probably never leave the packaging.
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I also now have a transfer cable because of this, so if you do buy a new 360 and need to borrow that cable, just ask.
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and “bing” don’t for get the “bing”
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The bing is very important.
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Cheap 360 gears pack? Where??
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It isn’t the Gears Special Edition 360, but EB is selling Gears 3 + 250gb 360 + Kinect for $398.
Hard to say no to that. So I said yes.
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Also apparently Harvey Norman are now doing them for $378.
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You’re right. Dang, I could have saved $20 by walking to a store that was about 50m away.
Hohum.
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I’d say yes, but I don’t want gears 3 or a Kinect.
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I didn’t want the Kinect, but it was a good price even if you ignore that part. Less so if you also don’t want Gears, which just makes you an odd person.
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Well, I don’t have a 360. So I gaven’t played Gears 1 or 2.
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^Haven’t.
Damn typos.
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I I had Gold I’d go get Gears 3 to join you, but I can’t really justify the cost of both Gears and Gold, particularly when I need to buy a bunch of food for people to (M)eat.
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If* Clearly my typing skills are unparalleled.
Woot! I’m not sure if I have you friendededededed on LIVE, my Gamertag is: N0toriousR (the first o is a zero).
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Mine’s TrjnRabbit. I’ll probably forget to send an invite if you aren’t on my friendlist, so this way I can place the blame on you if I don’t see an invite :p
You know, I’ve only just now found out who Steve Holt is…
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*Hugs Lamb* I had to look it up when they first began yelling it around here.
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I was the same.
I was all “Steve holt?”
THen I was, like, “Ah. Steve Holt…”
True story.
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because of all the talk, i obtained the first 3 seasons… ive watched 2 seasons in the past few weeks. funny.
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It is for this reason alone that I believe that my life in general has had a positive effect on those around me.
Without me recommending TV shows to people, I’d be a right asshole.
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Yes, Yes you would.
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I believe I’ve recommended you a particularly lengthy list of shows, which only goes to demonstrate my point :p
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it does, you also reccomended me a bunch of books which i also appreciate and my take your advice and put them on my e-reader instead!
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Could never get into that show, maybe I just have no soul.
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That does seem like the most likely of explanations available to us at this point in time.
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I have to say, I’ve always thought it kind of ripped off these characters – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsNgRmsx-14
Yay! The MC server is up again! 😀
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Thanks Shady!
Pity I have work to do now.-
i don’t believe i know you good sire.
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Really? I thought you would have run into him by now, seeing as I am very well acquainted with Mr. Move.
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i get jokes now!
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Man, this was TOTALLY wasted! http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/09/talk-amongst-yourselves-153/comment-page-6/#comment-377372
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Bravo *Slow clap*
Though I was still able to understand you, so you weren’t trying hard enough!
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It’s down again
For those who say they suck at getting headshots or just having bad accuracy in shooters, give these a go. I bought a pair a while back on a whim and it has definitely helped my accuracy. It takes a little getting used to at first but now, I can’t play without them 🙂
http://www.kontrolfreek.com/FPS/KontrolFreek-FPS-Freek.asp
No, I don’t work for them but i thought i’d share this neat product. it fits either PS3 or 360 controllers no problem.
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What a great idea! Unfortunately for me, if I got them I would still stuck and it would be worse because I’d have no excuse then. 😛
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I enjoy my incompetence.
I have green money. I want to buy a game… but I want to save my monies???? what do?
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Space marine, or Deus Ex or Gears. Or others
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Yeah Im thinking gears? sorry to all but not really into spacemarine or at least not from the demo. I have played all prior gears and enjoyed them, even though i dont play MP much???
I shall stroke my beard a little more while thinking about this.
So $69 pricematched from kmart was the best price going round?
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You know, I honestly don’t remember the last time I held a $100 note.
ATM only ever seems to spit out $50s, even if you’re getting a square $500 out.-
Yeah you don’t see them that often unless you go into the bank and ask for them. Also you look like a deuce when your paying for stuff with it. No i don’t have change for a $100 you rich snooty bastard.
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I used to work at a Subway store at the top of Queen St, near the casino.
That casino was about the only source of $100 bills in Brisbane. I still only ever saw a handful when I worked there.
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Is that because the 100s went in, but never came out… or because it was a Subway?
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“You there, sandwich bitch. 6 inch Turkey -pause- on Gluten-free”
-slaps down $100 note-
“Ye.. Yes, sir!”
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Donate it to the save welbot foundation! :0
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i hear that the foundation is just a bunch of hippies who are trying to rule the world 😛
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Sorry buddy… its going into the keep Shady sane foundation… it is a big deal for me to have disposable income because of a very tight budget my wife and I have created to dig ourselves out of a reasonable sized hole… it will be this way for the next 2 years i suspect so i gotta use it wisely.
I do however support your foundation and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
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You should just stack dirt under your feet, that gets me out of a hole every time.
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Minecraft! \o/
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Space Marine was fun enough, but a bit of a one-trick pony, particularly if you’re just in it for the single player. If you found yourself wanting to play it still, you could borrow it from me. Swapping games could be a good way for both of us to save!
Sounds like Day-of-Sex could be better value for money, what with all the game-of-the-year talk.
As for Gears 3, well, I haven’t finished Gears 1 because I got board, and thus never bought/played Gears 2. So can’t offer much advice there.
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Batguy Lien… Stupid cookies…
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Also “got board”? Who the hell is this Batguy Lien character? Can’t speel for shit!
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I SPEEL MY DREENK!
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I’m with you… wtf just happeneD?
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You know why this is here.
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That is one awesome goat.
I’ve been rather rambly lately. My brain might be engaging NaNoWriMo mode where I deactivate the filter between thoughts and fingers.
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I find myself wanting to try out NaNoWriMo.
But November results in Uncharted 3, MGS HD, AC:R and BF3 (more or less) coming out.
*sigh*
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I’m doing it anyway!
I have a great idea for a story, it’s called: Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies.
The first chapter is a group of adventurers derping about in a cave and then rocks fall, killing everyone.
I haven’t really worked out the rest but it’s a pretty solid premise, methinks.
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I think it needs more substance. Maybe not kill everyone in the first chapter!
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Maim?
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Nah, I’m pretty certain that the title only works if they die.
Last year, my NaNo story was “They Fight Crime” in which two people got super powers and then didn’t fight crime. Using trope names as titles is fun.
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Get Sughly to illustrate!
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Do what now?
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Oh, TV Tropes, which innocent mind will you courupt next?
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http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/2680-Minecraft
See a theme here yet?
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Yahtzee’s shit?
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Yellow? That’s a theme, isn’t it?
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I haven’t seen the video but I can still bet what he thinks of the game.
He doesn’t like it, right?Surprise surprise.
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Actually, he liked it but didn’t really appreciate it’s potential. That’s what happens when you have less than a week to play something and make a video about it – it’s why he’s also posted reviews on lengthy games like The Witcher without actually finishing them.
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I don’t know if you guys had/still have a sense of belonging at your high school, but I’m quite proud of mine, and hearing bad news about it through my friends and on Facebook has made me a bit sad. One of the teachers who lived in my neighbourhood was diagnosed with nasal cancer earlier and it’s relapsed recently. Even though we weren’t close as teacher/student, we chit-chatted quite a bit when we were waiting for the same bus to school and she was quite nice to me. Another teacher who never taught me just passed away a couple of days ago due to illness, she’s quite young, less than 35 :\ And then our current principal (who was already principal went I left school) is on court for one of the ex-janitors suing her for sexual discrimination and such.
Nostalgia is certainly kicking in for me : (
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I kinda know what you mean, i was friends with a girl i went to high school with, we liked the same music and stuff. Whenever she was around i would talk to her sorta thing. When i finished school i lost touch except for the occasional message between each other when we heard a cool song we thought the other would like. Then one night i was on facebook and a friend of mine told me the girl had been in a car accident and died. The place she died i drive past nearly every week. Its was quite hard to get over it at first. But now even still i hear some music that she might like and i get a bit of nostaligia and get a bit sad. She was a really top person and i was sad to lose a friend.
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Well, now I’m sad.
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It is a sad story.
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You know what’s not a sad story?
The majority of the girls I went to High School with got pregnant at the formal.
Stay Classy Gold Coast.
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Wow your kidding, that doesn’t actually happen.
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His kidding.
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Of course I’m kidding.
It was graduation.
HEY-OH!
But seriously, lot’s of girls got pregnant. Maybe not the majority but enough for me to notice a pattern.
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Happened at my school too. Amazingly high amount of young mothers from my graduating class.
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Had they heard of contraception? I mean, it’s not that complex an idea…
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I believe they may have heard of it at some time. Quite possibly after the fact.
Definitely makes for “drat, if only I’d known sooner!” moment.
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I went to high school on the Gold Coast.
I don’t miss it.
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Also that’s sad ’bout the cancer person and young teacher.
Ima go cry now.
Then post photos of it to my MySpace.
OW! So much pain. Just got home from having my tooth pulled. Not fun, although the dentist was great, no nonsense, just got the job done. But oh god, the pain 🙁
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You mean they didn’t dope you up beyond all belief? There’s a simple solution here. TAKE MORE PAINKILLERS!(But avoid taking too much, as Paracetamol is NASTY)
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Nope, because they had my address and so knew I had a 45min drive after getting the tooth pulled. So I only got as much local anaesthetic as they were allowed to give me. I could still feel it at the end when they were pulling out the bits of tooth. Mostly pain now though
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Well -claps hands together- that’s gross.
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CWE Blaghman 😉
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CWE?
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Errr…. Careful when encouraging.
Yup. That’s exactly what I meant.
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“I’m in a great deal of pain but the person who did it to me was very efficient in their pain causing.”
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What I meant was, the previous two dentists that tried to get it out tried for ages, then couldn’t get it and just referred me onto this dentist. He laughed at their poor efforts, got straight into it and had it out within 15mins, when the other guys spent 40mins each trying to remove the tooth.
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Just think of all the in-between pain you miss out on because you got in early!
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This is true 🙂 there’s always an upside I guess. But man, the pain. I need to go to the chemist and get some more painkillers, but I can’t speak properly because my face is still numb :/
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They’re very good at understanding you through potential paralysis. Or you could just write down what you want on a piece of paper…
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Reports are coming in of an attempted robbery at a Pharmacy in Perth.
Allegedly a swollen faced, half bandaged young man confronted staff with a note demanding painkillers before screaming unintelligibly at staff….
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If you do go to the chemist, kindly film it for us, it could be quite hilarious 😛
Also, call it “NumbFace goes to the chemist” 😛-
I hope you get better soon 🙂
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Hey, listen! Hey, listen! Hey, hey! Listen! Hey, listen! Listen! Hey, listen!
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*Link’s about to enter the forest temple*
Link “WHAT DO YOU WANT NAVI?”
Navi “We should visit the forest temple”
So I’ve been playing a little Die2nite at work today. I got stabbed in the eye by a pack of zombies. Found a twisted plank and I’m currently standing next to Lambo in the desert, and I just found some flat pack furniture.
But I still want to keep playing. Is anyone else giving it a try?
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That reminds me, I should check to see if I’ve found anything. I probably haven’t, what with my dude having a wounded eye and all…
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You got stabbed in the eye too? They must be trying to make us all pirates. I bet they go for the legs next. Then it will be zombies vs Pirates. I’d still play that.
Do you have enough points to make it back to town?
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I would so totally play a game called zombies vs pirates too 😀
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awww you guys are playing.. now i’m tempted even with the idiots…
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I’m about to sign up – the minecraft server is down, what else am I meant to do at work? 😛
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I think Trace just landed in a hardcore town. Everyone I’ve met so far has been friendly. I guess I already know not to take the bandage thou…..
Maybe thats a big thing.
But it is pretty fun I think.
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ok guys – i’m on board – i already see f4ction lol
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Hi buddy! I’m just doing whatever, damn them all. Who needs instructions anyway?
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Oh dear, I appear to have wandered into a zone with five zombies in it, and I can’t escape cause I’m already injured D:
If anyone can help, I’m directly south/east from the town.-
i built a tent – am i helping?! 😀
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Erm…no. No, you’re not…
😛I’m not even sure if we’re in the same town, actually.
Are you in “Empty Pueblo of Lepers”?
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Oh Nooos Lambo. I will try to come get you in about 15 mins if you reply to this. I will need one more person so we have six people points to 5 zombies. Unless you can kill one. I only have enough points to get to you and get back to the town. I read that once we outnumber them, when someone leaves you have half an hour to leave too.
Go to the forums and put up a post for help. Just start a new thread and tick the box that says call for help. Then I’ll let people know I’m heading to help and hopefully we can get one more person.
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Your in the Brown Square South East of town right?
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Sorry Lambo, I am calling it a night so I went back to town. I’d post a rescue message in the forums as your last hope.
Good Luck.
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I thought “why the hell not?” and so I joined, and now I’m in some random town, and I’m scared and alone…
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As far as I can tell, that’s all there is to this game, feeling scared and alone… ‘cept when you’re surrounded by zombies, then you’re just plain scared.
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Yeah, I’m playing with Stevo and Chuloopa right now.
I’m wounded and infected and unfortunately there’s no bandage to steal.
Space marine PS3 owners:
Space Marine (THQ)
Patch Update: PS3 Honour Guard members, the PS3 patch is now live on the PlayStation Network. The patch directly addresses the reported matchmaking issues and applies some behind the scenes improvements. Keep up to date with all the upcoming patch details for PC, PS3 & Xbox 360 here: http://www.spacemarine.com/forums/topic/6668
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Any word on the 360 patch?
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Just the PS3 version from what i’ve seen – it was the most broken version, afterall
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Because the Adeptus Mechanicus is really just future Microsoft.
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Woohoo! Finally!
Today has been full of loots! At the aforementioned Skylanders Shindig my daughter came home with one of the figures from it, then my Kudos prize arrived, and to top it all off we now have a shiny new XBox 360. Both of ours were launch models with 20gb hard drives so this was a much needed upgrade. This also means that seeing as we’re putting it in the bedroom (to keep the kids’ grubby hands off it) and I just got Space Marine on 360 for Mr. Strange…I might be able to play games at night again finally!
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Moar catching up:
@Shane: I was so impressed by that email from Better World Books the first time I used them – such an awesome touch! Made me smile 😀
@Trjn: I really want to try out NaNoWriMo, but it’s my uni exam month and there’s a bunch of games coming out to boot. Next year, maybe! But good luck with your depressingly realistic caving horror. 😛
@everyone playing Die2Nite: is there a way to make a custom Kotaku town? Or arrange to be in the same one?
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Do it anyway. There’s no shame in losing but there is great joy in somehow managing to win.
So i’m gonna enter this comp to design a holiday e-card and prize if I win is an iPod touch or another piece of gadgetry worth about 200 bucks. Now I have no need/want for an iPod & not really sure what I would even pick. Can you guys help me? 😀
They announced this just the other day cause apparently they’re desperate for entries LOL.
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Kindles are pretty neat if you like reading. Do YOU like reading?
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Everyone likes reading, except thooe who don’t where do you think i picked up my awesome spelling and grammar skillz.
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By reading Twilight.
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Buuuuuuuurn lol!
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I do like reading. I mainly just read music autobiographies.
I did think about it a bit over the day. Maybe i’d get a new ext hdd & a WDTV, i’ve wanted one for years and now the good model is 100 bucks. Since I have so much media & no PS3, 360 or spare PC to put XBMC on to play it back on my TV 🙁
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Minecraft server is up and running. I had to create a new map because apparently there was a conflict between the 1.8 map and the 1.8.1 clients that we are using.
Should be good now.
Also I am a man now because i punched an enderman to death with my bare hands. Thats what you need to do now to be called a man right?
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You know Notch will be releasing another small update in a few days? Yeah. I think he hates us. Notch hates fun.
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I think he hates the beast minecraft has become!
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Oh, and you know he’s adding a snow golem (snowman) mob? Well, apparently he is. It throws snowballs at you.
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I did read that on his twitter. At least snowballs do 0 damage!
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I reckon Minecraft is a game about the manliest of men: the very first thing you do is cut down a tree with your bare hands then karate chop the logs into planks and sticks to make tools with.
And all you do is the manliest of jobs: miner, farmer, explorer, fighter, builder.-
I don’t think you included run away screaming from creepers and zombies and spiders.
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Athlete
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I prefer screaming little girl or is Qbo’s case he is arsonist and firefighter all in one.
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What would be the profession of a spleefer?
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Hey f4action and chuloopa, we all managed to end up in the same die2night city. Really wish there was a way to select a city or at least try and group up with people.
Oh btw I finished the wall upgrade and stole a battery from a dead guy. I’m also infected, so looks like that’s it for me already XD.
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i am confused is this game like a text based thing or what?
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Yeah semi-text based. There is limited graphics when you leave the town.
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IS it fun at all?
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It’s interesting. Still deciding if it’s fun or not. :/
Oh yeah I figured out how to group people together. You can create a ‘coalition’ that will make all people in it join when someone in the coalition joins a new town. It can only support 5 people though. If anyone wants to join one, let me know – I’ve already sent out invites to chuloopa and f4ction who happened to be in the same starting town as me.
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(ExplosionsHurt in the game)
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ExplosionsHurt? You’re on the Cliff of Creeps too! I don’t think I’m going to last the next night due to infection, but at least I sort of know what to do for next time.
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man… i was going to sign up… then i found out the proxy at work blocks it due to: “Game/Cartoon Violence”… stoopid proxy *grumble grumble*
if you drink water i think that cures your infection
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Nah, I tried it.
You have to have some special super-rare pill.
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I found some pharmaceuticals.
They are on the ground next to the creepy house I am hiding in from the 6 zombies trying to eat me.
Good start.
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The key to success in Magicka:
Step 1) Survive until you unlock Thunderbolt/Summon Elemental.
Step 2) Spam Thunderbolt/Summon Elemental.
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Alternateivly you could just play with you and get you to spam the crap out of it.
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Or I could spam Crash to Desktop…
It works on Blaghs even when I don’t cast it.
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Hey. Hey. Let’s be fair.
Bish crashes out of it WAY more often than I do.
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Yeahhhhh, I don’t even try to play that game anymore.
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Yeaahhh….The only problem with that is that I kept getting hit by thunderbolts…
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You say that like it’s a bad thing.
It’s only kind of a bad thing.
Don’t worry, I was hitting my elementals just as often as I was hitting you or the enemy. Aiming isn’t really my thing.
Also, Vortex. So broken. So fun. So easy to kill everything on the screen, including yourself.
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My download of Magicka finished last night 🙂
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I guess that solves the mystery of what to do tonight.
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co-op campaign?
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I might be able to host, so we have New Game Plus available. Which means spamming of almost all of the ridiculously overpowered Magicks.
You heard my furious mashing last night, all I was doing for most of it was:
sedfqs sedfqs sedfqs sedfqs sedfqs sedfqs sedfqs sedfqs sedfqs sedfqs sedfqs sedfqs sedfqs sedfqs sedfqs sedfqs sedfqs sedfqs
Before that was available, I believe my spam spell of choice was:
qfasa qfasa qfasa qfasa qfasa qfasa qfasa
Or if we were indoors:
qfqfsaa (it’s a beam, you can’t spam this one).
Now you know all you need to succeed in Magicka.
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I’ll experiment, but I’m going to be the machine master of lightning and shields!
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This is relevant to my interests. Count me in if there’s room. Would it take some of the fun out of the campaign with plus mode though? Having every spell rather than having to explore for hidden areas?
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It’ll suck the fun out for me, someone who never has played it yet, it’s almost watching a movie as I watch you guys wail of everything… I’m going to feel so useless 😛
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Well, we didn’t get all of the spells but it’s mainly because the Vortex spell is unlocked after the final boss fight, so there isn’t an opportunity to use it until New Game Plus.
That being said, there’s no reason not to just start a new campaign.
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Yeah I’d like to learn it all at a steady pace, not making an attempt at a speedrun cuz you guys know all the OP spells and in the time it takes for me to kill one you already killed the other 30! xD
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Don’t worry, Magicka doesn’t work like that.
Just because you know what you should be doing doesn’t mean you can’t cock up in hilariously destructive ways.
Really, new abilities just mean knew ways to kill your teammates and yourself. Occasionally a monster might get hit too, but mainly death is reserved for teammates and yourself.
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Was watching this morning on Sunrise a debate (if you can call it that) about parents letting their 8 year old kids perform caged UFC matches. Now I’m just laughing away at this thinking about how poor and uneducated the parents must be (the usual sterotypes etc.) when all of a sudden one of the debators says that violent video games are the influence!
What the heck?
It’s bogan parents that are the influence, not violent video games!
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Violent video games are always the fault.
Except when it’s violent music, or violent dungeons and dragons, or violent comic, or violent pornography, or violent deadbeat parents, or violent dodgy contractos.
In this case, the parents were clearly aspiring pokemon trainers.
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Violent videogames? No. It’s obviously all because of At Home With the Gillards’ use of an Australian flag. HERESY!
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Who cares about violent video games anymore? You could be a fricken terrorist plotting against Australia and you only get given a few years!
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When I was a kid I used to go over to the neighbour kids place and watch wrestling, then we’d go wrestle in the back yard. It was pretty brutal.
When they got a gaming console, we’d play wrestling on that instead and I stopped going home covered in bruises and grazes.
I JUST BLEW SOME FREAKIN MINDS, AMIRITE?
Rest in peace Lambomann, If my infection dosen’t kill me today I will go bury your body…… and raid you for items. But mostly bury your body.
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No no no you need to burn it with fire to make sure the virus is gone!
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Fire is your answer for everything
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Bury it in obsidian blocks!
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I SURVIVED!! 😀
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So did I! High Five!
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Fine, but FOR THE LOVE OF GOD don’t use a bandage!
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Hey guys just helping myself to this bandage so I can wrap myself up in it and pretend to be a mummy.
k thanks
I’m not a racist but…
I can’t help but think this is funny (because it’s stupid)
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Oh you humans… 😛
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It’s funny, because the ad is kinda racist/stereotypical giving her that GIANT bowl of noodles.
I’ve seen this before at the posty i take our daily mail to – i laughed heartily
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I’m surpised she’s not wearing a silk chinese dress as well.
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Doesn’t matter, still gorgeous! 😛
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True dat!
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She also needs more geisha makeup – and a cat in those noodles
*nods*Still not racist enough yet.
The guy also need to be in a blue singlet with a cork string hat
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Oh, she needs a straw chinese hat. And a camera. And glasses. Just to get the point across.
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And buck teeth.
Really, they should have got Mickey Rooney to play the part of the Asian.
Or they could have taken the Last Airbender route, hired a white person that couldn’t act and mispronounce the name.
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I love the way the blonde bimbo white chick is laughing at the fat bearded dude who is making the slanty-eyes face behind the not-so-slanty-eyed asian girl eating what we would call ‘fried rice’ at the local chinese shop.
I love stereotyping.
So many great things about that.
First of all the title “Racism… It’s always unacceptable” should be “Racism: It’s never acceptable”.
Secondly, the bowl of rice looks like a terrible meal.
Third, the slanty eye thing isn’t how you mock Asians. For more details, consult Rocketman.
Finally, the look the Asian girl has on her face strongly resembles the “I’m about to choke a bitch” face my friend pulls when someone pisses her off. I would much rather see the 5 minutes after shot where the bearded twat has chopsticks embedded in his eyeballs.
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I was going to say.
It looks like a bowl of steamed rice, with shredded lettuce on top and… whatever those reddish things are supposed to be.
Call me a food snob, but I think eating a scarf would be tastier than that.-
That’s exactly what I was thinking, but I was worried that it might actually be some real meal that’s delicious or something, and me criticising it would come off sounding culturally insensitive, or worse, racist. Good thing I have Asians like you to fact-check for me. 😛
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Like a time-lapse photo series?
Shot 1 “Whites walk in door, see asian girl eating fried rice”
Shot 2 “Man makes slanty-eyed face, white girl laughs”
Shot 3 “Man continues to make slanty-eyed face, white chick not laughing as she sees asian girls face, and the grip she has on her chop-sticks” (this could be split in two)
Shot 4 “Man screaming with blood coming out of where eyes used to be but with chopsticks replacing them. White girl horrified, asian girl still holding chopsticks.
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You’re never incorrect on that first point. I misread the sentence as “always acceptable”.
You think that’s good? My wife’s aunt is a manager at Australia post. In the toilet cubicles, they need to put up instructions for currectly sitting on the toilet because so many of the employees at the distribution centres have fairly recently immigrated from Asian countries where it’s common practice to squat. You’d go into the bathroom and every single toilet would have footprints on the seat.
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I worked on a building site once, that had the same problem. Although the seats were always covered in more than just footprints…
Funny that. Apparently before I started here my workplace had some sort of multiculturalism-awareness presentation thing. It was called ‘Us and them’ or something. My boss couldn’t stop laughing as he told me. lol!
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Well, they need some way of dealing with the people who aren’t normal. Right Rocketman?
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“us and them”? nice, not to put a divide between us and the rest of the world but hey 😛 that’s pretty great
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okay, that could be misread i just realised, i meant that the title “us and them” is pretty great as a stuff up, not a divide between australians and the rest of the world… FYI i’m not from australia and has been caught in a lot of racism in the past and do not condone it… ’nuff said
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Where are you from, Pixel-Ferret?
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a stupid little country somewhere in europe that’s not even worth mentioning (denmark) :P… so it’s not due to colour or appearence i’ve copped flak, it’s more the “derherherher you speak funny” thing i’ve gotten… luckily the one time it did turn really nasty the guy ended up in jail… that was FANTASTIC
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I sincerely hope that most of the racism comes in the form of Swedish chef impersonations.
Just because that would be hilariously wrong.
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bahaha funnily enough that’s me doing the impersonations and find that in no way offensive
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So, what you’re saying is that you’re essentially a viking? I am cool with this(yes, in my mind everyone from any “Nordic” country counts as a viking).
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……yes….. i always sport a horned helmet and 2-handed battle-axe strapped to my back when i do tech-support… i also go out and rape,pillage and plunder in my lunchbreaks… people always go “hey mate, WTF” and i go “ees all goo’ imma viking” and they go “no worries”… good times
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I dunno, I don’t think I’ll believe you unless you can bring them to the meat. 😛
(As a side note, I ended up saying the “ees all goo’ imma viking” with a really broad Australian accent in my mind. I think I have a problem)
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This comment wins!
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I’m from Scotland so I totally get the “You talk funny! Here, let me impressonate you so you are aware of how stupid you sound.” thing.
I think the Indian community gets the worst hit by that 😛
right, RIGHT? most annoying is when people hear you have an accent aaaannnddd theeeeeeen beeegiiiins tooo taaaaalk slooooooweeeeerr because apparently because english is not my first language = i am stupid
One that irks me(not that I have ever had a problem with this, being Aussie through and through) is when they raise their voice to talk to someone. Do they think that yelling unintelligibly will make them easier to understand?
yes cause apparently YELLING MAKES IT EASIER TO HEAR THE PRO-NOUN-CI-A-TION
Accents galore at the meat!
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Die2nite – one thing thta shits me to tears – not anywhere NEAR enough AP for me to do anything interesting… plus i can’t fight the stupid zombies?
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You need weapons to fight the zombies (like say, a water balloon, and I think a major part of it is conserving your AP, and using items wisely to maximise what you do in a day. For instance, tomorrow, I could do a trip totalling 18 squares outside town, so long as I use both my tart thing and my water ration. Of course, in a trip of that length I’d die, but shhh.
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I sorta gave up on that game last night. I’ll try it again sometime though.
And thanks for trying to rescue me Palstran, I didn’t see your replies till this morning…
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“Also, please take good care of my junk :P”
That’s what she said
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Wait.. what he said to her…
SHE said “no”
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“She” has “junk”, eh?
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*cough* oh…my….
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i’ll give YOU junk, boy!
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OH….MY… *turns, clenches buttom firmly and runs*
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The latest Penny Arcade comic is up guys:
http://penny-arcade.com/comic
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I was going to post a sarcastic comment about how my blind was mown that the PA strip was up at the same, regular time and day it always goes up.
But then I realised that would be mean.
So I didn’t.
/hi5?
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Don’t treat him like potato.
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don’t use him to power a clock? What?
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…or power an evil AI supercomputer…
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This is also funny. And video game related… A little.
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*twitch* bahahahahahahahahahahaha
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Oh god. That’s so beautiful. *wipes tear*
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looooooooooooooool!!!
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what the hell did i just read? LOL
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…… what!?
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Any idea what the sign actually says?
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Yeah, it roughly translates to “I treasure you like a pearl, like something precious, like salty rice plants.” (I could be missing some grammar in there, not sure about some of it.)
O_____O
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I love salty rice plants!
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That’s an old image, yet thanks to Portal 2 it has been given new meaning! Success!
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There’s only one song to appropriately respond to that.
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\o/
*hugs*
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I attempted to learn the first verse of that once, but I think in hindsight I had 90% of the lyrics wrong.
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Wisdom teeth were torn roughly out of mouth with medieval torture device. D:
I haven’t got blinding pain yet. Anyone know how long they’ll take to heal?
ALSO! I have a nommy milkshake. It’s been like… ten years since my last one. Hoping the Milkshake song is right.
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one tip – don’t drink out of a straw – it can pull out the clot and cause dry-root, which is. from what i’ve heard, like giving birth in your mouth. Very VERY painful.
Also, Bee and i never had any “blinding pain” when we had our yanked out. Just sore for a few days.
It should only take a couple of weeks max to heal properly – you’ll notice A LOT of difference after the first week 🙂
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Pretty much this. I was cool with the pain after 2 days, though I still liked some painkillers before attempting to go to bed. And I milked it to get time off uni…
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Thanks for the tip!
I only have one side of teeth taken out so I think I should be ok using a straw on the other side.
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I have to get mine out soon and this thread is making me very, very scared.
Did you do surgery styles or were you awake the entire time?
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I was awake; he said you can go to hospital and have a general anaesthetic if you felt nervous about it (or wanted to get them all done in one go), but then it takes a bit longer to get over it.
So yeah, I had two taken out in the chair with a local anaesthetic. Apart from the needles I didn’t feel anything.
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I had mine taken out awake too – it’s really not all that bad. Really.
I was wayyyy over-reacting at the thought of it, but it was over quickly and i got to sit around like a lazy head afterwards 🙂
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I had all four out at once under general anaesthetic. Wasn’t so bad. The anaesthetic did leave me very restless after I woke up, and I had a little bleeding when they gave me icecream (because one of my teeth ‘broke’ when they were removing it…). Just general soreness afterwards. Pureed mince was awesome, though.
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This was my experience, except not the bleeding.
The bleeding was later when I got impatient and started toying with the stitches, and I pulled some of them out with my tongue…
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Thanks so much for sharing your experiences guys. I’m feeling much better about doing this!
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Morning everyone! The pain in my mouth is bearable now, yay! Just feels really weird not having one of my molars, I don’t like it. Wish I could afford to get a tooth implant, but they’re incredibly expensive.
Had the worst case of road rage today, almost got out of my car and hit this guy. I have an FM transmitter for my iphone to play music while I’m driving. This guy also had an FM transmitter, but one with a stronger signal. So everytime he drove close to me, my music cut out and his stupid shitty gay rap music started playing in my car. At first he didn’t realise what was happening but he saw me playing with the FM transmitter, trying to get mine to come through, then he was laughing and then rode up my ass the rest of my way to work so I had to put up with 25mins of shit music, with him grinning all the while.
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Did you consider putting yours on something other than the default frequency?
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Mine isn’t on the default frequency! No one is ever on my frequency. I couldn’t really change it as the traffic was pretty bad so I had to keep my eyes on the road..
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What’s the frequency, Kenneth?
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It’s in my car so can’t check, but it’s something like 102.6 or something like that. The FM transmitters all default to 88.1 and most people just leave it on that..
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Is your benzedrine uh-huh?
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Wait wait.. the FM transmitter only uses one frequency? Couldn’t you set it to another manually?
Also, that human deserves to be shot for that attitude
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I could, but it requires me to take my eyes off the road for an extended period of time while I change it, which I can’t do in peak traffic 😛
Plus, it’s the principle of it as well. It’s such a douchey thing to do to someone.
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yeah have it on a custom setting from now on 🙂
Sorted!
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It’s on a custom setting! 😛
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It’s a douchey thing to even listen to rap, since the possibility of someone even hearing a portion of it, nay, a string of rap words, is suffering from passive rapping. To do what he did is just unforgivable. There should be LAWS for this kind of thing.
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I agree with you completely. It was horrible, I thought I was going to die! D:
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***glares at Sughly***
I find it hard to believe that someone so quick to defend their own beloved art forms has such a narrow view of others….PS. Sughly loves man grapes and Hanna sucked*
*Hanna is actually quite good, but not for the purposes of this discussion**
**truly would have been better had Samuel L Jackson actually turned up to recruit at the end… -
LOLOL! Sorry to offend jmac. You’re alright! *pats on the back*
PS I would have cried if Sam Jackson had that cameo. CRIED!
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PPS Why you all gotta hate on grapes, yo?
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Moral of the story – don’t use an FM transmitter
Also, test brakes regularly – oblige other driver with allowing him to pay for your broken rear fender
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Got no choice really, can’t afford to put an aftermarket CD player in my car, so don’t have AUX or USB input..
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Personally i think what you need is an 8 track 😉
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Why not just listen to the radio instead , so you didn’t give him the satisf4ction.
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Perth radio is horrible, and has much of the same music that the guy was listening to..
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I listen to the radio in my car mostly. I only listen to my music at work or home. How else do you hear new music you might like. that would require research and stuff.
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Youtube man: look up a song you like and then browse the suggestions for stuff by other bands.
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Yeah..but I hate pretty much everything on the radio 😛 I stopped listening to the radio once Hamish and Andy stopped driving me home every day..now I just get the podcasts
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Listen to the radio?! LOL U mad?
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yes
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Only reason to listen to Radio in Canberra: Scotty and Nige… unfortunately they are away till the 10th of october /o\
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I used to listen to Triple M cuz they had proper music, until they converted to more Talk-show and Ads 90% of the time so I ended up switching to Triple J permanently, I only then switch off the radio if they put rap music on.
I love Triple J’s Hack show, they come up with really interesting topics sometimes
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well you got the benefit of non-organics and therefore not limited to listening to it on the daily commute to-whatever-it-is-you-robots-do right?
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Correct, human
Though while on the train I’ve got my android phone which I use as an MP3 player anyways, that beats any radio
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wait… android phone? isn’t that somewhat like making out with your sister? or is more like a distant relative? (It’s a grey area :P)
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hahahaha
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More of a work partner than anything else. It sings to me and plays many instruments. It also provides me with long range communications software via other people’s mobile phones. Although, it hates attempting communications with iPhones and I don’t blame it. I’d go mad too trying to communicate with such simple devices.
I always hear it asking me, “What is ‘Derp’?”
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Seriously? I’ve always found Scotty and Nige to be a great reason to have my ears become acquainted with the business end of a drill.
Nige is pretty great i reckon, mainly for the reason that he is a gamer and proud of it, also sometimes it sounds like he lurks in Kotaku because a lot of the topics he brings up (read R18+ etc.) has been brought up, while it was discussed here
Let’s see if someone else can work out why my brain associates Pure Imagination (from the original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory movie) with Song of Storms (from Ocarina of Time).
Hard mode, help me work out why I associate Colours of the Wind (from Pocahontas) with White Pearl, Black Ocean by Sonata Arctica.
This isn’t a riddle, I honestly don’t know why I associate these songs. With most media, it’s relatively easy for me to work out the associations but for some reason I just can’t nut out why these songs are somehow related.
The best I can come up with is that there is some chord progression somewhere along the line that is shared between the songs.
Or I’m insane.
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Here’s a working link for Pure Imagination: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ-uV72pQKI
On a somewhat related note, Savages (also from Pocahontas) is a brilliant song.
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Hmm, sexy sexy Christian Bale.
As another point, the line “They’re different from us, which means they can’t be trusted.” Is one of my favourite lines in a song, just behind “We don’t like what we don’t understand in fact it scares us.” Which is from the Mob Song in Beauty and the Beast.
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Pure Imagination and Song of Storms, eh? Why have I never noticed this before?! Genius!
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I always think of this version of pure imagination now…
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Can definitely see that. The staccato delivery of “in a world of pure imagination” is pretty similar to the middle part of the song of storms. Have even made the link myself before!
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The link between Song of Storms and Pure Imagination is a pretty obvious one. It’s the Pocahontas/Sonata Arctica one that’s really wrinkling my brain.
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Another article about the difference between Au-US prices for tech & software… seems that an MP is taking the issue to the productivity comission. We’ll see what happens…
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Yeah, Ed Husic has been really good on this issue – he’s been quite active getting opinions and views from people online (especially through social media).
Not sure how much the Productivity Commission can do, but nice to see the Federal Government trying to do something about it. At the very least raising the issue to a national level might force the suppliers to do someting.
Anyone looking for a (cheap) new home?
http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/Man-builds-stunning-hobbit-yahoofinanceuk-1514084024.html
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That’s actually pretty cool..
Has anyone else played LotR Online? I downloaded it yesterday and have just started playing it.
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and???
is it any gooodd…????
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loops, youre missing the point here. He has a game and he’s playing it.
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Not sure yet. It seems good, though I’ve only played it for 15-mins
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I played that when it first came out free-to-play. It is fun as in having the LotR background and characters. But it is just another MMO I guess.
New Need for Speed: The Run trailer! 😀
Hey Tracey, if you somehow read this, can you ask Microsoft to explain why they are charging $29.99 for Resident Evil 4 when the US price is $19.99 and the price on PSN for Aussies is $23.99?
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Fight for us veegee! FIGHT!
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Simple. They hate us. And there’s not enough backlash/vocal support for them to change it.
But mainly they hate us.
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STOP! YOU’LL MAKE THEM RAISE THE PSN PRICE!
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… They did raise the price … what a bunch of *******************
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I was going to buy it, but everything I’ve read says that I’d be better off playing the Wii version. Which I can borrow from my brother. Or just finish the gamecube one that I’m already half way through…
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Wii version is byy far the best. If the PSN version had Move support, I’d be tempted. As it is, I probably won’t bother till it’s on sale.
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I don’t think I’ve ever purchased Chinese food from a place that has it sitting in a trough under some glass and been happy with my purchase.
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Delicious salmonella.
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That said, I feel like this has contributed to my stomach of steel. Off yoghurt? 4PM sushi? I eat and then laugh at you [them]!
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This reminds me, I made lazy-man stir fry last night (fry up chicken and onion in a fry-pan, add sauce), and I was eating it, and all was good.
Then I looked at the use-by date on the sauce thingy.
It was in May.
So I went back and had seconds(and now I feel a little sick).
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Authentic!
I seriously look at those dishes, especially ones with a hefty amount of sauce behind the glass display and think of a petri dish and bacteria incubator.
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As someone who has grown Bacteria as part of an experiment (Escherichia coli, thanks for asking). Ewww. Now I cannot remove that image from my mind.
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As someone who has grown bacteria as part of leaving dishes in the sink, I’d rather not finish this sentence.
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Oh man, you should see my kitchen at the moment. :/
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Leave them for me!
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How about I leave you to clean up whatever mess Shiggy makes while cooking? This means I have to go to even less effort. YAY!
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I am not sure I know how to clean chocolated pig off of car bonnets.
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This one time this mozzarella I was having was mouldy but I was all “eh” and ate it anyway.
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I avoid cheese if it’s mouldy, but bread? Ehh, scrape it off and toast the bread and it’s as if there’s nothing wrong.
I think it’s technically Malaysian food, and they seem to only be in Perth, but Chilliz are awesomely tasty, and awesomely cheap (~$5 for a decent size meal).
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And the food is kept in tub/bowl thingies as individual meals, so probably not the ‘trough’ you’re describing…
Reddit had a thread about handwriting.
Here’s a sample of mine. How does yours compare? Does your handwriting even resemble English?
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I just type. Don’t think I have hand-written anything except scrawled notes for years.
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That’s all well and good, but I’ve seen what your typing looks like.
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Yeah so imagine what my hand-writing is like 😛
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Feeling really nauseous. #teeth
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This isnt twitter! Silly Aidan…
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It’s fun isn’t it?! The antibiotics I’m on make me feel like I’m going to throw up for about an hour after I take them 😀
I just trolled some guy accidentally and feel bad about it. Got into the lift at the bottom of our building, saw another guy approaching and tried to press the ‘open’ button so that he could get in. He’s all like “thanks!” but I’d accidentally hit the close doors button and they shut him out as he’s saying that 🙁
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Hahahahahaha!! OMG thats amazing! Amazingly funny!
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lolololol.
I’m just feeling a bit of Schadenfreude.
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Mmmmmmm…..lower 😉
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My wallet!!! 🙁
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AHAHAHHAHH!!
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hahahahahaha awww poor guy!!!!
mannn that’s awkward!
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More awkward when there’s someone in the lift besides you.
You’re “I didn’t mean to do that honest”, but they’re giving you a “suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure” look, and secretly judging you.
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HAHAHAHAHA! That’s brilliant! Man I wish I could have seen that.
Brisbane trains aren’t running because of a power failure at one of the main stations.
This does not bode well for me getting home on time tonight.
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Just so you know, Perth trains are still running 😉
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Good to hear.
Send them over here so I can get home in a few hours :p
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Only if you pay the shipping.
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I’ll…err… I’ll pay you back later :p
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10 business days for standard shipping.
For the dollar equivalent of kudos noms, upgrade to super-happy-extra-special expedited shipping, taking only 3 business days! Also, get a rewards-based-dodgy-looking credit card and SAVE!
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Yeah but Perth trains are eerily clean.
Also quiet.
Also new.
Also they’re in Perth.
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Other city’s trains aren’t clean? Ew.
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You’d probably scream in terror if you saw Melbourne’s trains and how trashed they can get. It’s quite disgusting
Most livable city in the world? Pfft! I think not!
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Yeah, I wouldn’t go near Melbourne’s trains and I live in Sydney.
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This… Is… Awesome!
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+1
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by the power of HOLY F#$K YOU’RE RIGHT!!!
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oh my.
/prances through fields of daisies
Tomorrow is FRIDAY!
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You so excited?
Then it’s Saturday
And Sunday comes after[weird pause]wards.-
then IT’S SUPER EPIC AWESOME MEATY SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION CHOCOLATEY FUDGE COATED GOODNESS Can’d Meat time!!
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I was tempted to get the limited edition, but I’m not sure the extra DLC is worth it?
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How did you manage to type that while prancing. I always find it hard to do tasks while prancing. I actually can’t prance that well at all. Also daisy are the crappiest of flowers. How bout you change that to wild lavender.
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OH Rocketman. I’m going to noogie you so hard when I see you!
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woah physical contact, thats new for me you will have to explain how it works and what the boundaries are. I havent had a hug since 2001
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You know what?
I’ve crunched the numbers, done up an Excel spreadsheet and everything. Somehow, it looks like you’re right, tomorrow is Friday.
Huzzah!
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did you get a cool montage with scientists in labs and everything?!?
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There were labcoats and safety goggles and everything!
At one point in the montage, everything went hilariously wrong before normality resumed in the next shot.
Seriously, don’t consult monkeys regarding important matters like the days of the week. They will attempt to eat your face, and not in the good way.
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*everything includes many glass containers full of colourful liquids and machines that go “ding”.
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Coca-cola factory?
There’s Coke, Sprite, oh, Fanta. No drink should ever be that fluorescent orange and be deemed safe to drink. -
FANTASY LAND
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FANTA SEA LAND
The land where there is a sea of Fanta.
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Because I love you guys!
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oh, NSFW. Just so you know.
Also, 10 hour version: http://youtu.be/83M60qeRyMc
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Shut up, woman, get on my horse!
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Somehow, I’ve been listening to this for 24 minutes now.
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I know exactly what that’s like…
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I saw this such a lon gtime ago and i still sing it to this day – my god i love weebls-stuff
What an epic EPIC song of awesome!
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I get it stuck in my head at least once a fortnight. Then I start singing it to myself and my girlfriend overhears and she rages because it gets stuck in her head for days 😛
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The invites have been received and RSVP’d. The babysitter has been arranged. Indoor soccer is scheduled for AFTER the event that night. Looks like the missus and I are definitely going to this RAGE event!
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU… oh, I mean WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Look forward to see some of you there!
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I really, REALLY miss indoor soccer 🙁
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There’s lots of it around. Sure you can’t find a comp looking for players somewhere near you?
I love it, have been playing it every week since about 2003. Though I have really noticed my goal-scoring prowess disappear as I’ve got older and fatter 🙁
Playing a semi-final tonight! If we win, it’s a grand final at 10pm next week (after eating, drinking and RAGEing… should be interesting).
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Yeah there would be. Geelong has a few sports centers – but i feel awkward joining a bunch of people i don’t know…
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Just do it man! Go! Now!
If you ask to play in the lowest division possible (like we do) you’ll probably find a team that you get along with just fine.
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Cool. Never met the wifey before (or I have and this is totally akward now?)..
Either way, good stuff dude. See you then.
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No, you haven’t. She’s seen you on TV though, you superstar 😛
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Now, to sort out ~600 test papers to be given to the appropriate markers. Fun times!
You’re a teacher?
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Nope – postgrad student doing the menial work 😐
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that;s so much worse – you poor bastard
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I get paid for it, though 😛
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Spewin.
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What are you studying?
Also, I kinda feel sorry for the postgrad drones… 😛
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So…Telstra guy coming tomorrow…I want to get my hopes up that my internet will be connected soon. But I don’t want to be disappointed again.
I just had a flick through the comments on the OnLive thingy, and while I can understand why people might be negative towards the actual physical thing, some people just seem to be negative for the sake of it. Now, I’m a massive tech head, I love technology, even if it’s ultimately a huge dead end, this is why I research things like rasterisation, or how the CPU in an i7 works, so I do have quite a skewed viewpoint, but can’t these people just appreciate how cool all this is?
There is a computer somewhere else running a game, and you can sit at home and play said game on your netbook. Who cares if it’s infeasible for Australia? Guess what, you can’t have everything. If you want the cool technology easily available you’ll need to move to the US, and then there’s a whole host of other problems you’ll face.
With this in mind, I’d like to comment about just how cool point cloud data is, and how cool the use of voxels is. It doesn’t bother me that tech like Infinite Detail are practically impractical. What about if we used procedural data to generate them? Think of all the fascinating results!
Anyway, all I’m really trying to say is that I wish some people(not you guys) would be more positive about things, even if it means thinking about aspects that don’t directly relate to themselves.
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I couldn’t agree more, people are so negative all the time. I always see it on review websites, on Facebook, etc. It drives me nuts
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I’m not too fussed about the technology aspect, I’m worried about the service aspect.
Basically, it’s treating gaming as a service and not a product. You aren’t buying games to own and use at your leisure, you’re buying access to their service which allows you to play games.
Something happens to the service and you’re now no longer the access the products. Sure, Steam is like that where your games are tied to the service, but this feels like a much more restrictive version of that.
And this is coming from someone who honestly doesn’t care about the always on DRM for Diablo 3.
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idiots are just idiots. I’ve noticed it alot with tech stuff as well. OH MY GOD YOU DIRTY CONSOLE PEASANT, I’M GETTING 2x MORE ANTI ALIASING THAN YOU AREN’T YOU JUST CRAP?
LOOK AT THAT IDIOT WITH AN IPHONE, CLEARLY ANDROID IS A SUPERIOR PLATFORM!
LOOK AT MY IPHONE, IT DOES EVERYTHING AND MAKES BACON OUT OF PONIES
LOOK AT THOSE IDIOTS PLAYING PSN, CLEARLY XBL IS THE BEST THING EVAR!!!!!!one!!!!cos(0)!!!!!!!!~
I think I said a few comments back, but this is why I don’t read tech blogs and pretty much skip most of the comments in pretty much article I read bar a handful of exceptions. Seriously, I’m either a very, very pessimistic person, or there really are just idiots everywhere. Doesn’t matter if its comments on an article, or people who drive like nutters on roads, I find myself increasingly cynical of anyone I haven’t met/don’t know.
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Hahahaha “cos(0)”.
I approve of this.
/nerd5-
I’m ashamed to say it took me a second to get it. :/
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It’s at this point Bish links to that “hahaha GET OUT” image of his.
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OMG, I was just thinking this!
You understand me so well~
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I had to google it :/
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/nerd5 returned!
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Year 12 maths ftw!
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Bacon from ponies??? Where can i buy said bacon good sir?
I would really love a can of Sprite or Coke at the moment, along with something tasty and of the chocolate variety.. alas, i am at work 🙁
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I will drink a Ginger Beer in your honour then.
So THATS what that Pokemon is.
http://paulrobertson.mechafetus.com/missingno_b.png
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LOL! I love it!
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thats awesome – that should be a tee-shirt lol
I always get the last comments on pages 🙁
“So…Telstra guy coming tomorrow…I want to get my hopes up that my internet will be connected soon. But I don’t want to be disappointed again.”
There we go.
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“Telstra is supposed to be coming tomorrow”
FTFY
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Too true. I REALLY hope it finally gets done. I’m sick of not having internet. As it is, everyone’s going to be so much better at LoL than me already 🙁
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Don’t worry about LoL, I’ve barely been playing so you should be able to surpass me and I’m not even the worst player!
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Haha yeah true. Just feels like I’ve been missing out on a lot!
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I HAVE BECOME AMAZING AT THIS GAME AND WILL CRUSH YOUR FOOLISH MORTAL FOOLISHNESS WHEN WE NEXT PLAY
Er, wait, I guess crushing foolishness is a good thing? Less character flaws.
Why do people keep making me go with Rocketman, Mags? Why?
What have I done to aggrieve them?
Come back, please.
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I’ll come back as soon as I can Bish, then you can go with me instead of Rocketman 😉
Have you really gotten amazing? I was like on level with you when I left D:
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“Have you really gotten amazing?”
Hahahaha, Jesus Christ no.
I just mask my terribleness with characters who have health.
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Nice 😛 and you still killsteal? 😛
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Minimal, I’ve been good.
Funny thing, whenever I do play a damage dealing character, I barely get any kills.
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Haha yeah I find I get more kills playing someone like Ryze than I do as say, Warwick 😛
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what does FTFY stand for?
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Fixed that for you.
To Burt Bacharach / Elvis Costello’s I’ll Never Fall in Love Again
What do you get when you wait for Telstra?
The guy doesn’t show up nearly on time,
That’s when you find you’ve got no phone line…
I’ll never wait for them again,
I’ll never fall for it again.
What do you get when you phone them up?
The guy doesn’t seem to give a f**k!
Then you realise that you are stuck…
I’ll never have a phone again,
No, I’ll never play online again.
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That was amazing.
Just a small update to let you guys know, after my massive rant the other week – but my nan past away yesterday afternoon.
I’m ok at the moment though, like really. The lead up the the inevitable has made it that much easier, at least until the funeral.
The last time i saw her, though, she was smiling and laughing with us while she was having a good day. After the first time dealing with the dementia, it’s a nice last visit to remember.
RIP nan 🙂 x
PS. Thanks again for all your support the other week – you guys rock
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I’m glad to hear you got to have a good last visit, less glad that it was the last visit though 🙁
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I’m glad you had a good last visit, you deserve it, and I’m sure she did too.
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I’m glad we could help a little and I’m glad that you had a good last visit. It’s always hard to lose someone, knowing they’re going to die makes the end a little easier as you have a bit of time to get used to it. And she lived a long and full life. Hope you’re going to be okay buddy and everyone in the Kommunity is her for you..
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‘everyone in the Kommunity is her for you’
An alarming typo, there, Mags… I’m not sure I want to be Loops’ grandmother…
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Thanks for picking that up. So awkward 😛
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I was reading through, and did a double-take when I saw it. Now I feel horrible for finding it mildly amusing, considering the discussion.
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I know what you mean..I saw it and giggled and then clapped a hand to my mouth and thought “oh no”. Not the right time to laugh..
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And that there gents is our case for a delete/edit button…
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Yeah that would be really good..
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it’s ok – no offence taken – i had to smirk too 😛
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Just…*hugs*
Glad you had a good last visit and she was still smiling.
I’m glad that you’re feeling relatively okay. It’s a sad thing, but good memories go a long way towards helping to deal with the loss.
Glad you made the extra visits mate.
Condolences.
You right, Chuloopa. You’re a good man.
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omfg. way to ruin a good moment there. Sorry.
Sorry to hear mate but happy for you in that you got some good final memories. Thats what you will remember once you get through this tough time and that is the stuff you want to hold onto.
I feel for you man…
*hugs*
Solidarity brother, glad to hear you’re doing well 🙂
I’m glad your last memories with her were pleasant ones.
*also joins in on the hugs*
Hey that’s nice loops, having a day with her like that, sounds beautiful. I always regret being an angsty teen when my nan passed and not wanting to talk to her, so I’m happy she had something like that.
/me hugs chuloopa
Sorry to hear Chuloopa, Stay strong bud
If it helps any i went through a similar thing at the end of last year with my grandpa and i found that doing a Eulogy at the funeral helped a great deal.
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AHHH!!! A SPIDER!!!
Also – i gave one at my dad’s mum’s funeral, so i feel i am obliged to do the same here 🙂
Thanks for the well wishes 🙂
Sorry to hear about your Nan mate, if it helps, I know what you’re going through. My Nan died last year under similar circumstances. Keep your chin up mate
Is it wrong that every time Neo-Kaiser makes a comment, even a perfectly reasonable one, I feel like punching him?
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I know what you mean. He’s said things that I’ve agreed with, but just because it’s him I still want to argue! It’s bizarre!
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That’s exactly it! I’ve just developed a huge hate for him after all his ignorant comments. And for some reason, I keep thinking of him as like a 16yo kid, rather than being a 24yo guy.
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Hey, i’m 26 – and look at the comments i make! lol
I’ll respond to him when he says something worth while. I don’t see the point in getting belligerent.
I think the problem is that he is probably some 24year old dude that basically grew up in front of a computer monitor and has no idea of what “tact” is.
He isn’t so much rude as he is ignorantly blunt.
His sentence structures are riddled with over-confidence and come across that what he is saying isn’t an opinion, but rather are fact we should all agree with and say “well done neo-kaiser. you’re such a great contributor”.
Know what i mean?
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Yeah I know what you mean. But that’s what’s so frustrating. It is JUST an opinion, not fact. And he can’t admit that he might be wrong. So frustrating.
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Thats what leads me to believe he’s a nobody clinging to a pathetic life made slightly less bleak by the internet – so i can’t harbor any ill will towards him – more so, i pity him
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Yeah true. To me, he’s the virgin that brags about how many women he’s had sex with..
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but that doesn’t make se…. ohhhhhh i see what you did there… nice
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Agreed Loops.
We just need to be careful, if his attitude changes and our doesn’t we stand a chance of becoming the trollers not the trollees….
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exzacery
Doesn’t help that his name implies he’s an emperor, or that I associate Neo-[insert German word here] with Neo-Nazis…
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That’s what I thought when I saw it. Now I assume he’s a white supremacist. Makes me think of the douches from American History X (not Edward Norton, he’s a mad dog)
Even Tracey burned him yesterday…..
Having said that he has been improving.
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Link me up, nohandle! I wanna see that!
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Haha nice! 😛
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Is there a link?! I want to read that!
Well it’s about time..although I still really hope he doesn’t join in on TAY.
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The community takes all, it’s whether or not they choose to stay.
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Yeah a couple days in TAY and he might stop being a douche 😛
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I want to be nice, i have tried being nice. But god damn it he speaks like the most over-confident twirp ever. Like he invented games. Dude just say things not like a douche for once.
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He sounds like the people at school that I hated.
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“He sounds like the people at school”
Fixed it for me… what?
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Haha too true. I hated a lot of people at school 😛
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Neo-Kaiser..? Where are these ppl coming from!?
I did read the Tracey burn in Ask Me stuff though. Very nice.
Why is it that the vocal majority of FPS and TPS players prefer a mouse over control sticks for aiming?
P.S. I play FPSs on both my PC and my PS3, and I suck just as bad on either, so I wanted to hear you guys’s opinions
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cause mouse is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more acurate. and thats it.
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OK, in terms of high level play, it’s a matter of muscle memory.
You will know exactly how far you need to move your hand/arm (depending on your pivot point) to spin an exact amount. When it comes to controllers, instead what you need to remember is how far you need to move the stick(typically all the way always) and for how long. Since the mouse aspect is in a lot of ways simpler, and far far easier for your body to remember(not to mention to do repeatedly as it uses far more muscles than just a twitchy thumb movement) they prefer mouses.
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Nice Blaghs. I understood this, but didn’t know how to put it into so many words..
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That makes sense.
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Well the general argument is that a mouse is quicker/easier to get say, a headshot. It offers better reaction times I guess. I personally prefer a controller for gaming, even when I play games on PC, if it has controller support, I’ll use the controller. It’s more comfortable and I can lounge back rather than slouch over the desk. I can game for longer without my back hurting or becoming uncomfortable.
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Disclaimer : I really don’t play FPS that much, and haven’t on PC for about 3 years.
I think it is the “total control” of a mouse, the sensitivity of the movement can be directly related to how far you move your hand.
Sticks is a matter of either lightly pushing(slow) or jamming (fast) til you get the movement you want.I think sticks require more skill to master cos you have to fiddle and finetune, whereas FPS with keyboard/mouse feels like point and click sometimes
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I think you’re more accurate with a mouse because you naturally use it more, even if you don’t play pc games much. Browsing the internet, moving files around – you use a mouse for pretty much all functions on a pc. You would have spent a lot of time using a mouse over the years and I think this muscle memory is still there when you play.
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On top of that, a mouse is simply a more accurate input device than a control stick for the purpose of aiming. The limited range of movement that the control stick has means that it has to be compensated with various software to allow for smooth movement.
That being said, I still prefer a controller. Not because it’s better, but because it’s easier to laze on a couch for a few hours with controller in hand than it is to sit at a desk with a mouse.
Hush everyone who is about to object by saying I sit at a desk for hours gaming anyhow. That’s not the point :p
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Remember when Rare made good games? I miss those days…
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Want to feel old?
Because it was over a decade ago.-
Probably shouldnt mention the amazing games I played on commodore 64 then…
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Same..how good was Conker’s Bad Fur Day.. and Goldeneye..and Perfect Dark..
Konami used to make some good games. Remember Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon? Man that was awesome.
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Ohhhhhh yes, Goemon. Random first person massive mecha fights? Yes please!
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It was awesome, and the game made pretty much no sense from memory. Although I think I was about 9 or 10 when I played it so maybe I just didn’t get it 😛
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No I dont recall it making a hell of a lot of sense to me either. Some strange panty-stealing looking man as a playable character? *shrugs*
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KILLER-BLOODY-INSTINCT
God I miss that game.
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COMBO BREAKER!!
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Me too. I was terrible, my whole strategy consisted of picking Cinder and doing the ->->Punch fireball attack combo. Good times though.
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Distinct lack of Jimu has lead to a shortage of comics discussion! 🙁
New JL is beautiful(duh!)and a decent read as well.
New Hawk and Dove is my guiltiest of guilty pleasures (MUSCLES, POUCHES AND GRITTED TEETH FTW!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
JLI was good, but Jurgens needs to do the inks as well.
My shop botched my orders so no Action, Detectives or B and R for me 🙁
They also just called and said todays orders are delayed so nothing til tomorrow.
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Whats a comics?
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***Shakes Fist***
Suuuuuugggghhhhhlllllyyyyyyyy!!!!!
That’s twice today 😉
I’m telling your brudda you said that!!!!PS comic fans have no appreciation for fine ciemaar http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=28621
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lolol! Actually, I could have sworn it was adapted from some sort of graphic novel when I came out the cinema, it had a very graphic novelly feel to it. Not that I’ve read too many but, you know. But I was wrong. Of course.
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New golden ration
More new people on Kotaku = less people like me LOL
I guess they just don’t get the Chuloopa
That’s right, i’m referring to myself in the third person now.
Recognize!
Ok.. i’ll stop…
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An acquired taste!!
I’m like sheep testicles!
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“They just don’t get the Chuloopa???”
THEY JUST CAN”T HANDLE THE CHULOOPA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I love handling sheep testicles!
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What made that brilliantly awkward is that you didn’t reply to the right person… so now i hope someone missed my comment before reading yours 🙂
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You may think this was an accidental reply to the wrong person, but it really wasn’t.
😉
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Same amount of people still like you, it’s just we’re part of the seniors league now.. we get put out to pasture 😉 The love is still here though trust me!
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Hey Loops! I’m a newbie and I still love you!
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I should add that TAY n00bs are a different breed of n00bs. they are bold, dashing and handsome – throwing themselves into the belly of the beast.
Damned be the consequences!-
So are you Jonah then? In the belly of the whale?
What this isn’t the ACL,? Probably should disregard that previous statement then..
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We all love ya Loops… also, just made an interesting discovery… on your kotaku chronicles part one, did you foresee my coming or something? cause i’m unwillingly starred in it… so thanks 😀
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TAY… slowing down… for the day… harder to… procrastinate… :'(
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QUICKLY!
DRAW ME LIKE ONE OF YOUR FRENCH GIRLS!-
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p.s. you are one of my french girls, loops.
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Sughly always delivers. Always.
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THAT WAS BEAUTIFUL!!!
*swoons*
Delivery – ACCEPTED!!
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The beauty is all in the subject.
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We should make love on that bear skin rug
It’s only fair
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Actually – we’re men
We need to make love on a live bear
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Manly men?
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So good! Can you draw what you imagine me to look like? 😛
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hmm.. not ‘james’ enough though…
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HAHAHAHAHA! Wow I wasn’t expecting that 😛
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LOL! Wow, thats’… that’s incredible…
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No love? 🙁
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AFROMAG needs an afro.
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No Bish, just no.
I’m not sure I can outdo loops, in all honesty.
Haha fair enough 😛
Oh god Sughly, LOL you kill me with laughter
Hai guys! So my project management class is now actually awesome! We devised a plan today to use project management for a trip to Dreamworld right.
We’re basically going to manage our time & other such things to go on every single ride/attraction there, we have put a fuck load of planning into it, our teacher is keen & we got the go a head from her boss, which is awesome.
Everyone in the class (err maybe 10 of us there) all have our own little roles, i’ve got the task of OH&S, should be easy enough.
If we have a group of 20 or more we all get in for about 30 bucks each, beats the 80 bucks for a single day entry ticket D:
This was all a spur of the moment since we found out Cert IV Multimedia lot gets to go to Movieworld for film related things and we were stuck with a shit boring subject with an amazing teacher.
So thanks to myself and 2 others, we may have just made Cert IV Web Design Project Managment unit actually interesting for the years to come if it is successful! Beats project managing a bed store lol!
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Be warned, OH&S for trips is exceedingly complex, admittedly, it won’t be as hard for you as it is for school teachers, but still, it’s a bit long and complex.
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I know, I only thought it was a good idea at the time. Gotta do risk assessments etc D: I HATE those.
I was the only person who was going to even put my hand up for it as well.
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Theme park risk assessments, lol!
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I know! Shouldn’t it be a fun assesment lolol.
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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
now that that’s out of the way, i’ve realised i’ve become much less “post-ey” on TAY lately, and i attribute that to upcoming exams, so sorry for your less funky TAYs peeps!
but anyways, tommorrow is my last (official) day of school, so stuffs sorta getting real, and i’m in super stress/study mode, but my 500 final fantasy/kingdom hearts songs are helping me through that.
however even though i should be studying, i still went and bought bulletstorm, because i had money, and therefore that’s an excuse to buy it. in fact i should be studying now, as i have a politics test tomorrow, but i suck at politics, so it probably wont be in my top 4 subjects…
oh, and i fnished my game that i was creating in my schools game design course, it’s terrible… really terrible… also, me and my friend made it impossible to beat, mostly because we couldn’t be stuffed making an ending… but hey, its still functional thanks to my codes, and that’s all that counts!
anyway yeah, thats my week…
TLDR: Hello
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Glgl with your exams, I only studied for two of mine, and look at me, so use me as a very bad example.
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Good luck with your exams! TC mock exams are normally a pretty good indication of the difficulty of the TEE.
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What are those acronyms?! :O
But yeah, good luck with exams!
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TC = Trinity College – the school i go to, and which we found out, cracks went to as well
Mocks = end of semester exams, called mocks because they are usually seen as preperation for TEE
TEE = Tertiary Entrance Exams – basicly the Final exams that pretty much determine what University you get into
and thanks!
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Good luck on your exams, just remember it will all be over soon.
Tattoo worked on this morning. My God it hurts to get stuff covered up (when it’s on less “used” areas of the arm, anyway… underarm etc).
Soooo broke!
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Yeah but it’s sooooo going to be worth it! 😀
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What’s the tattoo of?
I really should resume planning on my next one.
sughly – can you send me a high res version of your drawing?
I need it on a shirt 😀
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Hahaha, yeah k. It’s on the other computer tho, so you know… I’ll do it. When I turn it on. And walk all the way into the other room to do so. Which may be hard when I have the internet here in front of me. Oh but I have to shower at some point. Ok, that’s my plan. Shower, then return to other pc. In half an hour. Maybe.
So PSN raised their price of Resident Evil 4 from $23.95 to $29.95.
What a scam!
I e-mailed Tracey about it, maybe she will look into it.
People should write in to Microsoft and Sony and let them know that their scamming ways have to end!!
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I sent the ACCC a complaint, I doubt they will be able to do anything (I don’t even think they can) but it is worth it anyway.
Here is a link for everyone else:
I’m meant to be at uni now – god damn you, space marine!!
Well off i go, then!
Downloaded Minecraft 1.9 pre-release (way to leave it sitting out in the open on the minecraft.net server!). Just about to try it out.
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Lolwut? It’s out already??
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Not officially, no.
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http://www.couchwarriors.org/bam
Melbourne TAYbies, who’s going to this next weekend?
Played some Gears single player last night. Whilst nothing was wrong with the game, it felt wrong.
Horde mode with Pyrean was more successful, aside from the connection issues we had (my net dropped out right before we started and then his net dropped out around wave 7 or 8). Not too sure about the building defenses mechanic, but as long as I can stumble across a Torque Bow at some point, there’s no way I can complain about Horde Mode.
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Oh man, Torque Bow. Love that weapon.
And yeah Gears, like Halo, is far better played with company.-
Such a satisfying weapon to get a kill with. Quite possibly the most satisfying because of the long wind-up and that little pause where you aren’t 100% sure that you hit.
The best part is I only wasted a single shot with it last night. Not because I was awesome, but because I didn’t have many shots.
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So much TAY, so little time.
Ahhh, just remebered I have a costume party to go to tomorrow night and I only have half the costume done. Methinks I should have stuck to my normal Barbarian look instead of going for the evil wizard.
Still, I am lucky halloween stuff is already being put on sale, despite the fact it isn’t an Australian thing… never understood that.
Why does halloween stuff get sold in this country?
Simply more Americanisation at work?
Any excuse for kids to dress up?
Do Australian kids go from door to door asking strangers for candy?
Will my bum look big in my outfit?
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To answer your questions:
Because it makes money. Somewhat. That as well. Not really, but I’ve had kids rock up in the past when I was completely unprepared (literally nothing to hand out bar a jar of Nutella and they weren’t getting their hands on that!). Most definitely.
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Barbarian Wizard booty is best booty.
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Well, I was going to cover up with a large cape, but instead I will now shake my booty instead.
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Morning Taybish.
I just wanted to apologise to those I LoL’d with last night. I have bad bm and I just wanted to chillax that evening. My fail internet made sure I didn’t.
So Blaghsy, Bish, Gorzilla and Rocketman – I’m sorry.
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At least LoL doesn’t allow for obnoxious taunt spamming.
So there’s that.
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Hehehehe, so obnoxious
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Don’t be, yo.
We all know our Kotaku custom games are just a bit of fun.
If fail internet is fail, not much to be done about it. It happens. And it’s understandable. It’s just kind of like when Pyrean’s internet likes to bug out, or Blaghsy crashes.Also it’s Friday, Friday.
Everybody’s looking forward to the weekend.-
Thanks Bish! I am looking forward to the weekend even more so then usual because I get to meet up with all you guys 😀
It’s Friday, Friday..
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I actually find our kotaku matches interesting, because we know our opponents, we know the playstyles they can have and we plan for it.
I have an idea as well for making kotaku vs kotaku matches way more interesting, everybody goes random in our 5v5s, that way almost everybody will be in the deep end with a champion they don’t know that well.
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I’m interested to see how that would work.
Or more precisely how that would fail to work in an amusing fashion.
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It’s funny because in my experience, at least 1 of the 10 people land a hero they are very comfortable with.
*prays to be that one*
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That’s the point, it’s meant to be for fun, not for competitive matches. However, it also tests the LoL player’s ability to adapt 😉
But yeah it’s more for the amusing factor
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let’s dew it! I am equally new to all heroes anyway so I believe that in theory, this grants me an advantage. Therefore, the sky is blue.
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I’m equally incompetent with all heroes that aren’t support, so I’m almost in the same boat.
Of course, “almost” being in the same boat doesn’t mean much when you’re out at sea because you’re still not in a boat and those waves are mighty scary.
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No-one knows my play-style – I’m an enigma, a mystery…
Why everyone keeps yelling ‘DEMACIA’! at me I will never know… 😉
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You should buy all the DEMACIAAAAAAAAAA heroes.
Garen, Lux, Jarvan, Xin Zhao, Poppy.
Demacia all day, every day.
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http://www.youtu—eh, better not…
Wait, I missed a Kotaku V Kotaku match last night? Nooooooooooo!
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just a 3v with harli and one of her boys
It’s cool but harli you gotta stop with the porn when playing makes your ping way better:p i’n all honesty I was just as bad with no ping issue as you were with it. Nevermind all just a bit of fun
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Harli said she was looking to chillax. Looks like she just couldn’t decide on the best method to do so :p
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lolol!! inb4 me I see.
But thank you kindly Rocketman. I look forward to meeting you on Sat. MWAHAHAAHA
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“inb4”
The amount of innuendo available is quite hilarious. I’ll let the folks at home fill in the blanks.
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I am really not that awesome. I am coming mainly so i can get a photo with bish with me pointing at him and smiling while he is frowning!
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That’s weird, porn always make’s my ping go right up.
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I think thats how it generally works both in computer and other ways.
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This guy gets it!
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Ear infection is clearing up! \o/
So I preordered the Sonic Generations CE yesterday. Kept debating over whether of not it was worth dropping such a large chunk of change on. Decided it wasn’t then did it anyway!
What else? MEAT TOMORROW!
Looks like Ben White will possibly making an appearance.
I also confirmed my attendance at the RAGE event! I’ll probably head there around 3:30 once work finishes up, so if anyone else is showing up early, lemme know!
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Yay!! hope you’re feeling 100% by tomorrow Doc. And that your arteries are READY!
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That Sonic statue better be good quality!
I still haven’t played the Sonic Generations demo, as per your advice. But I’ll probably just order the CE anyway. If the game is good, just like you say, that’ll be a fantastic bonus.
8 lines that would have ended Star Wars real fast http://www.dorkly.com/article/17253/8-lines-that-would-have-ended-star-wars-real-fast
😀
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They left out the classic and most believable:
“An escape pod! There are no life forms aboard… but Imperials need target practice. Fire at will.”
http://www.google.com.au/imgres?q=horse+on+a+seesaw&um=1&hl=en&biw=1024&bih=768&tbm=isch&tbnid=DuFkEG_SNpcytM:&imgrefurl=http://www.cracked.com/funny-1209-unicorn/&docid=J4Ya0WJg9BKqJM&w=300&h=400&ei=Ysh7TrzrG-vJmAXqvM22AQ&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=733&page=1&tbnh=136&tbnw=97&start=0&ndsp=19&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0&tx=41&ty=90
Hey bunny i think i found the picture to illustate your meme
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Further proof that ponies are imba.
And that forced meme is forced but I will soldier on!
Picked up Gears 3 yesterday, permitted my wife to have first crack at it since it was late and I’d be going to bed early anyway.
When she decided to sleep around 3am (me having been occasionally jolted awake by laughter and cries of “what the f**k is THAT?”) she informed me Gears 3 is one of the most ‘fun’ games she’s played this year. So… I guess I’m going to enjoy myself this evening?
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I think she might be on to something, although Space Marine was pretty damned fun as well.
I’m up for co-op if I haven’t been pulled into some other activity, like socialising or killing team mates in Magicka.
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I think after Deus Ex and revisiting Vew Negas for the Lonesome Road DLC, she was looking forward to a game where your primary onjective is “move forward and shoot things”.
I’m going to try and get some solo in tonight, but I might be up for co-op later on or over the weekend. you still aiming for 4 player at some point?
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Ahaha Vew Negas, wtf.
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Yeah, trying to get people together for 4 player co-op. It’s more difficult than I expected.
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Well I will hopefully be up for it. Can’t necessarily guarantee since I still have to share with my wife, but I’ve been good lately. 😛
Actually, can two people on one box co-op with others online like you can in Halo?
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I hope so. I know that there’s split screen in it, so you should be able to.
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Hi everyone!! For those not on twitter I’m trialing a tattoo design to go on my forearm and would appreciate some feedback.
It’s going to be a dragon, because I like dragons.
http://pic.twitter.com/Is7klkmi
What do you reckon?
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First tattoo?
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Yeah! I change my mind every week.
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If you keep changing your mind then DO NOT get one. Especially a design as unique as this. If you’re not 100% then get something you can use in any future cover-ups etc. if you change your mind again.
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This.
I had a tattoo done a couple years back. After deciding what I wanted, I then sat there on the idea for a couple of months to make sure I was still keen on it. And after that I first got it done just as a temporary one so I could live with it for a week or two and make sure I still liked the design and the location etc etc. So I had that for a couple of weeks until it faded away, and then I thought about it for another month or so. And only THEN did I go and get the permanent one. And I was very happy with it and remain happy with it to this day, never regretted it for a minute.
Remember that a tattoo, much like a puppy, is not just for Christmas. Once it’s there, it’ll be there for a long, long time so there’s no need to rush into it when you can think about it carefully for a couple of months first and make sure it’s definitely what you want.
I used to have a guitar teacher who had a LOT of tattoos, among them was the Metallica logo. Which is fine – he’s a big Metallica fan and will likely remain so for the rest of his life. But I did make the point to him once that if he’d been born 20 years earlier then instead of Metallica he might have gone and got “Michael Jackson” tattooed on his arm – the point being that things you’re keen on now, you might not be so keen on later in life.
Another thing to bear in mind is the location – depending on what you have in mind in terms of future career aspirations etc, you may want to make sure it’s in a location where it is covered by normal sort of professional attire. While it’s not that unusual for many people these days to have a tattoo, it can still be the kind of thing that is not something that a company might want customers to see on an employee that is representing that company. If you’re a retail assistant selling clothes or games or something then they probably don’t care (in fact it appears to be a mandatory requirement to get a job at JB :P). On the other hand if you’re selling financial advice or working for a funeral home dealing with bereaved clients or something, the company might not be so keen on hiring you if they feel visible tattoos aren’t the kind of image they want their company to have.
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Haha that’s cute.
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It’s supposed to be badass.
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Too cute to be badass, maybe badbutt?
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hmm. I like that. I like that a lot.
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Sorry Harli, forearms are generally reserved for insects and birds of prey. If you want a dragon you’re going to have to have it on your upper back or your calf.
Biceps are of course wildcards, but you might want to reserve those for a skull wearing a top hat and/or Chinese writing.
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I like the idea of a skull wearing a top hat.
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Everybody loves a skull wearing a top hat.
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Only if it’s wearing a monocle.
The monocle is a vital component.
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God damn it, you had to up the ante didn’t you? Now that we’ve added a monocle to the mix I’ll consider myself a failure until I have this tattoo.
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Hence why it’s a vital component.
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SKYRIM
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DRAGONS
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needs more cowbell!
also imagine 70 year old harli with that dragon going yep this is still freaking awesome while playing Dota 3 i imagine that will be the time frame for its realise
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lololol! Dota 3! 70 will be the peak of my professional gaming career, just you wait
DAMN! You got skillz!
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Thanks Doc. Can you imagine if I started drawing Tekken characters too? That would be funzies.
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Draw one punching the dragon. I think Paul would punch a dragon. Draw Paul.
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Have to always be careful that dragons are original. Think you are safe though 😉
One of my mates got a dragon tat on his bicep, he thought it was so cool til we found out it was a copy of the Sisqo/Dru Hill dragon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgDp17iPwYM&feature=related
I have two other mates that unknowingly had MATCHING dragons put on their chests. Didn’t find out til we all went swimmming.
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Yep! That’s why you should ways either design something yourself or have a design custom made to suit your needs.
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Heh awkward, were there many accusations of bromance towards those two?
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Still do!!
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Wow that really is lol-worthy. That’s adorable. Do they chest bump each other and shout “we have the POWAH!” too?
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Yup.
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Amazing.
Get a tattoo of the dragon from Magic Mountain. Now THAT would be badass 😛
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Hey Jamesmag, I’ve tried searching around for a pic of this mysterious dragon you spoke of. Nada. Am I not trying hard enough?
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http://www.tvmem.com/DATA/A-Z/M/MAGICMOU/MMVHS2.jpg
That guy on the left. horrible picture but it seems Google Images doesn’t like my childhood memories 🙁
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Thanks Mags! I think I can just make it out.
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reminds me of TROGDOR!!!!!!!!!!!!
Things and stuff!
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Phew, I was getting worried, no one here at work and no new comments on TAY for half an hour, I thought the zombie apocalypse had started without me.
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Just an emergence hole and a few locusts methinks.
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Ah, perfect excuse for me to go and buy that retro lancer then.
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Yeah. And it’s Friday. So I started drawing on my arm and an idea began to surface… BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH (that’s inception horn music, btw)
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This does not bode well.
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WE NEED TO GO DEEPER
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No. Not really. This depth is just about right.
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Surely you mean… http://inception.davepedu.com/
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Oh man, oh man…this is great! Please, all of you Gears 3 players…have a look at this…
http://www.dorkly.com/comic/24096/the-problem-with-swords-in-gears-of-war-3
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Waitwaitwait.
There are swords in Gears?
Well, there goes any incentive to play Space Marine again :p
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That comic is an accurate representation of how the sword works in Gears 3.
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True as that might be, it still means that there are swords in Gears.
Kind of hard for me to go beyond that point.
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Human psychology in action.
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Same principle as the Retro Lancer.
No matter what, while you hold the gun you have this constant subconscious urge to hold B, charge in and stab tje feck out of somebody.A tactic which almost always results in death, but for that one time it does work, WOAAHAHAHAEEEEYYYY
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These guys are glowing, I should probably kill them from a distance….*revs up chainsaw*
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I was given free preorder DLC for Gears 3 by the fools at JB the other day, and I’ve decided I’m not going to use it – I probably won’t play much multiplayer anyways.
So, I have the following to give away:
1x Mechanic Baird multiplayer skin
1x Commando Dom multiplayer skin
I’d like to give them away separately (to different people) if possible, to share the love, but we’ll see what happens. So, let me know which one you want, and why.
Winners will be notified by ~4pm eastern at the latest.
I forgot to bring the codes to uni with me, so whoever gets lucky will have to wait until I get home (~6pm eastern) for them to be sent.
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Commando Dom?
No thanks.
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Hi The Cracks,
I, Hugo the Hungarian Barbarian, would like to put in a request for the Mechanic Baird multiplayer skin.
Why would I request this you ask dear sir?
Um…
Err…Because.
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I formally request free stuff also… i dont know who these guys are but would happily take them off you. Consider me the ‘default’ give away person if no one else claims them.
if someone actually wants a particular one then give it away. id be happy to take the left overs.
Cheers mate.
Most ispirational song lyric
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See youtube link above 😉
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I want to ride my bicycle,
I want to ride my bike.
I want to ride my bicycle,
I want to ride it where I like.Alternatively:
Don’t worry, I’ve done this before
It’ll hurt like hell and leave you sore
Now use this cave and hold on to your ticket of gold and close your eyes
One day I know you’ll sell your soul
And trade all you are for silver and gold
You’ll get some odd advice from a stranger, take it from me with (love)It’s actually not about what you think it might be.
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7am, gotta get up, gotta go downstairs gotta have some cereal… or something.
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Bahahaha!!
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A song dedicated to drinking stout beer such as Guinness:
Gettin’ up and fallin’ down, think I’ll buy another round!
You’re goin’ hard or you’re goin’ home, no fun to drink black alone!-
Oh wow, memory lane! It’s amazing how a song can instantly transport you back in time.
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For bonus points, (and the amusement of other TAYbies) do you know what the Porkers original name was?
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I remember it was almost like a rude pun. I’m all old and stuff.:P
I was in Newcastle during The Porkers’ glory days and you really took me back there for a minute or two. Scary!
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And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations
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Better shape up.
(Doo-doo-doo)
Cause I need a man
(doo-doo-doo)
And my heart is set on you.Successfully got me off heroine.
Am I joking? You decide!
-scratches neck--
Oh wow 😛
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“Tonight I’m gonna have myself a real good time
I feel alive and the world it’s turning inside out Yeah!
I’m floating around in ecstasy
So don’t stop me now don’t stop me
‘Cause I’m having a good time having a good time”It always pumps me up before a night out 😛
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Life can change ya direction, even when you ain’t planned it
All you can do it handle it, worst thing you can do is panic
Use it to your advantage, avoid insanity manage
To conquer, every obstacle, make impossible possible
Even when winning illogical, losing still far from optional -
don’t worry be happy.
Everytime i get nervous i say this to myself.
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Oh Rocketman 🙂
Bobby McFerrin is alive and well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_McFerrinInternet is full of trolls 🙁
You can be happy again!!!-
Whaaaa….
Stupid trolls also my sister told me this . I will correct her now.
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There is a song by a rapper named Wale that has a chorus in it that I think is just awesome.
Im sure it is sampled from somewhere but never looked it up.
anyway, it goes like this:
‘If you have problems/why don’t you just solve them’
While it sounds overly simplified, I actually think that is the point. Most people over complicate these issues, stress over them, and make them so damn difficult. If you have a problem, just solve it. there is always an answer and you just need to make that decision and move on. Often making any decision is better than not so just make it!
It has always just stood out to me as a special line because it really says so much…
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Like a comet pulled from orbit
As it passes a sun
Like a stream that meets a boulder
Halfway through the wood
Who can say if I’ve been changed for the better?
But because I knew you
I have been changed for good*BAM*
we got asked to show inspirational quotes in drama once, and we were allowed to use song lyrics, and all the rookie girls(year below me) were like “wow, that’s so deep!” And I was all “I stole it from a musical!”
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Wicked?
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Damn Right!
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Probably my favourite musical song 😀
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“When you always hide in shadows
You will never lose the pain”
Gamma Ray’s ‘Time To Live’. -
Hast du etwas, zeit fur mich,
something something something something
von 99 luftballon
I like Tracey. I don’t want her to gooooooooo. :'(
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I don’t want her to go either :'(
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Saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame!
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Who’s Tracey?
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I’m perfectly fine with her going.
On the provision that she comes back immediately.
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Imagine, for a moment, a world where we could have both Mark and Tracey.
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Thanks to you I’m now typing with no head… time to put my replacement one on…
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Barricade her in the office?
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Tell Danny to get the chairs. That seemed to work.
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I don’t want her to go either. She’s an awesome editor. And she replies to my emails and we chat about things. Mark doesn’t do that 🙁
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she, she can’t leave… HER PUPPY IS NOW STARRED IN “WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING” SO SHE IS NEVER ALLOWED TO LEAVE
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She’s done an amazing job – we’ll definitely have to find a way to get her onboard somehow.
Anytime I go on holiday she’ll be my first pick for sure.
And James old bean – there has been messed up stuff with my email. I think what tracey has done by just saying – everyone just email THIS address is the way to go. I’ll definitely be able to get back to you guys better that way. Some had been going in to my junk mail, some into the tips folder, some into alluremedia folder, etc etc. It was a big mess to be honest – sorry about that!
I think I may have been spamming quite a bit as of late. Good times.
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http://karentayleur.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/1559606_340_1116081430036-spam.jpg
Nothing wrong with that.
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Mmmmm,spam burger…
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I second your Mmmmm and raise you a *drool*
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I slip in your drool and sue you.
You try to rebuild the pieces of your shattered life but to no avail.
‘This is all Sughly’s fault’ you muse as you down your 2nd bottle of Jack for the day.
‘He’s gonna pay… I’ll make him pay’
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Then I show in a timeyl fashion, spam burger in hand? ‘Hey Hugo, I brought your favourite!’
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The most deliciously meaty way to avert a slaughter.
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Then we skip off into the sunset, hand-in-spam-burger-in-hand.
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*wipes tear from eye*
So beautiful, now I have the urge to skip off down to McDonalds.
But it just wouldn’t be the same without holding hands with Sughly while doing it.
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Every time I pass the spam section of Woolworths, I will think of you Hugo.
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As I have somehow been denied the ability to reply to Sughly, damn Kotaku trying to keep us apart, I shall simply have to reply to myself.
Every time I start skipping, I will think of you Sughly.
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@Trjn
I know that I’m particularly behind the times with this but is your yourtube channel the ozziegamer thingo with all the Let’s Play videos?
I got stuck on youtube for about an hour just watching random segments and loved it
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He also does a webcam if your interested. It’s nsfw so I won’t post the link.
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Well, you’ve just revoked your access privileges :p
First rule of my webcam, nobody acknowledges that it exists.
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This is my Youtube channel, which kind of fits that description.
If that’s the right one, then I’m glad you enjoyed stuff. There should be more on the way soon (just need to upload the latest Batman video and record some more stuff).
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ZOMG started watching the Trauma Center one… please never be my surgeon.
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I’m better at the DS version I swear! I just need something tactile.
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Admittedly, I’d probably still rage quit after killing you a dozen times but after the seventeenth attempt you might just live.
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I like those odds!
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And that’s why I can charge such reasonable rates.
Not being a trained physician means I can’t get sued for malpractise and can save a fortune on malpractise insurance.
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“If that’s the right one, then I’m glad you enjoyed stuff. ”
If he enjoyed, it probably wasn’t the right one.
😛
THE PHONE LINE IS CONNECTED! Now I can call TPG and get the internet sorted out finally. It’s about f-ing time!
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Cheeze’n’effing’rice. BOUT BLOODY TIME they did it!!!
Let’s have a party in your honour!!!!!! Fweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
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I’m up for a party! I’m actually really excited. Is that sad? 😛
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omg!! does this mean we can LoL tonight? I’m always up for some good guffaws (gg’s).
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I wish. I really do. But it’s just the phone line, now it’s getting the internet hooked up. But it should be done by mid next week, if all goes well. *fingers crossed*
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Yes! LoL tonight! Seeing as I can’t continue working on my rape dungeon in Minecraft I shall have to take out my frustrations in LoL.
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hehe, frustrations..
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If I come to Perth, I’ll have a party with you.
Also email me your sexy address, playa.
I’ve got some questionable white powder to send to a mule.
dcrowd(onetwo)(at)gmail(dot)com
Standard substitution for the el numbres and symbols. C’mon, it ain’t that hard. I bet even Dan Brown could figure it out.
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Done brother.
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Yay! Thus concludes this chapter in the saga of Mags vs Telstra.
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Empire Strikes Back???
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Return of the Mags
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Just got off the phone to TPG. The application is processing and it will take 10-20 days for the line to become active. Sigh, another wait. Hopefully it happens sooner than that :/
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I’ve been there. It is not pleasant.
Time to finish a few single player games.
Probably most of them :p
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Haha yeah, well my girlfriend’s got a Hen’s night to go to in Bunbury tomorrow night (2 hours drive south from where I live) so I have to take her to that, hang around that crappy shit-hole town until 1am or something and then pick her up and take her back to her parents house where we’re staying the night. So no single-player games will be played this weekend :/
But during the week, yes. As well as finishing off Hustle, that show is awesome.
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HAHAHA! You have to spend time in Bunbury! HAHAHA!
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…and there was much rejoicing
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yaaaaaay *waves a little flag*
I bet your gf is like why are you i’n such a rush to get the Internet back. You would be all ” I want to play games with random Internet people who are uncommonly lucky at finding 10 Australian dollars
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Pretty much 😛 she’s almost as desperate as I am, but that’s because the 3G reception is dodgy and she has trouble accessing facebook and internet banking on her phone 😛
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aahh Facebook, the WoW for non-gamers… the missus used to get the shits with me for “ignoring her” and playing games, while she’ll spend a few hours on Facebook
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Pretty much 😛 although my girlfriend doesn’t get shitty with me for playing games. As long as I pull my weight around the house (wash dishes, vaccuum, etc), I’m allowed to do what I want 😛
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i have slowly been corrupting mine, by introducing her to more and more “advanced” games to play… starting out with Lego StarWars, then introducing her to games like Super Mario on the Wii… and then the big victory was last year when she picked up a controller and played Halo with me…
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Nice 😛 well my girlfriend loves Counter Strike, but I won’t play with her because she beats me all the time :/
And we play racing games together, but she’s not very fond of violence so Counter Strike is the only shooter she’ll play..
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doesn’t like violence, but plays a game based around yelling abuse at people, and occasionally shooting some 12-year old sweaty kid in the face? nice!
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She never plays with those douches, she plays with her brothers usually over Hamachi or something similar 😛
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aaaahh well the world suddenly makes sense then… it’s the only real way to play that game
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Wooo mild celebrations are in order!
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Hugs and kisses babe <3
Morning guys (for the next 5 mins lolol) stuck here in class until 2 and we’re finished for the day. Yay! lol.
So what’s happening?
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What’s happening, you ask?! I’m trialing a new tat design, check above for the link somewhere and let me know what you think.
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Damn! That’s badass, when ya gonna get it inked?
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So, Horde mode in Gears 3 tonight? Who would like to play/what time will suit everyone? I was thinking maybe 2030 AEST?
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I’m afraid I might be socialising tonight, but some time this weekend works for me.
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dude, im so freaking keen for this… my gold subscription lapsed a few weeks ago (screw you auto renewal!!!) but now im in the uncomfortable position of having paid for a code from gamecard.com.au but not having it yet!
Not sure what I can do about it. The code may come later today, and I was thinking of chasing them up later this afternoon, but failing that, not sure.
anyone have a 48 hour code?
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I’m sure I got one with my Gears purchase, I will check when I get home and I will let you know.
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thanks man, mine came with stickers but no 48 hour code.. would have loved one this time…
yeah if you can, just let me know on twitter or XBL… as always, appreciated mate. if the code comes in today I will just give it back to you.
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Same.
Damned stickers.
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I actually really like games and stuff that comes with stickers. I got shoes that come with stickers, and all apple products come with them, now games…
It get all childish happy when this happens, because that is what used to happed when I was a child. Stickerz are cool!
But now im a grown man (physically at least.. I know), its harder to find places to stick stickers that the wife will be happy with.
So I end up just leaving them in a draw and never using them. But they are so damn nice
🙁On a side note, everyone used to personalise their folders for school, stickers, writing etc… what do kids these days do. Do they have stickers on their laptops and write on them?… Damn starting to feel old.
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You know everytime i hear this i remember my grandfather who lived on a corner block and always had people walking across his lawn.. he’d tell them to get off… my grandfather is awesome!
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I saw a girl on the train yesterday morning with a laptop covered in stickers.
It made me sadface.
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Yeah, I am sure it came with the Adam Phoenix multiplayer skin, will send via live message as I no haz the Twitter.
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You haz to getz da twittaz. Just haz ta!
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When it started I was all, like, “This looks pretty good. Nice textures. I wonder what game this is.”
True story.
Then the bike came at me!
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Haha too many video games.
Or perhaps game graphics are getting too good.
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\o/ STEVE HOLT…. Finally guessed a “Remember This”… this shall be celebrated with an awesome lunch… hmm what to have
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Your sword, sir Garen
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(ಠ益ರೃ)–}=====>Thank you good robot. I also managed to pick up a top hat and monocle from the dead body of Cho’Gath.
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AHHH Spacing Fail!
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I am displeased these things start when I am not present.
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(((o(*゚▽゚*)o)))
But you’re here now Bish!
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Sure but,
( ̄へ ̄)-
(=´∀`)人(´∀`=)
Cheer up chum, I’ll let you know on twitter the next time it happens.
O wait.
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My day came pre-made and assembled, but that was bloody funny.
So DotA 2 beta coming out sooner rather than later? I’m up for that.
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My pants!
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Are they missing? Does the news excite you that much? I thought you were unwinding with porn?
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I don’t like the road my reputation is heading down right now..
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Sorry, but people are judgemental when it comes to girls with tattoos.
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Yeah, they’re HOT! 😉
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Disclaimer: This is dependent on the tattoo of course, and the girl. But for the purpose of this conversation, HOT!
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I agree. Over 9,000%!
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*high five*
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/HI FIVE!
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It’s okay Harli, you’re not at the “me so hawwwwny” point yet 😛 plus you’re seeing most of these guys in person on the weekend so you can knock some sense into them 😛
Geography has freed me from the threat of violent retribution! Huzzah!
And me 😛 plus I don’t have to worry about her ever hunting me down because who’d come to Perth? 😛
She could employ a proxy to enact violence over here on her behalf.
We should make a formal alliance to not attack each other…
This alliance could quash a potentially lucrative business opportunity. You sure you want to do that?
Business opportunity, you say? Shall I change my name Telstra, then?
Or marry someone with a surname “Lstra”, but hyphenate the name for your kid.
A grand idea. Oh my Mr. Lstra, you’re out there somewhere..
Together, you and I could rule the Australian telecommunications market!
And then, the world(‘s telecommunication market)!
Wooo, free advertising for Trjn’s site from a communications industry bigwig?
Corporate advertising. I had to sell my soul for it but the piddling amount of page views I get as a result are totally worth it.
I hope you guys know that your replies ruined my chance for a “Trix is for kids” joke.
I AM DISAPPOINT!
It’s more of a gutter than a road.
ZING!
I have a problem.
I am currently with Netspace (owned by iinet now) and have been with them for a while.
My current plan is Naked ADSL2+ with 100gb per month (50/50). I pay $59pm (this plan is actually now $69pm on their site but I have retained the old price cause ive been around for a while).
So here is my issue. I was thinking of going back to TPG, mainly to reduce my bill. I could get 200GBpm from them but i dont ever use 100 so this is not an issue.
The TPG plan is $49pm so 10 bucks cheaper than what im on now, but for that i only get 50gb (25/25). Now that is actually ok and Im thinking about it. Here is the issue.
Even with another 18 month contract, I will have to pay $79 to change over. What this means is that before I actually even break even to where I am today financially, I will have to wait 8 months, only then will I actually be saving any money. In 8 months time, there could be better plans that are more competitive but i’d be locked into a 18 month contract????? (Damn MBA making me overthink these decisoins!) I will actually only save $100 over the entire space of the 18 month contract compared to staying where I am.
Are there any other plans/ISP’s I should look for.
I want naked ADSL2+, approx 50gb a month for under $50 with an ISP that are actually good. Also decent switching costs? Does that exist?
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Stay where you are and download moar stuffs!
Problem solved!
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I’m sorry, all I got from that was FatShady is currently Naked.
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Public Service Announcement:
Skim reading TAY is not advised.
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Woah, I was skimming the page and saw that FatShady is naked??
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See above warning message!
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I took a gander at tpg the other day and they’ve got some kickass deals. Naked adsl2+ with VOIP 200gb/mnth (100/100) 1Mbshaping for $59 inc 500mins of free calls crazy!
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yeah but with mobile caps the way they are never bothered with voip….
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$10 per month extra not to be using TPG is money well invested.
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Don’t say that. I signed up with them an hour and a half ago!
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dont worry, ive been with them before and i have friends with them now who dont report any serious issues? anyway you’ve signed up now so stop reading anything about them until your contract is over!
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So I played Lonesome Road.
SPOILERS
How about them tunnelers? God damn. Got my shit wrecked a few times before I got the hang of them.
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MORE SPOILERS
Also, did anyone get the feeling the tunnelers are mutated children.. I found baseball gloves, teddybears and other assorted toys on the corpses..
Who did you nuke at the end?
I hit both NCR and The Legion. Because fuck ’em.
Harli, so are you actually keen on getting a dragon tattoo? And if so, what type? Like a Chinese dragon, a normal (Rocketman) dragon?
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A Spyro dragon.
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The original Spyro!
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lol! poor Rocketman.
Nah I don’t think i’ll actually get a tattoo. I was just bored and wanted to get TAY moving along. Thanks for asking though 🙂
So, I stayed up all night playing Gears 3, and while I haven’t finished, I’m fairly sure I’m nearing the end. And wow.
It elicited a genuine emotional reaction in me. And remember here that I laughed a little bit during the Dom/Maria scenes in Gears 2. Now, I wasn’t at tears, or even vaguely close, but still, quite a rare thing really(The same scene started with me laughing a little over the melodrama, but it sobered me up by the end).
On a different note.
MINECRAFT: http://i51.tinypic.com/mm6aae.png
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Rrr work is slowly trying to block websites, I hope they don’t find out about Kotaku.
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Dangit, I think I might have to beat this thing by myself because I won’t be able to get a co-op thing going that will let me beat it soon enough.
What a terrible problem I face!
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Have you got any partners yet?
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Nothing concrete. NotoriousR and Matthew K have offered their services, subject to availability. Blaghs said he would but lacks XBL gold.
There’s probably others that I’m forgetting. It’s just a little difficult to find three other people who are willing and able to join in.
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Well my mate probably has it by now and wants to play it co-op so assuming you can play online while split-screen we might be able to join you.
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Or I could just stop being stingy and buy the damn thing but that’s a last resort.
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That’s a good last resort.
Anyhow, my XBL tag is TrjnRabbit, just add me and we can sort things out as we work stuff out. It may just be a case of me frantically trying to add people to a XBL party whenever I feel like playing until I get a team of 4 that works.
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Add me if not already ‘FatShady Live’ plz. im keen
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Will do.
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What act are you up to? And yeah, I agree. Same thing happened for me.
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I’m up to Act 5, Chapter something.
I think. I was a little tired when I stopped playing, something about how it was 6am…
Good news loops! I moved to my pc eventually. Bad news, I didnt have a hi res of the pic 🙁
Good news! I redrew it! It was a complicated pic, yes, but I’m so generous that I redrew it all its detailed glory anyway.
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Always delivers.
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does the bear have a tail? I hope so?
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Hahaha, yeaaaah I was thinking the same thing as I drew it. Originally it was longer, but then I realised bears dont actually have long tails. I don’t think I was aware of what animal I was actually drawing the first time…
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Glorious, truly glorious.
I’m wondering if 16bitz knows Neo-Kaiser….hmmm
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what makes you say(type) that?
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http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/09/the-pectoral-cliche-what-is-the-purpose-of-the-gears-bulge/
Seems a tad too much like his style of argument without reasoning…or i could be reading too much in to nothing at all…you be the judge
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He’s just a troll. Try refrain from feeding him 😛
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But trollbait is soooo tasty!
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In terms of his response to me, I think he just kind of missed the point.
The point being that I was being an idiot.
And he got hyper defensive over a game. Which is hilarious.
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Yep Blags, I too was playing the court jester until this knave took it too far! ‘Twas all in jest and yet we offended! Bad us! Bad!
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Screw that, awesome us, we offended idiots! This is definitely not an elitist attitude I have!
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Well look mate, when you’re right, you’re right. Can’t argue with that logic 😀
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nah you’re definitely right, there’s a distinct similarity… could even be neo-kaiser in disguise *dun dun duuuuuuuun*
Neo-Kaiser’s actually cool compared to the trolls we get over on the Tekken forums. They make him look like an awesome dude.
ENEMY REBECCA BLACK INCOMING! IT’S OVER!
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“Press 3 and look at her tits..
PurpleBouncingBall 14 minutes ago 21 [thumbs up]”What.
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Exactly what I thought…
Oh innernette…
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*bounce* hehehehehehehehe
*bounce* hehehehehehehehe
*bounce* hehehehehehehehe
guys, take 5, this will take a while
*bounce* hehehehehehehehe
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Yeah I was like what? What does pressing 3 do-… oh. Oh ok then.
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Prepare the rotten fruit and vegetables!
Prepare to have your blind mown.
What you will need:
1 X 5 cent piece
1 X 600ml bottle of coke (Zero is preferred)
What you will need to do:
Open bottle of coke and drink contents
Place lid on the desk with the opening facing upwards.
Place abovementioned 5 cent piece inside the lid
WOWZA… it fits perfectly inside the inner section of the lid. I mean it’s like it was made to house a 5c piece…
Amazing huh? (Should prob do some work!)
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*twitch* *twitch*….*pop* blind mown
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WOW, it worked… but now I can’t get my five cent piece back 🙁
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There’s a dark art to getting it back(I developed this talent when I was about 5. I liked holding on to money back then…).
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Pity Mark’s still on holidays. There’s never a Scot around when you need one… 😛
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What am I? Chopped liver!?
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I don’t know… ARE you chopped liver?
*mental note – must investigate further*
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hahahaha… nah me too!
WARNING
This minding of the blown (WOW that sounds bad) will cost you 5c.
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Whenever I try to get it out, it keeps spinning in circles. YAY, a new toy!
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I got the order mixed up and just drank a coin.
Thanks FatShady.
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roflcopter
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Better than pouring 600ml of coke into your wallet like i did the first time i tried this.
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lawl.
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Anyone who has ever eaten a kebab and not had the last bit turn into a soggy mess is a witch that should be burnt at the stake for witchcraft.
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I’m pretty sure it isn’t even possible through magicks either.
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Depends what sort of kebab. If it is lamb or beef on stick easy. If not, kinda tricky. I think the skill lies in how you eat it!
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Also anyone who can eat a pie the correct way up ie. lid facing the sky.
Probs a warlock.
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I only have that happen about half the time, so am I half a witch? Do I weigh as much as half a duck?
(And Dan, I can eat pies like that)
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I’ll start building the pyre…
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I’ve had exactly one proper kebab in my life. And I opened it.
True story.
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In that case I would not describe what you’ve been… experiencing… as a “life”.
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small minds… small things… *sigh*
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Is that why you’re post is so little?
HEY-OH!
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Yeah that’s right YOU ARE POST!
I said it!
Prove me wrong!
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Ha ha ha, nice recovery Dan.
Smooooooooth.
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They’re remaking Scarface.
/insert rage here
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That was a pretty decent game I guess??
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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ლ(゚Д゚ლ)
Why? It’s fine as it is!
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:'(
At the risk of sounding like a noob, can we nominate the editors for Kudos? i guess technically they aren’t apart of the community but i figure Tracey deserves it
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I guess you could argue that after her final post (which I assume would probably be Kudos at 5 on a Friday), she’s no longer an employee, and is totally legible to be nommed and win and stuff?
Saw a shooting star last night. Never seen one in reality before. Fairly bright and Orangey so it was probably the remains of some secret Russian spy satellite burning up though. 🙁
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Wasn’t there some space trash falling to earth today according to NASA.
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Yes it was totally space trash, reflected off the light from Mars and inflated by swamp gas that was totally a cars headlights in the distance…so…move along
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did i just get trolled in TAY?
Don’t like that!
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Yeah, that’s happening tomorrow night (Friday in the US) and they still don’t know where it’s going to land. Too big to completely burn up in the atmosphere apparently.
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A NASA satellite is supposed to be coming down soon/came down recently/something like that, so it could have been that…
And I saw a meteor shower a coupla years back, that was damn pretty(I only saw like 10 shooting starry things, but it was still cool).
Oh God, I can’t stop playing with this 5 cent piece stuck in the bottle cap. It’s so hypnotic…
Damn you FatShady.
DAMN YOUSE TO HELLZ!!!
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Wait, it just dropped out of the cap.
Let that be a warning, if you play with it too much it may fall off.-
ROFL. How’s your eyesight though? You haven’t gone blind yet?
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Huh?
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it was a common myth that if you masturbated too much you would go blind!
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Poor innocent Harli, I’ll let Steve-o explain it to you, I for one can trust him to be discreet.
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Well, so much for that idea.
*gives Rocketman the evil eye*
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Never heard of the old saying that if you tame the dragon too much you’ll go blind?
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Lol, guess I was ‘beaten’ to it! 😀
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You’ll also save a fortune in gloves (or waste a lot of money buying extra razors).
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You need to find $10 like Rocketman. Imagine how many bottle caps and 5c coins you could get! You would never need video games ever again!
Following this logic if I give you $10 you should give me all of your video games! You’ll never be bored again!
In a couple of weeks i’ll be buying this for myself:
http://www.redbubble.com/people/chuloopa/t-shirts/7797723-french-loops
Sughly – you are honestly the man – i can’t explain how much i love this 😀
Thanks so much for re-doing a hi-res version.
All i had to do was make it transparent and thicken up the lines a bit – so rad!!!
😀 😀 😀 😀 😀
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Is it wrong that I now want this as my new pyjama shirt?
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No – not in the slightest lol
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Only if you wear its pantless.
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That’s pretty awesome. I really want to use the design sughly did for marvel vs capcom competion on a shirt. Sughly is that okay.
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That would make an absolutely epic shirt!
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NO!
Haha yes of course it is, but I can see approx a million things wrog with that pic now and wish I did it completely differently, with them all fighting instead of just looking at each other. I learnt a lot from doing it though, at least.
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Sughly should start a Redbubble account. He’d make a ton of cash!
DO IT SUGS!
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He REALLY would
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He really would. Also, Loops did I miss it or did you not credit Sughly for the drawing?
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ohhh you’re right!! i was so excited i got WAY ahead of myself
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You’re right. Loops is an art thief!
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WAS an art theif
*takes off mask*
I’ll be taking it down a bit later once everyone has seen it.. i won’t be leaving it up there for sale – i don’t want money for Sughly’s hard work 🙂
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i’m just messing.
If you were a thief, I imagine you’d be like Pierre Despereaux.
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GASP! THIEF! No that actually looks nice on the shirt haha! But no but yeah, there was around 6 total minutes spent on the drawing, both of them. So if someone happened to buy the shirt then you’d deserve the money for spending longer uploading it.
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FIXED!
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Money…?
HAHAHAHAHAHHA!!
No I appreciate the love guys, but outside of y’all nice ppl and my friends, I’m pretty sure ppl would be like oh some stick figure dudes, whatev. Also I’m not very good at coming up with ideas for shirts, I tried a few times and failed 🙁
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I saw some of your shirt designs on your dA and I’d buy em. Not just ’cause I know you either.
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Get in the pink!
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THAT IS WHAT SHE SAID!
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I’m really sorry. That was crass.
But HAD to be said!
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I almost changed the wording but I figured I’d leave it so someone could have their fun with it. 😀
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Crass – Check
Hilarious – CheckI actually can’t see how it could be taken another way :/
Am I broken?
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/hi5
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actrually, i was thinking in the creme or silver
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Mmm, cream… *licks lips*
OK I have XBL gold again… no need for codes… see you online!
$50 AUD… take that auto renewing non cancelling 80 bucks wanting microsoft!
Gamecard.com.au do a good job. thx doods.
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lolol… never noticed before but on xbox.com it says ‘Gold Member’… hehehehe.
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For those that are willing to wait for delivery, there’s always this little deal over on OzGameShop. $50 for 14 months and some bonus Gears DLC.
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That is, if their new payment system feels at all like working. Just tried to buy it for myself but it didn’t work so now I have to wait for them to confirm that everything didn’t go through before trying again.
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Braaains
September 23, 2011 at 2:15 PM
“Pity Mark’s still on holidays. There’s never a Scot around when you need one…”
I’m hurt ;_;
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No true Scotsman would be hurt by that.
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Lol. I see what you did there.
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I thought your name was Jamie? Not Scott
trollface.jpg
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Great Scot!
So…can I go home yet? Work is boring me…
I have stuff I should be doing, but I can’t be bothered, because it’s Friday afternoon. Has anything ever actually been accomplished on a Friday afternoon? (inb4 someone says getting drunk)
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EXACTLY! and looking outside today just makes you want to be out there more, it would be a great day for anything outside
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It’s pretty overcast in Perth at the moment, not raining but it’s pretty chilly outside..
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wait what? have you looked outside? in Welshpool its 20 degrees and no clouds
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Yeah, I just opened a window at UWA and was blinded.
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I’m in Welshpool and it’s sunny now but at the time of post it was almost completely overcast!
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What do you do in Welshpool? anything near planet street?
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The south-east end of Planet St is like 500m away from my work! I’m an IT Technician at Trinix Australia. Where do you work?!
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RCR Tomlinson on planet street
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You’re approximately 600m away from where I’m sitting. High five!
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High five
Its a small world after all. Now I’m focusing on the weekend and not working dammit i blame you
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It’s alright, you’re allowed to do that. When do you knock off?
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You guys used to buy stuff from us! That’s pretty much irrelevant but anyway!
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Also since we are both in perth, im coining “Peat” for any future Perth meat (where we all FIFO and drive commodores with fully sick exhausts and mullets)
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I’m not FIFO and I don’t have a mullet, but I do have a commodore with a sports exhaust :/ not my choice, I just wanted the commodore but it was second-hand and that’s what it came with..
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Want to go home…
But it’s only 1:20pm!
But wait, I can leave whenever I want!
Suck it Mags!
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I want to go home.
Well, that was easy. Now I need to clean my house. *shudder*
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I can’t leave until 5:30 🙁
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Just out of curiosity, when you posted this comment does it display the timestamp as 1:20pm or 3:20pm (which is what Kotaku’s timezone is set to I assume).
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3:20PM, we’re stuck with your stupid timezone! 😛
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Behold… THE FUTURE!
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This, for me as well. I’m taking three weeks off starting this weekend as well, going to spend the time lurking in my lurkum, playing video games. So I’ve got all my commitments for the month done early and I don’t want to start anything substantial since I’ll forget it while I’m away, so I’m sort of killing time at work now. 🙁
Hahaha I’m at home! Livin it up! Oh wait I have no job or money. Sadface…
BRB – getting chocolate and cola.
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you whore… 🙁
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<3 uni vending machines 😛
But hey, I've lost nearly 10kg since March, so I figure I can have a treat every now and then.-
I lost weight in year 12, and I have no idea how, given my diet was comprised mostly of potato chips and coke. It was weird.
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I have that combination.
Though I accidentally froze the coke, so it’s not really drinkable…
Very soon I’ll be taking care of the last few details before I leave so I’m going to say goodbye to you all now.
Congrats to whoever wins Kudos (Sughly, I almost promised that if you win you’ll draw Tracey a picture) and I’ll be around sporadically next week whenever I can wrestle the mobile internet USB off Mr. Strange.
Be good kiddies, and I’ll see some of you on Sunday!
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Have a great time Strange, and say hello to everyone at the Meat for me!
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What he said.
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What they said.
Wait.
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It would be hilarious if you go somewhere for the weekend and they all end up standing on your doorstep going “Uh, hello?”
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We have established I am perfectly fine with breaking into the place.
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( ´ ▽ ` )ノ
Bye!
Now that she’s gone, bring out the hookers! Woo!
Have a good one Strange! So jelly of you guys getting to meet up!
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I second this!
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Thirdededed..ed.
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WELL THEN you guys should make an effort and come along next time xD
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You have no idea how much I would love to. Unfortunately I don’t have the money to spend on a weekend trip to another state plus accommodation costs 🙁
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You realise we’re all crashing at Blaghman’s place, right?
Yeah. It’s going to be fuuuuuuuuuuun.
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Good luck for the trip Strange!! I’ll see YOU on Sunday 😉
Ciao! Bon voyage! Also I’m not sure what your nosensical ramblings about nearly making promises is meant to mean, but it seems to be of good intention, so merci!
Hai guys, I usually wouldn’t do this (unless it’s Twitter) but can you guys help me with my SEO assignment? Just need you all to visit my “website” I threw together in about 5 mins. I wanna beat everyone else in the class with it and get a reduced work load haha.
http://kingscliffit.info/~marc/south_coast_web/index.html <— clicky, or does this need to be in HTML? if so cbf 😀
Apparently it's acceptable to rip off another assignment of mine and call it "South Coast Web Design" and put it on the server LOL.
Thanks in advance any one that helps me out 😀
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What do we do once we’ve visited?
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Hack it?
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Update your Facebook?
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Publish a series of children’s books?
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Learn to salsa?
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Eat some salsa?
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Where is the salsa link? I don’t see it!
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Ah the salsa shark
+100 internets to you good sir
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Clicking it was all it needs apparently according to my teacher ha. I have posted it just about everywhere else I could think.
Thanks Bish! 😀
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ok cool, all done then. I can go back to what i was doing. Which was…nothing…damn
I mean, do i need to click something there or just visit? Anyway, I visited twice to be sure 🙂
I helped!
I halped.. (i didnt do anything, did i halp?)
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Well if you didn’t click it, I don’t think that helped 😛
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Ah… I did do something then. I clicked the clicky…
Take that my boss who says I never do anything!
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YEAH! Power to us powerless people!
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If pageviews are what you’re after, I just added 43 of them…
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Someone DoS him!!!!
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If someone DoS’s the TAFE web server that would be hilarious.
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100 and something! HA
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Here goes nothing…
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~300. There.
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oh IT’S ON!
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If you beat my (exactly) 1000, you can take victory. I’m going home in ~10 minutes.
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Well I don’t know how many hits I just generated but sticky tape holds down the F5 button remarkably well!
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That is INGENIOUS! You should patent that!
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I was opening new tabs, so I could use the ‘warn me when closing multiple tabs’ option to let me know lol. But I think you just won.
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Shit, and here’s me thinking you had a fancy program haha.
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That is so awesome 😀
If you guys get me ABOVE everyone else in the class, then. I will be speechless since I was meant to do this 6 weeks back lol.
And there’s another 1000.
Just hope they don’t look at the IP/timestamp for those…
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haha, I don’t think they will. (if they can) since Google apparently monitors traffic, it’s all about hits or whatever. I don’t really pay attention in class, I just some how manage to maintain decent enough work to pass lol.
Also does anyone have a clue how to submit a link to Bing? lol.
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Derp, I Googled it after I asked and it gave me what I wanted.
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Are you only allowed to have the one page, or will they consider anything you set up?
If so, add a link to a “refresh page,” and set it up to redirect to itself every 2 seconds(or whatever), and then I can help you by doing nothing(except using up my pathetic dl limit…)!
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Nah we can have more, I just didn’t want to have to bullshit more for it haha.
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The link doesn’t work at all for me :/
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That is certainly odd, this lot haven’t managed to break it yet.
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Probably the work server blocking it for some ridiculous reason..
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Yeah man, TAFE is a dangerous organisation. I’d be blocking that shit too! XD
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I think it’s just government sites in general..
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Yeah, too true.
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Okay, nobody else seems to have noticed/been interested in those Gears DLC codes.
Hugo can have Mechanic Baird, and FatShady can have Commando Dom.
Hugo, send me an email at
goligb01 {at} gmail {dot} com
and I’ll send you the code when I get home.
FatShady, I’ll send yours via Twitter DM, unless you also want to email me.
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thanks mate. the tweetz r good for me.
now im just getting lazy with my engrish
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me t
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A complete waste of letters there.. and you call yourself part of this internet generation thingy m’ bob.
the appropriate response should have been
‘m t’ or ‘m2’…
Now, as your punishment, I want you to do home-work over the weekend. I want you to write 1000 words on why you should shorten words on the internet, but fit the entire essay in one tweet (140 char).
GO!
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Mass Effect 3, woooo.
Space pew pew.
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Yay, thank you muchly Cracks.
Email has been sent.-
Email has been received. Will send in a couple of hours.
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Hey, so i need to create a wiki for work and i normally use the WYSIWYG tools and rich text stuff and that is fine.
But now I need a text box, 2 col wide by 4 col high (2 headings and 2 text boxes) and I need the width to be fixed. I want the height auto sized though.
The built in tools are rubbish. Anyone know if I can do this in the HTML side of things.
I want the total size of the box 1050px wide.
Any halp is appreciated.
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Is this a text box as in something to input text into, or just a thing which has text in it? (I’m a bit exceedingly rusty on my html)
Theoretically if you put “width:1050px;” in the details area for it (along with the font type and all that) it should force the width, but allow the height to change, but as I said, it’s been a while. (I used Dreamweaver for most html/CSS)
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Heading1
Heading2Text1-1Text1-2
Text2-1Text2-2-
*Facepalms*
It didn’t like my HTML. I’ll replace ‘Heading1\/td>
\td>Heading2\/td>
\/tr>
\/thead>
\tbody>
\tr>\td>Text1-1\/td>Text1-2\/td>\/tr>
\tr>\td>Text2-1\/td>Text2-2\/td>\/tr>
\/tbody>
\/table>-
What do you do for a living Steve-o?
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he paints the town with blood and shouts demaciaaaaaaa!
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I’m a programmer/web developer for a company called BIGmate. We do monitoring for vehicles and stuff, with customers being able to log into our site to see a map with icons representing all of their equipment moving around like a RTS. I also handle the nacho-making on friday afternoons.
This is a demo that shows of our site: http://www.bigmate.com/BIGmateDemo/BIGmate_Demo.html
It’s actually pretty cool to work on and see what people get up to (e.g Tradies doing 180km/h on dirt roads in a mini-bus)
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Wow, everyone has smarter jobs than me :/ I feel like an idiot.
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I know that feeling.
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where do you work mr. Mag?
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I’m an IT Technician. When I’m not licking windows, I fix computers 😛
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well then you’re a step up from what i was doing half a year ago… IT technician for…*shudder*…for…*teary eyes*…Harvey Norman
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I always wanted to be an I.T technician and just fix pc’s, but I ended up going to uni because I liked drinking, and got into programming just because I got lucky and my company contacted the uni saying they needed someone.
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Awesome man, sounds like it worked out for you. Don’t ever go down that road. Programming or managing servers, etc is where the money is at. There is no money in fixing computers. People that work at service stations get paid almost twice what I do :/
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What do you do now? And that sucks man
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wow that’s cool Steve-O.
Mags, don’t be silly. You’re still young.
Are you able to see them with photographic view? You know. for voyeuristic purposes.
Harli, you’re digging the gutter out yourself. You know that right?
Unfortunately no. I’ve already tried – The CEO set up a monitoring device in his daughters car for demonstration data. She’s Hawwwt! 😛
All we gather are GPS co-ordinates which we plot on a Google map API. You can change the map to satellite view (just like Google maps) but it’s a static pic from whenever they last took the picture.
I know, but still don’t have any direction at all! 😛
go left that will work
So…what will my career be then? :/
politics
‘The world is a mess, and I just need to rule it.’
I get this feeling all the time.
We should form a Kotaku Party, and rule the country!
That sounds good. All you really need to do is say “Rabble rabble rabble!”, right?
Really? Man that sucks. I HATE politics 🙁
Mags, are you at all a charistmatic public speaker? I need a job and am good at scriptwriting and spin! Particularly the spin bit. Seriously, I think I’d be better than whatever idiots Labor currently employs… Where was I? Oh yes, politics, come on, it’s easy money!
“BIG mate”, eh?
(I am implying some sort of connection with identifying the size of male genitalia, you see)
amidoinitrite
Actually funny story. Theres a porn site that uses our name but is bigmates.com with the extra ‘s’. We had some great times when customers accidentally added the ‘s’.
Wow I’m really showcasing my skill today – Learn to close your brackets Steve-O!
It still works. And I wish I could have seen some of their faces. Would have been hilarious!
So one time I went to http://www.ten.com instead of http://www.ten.com.au, as a young boy.
Goodbye, innocence.
Sweet jesus, I didn’t auto-fill out those URLs. What are you doing, commenting system!? /o\
Probably don’t click that first one
Too late. HAHAHAHA! Definitely NSFW
Would it be weird if I report myself?
I feel like I should report myself.
I reported myself.
When I was testing out IE9 during the beta, with it’s search bar integrated into the URL bar, I discovered that if you type in a word without a .com or whatever, it automatically assumes you wanted to search. And I also discovered that the first result on Google for our intranet portal’s URL is a porn site. Fun times. 🙁
^^ iseewhatudidthar
Ok, look at this link: http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_tables.asp
I think what you want is a table with two columns, and set the style on the table element:
style=”width:1050px”
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Ahh, w3schools, the only reason I passed year 11 ITM.
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>year 11-12 software design and development<
/me high 5's Blaghsy
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Forget high school. Our lecturer at uni for my masters degree taught us off W3. True story.
Does it count page requests? I could make a console app to make requests on a loop and let it run over the weekend?
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If I was after massive amounts of pageviews I’d just set up the page to auto-refresh every two seconds… I think I’d make a bad web designer.
(Oh man, can anyone else remember when Kotaku pages automatically refreshed every like 5-10 minutes or something. You’d be in the middle of typing a reply, and the whole thing would just refresh. HILARIOUS.)
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if i say no would that crush you morally cause it would make you feel like an old timer?
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Not really, as this was way, way, way back in the day. I think it was the Wildgoose era, but I remember they changed it so that if you put text into text box it wouldn’t refresh, before ultimately getting rid of the system entirely.
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Yes! That was REALLY annoying.
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u old
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I remember -_-
So frustrating!
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Oh god yes.
That sucked so hard.
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Dammit Jamesmag maxing out the replys, so ill restart the convo here, i was trying to think of WA stereotypes but i couldnt think exactly what THOSE(lovely eastern states) people think of us
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That you’re all cashed up Bogans, riding on continued mining boom.
What?
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D: there’s cash? Where do I get my hands on that? I’m incredibly underpaid and poor and stuff :/ but I’m not a bogan.
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yeah is the bogan thing australia wide though? is the commodore with a fully sick exhasut specifically WA or australia too
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Pretty sure it’s Australia wide..
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The wankermobiles are Aussie wide, but thanks to the mining sector WA has gained a reputation for being second only to Canberra in terms of the number of cashed up bogans…
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canberra: read Queanbeyan? O.o
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Queanbeyan is a slightly different breed, but I was including them in the numbers anyway.
Weird dirty Queanbeyans. 😛
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So you are also a cashed up bogan?!
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Nah, I was born in Brisbane. My family is just cashed up, we skip the bogan part. 😀
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I feel like I need to clarify before I show up to your house tomorrow, my Commodore came with the sports exhaust and rims already on there, it wasn’t my doing. I bought it from Jerrabomberra. Do with that information what you will.
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All I know is that apparently everyone in Queensland frequently says “Put another shrimp on the barbie”, even mid-sentence.
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That’s when they aren’t proclaiming Lockyer as a god in mortal guise. Which he totally is.
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Also, aren’t they building him a statue to go next to King Wally at Lang Park?
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What? Rugby? GTFO
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Actually don’t have anything against Rugby, just thought it was the WA thing to say as all we care about over here is AFL apparently..
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not an AFL fan?
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I watch games every now and then, but I don’t follow it really. My favourite team is Dockers, because that’s the team my mum and step-dad go for. So that pretty much says how much I care about AFL 😛 it’s good to watch and drink beer to..
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If Lockyer is your God then surely Billy Slater is the Victorian God
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The Cracks is from Perth yo.
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ha remembered that after i posted
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I live in Perth. I was born in Brisbane. Hence, Lockyer is my god.
And Huntsman, Slater is the Sughly of the Maroons. He always delivers. He can play for Melbourne all he wants, but he’s still a Queenslander.
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Ah fair enough then, makes sense. Meh, Rugby’s not so bad 😛 I don’t follow it all but I don’t mind watching a game every now and then..
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Completely forgot about his dominance in origin for the maroons, was focusing on the storm
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*wipes tear from eye*
Well said Cracks. Well said.
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Agreed, slater is the bomb locky is god and you guys remember that me and steveo live up north right!
Nah, mate, we don’t do that, shit aye. I dunno where you bloody miners got that idea. We call ’em prawns, shit aye. Now mate, what we have here is the best hill in the world. Castle Hill is one of the tallest hills ever, shit aye.
(To clarify, my mother lived in Townsville for a while, and once she managed to find the pinnacle of townsvilleness when a guy said something along the lines of “it was pretty shit, shit aye.”) (oh, and that’s pronounced like the letter “a” as opposed to “eye” as a scotsman would say… Maybe.)
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Hahahaha! That sounds like Bunbury, my hometown 😛
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Hehe, Bunbury.
Hehehe.
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Please don’t judge me. I got out of there! I have to go there tomorrow night though 🙁 so devo..
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You say that like being DeveO is a bad thing?
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Sigh :/
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What’s a ‘Lockyer’?
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I guess it is like a ‘lawyer’, but they practice in locks?
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You two are dead to me…
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CRACKS! what happened with Lockyer is he playing this weekend or what? with that whole eye saga? havent seen any news articles since
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He’s not playing this week. He’s hoping to in the final if the Broncos make it through.
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Broncos?
More like “BONKOS”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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“You’re a, crook, captain hook,
Judge, won’t you throw the book”
after having realised how much that job sucked i decided to move to canberra and landed a good job as a Network Administrator or “technical support officer” aka Administrator.
not bad for only holding a diploma in IT Networking 😛
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damn reply fail, mr. Mags; that was for you 😛
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Sure but… Canberra.
Who would willingly go there?
Not I.-
Lol, and what was your families response to you saying you were coming down to Canberra?
It was probably the wise response.
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eh, expensive living, crappy drivers, shootings, stabbings and Gillard… WHAT’S NOT TO LOVE?
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It happens to the best of us, don’t worry 😛
Aww yeah that’s not too bad. See, the thing for me is, I don’t really want to do IT anymore..I don’t like Server stuff, it doesn’t interest me in the slightest, and that’s really all I can do to advance from where I am now..
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unfortunately with the way most IT is going, network is going to come into play one way or the other… i don’t plan on staying here but it will give me some good solid background knowledge i can build on… mostly for world domination… but i think that’s a viking thing… that and a weird affection to horned helmets… but mostly world domination
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Yeah well I mean I know basic Server administration and I’m fine with networking. It just really doesn’t interest me, at all. So I need to find something that does 😛
Vikings is it?
Read this.
http://www.obrien.ie/book393.cfm
I was the first person (apart from publishers and the author) to read this book in the world. Also, I have a personalised copy.
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nice, i approve of this, and don’t worry man, you’ll find what you want to do eventually… try out a few things before you settle… the thing i like about IT is that is part of the backbone of most industries… like Aircraft and would like to learn more; IT. Like finances and would like to learn more; IT. like internet porn; IT, or alternatively Harli
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Lol Harli watches porn. Lol.
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My pops gave me this advice when I finished school:
“90% of people work because they have too, it’s only a lucky minority who actually enjoy getting up for whatever they do. If you can’t get into that %10 or don’t know what you would be doing to get into it, you may as well be earning as much as you can. Open the jobs classified, pick the highest earning job and start from there. You may not enjoy your work but at least you can buy lots of beer!”
tl;dr – If you don’t know what you want to do or can’t find something you enjoy, jump into something and make sure you get bloody well paid for it 🙂
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that would be one of the wisest things i’ve ever heard… this man should be worshipped like the Dalai Lama
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Yeah I think that’s what I might end up doing 😛 but a lot of that needs degrees, and I can’t afford to go to uni!
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a lot of the times, having experience even in the lower level stuff counts for a shit-ton more then an official qualification… shop around enough, and prove hard working enough, you will eventually find a employer that is willing to pay for you to get a qualification
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Eventually is the keyword there 😛
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I have a diploma in love-making.
-licks moustache-
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…nice 😛
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how many “modules” did you have to “complete”… oh OH, i bet there was a lot of “oral” presentations, AMIRITE?
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speaking of moustaches, anyone watch beauty and the geek last night?
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YOU’RE A LAST NIGHT!
-upends plate of snacks-
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Noooo not the snacks! I was gonna eat dem :'(
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LAWLS! That moustache was hilarious! I wanted to take a pair of scissors to it.
Also, the tiny guy with the glasses (who’s beauty won the food/map challenge) looks like a super creeper. Like, don’t want to find him in an alley at night creeper.
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haha yeah, and he wore some weird shit too, like a sultan outfit straight out of Aladdin and mob boss suits
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@Blaghs..
I am charismatic and a good public speaker (especially when drunk). But I’m shit at writing speeches. Join with me and we shall rule the world together.
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Excellent, I can see no way that this could possibly go wrong!
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It’s a fool-proof plan alright 😛
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can i be the guy who does nothing like in entourage
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Haha which one? Both Turtle and Johnny do virtually nothing 😛
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He can be a head-nodder, you know, one of those guys that stands behind you during conferences nodding their head in agreement to everything you say!
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I’ll be the World Govt mathematician and logic person guy. Yeah!
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I’ll be in charge of hiding in long brush and ambushing little girls with their teddies!
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Doesn’t sound suss at all 😛
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Why is everyone so obsessed with a turrent having bayonets??
Every frickin Gears post 🙂
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It is, illogical.
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people just need to realise that everything get’s better with pointy objects attached to them…. true story
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Because people caring about it is hilarious!
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Ah but i was first 🙂
Everyone copied me! I just find it…illogical, Captain.-
This is why i need to read comments before replying…now my Spock quote looks like a lame copy….damn
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The Universe Explained.
I got sidetracked after I linked ‘Sports’ up above.
Holy. Crap. I can’t stop laughing.
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It’s free real estate!
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lolol! I have to say it lost some of its funny when it was more obviously fake, but still. lol.
HOME TIME! Hope traffic isn’t too bad on the freeway…
Hehehe, Bunbury. Yes, Mags, I’m still chuckling about that.
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I hate you 🙁
I have the twitterz: https://twitter.com/#!/Lucifer9783
And the facebookz: http://www.facebook.com/Lucifer9783
But not the google+ ’cause i’m still a young’un
Steve-O, so harsh man. Just rub it in 🙁
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hehe…
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I’m sure it could be worse.
Maybe.
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Probably, maybe if my new handle was Blaghmang 😛
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YOU COULD BE Jamesmang! IT’S GLORIOUS!
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I really, really couldn’t.
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Well to make it up to you mags, we could fulfill Tracey’s wish: “I expect there to be a hot story about two guys kissing on TAY next week”?
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That is, we find some guys who are into that thing and tell a story about it together.
*blushes and kicks feet awkwardly*
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Nicely saved.
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Sounds good. Between us we should know two gay people willing to kiss for TAY, right?
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For future reference can somebody tell me the best address to send noms for kudos, pretty please.
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For the future? Theoretically mark[dot]serrels[at]kotaku[dot]com[dot]au should work. It’s what I use, and he typically responds that he received them three weeks later when I bug him in Ask Me Stuff.
Just less than 10 minutes ago, Notch tweeted this…
http://i.imgur.com/jCYC1.png
😀 or D: ?
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If you ask me D: cause that would be every 10 minutes for me.
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Neutral.
People have been doing this as a self-imposed rule set.
Notch has just added the option to make it more decisive for those who are of weaker willpower.
Holiday not off to a good start. Stupidly decided not to stop at Toowoomba for dinner and then of course there wasn’t anything else open for the rest of the way to Boggabilla. Starving kids are not fun. Managed to do a slight detour to the main highway at Goondiwindi where there was a McDonalds on the verge of closing, at 9:30.
Our Boggabilla Motel’s beds and pillows feel like planks of wood so now my old body is all broken and grandma-ish. Oh, and when my son was throwing a tantrum at bedtime he jumped on and snapped my new Sennheiser headphones(thankfully not the really really expensive pretty ones I wanted but couldn’t afford, but grr, I hadn’t even used them yet). Can’t wait to see what adventures today brings!
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Early Saturday mornings.
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zomg I’m currently shopping for Sennheisers. My stomach just knotted up a little over reading that. My condolences.
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Did you punish your son for his impertinence by shackling him upside down over night? What? That’s cruelty? Pshhhhhhhhhh.
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Oh man, I actually cringed at the Sennheisers being broken. I would be distraught if anything happened to mine.
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I cringed, and I don’t even use Sennies.
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Sounds like you are having fun!
You should turn it in to a film. You could call it Are We There Yet? Strange Encounters. Ice Cube could play the crazy motel manager. Or maybe the headphones!
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Damn you Reply button! What are you playing at!?
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Peri Peri Chicken Peri Peri Chicken Peri Peri Chicken Peri Peri Chicken Peri Peri Chicken Peri Peri Chicken Peri Peri Chicken….
What time does Logan start? *bounces* I wanna pester him before I have to continue road-tripping.
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Potentially 9ish maybe?
Ah, a weekend without the young master.
What is this sensation? It’s peaceful, and… quiet.
…
This unsettles me greatly.
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Couldnt you start a romantic fling, like Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson in Remains of the Day? Giving each other longing looks, knowing your dedication to the master will always be between you though you cannot deny the allure…
Off to buy Dead Island, ignoring its faults. From what i can tell, it looks pretty good 🙂
Chilling at Blag’s house. Good times.
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Yeah, large amounts of chilling. Very little of anything actually happening…
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You’re meant to be cleaning!
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So who is actually there so far??
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At the moment just Rocketman. I had to run home to grab Doc What’s 360 cause Blaghman couldn’t find his other controller.
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Maybe you guys should… talk to each other? No?
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Cos you the life of the party at meats? 🙂 😛
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Haha, ahhh yes? No? Maybe? Is this sarcasm or a humerous suggestion…? Sometimes the internet confuses me. Actually, no the internet always confuses me… :'(
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Both. 🙂
Stems from your own admissions at Brisbane Meat. -
Oh wow, your memory is sharp. Or mine is just really dull. Or both.
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We tried the talking to each other thing, it didn’t work out.
Hey can someone look for a job for me? I want to play video games instead. Come tell me when you find an awesome one, preferably drawing stuff. kthxbai
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YOU GUYS ARE NO HELP!! >:(
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I heard McDonalds were hiring 😛
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No way!
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I agree! I refuse to work at a place like that. People keep telling me to, I almost told one to fuck off I won’t degrade myself to that level. No offence to anyone that works in fast food, I just wouldn’t be able to stand working in it.
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I helped!
“Duplicate comment detected; it looks as though you’ve already said that!”
Waaaat.
But I’m helping…
;_;
Just a heads up: Harvey Norman (shudder) are selling 1500MSP for $20 (and 3000 for $43, oddly) – dunno how that compares to online/email-y stuff but I picked up 2 x 1500 this morning.
Wow this place is dead. Someone prove me wrong!
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LOOOOGAAAAAN! Where art thou? Are you out there? TALK TO ME DAMMIT!
Echo…
They should rename this place ‘Talk Amongst Sughly’
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Thank you, thank you. I’m here all day…
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A bit bored are we?
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This is cute.
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Hi, Sughly! o/
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ZOMG PEOPLE! I turn my back for one second and you all come running in at the same time! Welcome, welcome, come on in, take a seat. Plenty of space guys…
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You know what you should do? Is bake a cake. Cake is tasty.
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While this is true, I am actually doing work. Believe it or not. I… I… I just want… some company :'(
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I baked a cake the other night, it was like picture perfect! Like out of a book perfect!
Was tasty too!
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Y U NO SHARE? ლ(゚Д゚ლ)
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This! >:(
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Cause my family eated it before I got a chance?
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Hopefully using this name on Kotaku will stop me having to explain who I am to everyone twice.
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Probably not.
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You should change it to Cube Guy or something, just to confuse everyone even more!
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