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Morning TAY. How were all your breaks (and fractures and sprains)?
I took out Dark Phantom Scurvir and Flamelurker the other day. They were epic battles, very exciting and a bit difficult. The hard bit is trying to convince my wife that these are actually decent achievements from which I have gleaned a fair amount of pride 😛
@Blaghman: is your house available for another Meat? Mine definitely is not, I’m afraid. Happy to have a hand in organising it, but unsure whether I can even make it 😛
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I think I only broke TAY once last week 😀
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Jolly good work my good man. Personally I always found Flamelurker to be the hardest boss in both games. He’s just so relentlessly in your face.
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I didn’t think he was that bad. I got him second try (soul level about 35), though I had been collecting mad fire resistance equipment 😛
Next step: 4-2 boss… then I might take a crack at the Dragon God, he looks like fun.
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You are officially further than I am. I am simultaneously proud and jealous of you.
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Where did you get up to before you upgraded to Dark Souls?
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I can’t remember. I do know that I was about two Bosses behind my US(lost with YLOD) character on my AU version of the game, and in neither did I defeat FlameLurker.
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What’s a break? I only got the main days. lol
HOW WAS YOURS?!?
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time for my hard wang to become a reality
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All I know is…wait, what?
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And this is how my day starts.
with uncontrollable awesome
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Hey, 50% off the posts so far are mine…
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*of
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Dammit, now that statement is untrue! It’s more like 7/12 now!
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Out of date statement is out of date… NOW.
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ಠ_ಠ
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Oh god, if this is setting the tone for the rest of the week…
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Well, they do talk about 2012 being the end of the world.
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I always that was a load of baloney, now I’m getting more and more convinced.
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So lambo has gone insane with posting already.
Also, my GOD being stuck inside with no internet was boring (thanks to that little heat-wave rocking around).
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We miss you, buddy!
Come back to us!
Come baaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!-
In ten days /o\
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Agree with Bish come back to us Faction! 🙂
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THE POWER! IT’S GOING TO MY HEAD!! >:D
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Come back man! We miss you! And we need you to play in LoL!
What kind of service station doesn’t sell listerine?
HI EVERYONE! Melbourne is too hot and I need an air conditioner in the apartment, luckily work has a great air con. Can’t believe I’m preferring to be at work haha
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I’m cold. I’m loving Brisbane’s “summer” so far.
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And Sydney seems to be straddling the two extremes, at least for the last few days, it’s been really nice. Rain will be back in a few days though.
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It’s funny, living in Sydney it always, always rains on the 2nd of January – I’m guessing something to do with the massive amount of heat and smoke generated by the NYE fireworks. You see, my wife’s birthday is January 2nd and every year she gets a little more bitter about it raining EVERY YEAR on her birthday, and this has led to her hating the fireworks.
This year is the first time in her living memory it has not rained – at least a little bit – on January 2nd.
We are therefore convinced it is, in fact, the end of the world.
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Im on the gold coast and i gotta agree, bin a cool summer, but i much prefer it being cold than hot. So much easier to sleep
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I stayed indoors yesterday, and I’m staying in the office today, much more comfortable!
But yeah, bloody hot weather, it’s almost as if summer has arrived… but it’s Melbourne! That can’t be right…
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Yep – first thing when i got in this morning? Air con ON!
It’s like a chilly bin!
Damn New Zealanders…
Back to work.
Sadface.
Couldn’t find my headphones this morning, the bus didn’t stop outside my work so I had to double back and then it turns out my favourite coffee place is closed for the holidays. So I had to grab a coffee from a franchise place nearby. At least, I think it’s coffee. A guy stood in front of a coffee making machine type thing before presenting me with this hot milky cup of coffee-esque liquid.
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/SAD HI5
THE LONG WEEKEND WAS GLORIOUS WHILST IT LASTED
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It was indeed.
And then it wasn’t.
Because it ended.
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Dear Ubisoft,
Your anti piracy methods have complelty ruined my experiance with Heroes of Might and Magic VI.
Reguards,
A former customer.
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Yeah I actually finally managed to get online for that AFTER I was done with the game, so I couldn’t use the artifacts-that-can-only-be-used-in-online-mode on the campaign, however, still wanna play an online game with you soon 😛
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Yeah, I was right near the end of the tute when I called it a day. Then when I log back in next it finally lets me connect and use dynasty artifact things but it then decides to sync my saves which means it reaplaced the saves I had for me with the ones they had for me, which were 0.
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I was so annoyed about that yesterday! Had started playing HOMM the night before and became addicted then couldn’t continue my campaign because of stupid server issues.
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Funny that Shane should mention fractures…currently siting in Canberra hospital, waiting for my partner to get an arm cast. I might be a tad quiet on TAY this morning 😛
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I didn’t do it, I swears! I swears on the… on the PRECIOUS!
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I choose to believe the previous you’re referring to is the Normandy model Loops has for the KKP 😀
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It is pretty bloody precious.
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PS – i hope your partner is feeling ok regardless of shattered internals
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Yeah, she’s still alive. Talks a lot, though…
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I fully endorse this statement
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Why does everyone always swear on me??
I’m a magic ring, dammit! I should be used for more than just swearing!
Make sure they give her painkillers man! Fractured things hurt 🙁
Welcome to 2012, everyone.
We here at Kermitron Enterprises are dedicated to the perpetuation of time and we are pleased to confirm that the transition has proceeded smoothly and all systems appear to be operating within normal parameters.
We hope that the 2012 Experience (TM) exceeds your expectations based on the precedent set by our previous quality products.
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Helloooo TAY. I hope everybody had a good New Years. Mine was OK, I didn’t get to see any fireworks though. D:
Also, I FINALLY found one of those “Share a Coke” bottles with my name on it. I displayed it proudly in the kitchen for all to admire. Then threw it out.
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I have found Coke bottles that have ‘Mathew’ and ‘Mat’, but no Matthew. WHO THE HELL SPELLS MATTHEW WITH ONE T? Even if your name IS Mathew, MATT is the standard acceptable abbreviation! >:(
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We need more Bort number plates!
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Coke are clearly Wheel of Time fans.
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I’m surprised it took me this long to find my very common name (Ben). The closest I saw before yesterday was “Wen” 😛
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Pffft at least people recognise your name in one for or another… NO ONE even acknowlages Troy!!! 🙁
Stupid coke
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Yeah, I suppose the chances of finding a coke bottle with Powalen written on it are very slim. Why did you throw it out??? 😛
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The quest begins anew.
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I will never find one with my name on it, and I don’t care enough that I’d make one in one of their shopping centre kiosks. Would be kind of cool though.
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You can make your own? :O I have never heard of this! It would probably come in handy in my area actually, with all the bogan names around. Unnecessary silent letters and weird misspellings (eg. Ambah, Chloi). :/
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I haven’t gone out of my way to look for my name, but it took a while for me to see a Coke bottle with Adam on it.
Those kiosks are just ripe for abuse though. I wouldn’t mind getting some rather stupid stuff one them, like the names of the Justice League.
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I was so excited when I finally found one with my name on it. You’d think that ‘Alex’ being a name for both genders would make it a bit more common.
Although I reckon if I ever went to one of those stalls where they let you put whatever name you want on a can or whatever, I’d totally put stupid things like Ezio or Goku or Batman.
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One of the ladies I work with bought me a bottle with my name (Peter) on it the first day the names came out. This was despite the fact that I told her that I, nor anyone else in my family, drink coke.
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+1 for the Coke marketing department, I guess. One more bottle sold than they would have otherwise. The clever fiends!
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Quick question my precious taybies. How to change my commenting profile picture? As much as i like the Kotaku K, id rather something alittle more individual… Like a picture of a dog sleeping that changes day to day
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Gravatar.com 🙂
Just sign up with the email address you use when commenting here.
You’d have to change the pic each day yourself, of course. Plus it takes a few minutes for it to register the change, so don’t be alarmed when you set it up and you don’t have a pic on here straight away. -
Use the same email address there as the one you post with here.
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gravatar.com
Make sure you use the same email address you use here (name doesn’t matter), and be aware it will take a couple of posts to show up. 🙂
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up and running. Now the world can view my ugly mug. Thanks guys (and girl)
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Turns out the Galaxy S2 does not like TAY all that much…
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Well that’s a shame cuz that’s an awesome phone. If I wanted to continue my smartphone saga, I’d upgrade my hacked-to-android HD2 to the S2.
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Yeah, I hate that. Can’t load the page properly and once it hits past about 1230 monday, I can’t read any new posts.
To elaborate on why my Christmas was sucky (To which many on TeamSpeak are already aware):
I’m sure many of you remember the Melbourne Christmas storms we had? With billiard ball-sized hailstones hitting suburbs and all? Well luckily I didn’t get that hail, however, my house took a near-direct lightning strike. Basically I lost: My modem, router, LAN onboard and my GTX 460 graphics card, all destroyed, and I was without internet for 5 days, which pretty much took half my leave away from me just like that. I had to spend those 5 days getting everything replaced, including my electric toothbrush that somehow snapped at the head while I was brushing my teeth a day later. So yeah I was forced to get presents for myself in order to get my computer to work again, and my modem took 5 fricken days to get replaced. All it took was this: The Optus tech coming over, replacing the modem, connecting it… that’s it. We couldn’t replace it ourselves cuz Optus in Victoria have modems monopolised to the point that only their techies have them and not available at Optus stores. So basically it was all bad timing that their staff were on Christmas break when all my gear exploded. I finally managed to get online, only to find that my router is horrible at traffic allocation, and while playing online, if I or somebody talked on TeamSpeak, my ping can jump up to 2000 in less than 5 seconds, so very frustrating. It even interferes with browsing and I have to go back and reload the page every time. This router was a few models up to my last one (D-Link), and that older one did it better than this. It seemed like everything was against me while I was on leave -.-.
But yeah the real reason I didn’t enjoy my leave was thanks to my human mother and step father, the most negative humans I’ve ever known, even towards our own family which is just depressing cuz they leave it till the dinner table or any other time I’m there to listen to complain. They were on leave as well so it was constant, but worse cuz I couldn’t shut the door due to the air conditioner being out on their side of the house.
So sadly I return to you guys as a depressed wreck of a robot again but I’ll do my very best not to take it out on you all.
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Damn son sorry to hear that 🙁
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Well I got vengeance with getting a new GTX 580, so it’s not really all bad, just for my wallet
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Your wallet is just going to have to take one for the team there :p
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I’ve pretty much reached my target amount of money to save for my apartment minimum and it’s still years from being fully built, so I can treat myself at least
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Sucks to hear that Techy 🙁
At least it’s a good excuse to upgrade your card!
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sorry to hear buddy 🙁
On the plus side, f4ction is hosting another meat at his place on the 14th(?) – you should TOTALLY come and hang with the crew in G-Town and find how awesome it is.
BLOODY AWESOME!
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If I can get there yeah I’d love to come down and meet you guys again
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Family, right?
-Seinfeld bass line-
-quiet sobbing-
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The plan is already in place and under implementation on moving out, so not for much longer will that be an issue.
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That sucks Techy but as you say at least you will get some upgrade out of it
That’s the main reason I don’t walk into a church, that lightning could be dangerous
Alright I’m just going to say it. I like Arkham Asylum far better than City. You may throw your garbage at me now.
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That seems to be the common opinion. City = great name, Asylum = better game.
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er, great game, not great name.
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Wachoo meen not a great name?? 😛
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I AM NOT RETRACTING MY STATEMENT, I AM AMENDING IT. IT CAN BE A GREAT NAME TOO BUT IT BUT NOT AT THAT MOMENT THE TOPIC OF MY INTENDED COMMENTARY.
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I don’t know. Asylum was pretty awesome but I had a lot more fun playing City.
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I definitely see why you think so, but I personally loved the AC structure more.
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I still need to get into AC. I have it sitting here on my desk, but haven’t installed it yet. Too many other games to play
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Here’s the only argument you need to put that game right at the top of your pile.
You get to play as the God Damn Batman.
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I know, I know. There really is no excuse is there? Seriously, any excuse at all will do… Anything?
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I haven’t gotten aroudn to city yet – but damn, asylum is going to be hard to beat
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Better Story = Asylum
Better Gameplay = City.
I HAVE SPOKEN!!!
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This, definitely. I felt like there were points in City where the story was bogged down by the huge cast. Who is this Hugo Strange? I’m busy with the Joker, you know, game.
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I did not finish or really get that far into Asylum – it didn’t hold my attention that well.
But City I was hooked from the beginning :/
Morning TAY.
I have somehow managed to catch a cold on a day when it hit 43 degrees.
Back at work too. Sigh.
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Yeah I got a bad cough today too, hopefully my antivirus finds the cause and destroys it soon, it’s getting irritating.
Picked up Bastion in the Steam sales. Beat it pretty quickly and jumped straight into New Game Plus.
Awesome game. I can see why so many people have heaped praise upon it. So much charm.
The combat system is a little simple and once you decide upon your weapons of choice, odds are you aren’t going to vary things much (although going with weapons that ignore defense with their final upgrade is a very smart move, gogo gadget carbine!).
I’m going to start doing reviews again and I’ve started on the first game that I’m going to be reviewing. Not sure if I’m going to bother keeping it a secret but it’s safe to say that I’m sticking to my habit of reviewing something a little older that people may not have gotten around to playing.
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It really is BLOODY GLORIOUS!
😀
Happy New Year you gais!
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Happy new year buddy! 😀
Okay, I have to know: how do I get my life back after I’ve played Demon’s Souls?
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You have to kill a boss 😛
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I think I might go to jail for that 😛
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Let me know in advance.. my copy is on it’s way from Ozgameshop!
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Finish it.
Then maybe again juust for some NG+ action. Then maybe again because I think stuff really cranks up in your 3rd playthrough.
But after the third, you should have it all out of your system.-
THREE playthroughs?
I’m doomed 😛
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Don’t jump the gun too early there buddy. There is still Dark Souls waiting on the wings ready to feast upon the remains of your free time.
Is anyone else worried that Lambo has changed his avatar to what appears to be a dancing troll guy? Surely this can’t be a good sign
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Lambo IS a dancing troll guy
But you know what?
He’s OUR dancing troll guy
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*starts dancing*
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next he’ll start talking about HL3
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Well it’s not Friday so we’re safe from that at least…
Maybe….
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You’re never truly safe from the Lambo
*checks cupboard and under bed*
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ʘ‿ʘ
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Oh, surely he won’t change at all from his old avatar.
*famous last words*
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Yeah, I was going to go with this http://www.cartooncritters.com/dressupimages/troll.gif but then I decided against that…
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Well played Lambo, well played
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It…begins.
>.>
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Cons: Back at work
Pros: Office is airconditioned, house is not.
Also: Happy New Year! May your apocalypse be more Mad Max than The Road.
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I hear that!
Happy NEW YEAR!!!
*i originally typed birthday.. i’m glad i did one of my very rare “check what you damn well typed”‘s before i posted
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Just as long as we don’t go the Alderaan route
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Yeah, I’m powerful, but not that powerful. Yet.
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Ok, but if start stockpiling heavy metals, computer chips and other large scale laser components, I call shotgun on the first intergalactic flight
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I’m hoping that the apocalypse is more like Book of Eli, or as I call it, Fallout: the Movie.
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I really enjoyed the Fallout movie. It was very Fallout-y.
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I haven’t seen that one yet. I hadn’t heard much about it , why did nobody tell me it was fallout-y. Seriously that should have been the tagline for it, I so would have gone and seen it then
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TAY is more lively this morning than it has been in a good while. Huzzah!
Also, its hot and I’m sunburnt. Not so much huzzah!
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I’m so paranoid about getting sunburnt these days. I end up re-applying sunscreen constantly while I’m at the beach. xD
It’s either the result of those melanoma ads with the cell that digs into the bloodstream (D:), or having one too many painful sunburn showers. Probably both, actually.
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Yeah, when I realised I was sunburnt I started panicking internally. I know its just a sunburn and all, but they play those melanoma ads so often on TV that it really starts to make you just a tad paranoid.
As such, I have resolved to never go outside ever again, and I urge you all to do the same. Unless you are buying food, or new games to pass the time, or alcohol.
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My wife used to get a deep tan every summer (usually from going to music festivals).
For the last three years she’s been on a medication that makes here extremely photosensitive, so at the beginning of December she was outside for like, 2 hours, and got badly sunburned. It’s STILL fading, and she freaks out over every single freckle that wasn’t there before.
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I don’t know why but despite being pretty pale, it takes a lot for me to get burnt. Just lucky I guess.
DAN! Did you get Halo 3 back? Or has it been sitting in your mailbox for the last week and a half? 😛
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I did!
I even remembered on the day it got dropped back*
*If you dropped it back yesterday.
Well, I certainly walked in a bit late.
… I got nothing. 🙁
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GOOD MORNING CRAZYGUY!
Caps, I dunno why.
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Good morning. 🙂
How come your pants are crossed out in your pic?
I’ve always been curious to know about that.-
NoPants!
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Al, Ex Pants.
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Howd u wind up pregnant? “I took a skyward sword to the knee… Well just above the knee”
2012, year of the bone heavy, quest interupting, forever spawning dragon
As I am still without the innernets I reinstalled Skyrim. Oh man, I can’t wait until they do another Fallout. Or… Mod tools!
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My wife & I are aching for another Fallout, but acknowledge it’ll probably not happen until late 2013 at the earliest. 🙁
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“My wife & I are aching for another Fallout”
The joys of marital tension? lol-
We don’t really talk anymore, so I know I’ve left the dishes too long when I load my New Vegas savegame and find myself in a burnt out shack in the middle of Cazador terrotory with only a BB gun and 400 empty Nuka Cola bottles.
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KOTAKU KRISTMAS PROJECT CONTRIBUTOR COMPETTION #1
BUILD-A-ROBOT2012 PAPER CRAFT CALENDAR!
This is a completely unofficial kotaku competition open only to all contributors to the KKP.
Winners will be judged by Mark himself and prizes will be distributed.
Today up for grabs we have 1x Build-a-robot 2012 papercraft calendar.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/posters/e8f2/?srp=5
All KKP contributor prizes have been hand picked by yours truely.
What do you have to do to win?
Simple. I want to know your robot name.
How do you get your robot name?
Simple take the first letter of both your first and last name (T and C) in my case. Then use those letters as a basis for your robot name, ie choose words that start with those letters.
So for me it might be something like “Tin Caboose” or “Titanic Contrapulator”
The funniest and most creative entries will win the calendar!
*side note – i will be entering these comps, as i won’t be judging, and i want an even shot at some of these awesome goodies 😛 lol Today, you’re lucky, however. I’ll be sitting this one out as bee already has a calendar for us (see ‘her’) up at home… *grumble*
GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!!!
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Oh – you have until midnight tonight to enter!
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I think we all know the default winner of this one…
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god help anyone who gets in his mechanical way? lol
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What about those with surnames ala myself? Kayler-Thomson? Is my Robot then S____ K___ T____
SENTIENT KILLER TOASTER
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I am in this boat.
Serial
WRight-Speller.PS: I don’t really want the calendar, but it looked like a fun comp 🙂
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The cylons are coming, the cylons are coming
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Jarbeling Wumpmsmusher
BECAUSE THOSE WUMPS WON’T SMUSH THEMSELVES! More jabeling is obviously required.
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Jammed Crankshaft
I’m not a very effective robot 😛
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Princess Machina – who says robots have to be masculine?
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L & S, not much to work with…
My Robot Name is…
LEFT-TURN-ONLY SIGN-BOT
(yeah, I got nothing)
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So, are we allowed to win more than one of these comps? Cause I really want that Boba Fett.
My robot name is Bumbershoot Jactator!-
A cookie to whoever guesses what that means 😛
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yes, of course you can 🙂
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Human name letters: S.D.C
Shopping Dumbass Crusher
All dumbasses in shopping centers are crushed, painfully. While not on duty he shops for flowers and teddy bears.
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Night_tech
or Night_Tech_Rider
yep NTRIm too squishy for a robot name so I modified two of the most famous robots to ever live. Also im with Shane my entry is for no personal gain 🙂
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🙂 I like
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I’m not actually entering this one because I’d rather the prize went to someone who really wanted it, but in this scenario my name would totally be Aluminium Canister.
I don’t think very big.
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Alexion Pantazoid
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Pantazoid is a great word.
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There is also the alternative Pantizoid (Pantyzoid) but I didnt want to assume sexuality
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geez that’s not fair.. I already have a robot name!! :0
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make up a new one 😛 lol
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Alright..
Gorram Robot!
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So do I but it’s using your human name initials 😛
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Automatic Butt.
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Randy Man Cannon.
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Automated Industrial Lick-a-tron.
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got jack off to work with… hmmm…
Jack-Off Dickinatorum?
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jack-off WTF? i can’t even blame auto correct for that one… i got J D to work with
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I’m going with Automagic Highscorer!
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Sexy Rowboat.
The sexiest robot to ever sex the good lookingness ever.
And he’s amazeballs at everything.
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So I need to use S&M that is a robot. I guess that makes me S&M-bot
*oh no Kotaku doesn’t like my answer, I get a message that says this post is too brilliant to be posted twice
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Behold! For I am the CHRONO STIMULATOR, I brought you all to climax yesterday, I can tell you liked it because of the smile on your face right now… except for Bish, who might be trying to wash himself with Bleach…
Repost from last TAY: So, hands up, who owns NFS Hot Pursuit for PC? Pez and I rediscovered how fun that game is last Sunday, and we need more people to play with! 😀
BTW Nova, were you able to set up your account? I have no idea what’s wrong, I never had any problems with mine…
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I do but I haven’t made a start on it yet
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I haven’t tried it this morning, thanks for reminding me.
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I think I’ve found the problem. A lot of other people have had the same issue with their game key saying its already been used. Looking around on the steam forums it looks like the only way people have got it to work was to download origin and activate it through that. I’m going to send an email to EA and see what the deal is.
Wish me luck
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Well, that sucks. Here’s hoping you get it all working 🙂
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Me too, I’ve quite enjoyed the few single player races I’ve done so far. I really want to be able to race against you and Pes, and whoever else jumps in. Even if you’ll probably completely destroy me, leaving me a broken wreck sobbing on the floor, utterly convinceed of my own inferiority.
Sounds like fun, hey?
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Well, that’s why we need more players. I kept on completely destroying Pez, leaving him a broken wreck sobbing on the floor, utterly convinceed of his own inferiority. 😛
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Well at least I won’t be alone
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my kingdom for a new pc!
On the plus side, i’ll probably get one with this years tax return!!
*squee*
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Yeah, I’m hoping to get a new one this year too. Mine’s getting old. It even gets low framerates on Battlefront 2 sometimes! D:
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mine won’t even run magika!
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Well, that is bad!
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I had to turn down the settings on Bit Trip Runner because my PC chugged when the background got really busy. 🙁
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I’m in the same boat! Well it runs it in 800×600 windowed mode lol
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I HAVE THAT GAME!
I stopped playing it though because all my friends were playing it on 360. 🙁
THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE STILL NEED TO CONTACT ME FOR THEIR $10 GIFT CARD:
BDKIAF
SHIGGY NINTY
THE CRACKS
SPLICER
HUGO THE BARBARION
RIZE
STEVE-O-THE-DEVO-O
JAMESMACUSEDMYHANDLE
NOOBHEADSHOT
TECH KNIGHT
DI11ENGER
EFFLUVIUM BOY
PHOENIX
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Or, you know, you could just give them all to me. I’d take good care of them! 😛
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LIKE YEW TOOK CARE’A MA SISTER?
*pumps shotgun*
GO ORN! GIT!!
*fires warning shot and pumps shotgun again*
IFFIN I SEE YOU ROUND DESE HUR PARTS ‘GIN, IMMA FILL YOU FULLA LEAD, BOIIII-
——-> /o\
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I had no clue about this sir I apologise, I’ll email you later today
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I’m on OzGameShop’s mailing list to notify me when they get War For Cybertron back in stock. That $10 code is gonna go down a treat 😀
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I’m going to use mine to get The Old Republic.
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BTW, do these cards/codes have an expiry date?
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not as far as i know 🙂
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If there is one, it’d probably be in at least 12 months or something. Mine will be long gone by then.
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Very good question,
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Oh! Sorry! I’ll get on it now! Damn holidays.
Morning All,
Happy Xmas and Merry New Years 😀
Im Back from my trip up the coast, where way to much alcohol was consumed. I even managed to get lost in my origin city of the Gold Coast due to inbreation (or how ever you spell that word). Lots of partying was done I tried my hardest to get to sydney for the meat in mid December but was way to poor for that to have any chance of happening. Over all I had an excellent holiday apart from some muppet stealing my basketball shoes near pacific fair 🙁
Hope you all had a wonderful holidays 🙂
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“inbreation”
Being so drunk that you become inbredHAPPY EASTER! 😀
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*inebriation
Also loops, that was my first thought when I read it as well. Although you need to be careful you don’t offend anybody by saying such things
*whispers* he is from Queensland after all
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I was born 20 minutes south of the border in NSW so HA. I just lived on the border all my life so I say I am originally from the Gold Coast 😛
No offence Taken here I support all jokes directed at them peoples from North of the bored…well most of them. Those Yo mama jokes are just out of hand and frankly they are not funny at all
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Border*
Im going to start a Kickstarter Thing to help get me some English lessons.
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Wait, you were from Murwillumbah from the sounds of it and your calling US inbred?
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Game. Set. Match. Mr Freeze
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Whats worse I went to school there. Although when I was there it never felt like hick town or bogan central, now its almost as bad as townsville or northside brisbane…
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the dots are supposed to be followed by a :P. If anyone has taken that statement seriously My Apologies 🙂
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I don’t think it matters as most of Townsville or north side have yet to discover fire let alone the Internet, so they’ll never read that. Or this.
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Is it just me, or is Duels of the Planeswalkers a dangerous gateway drug? After picking it up in the Steam Sale I’m almost ready to go buy actual Magic cards- but I’ve seen where that road leads…
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A crack addiction would be cheaper.
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And Probably less time consuming
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And more socially acceptable.
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And probably better for your health too.
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Meh, I originally started playing magic about 16 years ago and I got bored with it after a few years because there was so much overpowered and unimaginative stuff in the newer expansions. Plus, my friends were so competitive that they’d just copy champion decks out of Scrye magazine. If you couldn’t afford to go to a card shop and buy the specific cards you needed, there was practically no point to playing.
So, yeah, if I was going to play the game now I’d prefer to play it digitally, against an AI.
Morning tay!
Yesterday it was about 35 degrees hotter in Melbourne than it was in Shanghai.
I’d burst into maniacal laughter but it’s too cold. 🙁
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I just woke up sweating and swearing. It’s TOO DAMN HOT. I want the cold. You stole it all!
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I’ll do the maniacal laughter for you:
Mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! >:D
You can thank me later.
Back to slacking off on TAY at work. Unlike every other Melbourne TAYbie it seems, my house is airconditioned so it was reasonably cool this morning (but it struggled overnight) and the aircon was off in our building until about 7am so it’s really hot here.
I basically disappeared since just before Christmas. I got sucked into The Old Republic in a fairly bad / obsessive way. Repeated all-nighters, then sleeping until noon only to repeat the cycle. Still enjoying the game, but god damn they picked a bad time to release it. It’s still got a lot of bugs, some missing features and heaps of minor things that lack polish, and of course they released just before Christmas and then all the people that would be fixing those problems went on holiday. 🙁
The main thing I’ve noticed is that there’s some kind of wierd memory performance going on, probably a slow memory leak. I have the client running for long stretches of time, and the longer it’s running the more memory it consumes. Once my overall memory usage hits ~95% obviously stuff begins to be pulled in and out of virtual memory on disk, and so whenever it has to load in new info quickly (eg when I’m crossing an area and get to a settlement where there’s other players) the framerate tanks for about a second or two while that gets paged in. And of course, the longer it’s played in a low-memory situation like that, the more fragmented everything gets. After 6-8 hours if I quit it takes about 5 minutes for the game to close. 🙁
In addition, some of the areas are enormous. My machine is about two years old and was toward the higher end of the mid range at the time, and generally performance is great (leaking aside), just not load times. So I’m thinking it’s time to replace the SSD I used to have in the system and throw some extra memory at it as well.
In other hardware news, the QNAP NAS I purchased back at the start of October started intermittently losing power in December. Not crashing or restarting, straight up losing power. Thought it was my UPS at first, or maybe our air conditioning system drawing too much power, but neither of those make sense. Then on boxing day, it completely shut off and when turned on it starts up, begins to boot, then loses power within 5 seconds or so and turns off, regains power again, begins to boot and goes into a start up – POST – power loss loop 🙁 If it’s left cold for long enough sometimes it’ll boot up and stay on for 5 minutes or even as long as a couple of hours before losing power again. Presumably the power supply is faulty, though it could be anything. So now I have to negotiate a return & replacement under warranty. At least all the data on it was backed up!
I have terrible luck with computer hardware. It’s depressing.
Don’t forget the Great Geelong Meat, peoples. I’m only reposting as I’m not sure when I can get online over the next week or so…
Details are here! http://talesoftay.tumblr.com/
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The 14th? Bollocks I dunno if I can make that, my girlfriend returns home after a few weeks on the 12th, so I can imagine that weekend would be… busy 😉
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come along hehehehe
I’m so mature ^_^
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BLAST! I’ll be in Melbourne that weekend 🙁
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Melbourne is but an hour away from Geelong, my smithing friend. A SINGLE train trip. Nothing more!
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Hey f4ction, I just noticed that your mobile number is up there. Do you want me to remove it?
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So many ideas just started rushing through my head 😀
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It’s funny because I imagine f4ction snapping you in two because he is a bikie.
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Any phone calls would be better than none :'(
j/k, yeah, would probably be best ey?-
is that saying of “once its on the internet its stuck on there forever” True?
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well that was not meant to go there… my reply to you was meant to say: with lambo in possesion of your number Id be scared… or excited?
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I may come. Possibly. Geelong is a pretty big distance away (eastern suburbs here). Melbourne is way too spread out. 🙁 I’d be driving over so if I do go I can possibly assist with transportation.
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I’m quite excited for my first meat so about 90% I’ll be there
May or may not have the better half along, will find out sometime before the day I’m sure
This is just mean! I’m on a diet as I’m trying to shed some weight for my sisters wedding and for morning tea at work, one of the guys brought in a cake for his birthday.
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Did you critique it?
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A good suit looks good on Everyone. Eat The Cake!!!
HI EVERYONE!
*sneezes* stupid allergies.
I have to battle the demon known as Australia Post today >.< I believe they have failed to deliver MORE mail to me that is registered post *sigh* I was told to give it 3 weeks max to arrive it has not shown up, so heads are going to roll \o/
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Not really
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It kind of worked 😀
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It looks like someone’s head has been decapitated and is rolling down a set of stairs…
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Well, I was semi unsuccessful with Aus Post, apparently nothing for me has turned up. Great. This leads me to think what I was waiting for was lost in the Aus Post semi trailer that was torched just outside Ocean Shores just before Christmas x.x
I’m just glad it wasn’t anything that was irreplaceable like a letter to a friend or a present or whatever. Just the possibility of it being my RSA card, bah!
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Crazy lambo is crazy
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Crazy lambo does not need reply buttons
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Movember was 2 months ago bro 😛
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That’s no mo, its a space station
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Oh okay, carry on then!
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It’s too big to be a space station… it’s definitely a moustache!
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Tractor beam included
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Oh the Joys of working downstairs from Centrelink. I swear this guy sitting outside my office looks like Rutger Hauer o.0
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duuuuuuuuude… wow… downstairs from a centrelink?
I would have quit after the first day! lol
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I suppose there is no point complaining about it I do work for an employment agency. I only have myself to blame. lol
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I have just realized how much i like pokemon ranger games. It baffles me that its just a spin off series that gets less attention yet the game play is still quite strong! I am going to aquire the new one methinks!
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Given how much I love the main series, I’m surprised I haven’t tried these either. I might have to go pick one up. Have you tried the Mystery Dungeon games? I’ve heard some good things about them too
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I have tried mystery dungeon and i didn’t enjoy it! I only played maybe a hour or two but i kinda dislike dungeon crawlers!
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I love main-series Pokemon, but I couldn’t get into the Ranger games. I don’t know why. I had a Mystery Dungeon game as well, but it got old pretty quickly :/ (only played the first DS one though).
I just really want a Pokemon Snap sequel for the 3DS with a gyro-controlled camera. :]
The Million Deaths of the Soul Knight
Part Three: Fire In The Hole
The first thing he noticed was the heat. It had been getting steadily hotter as he descended, as if he was walking straight into the deepest pits of hell. His armour chafed, and sweat kept running into his eyes. He dared not take off his helmet, though, nor release his grip on his heavy shield; he had been taken by surprise too many times on his long journey to let a little heat get his guard down.
The fog felt solid as he pushed through it, but it gave way before him. Once he was safely on the other side, though, it hardened, solidified until it was as impenetrable as rock. No going back. He stood there for a moment, watching the shifting surface mock his haste to proceed.
No way to go but forward. He took one step, then two…
And then he saw it.
The Flamelurker made no attempts to be quiet as it leapt from the high balcony and crashed to the ground. Its eyes were molten hate and they bored deep into his soul. He managed to keep from trembling in fear, but only just. The thing must have been twenty feet tall, maybe taller. And it was fast.
The flaming beast grabbed two columns at the far end of the room and flung them to the ground like kindling.
Strong too.
The splinters of rubble bombarded him, and the ceiling began to creak ominously. He had no time to worry about that though, because the Flamelurker was charging at him, bounding across the hallway in huge strides, leaving a smoking skidmark on the ground wherever it touched.
He raised his shield defiantly and stood his ground. He had to beat the beast to proceed, so he was going to beat the beast.
He felt, rather than saw, the huge hand swiping towards him. The heat singed him as he flung himself desperately to one side, stabbing blindly with his sword as he did so. The beast howled in pain, and he knew that there was flesh somewhere in that roiling mass of fire.
He was barely on his feet again when the beast attacked. He huddled behind his shield and fire erupted all around him. The sheer force of the explosion flung him off his feet and almost tore the shield out of his hand, but he managed to keep hold of it, thanking the gods it was fireproof.
He didn’t get a chance to rise this time; a flaming claw gashed his side as the Flamelurker lashed out again. He howled in agony, but it was a pitiful noise against the beast’s roar of triumph. He began to roll over, and then was swept violently aside by the beast’s next blow, which flung him twenty feet across the room.
The room was oppressively hot, but when his armour began to scald him, he realized that he was lying in a small puddle of exposed lava. Shouting in surprise and pain, he forced himself to roll over, aching and burning everywhere. He didn’t have time to deal with it, though. He struggled to his feet just in time to see the Flamelurker in midair, descending upon him, its huge mouth agape and awash in terrible fire.
Reflexively he swung his sword, aware that this was the last chance he had. The beast was too fast, too powerful, too bloodthirsty, and too determined for him to last any longer. He put everything he had into this one last-ditch swing.
The blade dug deep into the Flamelurker’s chest, and lodged there firmly when it was hilt-deep. The beast careened off to one side, taking the sword with it, shrieking in pain.
Molten blood dripped onto the stone; the beast was at death’s door. It was struggling to rise, but could not. All it needed was one more good blow to finish it off. He drew his dagger and approached cautiously, aware that he was similarly vulnerable at this point.
As he raised the blade to strike, the Flamelurker lurched to one side, and brought its huge fists together for one last explosion, a defiant assault on the man who had almost killed it.
He had his shield up, but couldn’t hold it this time. His hand maintained its grip on the shield, but the sheer force of the blast took his arm off at the elbow. Flames engulfed him and he was awash in agony. All of his exposed skin was flayed from his body instantly, exposing raw vulnerable flesh. His armour began to melt, dripping onto him, melding with him, carving deep burning furrows in his body.
He screamed and thrashed on the floor as life fled him. The Flamelurker lurched to its feet and bent over him. With a fiery grin, it began to feed.
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Part One: Neverending Night: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/12/talk-amongst-yourselves-149/comment-page-16/#comment-486609
Part Two: Dragonsbane: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/12/talk-amongst-yourselves-149/comment-page-21/#comment-488021
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Wow Shane, thats fantastic. I can picture it happening as I’m reading.
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Iz schnoice. When the collectors hardcover edition with art book, soundtrack, soul knight 12″ figure and exclusive making of DVD coming our way?
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I don’t know, but I hope it’s SOON because I want one 😛
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Hey Kotaku peeps, I recently got the GOTY of Dragon Age Origins and no longer need my original copy. So if you want an original version of Dragon Age on PS3 (DLC redeemed, sorry) just let me know and i’ll post it off to you.
Actually, seeing as everyone is in the competition mood today, i’ll turn this into one as well,
First person to say they want it GETS IT!!!!!
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May I take up the offer?
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Yep, send your details to andrewburdusel*at*hotmail
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E-mail sent! 🙂
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Or if you have a twitter, just DM me.
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Huh, I’ve been trying to send you an e-mail, but it just says “Delivery Status Notification (Failure)”.
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Yea, i haven’t gotten anything yet.
andrewburdusel [ at ] hotmail [ dot ] com
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Awesome!
Thanks, mate. 🙂
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The odds of me doing much more work today is rapidly reaching zero.
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Ditto
Mainly because i found this
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I was honestly expecting ten hours of Epic Sax Guy.
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I feel the same, but magazines unfortunately don’t proofread themselves
howdily ho TAYboreenos!
i spent new years playing halo with my friends at a mates house, and it was probably the best new years i’ve had. i reccomend anyone who has reach to try the “speed Halo” gametype, insane fun!
oh and i may be getting a laptop \o/
meant to be for university purposes, but i’m gonna pitch in a little more and get a nice one for gaming, as my current computer is trying to commit seppuku.
Loops!
I’ll email you later this afternoon about the gift voucher. Cheers for the reminder!
Also, robot name:
Automated Industrial Lick-a-tron?
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chers buddy – you’ll have to reply to the comp chain for it to be valid, though 🙂
Afternoon TAY. Finally found 5 minutes to log on. Who would have thought the first day back at work would be so busy….also that it would teach me that i MUST get out of IT hardware distribution. Vendors are balls.
One of the many things i love about Rammstein.
They strap flamethrowers to their face.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=sEW-Qb2qqA8#t=1034s
I would not like to think how uncomfortably hot that would be… but oh so awesome
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Rammstein are so awesome ^_^
Guys – first KKP community prize is now live on the main page with more to come!
So, last night I was talking to a friend and they mentioned they were moving to Adelaide. In a couple of months time, I was looking at moving to Melbourne from where I am now (a smallish coastal town in Western Victoria) and they said I should venture with them to Adelaide instead.
There is no real reason as to why I was going to move to Melbourne apart from career oportunities and the fact it’s the closest capitol city to me. So now I’m seriously considering it. I started looking at IT jobs in Adelaide, and being failry new to the industry (started less than 12 months ago) was looking at entry level/help desk style jobs.
One that caught my eye was tech support with Internode. I know a couple of TAYbies have worked for ISPs before and was wondering if you would recommend it. I understand that to get my foot in the door I’m going to be the shit kicker, dealing with people who know nothing about computers (hell, I do that at my current IT job). Does anyone have any words of advice/wisdom?
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I am not sure how secure jobs would be with internode at the moment with all the talk going on with IInet.
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You may want to look at defence companies- a lot of defence systems work is done in adelaide, so companies like Saab systems or BAE may have IT opportunities.
OK, i have asked similar questions before, but im going to do it again…right now.
To the resident coders:
If i wanted to get into programming again (have not even attempted code in 10 years) what language would i learn to a) make sure i got a job. b) get a job i’d actually enjoy.
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It would depend on the type of job you’re looking for, wouldn’t it? I know that at Uni they started all the computer science kids off with C++, then taught different languages later on as we all split up into different areas (I went Web Programming which was PHP mainly).
Don’t know if that helped or not. 😛 I found the skills to be pretty transferable between different languages, in any case.
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I would recommend either going with Java or .NET (C# rather than VB but that might be more personal preference)
Both are widely used and more likely to get you work. But depending on what sort of work you want to do you could look at PHP again but you are then limiting yourself to the web sphere.
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… but it’s not like there’s a shortage of web-related work!
I’d say that if enjoyment is one of your main criteria, something like Python or Ruby is a good idea. They’re languages where you spend more time thinking about solving the problems, and less time wrestling with the language itself. There’s web-related and analytical jobs out there that use them – including the sweet one I just started recently (using Python).
Of those mentioned above, I personally prefer Java over .NET because it’s cross-platform, but there’s plenty of jobs in both those languages. Though the interesting ones all seem to rigidly expect X (typically 5) years of experience before they will look at your resume.
PHP is OK and I’ve seen numerous jobs that use it.
Of course, these are opinions based upon my own job-hunting and experience, so other people’s experiences may vary. If so, please don’t start a holy war over it 😛
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On New Years Eve, I was at a friend’s house. Doing the usual party thing and whatnot. We had the Aria Top 30 countdown thingy on in the background while a game of Battleshots ensued.
I learned several things that night.
First of all, Timmy is terrible at Battleshots.
Secondly, I still don’t get pop music. Even got into an argument with a friend about why the music was terrible (overly simplistic looped beats being the main issue) and she didn’t get my issue.
She thought it was a big thing that one guy in particular wrote his own music. That just meant he made more money as far as I was concerned.
Then there was some other dude who’s big thing was that he could apparently dance. I’m not sure how that’s a career defining factor when a) the majority of people would only know his music from the radio and b) he was able to find many backup dancers to dance exactly as well as he did for the film clip.
I give up.
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Crotchety old man page get!
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Crotchety old man my ass. thanks to you I know have a new Drinking game to play this weekend! 😀
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simple songs for simple minds… there i said it. Pop music is dumb. Always has been.
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Some pop music isn’t terrible but I default to ignoring the lyrics and listening to the actual song. Generally, if you can refer to what I’m trying to listen to as a “beat”, odds are I won’t enjoy the song.
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I would lie if i said there was never a song i liked on the radio. There is in the “popular music” scene the occasional diamond in the rough. And while i appreciate not everyone likes heavy metal or alternative (nor do i expect them to) From a musical point of view i find a lot more talent and skill involved. The same reason why i do love classical music as well, there is actual depth which is something the average radio song just lacks completely.
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I moan about this stuff often enough that I think most people just ignore it :p
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Battleshots?
is that like this? http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsig6o8w4Z1qdz9cwo1_500.jpg
I SO forgot to set up a game of this during the holidays! D:-
Our setup was a little simpler. Two pizza boxes, a grid drawn on and paper slips used to mark the boats (easier to just pour the shots every time there was a hit).
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That sounds a lot easier to set up, also a good excuse to order pizza 😀
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I was in Big W and had a look in the discounted Christmas-stuff section. It looked like a festive warzone. Wrapping paper rolls all over the floor, boxes of chocolate ripped open, etc. People must go crazy for this stuff. Long story short, I bought 2 boxes of Candy Canes that were $1 each and I’m eating them as I type this out. Mmmmm… unwanted holiday leftovers.
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I love the madness that is post xmas confectionery. sadly, my waist line doesn’t.
Any one here play the piano? This might sound like an odd sort of question, but hand placement — is it like touch typing where fingers are supposed to be used for certain keys or is it whatevers comfortable depending on the music?
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Depends on the key you are playing in. But yes, typically there is an “ideal” finger to use based on what you are playing, but for the purposes of you as an individual it is what ever works.
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Not a pianist, but I did learn for a bit as a kid. I don’t think it matters that much as long as you’re using all your fingers and are able to hit the right notes.
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I don’t play piano (but would love to learn) but from what I can tell your hands move rather fluidly and there is no set hand position for each note (otherwise some chords would get rather messy).
That being said, I never learned to touch-type “properly”. Don’t use the home row, don’t worry about which fingers should be used for which keys. I know where the keys are and I’ll just use whatever finger happens to be closest at the time to allow for the fastest possible typing.
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Thanks guys, appreciated. Sounds like its mostly an intuition thing rather than absolute set rules. Watching Bear McCreary play, I noticed he hardly ever uses his middle finger on his left hand. Made me wonder if there’s an order to these things. 😀 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDYybJFOPUE
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One more stupid question:
Sheet music. Do you get to a point where you can read and play in realtime or is it mostly a guide to learn the song and then keep track after memorising it?
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again and individual thing, but i would never play piano without sheet music unless it was a song that i had played so many hundreds of times i simply couldn’t forget short of being struck down with a sudden case of amnesia, in which case id no doubt forget how to read the sheet music or play the piano.
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People play that real-time.
I was watching the Metallica S&M DVD a while ago and they were saying that the symphony was able to play fly shit if it was on sheet music. Or something like that.
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People can* play that real-time.
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That’s all kinds of impressive. I guess it was easy, everyone would do it. Thanks guy for answering my newb questions. Much obliged.
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Probably a bit late to reply here but Yes some people can play sheet music on the fly but it’s not really necessary for any instrument I know of. No need to worry if you can’t.
I’ve been reading music for about 2 years now and even simple tunes I still tend to play though once to work out the order of the notes, then a second time to work out the timing. Anything fast and/or complicated would take a few more read throughs to get the pattern in my head. Then I just use the music as a reminder.
Whatever instrument you’re considering learning I recommend learning to read sheet music. Unless you have perfect pitch and a very good memory it’ll make learning new tunes 100 times easier. It also means you don’t need to hear a tune before you can play it.
On a side note I also think sheet music is cool as it’s the closest thing to a truly internationl language. Basically every country and instrument use the same notation system. Guitars are the only ones I know of that have to be different with their tab music, but guitar music can and frequently is still written out as standard sheet music and sheet music is probably the better system for guitar music anyway as tab doesn’t show timing.
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Hey, man. Thanks for the reply, the more information the better. I’ve been thinking about learning an instrument for some time now. It’s been something I’ve always wanted to do and want to do properly — so I figure being literate in sheet music definitely is a priority. I’m leaning towards piano, but assume that once you have a grasp on one instrument it’ll be a lot easier in time to learn another! Thanks again, man.
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Piano is definitely an awesome instrument.
In my opinion the best instrument for a solo as you have then entire range of sounds while most thins you a limited to bass or treble.Oh and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRaL2T-BC4I
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That’s impressive and disturbing all at the same time!
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though an example that would better support my original point is turning a four person band,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T_npHQqtng
and making it work with oneThough I’m sure someone with actual taste in music can find better examples.
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opps the second link was the wrong one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMJJ_KQBOms
(also other comment is awaiting moderation so this might take a while to show in the right spot)
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@Blood Apathy:
For programming, I’d argue that a good knowledge of general algorithms, data structures etc is more useful than specific language knowledge. What sort of areas are you interested in? Nowadays probably C#/.NET is your best bet for employability if you don’t want to lower yourself to VB.NET. Java is still popular though it’s faded a bit, I think. If you’re looking toward web stuff, knowing ASP or PHP and a bit of Javascript would be good.
If you’re looking to do something more hobbyist that you can do on the side rather than as a job straight away, then maybe look into something that would enable you to make a bit of side profit with your work, eg iOS/Android/WP7 development. iOS means Objective-C most of the time, and that’s unfortunately a bit of a dog of a language IMO. Android is Java, WP7 is C#, VB or Silverlight I think, but I’d recommend C# more.
Personally all the stuff I do for my job is in C/C++. I work in a pretty specialised segment of the industry though. Good C/C++ programmers are much rarer than they used to be, but the languages still have a fair bit of demand in areas where performance is crucial, or in maintaining older software.
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Yeah, My background was mostly in VB (well at least that’s the subject they over taught to the extreme back when i studied) and a mix of C/C++. But at this point i will be ignoring my old training and pretty much teaching myself from scratch again. I have been leaning to Java for sh1tz n giggles, but maybe doing c#/.net.
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This is personal opinion, but VB is awful and teaches you extremely bad habits. You are better off starting over. Especially if it was ten years ago.
Learn yourself some algorithms & data structures. Yes, you can basically get a library that will do everything, but it’s important to be able to write a linked list or a binary search or a merge sort or the like yourself, because if you can’t do that you don’t really know what those libraries are doing either, and you can’t make the right decisions on what to use for a given situation. It’s applicable to all programming.
One trap to avoid if you’re doing Object Oriented stuff like Java or C# is to ignore the people who will enthusiastically tell you to use design patterns. People who love design patterns will twist their problems around to try and fit their preconceived notions of set patterns, and try to use these patterns as recipes. That’s not what design patterns are for, they’re intended for describing the layout of code and helping analyze what might be wrong, not a recipe for doing it right. They’re useful to know, but not to use the way their adherents tell you to. Pet peeve. Probably not that important to you but Java and C# people love their Observers and Factories and Singletons.
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To follow on from Neg’s comment don’t learn via a visual studio or something that has drag and drop editor for doing datatables, connection objects, etc…
If you are learning to program you should understand the code not understand how to create code. There is a big difference in the two and I would never hire a programmer who has only done visual studio development. Could be because I am old and didn’t learn like that but I have had bad experiences with people who can’t do basic bug finding because the system is telling them what to do.
Plus your code will end up cleaner and more efficient
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Nothing wrong with Visual Studio if you’re just using the editor and compiling / debugging from inside it though.
Personally as a result of how I was taught to program originally and how I continued to work after graduating, I end up still doing everything manually using vim and command-line tools, but not windbg. Thing’s a monster. (GDB is cool though, we’re friends).
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Yeah I should have clarified that. There is nothing wrong with visual studio as an application but if he is learning programming using the inbuilt wizards it could cause trouble for BA down the track
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i do prefer the old style of using turbo c that was awesome.
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You appear to be dribbling.
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or he’s attempting to mimic Jafar’s beard
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or a sperm with arms
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or a sperm doing a superman, in which case its SUPER NERD’S SUPER SPERM
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Super Nerdgasm?
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well in this case he could still be dribbling just not from his mouth……..too far?
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SPERM HOLT!~
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Best thread evar?
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I’m worried about the fact his sperm have arms in that case D:
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How else will my Super Sperm punch baddie sperm?
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You’re all silly. He’s obviously “whoosh”ing. That’s what superheroes do, you know.
Thanks to the Steam Xmas sale, I have crossed the $7k mark worth of Steam games \o/ /o\
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You are kidding right, How long have you been a member of steam for?
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I wish I was kidding. And mid-2005 according to that. I remember when my Steam list was Half Life 2 and The Orange Box…
http://www.steamcalculator.com/id/cakesmith-
Yeah but you see you probably only ended up paying a percentage since it doesn’t calculate price at time of purchase. Plus if you do all your stuff on PC i see no real problem with it!
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I like to think it evens itself out. Someone of the stuff there is now marked as cheaper than when I bought it, yet some of the stuff was purchased when on sale. Plus take into account that I got the CE of Skyrim which was $199 but only shows up as $60. There are a few items like that too.
And yes, PC is my main gaming platform. The only games I have on consoles are console exclusives or old promo copies I scored while working at EB Games.
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Mine doesn’t work. When I put in my name it says it can’t find it. And when I use the huge long string of number it says I own $0 worth of games, which is clearly wrong.
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Thanks to being too busy playing The Old Republic, I didn’t even look at Steam during the sale period and have spent no money aside from buying a friend a copy of Portal 2 for Christmas. \o/
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I still managed to fit 137hrs of SWTOR in since release and buy Steam stuff
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Out of curiosity what level are you guys in TOR? I just got my Sith Warrior to 27 last night.
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My main is a 34 Sith Maruader. I must admit I hit a wall yesterday. But I’m going to put that down to being incredible tired from the weekends events.
I’ve looked at all the classes though.
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I struggled my Smuggler to 29 and then gave up. Was struggling with basic fights, don’t like the Scoundrel very much at all (wasn’t expecting that their primary DPS method would be uppercuts and sift kicks to the ‘nads). I think I leveled too fast, not enough gear.
So I rolled a Jedi Knight and got to 35 on her last night. Fits my play style much better. I just wish the Guardian had some kind of decent crowd control.
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I struggled with a Sith Marauder in the mid-20s. Some of the fights against a single strong opponent and a couple of standard guys would leave me dead. Yet now at 34, I can take on a 34 elite and come out on top.
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Oh, single target elite my Scoundrel hasn’t had any issues at all. Just let the companion tank and heal them 😛
Outside of general issues grinding large groups, I’ve run into two massive difficulty spikes in missions. The final Smuggler mission on Tatooine without going into spoilers involves taking out two elites. One starts out stunned for about 60 seconds, and if it wakes up it acts as a healer. The other one has massive area damage, however there’s an invincible NPC who will immediately start to tank it, but never do any damage. My companion would run in immediately, aggro both, stand in the AoE and die in seconds. It took me five or six goes to realise I needed to put him on passive, move right away from the fight, have the companion pull the stunned healer elite over using his scorpion-esque rope pull ability and then burn it down, being ready to interrupt heals when he’d wake up (Scoundrel has an interrupt, a blind and a stun so you can lock out three heals which was enough). I was far enough back and the NPC tank was able to hold the second elite’s interest and because I hadn’t attacked it, I left combat after the first one and was able to recuperate between them. Still tough (lost my companion and nearly died and had to disengage, leave combat, revive and recuperate again – the tank NPC picked the elite back up and it didn’t leave combat so the health stayed at about 30%) but I managed it. Felt way too hard though, I had to use every trick I had and even then, the disengage felt like I was exploiting.
The other one I had trouble with was on my Jedi at the end of Act 1 where it was setting up for the next overarching plot. Three elites which I was burning down okay, but they’d get to about 30% health and suddenly be immune to damage and get a 300% or so damage bonus, so I’d suddenly die. Thought it was a bug. Took me a few goes to realise I had to run away when they went immune and keep running until their buff wore off so I could safely burn down the rest of their life. Once I knew that it was pretty easy but it was very non-obvious, there hadn’t been anything else like it to prepare you, and the three nameless Sith I was fighting were each much harder than the Darth I had hunted down and defeated as the final boss for Act 1 not much more than an hour previous.
Unrelatedly, are you also getting the annoying graphics glitch around the laser towers at the settlements, where random green lines, fields of static and other bizzare rendering artifacts appear all over? Can’t tell if it’s a driver issue or a game bug but everyone in my guild gets it and we’re on different hardware…
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I had that issue in the beta but haven’t seen it come up since. I’d do the standard driver update/roll back fixes and see if that helps.
Yeah, the end of act 1 for a Sith Warrior is really hard. You fight an elite 3 times, then another elite twice. Although, I didn’t realise you could use your regeneration ability between fights haha. So I would fight, win, fight, die, fight win, fight die, fight win etc.
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Either I don’t have Raptr running any more or it didn’t pick up the game (haven’t added it to Steam or anything, don’t run Origin) but it hasn’t picked up any of my play time. 🙁
Pretty sure it’s at least 80-90 hours so far. Maybe more.
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There will be a few hours in there that were spent waiting in queue to join the server. So, mine would be 125-130 I think.
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Hours!? The longest I’ve waited is 15 minutes.
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Yeah. First weekend it was out was a 3hr+ queue for my server (Swiftsure) in the afternoon. Thankfully I was getting on around 9am and only had to wait 30mins or so. You can generally get in straight away now. I’m not too fussed. Get up, turn on computer, queue, shower etc, if still in queue, alt+tab and play TrackMania 2.
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You can alt tab while the game’s running? At the login screen I’m fine but once it’s been running for a while it basically chokes the whole machine. 🙁
I’m on Hyperspace Cannon and even first day of release it was at most 15 minute queue at about 2pm. Now it’s down to around 5 minutes at the most.
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Yeah, had no issues alt+tabbing. I found the game doesn’t like being played in windowed full screen though.
Swiftsure is the most heavily populated server. I find myself turning chat off though while doing general quests. The talk in General is worse than WoW Vanilla Barrens Chat.
I dont think i have spent that much on games IN MY LIFE.
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Well to be fair based on the sales cakesmith probably hasn’t either.
Apparently (thanks to you spending my money) I have just crossed the $3,500 mark
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I like to think it evens itself out. Someone of the stuff there is now marked as cheaper than when I bought it, yet some of the stuff was purchased when on sale. Plus take into account that I got the CE of Skyrim which was $199 but only shows up as $60. There are a few items like that too.
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HOLY CRAP!
I’ve only got just under $1000 worth!
You’ve made me feel better 😛
$2064.64 USD
Interesting, according to Steam Calculator I’m up to $788.35. However, that includes 30 or so games I got for $70 from the Quakecon/Bethesda pack, my humble indie bundle games which I spent about $20 on, and a few other odds and ends I picked up on sale like The Dig and KotoR. So, < $100 for $788 worth of stuff? Yay!
The Million Deaths of the Soul Knight
Part Four: The Ultimate Treasure
Death, death, so much death. He couldn’t recall how many times he had fallen victim to the flashing blades and gnashing teeth of his foes. A hundred? Probably more. Probably closer to a thousand. So much pain, unbelievable agony.
Why couldn’t he die? Why couldn’t the Nexus just let him go?
There was no way out from this nightmare but forward. Forward through endless ranks of hungry monsters.
They were getting stronger. The world was changing; he could feel it. Darkness pressed around him like a wet shroud, sapping him of energy, of strength. He was fading. And fast.
What would happen if he got too weak to fight back? Would the demons have his soul forever, as he writhed in endless torment, completely unable to embrace the finality, the relief of death?
He had to keep going. He had to restore the world. He had to restore himself.
But it was so hard. Even minor foes had the strength to take him down. Right now, he was beating a hasty retreat along a tight mine shaft from a small army of golden-eyed miners. They bore down on him relentlessly, their pickaxes and hammers glinting dully in the dim firelight. The darkness seemed to invigorate them and they pressed forward, hungering for his blood.
He bled from a dozen minor wounds, his armour dented and scuffed, his weapons blunted and broken. His right eye was swollen shut and at least one of his fingers was broken. He couldn’t fight back against this many enemies, not in this state. All he could do was retreat.
The ground gave way beneath his heel, and he scrabbled to maintain his balance. Looking back over his shoulder, all he could see was darkness, an endless abyss. Fear caught in his throat; he was caught between the savage steel of the massive miners and the prospect of a fatal fall, with no third option.
The first miner was on him, swinging a massive hammer. He deflected the blow with his battered shield, but not without cost; two more fingers shattered under the force of the blow. He stifled a pained scream, and swung his shattered sword. The blow was in vain, too slow and too late.
The miner gave a vicious grin, or at least a grotesque facsimile of one, and kicked him casually off the edge of the cliff.
He had just enough time to let out a startled yelp before his back hit ground, barely thirty feet below the cliff lip. Stunned and winded, all he could do was lie there and contemplate idly why he was not yet dead. He was having a bit of trouble moving his legs, but he could still feel the pain, so that was probably good news.
He managed to struggle up into a half-sitting position, resting on his elbows. One of his elbow guards had torn loose at some point; probably gone forever. He hadn’t even noticed. In front of him was a middle-aged man, little more than the wretches who were living in the Nexus, probably some other pour soul incapable of finding death.
The torchlight flickered, illuminating the man’s face for just a moment.
He stared. “Scirvir?” he asked. “Is that you?”
“You’ve heard of me, then?” Scirvir asked, appearing mildly surprised. “Can’t say the same for you, friend, but it’ll be nice to have some company other than these blasted demons.”
He was too winded to reply, so Scirvir answered the unasked question: what are you doing here? “I came here seeking fame and fortune, probably same as you actually. I have a particular interest in rare artifacts, and I heard of a doozy, buried somewhere in this mine.”
Scirvir shrugged. “But I fell down here ‘bout three months back. No way up, no way down that I can see. So I’m kind of stuck here.”
The knight found his voice again. “But what…”
That was all he got out. Then the world shifted. A flicker of darkness washed over them like a freezing cold breeze. The torchlight went out entirely for several seconds, and then somehow, magically restored itself, but it was a fraction of its former intensity.
But he was bathed in red light. He looked up in terror to see Scirvir floating two feet off the ground, his body twisting and morphing before his eyes. Metal shrieked and cloth tore. Scirvir’s eyes began to glow, at first a faint red pulse that strengthened until they shone like spotlights directly at him.
When Scirvir hit the ground again, he was a demon, clad in black armour, encased in a glowing red radiance that made everything look like it was bathed in blood.
The demon regarded the knight, lying helpless and unarmed in front of him, and leered. Broken and filed teeth showed through, and he felt a chill run down his spine.
“No,” he said, “please…”
The demon that had been Scirvir raised both hands above his head and shrieked, an inhuman wail that made his ears pop. Blood ran from them freely, but he didn’t notice. His attention was on the growing fireball in Scirvir’s hands.
When Scirvir unleashed that fiery hell at him, he flung himself sideways, using the remainder of his strength to hurl himself off the cliff once more. The fireball hit the ground right where he had been, but only caught his right foot. He fell, his right leg a blistering inferno of magical fire.
More pain. Would it truly never cease? Was there no reprieve?
When he landed abruptly and suddenly on another hidden ledge not far below, he couldn’t decide if it was a blessing or a curse that he had survived. He used his tattered cloak to bat the fire on his leg out, sighing with relief when it was over. The leg was useless now; the fire had torn away the skin and had eaten at the muscle. He could see bone glinting through at one point.
It was only a matter of time before the cold soul death came to claim him once again.
Scirvir knew he’d survived. He could see the phantom leaning over the cliff, his spotlight eyes scanning the nearby area. As soon as he saw the knight, he would unleash another fireball. And there was nothing he could do about it. His shield was lost on the cliff top far above, and he didn’t have the strength to dodge again. The next hit would kill him; again, he couldn’t decide whether it was a blessing or a curse.
The demon made a noise when it discovered him. The red light cascaded over him, and set all his raw nerve endings screaming in fresh pain. He put his head back and waited for the end.
Then the light was gone from him, and he looked up in surprise. The miners were jumping down, trying to get to him, and one of them had landed on Scirvir. Already leaning over the cliff, Scirvir overbalanced, and both demons toppled into the abyss. Neither one was lucky enough to land on a hidden ledge, by the sound of Scirvir’s frustrated wail.
He felt the moment of the phantom’s death. It was like a warm breeze. White light radiated out from the bottom of the pit, and filled the world, the knight, with renewed hope. The world wasn’t doomed, but it was on the tipping point. He could save it, given time, given strength, given more occasional victories like this.
The light washed over him, and his pain lessened slightly. He had a slight smile on his face when one of the miners landed on his platform and sliced off his head.
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Part One: Neverending Night: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/12/talk-amongst-yourselves-149/comment-page-16/#comment-486609
Part Two: Dragonsbane: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/12/talk-amongst-yourselves-149/comment-page-21/#comment-488021
Part Three: Fire In The Hole: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/01/talk-amongst-yourselves-158/comment-page-2/#comment-494899
Part Four: The Ultimate Treasure: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/01/talk-amongst-yourselves-158/comment-page-3/#comment-495142 -
Hang on, you got a PBWT? I thought the demons souls servers were running at PWWT? Or are you playing offline? Or am I just dribbling shit?
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I was playing offline when I faced off against Scirvir, but all my worlds seem to be neutral when I’m online, so I don’t really know what’s going on 😛
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Games i aquired during the steam sale
BAck to the future episodes 1-5 (Thanks Freyr)
Train Simulator (Thanks Bish)
Physconauts (Thanks Bish)
Jamestown
Blocks That matter
Bit Trip series
The Humble Indie Bundle
and The awesome indie bundle
So in short people like giving me things for no reason and Bish Knows me too well. I mean i love trains. I now have a metric tonne of indie goodness to get through. How about you guys what did you end up with from the steam sale?
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I only got Alice Madness Returns and Mirrors Edge. I was considering buying Dead Island but then I decided to wait until it had a permanent price drop and then goes on sale again. I’ll probably be able to get it for around $10 during the mid year sale.
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Both excellent choices, alice madness returns looks so pretty with dat physx
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Wait, you bought Jamestown and the humble indie bundle? So you bought Jamestown twice?
To be fair, I started playing it and it’s pretty freakin’ boss, may be worth two purchases.
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No i only bought it once i was just trying to remember all the stuff i got. it does look pretty boss though. I havent played any bullet hell games before but i saw totalbiscuit do a WTF is and it looked like great fun!
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I wish I had access to my computer right now, you should have seen the screenshots I took while I was Train Simulating.
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Is the something awesome. can you design your own tracks and stuff or just the speed of the train!
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Screen shots of wang track with a speeding locomotive on it or GTFO.
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You’re so crazy Dan!
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Sadly enough I need to check my account to see what I got
I won SPAZ and shattered horizon from the great gift pile
SPAZ is a really enjoyable game, highly recommendedDue to TAYbies generosity I got
Bunch Of Heroes
Renegade OpsI also picked up for myself
Swords and Soldiers HD
Grotesque Tactics 2
Hard Reset
Alice Madness Returns
Terraria
Solar 2
Left 4 Dead 2
Total War: Shogun 2
Runespell: Overture
Dungeon Defenders (Still have copy available if anybody wants one)I also grabbed DLC for
Magicka
Dungeons of Dredmor
Defense GridOn a side note if anybody has seen my willpower could you please send it back to me, thx
Man the gorilliaz are boss, I have somehow listened to all their music over the past 4 hours at work! I think i own a great deal of their catalogue.
Hey fellow gamers! I’m pretty new to Kotaku Australia! I’m from the UK. I’m having trouble signing into this site, or actually can’t find a way to sign in!? Can somebody please assist me?
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There isn’t a sign in at the moment.
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Also, greetings person!
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Hi Jack! Welcome aboard.
We don’t have a sign-in feature here, but we do use http://www.gravatar.com if you were wondering how to get a snazzy image of your own!
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Welcome, Jack! Don’t let the fact that you’re from the UK make you feel out of place here! I mean, hell, some people who post here are from…
*whispers* “Western” Australia…
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What? WA?? If I’d known that, I would never have come here!
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Crazy people with their baguets and their eiffel tower!
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Nah, you’re thinking of the French. The UK is where those people have canals instead of roads and boats instead of cars.
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Thanks buddy!
Nice to be here – The British weather sucks! Even in the summertime..
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Haha! Mate, we’re all from the planet Earth, no matter how different we all think we may be…
What should unite us is the fact we’re all gaming fans! If that isn’t a reason to share the love, then what is?
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So I’ve set up this Gravtar stuff. How do I link the picture into the comment?
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AND SOON, WE WEST AUSTRALIANS WILL TAKE OVER TAY WITH ALL OF OUR RESOURCES AND OUR VAST AMOUNTS OF EMPTY SPACE!!
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HELLO JACK!
For this mission we’re changing your designation to Raiden. -
Dumb sassenach fowk tryin’ tae tak’ ower everythin’ as usual. gang back tae eatin’ crumpets ye glaikit tea skitin’ limey.
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Get back in your box you damn drunk. Back. Back I say.
Apologies. Doug gets a bit out of hand sometimes.
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Heh heh.. It’s cool. I can’t understand a freaking word he’s trying to say anyway.. Except maybe something about crumpets and tea..? Both of which I detest!
Oh, I also have teeth… all my teeth 😉 And they are white as… something very white and Australian!
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You… detest tea?
THEN WE HAVE NOTHING FURTHER TO TALK ABOUT, SIR
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I’m down with Herbal Teas 😉
But standard is a bit bitter for me, including Green Tea….
Can we still be friends! I like Coffee?? With lots of milk and sugar..?
I also like Beer, and Lager, and Cider!!
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CIDER!
You are once again welcome here.
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Hi jack! welcome!
Kick off your stay by entering a comp!
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/01/kotaku-kristmas-giveaways-trine-2/
The most important question though, is;
Who wears short shorts?
Do you wear short shorts, Mr. Jack? I know that we wear short shorts, but that’s not quite the same.
So, I seem to have just been sent a Tribes beta access key…
Anyone else?
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I got your access key right here
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Okay I laughed 😛
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I’m down with Herbal Teas 😉
But standard is a bit bitter for me, including Green Tea….
Can we still be friends! I like Coffee?? With lots of milk and sugar..?
I also like Beer, and Lager, and Cider!!
This is now the official scotch of TAY
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I know I can’t start my day without a mouthful of Black cock.
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Whaa… I don’t even?!
I wonder what i tastes like?
It looks Big?
I wonder if it is smooth?
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I should have bought the bottle. But it was like $56
I’m not paying that much for black cock.
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Sometimes you just have to suck it up and pay the premium because you aren’t going to get the same quality anywhere else. Sure it feels like you’re being bent over the counter when you fork over the money but deep down you know that it was worth it.
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Hahah man bunny you are like the king of double entendre.
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I think they were taking the piss when naming this thing.
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Penis.
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Stop dicking around
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BISH INVESTIGATES: The State of Retail, 3rd Jan, 2012
– So I’m in EB Games and Professor Layton and the Curious Village (the first one) is $47, and Lost/Unwound Future (the third) is $28. Wat. Also I paid $30 for my copy of Layton 3. (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
– Bundaberg Peachee drink, hunt some down and taste the sweet, sweet nectar
– There is no Coles here so I cannae get cheap Shapes!
– I walked by two display 3DSes and did not get any streetpasses even though they were on and had their wireless switched on. BAH!
– Myer perfume section smells, as always. Some thing don’t change in over 2 decades.
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If i had enough money i would make a television show where a camera just followed around and you then watched the footage and tell your anecedotes as you watch the footage. I am pretty sure it would be a mix between the mighty boosh and the 7.00 o’clock sbs news.
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Eh, everyone knows Hands-on Penis was the best SBS new presenter.
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I am assuming that that’s how his name sounded like and not what he wa doing on the news!
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I would say yes, but you can’t see under the news desk, sooo…
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I have a mental image of Bish walking through Myer making anecdotal comments while sipping baileys from a shoe now.
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I call that “Bishing”.
Actually, I call pretty much anything Bish does Bishing.
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More things that happened:
– Aldi is the devil
– How pitiful is our confectionary aisles compared to America? My sister got “Milk Duds” from her USA trip, and they’re like small eggs of chewy caramel covered in chocolate and are pretty great. Nothing came close to that as I was browsing Woolworths.
– An old dude did not have his shirt buttoned up so was flashing nipple at everyone. Well, nipple-area. I assume there may have been a nipple under all that hair. Or fur, whichever.
I really should stop with the innuendo and “your mother” jokes. I’m beginning to become a bit like The Todd without the high fiving.
Or I could just incorporate high fiving into my skillset.
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Yeah if you do though you have to be commited none of this half arsed i will only high -five some people bull. High -5’s to all the people!!!
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Don’t forget the banana hammock
….*shudder*
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I said that the only thing separating me from The Todd is the high fiving…
Well that and being a surgeon.
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Overshare five!
*slap*
*click*
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Reminder for those whom missed on the previous page:
KKP Contributor comp #1
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/01/talk-amongst-yourselves-158/comment-page-2/#comment-494687
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and community prize #1
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/01/kotaku-kristmas-giveaways-trine-2/
Hoorah, my RSA card FINALLY showed up, & it was meant to show up via registered mail & it did not. Australia Post you are a bunch of derps.
I’m struggling to stay awake here.
Methinks 4 hours of sleep isn’t quite enough. I blame the KSL. Who the hell live streams a best of 11 team series of SC2 after midnight?
And why are all the matches so damned good?
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4 hours? Luxury! I got one and a half and still got up at 7 to hit the gym. 🙁
I even went to bed early last night, but the heat + insomnia worked against me. Too many nights staying up until 5am playing SWTOR, my body had adjusted to whatever timezone that was. 🙁
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I used to be unable to sleep until after 2am. Sometimes later. Suffice to say I used to operate on rather little sleep.
Now that I’ve fallen into a more normal sleeping schedule, not getting enough hours really does suck. Before I was just used to it so my body defaulted to this level of crappiness. Now it’s a noticeable dip.
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Hey guys.
Listen, i won a DLC code for Profenser Genki’s whatever from Game.com.au’s twitter.
The code is for PS3.
Unfortunately, i won’t be getting SR3 for quite a while yet 🙁
SO would anyone like the code, as i’d hate for it to expire.
First to reply gets the code.
xo
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Oh oh. *straining with hand up*
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lol it’s yours buddy.
Email me at
troy(dot)cleary(at)hotmail(dotcom)
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I love it whenever something involving piracy gets posted on Kotaku. Brings the comments section to a Youtubian state.
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THE NOSTALGIA!!! IT WASHES OVER ME!!!
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Would have been even more nostalgia if it played at fast forward speed.
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Is it wrong that that hit me with a nostalgia brick?
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To be honest it would be more nostalgic for me if I watched it silently at 4x speed 😉
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I’ll add to the “How Nostalgic!” people. I’d actually forgotten how long that message was until just now. I also remember the classification ad with the different-sized-shirt people. I always thought the ‘M’ kid was annoyingly smug. xD
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It was that long because it was designed to be read, even when you fast forwarded. A clever ploy. That made it last FOR EVER.
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FIXED!
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My New Years Resolution: finish Heisig’s ‘Remembering the Kanji’ properly and then continue to do flashcard revision after reaching the end of the book for once.
Third attempt 🙁
CRAAAAAAAAP!
Bob Anderson died…
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It was an accident, I swear.
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HEAR THAT EVERYONE?
BISH KILLED A SITH!
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Maybe he thought that he was a wizard? If killing a wizard gives you their power, then surely killing another when you’re already a wizard would make you doubly powerful, right?
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Wow, you were all so quiet, and reserved, and stuff today. It made it easy for me to catch up… I… I am so happy.
And Shane, in case you can read this: Yes, my house is theoretically free around Australia Day, assuming that Canberra/surrounding regions would like to have a meat then. Well, it’s still free, even if people don’t want to, but whatever. Stupid English language.
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Good thing, too. That entry fee you charged last time was ridiculous /o\
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I needed to pay for those hookers somehow!
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My name is Rize, and I support the Australia Day 2012 Can(ned)meat.
So we got a response from the King of Cakes website we ordered my daughter’s birthday food from.
They’ve hastily put up a big ‘Merry Christmas, and we’re on holidays’ banner and told us now that we must have missed it. Sneaky bastards. We knew it was going to be difficult to find an open bakery on the 30th so we’d triple checked every inch of the site and there was no mention, let alone a huge freaking banner on the front page. I even triple-checked again after Mr. Strange had texted to tell me they were shut.
My husband thinks his email response is from the person who runs their website, trying to cover their ass before the bakery people get back from holidays.
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Did you get screenshots? You totally should’ve and sent it to them. Then slapped them with a glove and demanded satisfaction.
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I just realised something. It doesn’t matter if it was there before or not. If two people on two seperate computers can visit a website 3 or 4 times each, actively looking to see if you are open between Christmas and New Years and don’t find it, then there’s something seriously wrong with the design of your site and the intelligence of the people who run it.
It’s actually one of those banners that change between four things every few seconds. So it’s quite possible that even though we were looking for it, if we weren’t at the website at the exact time it switched to the holiday message, then we would have no way of knowing. I’m 99% certain it was not there before, though. Wish I did have a screenshot. 🙁
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Did they atleast refund you? :S
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You have a receipt with a 30th pick up I’m assuming? By accepting your order and money with a 30th pickup they are entering an agreement with you even if advertising something different. I’ve found the best way around these things is to be very very vocal. Annoy them until they do something if only to make you go away.
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and then they might give you the “chocolate and Spit” cake special
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Yep. An email confirming our order, not to mention bank statements. It’s making me angry because of apologising and trying to fix it like good customer service people, they’ve basically said it’s our fault. When it’s not. They took our money for something they couldn’t provide, so we were out of pocket for that, then because we had no time to plan for something else we had to then buy our special breakfast somewhere else, and our lunch at Wet N’ Wild. And theme park food is super-exorbitantly priced, so in trying to feed our family or four for breakfast and lunch we had to pay an extra $100ish on top of the money already tied up with King of Cakes. So frustrating.
Oh, and their food is awesome and the best place for German baked goods so I’m sad that we will never be going there again. 🙁
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Hooray, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report are back on Comedy tomorrow. Makes me laugh that every time they go on vacaction, no matter how short, a huge “North Korean leader dies” story breaks and they miss out. For shame! It makes for a good first episode, at least.
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12 months later and I’m still sore that Foxtel bought exclusive rights to the shows in order to prevent them appearing on ABC2. I love the shows, but sorry Foxtel, not enough to sign up for a subscription to your service.
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For a good stretch last year the official U.S. websites let Australians stream the episodes. That’s a thing of the past too, alas. (Atleast last time I checked.)
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Woohoo! Scored a Logitech mouse for $13 at Officeworks.
Now my tower is close to fully operational!
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Ooh, might have to go have a look-see! I need a new mouse… the one I have now doesn’t register right clicks at random points, which is particularly bad while playing a Medic in TF2 with a full uber-meter. D:
ARGH!! For God’s sake we just got over Christmas, give the people a break!! Sorry, but I just saw my Coles is already selling easter eggs and hot cross buns.
I HAVE RAGE!!!
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Its like how Big W and places like it have already started their back to school sales. They practically started them on boxing day, too. Poor kids have barely been out of school and they’re already being reminded that they go back soon.
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But at least the kids go back to school in 3 weeks or so. Easter isn’t for another 3 ******* months. GAH, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it.
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3 weeks? HA! Come to Canberra, we keep slowly pushing the start of term one later and later, to the point where the last day of school this year was the Wednesday before Christmas(this is at public high schools, and I presume primary as well). They don’t go back until February…
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Ok, maybe I’m underestimating a bit, but the point still stands
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Oh, I agree completely, I just wanted to be a dick, well, more of a dick than usual. It’s quite a feat, as I’m sure you’ll agree.
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HOT CROSS BUNS!? WHERE!?
*starts salivating*
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The Coles where I work in the Blue Mountains.
And no Grandmaster. *points viciously* YOU are part of them problem.
(I kid… sorta)
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why can’t west australia be that cool…
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Because its WA… Obvious when you think about it 😛
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seriously, why does hot cross buns have to be “easter” food, I WANT IT ALL YEAR!
but maybe, just maybe, it’s the exclusivity of the food that makes it so good…
I wish Woolies would start selling Hot Cross Buns. Especially the mocha-chocolate ones *drooling*. I only got to buy one packet last year because they were always sold out!
HOT CROSS BUNS BROKE STREET DATE!
EVERYBODY WINS!
I am now Level 30 in LoL.
I know you all care. You care SO much.
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…i care
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I am contractually obligated to perform the Dance Of Joy for you.
*begins dancing awesomely*
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I demand proof of your awesome dancing, it has to be at least… *insert a video of me dancing* this good.
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So atrocious then?
(See, I can do it too :P)
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At least that bad, if it’s actually good dancing, then it’s cool too.
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I uhm…well…you see…its like this…
*steals your money and runs*
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You stole my money?
Wow, you’re like a little* version of me!
*Almost assuredly bigger, or, at least, taller.
Where’s JM2? He’d be so happy right now!
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Time for ranked 3vs with Pyrean and I?
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Definitely. Ranked games FTW. We can only raise our ELO from here! 😛
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Congrats Freyr, I’ll be there in a year or so :p
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GOOOOOOOOO FREYR!!
Really need to get some brain power to play Skyrim. Brain hurts and its so hard to pay attention.
@NegativeZero
Good luck with the kanji, I keep meaning to just spend a month or two learning them all but it’s incredibly difficult without constant practice. Would you recommend that book if I wanted to nail a thousand or so at once?
It doesn’t help that many have about ten kun’yomi readings, it’s so much more confusing to try and remember how a word is pronounced…
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Remembering the Kanji is a good system. It doesn’t teach you readings though, you do that yourself later. What it does is teaches you about 2400 of them, all the ‘standard’ ones plus another 400 or so that are common in names. Basically instead of learning all the strokes for each one, you learn building blocks that are used to make up other characters and associate those building blocks with terms. Then for a given character you remember a story as a mnemonic to help you remember the elements that make it up and the order to draw them. Basically instead of remembering 20-30 strokes for complex ones you’re remembering maybe 3-4 elements with a story to tie them together. And then each character is associated with a unique (english) word which usually is the meaning of the character.
You combine the book with a SRS Flashcard system where the ‘question’ side is the english key word, and the ‘answer’ side is the Kanji and its story. Eventually as you learn meanings and readings for them you stop bothering with the english keyword and go to the actual Japanese words.
What it does is demystify the whole writing system. It goes from being moon runes to being a fairly logical and understandable system. You can pull out characters you recognise pretty quickly, you can very easily tell how a character is written in most cases by the elements that make it up and the general rules regarding the way the writing flows (top left to bottom right). Additionally it makes it easier to learn – instead of associating one foreign thing with another foreign thing (character to reading) you’ve got an understandable linking piece between the two. Eventually you get to the point that the stories become unnecessary, you just remember the key parts, and then you’re not even using the stories, the association is strong enough. I find that very concrete things like characters for physical objects, animals, colors, specific emotions are pretty easy and get stashed away very fast, but other stuff like actions tend to get muddled up easily, possibly because they’re not differentiated enough in my mind. Also the more perverted, wrong or generally stupid a story you can come up with that fits the elements, the easier it is to remember.
I went through the whole book once, but then just after I got to the end I started at my current job and had too much to learn there to keep it up. Came back to my flashcards a few months later and everything was expired. 🙁 Tried to go back through but I’d forgotten a lot of it due to not having the SRS stuff, so I started over. The first 1/3 was really easy I found, because it was stuff I’d SRSed heaps. Also periodically there’s characters I already know the proper words for and those are easy. After a while I started to get into the stuff I hadn’t revised as much and I slowed down, then various things happened and it’s all gotten away from me again and I’m back to pretty much everything expired, but this time not even at the end. 🙁
Oh and as a specific thing, while it’s true that some characters have dozens of readings, most don’t have more than three or four at the most. Apparently the second RtK book teaches you a lot of tricks about learning the readings as well. Also the third RtK isn’t worth it unless you need to learn stuff for writing university papers or something.
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Thanks, I might check that out.
Learning chunks is a good system, it’s what I’ve been using for Chinese and it works really well. So much so that I’m now going back over kanji and associating radicals with parts of characters that make them very easy to remember.
The only confusing thing comes when characters have similar radicals, and kanji are generally much more complicated than simplified Chinese characters so it’s not as easy to remember.
2400 seems almost too excessive, the Joyo list is only about 2000 and that’s practically newspaper level. I’m not sure I’d bother to learn those extr 400, but good luck if you do 😀
(side note: I probably would need to learn the multiple readings, since we are writing uni papers and stuff)
One thankful thing about most two-character compound nouns is that they come from Chinese and generally use the on’yomi reading, which is fairly consistent.
I only really have trouble with verbs that have a single character, because the Japanese readings can be so random.
Anyway, I’m really going to get stuck into learning them this year. It’s pretty much the main thing that drags my Japanese down a lot.
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Oh mighty TAY know that I have returned to you in all my barbaric glory*
Having done glorious battle with my hyperactive nephews over Christmas, I am relieved to have survived with most of my appendages somewhat intact.
Now into my 3rd week of holidays, as well as my 3rd play through of SKYRIM ( over 300 hundred hours and still going strong) I have come to the realization that I have probably only spent about 4 hours outdoors during this period.
I believe I may have truly achieved my perfect holiday.
*may not be glory, may actually be beer stains and Doritos.
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how do you do this? i mean i love the game, its awesome, but motivation i do not have.
I have now discovered a new depth of hell. Babysitting Mama on the Wii. Playing this atrocity with my daughter makes me want to turn this post into a suicide note.
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Sorry, that should read “playing”
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Why would you possibly agree to this? Surely playing this game with your child is worthy of having your parent license revoked! Wait, you mean we don’t have licenses for parenting? Oh god.
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Part of being married is that you lose all right to agree to anything, you just get told. And it was my mother that got this, this….. harbinger of the gamocalypse for the kids.
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I would have told my mother to take the monstrosity back!
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“No! No! No! Please don’t shake the baby!”
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Don’t shake the baby Jeff! Don’t shake the baby!
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Cricket. We all know that it’s awesome.
DON’T WE!?
But the 4AM start to get into the members’ stand does encroach on my ability to post TABTOL..
So here it is in all its shortened-week glory, 12 hours late!
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I’m cool with ninth, given the amount I missed.
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Though I wish I’d posted one more word…
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i am a little disappointed with my effort given i was here for a lot of it. guess i had nothing useful to say, but how does that differ from an average day!?!?
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Just do what I do, talk immense amounts of shit.
‘Scuse my French.
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14? Gaahh…I’m slipping again 😛
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Trjn didn’t even make 1000 words this week? Whats wrong with you man?
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I AM THE NEW TRJN
Look, penis puns!
Also, Starcraft.
Also also, GED OFF MAH DURN LAWN-
None of those things are new! I just got a haircut, dammit.
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I post a lot on TAY when I’m at work. I didn’t have to work last week.
Seems pretty simple to me :p
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Man, that’s the closest I’ve ever been to first!
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9th, Awesome, everyone should go away more often. Also 4th highest word count? How did that happen? I don’t remember any overly long or rambling posts. Maybe I should stop now before I get into rambling territory on this one. Oops, too late
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There was a Mr. Snrub last week?!
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Ahhh I missed possibly my only chance to get into the top 10, oh well maybe next christmas
so i just finished dead space 2, and man, i totally underestimated that game, it was fantastic, sadly a billion other fantastic games got released this year so it sorta didn’t get noticed as much, but if you haven’t played it, DO SO!
however, this means that i’ll just go back to playing loads of Super Monday Night Combat…
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I have the first one… I need to install it though…
And do you want to organise a time to play SMNC at some point? I got into the thing, but I have little idea what it’s doing, and I find its ui to be a little… confusing.
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dirty secret, never played Dead space one, just read the story on it’s wiki, and 2 also has a recap of the last game in it as well.
as for SMNC, yeah that’s probably best, i could run you (and any o fthe other guys in the beta) through a crash course of the game
also, i’ve been told that they are planning on making changes to the UI, but at the moment they are focusing on getting the pro’s right, which i like, because the pro i play usually is veteran, who is extremely broken, since his skill that sends out a claw and grabs people will sometimes decide to not work, and when you switch weapons, if you hit alt-fire to quickly, it does the alt-fire of the wrong weapon, and sometimes his falcon gun decides to stop shooting -_-
but yeah, i’ve finished school, so i’m free most days
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I found the first for like, 12 dollars, so I figure I should probably play it before getting on to the sequel…
And yeah, I should at least have a grasp on the ideas, due to my MOBA history, but ehh, it looks all hard and whatever…
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Like you I never played the first one before getting into the second one but it was still a fantastic game. There’s a good balance between the predictable scares and the creepy atmosphere that kept it comfortably scary. A few ridiculously tough moments towards the end…one day I will attempt it at a higher difficulty, I swear it.
Random thought, because, hey, what else are the interwebs for? Having read David Gaider’s post-Dragon Age II novel and gone back over the story, I’m actually really impressed with the direction they were going in that game, plot-wise (endings and insane people aside). I loved the dilemmas involved in the mage-Templar conflict, and the really awesome potential for drama when you mix weighty issues like freedom and the greater good.
It was just a shame that for whatever reason the studio decided to push it out with about a fifth of the content of its predecessor. They really had something special going in the writing, but I was quite underwhelmed with the final product. I’m really hoping some more money and time goes into making whatever they do next a solid game.
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Due to getting so much Dragon Age stuff (including the collector’s edition of the strategy guide for II which is super-pretty) for Christmas I think I’ll be going back to Dragon Age II as soon as I’m bored with Fable 3. Which will probably be soon. 😛
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At the risk of being shouted down: I like Dragon Age II. It’s a more intimate story. Sure, it’s quite different from the first, but I like the characters, I don’t mind Kirkwall, and the addition of a voice acted Main Character with a family was pretty good.
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No shouting down here, people will most likely just disagree with reasons to which you can then respond with your reasons.
You do give me hope, however. I hadn’t even got into Kirkwall when I first started so I’ve barely scratched the surface. I’m hoping not for a great game, just an enjoyable one.
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Oh, don’t get me wrong, I thought DA2 was a good game, even excellent in parts (the companion banter was nicely done, and I thought Hawke’s voice actor handled things nicely).
I just never had the same sense of connection to the game or the protagonist as I did in Origins. In that game, I was alternatively the youngest child of a noble family seeking revenge while trying to save the world, a magic user outcast from wider society, etc. DA2 had Hawke, but the four seconds of origin backstory we got never really let us define the character.
(Minor DA2 spoilers!)
With Origins Bioware established a fantastic new IP with tons of interesting characters and lore to explore. DA2 should’ve expanded on its predecessor to tell a drama and tension charged story about the politics of magic users. It tried to do this valiantly (Anders, Thrask, some of the Elthina-Sebastian stuff) but then inexplicably relied on insane characters to drive so much of the plot.
The Templar-mage thing is one of the most interesting topics in Thedas, and it has such potential for human drama (Elthina was such an interesting character, say). I just don’t understand why they had to rely on people going crazy (Grace, the serial killer, most of the people in Act 3) to drive the tension.
It could’ve been a tale of humans being human, with all their weaknesses and flaws, without resorting to magical insanity-causing idols or demons.
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Yes, yes, and not even over the magic users too. With the big guys and Act 2. It was political tensions and stories from within the Dragon Age universe they’ve created, and not about the (ninth) Dragon Age, and I honestly found it better than Origins (the story). Maybe it’s just that I’ve played too many RPGs in my time, but how DA2 expanded the universe was far more interesting to me than a great evil plaguing the land.
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Come to think of it, all three of the Act transition moments involved major characters going crazy, which was stupid.
At least Loghain had reasons. They were twisted, but he had them.
Act 2’s was, I guess, understandable in the cultural context but it felt railroaded and portrayed Hawke as a bystander who just sorta happened to fall into the boots of the Champion, rather than earning it.
And 3’s was… awful. Both major final antagonists going inexplicably crazy (oh look, I’m going to use the power I swore I’d never use five minutes ago and that instantly discredits my entire position, just because they wanted a cool boss) and a reaction from Anders that sorta… comes out of the blue.
I think I remember reading an interview with a developer comment that admitted Act 3 needed more fleshing out, it was all so horribly sudden.
That said, I did enjoy DA2’s story at its highs better than DAO’s. I just wish they could’ve made me care about Hawke like I did my Warden.
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Just want to put it out there, Law assignments suck. Like, Hard.
Wow, so no one’s figured out what Bumbershoot Jactator means yet.
Blagmhan, you are our only hope! 😛
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That last bit makes you sound like a damsel in distress, with a blonde wig flailing your arms in the air.
Are you a damsel in distress, Lambo?
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Only on weekends, and the last tuesday of every month
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Yeah, nah, I got sick of having to explain to my rescuers that I’m not gay. That is, the rescuers that didn’t attack me thinking I had killed the damsel and was wearing her clothes. ಠ_ಠ
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With my hair they usually think I am the damsel, until they get right up close. Although, I do have problems squeezing into those dresses.
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Umbrella seizer?
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Close…
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Umbrella Pufferfish?
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Wat.
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The Jactator is a species of Pufferfish… I couldn’t help it…
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Wow. You know more about my robot name than I do…
Actually, it’s meant to be Umbrella Thrower http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/jactation
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Well, the “a” key on my keyboard is having problems, as in to takes a hard, forceful press on the key in order for it to input. Every other key is fine, it’s just the “a” key that this happens on. 🙁
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so no stepping left in FPS games?
You’re like the Zoolander of Team Fortress.
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Bahahahaha.
Nice.
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N problem, I’d just use ESDF. 😀
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So what you’re saying is that you can’t play Terran?
Most excellent.
Having decided it probably wouldn’t kill me if played something other than SKYRIM! I have just booted up KOTOR! By the mighty Gods above, I had forgotten how much I enjoyed this game! Dual wielding lightsabres FTW!
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Yeah, I got it during the steam sale, started playing it yesterday. Right now I switch between duel wielding long swords and blaster pistols.
Oh man, as cruel as it sounds I really wish my cousins would go home already. They’ve been here a week now and I’m absolutely exhausted. At 19 I’m the closest in age to them but its still a long way off (they’re 10 and 7) so they hang around me everywhere I go in the house. Can’t even go to the bathroom without them standing outside the door waiting for me. I mean, how screwed up is that?
It also means I can’t play video games, because every time I start playing they question me about what’s going on in it. I bought Uncharted 3 the other day and I haven’t been able to get started with it yet. It’s not fair! D:
Oh well, they’re leaving on Thursday, which is my birthday. My uncle joked today that his gift to me was taking the kids and leaving. He has absolutely no idea how true that is.
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Surely they go to bed at like 9 though.
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Nope, they’re awake right now. We’re watching Harry Potter. These buggers aren’t going to bed for a long time. Their dad is not very good at setting bedtimes.
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Quite glad my cousins are all grown up now.
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See, me and my 7-10 year old cousins don’t see much of each other actually. Last christmas we played cricket together, me, my brother and my 4 younger cousins. One of them asked if me and my brother were twins. I’m two years older then him, little cousin! ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)
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Besides, we don’t even look like twins! The only similarities we have are that we’re around about the same height, and we were both wearing white shirts…
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i know how you feel brother, i’m the youngest of my cousins, but some of the older cousins have kids, and so at family meet ups, i’m the one that has to entertain them -_-
i love them though, i really do, but when i have to play “spaceship” for 30 minutes minutes straight, it’s hard to not get bored of it
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Little kids are like dogs, right?
Just pat them and give them a treat and throw a ball outside or something.PS. I am the best uncle in the world
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Giving them treats and playing ball games with them, you actually sound like a pretty good uncle to me
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Man, guys, I hate to be that guy(guys), but geez, it’s a bit quiet in here.
Hands up who’s here?
Then hands down to type a reply…
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I’m here. I’m about to get off though.BTW I’m typing this without having put my hands down. I’m using my nose…
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Doing capitals is hard with your nose, you have to toggle it on and off. :/
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Sort of. Playing Arkham city.
I was busy being a tree, thank you very much.
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Coward.
So I need to use S&M that is a robot
I guess that makes me S&M-bot
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*sigh*
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Sado-Masochizmo?
So I’m one of those silly people who’s mood gets affected by those around me. I’m a bit over empathetic to peoples situations, which sometimes causes me to overthink my own situation too..
I’ve had a pretty crappy day and I’ve been in a shitty mood since last week. I dont think I should have gone home for christmas. it hasnt been an overly pleasant experience, except for seeing my mum, dad and brothers. But I also shouldnt have spent so much time with one of my brothers. it has just drained me too much… As Much as I love the bugger, I seriously need to take some time for me.
Oh look I just jabbered about crap… 🙁
In gaming news, Who’s played the new mode on stardust HD? anyone like it?
Also – Who likes strategy here?
Also Also – Steam Haul – I got alot of stuff, but I got some useless vouchers for steam, does anyone want 33% of Serious Sam 3? or 50% off valve games?
Man, seriously need more TAYbies with Payday: The Heist.
Epic co op fun!
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i’d be up to play that!
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I have it! So many games that I should play more of…
Having just watched several people torn apart by sharks in this movie, I now have a sudden craving for a meat lovers pizza.
That’s perfectly natural, right?
Right?
*tap tap*
Um is this thing on?
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Perfectly natural.
Trust me, I’m a doctor.
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Of course it is, And this is why we love you hugo
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I guess we’re lucky you enjoy clubs and not cleavers.
Then again, it would tenderise things.
Not that I’d know.
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EAT THE PEOPLE AND GAIN THEIR MEMORIES!
BECOME MORE POWERFUL THAN EVER BEFORE!-
If you’re a highlander, or if you just killed a wizard, then you don’t even need to eat people to gain their power/memories.
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There are no Highlanders, just aliens from the planet Zeist.
Remember?
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No. I don’t.
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Don’t or won’t, because I can fix either of those.
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Don’t(I’ve only seen the first Highlander), and I won’t(While I’ve read about it, no, just, no).
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Good call. In this case, There should be only one.
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Bahahahahahaha. I can’t believe I didn’t think of saying that.
Nice.
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THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE
Wait, wait, wait… you mean that actually works, it never worked for me before… for others… people that is… you don’t know them.
Ah,ah, ah-choo!
*sniffles*
Pardon me.
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Gesundheit.
Man, I now have this massive urge to replay all my original Xbox games.
KOTOR 1 & 2, Star Wars battlefront 1 & 2, oh oh Simpsons hit and run.
Well, the rest of my holidays are now booked up.
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Oh man, I loved Simpsons Hit and Run. I played the BALLS off it on the PS2. I had found every collectible, bought every car and costume… then after failing the very final mission a few times I saved my game to take a break. When I came back to it, my savegame had gotten corrupted and I lost everything. 🙁
I have resolved to get a second Microsoft Wired Keyboard 600.
It’s what I’m using right now on my laptop, and I’ve had no problems with it whatsoever.
And it’s only $20. 😀
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I have a Microsoft Wired… something. It does the job.
I will always regret not buying the SC2 branded keyboard when it was dirt cheap though. Even though I’d have no use for it, it would have been glorious.
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I used to like those things. Now they feel mushy.
At home, I use one of these bad boys and at work I use an Apple keyboard (which I also technically use at home, what with the MacBook Air and all using the same keyboard).
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http://www.datahand.com/products/proii.htm
This or your not doing it right.
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Or this one if you want to slum it with cheap gear
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/keyboards-mice/9836/
As if you’d lower yourself.
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Cutting my word babies is the hardest thing ever.
Word limits are actually the suck.
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Think of it as ‘setting them free’ – that might make the concept a bit easier 😛
I’m a bit of a psychopath, and consider killing word babies the best part of writing. I appreciate that not everyone thinks this way though
My day 3 post
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You should tell a story, posting a line every day.
The mumbojumbo diaries or something like that.-
mumbojumbo diaries: Played Alien Swarm with some noob named lambomann yesterday. Man, did he suck at that game.
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haha. I played with another mate after that. I died in 5 seconds and he finished the rest of the 20 min level by himself
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i am in the toilet cubicle at work because i have a bad work ethic and i hate this job
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This is the best post.
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Best page-get ever!
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Amazing 😀
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Wow, I feel like you just wrote my life. 🙂
Well I hopped back into Dark Souls last night. Decided to explore the catacombs, I had a divine club on me so it was not much of a problem at all (although I did get lost looking for the second bonfire).
Then I found a scythe and had it imbued with the magic of FIRE. FIRE SCYTHE YEAH! So I promptly used the scythe to decimate Pinwheel in no time at all.
Now I’m at the entrance to the Tomb Of Giants, kinda nervous to proceed further… but I have a bounty for Nito’s head (heads?) and I came down here to collect.
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The Tomb of Giants?
*looks around nervously*
I can give you my therapists number when your finished.-
If I need the number you can write it on Nito’s skull 😉
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Looks like I managed to fix my router, at least my online gaming is back to normal which is good. I basically switched off QoS. It’s funny cuz it said “Get the best out of voice communications and gaming with QoS” yet QoS left LoL completely behind whenever somebody talked on TeamSpeak 😛
LoL’s not a game to D-Link apparently
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QoS is dicey at best in my opinion. Unless you have a very specific set of information you can find various games just crap out and end up with stupid amounts of latency.
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Yeah for business: QoS is boss
For home: Avoid like the plague-
I discovered all this not long after i started actually getting competitive with FPS games on the xbox, couldn’t figure out where the lag was coming from until i started messing with the QoS eventually realized turning it off was the best option. Granted i have not really done much mp gaming on PC so not sure how it goes there, but would still avoid it.
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Morning all 😀
@freyr Gratz on 30 \o/
I started to play LoTR: War In the North last night after finishing work at midnight. Enjoyable so far but I’m a sucker for franchises like this and Star Wars. Anyone played it through? or at all? able to shed some light on it or an opinion? 🙂
also tonight after I fix my car I will be going to that terribly foul smelling place known to canbarbarians as the Barracks and playing actual Computer games! so what up PC type gamers where you at lets share a moment and some BACON*
*Bacon may or may not be shareable.
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Take noseplugs. And an air filter.
Woke up to the sound of rain. It was glorious.
In other news, if I set up a dummy PSN account and buy US specific PSN cards, can I buy and play games off their store (and for that matter, is there a reliable site that does sell this)? I’m rather sick of $USD10 PSN games managing to turn into $AUD15.95 games on our PSN store.
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Yeah pretty big drops of rain while I drove to the train station. That’s Melbourne weather for you, and people always look at me strangely when they see I always carry an umbrella like a sheathed sword on my backpack. You never know when rain will hit in Melbourne
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I despise umbrellas, for two reasons. 1 – I love the rain. It’s refreshing. But mainly 2 – some stupid lady with an umbrella once gave me a rather nasty cut on my forehead/temple. Could’ve taken my eye out (seriously, she a centimetre or two lower and the umbrella would’ve poked my eye).
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They’re humans, did you expect any more? 😛
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I woke up to the sound of rain. It wasn’t glorious at all because it was 6am or so and I was expecting to also hear the hum of fans, and those were gone owing to the fact our power had died. And that meant I had to get up because I couldn’t rely on my alarm clock. 🙁
Hi all, still on leave so just stopping by to say HI…
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Hi FatShady!
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Greetings, hope you’re enjoying your leave human
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p9AZwT4HZk
HELLOOOOOO
Played a quick game of 2vs2 Starcraft 2 with Gorzy last night. Vs AI, of course.
We won pretty easily but I think the highlight of the match was when I vortexed with my Mothership and accidentally caught my entire fleet of Void Rays, making me think that the enemy Thors had destroyed my army.
Oops.
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You subconscious wanted you to hide them from yourself to keep you on your toes 😛
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I did step up my macro game when I suddenly didn’t have a giant army of fully upgraded Void Rays…
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Man, I love the Protoss Macro game. Esp when is means you can warp in a billion Zealots in an instant
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It can be rather awesome to max out your supply, get into a giant fight and then remax out thanks to the 20 idle Warp Gates you had built just because you could.
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I tend to follow a fairly aggressive expansion for that reason- Rather than counter-attack when I repel an invader, I expand. Then I suddenly have major amounts of minerals and a billion units
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My standard build against AI is pretty simple: Build 3 Gateways and a Forge/Cannon to defend the initial attack. Once I deflect the attack, expand and start getting upgrades and expand and expand :p
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Nothing like a couple of inches of water on the roads to remind you that your tyre pressures are a little low 🙂
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On an unrelated note. I learnt Fus lastnight.
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FUUUUUUUS!!!
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It also made me realize that wandering off the beaten track is great and all, but helps if you do at least SOME of the story first 😛
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Yes im a little behind the curve and missed most of the skyrim hype. But i am also not someone who can sit down for 5 hours in a go on games like this. I need to take them slowly, and pad my gaming time with mindless crap like cod. It makes me appreciate the brilliance of games like skyrim even more.
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Next up: Dark Souls 😉
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dont think i could ever do dark souls. I get too frustrated by defeat. Same reason that i have never completed a cod campaign on the hardest level.
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For Tech Knight
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Haha awesome! Favourited! 🙂
Since I left PSU.com, I’ve been itching to get involved with the Kotaku community (because I know some of you here).
So, here I am. Hopefully I’ll be active enough here in-between work and such.
I have nothing of interest to say today except I need to do something about my pile of shame.
I only finished 3 games released in 2011 (Bulletstorm, Crysis 2, Portal 2).
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I had a look at the upcoming releases for the next few months.
It might be possible to do a mini-Shameless Gaming Month in Feb. Depending on interest (from others) and willingness to do stuff (from me).
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Oh yes, games that I finished in 2011:
Portal 2, Portal (not the first run through but an attempt to beat it using only my laptop’s trackpad. I succeeded), Starcraft 2, Uncharted 2, Uncharted 3, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Batman: Arkham City, Alice: Madness Returns, Trauma Center: Second Opinion, Gears of War 3, Warhammer 40000: Space Marine, inFamous, Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Burning Earth, Homefront and VVVVVV.
There’s probably more but those are the ones I remember off-hand.
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I suppose I could add Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood to that list. I played it on PC and it technically didn’t get released on that until March. However, games I purchased this year (off the top of my head):
Fear 3*
Dragon Age 2
Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood
Assassin’s Creed: Revelations
Bulletstorm
Crysis 2
Portal 2
The Witcher 2*
Battlefield 3
Modern Warfare 3*
Skyrim
Mario Kart 7
Super Mario Land 3D*
Super Street Fighter 4 3D
Super Street Fighter Arcade Edition
Legend of Zelda: OoT 3D
Sonic Generations
Uncharted 3
LittleBigPlanet 2
Fable 3 (PC)*
LA Noire
Warhammer 40k: Space Marine
Dead Island
Jurassic Park*
Deus Ex: HR*
Forza 4
Dark Souls
Alice: Madness Returns
Batman: Arkham City
Bastion*
From Dust*
Brink
Rage
Hunted: Demons Forge* (Pretty sure that was this year)
Dirt 3
Driver: San Fransico*
Dungeon Siege 3
A crap ton of indie games* (thanks Steam…)
Need for Speed: Shift Unleashed*
Red Faction: Armageddon
Rift
Star Wars: The Old Republic
Shogun 2*
Zelda: Skyward Sword** Unplayed
and probably a few more I’ve missed….
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I’m not going to count PC games in my pile of shame because I hit a few Steam sales last year, not to mehntion buying indie bundles. there are games I haven’t even installed yet. :/
I got Hunted: The Demon Forge as part of the Quakecon/Bethesda pack and I’m not even sure if my PC will run it! It barely runs Brink, and I had to reduce a bunch of settings on Alpha Protocol (which was what, two dollars on Steam a couple of months back?) before it would run at a decent framerate, and it controlled so clumsily I wished I’d gotten it on a console instead.
I consider PC gaming to be more of a timekilling hobby because sometimes being unable to complete a game isn’t jsut about my skill or time commitment. I do my ‘serious’ gaming on the 360.
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Tha’s only the games I bought in 2011. I already see a couple I missed (Homefront, Infamous 2). Out of those, I’ve only finished 4.
My entire pile of shame? Oh god…
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Backloggery.com is a pretty useful resource for this sort of thing. Make a list of your pile of shame so that you’re actually shamed into playing it.
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Interesting…I know what I’m doing tonight!
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Smithing cakes?
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2011, eh? I did pretty well I think
Starcraft 2
Mass Effect 2
Deus Ex HR
Uncharted 2 & 3
Borderlands
Arkham City
LA Noire
Infamous 2
Little Big Planet
Dragon Age Origins + all DLC
Dragon Age 2 (Main Campaign)
Braid
Portal 2
+A bunch of indie titles plus others I forget
I think that’s not a bad slate of finished games
I finished Portal 2 (solo and co-op), Shadows of the Damned, Dead Space 2, Gears of War 3, F3AR, Deus Ex, Modern Warfare 3 and Saints Row the Third.
However I also added to my pile of shame: Batman: Arkham City, Crysis 2, Assassin’s Creed: Revelations, Battlefield 3.
This is slightly offset by me revisiting FEAR and FEAR 2 and removing them from my pile of shame. Net shame: +2.
I… I don’t want to talk about my current total shame. Some of those games I don’t even own anymore.
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I think not owning them removes them from the pile of shame.
That’s my theory anyway. If I complete, sell or give away a game, it’s off the pile! 🙂-
I guess that’s true, it’s just when I see my Xbox live achievements and there’s games where I haven’t at least got the achievement for finishing it… it’s like being branded with a mark of shame. 🙁
But true, they’re off the pile! Time to move forwards!
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Tonight I say, we must move forward, not backward, upward not forward,
and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom
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I only finished two games in my pile of shame last year.
Looks like I need to do more gaming!
This tonsil virus is a wily opponent; I try to get extra rest last night to fight it off, so it counters by keeping me up all night so I cannot rest and recover properly.
So now it’s time for escalation. Multivitamins, V8 Juice, gargling saltwater, putting a mountain of veggies in my dinner and lunch, I’m even drinking some sort of Superfoods vitamin supplement my GF bought to try out recently. I’m pulling out all the stops, THIS IS WAR.
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Consume all the things!
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It’s like a torrent of health being forced into my system!
HEEEEAAAAALLLLTH!!!
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DRUGS. Get this sick friend some drugs!
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What about morphine?
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Medicinal whiskey?
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Tempting…
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You should eat Michelle Birdges – she’s packed full of vitamins and minerals.
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Let’s not beat around the bush, she’d probably kick my ass 😛
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Things that annoy me #67: air conditioners set to freezing cold.
It is so cold in here I am wearing a jumper and a beanie. I have discovered the cold I have had all summer is because of the air conditioning here.
Sure it is hot outside but whats wrong with just a nice cool temperature suitable for wearing a T-shirt?
/end rant
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While when in my own space (ie my own car or house) i am all for the colder the better. Even in winter i am known to have the aircon on in my car. But i agree that in an office environment its terrible that people to that. there is nothing wrong with standard “room temperature”
I had pizza ready for lunch and lots of it, but I left it at home. *headdesk*
On another note, do you guys want me to keep writing The Million Deaths of the Soul Knight, or is it too irritating, or is there something (or nothing) I should be writing instead?
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Keep writing please, I’m enjoying it greatly.
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Continue the tales of the nameless knight, his trials make a day at the office seem more bearable
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Please do. Doug McCreedy has disappeared (I think Batman has done something with him) temporarily and we need a write up going, even if it makes Doug’s look like crap.
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I have mad respect for Doug and his fists of fury.
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So did I until he got a caestus. That weapon is way way waaaayyy underrated. Doesn’t do anywhere near the damage at a cursory inspection, but uses next to no stamina each attack, hits 3 times in 2 seconds and every hit staggers. No reach hurts though with the bigger guys though.
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In case you haven’t seen it: Infamous: Festival of Blood is only like 8 bucks on the PSN store at the moment. I love this series (to the point where I bought the super special collectors editionwith the bag last year) and for $8 of infamous action that’s a steal
@Techy
Hey buddy – you need to email me – i now have 3 codes for you. long story. lol
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lol will do
Watched a game of Starcraft: Brood War last night between Jaedong and Flash. For those playing at home, those are basically the best two players going round.
Going from watching that to watching some SC2 was rather startling. Amazing to see how different the games are and I can think of a few reasons why.
First of all, all of the units in BW are much more powerful. A single Defiler from BW would allow for any Zerg in SC2 to insta-win.
Secondly, macro is much, much harder.
Third, the whole limited control group thing.
This meant that BW games are going to result in a lot more micro intensive conflicts over the course of the entire game, while SC2 (in the current metagame) will have several large engagements instead.
Why? Well, you need more units to be able to deal damage in SC2 and it’s easier to control them. So instead of just constantly poking with a dozen marines, because that’s how many you can control at once, you can wait until you have 50 marines and just march into your opponent’s front door.
Some people think that makes BW a better game. Honestly, I just think it means that the SC2 metagame hasn’t developed to the point where we’re seeing constant engagements because people are still getting used to this macro-orientated game.
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Of course it is all so obvious, Good points bunny!
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This amuses me because you’re clearly just humouring me.
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No i really think the points about the thing you were talking about were valid and very well written. Wether i understand it or not is a completely different matter. BTW i actually started reading a little about starcraft 2 so when you guys talk about it i am not completely lost.
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Well in that case, here’s the BW game I was talking about, to give what I said a little context. The caster isn’t very good but I was able to follow what was going on.
Compare that to some of the better SC2 games (no links because I don’t want this comment to go into moderation but Stephano vs Kiwikaki Game 2 from IPL3 is a very easy to find example) and I think you can see how I came to my conclusions.
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I really wish pay day would hurry up. I want to buy more games for my iphone :/
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They’ve gotten to you!
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the only thing that has gotten to me is boredom at work 😀
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For anybody who is interest, registrations for Australia’s longest running fighting games tournament, the OzHadou Nationals, will be ending its early bird discount soon!
http://ohn.ozhadou.net/ohn10/registrations/
Spectators are encouraged 🙂
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Whats up Penis Pig havent said hey in a while!
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It’s kind of a shame that my love of Starcraft has got in the way of my love of SSFIVAE2012. This is the sort of thing I would most definitely be interested in, if not for that :p
I wonder where that fish did go…
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A fish, a fish, a fishy-oooooooo
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Is it in the cupboard? Wouldn’t you like to know! It is a most elusive fish.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npJQKtV5aP4
man that brings back memories
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@loops
In regards to emailing you about one of those cards you mentioned the other day, Gmail is blocked at work for the day because someone opened a personal email, that should be opened alone at night in the dark, in the office so its blocked for another two days, while our IT man reviews the situation and then unblocks it?? lol so i have been told by my boss haha. anyhoo I would like you to take mine and give it to yourself with a ribbon tied in a bow on it 🙂 from me to you. If thats acceptable.
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just because after all the work you did I think you deserve at least something for yourself*
*missed about two weeks so if you already gave yourself 50% of everything…well i wouldnt know so yeah i guess you still deserve something in my books 😛
Great. I opened Mr Ashcrafts post on Cosplay making the mistake of reading the title properly and assuming it would actually be of interest right this minute not later tonight interest And now after closing it the rest of kotaku is blocked -.-
thank god for TAY and our office network believing they are completley seperate entities.
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All ashcraft posts are later tonight reads.
Work is once again ruining my chances of being on TAY today….
RARGH!
In honor of the S.P.A.Z. competition, I proclaim today to be LIMERICK DAY!
I shall begin:
There once was a man named Mark Serrels,
Who overcame thousands of perils,
He wrote about games,
Of dragons and thanes,
And how he avoided imperils!
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There was a guy called TadMod
Who had an elongated bod
If he’s anything at all
He must be eleven feet tall
Now it’s time to smile and nod-
There once was a writer named Shane
Whose stories got into my brain
With the death of his knight
He gave us all a fright
He wrote of blood flowing down through the drain-
There once was a soul-searching knight
He fought for the forces of right
But the demons attacked
From the front, side and back
And destroyed him when he came within sight
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There once was a webpage called Tay
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erm, wtf happened there? did i break tay some how?
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There once was a webpage called Tay
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There once was a webpage called Tay
People talk of games all day
no work will get done done
we come here for fun
My work can just go away.ok i suck at these, i’ll leave it to you guys. 😛
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There once was a webpage called TAY
People Talk of games all day
No work will get done
We come here for fun
Now all I need is my Payo.0 nope i made it worse 🙁
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and by that I mean yours was good I just made it bad 🙁
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http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/6211335/High-flying-shark-makes-pilot-look-twice
lol
awww nu its a shark bru
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Wait, now they’re attacking in the air?
I need my brown pants.
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It’s a bird!
It’s a plane!
IT’S EATING MEEEEE!!!
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If you take them outside and the wind gets them, they can be goneburger
Goneburger?
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I think what he meant to say was “…gonesteaksandwich”
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goneburger is now my new favourite word.
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Goneburgers is an excessively intoxicated person. I love having a Kiwi in my office hahaha
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I think we’re gonna need a bigger plane…
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If Adam West Batman taught me anything, it’s that shark repellent will take care of that no problem.
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Oh man, that’s great. I for some reason loved the original Batman movie as a child. No wait I still do, ha!
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Lunch time! AT LAST!
So… What did I miss?
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You missed the giant pile of money that was given to all the people who were on tay 4 minutes before your comment. doesn’t it always happen like that!
HOLY CRAP MY OZGAMESHOP ORDER ARRIVED IN JUST A WEEK!
AMAZEBALLS!!!
SOOO STOKED!!1
ALL CAPS STOKED!!!
DEMONS SOULS AND 14 MONTHS OF GLORIOUS XBOX LIVE!
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Wow a week. I am impressed. Especially for overseas shipping!
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not express either
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I’m surprised Aus Post didn’t just sit on it for a week because of the holiday season.
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Delivery services must be a well oiled machine after Christmas rush. I ordered an out of stock BSG boxset from JB a couple of days ago and it arrived this morning without even telling me it dispatched. 😀
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It’s a reward for all your hard work mate 😉
The Million Deaths of the Soul Knight
Part Five: Stormy Weather
The first time he didn’t even see the Silver Skeleton. The second time, it had ripped him to pieces in a matter of seconds. He still remembered feeling vaguely surprised as his blood sprayed over the clean bones of his foe. The second time, he’d lasted a bit longer, managing even to dodge a couple of the skeleton’s overhand swings. Then a particularly violent blow had cleft his shield and head in two.
More than anything, he wanted to turn back. To return to the Nexus and huddle there with the other wretches, the few unlucky survivors, eking out whatever pitiful existence they could amongst themselves.
But he couldn’t. The Nexus might be safe for now, but the world was tipping into darkness. If he did nothing, it wouldn’t be long before the Nexus was breached, and the demons fell upon them in an unrestrained orgy of teeth and talons, blades and blood.
He had to keep going forward. And the way forward was through the Silver Skeleton.
So he engaged it again. And again. He learned how it moved, how it attacked. Its serrated blade dug into his flesh again and again, blindingly painful fatal wounds all, but he kept coming back for more. The pain was bad, and it was getting worse, but he had to learn.
He wondered if the skeleton was learning as he was. Certainly it showed no signs of doing so. Could it be that these demons were mindless, operating purely on a mad and insatiable appetite for human suffering? Could it be that these demons only existed when he was there in front of them? Such questions were the food of madness; a dark and twisted path lay that direction, one which he was reluctant to tread… any further than he had to. At least for now.
The skeleton hurtled toward him, rolling with supernatural force into him. He put all his weight behind his shield and sent the skeleton sprawling onto the ground. He stepped on the skeleton’s sword hand, crunching the bone under his heavy boot, and with one massive blow, separated the skull from the remainder of the skeleton. The skeleton gave a short wail of defiance and then disapparated, as demons are wont to do when they are slain.
Breathing heavily with the exertion of the short battle, he took a brief moment to reflect on his victory. It had taken many, many lifetimes, but he had bested another foe. At a pinch, he could do it again, which he almost certainly would have to. With practice, he would soon be able to do it without much effort, he was sure.
His heart caught in his throat when he saw the dull cloud-filtered sunlight bounce off golden bone.
The Golden Skeleton stepped into view, pointing its weapon directly at the knight. The skeleton was at least twice his size, and its sword bigger still. Although ludicrously oversized, the knight had no doubts about the skeleton’s ability to wield it with the speed and precision with which he would use a dagger. The skeleton’s nonchalant swagger told him that, and more.
Then it charged, moving faster than he would have thought possible. Caught in a moment of panic, the knight planted his feet and raised his shield, ready to dive to either side if he got the chance.
The golden skeleton raised its huge sword high above its head, almost touching the ground behind it. The knight swung his own sword laterally, but the blade sailed harmlessly between the demon’s ribs and bounced ineffectively off the spine. The skeleton’s grin appeared to stretch as it began its retaliatory strike.
He let go of his sword and dove to one side. The blade whistled past him, and imbedded itself in the spongy ground. It was such a clean cut that he didn’t even notice that his left foot had been severed until he tried to stand again. Overbalanced, he toppled back onto the grass, unarmed and unfooted too. Then the blood began to pour from his ankle, soaking the ground in red. He could feel it pulsing out of him at an alarming rate, and felt light-headed and dizzy.
The golden skeleton pulled its blade free from the grass roughly, sending a huge divot of grass and sod into the air. It stood over the downed knight and cackled maniacally. The knight braced himself for the searing agony of yet another stabbing death, to feel the cold steel slicing mercilessly through his flesh and vital organs, spilling his guts and blood all over the damp ground.
The manta ray in the sky above had been monitoring the action, unnoticed until now. It let out a huge bellow of rage, clearly wanting to be the one to dispatch the knight. The golden skeleton turned, but not soon enough: the manta ray’s huge spikes pinned it to the ground, where it writhed helplessly. It raised its sword and cut off the tip of the ray’s tail.
And then they were on each other, a frenzy of supernatural rage and violence. The knight edged away from them slowly, making his way over to the nearby cliff. Death by drowning in the wild waters below would be… refreshing, and certainly preferable to what awaited him here.
Next time, he would be ready. And if not next time, then the time after…
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Part One: Neverending Night: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/12/talk-amongst-yourselves-149/comment-page-16/#comment-486609
Part Two: Dragonsbane: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/12/talk-amongst-yourselves-149/comment-page-21/#comment-488021
Part Three: Fire In The Hole: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/01/talk-amongst-yourselves-158/comment-page-2/#comment-494899
Part Four: The Ultimate Treasure: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/01/talk-amongst-yourselves-158/comment-page-3/#comment-495142
Part Five: Stormy Weather: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/01/talk-amongst-yourselves-158/comment-page-6/#comment-496073 -
Love it!
I sincerely hope these are being uploaded on ToT, cause I’ll want to read them all in one sitting once it’s done 😀
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Done? Done? It’ll never be done. Harli asked a while back if these could go up on ToT, and I said sure, but don’t know anything beyond that! 🙂
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LoL really?! Damn I must’ve missed it. I took your silence as a “no” so I didn’t want to ask again afterwards…
In that case, I shall put these up on ToT now 🙂
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Haha, thanks for clearing this up for us Rize! 🙂
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Thank you both!
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Thank you as well!
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NO THANK U
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Nonononono, thank YOU
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No, I really must insist upon insistence, thank YOU
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Nonononono, thank ME! Why? No good reason 😛
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unarmed and unfooted too
Pure gold, so glad you decided to continue with these
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It’s worth a million deaths if it can improve even one minute of one work day for one person 🙂
These are so damn awesome mate – i just read them all 😀
Amazing!
I just had an entire box of Jatz biscuits and a whole container of french onion dip for lunch. I regret nothing. 😉
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Man, that sounds tasty *licks lips*
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Oh, it was. It was. 😛
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if it makes you feel any better i ate an entire box of pizza shapes =D
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Good eatin’ all round, it seems. 😀
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I am actually so jealous right now. I havent had an entire box of Jatz in ages 🙁
Just had a work morning tea thing because another person’s retired.
Now it’s pretty much lunch. This is how easing back into things after the holidays should work.
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HDD a bit small, though
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640GB? o.0 odd and small
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That’s what shenerd said.
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Ahhhh family guy… you may have gotten dumb, but damn do you know the truth
I hate it when a commercial acquires the rights to a decent song, slaps it on their product and over exposes it so much that you never want to listen to the damn thing again. Bastards. 😀
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What commercial? What song?
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DON’T ANSWER THIS. SOME THINGS ARE BETTER LEFT UNSAID FOREVER!
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Too late. 😉 Got a post in moderation, YouTube links and all. Now I’m thinking it was a cunning scheme by Nova to make me listen to the songs again. 😉
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Damn you caught me 🙂 At least its a good song though. Imagine if it was a terrible song that was getting overplayed and stuck in your mind
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I resent the fact that when I listen to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-rlSJ_39g0
I think of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3SChjVy9Vw or some Gold Lotto commercial from the ’90s.
Then Polyphonic Spree was destroyed a few years ago by the University of Queensland. Hands of my infectiously happy music, fools. 😉
Dangit, I just watched this during lunch, now I wanna see this Death Bush that they talk about. Anyone know what he’s talking about?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BG373E1_d4
Also if we ever do another Lame Game Marathon we have this game LOCKED THE BLOODY HELL IN YO
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If you do another Lame Game Marathon, you have to play Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Burning Earth. I’ll even send you my copy of it.
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Is that the one where you can get 1000 achievement points for hitting the attack button a few times?
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50 times.
It takes about three minutes.
Here’s some footage of me playing. I never got around to doing commentary for these and never will!
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I think it takes about 3 minutes. You need a 50x combo – which you can do in the first room by standing in the corner and mashing the attack button. It will rack up your combo against enemies that are spawning off-screen.
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It’s also basically impossible to beat the game without getting a 50 hit combo. The combo system only resets when you get hit or change characters. If you’re playing with an AI controlled partner, they will die in boss fights and you will have to get large combos in order to progress.
Trust me, I tried to avoid the achievements on this game. I failed.
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That’s the stuff, achievement whore gold right there.
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If the LGM happens again we may take you up on that offer 🙂
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Wow. Had a look around that site and Fallout 3 on PC you can get the achievements by typing “add achievement (1-50)” in the console.
That’s ….. Incredibly lame.
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Damn you Replybuttonopus!
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Didn’t Bethesda decide to block this tactic for Skyrim by disabling ALL achievements if you type ANY command into the console?
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i can understand why the commands are in there (for debug purposes) but you’d think they’d disable them before the game is released…
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Keep in mind that (at a guess) 90% of Skyrim stuff you see that’s cool makes use of the console. I particularly like the cheese avalanche, and the Skyrim art that’s been showing up.
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Dunno about Skyrim but with PC Oblivion I needed the console to fix a few broken quests.
Can be quite handy for non cheaters too.
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Eh, let cheaters cheat, as long as it’s in single player. I only see it as a chance for some laughs.
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I spent a few hours reading the Fallout timeline earlier. Good use of work time.
@di11enger
Do you think the pilot was thinking about this?
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I can’t see youtube at work. So knowing you its definetly a Yes.
Lambo troll is back! So what did I miss?
Just came back from the shops. Is it wrong that I found myself wishing I could wear a kilt, so that I can just try on pants? It’s so cumbersome to take off pants, try on pants, put pants back on, get new pants , take off pants, try on pants, etc etc.
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I reckon that the official TAY dress code should include mandatory kilts, with undergarments as optional.
We just need a high ranking Kotaku person who happens to have some affiliation with Scotland to help us make this happen…
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Holy crap yes.
And shoes!
Shopping malls should be bare foot drag centres!
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Obviously you’ve never been shopping in Ipswich…
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The Chronicles of the Soul Knight
Interlude #1: The Ballad of Ostrava
Boletaria, the demons’ world
Where every step could be your last
Where blood runs in the parapets
And death comes for you fast
Many have come to try their luck
Warrior and winsome knave
But none could be said to be quite like
Old Ostrava the Brave
Brave is a rather strong word
It applies to very few men
Ostrava earned it readily
For adventuring now and then
The reason he’s especially brave
Is that he’s a terrible knight
He gets cornered so easily
And has no clue how to fight
And yet he keeps on wand’ring out
Into the demons’ world
Gets cornered in a dang’rous place
And sobs like a little girl
The nameless knight who rescues him
Has little time for banter
But Ostrava follows like a lost puppy
At a gentle canter
Once again out on his own
Ostrava the Brave fights on
Ambushed by lurking dreglings
But his protection is gone
He flees down the darkened corridor
His eyes can’t adjust to see
Dogs tear at his arms and armour
He drops his sword to flee
Crossbow bolts clatter all around
Ostrava’s totally lost
He can’t see, he’s in a flap
He’s about to pay the cost
But he somehow breaks right through the pack
Of lusty demon claws
He huddles, waiting at a locked gate
Trapped in eternal pause
What happens to Ostrava the Brave?
Wherever will he go?
Will his hero save him now?
Turns out the answer’s no.
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Part One: Neverending Night: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/12/talk-amongst-yourselves-149/comment-page-16/#comment-486609
Part Two: Dragonsbane: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/12/talk-amongst-yourselves-149/comment-page-21/#comment-488021
Part Three: Fire In The Hole: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/01/talk-amongst-yourselves-158/comment-page-2/#comment-494899
Part Four: The Ultimate Treasure: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/01/talk-amongst-yourselves-158/comment-page-3/#comment-495142
Part Five: Stormy Weather: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/01/talk-amongst-yourselves-158/comment-page-6/#comment-496073
Interlude #1: The Ballad of Ostrava: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/01/talk-amongst-yourselves-158/comment-page-6/#comment-496210 -
*Slow clap*
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Slow clap = shark jumped?
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I.e. No shark jumping. I was impressed.
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Oh man, Ostrava is sooo stupid. The first time I rescued him he wandered off and got himself killed. I wouldn’t even have known but I randomly got some souls and then found his body and looted it. In my second game I almost killed him myself so I wouldn’t have to worry about him getting himself killed anymore. 😛
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haha, he is a bit of a fool. The first time I rescued him, he almost died in battle soon thereafter, until I saved him… again! The second time I played through (my current game), I cleared out the entire stage for him before rescuing him.
What an idiot that guy is. I left him in 1-2 until after I’d done the Tower Knight, so that he couldn’t hurt himself or others.
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OMG Steve-O the Deve-O imposter? long lost twin?
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I like to think he’s just cloning himself to take over the world in a flurry of fiendish acts.
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Maybe he got married over the holiday season and didn’t tell/invite any of us. And now the wife thinks we’re a bad influence on him, so has ordered him away from Kotaku.
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Ah, that explains his absence!
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Thats not him, he is in Bali at the moment!
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Wait so he got married in Bali and is now working to support his family? But he is lucky because it is not a busy time of the year so he can surf the webs?
Immigration will have something to say about this Im sure!
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I’m seriously considering doing another Shameless Gaming Month in February (and then doing it all over again in July).
Thoughts?
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I pity the foo’!More power to ya! -
I’m thinking every month should be a Shameless Gaming month.
And we have a competition. Who can finish the most games, log the most hours, (or whatever, I don’t know, I haven’t thought this through), and we shower the winner with all our finished games to put them at a severe disadvantage for the next month!
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But but but Twisted Metal and Metal Gear Solid HD collection and Jak Trilogy all coming out in Feb! Not to mention I might consider playing ME2 again in preparation for ME3 which comes out March 6.
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Don’t worry about that – EVERYONE buys games during Shameless Gaming Month. You’re just shameless about it… right? Right? Right?
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigggggggggggggggggggggggghhhht??
#snaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaake-
Last Shameless Gaming Month was during the Steam Summer sales. You guess what happened :p
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But it was also counterbalanced by the fact that July and early August had a fat pile of nothing being released.
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There was that nifty little detail.
I’m mainly considering it because a lot of people have put “finish more games” in their New Years Resolutions and there was a Steam Sale where many a person purchased many a game.
Seems like a good combination for this sort of thing.
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My years* of experience in the financial sector** tell me that you are entirely correct.
*Any non-zero value that does not equal 1 should be written as “years”
** By financial sector, I mean being in possession of some money.
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So you’re saying I should do this? :p
Oh man, that means I’ve got to replay ME1 and ME2 again, since I had them on xbox and want ME3 on PC.
DRAT BUT ALSO AWESOME. Skyrim: you’re on pause.
Every month is shameful gaming month for me. 🙁
But seriously, is nothing coming out in Feb?
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There’s a bit of a lull between now and March. A few games are going to trickle through but mainly we’re just waiting for the games that got delayed from late 2011.
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I am just 3dsing it up. I have played the shit out of mario kart and super mario 3d land. Now what i need is #D pokemons and my collection will be complete!
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Checked, and there’s Syndicate (which we’re not officially getting) and The Darkness II in Feb, plus FFXIII-2 is on Feb 2nd for us. Plus there’s also Soul Calibur V. The PAL release of Catherine is in Feb too, though I already have the US one. Plus as a devoted Vanillaware fanboy I am required to buy Grand Knights History on PSP, and that’s Feb. And there’s the Metal Gear Solid HD collection if that floats your boat (never got into MGS personally).
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Nothing that interests me, therefore I declare it a lull!
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Devil Survivor 2 on the DS (remember that platform).
Sure it’s on the 28th, but DEVIL SURVIVOR 2 WOOOO
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I wholeheartedly endorse this endeavour. I may finally finish FF13.
Count me in, for Feb, might have to decide on a list to complete
One of each genre so if I get bored of a style of play I can switch
Also! Whilst at Northland I saw Resistance 3 Survivor edition for $59. It comes with a messenger bag, special edition of the game, a hip flask and some playing cards. Was tempted to buy it, but Tracey already gave me a R3 as a Kudos prize. But you guys should! Resistance 3 is actually a surprsingly fun game that was terribly underrated and buried in the slide of AAA release last yeat. No regenerating health (old fashioned health packs), awesome weapons that level up and are fun to use, a great art style and a halfway decent story.
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Dear Notoriousaur
This has nothing to do with your post whatsoever, but I thought I should mention it is hot up here. Thanks for passing your weather onto us. But it’s okay, I have ginger beer.
Kind regards,
Ginger beer-drinking Bish,
That is to say, Bish drinking ginger beer, not a giant bottle of ginger beer drinking me.-
*puts away straw*
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Dear Master Bishington the Third,
You’re welcome. I don’t have Ginger Beer, but I do have Lemon Lime Bitters, so I am okay with this.
Kind Regards,
NotoriousR
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STOP DRINKING MY BEER!!!! 🙁
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What do you mean I can’t move my eyes independently from each other?? I’ll do whatever I want with my own damn eyes thank you very much!
http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb449/lamboman007/IMG_2607.jpg
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Oh my god! There really IS another!
My girlfriend can do that!
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Or maybe your girlfriend is Lambo!
*puffs pipe*-
I nearly came to that conclusion myself actually…
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I thought I was the one that helped you come to conclusions…
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My not yet entirely corrupted mind took a while to understand what you where talking about. Thank you for making my mind somewhat more corrupted…
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*golf Clap*
Very well done sir, 🙂 I liked that one alotPics or it didnt happen :p
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Crap, I made it too obvious…
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You know whats sad you look about 4 years older than me even though i am actually 4 years older than you!
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perhaps you should rename yourself to rocketboy then! 😉
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Strange calls me rocketboy already as does freyr, sigh i might as well!
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I amended it to Rockets, though!
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You did i should ammend my name to that but meh
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You can’t win TAY TABTOL if you constantly change your name. Good thinking, RocketGuy!
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You know, this one time my older sister was talking to someone and I was standing nearby, and the person asked If I was her partner. O.o
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When my sister and I went to the travel agent last year, she kept on talking like we were a couple. We corrected her and all was forgiven. Until we get to New York and find we have one, double bed hotel room. :S Uncoooool.
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That would have been awkward… 😛
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I was amused. My sister? ENGRAGED.
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Is that engaged or enraged, because it REALLY changes the story.
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Quite you. 😀
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And for clarities sake… enraged. I almost typed it wrong again too. :S
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hmm i read that as My sister and I went travelling last year. made the story just that much more hilarious. 😛
Travel agents are hopeless with that stuff. Even though our guy knew he was booking for our honeymoon, every hotel he booked was a twin. So we honeymooned in separate beds. Not exactly ideal. 😛
It’s like a ’50s sitcom where you have to push the beds together. 😀
Was it deliberate? Did he not like you? Did he like you too much? Was he jealous-looking? 😛
@Chuloop4 Is there a new KPP Prize today?
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I don’t think so, we don’t need one. Loops can just send the Boba Fett to me 😛
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Dream on buddy!!!!! I challenge you.. to a duel! *slaps face with a glove*
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Your petty slaps do not inconvenience me! *grabs water pistol*
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Human, if he really hit you with the glove, he detached his robotic arm and broke your jaw with it 😛
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EEEEEEEE-FIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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“The requested URL has been blocked by category filtering because it is in the categories: Blogs/Wiki, Streaming Media.” – attempting to get on Lifehacker
…there are parts of my network that I just don’t underget.
Hey Trjn. I hate you for showing me that backloggery.com site. I added my Steam games on my lunch break, and now I’m just sad.
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Back when I looked at it, Backloggery seemed to be all oriented around getting 100% of everything in your games, i.e. achievement whoring. Is that the case or was that an incorrect first impression?
Because personally what I’d like is something that would allow me to set up personal goals for a given game and allow me to track how I’m going against those goals instead. Because generally I play a game through once and try and get as much as I can out of it in that single go, then it moves onto my shelf and never gets touched again because I am fickle and have game-ADD.
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I haven’t played around with it that much, but you can just put games down as “completed” and leave it be.
At least, that’s what I plan to do. You can probably do more complicated tracking if you feel like you must.
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Well I just joined. Now to add my Pile o’ Shame to it and then get very depressed because I can’t tear myself away from SWTOR 🙁
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It can’t be that bad. Here’s mine. I blame Humble Indie Bundles for most of my PC collection.
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hey, that’s a pretty cool website, i joined it as well, might help me keep track of the billion games i have to pass…
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Perfect. That’s my shameless gaming month sorted, get my backloggery up to date
Trjn
I watched that BW game and a few things stood out.
The first was the high use of spells. The zerg was totally dependent on Dark Swarm mid game onwards and Irradiate and Plague were used in every fight.
You don’t really see that in SC2, the only spell I have often seen is Psi Storm and maybe some Infestor action. Most fights are more about positioning and army comp.
The other thing was that from what the caster was saying the strats for each was pretty much set. “In a TvZ each will build X because it is the only thing that works” kinda thing.
This might be because it has been played for so long and every strat has been distilled until only the best are ever used but it means it is less about strategy and more about APM.
#my2c
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SC2 spells get flung about a lot.
Protoss simply cannot survive without force fields and guardian shield often shows up as well (a very weak version of the Dark Swarm ability). Sentries are the most important unit in the PvZ match-up. Late game, High Templar are needed for Storms and Feedback (on Medivacs to stop drops and on Ghosts to prevent Snipe/EMP).
Protoss have Ghosts, which are great vs Gateway heavy Protoss armies (EMPs destroy shields and recently got nerfed to cover less area because they destroyed late-game Protoss armies) and are vital in late-game TvZ (mass Snipe is the easiest way to deal with everything a Zerg can throw at a Terran). Ravens are less useful but still show up in TvP during 1-1-1 builds, where the Point Defense Drones come in handy.
Zerg have Infestors that got nerfed hard with the Fungal Parasite range reduction. Still, Fungal Growth is a damned good weapon against Blink Stalkers and will also help if you’re going Ultralisk. Don’t forget that technically Larva Inject is a spell, which is the most important Zerg macro mechanic and Creep Tumours are pretty important for Zergs too (and Transfuse doesn’t suck either).
You’ll notice that these are all considerably weaker than the spells that were constantly used in that BW game. Which means that composition and positioning really is a lot more important.
There is still variation in strategies but the metagame is definitely a lot more developed than SC2. People are still working things out in SC2 and the metagame won’t be fully developed for a long while. Particularly seeing as there are two expansions with heavy multiplayer changes to come and as many balance patches as Blizzard cares to make.
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In case it isn’t blatantly obvious by this point, I watch a lot of SC2 games. :p
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Hmm forgot about Blink and sentries. The Terran plays I have seen in SC2 have rarely used Ghosts, it’s usually straight Bio-ball/mech.
But I have see far less games than you.
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Ghosts will show up in pretty much every pro Terran game that goes more than 20 minutes. Except maybe a TvT where both players go Sky Terran or TvP where the Protoss goes heavy Robo.
BW units are all just ridiculously strong. Without Defilers, Jaedong would have been screwed but without those units on the high ground attacking the gas in the top right, Jaedong could have macroed much better.
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OMG IMBA.-
Wishful thinking.
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Oh hey! I found two cents lying here on the floor!
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Hahaha, my sister bought me a turtle bun.
Also she brought over her newborn daughter, but how adorable is that bun!
I think I will find a glass case and try preserve it for all eternity and put it on display.
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Unkie Bish, that is a cute bun!
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I see a doggie.
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She’s still hovering around for a piece of the turtle bun.
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I must find this item. now.
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Use your console commands, they can get you anything 🙂
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One hour of Dark Souls. I levelled up four Soul Levels. Thanks, Maneater Mildred!
Actually I could quite easily have cursed her because I encountered her as I’d just walked past the entrance to what turned out to be the 2nd bonfire in Blighttown, thinking, I’ll just get that shiny loot over there, and come back and see where that goes. So if she’d killed me I’d have had to go all the way back from the first bonfire, only to find I’d died just steps away from the second bonfire. So I’m glad she went down easy. Would have been immensely depressed otherwise.
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On to victory!
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Well, actually…on to defeat. The boss of this area completely kicked my butt.
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On to eventual victory, or successful retreat!
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On to battle creepy-sexy-topless-spider-lava-woman!
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*high-fives*
o/Took me a while, that’s for sure.
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And Quelaag is defeated. Quite happy with today’s progress, now I’m off to see Sen’s Fortress. I’m scared….
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Starcraft night tonight!
Get on TeamSpeak, play some Starcraft.
I don’t particularly care if I’m the only one who does, but it would be nice if others joined in.
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Yeah but Starcraft with you always ends the same way: everyone else dies from just flailing around while you get sad over that one time you got supply blocked as you stomp everything/die with the rest of us.
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Well that’s just not true.
Steve-O and Blaghs did most of the stomping :p
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Also Gorzy and I did alright together yesterday. I kinda coached him through a basic Terran build (mass Marine/Medivac) while I built a stupid amount of Void Rays.
It helps when it isn’t very super serial.
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I will be there with you except for the starcraft thing and maybe not (but probably) the teamspeak thing i wanted to start reading enders game or princess bride!
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…I may just take you up on that. How do I join in?
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Pester me on Twitter (@TrjnRabbit) or send me an email TrjnRabbit [SHIFT + 2] gmail [little dot thingy] com and I’ll give you instructions.
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I’m horrible at that game and you know it, I’d just be holding you back human 😛
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But you’ll become much more awesome by playing.
Hell, I still suck rather badly. Yet I’ve improved quite a lot in a pretty short time simply by playing the odd game.
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It’s hard to keep the mindset of macroing. Basically when I send my attacking army, I completely stop on everything else so when that army gets beaten, I got no more forces then I go making more, wasting so much time 😛
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You could do what I do, when it’s time for your army to do something just A move them via the mini-map and get back to macroing.
Microing your army isn’t that important compared to making sure you have constant reinforcements. Just check in on them after you’re done macroing and reinforce as needed (pull back main army to meet with reinforcements, don’t send reinforcements to the front line).
Hope that helps a little. It definitely isn’t high level strategy but it works for me.
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I just get paranoid that my army that I move out gets jumped and rolled over while they’re moving off screen so I keep my eye on them 😛
And warp gates never seem to work using the minimap so… annoying
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Warp Gates don’t work by mini-map, you have to use the main screen to place your units in the power field. You can set hotkeys to map screen positions (so ctrl+hotkey sets the position, hotkey returns your vision to that position). I have F2-F8 set for that stuff, so it’s easy enough to go back to my main, natural or the pylon that I’m warping my units in to.
Just another thing to consider doing.
My army gets crushed every once in a while when I do this sort of thing, but that’s okay because I was working on making a new army. Microing your units really isn’t that important compared to spending your minerals.
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can I join?
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No girls allowed!
Although I guess we can make an exception this time.
But only because Sexyglade used your account once!
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To this day I have not washed that jumper.
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Maybe if I wear it whilst playing it will give me incredible micro. I would then abuse these powers to take over the world!! MWAHAHA
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If you take over the world, I’ll be your conniving second-in-command that is clearly only there to overthrow you at the most opportune moment.
I’ll even grow a goatee!
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Hmm. Depends.
What style of goatee are we discussing here?
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I guess I’d have to dye it black and make sure that it’s long enough to twirl idly with my finger while I plot against you.
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hmm. deal.
also prepare to be crushed by my 4-gate-proxy-pylon strategy. It sounds like I know what I’m talking about, yeah?
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I know the “say random jargon that makes it sound like you have an idea about what’s going on” game. I play to win.
Bit hard to do that particular strategy when you play Zerg though :p
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WOO YEAH LEAGUE OF LEGENDS
Sorry, what were we meant to be playing?
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HEROES OF NEWERTH o/
no really i’ve been playing more HoN then LoL lately, WHAT IS HAPPENING
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So that’s where you’ve been, ah well, I wouldn’t be joining in on HoN anytime soon, I’m not even that good at LoL and that’s got less skill requirements cuz of the mechanics
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aww have I been missed? haha. Yeah just been busy lately with a variety of things. With SGL coming up HoN has become our main focus so it doesn’t look like i’ll be getting back on LoL on a regular basis anytime soon.
Which is a shame because I received one of them LoL prepaid cards as a present for christmas! SKINS here i come!
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Miss Harli I always miss your presence in TeamSpeak and I wish we could tag up in LoL more often. I just want to see more of your MOBA skills in action and it’s killing me not truly knowing. The last time I got the chance to see, you were on the opposing team and I was using my main little ninja of lightning destruction (Which everybody fears so much he’s insta-banned in all KvKs… sadface)
Hopefully that doesn’t get seen as creepy to say 😛
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No, not creepy at all. I am actually very flattered.
ah, if only that DOTA tournament we won was casted!
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I’ve made it my duty to win every single Kotaku Kristmas Giveaway this week 😛
And how do I propose to do that? Cheat! Well, okay, not really cheating, but my entries aren’t really normal 😛
Trine Comp: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/01/kotaku-kristmas-giveaways-trine-2/comment-page-3/#comment-495490
SPAZ Comp: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/01/kotaku-kristmas-giveaways-s-p-a-z/comment-page-2/#comment-496383
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S.P.A.Z I very highly recommend, but that’s because it’s a game I’ve been waiting for so many years for since the Star Control games on the Sega. I pretty much call it a spiritual successor and MASSIVE expansion of Star Control, since Star Control was a simple 1v1 top-down shooter
It’s getting updated content as well as modding capabilities, so much longevity 🙂
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*scoff* Please Lambo, my limerick was much more betterer than yours 😛
Yuuuuuuuukkkkk. Hot Pepsi max tastes like ants.
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Too much Pepsi Max tastes like poison. Maybe its trying to tell us something.
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That makes me feel so much better o_O
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BAM… everyone thought i was gone BUT HERE I AM
*crickets*
nothing? aw
*sits down*
so how is everyone? what’d i miss?
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Welcome to TAY once again, human
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*takes a bow*
greetings sir knight, it has been a while since i reveled in your presence, how have you been?
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ehh not the greatest, my leave and christmas holiday was just awful, so I didn’t come back in the best mood but I am improving. Plus I seem to have gotten some gifts too, which I’ll check out further tonight, so I might have a smile on my face again soon enough
And you sir viking warrior of the ferret tribes?
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well aside from becoming a proud uncle, it was indeed pretty meh, i am sorry to hear that people haven’t treated everyone’s favourite knight right, but you know we will look after ya :D… also i am pretty sure that we can organise for hitmen at this stage, so all you need to do is ask…
i’ve got… connectionzzzz 😛
i hope everything is turning for the better though, christmas is a bunch of humbug anyway <—- Ebenezer Scrooge
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Realises what just happened *collapses in surprise*
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*jumps back up and runs in any and every direction*
Who what where and how????
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*hugs Pixel*
Dont ever leave again!
… well ok do but Tell me first 🙁-
*Cuddles Di11*
i’m sooorry buddy, hopefully i will never have to go THIS LONG* without internet access again
*2 days
how was your new years?
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It was AWESOME there was alcohol and explosions (not just fireworks) and and and I even played some video games!!
how was yours? 😀
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IT WAS PHENOMINAL… at a distance… honestly what’s with me and hospitals huh? 😛
i was spending my new years at the royal womens hospital in Melbourne, due to the birth of my nephew, however, the mother had the BEST DAMN ROOM IN THE HOSPITAL, that had a perfect view over the Melbourne Cityline and could therefore enjoy the entire fireworks display without getting into wrestling matches with random people… that and lots of champagne 😛 so i guess it was quite the enjoyable night
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Oh wow Congrats to the family 😀 sounds pretty awesome Ive heard Melbourne fireworks are fairly Banging
I spent mine in Civic, we also visited a hospital…well a hospital tent o.0 apparently someone needed a stomach pump but it was not me so its k 😀
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bahahaha well as long as it’s not you that makes it funny right? RIGHT? 😛
i am planning to next year throw a proper new years party, as i miss having an all out night, the family i married into never makes a big deal of new years so it’s a bit sad 😛but yeah other then that, just puttering along holding out for my next big venture… FORMULA 1 AT THE END OF MARCH OH YEEEEAAAAH BABY
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Wow Danny is taking a stand against comments on Giz
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/01/the-best-ultraportable-laptop/#comment-225408
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I wonder what he’d do on Kotaku when ever people bad mouth the U.S. folk? HULK rage! 😀
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SO MUCH RAGE.
I can understand that he gets angry with the influx of terribad comments that giz get whenever they mention something apple. It infuriates me to an extent, but saying that people who arent on topic will be deleted a bit harsh!
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People on that site in general seem to be a little overly critical or judgemental. It’s off-putting at times.
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In the comments, I mean.
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It’s not like Kotaku is any better! Everytime a ‘sexism’ or ‘racism’ or ‘call of duty’ article pops up you need to bring your flame shields.
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Did someone say sexism, I hate the sexism articles on kotaku so much. A person defends women they are a white knight, a person laughs at the sexist material and they are a murderous swine. But those articles are fewwer than on giz
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I find this comment offensive. You’re being sexist, Rocketman.
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Also racist.
Let’s not bring colours into this discussion, man. -
Sorry little yellow buddy!
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LOL!
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We also get lots of negative comments on the US articles and the Brian Ashcraft ones. As I said in Bashcraft’s last article if people want to stop those articles the only way is if enough people stop clicking on them.
Allure is a business. Business do what makes them money. They get money for adds via page views. If they notice a significant drop in page views for an author (and they will notice, it’s how they get their dough after all) then they will have words with them and/or replace them.
I love that i didn’t even understand what you were trying to say in your post over there.
/ruffles hair
gnaww.
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i am bigger than you i will get you are HArli, It may not be today or tomorrow but it will definitely be tomorrow!
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ahahahhahahhahahahaha
gnaw.
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“i will get you are HArli”
You sure will, little buddy, you sure will.
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I hate my lack of re-reading skills.
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I think the Gizkids just like their reviews as a spreadsheet of facts by the sound of it.
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They just hate anything that paints Apple in a positive light.
Now that the company is a juggernaut, making ridiculous amounts of money with popular products, it’s now the done thing to dislike them and everything they do.
Just like how it used to be cool to dislike Microsoft.
As an Apple user, I just chuckle because their hardware is inferior.
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I remember in the mid 90s that Apple was the thing to love and any one who didn’t obviously had no cred. Seems all those people have turned on the company now. :S
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So how about that Clarke, ey? Double Century and still going*
*as of right now
Sorry, no more sports talk.
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Why can’t we discuss sport i am a big fan of all sports, Bunny is the same and everyone on TS minus a few seems to enjoy cricket and tennis!
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I remember a few weeks ago he got his first half-century for… a while, and me and my sister were all “Oh hey, look, he can actually score runs. Huh.”
I don’t like him very much, and certainly not as Captain. I guess maybe he’s improving (I’m assuming Ponting’s guidance is a part of this), but ehhhhhhh.-
I actually don’t like him much either he seems like a bit of a idiot in real life and his captaining leaves alot to be desired. The real reason we are going well is because of all the new bowling talent coming through. !
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To be fair to the batting line-up though, they do (clearly) have life in them yet. Ponting’s proven himself, and Hussey’s always been an excellent batter (shame he got into the team ‘late’ then). But yeah, they really need to start cycling some of the youngins’ in. Do some sort of half-half rotation. Half of the old guard, half of fresh blood in your top 5 or so, so that they can get their bearings. Because hell, it’s taken this long to finally recover from when every good bowler decided to retire a few years ago.
YOU HEAR ME, MERV HUGHES? EH?
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I don’t like him either, personally. But he’s heading for the highest test score at the SCG so I can put aside my personal opinions for now 😛
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So good, I missed his first century but managed to see the double and Punter try to rob himself of his
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Sure was amazing to see that and then see Perth lose five wickets in one over in the 20/20 tonight. Hilarious.
I am contemplating tethering my computer to my phone to try and play a game of LOL. KILL ME.
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that is desperate my friend.
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I tried that while my net was out, that went badly :P. Turns out I had to get a driver or something… too bad I didn’t have internet to search for it 😛
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FREYR AND ROCKETMANG ARE LEVEL 30, MANG
YOU GOTTA INVITE THEM TO BISHCO
LOUD NOISES-
I know, I feel so guilty for not having done it yet.
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Its only a few more days man, you will survive, and if you are super desperate get one of those internet prepaid thing a ma doodles. Its hella expensive but less so then tethering cost if you go over your quota!
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8 days 🙁
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I did it last week, and it worked ok, but that was in a Bot match.
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Hey, also, at least you’re saving money and not buying RP, right?
You could probably buy a second bike or something.-
Almost!
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Only time I’ve ever exceeded my phone cap was when tethering
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dude!
internet cafes!
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Thats where I am going tonight! woooo
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The only people that go to internet cafés in Geelong are gross (I say this as someone who used to go to internet cafés in Geelong).
Although I am getting pretty desperate… maybe a good idea ey?
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Here’s a funny story. Over the xmas holidays my friends and I went out for lunch. Afterwards we were all like, well that was an awesome lunch but what should we do now? OMG let’s go to the local internet cafe and practice some HoN! So we waltzed over to the local internet cafe.
It was filled with people playing LoL.
The only row of seats available was down the middle aisle, so the five of us hired out some PC’s and loaded up HoN. It was… an interesting experience.
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…You got kicked out of the cafe for calling everyone else “casuals” and “scrubs”, didn’t you?
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haha actually one of the guys said out loud “League of Legends? More like League of LOSERS”
dw i hit him real good in our defence. -
Hah hah, oh man, I don’t know.
Some of the people in this game (ie not us because we are cool and don’t afraid of anything [except ranked games]) need some good insulting. It seems to be the only language they understand.
Of course, we don’t actually say it to them, just privately within our little TS circle. We’re classy like that. -
I should get some of my mates on with you guys. He’s foul-mouthed enough to make up for all of us and he doesn’t afraid of anything.
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Because who needs grammar!
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We’ll call his mother a classy lady, so he knows we’re serious.
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*facepalm* why do humans waste their energy to do that… seriously
*turns on childish protocol*
“Heroes of Newerth? More like Homos of Newerth! HAW HAW!”
*turns off childish protocol*See how meaningless it is to insult based on what game they enjoy playing? 😛
Please don’t hate me for that Harli 🙁
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It’s funny because it’s true!
AW SNAP
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I’m sorry.
🙁
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Weeell, I’ve emailed the local LAN cafe and asked if they have teamspeak access. FINGERS CROSSED.
The mark of a desperate man!
We miss you! Hopefully you can be back soon!
Err, Dark Souls peoples…how do I get out of here? I rang the second bell but don’t want to do Demon’s Ruins…I want to get back to the Firelink Shrine. Do I have to go all the way back up through Blighttown and The Depths?! Please tell me there’s a shortcut I’ve missed/forgotten about! 🙁
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In between the Quelaag’s Domain and the second bonfire should be a giant wooden… elevator (I guess). Kind of like a giant oval water mill. Head upwards, you’ll get to the Valley of the Drakes, cross a bridge to a building door you can unlock, head on through, and there should be a shortcut elevator you can activate to the Firelink Shrine.
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If by “shortcut” you mean heaps of fall points, stupid amounts of bugs and poison dart guys as well as a whole line of Blight Trolls then yeah.
Still quicker than going back up through the depths.
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Such is life
in the Zonein Dark Souls.
Seriously though, testiment to the game. Yeah, it’s full of terrible, terrible things that will do bad things to you, but I must have run up and down it so many times that I could do it half awake. Progress!
Although this one time, this mosquito kept attacking me on ladders, and I couldn’t attack it because the lock on system doesn’t do things above or below you very well. I died to a mosquito. That was embarrassing.
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You know the waterwheel thing near the second Bonfire? Go up that and it will lead to Drake Valley or whatever it is and a short walk to the elevator up from New Londo Ruins to Firelink.
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Aah, of course. I should have remembered because that’s the way I came in originally until I decided I needed to kill the Gaping Dragon for my pride, oh and the delicious souls.
I’ve already killed all the toxic dart peoples but I have trouble going across the branch thingy without falling. This should be interesting. 😛
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Hahaaaaa, yeahhh, I walked off of that while I wasn’t paying attention.
I had a considerable amount of souls on me too.
Also embarrassing.-
I think I walked off that while attempting to kill a mosquito…
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Oh! I forgot to say thank-you!
THANKS GUYS!!!!
Finally got my new keyboard! 🙂
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watchaget?watchaget?watchaget?watchaget?watchaget?watchaget?
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A keyboard! He just said! /o\
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naaaaaw, is it one of dem with buttons u can puush? i LOOOOVE THEM! makes gaming SO MUCH EASIER
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It’s a media keyboard, not a gaming keyboard unfortunately.
Only gaming keyboard I saw was over $100, and the one I got was $16.
A Logitech Media Keyboard K200, to be exact. -
I’ve been after a wireless keyboard with blue back lighting that can be switched on and off, light laptop style keys and media buttons.
Anyone know if such a thing exists yet?
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@Rocketman Something you might like
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That song and video are quite good. The song needs a bigger climax though it seemed to be pullling punches in the middle section where a heavy bass would have been excellent. They sound alot like pendulum with their awesome vocalist . Definitely will be liustening to that again.
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Blast- I meant to reply that last comment 🙁
anyways I went to the same school as that vocalist. She is very talented. If you like her voice, you might like some of the triphop stuff she did a while ago –
http://grooveshark.com/#/album/The+Dusk+Sessions/4527217I was looking to see if she’d done anything recently and found that.
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The Prelude to that track (will find a link when I get home) is very awesome, focuses more on her voice. I’m very glad I stumbled on that track
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GARRUS!!!!!!!!!!!!
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She left?
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Now all they need to do is let me have Wrex in my party. And as much Mordin dialogues as possible.
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Somehow I misread that as Tail’s and was expecting a Sonic screenshot. I had to close it quickly when I saw it was ME3 related. I’m really trying to go into that game cold. I haven’t watched any trailers since the first teaser at the VGA’s in 2010 ( can’t say last year now). Haven’t read any article, no screenshots, n ovideos nothing. God I hope I can last the next couple of months
Hey f4ction, what do you call an Indian cricketter with 100 next to his name?
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A bowler?
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Yep 😉
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Yeah I saw that tweet too. Had a good chuckle. Of course anything can happen tomorrow.
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@ D.C.
I was catching up on earlier TAY and decided to throw in a comment for your paino/sheet music question back on page 3
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Thanks for the heads up, buddy! I’ll venture back to the hazy depths of page three now. If I don’t come back you guys send word! 😉
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I was originally just going to drop a comment there and leave it to fate to see if it ever got read but then I ended up writing so much I couldn’t just leave it there. Probably should have just posted it as a new thread, would have saved you looking for it.
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Nah, man. It’s fine. I’m glad you posted at all! Much appreciated!
Here’s a link for any one interested: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/01/talk-amongst-yourselves-158/comment-page-3/#comment-496609
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So who is playing what tonight and can I join in?
As previously stated I will be at an internet cafe with my own headphones and mike (the shit they have there smells nasty and i dont even wanna know how you get a mic smelling nasty)
they have most PC games as far as im aware with accounts on all of them so
Lets do this!
…or not but you know it could be fun 🙁
To anyone who’s played Bastion already, here’s a behind the scenes look at it:
http://www.giantbomb.com/news/a-look-back-at-building-the-bastion/3499/
You can probably watch it and enjoy the videos and games if you haven’t played the game yet, but I recommend playing the game and then watching this rather excellent series of videos.
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If any one missed it, there’s an insanely cool jam session linked on the front page too. http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/01/the-voices-of-bastion-perform-build-that-wall/
BEHOLD! My (incomplete) pile of shame!
http://www.backloggery.com/cakesmith
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You’ve beaten Uncharted 2, but not 1 and 3? Are you mad? 😉 Truly impressive list of Steam games too.
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I still need to add my non-steam PC games and DS games. Don’t think I’ll bother with PS2/Gamecube games or any before those.
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I don’t even own Uncharted 1 and I can completely understand not finishing Uncharted 3 yet. It isn’t that good compared to 2 :p
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Cardboard boxes make great keyboard, tablet and mouse stands.
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A PS2 slim flipped upside down makes a great mousepad.
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I’ve been using some Styrofoam as a mouse stand for about 3 years now. I run my computer through my tv and it raises the mouse off the couch to a comfortable level.
Hello TAY! The heat pretty much killed me =( I’m glad Sid was okay though.
The upside is that I played my DS non-stop and have racked up 20 hours on golden sun within a week ._.
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That game is worthy of such time, even if it isn’t as great as the GBA games.
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I never played the first one unfortunately. Maybe I’ll have to ebay it or GT it.
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The first one was pretty amazing, though I didn’t understand the djinn system, or whatever it was, so I was terribad at it, and relied on grinding like hell…
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I don’t really understand it either, simply because if you mix the different type of Djinns with different type of Adepts , it actually removed a lot of really awesome moves.
I’ve only had to grind a little in Dark dawn so far. -
It’s essentially a create-a-class system.
The tl;dr notes are that whilst pure (one element) classes are good, the ‘best’ classes are generally Mostly of one Djinn element, and about two of another element (once you have a few Djinn’s that is).
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I did experiment. I tried evening them out. But most of the healing abilities are only the starting classes. For example, Water, Wind and Earth all have healing abilities but the only way to access them is to only have Earth, Wind or Water Djinn.
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Yeah, you need a few under your belt before it starts being actually effective.
Maybe about 6 of each? Then you can try with 4-2 or 5-1 splits.
But clearly a problem for later, so don’t worry about it!
Oh watch out though, there are a few Djinn with points of no return, so if you want to catch ’em all, you might need to look up a guide. -
Yeah I have 43 Djinn so far. I’m using a guide to get the Djinns and summons because I’m paranoid if I can’t get a Djinn, it might be that I need to get it later or possibly I’m just not looking at the solution the right way.
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I use to consider guides like that cheating, but now I use them for EVERYTHING. I can’t play a game and know that I might have missed things…
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Well my youngest daughter has a real appetite for books.
Like a REAL appetite. She won’t stop eating them 🙁
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The paper will make her strong!
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And the fibre will keep her regular.
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And the ink will dye her wool black.
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Haha, how old is she?
Also make sure you feed here ones with substance like Isaac Asimov or Tolkien or maybe even some Terry Pratchett. Not that twilight stuff. It might sparkle but it’s essentially junkfood.
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She’s 7 months and so far has eaten some Ian Irvine and Robin Hobb.
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Strangely she won’t touch the Terry Goodkind, must make her feel too full of herself and long winded.
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Well, people in the old days would eat the hearts of their fallen enemies to acquire their power, so I’m guessing your kid is trying to learn as much as she can?
@Cakesmith, have not heard of http://www.backloggery.com/ before, but think I may make use of it! Cheers!
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Do not thank me, thank Trjn
HEY EVERYONE, I’M LEVEL 30 AS WELL!!!
in Super Monday Night Combat…
which goes up to level 100…
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LEVELS ARE GOOOD
ANyone else have the Diablo Book of Cain?
It’s so good, totally worth getting.
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I’ve never heard of it before but it definitely sounds like something I want!
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No but I’ve heard the Deckard Cain rap.
Is Tay broken again?
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*looks around for Lambomann*
No, it should be right for the moment.
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Ah, but that’s what he wants you to think!
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I’ve never tried doing a TAY break in a reply. Now would be a good time to try it methinks.
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What Alex said.
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Lambo if you didn’t break TAY, why is your comment staying at the bottom? What did you do?
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Nice, Lambo, nice.
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Why thank you, I’m glad someone appreciates it 😛
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You’re a menace to socieTAY 🙂
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Kotaku Wars Episode I: The Lambo Menace 😛
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Mr Wilson hates Lambo the Menace
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You know, out of all the weeks I’ve been in TAY (which isn’t very many, mind) I can only think of one where you didn’t break TAY, and even that might be wrong.
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What! A week where I didn’t break TAY?? I must find it and remedy this!
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lambomann007, don’t be a menace to talk amongst yourselves while drinking your juice in the hood
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Can we hurry up and get to the next page so I don’t need to look at this mess anymore 🙂
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See, this is the brilliant thing about TAY breaks, they’re always on the current page until they’re fixed. The post responsible for all this mess was back on the last page…
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There are quite a few.
They’re just really old.
Shall we embarrass lambo by linking to his early posts? 😛
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Lambo*
Everyone deserves capitals. Everyone. Even Brian McGee, the hater of all humanity!
(Side note, I never realised prior to today that it will send me back to page 7 when I comment on the broken thing, as that’s where it should theoretically be)
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/claps
I can appreciate a good, non-harmful TAY break. Like when I broke it for a whole weekend. Good times.
…dammit Lambo.
But it was acting really weird until a moment ago
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Nothing wrong with TAY. I should know. I wwebsite as on the internet.
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Nope, nothing wrong with TAY. Nothing to see here. Move along.
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Oh Lambo, you should at least try & go a week without breaking TAY. Go break the Lifehacker comments 😛
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Hey, I just noticed the Sugar sites… :3
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They won’t know what hit them, until Mark goes in for another waxing or whatever he had done, and spreads word of the unspeakable terror that is Lambomann007
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Hi everyone! I picked up a game pad for 10 bucks at GAME today, it’s kind of derpy which button is which in games but it works well. I kind of wanna use an actual 360 controller though so I know what is what on it lol.
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I invested the last of my christmas money in a razor onza for $50 from eb games.
BEST – DESCISION – EVER
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Truth be told it was bee or told me to get it rather than the cheap crappy one.
BEST DECISION SHE HAS EVER MADE!
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Hey does anyone know a good free sheet music creation program? if you can hear the music being played as well would be preferable
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… Torrent Sibelius? No? That’s about the only program I know…
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When I was at school we used Finale Notepad for all our composition work. Not sure if its still around, or how much it is, or where you get it though
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Just did a quick search for free music notation software and came across this http://musescore.org/
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Thanks. =D I really appreciate it. Time to fix those Ocarina tabs!
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Good luck with that 🙂
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Serious Lols at saints row 3’s sex appeal option in the character creator.
I knew it was broken but no one believed me D=
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Oh, I believed you :3
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Yes because you knew the truth =D However no one else did. Why would I lie to you, oh kind people of TAY?!
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I’m sorry scree, I throw myself at your mercy and plead for forgiveness
No wait, I know how to make this better*grabs samurai sword*
*commits hari kiri*-
._. That is not necessary. Just an okay, i believe you will do.
however what confuses me is that how come I saw it before everyone else…-
Good thing I didn’t go through with it.
And female intuition maybe? Not that I have any understanding of such amazing magic
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I don’t think it’s female intuition because I don’t think it’s ever helped me before. Maybe my computer knew it was coming and was trying to warn me back on page 7
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It must have been a disturbance in the force then. 😛
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As if a million people cried out in frustration, and said “Goddammit Lambo.”
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Bahahahahahahahahaha!
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I believed you!
So we were talking about cricket, right?
I was there today. Beautifully boring test cricket, with some moments of amazing tension and significance. Glad I was there to see it all. Unglad that I have to go to work tomorrow and miss out on what may be my only chance to ever see a triple test hundred in person 🙁
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Curse you Lamboman.
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Don’t curse Lambo, he’s not the reason you have to work.
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Oh, the broken TAY? Then by all means, curse away.It was a good day today. It was good to see Clarke Ponting and Hussey all getting runs. What do you think, bat to 600, 650 then declare?
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I reckon bat till the last session tomorrow then put them in for 10 or 15 overs to end the day. That will probably be about 700 or so at today’s rate?
If India manage to bowl us out before then, it will probably mean that the pitch is starting to become difficult anyway, at which point the runs we have should be plenty to defend for victory \o/
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Actually thats a good point, I forget that tomorrow is still only day 3. Our run rate today was almost unheard of for a test match. We were going at better than 4 and over all day. That just never happens. 3/over is usually pretty good
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I have to say, I like what 20-20 is doing for the other forms of the game, even though it was well before my time, the introduction of the one day format did wonders for test matches, turning them into interesting games, so I’m hopeful, but also slightly worried, that it will speed up the games over the next few years. I mean, I like test cricket as it is, but I rarely have the concentration to watch it, and I do enjoy a good one day game, and uhh, yeah, I’ve forgotten what I was saying.
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all they need to do is make sure that the pitches are prepared for the bowlers and not the super flat decks that plagued the late 90s and early 00s
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But, but, I don’t have anything to do with you going to work tomorrow!
ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)
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Isn’t Lambo, Isn’t it?
Only 5 runs to go and somebody just took the meeting room for a client meeting, so I can’t watch
Damn clients ruin everything *One run to go*
I’m at work and i found something that reminds me of my 10 hp charges in LOL ><
http://senorgif.memebase.com/2012/01/02/funny-gifs-haxxx-2/
ill also be home around 1am ish if anyone is up for a game.
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Bahaha, Oh Pyrean.
Last two weeks or so disappeared so quickly… so very busy.
I managed to avoid steam xmas sales this year. \o/
Happy 2012, TAYbies.
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Happy 2012 Fled! By which I mean, WATCH OUT FOR THOSE GIANT CRABS! AAAAHHHHHH AAAAHHHHHH AAAAAAHHHHHH!
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Stupid giant crabs…. they think they’re sooooo cool with their giant claws and sideways walking.
Well, y’know what?
They’re
not.right. 🙁-
Looks like someone’s jelly.
Crab jelly.
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So it turns out that the SC2 night was just Redartifice and me playing vs hard AI. Everyone else played LoL.
You kids and your MOBAs, you missed out on a PPvPP. That’s right, two Protoss vs two Protoss. That went well.
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Hehe – PP
I’m so mature
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I wanted to play a game or two even though they would of been failcakes on my behalf but After the second LoL game I realised it was 11 and needed to go home from the internet cafe and If I added you on the internet cafe’s sc2 Profile then everytime you where online and machine number 18 was playing starcraft you may be assaulted with invites from the koreans and one chinese guy who play starcraft there.
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They’d be playing on their own accounts anyhow :p
Anyhow, maybe another attempt at this should go on tonight? Being good is most definitely not a requirement.
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And apart from one unfortunate incident, we were awesome. And modest.
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So modest.
I’m never going Void Rays again. Zealot/Archon FTW!
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Yeah, those Archons pwned. Void Rays can be a lot of fun though, and are good vs Zerg
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My early gas went towards getting attack upgrades and then I just stockpiled to get masses of Archons. Simple builds like that are good for people like me who fail at macro.
Kept my Warp Gate count low early on to focus on upgrades and then once I started expanding to all the gold bases, I just made a bajillion Warp Gates. Made it rather easy to keep that army coming and my income low.
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Thing I love about protoss?
Oh you killed my Army? how about warpwarpwarpwarpwarpwarpwarpwarpwarp A BILLION NEW GUYS
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Finished AssCreed Rev. Has anyone else finished it so I can talk about it?
Also, scree, watch new Sherlock yet?
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I certainly have finished it, but I’m not sure I want to talk about it at length – I did not enjoy the experience as much as previous offerings.
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I have nearly finished it. I am also not enjoying it as much as previous offerings, though I have liked the novelty of old man Ezio and Altair sections.
I’ll finish it on the weekend then we can ROT-13 discuss it next week?
Also, I am not Scree but I have seen the latest Sherlock. Thumbs up!! Not going to discuss it further right now cos it’s time for bed.
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Similar sentiments to you regarding:
a) thumbs up @ Sherlock and
b) not being scree-
I also agree entirely with this!
Though Notty and I have already discussed Sherlock.
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Yes. ROT13 time!
V jnf ernyyl qvfnccbvagrq ol Qrfzbaq’f raqvat, nygubhtu vg jnf na vagrerfgvat jnl gb urne nobhg uvf snzvyl (gung ovg jnf jryy ibvprq npgrq, naq vg’f terng gb pbasvez gung Ovyy vf uvf sngure).
Ybirq Rmvb’f naq Nygnve’f raqvatf, rfcrpvnyyl gur jnl gurl avpryl gvrq hc gur gjb punenpgref. Univat Rmvb fcrnx gb Qrfzbaq vf nyjnlf n perrcl unve-envfvat rkcrevrapr.
Abg n ovt sna bs Pbafgnagvabcyr nf n jubyr, V gubhtug gurl pbhyq’ir qbar fbzr zber vagrerfgvat guvatf jvgu gur frggvat naq gung vg cenpgvpnyyl cynlrq gur fnzr nf gur cerivbhf tnzrf. Gurl ernyyl arrq gb funxr hc gur sbezhyn bs NffPerrq tnzrf gb ergnva zl vagrerfg, rfcrpvnyyl vs gurl xrrc qevccvat gur fgbel bhg va gval puhaxf.
Gur fhz gbgny bs ‘Eriryngvbaf’ va Qrfzbaq’f fgbel jrer gung Yhpl qvq vaqrrq qvr naq gung gurl’er ba gurve jnl gb Arj Lbex. Uneqyl rabhtu gb whfgvsl n tnzr.
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Spoilers that include the ending of AssRev.
Qrfzbaq’f fgbel jnf pbzcyrgr fuvg va guvf tnzr. Vg whfg errxrq bs svyyre pbagrag. Rmvb’f naq Nygnve’f fgbevrf jrer cerggl tbbq, naq jenccrq hc avpryl, ohg V sryg gur raqvat jnf n ovg nagvpyvzngvp. Abarguryrff, gurl furq fbzr yvtug ba gubfr jub pnzr orsber, ohg V sryg lbh ernyyl qvqa’g yrnea nalguvat arj, zber gung vg xvaq bs pbasvezrq/tnir n ovg zber qrgnvy ba fghss.
V’z abg fnlvat guvf vf n onq tnzr, vg’f whfg gung vg’f fb zhpu bs gur fnzr vg’f xvaq bs sngvthvat. Nyy gur arj fghss gur nqqrq (obzopensgvat naq gbjre qrsrafr) jrer engure fvyyl, trggvat evq bs ubefvrf naq gur fhowrpg 16 chmmyrf jnf n onq guvat, gur neg fglyr bs pbafgnagvabcyr vf gbb oebja sbe zl yvxvat naq gur ghgbevny jnf fbzrjung vafhygvat. Guvf vf gur sbhegu tnzr va gur frevrf, naq gur guveq va gur rmvb fgbel. Gurl ernyyl znqr ab rssbeg gb rkcynva gur cerivbhf fgbel naq frg hcf, lrg gurl sbepr srrq lbh rirel zrpunavp naq znxr lbh yrnea vg ntnva.
OHG! Univat fnvq nyy guvf, Rmvb’f fgbel jnf terng. N fybj fgneg (puncgref 1-3/4) jrer engure fybj, ohg gur ynfg 3-4 frdhraprf V pbhyqa’g chg gur pbagebyyre qbja, V whfg jnagrq zber, ZBNE! V nyfb sryg onq jura Lhfhs qvrq, juvpu vf fgenatr, orpnhfr ng gur fgneg bs gur tnzr, V qvqa’g pner sbe uvz. Fb xhqbf gb gurz sbe gung.
Ertneqvat gur arkg NffPerrq (ubcrshyyl NffPerrq 3). V nterr gung gurl arrq gb punatr vg hc. Gur tnzr vf sha, fher, ohg vg’f nyfb xvaq bs gbb snzvyvne, n qrwn ih. V npghnyyl ernyyl ubcr gung gur ragver tnzr vf whfg qrfzbaq qbvat uvf guvat gelvat gb fgbc gur jbeyq raqvat ol univat gb tb nebhaq gur jbeyq gb gur 6 inhygf guvatf (nygubhtu gur jnl NffEri raqrq, vg frrzf gung’f abg irel yvxryl).
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I agree with pretty much everything here.
Really annoyed about the lack of S16 puzzles. They were one of the highlights of AC2 and Brotherhood, for me.
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V qvqa’g pner nobhg nalguvat gung unccrarq ng nal cbvag va gur fgbel, ohg V 100%’q gur tnzr, fb V thrff V rawblrq vg. :S
Nofbyhgr svyyre gubhtu. Abguvat ng nyy va guvf fgbel gung vf tbvat gb pbashfr crbcyr jub tb fgenvtug sebz Oebgureubbq gb NP3.
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Asjdfklbjkadsf ashdioasl’f ij kdsafjh isao wkjl dshianew klds iosahjklws dhjk uhdusifnej huo u uhem jdhf ugajenla jh ugsd.
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What the hell language is this in? 😛
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It’s called Finger-Smashish. Only a few people know how to speak it, and even fewer know how to write it, but I’ll let you in on a little secret, you write it by thinking about what you want to say while smashing your fingers all over your keyboard. 😛
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Ah thanks. I ran it through the translator, and your ideas intrigue me. I would like to subscribe to your newsletter, though I suspect that it might be deliberately broken 😛
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Yay I love these codes!
On Desmond…
V unir gb nqzvg gung V’ir npghnyyl fgnegrq gb yvxr gur Qrfzbaq’f Wbhearl frtzragf. Gung’f abg gb fnl gung V qba’g guvax gurl’er ubeevoyr svyyre gung qba’g nqq zhpu gb Qrfzbaq’f onpxfgbel (V zrna jung qvqa’g jr nyernql xabj sebz gubfr frtzragf?) naq vg whfg xvaq bs raqf noehcgyl. Ohg V yvxrq gur jnl gurl oyraqrq tnzrcynl jvgu aneengvir ng fbzr cbvagf (crbcyr pvgr gur qvtvgny evire va gur guveq frtzrag n ybg va gung ertneq). Cyhf, V yvxrq gur pyho zhfvp va gur sbhegu frdhrapr. Vg’f whfg n funzr gung gurl qvq gurfr va svefg crefba jvgu n pbhcyr bs enaqbz cubgbtencuf ynmvyl cynprq va fbzr xrl nernf – V nyjnlf gubhtug jr’q or npghnyyl eryvivat Qrfzbaq’f zrzbevrf.
Gurer ner gubfr gjb oebxra cvyynef gung ercnve gurzfryirf ng gur raq bs gur tnzr, gubhtu. Naq gurer jnf n yrnx erpragyl gung unq fbzr vagrerfgvat qvnybthr gung, vs gehr, jbhyq npghnyyl znxr ‘Eriryngvbaf’ n jbegul gvgyr, juvpu, vs gehr, znxrf zr sehfgengrq gung vg jnfa’g cneg bs gur bevtvany eryrnfr.
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What leak?
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^ROT26
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I don’t have the link on me, sorry. It was something I saw posted on the Ubisoft forums and those are down for maintenance for the next week or so. Without spoiling it entirely, it involved fbzr qvnybthr sebz Fhowrpg 16, be znlor vg jnf pbairefngvbaf orgjrra uvz naq Yhpl, V pna’g rira erzrzore. Naljnl V jba’g npghnyyl fnl jung gur ovt ‘erirny’ zvtug unir orra ohg vgf dhvgr vagrerfgvat naq V qb fbzrjung ubcr vg vf gehr.
Meanwhile I just realised that I barely remember what it was actually about. I think that’s a good thing, because I’d rather experience these things in the game itself than reading them online.
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I did think the river and club music were well done, actually.
But overall I really disliked those bits. Way too much filler, finicky controls and far too little guidance.
If they intend to replace the glyphs and puzzles with stuff like that, I think it’s a really poor move. There was more content in one puzzle than all the conversations in those sections in Revs.
I’m working my way through at the moment and whilst it is fun, probably not really my type of game. Up to Act/Segment thingie 3 or something at the moment.
Serrels is forcing himself to like olives. The White Ninja is forcing himself to like olives. Coincidence? I think not. Serrels is obviously the White Ninja.
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Man, that video of Serrels eating an olive… Wow, he look like he’s at deaths door at the start of it…
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I love olives, especially ones stuffed with feta and anchovies
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I FOUND A PANDA-EARS BEANIE IN SHANGHAI.
LIFE GOAL COMPLETE. THIS IS UNBELIEVABLY AWESOME.
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dood! you got an email addy I can reach you on?
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aidandullard (at) gmail (dot com)
I’m here until the 20th, then Beijing and Xi’an for a while.
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Hey guys… I got into the Tribes Ascend Beta… but my laptop, as usual, just misses out on the system requirements, so it would be stupid of me to waste DL bandwidth on a game that probably won’t run..
therefore – who wants my spot?
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What on earth is tribes, heard a few people talking bout it lately, but been too busy with skyrim to pay attention to much else in life other than work.
Stop breaking TAY!
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Indeed. Everyone knows by now what breaks it. If you have a comment with links or a stupidly long one you know it will be moderated so don’t reply to it! It’s a simple thing that will save us much frustration, not to mention much unnecessary padding of TAY with discussion on said brokenness.
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This. I’m in a bad mood about other things, but might as well add this to the list. TAY works best when it’s not broken. Stop breaking my TAY 🙁
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Okay, fine I’ll stop doing it. I knew you guys would get sick of it soon enough 🙂
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Yay!
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Yeah, I must agree. It’s gone from being mildly funny to just annoying now.
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I’m getting really riled up by the pro-torrent comments in the piracy article, especially by Chazz (if you’re reading this, Chazz, I think you are absolutely and entirely wrong, and a bit of a condescending self-entitled **** too).
(Yep, I’m really mad, I just said ****)
As someone who hopes to one day make the entirety of his income from royalties, I have a strong interest in the topic of intellectual property.
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This is one of those issues where there’s enough right on both sides that people will continue to argue themselves hoarse about it because each of them believe they are right, and both sides are, in a way, and if the opposing sides could see and understand each others point of view then maybe they could work together to figure out a solution. The arguing is pointless because it just goes round in circles.
Anyone who says “Que?” to try and make themselves look smarter in an argument is an asshat though.
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Pretty much this. I can’t be bothered going back to the article to make my point, because both arguments are valid.
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As someone who is trying to enter into the entertainment industry in particular film and t.v I totally agree with you Shane. I don’t know an awful lot about copyright law and piracy apart from illegally downloading a few movies in the past (refuse to do it now out of principle, and my cousin telling me off for it lol) but I am learning about it at the moment and its all very hectic Anyway I was going to post two things but i thought they might be a bit late and i couldnt figure out where to write them exactly. So if your in an argument war here are two more points against piracy (if they havent already been mentioned)
Peter Townsend on piracy “If someone pretends that something I have created should be available to them free, they may as well come and steal my son’s bike while they’re at it. I wonder what has gone wrong with human morality and social justice.”
^ thats more directed towards music piracy but I agree with the general statement.
If I created a game spent hundreds of hours with a team of how ever many people and spent lots of money on this project creating something from an Idea that i have had, and someone claims that they deserve this for free they are basically saying that everything on earth should be free as everything is a creation from an Idea. And if it cost money to re create a patent (which i believe is just an idea in writing lol) into something, then why should games be any different?and something my friend told me recently,
The ability to reproduce media easily without noticeable cost is in no way related to the intrinsic value of a product. Conforming to the literal definition of theft is unrelated to the act of depriving the creator of just compensation. The argument a pirate “wouldn’t have bought it otherwise” is invalid since their unwillingness to compensate does not entitle them to deprive someone else of their just compensation.everything i have said could just be waffle and you can all laugh at me for not entirely understanding the situation yet still commenting.
Also i know everyone probably agrees that the entertainment and sporting industry are full of over paid individuals but
“if your good at something never do it for free”-
These points are considerably more intelligent and intelligble than the opposing, and win the argument in my opinion.
Alas, Strange is right. It’s just a lot of pointless headclashing, because people will always find justification for things they feel entitled to.
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Yeah strange is definetly right. Unfortunatly “Arguing for Argument sake” and “Justifying things Anyway I can Because I can” have been around for ever even before the internet. Its why you never bring up politics at a dinner party with anyone over the voting age. lol
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Here’s the link BTW, I think the argument ended last night, but I still posted a few things this morning: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/01/games-lawyer-doesnt-understand-why-people-hate-piracy-prosecution
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this one really annoyed me so i had to write something lol
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/01/games-lawyer-doesnt-understand-why-people-hate-piracy-prosecution/#comment-496655-
Love it. lol
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I think most people are guilty of piracy even if they think they are not doing anything wrong. I as a musician really hate piracy…yet still commit acts of it on occasion. its really bad, but we have become such a selfish society. We want everything now, and we want it free (if not very cheap)
Same reason why i bought an xbox. Means i cant pirate unless i mod, and if i mod i cant paly online. I love online. So i pay for games. Means there is no way i can just get lazy or self justified in doing something i know is wrong. Problem is, someone always finds a way to get around these checks and safe guards.
I pirate and I do so frequently and without remorse.
The main reason I pirate is because the content providers have made it too difficult for me to give them money. Their service is simply inadequate. Make it easy for me to legally access the content and I’ll stop pirating in a heartbeat.
I torrent basically all of my TV shows because the Australian networks are abysmal. I torrent books for my Kindle because I don’t want to have to pay for the same thing twice in a different format (I buy them off of Book Depository so that I have a physical copy).
I don’t torrent games because Steam makes PC gaming easily accessible and it’s relatively painless to hand over money to JB or OzGameShop (although the wait can suck).
I’m also a massive consumer of media. I own hundreds of DVDs, BluRays, games and books. All legitimately purchased.
I’m not saying that piracy is right or that I am even close to the average example. Just that I know this isn’t a black and white issue.
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You are one of the few who have the guts to admit to pirating and for that I salute you.
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Did you forget a /s at the end there? :p
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I do it as well, i have no real reason for it except that i want to watch things now rather than later. I understands both sides of the arguement, But i really don’t have a view on it. Yes it hurts the industry and yes it is illegal. But it isn’t gonna stop people from doing it. Also game piracy is just dumb, i agree with bunny on that Steam offers a perfectly good way to buy games quickly and without hassle.
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It both helps and harms the industry. The whole issue is rather complex.
Here’s Neil Gaiman’s take on things. He’s partly right, having the product widely available is going to get you more loyal fans. Those are the people that are going to generate money. They gleefully promote the product to their friends and will hastily fork over money when something new comes out.
It does rely on the product being very good. Neil Gaiman is in the fortunate position of being one of the greatest living writers around, so any increased exposure to his work will mean that he makes more money.
Trent Reznor from Nine Inch Nails has done pretty well for himself after leaving the major record labels over disputes about how much they were charging customers. After Year Zero was released, he was touring in Australia and found out that the CD was selling for $40.
He wasn’t happy. Told people at a concert to pirate everything.
Then he released Ghosts I-IV for $5 on his website, with more expensive copies available (pay $X get a physical disk, artbook, pay $Y get a limited edition vinyl etc). Made a killing. The album was also licensed in such a way that you could simply download it without paying.
It made an obscene amount of money and we all know how well he’s doing these days.
Both of those are rare examples of already successful people making their product more readily available to increase their fanbase. Yet I think the underlying principle of getting your product out there and getting exposure is something that needs to be focused on more. It’s definitely more important than getting as much money from each individual sale.
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This is very true. I have given away quite a few free copies of my book to attempt to build a loyal fan base. And for someone like Neil Gaiman, who must be living very comfortably off his existing royalties, something like this would not be too big an issue.
In contrast, I expect my first royalty check (covering six months of sales) to be about $100. Every copy out there that’s not the product of a sale has reduced my take-home pay by a full 1.5%. That’s a big deal.
It might (might) pay off in the long run, but not if sales are so poor that I can’t get myself a contract to keep writing.
TL;DR: Established artists with solid incomes can afford to experiment with discounted and free digital distribution. First-timers and indies like me really can’t so much.
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Well it’s hard to find examples of first-timers making lots of money :p Aside from those random flash in a pan writers who somehow make $200,000 in a month from Amazon and then disappear.
The content producing game is a long-term proposition. Most writers are lucky to make any money for quite some time and piracy has very little to do with that. It’s a lot of work to make this stuff and even more work to convince people to view it.
It’s a complex issue that I have little experience in and have had nowhere near enough coffee to debate properly. The short version is that the initial cost of entry is high (if not money, then time and opportunity). Publishers will try to pay for that cost but if they don’t see a return on their investment, then they will cut you loose.
Sales are only one of many factors, but they’re the most visible one.
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Well put. I download shows like the Walking Dead, Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones. Why? Because it takes ages for it come to australia, and when it does, it’s probably infested with ads. Besides, I buy the boxsets for these shows.
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Actually Breaking Bad was airing on ABC2, ad free.
I was just more than a season behind :p
What’s worse is that the lengthy delays in airing these shows is what delays the legimate DVD/BR sales. They can’t sell the DVD/BR for a season that hasn’t aired yet, it’s part of the whole distribution agreement. So TV stations over here are screwing us over more ways than one.
I agree with you strange and i understand your point completley.
however are you unintentionally punishing the content creator for a problem caused by the content provider (australian tv networks) or lack thereof.
In the Case of content not actually being provided maybe we should create our own network/piggyback off another and provide the missing content. Aside from obvious royalties All I see coming from that is profit lol.
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Um, why are you addressing me on this? I never mentioned I agreed with either side of the argument. :S
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i have no idea lol. Im sorry That was meant to be for Trjn o.0
Your pics are a similar colour and Im tired, thats my only reasoning lol
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But my picture has a bunny in it!
I’d love to setup a network that provided content locally. It’d be amazing to be able to provide this stuff in a way the properly compensates the creators without screwing over the consumers.
Just let me know how I can do it :p
And yes, I know that I’m punishing the content creators. Indirectly. I think the content distributors are the ones doing the damage though by denying willing customers the opportunity to compensate the creators.
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I got a cousin who works in One HD. I vote we demand she lets us in the Switch room while she is doing some un-important sporting event like wimbledon or summer olypics and then put on shows we want to watch that are not already available in Australia. Then we Head to the Finance room and take a big check worth 40-50% of the money and send it to the developers of our shows we aired and keep the left overs 😀 Win win for everyone!!
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When I want to watch a TV show that isn’t available here, I buy it off iTunes using my US account. I presume there’s also a way to do it via Amazon or any other paid digital streamers. The content makers still get their money, no one gets screwed. If that’s not an option, I import the DVDs as soon as they’re released.
Personally, I don’t consider your arguments sufficient justification, but that’s probably just me.
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Look, neither of us is going to be able to convince the other that they’re right on this one. You might not think my reasons are that great but I still think that there has been a complete failure from the content providers to make their product easily accessible.
A rule of business that I think is rather important: make it as easy as possible for customers to give you money.
Right now, there is a lot of jumping through hoops for people like us to be able to access content legitimately. We either have to wait for a local release or fake our way into the US/UK/wherever access (how many people proxy into Hulu/BBC’s iPlayer?).
While I don’t have a right to the content, they wouldn’t have made any money from me anyhow. At least, not until the local release where I would gladly shell out cash for the product. But I’m not necessarily getting the full content if I have to wait for it. Not when there is a world of online discussions that I’m forced to ignore.
I don’t think piracy is right but that won’t stop me.
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Agreed. I wasn’t going to take it any further – we’ve each put forward our viewpoints
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I do have a question for you, Shane: isn’t having a US account in Australia illegal too? Don’t you have to falsify information in order to get one?
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In all probability this is correct, but I feel that if I want to access content that’s not available here, I still have a responsibility to the creators to ensure they are properly compensated.
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Ah, see even if I lie to myself and tell myself it’s okay to torrent TV shows because they’re shown on free-to-air TV, things like Game of Thrones throw a spanner in the works because I’m pretty sure it’s on a pay-to watch channel. I then try and justify it to myself by saying I’ll buy the DVDs/Blu-Rays but in all honesty I can rarely afford boxsets.
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I had an interesting and surprising discussion with some friends of mine and think that the TV networks might have left it too late to release on competitive online service.
These people had just spent the last couple of hours talking about the shows they like, one was taking two weeks off and was listing the shows that they had set aside to watch during that break.
But when I brought up if they would be willing to pay for a service that provided immediate access to shows at a low cost (50c – $1 an ep) they said no, because there perceived cost of these show is $0.
They did say that they should be shown on a TV network free but that they should be able to take all the ads out (also free of charge)
When non technical people (banking/hospitality workers) download and have a perceived cost of free for the product the industry has an issue
Hey guys! Happy New Year!
Doing my usual lurking thing, plus browsing from a phone, made me not get involved in the discussion yesterday (as much as I might have wanted to).
I’ve got to say that these discussions always seem to get into the same end-circle of “lol, show me 110% irrefutable proof, oh, and I won’t accept it because I’ll say there’s a 0.000001% chance it’s wrong, and therefore disregard the whole argument” as well as “You’re only pirating because you’re CHEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP!” – no matter what the best intentions were are the start, or how many good and logical points people on both sides raised. It seems doomed that internet-idiots will pile onto a mature discussion and bring it down to those two areas.
I do have to say I was sorely tempted to just reply with hotlinks to each of the Derailing for Dummies points people were pretty much spouting. I have to say that disregarding someone’s entire logical construct – which seemed to be strong enough to be unchallengeable to those on the other side – because they used a rape analogy really did take the cake, however. It really did read like: “Wait…that logic, it’s too strong! Oh! They mentioned rape! Let me derail and call them an abhorrent person. Woo, winning!”
Piracy is an amazing complex issue, and obviously you’re going to have self interested parties for the extremes of both sides trying to wade in there and pretend that their view is the only right view. Both shit me to tears.
However, I have to say that Alex’s contributions and the manner of communication were fantastic, even if people want to debate the merits of his argument – he kept it mature and civil.
I’ll be nomming him for Kudos this week for simply bringing some maturity and tenacity to an argument that most commenters would rather have tell them that what they’re doing is not only not illegal and totally justified, but is making them moral crusaders for the rights of children gamers yet to be born.
It’s not easy keeping civil and providing logical and mature comments in the face of that.
Oh god I get in of a morning, to a broken tay! Oh Noes! 🙁
I have no idea how you guys break TAY but please stop, It is so annoying. Not looking at anyone in particular.
*glares at lambo.
**i really don’t know who did it so i am not blaming anyone!
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Seriously? You really don’t know who did it? I am disappoint…
But yeah, I should probably stop doing it…
But it’s so much fun, DAMMIT! 😛-
It’s not fun for everyone else, Lamb. 🙁
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it was lambo
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Yeah! Not Chuloopa and/or I
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so this was linked on twitter today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0Kzp6PV4n8
What an utterly worthless piece of pap!
I’ve never seen this show before, but if this is anything to go by, man what a waste of internets lol
Like ok, i can take a joke, and if anyone loves mindless/smutty jokes around these parts, it’s me. But to go on and on for 5 minutes and further add to the stereotype that male gamers are infantile morons whom not only seem INSANELY desperate, but also adding to the idea that when a male gamer hears the word “female”, or any varient of, the first reasction is “ZOMG BOOBS!” or “SEX FOR THE SEX GOD!!!”
/rant
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I took an executive decision not to watch it, but can only assume that they did their research on the COD servers.
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I’m surprised its not from the chong show.
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I watched one of those champchong episodes once because it was in my youtube feed.
He stated very clearly that Girls are not and can not be gamers unless you count kinect, wii, playstation move or facebook games. And something about facebook games being the only games girls actually play. I will never watch his channel again. Maybe he was joking. I dont care I wanted to punch him in the face.
Morning Di11 is angry Di11. Di11 needs food. Di11 shut up now.
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Serious? Wow, can I join the punch-chong queue over here? Damn, looks like I’ll have to wait a while.
He seems like a giant douchebag.
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NOTE: If you count zombiefarm and other Farmville-like games then my mother plays games more than I do.
The more you know.
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My mum has clocked 100+ hours in plants vs zombies, and ignored the other 50 games in the PopCap collection I got her.
I sort of feel like I’m at fault for something bad here.
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No no, you should be praised for making your mum into a ‘l33t gamerz’
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So TAY’s still broken, huh? Nice.
Anyway, today is my birthday! I can now add Deus Ex and Saints Row 3 to my pile of shame. Its not a big pile of shame, and I have plenty of time to go through them, but its a pile nonetheless. I’m quite torn between what I should play first, really. Might muck about a bit in Saints Row first, although I’ve been hanging onto Uncharted 3 for a week now…
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Today is the best day of the year for being pantsless. Embrace it.
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But, but I got these new pants from my dad and I wanted to wear them!
Oh well, I suppose today is the best day to wear the birthday suit, after all.
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Happy birthday man. I have saints and day sex on my pile of shame too!.. also arkham city and skyrim and some other stuff.
But like you, I stocked up when i could and now am happy to slowly work through them.
have a good day.
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Its kind of nice to have a few games you want to get through, instead of wanting to play something but being bored because you’ve finished everything already.
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Happy Birthday AlexPants! Consume many cakes. Many.
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Happy Birthday 😀
Do everything Pantsless! today is the best day for it.
When I say Pantsless I mean wear nothing! or maybe a kilt. -
oh wow, man had i known, i mean i, i am so unprepared
*clears throat*
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, YOU LOOK LIKE A MONKEY…AAAAND YOU SMELL LIKE ONE TOO
here have some… erhm
*looks around*
dirt… fresh dirt…
happy birthday mr. Ex-Pants 😀
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Happy birthday, Alex! January’s the best time for ’em! 😀
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Happy birthday Alexpants! Be sure to enjoy many a cake whilst not wearing pants. Just don’t eat any hot food without pants, if you spill stuff, it could end very badly.
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ZOMG!!! HAPPY ZOMBIE-FLIPPING BIRTHDAY!!! :D:D:D:D
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Happy Birthday, mate!
I finished Portal 2 SP last night… I am glad I picked this as my GOTY… Picked it up for 9 bucks in a steam sale and I can now see it was well worth the 80 odd bucks on day 1. Such a well put together game, great story, fantastic voice acting and writing.. funny and very satisfying.
10/10 for sure. Really couldn’t fault that game at all.
I am only about half way through co-op but now im finished with SP i’ll polish that off soon with my cousin.
I know im late, but just had to jump in and say what a quality game that was.
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I am someone who bought the Orange Box in 2011 and played through Portal dutifully. I give it a 9.5 for concept, but 6/10 for overall enjoyment.
Question to you: Would I enjoy Portal 2?
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yes…
that is all…
yes…
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It depends. Do you enjoy robots with British* accents rambling at you for extended periods of time?
I loved Portal 2, but sometimes, Wheately just grated on my nerves. We get it, you are adorably British! Can you shut up for a while.
*If it is not British, and actually something more specific than that, please scold me in a comment below!
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Some criticize Portal for lacking some of the more complex puzzles of the first game, but story and character wise it’s a giant improvement. If you’re into the story of the world you won’t be disappointed. (I kind of dig the puzzles too.)
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The real question is: Do you like awesome? If so, you’ll like Portal.
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Yes you would
Portal two is more the complete game, with all the spit and polish you would expect of a AAA release. It is like the released game from the tech demo that was portal
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Thanks everyone. I am currently on a game-spending embargo, but will look for it in bargain bins when my credit card returns from exile! 🙂
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Dont feel too far behind, i only just picked it up also. Not finished yet (skyrim got in the way) But yes, the whole game is such a brilliant re imagining of the first one. Its got all the core mechanics and general environment we learnt to love, but with a ton more spice. 🙂
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the game has got CAVE JOHNSON… ’nuff said 😛
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Mumbojumboau Diary Day 5.
Yesterday I got off to a good start with some Super Mario 3d Land. Up to the “special” levels and just trying to increase my coin count. Think I have over 200 but need 220 or 240 to finish the game.
Later in the day saw a return to Alien Swarm with our very own lamboman, the crazy troll, who of course pulled out at the last second. But I continued on with two other mates from school. Thoroughly enjoyed it, we finished the entire campaign in a breeze. I think I only died about 20 million times. Anecdote; does every Valve game have headcrabs?
Then went on to finish the day with VVVVVV or V as I call it. Very hard game from the start with steep a difficulty curve but an enjoyable experience nonetheless. Saved all the crew and went on to the final levels but can’t get any further. I’m considering this one finished.
Which goes onto my master plan. It’s been 3 weeks and 6 days since I last bought a game. I plan to finish ALL my games before I buy anymore. I expect this to take a year to do. My pile of shame contains but is not limited to: Crysis 2, Castlevania, 3D Dot heroes, Skyward Sword, Deus Ex, Demon’s Souls, Dragon Age, Lost Planet 2, Heavenly Sword, Skyrim, Batman AC, Shift 2, Dirt 3, Sly Trilogy, Rage, etc etc. Will get there eventually.
ICKUM BOCKUM!
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having just complete my first playthrough of dragon age myself, i’d say you properly wanna make that one a priority… my god man dat game… i think that is the first game i have played where i was so emotionally attached to certain characters… i mean Mass Effect sure, but not to the same level as Dragon Age….
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Every time I see your user name I feel compelled to say this:
Mumbo? Perhaps. Jumbo? Perhaps not.
There. It’s out of my system now. Carry on. 😉
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A bit of a random question but is that David Tennant in your display pic?
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Good spot, I believe it is, Mumbo is now the best TAYbie until another person has david tennant as their avatar!
* Not really everyone knows i am the best TAybie 😛 or maybe Bish
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SNORLAAAAAX
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Go Terrible ratatta number 3, surely he will do the job!
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No. Massive doctor who fan, especially Tenet but this was actually a photoshop i did ages ago.
Robbie Williams – Intensive Care Album cover http://www.google.com.au/m/search?site=images&source=mog&hl=en-GB&gl=au&client=safari&q=intesive%20care%20album&sa=N#i=0
And then i slipped a pic of me over the top.
Will try and find the original image of me, its… Amusing.-
Heres the original picture of me. Dont laugh
http://i.imgur.com/TFc9t.jpg-
LAUGH LAUGH LAUGH
Sorry, I can’t help it. -
I cracked a grin but that’s all kinds of awesome!
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Oh, so you’re school age too? Or are those just friends you met when you were at school? 🙂
Sorry I had to pull out. I don’t think I would have been much help anyway 😛-
Been out of school for a few years now. Must play terraria together at some point
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Enchantment?
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My name is mumbojumbo. It’s been 3 weeks and 6 days since I last bought a game. My wallet stopped trembling yesterday. I feel like I’m on the road to recovery. Spending money feels like a choice now, not a compulsion. The power is mine.
😛
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Its sad how true this is. the mrs used to budget for video games spenditure for the week
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*Grabs notepad and pen*
How’d you get her to agree to that???
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Lol. Yeh, dont mean to brag but she plays co op with me, borderlands, portal 2, modern warfare spec ops, Resi evil 5, just to name a few 😉 shes pretty damn good at them 2
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Brag away. I got my wife into Mario Kart Wii briefly, hoping to get into some real gaming with her, but she just doesn’t have the interest.
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(Though she has other nice qualities that somewhat mitigate this disappointment)
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good save (just incase she reads it) 😛
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DARK SOULS UPDATE:
Didn’t play it last night, was too busy eating cheese with my Maltese cousin.
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Thats pretty weak. Have you not heard of ADHD…i mean, multi tasking?
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I feel like there’s a joke about cheese, Maltesers and chocolate to be made.
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If you can find a corelation between those objects in a amusing way go for it man, I however cannot think of anything!
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ohhhhh mannnn… i sooo read that wrong.
I felt REALLY awkward for a moment
Lambo – just so you know – I was breaking TAY before it was cool
*Adjusts thickly rimmed glasses*
pffft, like, whatever
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Look if you want to have a contest to see has the most trolling ability i am all for it, we will call it the trollypics
Ok, random question. but does anyone know a “safe” place to get emotes. I got a new work pc, and forgot to back them all up. My MSN feels naked.
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The only place i got them from when i used to use msn was from other people. I had this awesome dancing bannana who said LOL, i miss him everyday
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Dude I had that Banana! So awesome that and a dancing pair of smiley heads who get squished by a giant LOL
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Back up for just a second…
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Exactly what I was wondering.
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It gets even better….we use it for WORK! yet some how the amount of adult content i received from clients and co workers was amazing. But yes, we are expected to have clients and product managers and well, everyone inthe company on our msn.
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what exactly do other people use instead of msn? Dont say social networking. coz i hate that for a conversation.
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…Going and talking to people?
Also Yammer.
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Shane, given your obsession with demon souls of which I wholeheartedly approve, I was wondering if you had all the art book and soundtrack and such assorted goodies?
If not, would you like to?
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I … have not.
Di11enger gave me the Ltd Ed content for Dark Souls, which guilted me into wanting to try Demon’s Souls, which Strange generously bought for me… but alas, it was the vanilla edition. Cheap, cheap, cheap (kidding!) 😛
TL;DR: Yes please! Can you email me shane AT shanewsmith DOTCOM please? I’ll send a copy of The Lesser Evil (or more) as recompense!
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You know I actually did try and find the limited edition, seeing as it was priced the same when it first came out, but I couldn’t find it anywhere online.
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If you just get it anywhere then it wouldn’t be limited then would it 😛
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Heh. 🙂
Actually, when it was released in Australia the only version available was the “limited” version.
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Now I appeciate the gesture twice as much, and even somewhat regret my joke!
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Hey Loops, have you checked out Demon’s Souls yet? *evil grin*
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nah i haven’t had a chance yet, unfortunately
Game have Lord of the Rings: War in the North CE for $45 today. Worth it?
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i’d buy it just for the rad statue.
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Playing it at the moment. Killed something big last night while watching batman, didnt even realise what it was until it died. (<–spoilerised version incase your mad keen on LoTR)
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Oh, it’s like $15.50 on greenmangaming.com
I might take my business there…
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Yeah I’ve pretty much worked out that if anything is on crazy sale here, it usually means that the publisher has slashed the price worldwide such that it’s on super-duper-round-the-twist-insane sale somewhere else in the world. e.g. Deus Ex PS3/360 was $38 online a couple of weeks ago from GAME, 10GBP~=$15 from Zavvi.
In short, even our sales are ripping us off 🙁
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Meanwhile on Steam…
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Morning TAY! Work is hell, but I’m slowing killing Santa, Stan, or whatever his name is, so I’ll be free eventually \o/
So I’ve made a decision: I’m going to write out my pile of shame, empty it, then buy The Old Republic. I’m anticipating this will be done by mid February, max, allowing time for work and other social buggery.
Does anyone know what’s happening with Australian players when the Australian servers come online? Free character transfer or some such?
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All they’ve said so far is that they are “looking into” solutions. I imagine (hope) they do free character transfers. Or heavily discounted. Or something. Infact, they should just send “The Switsure” and “Harbringer” over here.
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Yeah, that was the last thing I’d heard too. Here’s hoping it’s free transfer, cause I don’t wanna leave a character behind, or wait till the Australian server is up.
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I’m gearing up for a trip to Sydney this Sunday to watch the Apia International (Tennis :P). Should be fun! Last year (when it was called the Medibank International) was really cool, even though I didn’t really see anybody I actually could recognise. That’s what you get for going during Round 1, I guess…
It’s funny though that the only sport that I am at all interested in watching (on TV or real-life) is the Tennis. Everything else just bores me for some reason… Maybe it’s because I don’t really like team sports? I dunno, it’s weird.
Call me a geek, but WANT!!!!
http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/games/eb26/?srp=3#tabs
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Geek!*
*also wants
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haha i have not needed a full set of dice in such a long time, but they are pretty cool.
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Most I’ve ever needed concurrently was 4 for a weapon: d20 for the attack, d10 for the damage, d6 for the elemental damage, and d4 for the splash 😀
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High precision: For those times when it doesn’t land on a side? 😐
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These would make perfect Yahtzee dice! I’ll show old Mrs Goldstein how I roll with these babies!
Anyone know of any shops in Melbourne that might be lucky enough to still have Skylanders character packs in stock? Or is there any update as to when they will be generally available again?? I’m desperate (as I’m sure a lot of other people are!)
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I’ve heard they’re pretty much sold out all over the country.
My daughter is desperate to spend her Christmas and Birthday money on some more figures or maybe the pirate expansion but everyone keeps telling us we’ll have to wait until after the sales/stocktake. They were hugely popular for Christmas.
You remind me of the babe!
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What babe?
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The babe with the power!
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Who do?
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Wat do?
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You do!
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What?
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Remind me of the babe!
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I got this from my Reddit SS:
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BAHAHAHAHAHA AMAZING!
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probably the most well thought out christmas gift I got 🙂
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Stop talking about my wife that way.
Only saying that because I got her one of these http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/womens/e6cf/
Wow, Ozgameshop have stepped their game up: received my order in less than a week!
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Chuloopa had this yesterday. Could be the dawn of a great era for Aussie gaming! 😀
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yeah – i tweeted them to say thanks, in the form of “HOLY SHIT!”
They replied that they hope to keep it up too.
The guys at ozgameshop are really pushing for customer satisfaction
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Ozgameshop are selling Bulletstorm for around 15 bucks. I might have to jump on this bandwagon ASAP.
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That’s $5 with the voucher, buddy 😉
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Yeah but I was saving that for War for Cybertron when that gets back in stock….
maybe I’ll grab Bulletstorm and get WfC later anyways 😉Those vouchers have expiry dates?
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not as far as i know mate
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Shame there’s nothing I want to buy from them right now. I want to participate in this joy before it ends!
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pre-order, maybe?
you do have that voucher! 😛
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You just talked me into spending $110 (after the KKP voucher) 🙁
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Oh yeah. I got a R.A.T. 7 and a SteelSeries 4HD. Time to amp up my gamingz
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holy crap, dude! lol
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I was going to say that I hoped it goes as quick for me when I order Xenoblade Chronicles, Ico/SOTC HD or Ass:Rev from them this weekend but then I realised I don’t need them to post it quickly, and in fact probably shouldn’t even order anything yet because I leave for the US and 70000 tons of Metal in two weeks from tomorrow!!! I’m all excited now. 😀
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*mumbles something nasty under his breath*
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I was in the US almost exactly 1 year ago, visiting some friends. I miss it/them so much. Take me with you Strange? Pretty please? I’m not above begging, nor travelling in your luggage
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Where you going exactly in the U.S.? New York? That’s my most favourite place on the planet. 😀
Props to everybody in that LoL game last night. It was funs and I had many laughs. Think I’ll go back to HoN for the moment though!
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All this lack of being able to play is making me cry.
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Indeed. Was a fun, intense game.
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Practicing for a tournament. As for preferences, it depends on what mood I am in. If I want to relax I play LoL and when I’m feeling competitive I play HoN.
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hey harli can you give me more info into the main differences between the two games as I played Dota for some time but didn’t follow on after it.
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Sure, there’s nothing I’d love to do more! Prepare for some text, apologies if I get a bit carried away.
In terms of relation to the original DOTA game, HoN is pretty much an exact copy. Some DOTA heroes were ported over albeit with new names and skins (e.g. omniknight, witch doctor, sand king) and the mechanics are still all in place. Creep locations, map layout and items are all very similar, with a lot of them being carbon copies.
You still last hit, deny, tower damage is roughly the same etc. The only major difference is heroes and items – I’d say the hon hero listing is made up of about 15-20% of DOTA heroes with the rest being supplemented by original new heroes.
LoL is a lot more different to DOTA. Items are completely different. Heroes are completely different. A lot of mechanics have changed – you can last hit but not deny, tower damage has been boosted, level cap lowered, map is very different. I think they have made LoL more streamlined to make is accessible to a larger player base and introduce it to people who have not played MOBA’s before because it lacks a lot of the complexities that made DOTA so challenging to pick up; it’s slower, there’s no starter items, no courier, no runes, MUCH lower lvl cap etc.
The result is a game that is slower paced and requires less timed tasking. That being said if you are an experienced DOTA player you should find the transition to LoL easy, and HoN almost exactly the same.
For more info you can checkout an article I wrote on MOBA titles HERE.
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Im just glad bish could forgive me. At least I hope he has o.0
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I MURDER YOU
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yeah when you killed me 7 times in the first game lol. I didnt realise you where all so good until i died repeatedly. I also dont know why I always go with veigar. I think its his voice, and the costume. Now all I need is to be good at him lol
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Steve-O has competition. Di11 you got a big challenge on your hands. 😉
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Steve-O uses veig? o.0 blast. oh well xerath looks sort of interesting…
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He doesn’t use Veig that often as far as I know, since I usually do the AP mid. But he does know how to use him and he does it well. Later game he can burst down almost any non-tank with his spell combo, pretty terrifying
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hmmm looks like ill be looking for a new non ap-mid hero.
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Dreaaaam teaaaaaam
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Haaah, I just re-read what I typed and it kind of comes off as “OH MAN I KILLED YOU SO MANY TIMES, TAKE THAT”. Not my intention, just making a joke. 🙁
That we’re good might be pushing it a bit though. IMO, Graves OP. He’s got too much burst for an AD carry, and is good at all stages of the game, even if relatively he’s not as good as others late game. Veigar’s more of a late game character, I think, with his nuking ability. Just farm that Q like a champ and you’ll be right, Dill!
I thought it was hilarious and well deserved 😀
For some reason Last night in the first game my Q mashing skills where Ok and appalling in the second lol Never faced a Graves before that actually fronted me in a team fight so obviously never played against a smart Graves until now lol. Will probably be on again tonight might ask you all for some pointers and such 😛 if thats ok
Did some team drama go down behind the scenes? Sounds juicy!
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I think it was just before you arrived and everyone witnessed it not just the team lol
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Id tell you harli but im afraid he might decide he is still angry and turn into the hulk
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TABLE FLIPPIN’
Haha, it’s cool. While we were setting up a game, I got a phonecall from my sister and said this in the lobby chat so they wouldn’t start while I was distracted.
Dill said something along the lines of “If she’s hot, can I talk to her?”
I replied with “:I”, as in colon-I (the letter) but I fear that with the sans serif font, “:I” leans towards :/ rather than a “Haha, wat” sort of feeling. -
You missed the funny part saying that she just had a baby and he said it was even better. Shame on you Dill*
* I thought it was hillarious!
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Haha, I missed that part!
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I MURDER YOU, DILL
Also I had lots of fun. there was alot of yelping coming from my microphone and lots of randoms, sorry to make you all put up with it :D. next time ill make sure i set push to talk lol
I was really surprised we made that comeback, I really thought we were finished when you got to our nexus turrets but we managed to hold then get some great engagements by our team and managed to push all the way back, taking down a few turrets at a time, then suddenly we got all your inhibitors and got all the way through. Intense!
I blame Braghmang and Rocketbuddy for everything.
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So Bish Co but i nullified techy early game and nearly killed him on a number of occasions. I thought i did well!
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I don’t think I saw you at all early game (to be honest, I didn’t see anyone at all early game, because I was busy, you know, farming and not ganking), but I gotta say, you’er getting better with those laser snipes and snares. I’m sure you were just blind firing your laser sometimes (some mad misses), but you caught half of our team a few times.
Good work, little buddy.
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Just sticking my head in here to say,
I finally played Portal 2 co-op, and OH MY GOODNESS. That game is amazing.
That’s all.
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Gah, I still need to play through the co-op, but I’ve got a friend lined up to play it with so hopefully we’ll both be online sometime this week to get it done
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Get it organised, mang. Co-Op is where the real Portal 2 game is.
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Also, I am finally up to the Kiln of the First Flame.
Feeling pretty boss right about now.
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Dat Frampt has some strange ways of transporting you around yah?
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With those teeth! I don’t know what’s worse, fighting beasts with the name “Ceaseless Discharge” and “Gaping Dragon”, or the thought of Frampt’s breath as he picks you up…
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I should add: I haven’t actually gone to the Kiln yet. I have killed all lord soul holders so I know I can, but I’m running about kindling bonfires, killing NPCs and farming for a bit. I know I want to do a lot of that and thought I’d space myself a bit. I did that for about three hours last night (really enjoyed it!) and think I am ready to give the Kiln what for tonight. Then more NG+ prep, then I’ll go take on the boss.
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Wow you beat them all already! Nice work son!
I’ve taken our Seath and am headed for Nito now.
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Wow, everyone’s going to finish before me. 🙁
I’m about to set foot in Sen’s Fortress for the first time. Who wants to take bets on how many seconds it takes me to die? 😛Also, today I was perusing the guide my husband gave me for Christmas(which I had actually forgotten I owned!), and discovered how to get to the Great Hollow. I’d heard about this place but it was not somewhere I could remember my husband going to so I’m very much looking forward to exploring somewhere completely unknown to me.
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Sen’s Fortress ain’t so bad, just tread lightly, backstab dem snakey bastards and keep an eye out for pressure plates.
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Farm in the kiln son. In the kiln. Only takes about 10mins per run, get a butt load of souls and chunks of every colour guaranteed.
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Also, also,
NY gaming resolution (as I suspect it is of many of us?) is to whittle away at the pile of shame. I’ve written a list. It’s long.
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Shameless gaming month in Feb 🙂
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That’s cruel for JRPG fans. Final Fantasy XIII-2 is out on Feb 2nd. It’s been getting excellent reviews too.
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HOLY CRAP!
After several days of work, the kotaku kristmas gift guide is finally ready for next week.
Can you guys believe i’m still spending most of my days working on KKP stuff? LOL
FOOK
I had a big day of gaming planned today. I just mowed the lawns, was going to pop down the shop for a few minutes and then get stuck in.. Wife has her sister here bajking cakes or some crap so this was perfect day.. until I get the call from daycare asking to get my son as he is sick!!!
Oh well, will have to spend the day watching Cars and Lion King…
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Maybe it’s time to teach your son the majesty of Trials HD. Make a gaming prodigy out of him 🙂
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C’mon man.. who do you think I am…
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Not The Lion King! You’ll be forced to endure hours of quality entertainment.
There is also the whole sick son thing.
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May I suggest Shaun the Sheep?
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We got our son a cheap TV with built-in DVD player from Dick Smiths for his bedroom because I was going insane from constantly having to be around his shows and movies. Worth every single cent.
This morning after breakfast he asked to be put back into his cot so he could watch a movie. \o/ -
Hell, for the Lion King I’d travel to wherever you are and take over watching your son so you can do whatever gaming you want. Nothing better than a good Disney marathon
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Plus, out of the freakin’ Disney vault, limited time only and all that. I saw it in 3D. Bought the Blu-Ray. Ten years of withdrawal cured. 😀
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I own a legitimate copy of the DVD from before it was put into the vault.
U jelly?
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Totally, but it’s alright, I think I needed that ten year break from The Lion King to get over the over exposure. 😀
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At least the Lion King is awesome.
Cars was terrible (though I know plenty who disagree) but tractor tipping is funny 🙂
Other notable kids movies you should watch must include Over The Hedge, quite possibly THE BEST non-Disney kids’ movie EVER.
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I watched Cars 2 the other day. Bad idea. Both for me, and for Pixar.
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Cars is my least favourite of the Pixar movies, but I still liked it. (Not enough to see the horrible looking sequel, though.) Plus its very existance is worth it solely for Radiator Springs being built at Disney California Adventure. http://www.westcoaster.net/updates.php?updateCD=010312&page=18
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Whatforth, adventurers!
Let me tell you a tale of my travels! I entered Woolworths with the intent of exchanging money for select goods, which is exactly what happened. However, when the checkout operator was refunding me back some currency after I had overpaid, we both had a hearty laugh!
http://i44.tinypic.com/6pvpuh.jpg
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hahahaha awesome!
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Don’t lie Bish, you did that yourself didn’t you? Didn’t you!!
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defacing legal currency… tsk tsk.
Holy Crap! Trauma Centre new blood is just $8 on OGS!
http://www.ozgameshop.com/wii-games/trauma-center-2-new-blood-game-wii
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Does it play anything like Second Opinion?
Because if it does, I think I’ll pass. The DS games are much better.
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With the KKP voucher that means THEY PAY YOU $2!
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haaha
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Who’s up for another attempt at some SC2 tonight?
Sure, most people are going to end up playing LoL but whoever actually plays some SC2 will be in for some fun.
Probably…
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Sorry Bunny buddy its TOO LATE last night was the only night I had free and when I ducked on they were all already playing LoL. ;P
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They’re always already playing LoL. That’s how TeamSpeak works :p
Oh well. Shame you won’t have a free night for the rest of your life. You’re going to miss out on so much fun.
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its not easy being me. /wrists
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I might be goaded into another go-around- hit me up on twitter when the fun begins. I might even install teamspeak in anticipation
Today I learned that Jim Carrey’s daughter was born the same day as me.
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HA now I know your birthday, all thats left is your real name and consider your identity STOLEN!
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Who would want to be a sarcastic mean old waskily Wabbit? 😛
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I quite enjoy being me.
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Dude i meant no offence thats why i did the:P. You arent allowed to be offended if i do that you idiot:P
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That’s not how it works.
When I say something mean, it’s okay because I don’t mean it. I never mean it. I just don’t care enough to mean it.
When you say something mean, you always mean it. Because you do care and aren’t allowed to be constantly sarcastic.
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It’s Hortence.
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I googled hortence because i was sure it wasn’t a real name. Apparently it is and it means garden. Why on earth would you want to call your spawn a garden for i will never know.
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It’s a good thing that you’re a terrible stalker then. I think most people can find my real name if they tried.
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OH wait i know your name!
ITs BATMAN
or is that Freyr
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I cant search for things or ask for them. I have to stumble across them for example in TAY you told us your birthday now im one step further forward!
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Well, it’s another piece of information that most people around here could work out if they particularly cared. People know my birthday because they all did the old “happy birthday!” thing on the day and people also know my age because it isn’t exactly information worth hiding.
Really, if you pay attention or care enough to look into these things, quite a lot of personal information is easily obtainable.
Good thing most people are lazy.
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Adam? ADAM RABBIT
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One time I was all “OH MAN HIS NAME IS ADAM WEST”, but it isn’t. I was very disappointed.
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yeah Id be too lazy to actually try and steal your identity lol
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Why don’t people get the concept of personal space. haha. I went to my local Westfield, waiting for someone so I stand as out of the way as possible. (So I didn’t block crowds.) Four people. FOUR randomly decided to stand centimetres from me and not even acknowledge I was there. Uncomfortable. That’s todays rant. To sum things up, I hate people.
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I am with you their buddy people suck!. We should for a gang formed soley on that fact and no one is allowed to join not even you because you are people 😛
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Fine by me as long as your gang doesn’t get in my gangs personal space. 😉
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Somebody has already had the same trouble you have
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWwqxwZzl9I
*language warning*
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That is why we have arms and legs. To move people out of our personal space.
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Flatulence accomplishes the same goal, and feels good while doing it too 🙂
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Nba 2K12 doesn’t allow the word “funk”… i am dissapoint…
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I swear Ive heard the commentator’s say it at least once when I dunked on someone o.0 that sucks 🙁
Two things:
Kodak are filing for bankruptcy:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-01-05/kodak-to-file-for-bankruptcy-report/3759196
And this… sure it’s happened before, but I still find it amazing:
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Give me a heart attack why don’t you? I thought you said Kotaku had filed for bankruptcy…
😛
New Razer Marauder KeyBoard Ordered
i know it’s novelty, but damn it’s going to look cool next to the spectre mouse and my new pc… you know… when it’s buit 😛
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I owned a pair of Banshees for a day.
Never again.
As for the keyboard, I’m sure that it’s pretty okay but I like my Ducky.
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as far as i am led to believe, it is basically a BlackWidow underneath, minus a few keys… i was massively impressed by the Spectre cause it looks uncomfortable but is actually a really really decent mouse, and i was used to the G5…
i just needed a new Keyboard, my old G15 (the oldschool blue light one) is slowly carcing it and it’s about time 😛
plus… mechanical keys \o/-
wait no, no mechanical keys /o\… but awesome back lighting \o/
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I dislike how most gaming peripherals light up. They just distract me.
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I use a mechanical keyboard too. They’re pretty awesome.
The hardest part is learning not to bottom out the keys when you’re typing (assuming you have Cherry MX Blue switches, not sure how brown/black/red switches are like) because the keystroke is registered much, much earlier than that.
Which is weird because when I’m using my Apple keyboard, I do type rather soft. It’s just that when I see that big hulk of black plastic, my mind thinks I must press more than I need to.
Tis weird.
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yeah, i honestly thought that it had mechanical keys, but apparently not… i’m sure i will live though, and i guess i won’t get murdered by my other half now when i’m playing due to excessive but oh so satisfying “C – L – I – C – K” each time i push a button… oh well 😛
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If you aren’t bottoming out the keys, they aren’t that loud.
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Youtube is showing ads for ‘The Change Up’, I find it hilarious that the best quote the trailer can manage is that the film is ‘a bit of a laugh’.
Watched Real Steel last night. That movie is boss. Really enjoyed it.
Also, Hugh Jackman manages to make me feel both completely inadequate as a man and strangely aroused all at the same time.
You know what game series needs to come back? Gex.
I’d like to know how they make that Darth Vader bun black… O.o
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/01/this-black-bun-darth-vader-burger-looks-more-awesome-than-the-phantom-menace/
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Coal mixed with ground up black dahlias.
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extra twenty minutes in the toaster, and you’re golden
… no longer 😛
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Your toaster is awfully inefficient. Mine can achieve that in about four and a half minutes.
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Go get a charcoal bun from Bread Top.
Then you will know the amazing taste of black bread.
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Oooh, I know. Sugar glaze hit by flamethrower!
Oooh, I know more. The bun is made out of discarded tires!
Now, I’m not a sports person, but even I’m impressed with Michael Clarke’s current score.
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He playing Geometry Wars again?
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Pup’s doing alright for himself apparently.
Just had a look, he’s sitting on the 15th highest runs in an innings at the moment.
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Australia just declared with Clarke at 329.
WTF mate.
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Still had plenty of time for him to go for Hayden’s 380 score 🙁 Or at LEAST Taylor’s 3rd position.
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Taylor/Bradman’s equal third*
I’m amazed that he called it with just 6 runs needed to get ahead of those two. What’s another fifteen minutes before going for the win?
And you can bet this decision was made because he wants the result.
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Yeah, he’s such a bastard putting the team’s win above his personal record. Geez, what a douche. 😛
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It’s a symbolic team move.
The team doesn’t need him to forgo the record in order for them to win. Another fifteen minutes at the crease would have secured 335+ and still given them plenty of time this afternoon.
I fully understand that he was saying “my record isn’t important, let’s win this thing”, which is admirable. It’s just damned unnecessary.
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It’s possible he didn’t want to break Bradman’s record. After all, remember that Tubby pulled up stumps when he reached it so he wouldn’t break it
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(Don’t know if anybody will read this now but) the difference there was that Bradman’s score was the highest by an Australian at the time, and Taylor didn’t want to surpass that. Once Hayden went past it and scored 380 in 2003, that milestone lost most of its significance (IMO).
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Afternoon guys, how are we all doing today?
I see Clarke finally got his 3 centuries against India in the test. Australia’s now got something like 3x as many runs as those Indians do, ha!
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What do you mean “Those Indians”. 😛
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Those particular Indians who make up the current touring test cricket team.
As opposed to the other 1.21 billion Indians-
Yeah, what he said!
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I mentioned this on the last page but this is starting to bug me.
Why do so many gaming peripherals have lights all over them? The one that particularly bugs me are the PC cases with the clear side and a rainbow of coiled LED strings are chucked in there. Or the fans with lights on them.
Why dammit?
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Couldn’t agree more, I like to turn out the lights and the room to be dark, get immersed in the game and only the game. Not the same with flurescent blue flashing.
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My keyboard has three lights on it. Caps lock, Num lock and Scroll lock. The only one that is ever on is Num Lock, which has the light come through the key.
I put the Escape key where the Num Lock key was so that I didn’t see the light (my keyboard came with a couple of custom keys and I put one of those in place of the Escape key).
Shutup, what I said does make sense!
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I broke the lights on my old keyboard just so I wouldn’t have to deal with any lights at all (tape over all other lights after that). Neon cases etc are madness.
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Because PURDY COLOURS
Yeah, not a big fan.
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Big fan or little, they all seem to have lights 😛
#cwhatididthere
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Because we love the shinies
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And yet you didn’t style your hair DBZ style while you were blonde.
Kids these days.
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It’s one of those things that make me feel as though my life will be forever incomplete.
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“Feel”, don’t you mean “realise and accept”? :p
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This is my #1 complaint with just about every bit of ‘enthusiast’ PC kit. LEDs everywhere. It’s so damned tacky. I hate things glowing all over the place, I have my PC in my room and like to be able to sleep.
I like my hardware to be clean and elegant, not tacky and full of bling. I look at something like the NZXT Phantom case and it’s lovely… but those blue lights. And the window which will cause all the lights on the motherboard to bleed out… 🙁
I should move to my own place where I can have my PC in a different room and then the problem wouldn’t be a problem I guess.
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I HAte the lights on certain peripherals but i think if they are done sparingly on the cas it makes it look that little more zazzy. My PC has the fan light on the very front and i think it looks fine. Blue and red and green lights look a bit tacky though. Don’t get me started on alienware stuff either!
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Because blue makes things cooler and red makes things go faster, both qualities you want in computer-related items.
Trust me, I got a 50 in Physics 1A, so clearly one of those things is true.
Hey Morf I wrote you a reply on the main differences between LoL and HoN back on page!
I got my GAME advertising email. Usually I delete as junk, but looked at this one, and it said “You have $15.02” to spend in any GAME store. Where did that come from? I have no idea.
Then I logged into my DAZ3D account and found $12.03 credit. Where did that come from? Again, no idea.
Also, it’s payday. Lovely.
People are just throwing money at me today. I like it. Anyone else want to give it a go? 🙂
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I’ve got some coins in my pocket but I don’t think I can throw that far.
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Just face roughly in the dirrection of Canberra and throw shit.
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Sentiment appreciated anyway 🙂
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Following on from the bitching about LEDs (but a rather separate issue), the store I buy my PC parts from recently started stocking Gunnar glasses.
I mentioned this on TeamSpeak but I actually like the idea behind these. If you sit in front of a computer all day and struggle with eye strain, something like this could be rather excellent. They make you look like a douche, what with the yellow lenses and all (although they do come with clear lenses too) but if they work and you suffer from this ailment it doesn’t seem like a terrible idea.
The weird thing is that I actually looked these up recently before finding out that the local store stocks them (they’re in the monitor section, in case anyone cares how I found them). TotalBiscuit was streaming SC2 and playing with Catz.
Catz always wears these glasses and is pretty evangelistic about them. TB mentioned that he’s just received a pair. Doesn’t know anything about them but he seems to have the same idea as me. If you have this problem and they solve it, then they’re a pretty okay product.
Still, “Gaming”. I really dislike “gaming” peripherals.
The only gaming peripheral I own for my PC is the mousepad and that’s because Razer was the only company that sold a big enough mousepad (which I only use a fraction of because I like high sensitivity). Everything else just happens to also function rather well for gaming, by virtue of functioning well at most things.
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I have no qualms with being a gamer. I rather dislike being marketed to by someone who thinks that a gamer is one of those totally radical kids from the 90s that never grew out of that phase.
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I looked at those a while back but I have awful eyes such that my prescription changes all over the place. Keratoconus in one eye. I actually should probably be wearing contacts, when I get a chance and find a decent one I intend to visit an Ophthalmologist to inquire about some.
At the moment I think I couldn’t actually get Gunnars anyway simply because the glass in my right eye needs to be so thick that it can’t be bent into that wrap-around style without causing distortions. Makes getting prescription sunglasses a bitch too.
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I’m trying to find a negative review of the damned things, or something to give a more detailed explanation of how they work (which didn’t come directly from Gunnar with their fancy made up terms).
I’m genuinely intrigued.
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the only time i was truly horrified in alleged “gamer” gear, is when i walked past my local eb’s, only to find “the Gamer Glove” which apparently reduces the friction between your hand and whatever surface it’s resting on by an incredible 15%!!!!
i mean, who’s that pedantic that they need to reduce the friction your hand is creating when you’re using a mouse? -
My understanding is they combine the uv filter of the early 2000’s with a special shaped lens that helps reduce air flow around the eyes. I dont know bout you guys, but i dont blink when im at a computer, so ym eyes get very dry, the lower air flow means higher humidity means less drying.
Thats basic talk for what they believe they do.
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I don’t believe that bit about the “trapping humidity” or whatever. Here’s a rather detailed Amazon review.
Amusingly, nobody can see to agree on the magnification of the lenses (some claims by Gunnar are none or “less than .25” from multiple reviews) and one reviewer assumed as high as 1.25.
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http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/01/optus-glitch-denies-the-existence-of-female-doctors/
I knew freyr was lying when she said she was a “doctor” . See even optus says she can’t be Lol
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Female doctors? That’s a thing of science fiction! :p
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That’s not a doctor! It’s a woman, man!
*tears of wig*
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One of my wife’s favourite shows:
http://bit.ly/ADe8Q7-
I shamefully watched that this morning on Foxtel. I kept on waiting for the Deadwood style realism to kick in. It didn’t. 😉
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You can cry wigs? WITCH!!
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Off*
But yes, I can.
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Catching up from the previous page:
D.C:
Our main thing is the 5-day floating Metal festival of ‘70000 tons of Metal’ which goes from Miami to Grand Cayman island and back. We have a couple of days in LA beforehand though so that’s about all the sightseeing we’ll get.
I’d love to visit New York one day, I’d also love to road trip across the US. Probably have to wait until the kids leave home though. 😛
NovaCascade:
I also was in the US for the same metal cruise, plus my honeymoon a year ago. What I miss every day is the bacon.
I could squeeze you into my luggage on the way there because I’ll have an empty bag I plan to fill with cheap US shoppings, but you’d have to find your own way home. Sound like a good plan?
Freeze S. Preston, Icequire:
Hugh Jackman is a very effeminate guy. He is not attractive, he’s not manly enough.
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Wolverine isn’t manly enough?
Damn, woman, you have some unrealistically high standards :p
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That’s just because she’s comparing him to me
* Poses
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Ouch! my pose broke! apparently I’ve been in a horrible car crash!
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/ \I think I fixed ‘im. That’ll be whatever a chiropractor charges…
Wait, that’s a lot of money. I’ll give you mates rates. $500 please.
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Or worse.
Why can’t comments and the comment box both have the same spacing?
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My spine! MY SPINE!
worst chiropractor ever!
I did appreciate the happy ending though.
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If I fixed everything first time round, how could I guarantee repeat customers?
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To be a repeat customer I have to be able to physically walk out the door and then come back again.
Still the same therapy session if i’m lying on the floor screaming.
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I charge in 6 minute increments counting each 6 minutes as a separate sessions.
For tax reasons.
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You rock gorzy!
Wolverine is manly, Hugh Jackman playing Wolverine is weird and kind of creepy.
But then, I also think my husband has a bit of a feminine figure….
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I ride motorbikes and have tattoos and a beard. That’s kinda manly, no?
But I’m a ginger so it’s a bad manly 🙁-
Why is ginger bad manly? My husband and son are both gingers.
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I’m just going off the general opinion of gingers. I have no issue with being a ginger but try to make light of it when others think it’s oh-so-fun to make jokes.
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Ewwwww Gingers! How do we live with them?
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Speaking of which, I rode my motorbike into work for the first time in months. I gave it a rest for a while after I had to dodge cars 3 days in a row because they didn’t look and jumped straight into my lane.
Had some Idiot jump into my lane again. WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL ME PEOPLE!
I may have to resort to keeping a baseball bat tucked under my jacket for the next one.
That was meant to be a reply to F4ction
I didn’t know you had a bike Gorzy, what have you got if I may ask?
Only a little one. Kawasaki ZZR 250.
I think about upgrading to something with a bit more gurnt now and then but this really does everything I ask of it at the moment. Of cause I probably only say that because I’ve never actually ridden a bigger road bike.
Cool, nothing wrong with a 250 if it does all you want it to.
I considered keeping my 250 for a while but then it went through the side of a car so I figured I might as well upgrade.
Ouch. I’m hoping that won’t be my excuse for an upgrade but with the luck I’ve been having lately it may just be a matter of time.
As a effeminate dude i can tell you that Hugh Jackman is most certainly not like me. He has certain mannerisms that make him seem a little femine but you could also say that he looks like a genuinely nice guy !
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Also don’t let blaghs hear you say that he might eat your face off, i think he is a massive fan of his!
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Rocketman I actually don’t think you are an effeminate dude and i’m surprised that you identify yourself as such.
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Apparently I have enough effeminate mannerisms that several people I know have questioned my sexual preference.
I can confidently say that I am straight having never felt the slightest aroused by looking at another male but I find it weird that people get other impressions. I like to think I’m just polite.
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I really don’t identify myself as anything. I try and stay away from labels altogether. I am just me, which is to say others may percieve me as femine because i grew up soley in a family of women!
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That quote belongs on your ironic Tumblr.
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I wrote it full well knowing how stupid it sounded. I then thought will people get the irony if i write this, and even if they don’t i thought it was hillarious!
To me you seem more childlike than effeminate. Not sure if that seems better to you though. 😛
Thanks strange i am unsure should i delighted or mortified. :/
You wanna see effeminate? Come hang out with me, babe.
-Run’s long fingers across lips-
-vomits-
-smiles to try and cover it up-
-tooth falls out-
-credits-
By those standards, you must assume I have ovaries :p
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I just assume that about everyone I talk to.
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Which is known as “Bishing”.
Also I feel like I should clarify about Hugh Jackman. For an everyday person, he is attractive, but he’s constantly held up as some kind of paragon of manliness and attractiveness by both men and women and I don’t understand why when he’s one of the least man-like stars around.
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I think it’s more than just physical attractiveness with HJ. He’s the epitome of the new age guy: sensitive, caring, plus he’s popular, famous, talented, with feet pretty firmly planted in wholesome reality. He just comes across a nice guy, a rarity in real life, a true rarity in celebrityhood. His looks don’t hurt, either.
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I wil be handing in all my man cards now. That sounded a bit gushy 😛
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I think that’s kind of the point – “Epitome of the new-age guy.” I’m sure he’s a great person and probably attractive but he lacks the rough, slightly dangerous side of manliness.
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That sounds all kinds of fun. (If you’re into metal, which I assume you are. :p) I’d love to do a road trip across the U.S. too, but I don’t drive and would probably end up being the annoying dead weight on the trip who doesn’t contribute…
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I don’t drive either. However my plan for this year is to finally learn how. Once my son starts school between that and my daughter starting High School next year I’m definitely thinking knowing how to drive will come in handy. Maybe if I think of it all as practice for my eventual US Road Trip then it will make it easier.
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If i can learn to drive miss strange i am sure you will be fine. It isn’t hard it is just a little scary to start with then after the scariness comes the boringness of long drives. $ hours to stevos place and 4 hours home, i haven’t recovered from the boredom yet!
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That sounds like an EPIC trip, have a blast over there 😀
I spent a month driving up and down the west coast in 2010, it was an epic experience.
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You go to Yosemite National Park? Pictures of that puts Australia’s terrain to shame. :p Definitely on the list.
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Yosemite is an amazing place, but you know what beat it for me? 3 days Snowmobiling around Yellowstone Nat. Park. 3 of the best days of my life, and the best part was the park was next to empty. I went to the Old Faithful geyser, the one that goes off pretty much every hour. The ranger there said at the height of summer theres something like 2000 people come to each eruption. When i was there in the depths of Winter there wouldn’t have been 20. Got some great photos too
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The more I read, the more the jealousy levels increased. Nicely done. 😀 Sounds insanely good.
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Here’s some of my photos if you want a look, I should have it set up so you can see
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150107552008491.288453.605993490&type=3
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“This content is currently unavailable”
Maybe it’s for the best, jealousy levels at dangerous levels already. :p
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Oh, I thought I had it all set up properly. And don’t think of as jealousy, think of it as incentive 🙂
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That sounds like an amazing plan. Although I would have to disagree with you on the bacon. I prefer my bacon to be able to withstand a fork without shattering.
Ugh, never water down coffee, unless you want it to taste like super burnt toast.
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I do! Thanks!
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mmm… toast…
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pffft watering down means less caffeine…. I PREFER MINE RAAAAW
*munches on coffee grains*
Yo, Crazyguy1990. The businessman is in the henhouse *taps nose twice*
Also, i totally forgot to rip off that tracking code thing. Let me know if it doesn’t arrive my tomorrow, if it doesn’t I’ll have to start some dramas a my local post office.
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Will do.
Thanks, mate. 🙂
India have just lost a wicket. They are currently 1/53.
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wow, 1 kill 53 deaths?
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Bravo!
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Didn’t they lose that wicket ages ago?
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yeah, they were 1/20 or so
Currently running a contest in the office for score at days end.
I’m going for 5/107 which is up against 6/160 and 3/120
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So… Backloggery.
– Does this have some kind of database for games it knows about or is it just building a list? Having to type in every game name randomly is kind of annoying and I might as well just use a spreadsheet or something
– Is the accepted thing to add your whole library, or just your Pile of Shame at the moment?
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As far as I know, you have to add games manually. Not exactly optimal.
As for the accepted thing, I don’t know. I just put in my pile of shame. Putting in my whole collection would take too long and I just don’t care.
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That’s a bit disappointing. Could be so much more than that. 🙁 I was sort of assuming it would replace the old text file I used to use for my pile of shame but apparently not.
Maybe I should just sit down and build the full thing I was thinking about putting together myself.
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@ Strange
Is Beven manly enough for you?
The Million Deaths of the Soul Knight
Part Seven: Don’t Let the Bearbugs Bite
(with a special cameo)
A fine mist settled on the knight’s face as he emerged from the mine shaft. He breathed a sigh of relief, glad to be free from that claustrophobic descent. Exploding magic proximity mines had almost sent him flying into a narrow, bottomless crevasse, and an ambush from a scythe-wielding miner had nearly taken his head off before he’d even seen it.
Here, visibility was good, and he was safe for the moment.
Before him was a sheer cliff face, with a narrow twisting path leading down, ever down. Leaning over the edge, he could see a path leading around the base of the mountain; presumably, this was his destination. Heat came up in waves from lava pits far below, making a steam bath of the light rain falling from the sky. Hence the mist. It was mildly refreshing, yet draining at the same time. He couldn’t linger here too long.
“Hey, up here!”
Startled by the voice, he jumped, raising his sword. Then he noticed a human-shaped figure on the ridge above, waving at him. Another survivor, in need of rescue? He had seen too many in recent days… yet too few for him to have much hope for the future of humanity. Certainly everyone who could be saved, should be saved.
He slung his shield over his shoulder and began to climb the rock face. It was not a difficult climb, even in his light armour, and he soon found himself clambering onto the ridge. “Hile, friend!” he called, though he had his shield ready again, just in case the madness had claimed this person. “Do you need assistance?”
“Indeed,” called the man. “My name is Patches, and I could use a strong lad like you to get me to safety. My leg, you see.” Upon closer inspection, he did seem to be favouring his right leg.
“I can get you to the Nexus,” the knight said. “It’s the only place safe from the demons right now.”
Patches slapped him on the back. “Then we are indeed well met!” he cried jubilantly. “You know, they used to call me the Hyena… but that was before I became a cripple. Wonder what they’ll call me now.”
The knight said nothing, preferring instead to let his silence indicate the time pressures he was under. A people person, he was not.
“Listen, son, you wouldn’t do me a favour, would you?” Patches asked, grinning a broken-toothed grin at him. “My bag is just around that corner. It’s got everything I own in this world, but I’m too sickly to risk the narrow path. Would you mind fetching it for me?”
The knight shrugged. The path was narrow, but seemed safe enough, if he was careful. “All right,” he said. “Stay here, I’ll be back soon.”
He began to walk down the path, tracing one hand along the cliff face for balance, trying not to look down. Patches watched him from his perch, his eyes bright and unwavering.
He was almost too slow. From a perch high above, he noticed a flash of shadow, like something had just blocked out the sun for a moment. He rushed forward, slipping one foot off the edge of the cliff but somehow retained his balance. His shield went spinning into the abyss, down to the lava pits far below. Only inches behind him, the rear sections of a Giant Bearbug crashed onto the path. The Bearbug was huge, at least a full tonne, taking up the entire width of the path and then some. The knight could see only a dead end ahead. He was trapped.
Presently, he became aware of laughter. Cackling of the maniacal variety. Patches danced merrily over towards the knight, rubbing his hands in glee. “Hee hee! When you starve to death, I will pick you clean! Oooh, all that shiny equipment will be mine!”
“Hyena,” the knight whispered furiously.
“Har har har har!” cackled Patches, dancing away out of sight.
The knight took his sword and weighed his options. The rock was sheer; he couldn’t climb to safety, either up or down. He would have to destroy the Bearbug. Thankfully it was facing the wrong way, and was relatively defenceless. He lifted the weapon to strike…
… and it was whisked out of his hand by the Bearbug’s tail-like stinger. The sword went the way of his shield, wheeling end over end into the red hot molten rock far below.
The knight blinked in surprise, and then beat a hasty retreat as the stinger began to lash out at him. It caught his armour once, but thankfully did not break through to skin; he feared it was poisonous.
Huddled against the sheer rock, he knew he was beaten. Patches would loot his corpse and take all his equipment. How was he to fight the demon world in just his underwear?
And then out of nowhere, he heard a voice. “Ne’er fear, troobled knecht! yer buddy Doog McCreedy is haur!”
Doug McCreedy… the stuff legends were made of. Word had it that he had conquered the asylum realm with just his bare fists. The knight could have sworn that McCreedy was long dead, though. Long, long dead. Surely this couldn’t be…?
The bare-chested barbarian landed on the path between the knight and the Bearbug. It certainly looked like him, or at least the images the knight had seen in his childhood. McCreedy grabbed the Bearbug’s stinger and swung the beast off the ground, hurling it off the edge of the cliff with apparently no effort.
“I’m a level 721, don’t ye ken.?” he said by way of explanation.
Then he was gone, and the path was clear. The knight shook his head in amazement, wondering why this realm had been left to the likes of him to save when heroes like Doug McCreedy would be far more suitable choices.
Clearly Patches wasn’t expecting him to survive, because the knight found him asleep on a nearby ridge. He kicked the man awake, and put his armoured boot on Patches’ throat.
“Nooo, I didn’t mean it. It’s in my nature. I can’t help it! Please don’t hurt me! I’ll give you pretties! Yes, yes, take it. Take this!” he said, holding out his hand. “It’s a valuable ring, I promise! You’ll feel invincible!”
The knight took the ring and turned it over in his hand. It did make him feel pretty go…
But the second he took his eye off Patches, the Hyena had grabbed his foot and twisted. The knight overbalanced and went toppling over the edge of the cliff. The lava pits rushed up to meet him, and the last sound he heard was maniacal cackling…
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The Million Deaths of the Soul Knight
Part One: Neverending Night: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/12/talk-amongst-yourselves-149/comment-page-16/#comment-486609
Part Two: Dragonsbane: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/12/talk-amongst-yourselves-149/comment-page-21/#comment-488021
Part Three: Fire In The Hole: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/01/talk-amongst-yourselves-158/comment-page-2/#comment-494899
Part Four: The Ultimate Treasure: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/01/talk-amongst-yourselves-158/comment-page-3/#comment-495142
Part Five: Stormy Weather: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/01/talk-amongst-yourselves-158/comment-page-6/#comment-496073
Interlude #1: The Ballad of Ostrava: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/01/talk-amongst-yourselves-158/comment-page-6/#comment-496210
Part Six (er… coming soon. I typo’d)
Part Seven: Don’t Let the Bearbugs Bite: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/01/talk-amongst-yourselves-158/comment-page-10/#comment-498027 -
Wow. Doug certainly calmed down in his old age.
And if Patches wasn’t such a convenient source of arrows he would have died a terrible death. Unlucky for him, he wasn’t so useful in Dark Souls *evil cackle*
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Oh dear, I broke character. Sorry. 🙁
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Its all good.It makes sense that he would get older and wiser as he grew more powerful. Its more his physicality that is his main signature.
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Well, he did sling a one-tonne Bearbug off the path with little or no effort, so at least I got that right 😛
This might have to be a recurring cameo. Thoughts?
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Dammit the curiosity is killing me.
DROP THE BOMB ALREADY GAMEINFORMER, DROP THE BLOODY BOMB!!!
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What bomb is this?
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I reckon it’s Crystal Dynamics working on a horror game of some sort.
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Squenix passing the Final Fantasy license to Eidos. 😛
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Actually the most interesting possibility mentioned in that thread is a Zelda game developed by Retro. That would be very surprising and very interesting.
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I’d like it to be Battlefront 3, but I doubt that’s what it is…
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Coming into TAY for basically my first time in the week is like looking upon an unclimbable mountain from the base. I’m tempted to just go nope I cant do that and wait for a new mountain to start growing next week.
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but how do you know what awaits you at the top of this proverbial mountain then? the anticipation will kill you 😛
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You could charter a helicopter to drop you off at the base camp, SSX-style. (Have I killed the metaphor?)
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I don’t think you understand the fundamentals of snow boarding…
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That or its another example of D.C.’s patented press submit before checking coherancy of post mishap. Who can say? *presses submit before reading*
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Darn it, you missed all the TAY breaking!
Hehe I’m with Sughly. A week away and then nearly a whole day to catch up!
For those not on the tweetys I’ve been a bit ill but all good now.
Has or is anyone playing WWE12?? Reminds me a lot of No Mercy and the character creation allows near perfect recreations of Street Fighter characters.
Have been spending way too much time with this. I still haven’t even opened Ass Rev dammit.
oooh and of to the US again in February. Yay.
If i get a PS3 there all i need is the power adapter right????
Games bought here should work?
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Haven’t played a good wrasslin’ game in ages, I always use the character creation tool to make a copy of myself 🙂
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I don’t know if the Slim is the same – I’m pretty sure it is – but the Phat PS3 has a universal power supply. You don’t even need an adapter, you just plug a standard Australian PC-style power lead straight into the system and it’ll run. The system itself is region free.
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Cheers man 🙂
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This. My PS3 is from the US, and I just took the power cable from my computer monitor and it works perfectly.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hg5jZPUmUI4
This made feel reeeeeeaaaaaal good just now 🙂
Friday, The 23rd of December
We set off at six am, the pride of our fleet, the Liberty, setting forth to parley with relations in the north, to ensure goodwill for years to come. Following the Liberty, came the smaller vessel, “Laser.” Both ships set forth with skeleton crews, the Liberty, captained by “Dad”, with myself there to do nothing, and the Laser, sharing captaincy between my sister, Hannah, and “Mum.” Our sole companion throughout the trip, Midshipman “Stereo System” regaled us with songs from his youth, the musical stylings of West End, where he grew up, as well as classic drinking songs, and the Kary Perry, gender confused songs of “One of the Boys.” Heavy rain pounded us through parts of the trip, reducing progress at times to a crawl, as we struggled to maintain ourselves in the growing swell, but, at the end of the day, after long hours of driving, there we were. Ballina. As good a port as any to stop for a rest. Sadly, the brothels and pubs of such a small town closed early, and so, at 8:30pm, after struggling to find entertainment, we ate dinner, and rested for the following day.
Saturday, the 24th of December
An uneventful morning of sailing, where we bypassed the beautiful town of Mooball, and went straight to our destination, Pottsville. Our place of meeting? The “Grandparents” house. No sooner had I arrived when I was roped into duty. Scrubbing the deck, moving chairs, and many a coolerbox. But it was all worth it, for my sister, promoting gender equality for the next thousand years, went into the kitchen, and made me a sandwich. After finishing the delicious victory of that sandwich, I was tasked with something even more important. I had to go and meet my cousins. The inital batch had only arrived, on their ship, an enormous Galleon that easily dwarfed our Liberty. We met, down at our lodging, a roomy place it was, with a “cubby house” and trampoline, a large backyard, and across the street from a path down to the waterline. Only a small number of their family had arrived, many more were still to come, but I greeted them, as friends I hadn’t seen in over a year. Time was spent unpacking their ship, and before I knew it, I had a more dreaded job.
I had to go to Christmas Mass. My Mother, in that way she does, told me that I had a “choice,” but when the options are a slap in the face, or months of torture, you know that there’s only one thing you can choose. I endured the music, and standing off to the side, on my tired feet, as the packed church, filled with old people, sardines ready to become Soylent Green, I endured listening to how amazing the changes to the Catholic mass were, and how they represented at least some progressive changes to the church, and then I endured getting lost with my sister on the way back from it, only for me to point out that I wasn’t lost, and her not believing me. Then, then, it was party time. Many a brew were consumed that night, as we discussed important matters of state, late into the night, and delicious flat food was consumed.
Sunday, the 25th of December
Christmas Day. I woke up early, though, not that early, there was no need to rush things. I was awake before most, and I discussed with my elders how restrained everyone had been, and I realised that my mother was the only person there still excited about Christmas. Gifts from Santa had been left, presented in beautiful plastic bags, and unceremoniously piled on to the table. The fourteen of us who shared our lodging, all sitting around, discussing why Santa had left us purposefully terrible movies. Sitting there, with my family though, my thoughts wandered, to you all. My other family. My third day, without access to the internet, and I was struggling. I had to endure though.
We moved off, back to the Grandparents house. Twenty people, and potentially another depending on your opinion of abortion, and what constitutes as a person, all gathered in one place to share gifts. The Hefferan-Lee family, three members, with another on the way-ish, little Jack, the most spoiled person in the room. The Hefferan-Harrison’s, two adults, eight children, with four of those only my cousins through marriage, and not all from the same one. Not to mention one extra, the plus one, as it were, for my cousin Thomas. The Hefferan-McGrath’s, not that anyone would call them that, my Grandparents, still tottering around, and finally, The Hefferan-Richardson’s, who are only known by the last part, my family.
Many gifts were shared, I received a board game, which you may hear more of, two books, a water filtery thing for a country I’ll never go to, and some hair ties from my sister. My uncles received Christmas Cakes from my mother, needed food for their long trips back home. Ben, my step-cousin, received an enormous pikachu toy, and some young cousins of mine gave their parents a gift that was designed for them to play(Mario Kart Wii). Many things were thrown around, many cherries were eaten on my part, and then we reited, briefly, to different parts of the house.
Then Christmas lunch happened. I doubt that I need to describe the veritable feast of food we had, the rich tapestry that combined within our mouths and stomachs. Good times were had.
Monday, the 26th of December
Boxing day, a day of relaxing, and sitting about. I found myself feeling slightly ill, not from the food I had consumed, but as though some insidious being had dedicated itself to making me feel bad. Not too worried though, after lazing about for a while, a large group of us drive north, up to Tweed Heads, desperate for entertainment. There, at the Moving Pictures, we watched an adaptation of that charming Tin Tin comic, which I enjoyed, even if it did have problems. Before returning home, buckets, for the making of sandcastles were bought, as was alcohol, and Coca-Cola. As a final purchase, my sister picked up chocolate coins.
Imagine our shock though, when we spied something within their packaging.
There was a chocolate note. No words can even attempt to describe the disdain I felt over this. No words. They are coins for a reason.
I spent the rest of the evening feeling increasingly sick, a feeling which is quite alien to me, as I usually feel healthier as the day goes on.
Sleep came, the end of an interesting day, I can only assume that it was aided by alcohol.
Tuesday, the 27th of December
A day composed mostly of lazing about. Another person joined our cruise, Michael, the other half to my sister’s life, somehow roped into meeting the family. I can only assume that my sister wished to scare him off, though that may be my cynical side talking.
That night, the first game of Articulate, the game I received for Christmas, was played. Paired with two cousins, both from different families, much fun was had. I was aided by another cousin on a different team, and much alcohol was consumed, as we became increasingly loud as the night wore on.
Wednesday, the 28th of December
As part of a family tradition, my family went off to Wet & Wild. However, due to my illness I chose to pass, not wanting to risk making things any worse by repeatedly imersing myself in water on a cold day. Very little of import happened, though I did watch Babar, with Jack.
Thursday, the 29th of December
They say that abscence makes the heart grow stronger, while abstinence makes the arm grow stronger, and by this point I was certainly missing the internet. So long, without a chance to say hello, and have nothing interesting to say to the lot of you. My memory of here is fuzzy. Time blurs together, into a flash of colour and sensation, a mystery and enigma over what happened.
Friday, the 30th of December
Where am I? I’m not sure, I hear the rain, pounding down outside. I see some prawns, clearly larger than any prawn has the right to be, and I smell the delicious curry being made. Our last day there. There was still beer left to be drunk, so I started at lunch time, and was yelled at by my parents, since I needed to “pack-up” something which took all of two minutes. Two games of Articulate were played, the first ended badly, but the second, improved as we played. On a team consisting of myself, and Thomas and Callum, my two, blood related cousins, who are closest in age to me, we took a hard fought victory. After spending a large portion of the game stuck on one section, while the old folks team got stuck on their last question, the young’uns answering before they could, preventing their victory. We slowly crept up, moving almost halfway across the board, before we finally won. My technique of answering faster than most people, but speaking too quietly for most people to hear had both its advantages and disadvantages, though I still refused to yell.
Sleep.
Saturday, the 31st of December
We said our farewells, and drove of. The Liberty, crewed by “Dad,” “Mum” and myself. We left the Laser to continue on its own way. The seas were calm, and so we made good progress. We stopped early, arriving in Tahree for the night, before having an early dinner at 6:30, at a quaint little place, with the mysterious name “Fish Fish Fish”. Ignoring the New Years events, we went to bed, and slept.
Sunday, the 1st of January
A new day, a new year. Moored as it was, our vessel had gained a covering of flower blossoms, beautiful in the crisp morning light. They fluttered off deck as we accelerated, a stream of orange behind us. More uneventful sailing. Though there were a few near misses with other crafts, but even the travel through Sydney was relatively calm.
Finally, I arrived home. To embrace the internet. To speak to you all, to find you all not there, as usual for a sunday.
This was the tale of Cabin Boy Blaghs, on his trip to the north. An uneventful trip, if ever there was one. I aimed to add photo’s to accompany this, but I’m too slack to, so instead, you get a wall of uninteresting text. Enjoy.
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Rather glorious story, dear chap. Sounded… interesting?
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We were at the same shopping centre on Boxing Day.
We could’ve made out in the toilets.
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Or you know, whatever.
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You know what, I was there also on boxing day.
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So was I!
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Were you guys also making out in the toilets with DAN?
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No comment.
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Hands! Hands everywhere!
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Seriously? Because when I wandered through it, there were like 20 people, total. I was all “This is boxing day sales stuff? Wut?” So empty.
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Just think, you were probably staring RIGHT AT US at one point.
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If we’re talking Tweed City has JB Hi-FI, Big W, K-Mart & Hoyts cinemas (not Centro tweed or w/e will always be Tweed Mall to me) then when I went over there was a fair few people, this was at like midday or so, when I went back over around 3 to return a dodgy headset I bought it was pretty dead. But that’s cause it was a public holiday!
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This makes me happy that i chose today to TAY.
A damn good read sir.
Articulate is freaking awesome game. I got it for my brithday a couple of years ago and every year it gets dragged to be played with my friends on NYE. Its especially hilarious when they are are all slightly* drunk
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Anyone else screaming: “DOOOO SOMETHIIIIIING!!!!” at the Indian batters?
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Lol, sports
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They’re just so confusing.
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Yay. I’ve only got 2GB of usage left. And I’ve got to get it to last till next thursday…
Well, if I go over, at least TAY will be safe 😛
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Until you get back, all twitchy and strung out, desperate for your breakage fix 😛
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I’ll make sure to stop by lifehacker before I come back 😛
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Has there been another KKP Contributor competition in TAY? Having the prizes in two places is sorta confusing :/
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Only the truly committed Kotaku peeps will find them all!
Oh, oh, and Hugh Jackman = meh.
^ ground-breaking.
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How can you say that this is meh: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Terhj8mjPwY ??????????!!!!!!??!?!??!
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I will forever be ignorant of that chisel-jawed visage, given that YouTube is blocked in the People’s Republic of China and my ability to set up a VPN is roughly on par with my knowledge of… uh… cars.
But you could try ASCII art?
(and meh.)
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Well that came out ALL wrong
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Smokin’.
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It’s Jackman’s opening from the Oscars. It’s pretty amazeballs.
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Hi TAY! I’m sad because my rupee cushion insert turned out smaller then I would’ve liked. =( Unfortunately do to only having an A4 printer, I can’t print a pattern big enough.
It’s very frustrating. D<
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Print a quarter on each page, stick together, make giant rupee, BOOM!
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Well I measured it out on illustrator and it ended up being printed on about 6 pages. It still turned out tiny. I’m not quite sure how to go about it now mainly because if I try to make the pattern without the computer it won’t be completely accurate.
I’m a bit of a perfectionist ^^;;-
Just draw it in crayon on a table. That’s perfect, right?
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I wish it was. I really do
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No, wait, better idea, permanent marker on the wall!
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Mum would murder me
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Butchers paper, squares, protractors and straight edges. Now you can make a rupee bed.
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It’s still quite hard because I need to keep the shape of the rupee. I could print off a picture and then try to create the seperate sections using the rupee as a template ._. I’ll need to buy a square then. *doesn’t have any of those things*
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Also, I was bored, so now I have a blog. My aim is to update it every week day for the rest of the month, and then to ABANDON IT FOREVER!
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You raise an excellent point Blaghman. I’m playing through Zelda and it does seem like most bosses are exactly like you said.
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Wait, last post on an old page? Now nobody will see this! EXCELLENT!
MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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Dearest Blaghman,
It was foolish of you to think that.
Scree. =D
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Dearest Scree:
I say nobody, but I don’t really mean it. If it’s posted at this hour, I’d expect a few people to read it, you, if you’re on, Bish, probably, and odds are that Strange will read it, though I think she may miss some night time things, though don’t tell her that I said it, because now she’ll read this. Some others, I’m not sure how dedicated most people are yet. It’s hard to tell.
Yours Truly,
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Dearest Blaghman,
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Yours Truly,
Lambo Mann
Australian
Vice President, Mann Co.
Emperor, South Kotaku
CEO, Parachutes-R-Us
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Dearest Lambomann007:
I can’t believe I forgot to add your name, how silly of me.
Yours Truly,
Blaghman.
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Too late, I’d already seen and bookmarked your blog before you posted not to tell me. 😛
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I’m going to be using my backlog of Facebook things to pad it out, so get ready for things you might have read already!
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Blaghman, I stayed up especially late last night just to read your blog. I too am disappointed not to have gotten a mention 🙁
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Flamelurker (Demon’s Souls)
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Michele Bachmann has quit the US Republican race. Excellent.
*tumbleweed*
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AMERICAN POLITICS PAGE-GET.
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But Rick Perry continues to be stubborn.
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I’m mildly troubled that Santorum did so well.
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Last two nights of The Daily Show and Colbert Report have been getting’ plently of Santorum milage, though. Think of the comedians.
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http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_302_22-internet-memes-that-will-baffle-future-historians/
I will point you to #11
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Classy stuff. :p
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For serious.
Crazy Tea Party candidates have thankfully not done very well, but man, I guess dem crazy Evangelical Christians still have pull.
That said, from what I understand, Santorum spent a lot of time in Iowa trying to get votes, at the cost of the rest of his campaign. Romney and Ron Paul still have the coffers to keep going, but I think Santorum might have been relying on momentum from his hopeful Iowa win to keep him going. I suppose that he did so well means that there is still some of that, but he’s not as well prepared as the other two.
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From what I understand (which isn’t much) Santorum’s booming because he’s not Romney, basically, and the Tea Party + evangelicals wanted someone appropriately fundamentalist and conservative to put their votes behind.
As far as I know Romney is better organised and far more popular with establishment Republicans.
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Somewhere along the line it seems they all forgot that the majority of the country is fairly moderate, one way or the other. It’s amazing to watch them try to lock in these extremists at the expense of every one else. :S
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That just leaves five more crazies. Wouldn’t it be nice if at the convention a figure stood, the crowd gasped and Condoleezza Rice or Colin Powell put up their hands and got the nomination. (And Obama wins still, but after a fight with a non-crazy opponent. :p)
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Even better, the figure is Gary Busey.
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Non-crazy opponent disclaimer totally disqualifies him, alas. 😉
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There has to be caveats or that would disqualify pretty much every republican.
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True enough. How ’bout we all chip in to pay Alan Alda to reprise his Arnold Vinnick character from The West Wing! Everyone loves Alan Alda!
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We can dream.
Romney 1wheneveritis3?4?idontreallyknoworcarebutwillgiveanopinionanyway!
Hey I’ve forgotten how to link to a specific time in a youtube video. Can someone remind me?
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Throw your wallet at it!
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But the chain attachment would scratch the screen
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Screen protectors for everything!
Also, add “#t=XXmXXs” to the end of the link, replace Xs with numbers.
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thanks! Also i still don’t think the screen protectors will help in this case
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Right click video > copy url at current time.
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Thanks. I really appreciate it
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No problem 🙂
I’m always happy to help. I like helping people makes me feel like a good person!
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I do the same, it’s just that I need to do it to make up for all the hookers I keep killing.
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Awesome, UK Sherlock Holmes is now in my possession. Now to see just how Bish it as. Is it as Bish as the rumors say? Time will tell.
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I…
Um.
Yes?
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Your not filling me with confidence man.
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Do not worry sir, when you watch it, prepare to be Bished!So yeah, I hope this isn’t a thing now.
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If I’m involved you can be assured that it ceased to be a thing a long time ago.
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Your “your” should be “you’re”!
Grammar Nazi Away!
(Sorry, really(I just like saying “your “your””))
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Bahahaha, it’s funny because spell-check wouldn’t help in that instance(and it doesn’t help my two main problems, overuse of commas, and the fact that I suck with apostrophes).
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1st or 2nd one?
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Uh?
Study in pink, Blind Banker and The Great Game.Soooo…..
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That’s season 1. The first episode of the second season is out now, and I definitely enjoyed it.
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D= I want to watch it. Please link me if you can.
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Are you cool with using torrents? Because that’s what I did. If not, then I can’t really help.
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I’m fine with it…Once I find my uTorrent
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http://eztv.it/ep/32123/sherlock-2×01-a-scandal-in-belgravia-hdtv-xvid-fov/ Is I think the one I got, though via a different site, there’s also a higher quality download somewhere on that website.
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I love EZTV. Best site for TV shows.
Uh, that is, er, i you’d do that kind of thing. Ahem. Not that I would. Ah. Erm.
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I don’t normally. But 9 is a pain.
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I have been using it for ages, but not directly, I just always end up with their versions.
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Thanks for that. =D Downloaded and now I’ll watch it X3
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It’s pretty amazeballs. First show I’ve seen in a long time that handles an “analytical” character decently, instead of just having them be a normal person who has occasional epiphanical moments.
All five Back to the Future games free on Playstation Plus?
Hell Yes!
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Why can’t this be so on Steam >=[
Aw, shucks. Everyone’s gone.
/Droopy
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I’m here just waiting for someone to respond!
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*respond to!
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/wave HI SCREE! How are you?
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I’m a little sad. I was looking for manifest photos for the iron man cosplay (freaking awesome). But I know a professional photographer took some photos of me and I can’t find them on the internets
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Have you considered doing a pixel perfect recreation, and finding it via a reverse image search?
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Sorry? I didn’t understand any of that.
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He’s saying you should somehow recreate the pictures taken of you doing it pixel by pixel, and then using that image as a reference to search for that image of you on the internet.
It’s really the only logical solution. -
Or I can just give up. I’m surprised there aren’t more photos of me, considering I had people taking secret (badly disguised) photos when I went to a shop opening in cosplay.
I’m planning to eventually fix up the dress anyway. There are several mistakes.
Also there’s this year! I was going to go as Anya Stroud, but maybe I should go as someone else. I’m leaning towards Poplar from Working!! -
There were no pictures of me on the internet until I started attending Kotaku Meats.
/o\
Was it worth it, meeting the Sydney TAYbies and assorted special interstate guests?
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There were no pictures of me on the internet until I started uploading lots of pictures of me to the internet.
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I’ve uploaded a few of myself, but I know out there, there is a better quality photo. If there’s ever a Melbourne meat I could always cosplay so you can find me XD
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Do what I do for costume parties, go as the invisible *gender*.
By which I mean don’t turn up.
No?
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Alternately, I just go around wearing my cloak, and if anybody asks who I am, I look at them like they’re an idiot, and as if it should be obvious.
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I’m here \o/
I’m… kind of here. In between LoL games.
Also, what email do I send noms to?
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mark.serrels [at] kotaku.com.au
is the one I use every time.
Sherlock Holmes 2: Not as bad as I thought it would be
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I reckon it’ll be great! I really liked the first movie.
mark.serrels [at] kotaku.com.au
is the one I use
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Reply button hates me 🙁
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The correct response is “DAMN YOU REPLYBUTTONOPUS!”
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I tend to just go with “sigh.”
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That’s because you’re weak!
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As weak as th’ glaikit sassenach idiots ‘at hink they hae a chance at takin’ oan doog mccreedy in a barnie an’ winnin’. Ah hae taken them aw oan an’ hae ne’er bin bested.
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PSA
You’ve all got about 15 minutes to buy a Steam copy of Space Marine off GreenManGaming for $12.50.
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I have no money, why do you taunt me so?
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Blaghs, I’m sorry, I logged into GMG seriously intending to send you a key for this but it won’t let me buy it because I already own it and I couldn’t work how to do it before 11pm!
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Bahahahahaha, that’s cool man, it’s the thought that counts.
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Evening night TAY people. Just got home from work. Can you tell me why people feel the need to grocery shop at 9:30 at night? I don’t get it. Surely it can’t be the only time people have available.
Still could have been worse. Could have been like last night where I turned up for my shift forgetting I had traded to one of the other girls. I looked like a right idiot walking in and my boss asking “Why are you here?”
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Dude.
Metroid Prime Trilogy has arrived.
I seriously appreciate this. Metroid Prime is one of my favourite games ever and to be able to play it in 16:9 is amazing, as is catching up on the other two in the trilogy!
I will be watching for a way to return the favour.
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Handy.
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As in it’s handy to have a favour lying around.
Why, what’d you think?
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No problem at all McGarnical. I’m just glad it made it, I was having all these horrible thoughts that it had disappeared along the way
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I actually got that at the big M. Don’t worry, you’r enot the only one who’s done it
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Oh I’ve done it before too. Just not for a while. The problem was we organised it over a week ago, but I’d forgotten to take it off the calendar at home, so I was still assuming I was working.
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It’s past 11, and I could totally be okay with going out and buying more snacks.
You guys have $1 off Crazy Core Skittles, Nova. Crazy Cores!-
That’s pretty bish.
Sorry.
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Never been a fan of the Crazy cores. Normal or sour, hell yes, I’m all over that. I know you have an attraction to all things crazy Bish. You being the Chinese (?) God of Crazy and all
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“Tonight, on the 6th of January, 2012’s news: a young man starts attacking people in Sydney CBD by pelting them with Skittles. Is he crazy? Judging by his shouts of ‘I AM THE GOD OF CRAZY!’, yes, Yes he is.”
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I want to see this. You should do it! And then maybe be like the chk chk boom girl only less racist and with much better taste.
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CLARE WERBELOFF
I am so sad that I know her name off the top of my head.
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“This just in, the young man claiming to be the God of Crazy spends much of his time playing video game, and is a regular poster on Kotaku. Clearly it was all to do with the games. They should all be banned. Ban Kotaku. Hell, Ban the internet while we’re at it. We must think of the children”
“More breaking news in the God of Crazy story. This disturbed and deranged young man goes by the internet name of “Bish”. Our experts have analysed the name and if you rearrange the letters, take some away and add some more you get “Satan”. Clearly these games are worse than we first thought and Kotaku is an underground satanic cult”
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Wait so what is the Serrels we know and love that here among us today? A fake, an imposter, an earthly representation of an ethereal being of limitless power?
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So what Deity is Tracy then?
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Oh god Scree, you missed the “e” in her name! Quick, correct your mistake before the god of vengeance comes down and smites you!
SMIIIIIIITTTEEESSSS YYYOOOOUUUUUUUU!
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She could be the Goddess of Allure?
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Giggidy?
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Giggidy?
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Precisely.
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Ok, problem solved, crisis averted
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I’m glad we had this discussion!
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Oh Lambo, if you’re hanging around. I just got an email from EA re my NFS Hot Pursuit issue. Apparently they have had quite a few people emailing them about it and they are working on a fix. They said they would send another email when its sorted. So now all we have to do is hurry up and wait.
Met some students switching between Chinese and Japanese in the lobby of our dorm-thing. Couldn’t tell whether they were Chinese and studying Japanese, or Japanese and studying Chinese, because they were fluent in both.
HOW?!
(But then I had super yummy lasanga and all was well.)
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You know that moonspeak, it’s all basically the same, right?
(Please don’t kill me for saying that, seriously, I occasionally enjoy living)
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I just had to go to urban dictionary to work out what moonspeak meant… ;___;
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I blame Bunny for introducing me to the term.
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Tay, I need advice. As you may have guessed, I love survival horror and my favourite one is Project Zero. If you haven’t played it, check out a let’s play. It’s a really good horror franchise.
Anyway, Tecmo disbanded 2 years ago and while they made 1, 2 and 3, 4 was made by Nintendo who now hold the rights. Project zero 1, 2 and 3 were released world wide, 4 however was not due to a decision Nintendo of Japan made. Nintendo of Europe was willing to release it.
Anyway this led to fans, such as my self to shell out for a Japanese game and patch the wii to remove the region lock and translate it. Mine cost me $130 including importation costs.
Anyway, my patch ended up not working (no one knows why as I am the only one in the forum who can’t get it to work) so I paid for a game I can’t play. Oh I would like to mention that it’s is considered one of the top wii games by NGamer, a UK wii website. They encouraged people in the UK to import the game and use the patch.
Now to the main point. Nintendo are releasing しんれい しゃしん or Spirit photo, the haunted notebook for the 3DS in Japan soon. Everyone on the Beyond the cameras lens forum is trying really hard to get it localised. I don’t want to have to go through what I did with fatal frame 4.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to put pressure on Nintendo to get them to release it? There’s already a facebook group and page, a petition and a blog on it. Also we have been writing emails to Nintendo (I wrote a letter, stupid primitive Nintendo Australia) only to get the “we are not releasing it at this time but thanks for showing interest” responses. I got no response if you’re wondering.
Also, do you think mark would be interested in this as well? Maybe perhaps drumming up some enthusiasm to show that people do want the game in the west?
Even if you have no real response, thanks for reading anyway.
Scree
tl:dr
Game I really like won’t be released and want stubborn Nintendo to change it’s mind
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So far as I know, there’s not a lot else that can be done. A lot of Japanese companies get into the mindset of “game x didn’t sell in the west, so we won’t bother putting related games out there.” They don’t like the idea of risking a fair amount of money, particularly when only something like 1%(completely made up statistic, but you get the point) of people who would buy it, would go to the effort of attempting to “discuss” it with them, but maybe there’s the risk that 10% would, then their sale predictions are well off, and they could lose large amounts of money. So, essentially, no, I’m of no help.
In terms of Project Zero 4, have you considered running it through an emulator? You’d probably have to download the disc, which would be a bit of space, but apart from that, it’s not too hard, and patching it would theoretically be even easier via that method. Though the last patches I saw in an emulated wii game were attempting to give Twilight Princess higher res pictures…
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But operation rainfall worked. Not to mention that The first 3 actually sold quite well and they were rather cheap games too. For example Project zero 3 was sold here for $50 on the day of release. Project zero 4 would’ve been a really good release as there are no real horror games on the wii and Suda 51 was the producer of it. At points the game would cause the wii to make noises to freak you out. It would really do your best to unnerve you.
I have an iso of an already patches version I can play on my wii. If Nintendo bricks my wii, I will be angry and I will send them my copy of the game with a long letter of complaint D=
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Technically, under Australian law, any modifications to your Wii(or any console) that are done to circumvent Region Locking(which this essentially counts as) are completely legal, and so Nintendo would be at fault, and you could theoretically sue them. In practice you couldn’t sue them, but you could probably force them to give you a new Wii.
And anyway, game publishers are crazy and stupid. Nobody wanted to pick up Demon’s Souls in the US, until Atlas took the risk, and they made a bucketload off it. It’s a bizarre system really.
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Well the ISO is an illegal copy of the game, but I own an actual copy. That’s the point I was trying to make.
It’s very frustrating because this game would help make the 3DS so it’s sad they won’t bring it out of the east. People on BCL have contacted xseed and other publishers but I told them it’s no good as Nintendo own the rights and it’s a first party game.
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I find that kicking people in the nuts is an effective tactic.
I’m sorry I don’t have any useful ideas. Just email lots of editors from gaming sites or Penny Arcade, maybe go on Reddit and try and drum up some support?
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I’ve never used Reddit. And I don’t know any of the journalist websites aside from 1up.
Should I post trailers from the games?
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You know, during the 2011 games awards wrap-up, someone had a joke category of “Games Nintendo of America didn’t want you to play” (due to no localisation) or something to that effect.
It was funny before your realised how reasonably sized the list was and then you were all /o\I don’t know, maybe I’m being cynical but I don’t really think there’s anything you really can do. Some companies like to think of the cost and profits involved (Capcom, Ace Attorney Investigations 2), but other companies legitimately try to gauge interest (or at least appear to be doing so, like Level 5 with Ni No Kuni and Ace Attorney x Layton). I’m not sure there’s enough love around the game for it to be the latter. I also have a friend who went to great trouble for Project Zero series.
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If Professor Layton X Ace Attorney doesn’t get released here I’m gonna be pissed
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There’s going to be some gahdamn table flipping, that’s for sure.
I know it’d probably still be a niche sort of game, but man, IT’S NOT LIKE THE 3DS HAS MANY OTHER OUTSTANDING GAMES WE CAN PLAY, NINTENDO
Think of the money!-
Hell, that game would make me GO OUT AND BUY a 3DS
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I have never played a Professor Layton, or Phoenix Wright game, and yet, I really want this game.
This is the power of Bish always talking about things.
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Okay think a problem solver kind of like Sherlock holmes a bit against a wacky lawyer who is trying to do the right thing. Both games have a penchant for insane stories as well.
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I kind of know what they involve, and I know that there’s hobo phoenix too, and I mean to one day go and play them… Probably.
This is the problem with having missed so many generations of console/handheld gaming. So much I missed out on.
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Yes, there is hobo Phoenix. If you get a 3DS you can get the games. I would lend them to you but I’m missing 2 in the series. I plan to get them eventually.
This is not including the second Edgeworth game which has not been released outside of Japan possibly because of the crazy chess system.
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Don’t panic, Professor Layton x Phoenix wright will be released here. Too much interest in it. Plus remember that only 1 phoenix game wasn’t released here, but it was released in Europe. All the Layton games have been released worldwide.
I think there is enough interest, it’s just that no one outside of BCL really knows about it. Also please tell your friend to contact Nintendo, join the group and like the page. It’ll help.
http://opzero.blogspot.com/
Also feedback for the blog, please?
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Clean, simple, certainly nothing disagreeable about it. It works.
I will inform him!
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Thanks. I’m asking because this is what I would link to Mark. I’m really scared/nervous about doing that though ^^;;
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Mark’s a pretty cool guy, who only afraid’s of olives. So your best bet is to pester him in both email and twitter format. It’s what I do, and then he IGNORES ME ANYWAY. I’m just sayin’ Mark. Just sayin’.
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Mark’s seen you around enough to at least give you the benefit of the doubt and have a look into it. If you were using some handle he’s never seen before with number’s where letters should be (like F4ction or Di11enger, weirdos) then he might ignore you, but I’m sure it’ll be fine
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Yeah, FFourction and Dioneoneellinger are weird. /off topic
(pronounced forkshun, and di-wonwon-ell-inger)
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I don’t know if he’d look at it. He may be ignoring my noms. I’ll find out tomorrow at 5 I guess.
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When he got back from his holiday, and at the time Tracey was hired permanently, he got pretty good at answering his emails, but he does have an overzealous spam filter, which is why bugging him via twitter if you don’t get a fairly prompt response(assuming it’s during a normal work day) is a good system.
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That could be why he’s not getting any of my emails. I don’t know what to do. I don’t even think I remember my twitter
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Ask someone else to bug him on twitter for you!
I’d offer my services, but the whole “no net” thing kind of ruins any chance I have of Bishing.
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Mark never replies to my emails, well he did once and that was it. Everytime i’ve nominated someone he’s put it up so it doesn’t worry me.
Given the amount if work that went into Project Rainfall, only to have Nintendo of America tell them to shove it until after it sold like crazy in Europe, I don’t like your chances.
However that also showed that NoE is much more willing to take a chance, and maybe with the success of Xenoblade they will be willing to take another chance. Luckily Australia tends to follow Europe.
If it going to work you’re going to need a lot of people to push it through. Otherwise NoE can just dismiss it as not a viable option. I don’t really have any practical ideas but I wish you luck all the same.
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I was thinking of emailing Nintendo of Europe as well because if it’s released there Oz game shop means I can get it anyway.
The thing I’m really trying to do is raise awareness. At the moment only the forum (and while it’s big) is aware of sending letters to Nintendo. There could be several readers of Kotaku that also like the series but have no idea this effort is going on.
Also the 3DS would benefit from the AR horror.-
I’m fairly certain an AR horror game would cause me to lose control of my bowels in short time. If this Spirit Photo game plays anything like what I’ve seen of the Fatal Frame series, that would scare the bejeezus out of me. IN 3D!!
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Being scared just isn’t the same unless it’s…
IN 3D!
The lack of font sizes here really hurts me.
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I don’t even know how to do bold, italic, strikethroughs etc. Although maybe it would be better if you don’t tell me, I’d likely get it wrong and cause a TAY breakage of Lambo proportions
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Strangely, it uses straight up html coding, as opposed to any other abstract layer, it just filters out unwanted code, and in theory it should prevent what Lambo did, but there was a loophole in the code. Presumably it’s still there.
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It IS wordpress remember Blaghs. Shit’s so easy to break XD
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Yeah, but it does have a fair amount of site specific code here.
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True, but the CMS is still WordPress, so at the end of the day we can still break it 😀
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Actually it could be worse, it could be bloody Joomla, god help the web developer of a Joomla site if Lambo ever breaks it D:
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It’s like you’re talking a foreign language, but what ever it means, I’d like to see it
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A lot of it doesn’t make sense to me, and I have done web development!
Oh well, I’ll go find someone to discuss php with…
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Eww PHP.
I got my results for web design yesterday actually, some how I managed to pass. Which is fucking amazing. I thought I was gonna fail all the theory XD
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Imagine the reviews! “I am torn between the horror elements of this game, and the horror of extreme eye strain from playing it in 3D all the time”
I linked to the trailers but they’re awaiting moderation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_ckTvOWTI4
Please work!
Only posts with multiple links get moderated, Scree. Tis to stop spams 😛
Aw, but I’m not advertising.
Aww it’ll be okay *pats* 😛
Anyway, that trailer seriously creeped me out. The masks are…*shudder*
Looking at the videos, you won’t need the 3d on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_ckTvOWTI4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTMge-WBYm0&feature=related
I’m sorry, I haven’t learnt enough to translate anything, but I know that Maya (the girl whose normal and not dead), her senior received the purple notebook from the urban legend and he suddenly disappeared. The legend says that people who receive the notebook end up dead with their faces scratched off.
If you have the time, send them a letter a week about the issue or the like. Get others on board to do the same. It could easily be the same letter each week.
That’s one idea. Other than that, err maybe see if you could get websites like Kotaku Aus to run an article on it to inform people who might want it but have no idea how to help. It’s all something at the end of the day. Hell even write into Good Game, pretty sure they’d put something on the show.
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I was thinking of getting Kotaku AUS involved. Nintendo hasn’t even replied to my last letter though.
I thought maybe their twitter if they have one. Not that I ever use my twitter.-
I’m happy to help you, I like stirring shit up on social media 😛
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If you’d help out it’d be much appreciated! =D I will have to write up more noms. This will be my third nom letter to Mark then
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Hit me up on Steam whenever i’m online or in game with what you want me to do 😀
Might be able to get my influence on Bajo via Twitter, I still have not forgiven him for not giving me my MP match of AVP with him and that was almost a year ago >=[
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If you could do that, it’d be great. Any publicity is good publicity!
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Happy to help! 😀
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Scintillating nightly reading:
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*Woooooooosh*
There’s the sound of all that going over my head…
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We never even learned much English grammar at school, so trying to work out an adverbial adjunct or verbal predicate is… kinda difficult.
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The most important thing is to learn the name of your favourite food dishes.
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OM NOM NOM:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaolongbao
(Food is ridiculously cheap here. Bottle of Coke for the equivalent of AU 60c, four dumplings for a dollar, breakfast bread-ball-things are about 20 cents)
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Oh man those are so good fresh.
Until you pop a whole one in your mouth and the soup spills out and it’s like eating lava and burns all your tastebuds.So good.
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They had some of them in one of the many Airport lounges I’ve been in (Business and First class lounges are NICE) and I was all “OMNOMNO-OH GOD MY MOU-OMNOM”)
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At last count I’ve had three soup-related explosions.
One narrowly missed a friend. (These are huge dumplings, not the bite-sized ones). Unless you perfect the ‘bite hole in dumpling, suck soup out, then eat’ method, there is a lot of… spurting.
But nobody really minds if foreigners do crazy/stupid stuff, it’s almost expected.
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What is this language, I don’t even
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The grammar is actually much, much simpler than English. There’s no conjugation of any verbs or adjectives like, say, French, and it doesn’t have all the weirdness of English tenses. Some sentences don’t even need a verb and as long as you say a jumble of words in a rough order it’ll make sense.
Words don’t change depending on gender like French, there are no tenses, etc.
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I…. yes?
*cough*
I know how to say “Tomato” in Cantonese!
#winning-
Japanese!
Ringo = Apple
Orenji = Orange
Banana = Banana
Yasai =Vegetables
Ebi = prawn
Unagi = Eel
Usagi = prawn
Kontatsu = Pork cutlet
ichigo = strawberryHm that’s all I can think of off the top of my head.
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I took Japanese at school for 5 years and now I could barely say hello and introduce myself. Languages really are “Use it or lose it”
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(Get ready for terrible spelling, particularly as I did Japanese for six months, of which I was paying attention for 0 of them)
Ohio Gozaimas, Watashi wa Sean desu.
And then,
ITADAKIMASU
KONOHA SENNPU
KATON GOUKAKYUU NO JUTSUand a few other things from Naruto…
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Oohaiyo gozaimasu. But to be time specific.
Kon ban wa.
Hajimemashite.
Watashi wa Scree desu.
ni juu yon sai desu.
Oosutoraria jin desu.
shigoto arimasen.
Doozo yoroshiku onegaishimasu.
*polite bow*I understood itadaikimasu and nothing else XD
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I understood nothing of you massive text wall. If I remember correctly, Konnichiwa is afternoon, whereas Oohaiyo gozaimasu is morning, and since it’s technically the morning, I thought I’d go with the closest one I knew.
The other two at the bottom mean something along the line of Leaf Whirlwind(Or Leaf Village Whirlwind, kind of), whereas the other one more or less means “Great Fireball technique.”
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And my favourite move of all time is probably “Dynamic Entry.”
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Ohayou is used between 2 am and 10 am, then konnichi wa can be used until 7 pm I think and then it’s kon bon wa (good evening). Oyasumi nasai is good night.
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This is all way too complex, damn other languages, and their not being immediately known to me. It makes it far too hard.
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Hey I actually got most of that, maybe it’s not as gone as I thought. Only thing I didn’t get was the “shigoto arimasen” but even that sounds familiar enough.
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A crude way of saying “no job” Shigoto = job, arimasen = hasn’t
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Ah right. I knew I’d heard the words before, just couldn’t quite remember the specifics.
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If the drummer of The Beatles was a fruit what are the others? 😛
Well, john’s dead… What? Too blunt?
I was going to go for a burn on Ringo and say “Good musician’s” or possibly the even harsher “Good at drums.”
Bish, you are a terrible Asian.
Wait, what was Rocketman’s comment relating to language? Was it “Hey Bish, do you, uhh, do you speak Asian…?”? I think it was something like that. Hilarity.
Quite clearly he meant “moonspeak”.
I’m sure he meant to say “Do you speak an Asian language.”
But I prefer your answer.
Sounds like one of my friends, one of the most geographically challenged people you will ever meet. On my gap year from school I did a tour from Beijing to St Petersburg across Mongolia and Kazakhstan ans she wanted to know what continent I was going to. I kid you not, she asked if Mongolia was in Antarctica.
Oh Rocketman, if you read this, you’re not that bad. Maybe.
Rocketman’s not that bad, he just needs to think before he opens his racist, racist, mouth.
(Or is it homophobic? There was that one story from him…)
Oh dear.
But Beijing to St Petersburg via Central Asia sounds amazing. I am much jelly.
It was incredible. Spent most of our time, except Russia, camping, buying food from the local markets, visiting all sorts of places that nobody except the locals even know exist.
There’s just one problem – the company has cancelled the tour due to lack of interest. Granted it was 3 months and not many people can afford that much time off, and I was in the first ever group. But it’s a real shame no one will get to travel to many of those places again.
I am so jelly of your trip. Not that I can complain about a lack of overseas travel, I mean, I’ve been to Egypt!
But still. That would have been damn cool. So damn cool.
Egypt is definitely on my list of places to go.
You know, it sounds dumb, but the Pyramids are really, really, big. The main downside of our tour was that it was quite restrictive. We didn’t get nearly enough chances to go off on our own and explore. On the up-side, our tour guide was really good. A lot of the tour-guides are archaeologists, so they know their history, and they’ll spend six months working as a guide each year to make sure they get money.
A bottle of V, Two boxes of Tic-Tacs, and now I’m wide awake.
Excellent!
http://images.wikia.com/simpsons/images/6/6a/Mr_Burns_evil.gif
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Orange Tic-Tacs? They must be orange
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You’re saying that as though other types of Tic-Tacs exist. I don’t understand, mang!
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I know, I hate feeding other people’s delusions but sometimes its safer to just play along
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You’re half-correct.
One box was Orange.
The other was Citrus Twist.-
Semi-forgivable 🙂
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Half-forgiveable. Let’s be super specific here. 😛
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Had they not released Citrus Twist you would have been fully correct.
I just can’t stop eating them. They’re so tasty!
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The internet censorship here is driving me insane. Google searches don’t work for certain topics. Inexplicably, they include “Dragon Age II”.
Having no YouTube is bad enough, since it’s embedded everywhere, but I also can’t access any blogs, Western social media, a lot of forums, many gaming sites and some Wikipedia articles. It all seems to be really arbitrary.
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No proxy/vpn?
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I was flailing around a bit before I went trying to get one organised, but I have no idea how they work and didn’t trust myself to know how to use it.
Plus some of them did look a bit shady and I didn’t really have the time to search around for recommendations. If I were ever going to come back for longer than a few weeks I’d definitely get one organised.
It’s not a big deal, really, just inconvenient.
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I feel like I’m the only one who actually looks at TAY at this time. This is what holidays does to me.
Well, I’m off to bed. Goodnight TAYbies!
I can’t see this article. lol.
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the irony!
Why am I just finding out now that; Cold Chisel, Rodger Daltrey, Steve Earle & G3 (Satch, Steve Vai & Steve Lukather) are playing Bluesfest 2012 in Byron Bay?! I need to go!
Am sad to see a disturbing lack of Demon’s Souls on page 11. 🙁
Dear god, work has not gone well this week. Imaging is a bitch with poor preparation, and more so when it wasn’t your preparation that was needed…
Mumbjumboau Diary Day 6.
Typical working day. Only got to play jetpack joyride in my lunch break. Don’t care much for the longest run part of the game, but the meta game is where im really hooked. Finishing those objectives is addictive, so addictive that im on my 2nd prestige.
Ickum Bokum out
@Blaghman, I spent about ten minutes debating the best way to log into your blog to leave a comment, then I realised that I couldn’t think of anything to say.
I refer you instead to here, which will constitute the entirety of my response for now: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/01/talk-amongst-yourselves-158/comment-page-10/#comment-498647
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Ha. I did the same thing last night.
Dear Bish and Blaghman,
I am quite good with geography i find it quite facsinating. My grandpa was on my back for years to learn more about both australian and international stuff. I Think it is a bit shameful that many people my age don’t know basic geography or where states are in the USA and Cities in Europe.
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They are useful in trivia games!
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Elly and I are back in the office today. \o/
Elly opened her presents from our Kotaku kristmas friends and loved it:
https://yfrog.com/h3bkigsmj:tw1
Her words were: “They know me so well!”
And a gorgeous Cyndaquil arrived for me: https://yfrog.com/nwvzvrwj:tw1 I must now collect ALL THE POKEMANGS.
\o/ <3 😀 :0) <3333
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I’m glad you liked the Cyndaquil 🙂
Welcome back to the office Tracey!
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you did damn well my friend
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That cydaquil is quite adorable. Where on earth did you get it from!
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Wow i should pay more attention to the stuff we got you guys :/
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The letter says that it is an original creation from Etsy. Yay!
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IT is quite awesome!
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I picked that out for her \o/
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Tracey was asking on Twitter if you have a Twitter account. I think this is a sign that you should give in to the dark side and join us. 😉
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Tracey asked if I had a twitter account??? Wow… that really makes me want to join now, despite that I won’t use it often 😛
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It’s from etsy, my boy – i’ve doen a huge community gift guide which will go up next week, so everyone knows what we got, where we got it from and how much
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Its cool, i just donated and let you guys pick because i had no idea. Glad everything was so awesome Yay for loops and everyone being good at gift picking!
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I want that Cyndaquil, that is gorgeous
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Yay, Tracey’s back! 😀
I DEMAND MOAR STAFF PIX.
In regards to a question on page 10,
There hasn’t been a second contributor comp yet – i was going to do one but mark still hasn’t given me a winner for the first – i can just go ahead and do the secon one today, if you guys would like ? 🙂
There are also 3 more community prizes still to come, on today, 2 next week, including a major prize, courtesy of our friends at Gametraders
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Oh, didn’t he tell you? I won. 🙂
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really? lol
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ps. I will be writing Community Kudos today. If you’ve already sent your noms to Mark, he has passed them onto me. Any noms being submitted today should be sent to tracey.lien@alluremedia.com.au before 4pm so that I have them all before I start writing. =3
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I already sended mine at midnight last night. Should I resend?
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Yes, please re-send because Mark send the ones he had to me at 9pm last night.
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WHAT HAPPENED TO MARK DID YOU KIDNAP HIM AND SAND OFF HIS FINGERPRINTS YOU MONSTER. 🙂
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Perhaps the olives have actually killed him…
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We are still on a holiday roster so it’s just one person on at a time. We’re ALL back in the office on Monday.
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i have another comp for the main page as well
Should i send that to you or leave the remaining comps until next week?-
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Welcome back!
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Hi Traceface!
I just wanna say thank you to all the Kotaku readers who melted my heart with the most awesome Christmas presents ever. You guys know me better than anyone.
https://twitter.com/#!/ellyhart/status/155049507111976960/photo/1/large
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First person in a long time that has THANKED me for herpes…
…I mean:
You’re welcome!
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It was our pleasure, Elly. Loops was the best Santa ever!
It’s a bit of a shame you weren’t at the office for the great TAYbie invasion though, I imagine it would have been a sight to behold.-
I was so sad to have missed the invasion. When are you doing it again?
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Hope you like the android bots!! If not I’m sorry it’s totally my fault – I reminded everyone that you were an android girl.
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Thank GOD for rescue by Harli lol
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Thank CHULOOPA for GOD.
Doin’ it right.
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You did so good! I love the Android bots.
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Thats right, the TAY community gave you herpes, you carry that shit forever like luggage 😉
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Welcome back Elly, glad you like the gifts. Happy that they were all different and beside you guys deserve it
This weeks TAY doesn’t have enough LoL talk!!!!!!!
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I miss LoL erryday. LoL LoL LoL LoL LoL . So how many changes have I missed since Christmas? Lots? WILL I STILL BE ABLE TO PLAY AS TRYND AND MAOKAI?
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They changed Maokai made him less tanky and more magicy. Also Trynd’s endless rage is shortend 🙁
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Sadface for Trynd. Now I have to remember which other champions I played a bit. Friiiiends? Or maybe I should come back to new champs. Oh yeah, Nunu Bot!
HA. HA. HA. HA. HA. HA. HA. HA. HA. HA. HA. HA. HA. HA.
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Oh God Nunu o.0
ok ok I take it all back I was’nt being serious just Not Nunu no Nunu please
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Nunu Bot! xD So hilarious
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What exactly would you like to talk about HArli? We only talk about it if you start the conversation with something about LoL you want to discuss!
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Okay! What hero should I pick up next?!
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Probably a assain DPS character, i think poppy might suit you quite well.
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I thought you were shooting for FOXEH LADEH
Her free week was last week too, which probably helps you so much right now.-
OH YEAH thanks for reminding me. TIME TO SAVE UP FOR FOXEH LADY again. If my past record is any indication (5 weeks to save up for Leona, GO ME!) I will have Ahri in my possession by the year 2014.
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Maybe I should get you an RP gift card so you can buy her right away 😉
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noooooooo don’t you DARE! ;P
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Needs moar HoN. 😛
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HoN needs moar skill.
BOOM-TISH.
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Yeah, I can’t even master LoL so HoN I have no chance -.-
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I has a HoN account, I think I played once. The learning curve skyrockets above my petty intelligence so I gave up, which is wierd because I used to enjoy DotA quite alot. Probably was terrible at that too though
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Well not only that, the players REALLY grilled me on the chat on both teams, which really didn’t help the first impressions, especially since when I was trying it, it wasn’t in the f2p model. I really didn’t enjoy it. At least in LoL I can be more useful, I really don’t like feeling useless by dying so easily or not getting kills, or taking turrets down, etc
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Yeah I find that in LoL you get quite a few Asshats but they are just being juvenile, in HoN when your new or even slightly off everyone tells your bad all of the time I dont know wether its elitism or they are just overly critical
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No it’s just in HoN, nobody and I mean NOBODY likes a new starting player. At least with LoL, the summoner levelling system put you against and with other newbies as well so you barely ever got that treatment at the start, giving you time to perfect your playstyle better which also will make you accepted in the higher tiers of games (Level 30 ranked for instance)
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You get asshats on the internet everywhere.
I suppose MOBA style games breed more people with the Dunning-Kruger Effect because it’s just so easy to pass blame onto others.
Chances are you guys just got a super bad batch in HoN, because LoL certainly isn’t any better.
Doing the Tribunal has taught me that there is equal opportunity for every insult you can throw at someone imaginable. -
Nah, 95% of HoN players are complete assholes. It’s just such a shit community that really pisses me off. Although I talk a lot of trash about the whole HoN>LoL i do like both games equally.
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I actually got told by no less than 4 players, allies and enemies to uninstall after my very first game… I mean really? You guys didn’t even give me a chance!
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Well maybe if you werent practising for a HoN tournament Mrs Big Shot there would be more LoL talk 😛
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haha its funny because you think I’m good
I’m not.
Random question for LoLers in matches against lvl 30s do you see much use of low tier heros* aka ashe, rize and such?
*probably not low tier Im just calling them that because it says easy to play on the info for them
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Yeah, any champion can be used, it’s all about how YOU use him/her to be effective and playing your role in the team. You want to play Master Yi? Try Jungle Yi since he can really clean house with red buff. Ashe is used a LOT as the AD carry, ones you don’t see often in lvl 20 games are ones like Urgot who’ve been nerfed a little too much
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lvl 30* games, stupid laptop keyboard
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Well I was thinking of playing a bit of Ashe in PvP and practising with Veig and Xerath in bot matches. But mostly focusing on Bot Matches because my win total eludes to talent which is not there lol
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Well, tell me out of the following list, what best describes your playstyle.
– Take hits for the team while your allies are free to smash them while they’re focussing on you, while still able to be a nuisance so that they can’t just ignore you – Tank like my Galio
– See your abilities drop health in big chunks – Mage mid like Veigar
– Be invisible from the enemy eyes for most of the early-mid game and have the element of surprise to help your allies finish off weakened enemies – Jungler like my Skarner
– Do lots of damage over time with physical damage, critical hits, life steal so you get plenty of health back to stay in lanes longer – AD carry like Ashe (Which I really think you should main cuz your ulti arrow shots are kickarse!)
– Helping your allies through buffs and healing to help keep your damage dealing and tanking friends from dying/having to retreat and leave team engagements – Support like Sona or Taric -
I like Nuking with abilities and enjoy smashing people with veigar (had a couple of games where i basically EQR kill rinse and repeat, althought that probably should be standard)
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yeah, so when you join us in a full team of 5 we can leave that role for you :). I’m usually the AP mid with Kennen/Orianna or solo top with Galio/Warwick. I’m trying to learn jungling as well with Skarner and maybe Rammus later, and also AD ranged carry with Caitlyn/Sivir
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I always try to play a role that compliments/helps the team without being a pain for teammates because I would rather win over personal gain, If i know freyr is on the team for example I would prefer her playing AD carry over me practising the role. It may not sound like it from the games over the last couple of nights but I really hate losing lol Im not saying much out loud because im swearing at myself in my head for stuffing up, missing a shot or doing anything slightly wrong
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I think you’re fit to be my LoL apprentice cuz I got that mindset too xD. It’s good that you got the style of wanting to win rather than wanting to kill, that’s vital to LoL. Kill counts mean nothing if you can’t help push down turrets. The goal is to destroy the enemy nexus, not win a deathmatch, and how do you do that? Destroying turrets and inhibitors, not killing enemy champions. Sure killing champions is good to getting stronger, but if you had a choice of killing a champion or getting the turret (Even damaging it helps since all but the nexus turrets don’t regenerate), GET THE TURRET! Always, unless it’s too risky and you fear of getting jumped on and ganked.
I was missing a LOT on Orianna’s ulti and that was pissing me off to no end, they just and I mean JUST get out of range when the boom gets charged and set off. Same thing happened on Ezreal’s ulti too, which is MUCH harder to target in long range, but I think I’m going to change his build around after last night’s match, I’m going to try AP/AD hybrid Ezreal, with a manamune and archangel’s staff combo (+2000 mana anyone with 2% of the full total going into AD and AP? :P), it seems like something I should look into so I can be deadly with anything. Oh yeah apparently his Q and ulti skills get bonuses stacked from both AD and AP ratios, so it seems stupid not to at least try it!
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I think Ashe is not low tier imo, probably mid-high tier. I see her used a lot in tournaments and she makes up a lot of the core hero line-ups, as does Annie. Although Ashe is indeed easy to pick up and learn I think higher level players can really destroy with her.
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Yeah like Yellowstar’s ulti shot from mid stairwell to the other side’s bottom second turret getting a direct hit on the enemy Janna for his two buddies to jump in and finish her off. That was really something to watch
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That.. would have been so beautiful :’)
I was trying my best to play carry Ashe the last KvK we played but I think I’m doin it wrong!
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Sorry I didn’t pay attention to your build after the match otherwise I would’ve been able to help with that 🙁
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It’s okay Techy, next time I will go for 6 phantom dancers. That’s the thing everybody stacks for AD, right?!
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Yeah sure if you want literally no real damage xD, yeah you’ll be a ninja with the bow firing rate, but your crits will only go as high as 250 as an estimate since enemies can stack armour.
Apparently I’ve been doing AD carries all wrong as well, that I should stack damage first so I can do strong poke strikes and back off then shoot again, later on getting AS/crit, which I was doing first 😛
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i figured you guys probly already know about this one but games/more details.
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oh thanks man! totally forgot about that site. /stalks
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The highly successful Freyr AD Carry build dictates:
3 Phantom Dancers
2 Bloodthirsters
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does the lifesteal work with frost arrow? (it didn’t in dota)
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Hmm. does LoL have the orb-effect thing going on?
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Orbwalking?
There’s a bit of debate whether or not the term applies in League of Legends, but essentially, you can essentially ‘animation cancel’ once you get your effect/attack off and try minimise the awkward pause.
Unless you’re talking about something else.
Imma trademark that build 😛
I am not feeling well at all today 🙁
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Too much cake? I hope you feel better.
NO! I HOPE YOU FEEL SUPER.
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If cake makes you sick it is never the cakes fault, always blame yourself before you blame cake, Otherwise it will tell its other cake friends and all the cakes will make you sick. True Story. Man i speak rubbish!
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But your avatar puts on a brave smile regardless. My heart is warmed.
I hope you feel better.
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Not good. 🙁
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Take it easy, man!
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It sounds like you may be coming down with a bad case of “working”. I suggest that if you don’t feel better by this afternoon, take 1(one) full weekend and see how you go on Monday.
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That’s not good, get well soon human
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if you ask nicely, maybe you can get a nice cuddle from some or all of us to make you feel better?
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Yeah I know the feeling, tonsilitis is knocking me around this week, luckily I’m HITTING BACK MU’FUGGA
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oh you poor thing Puppylicks! that freaking sucks, I hate tonsillitis so much. I get it six times a year but the doctor said it’s a good sign at least because it means your tonsils are doing their jobs!
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To all Kotaku artists, looking to get their work out there. SUGHLY and DOC WHAT? for example. (See, if I shout their names they are more likely to notice… right?)
Beginnings Comic Anthology seeking cover designs
http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=272966916090891&id=249559031765013
We are seeking submissions of concepts/art for the cover of the Anthology. We need to make a decision by the end of the month. You don’t need to have anything in the anthology to be considered – just need to be Australian and/or living in Australia. Concepts/Art should be emailed to Beginnings.Anthology AT gmail DOTcom ASAP Please spread the word!
I have not one, but two pieces in this anthology, so we can turn it into a inTAYsion if we do this right! 😀
… bad pun is bad. Sorry.
But get your cover designs moving. The theme of the anthology is “Beginnings” – nothing more specific than that.
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W00T!
TIME TO BUST OUT MY BEST STICK FIGURES!
Shane, are you planning on posting any more bazillion deaths stories today, or will I not miss any if I actually stop procrastinating and do the stuff I need to do today?
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Well i am not planning to be witty and hillarious today so you are covered on that.
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Hmmm, how does this sound? I’ll do it this afternoon, so you have the morning to be productive/.
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You are a brilliant man, my friend. Thanks! 😀
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i has a bad case of the workies today… how dare they make me do the job they pay me to do? can’t they see i need my TAY time during work hours or the world would stop?
also, i had a discussion with the partner last night:
is it sad that i carry my pokewalker on me at work? 😛
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Dont you work at a primary school? or a few of them at least?
Carrying that thing on your hip would save more time an effort than having candy in your van…
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lol this is true…. wait… what?
*throws pokewalker in disgust* 😛
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Well…do you walk much at work? Because if you’re just sitting at a desk all day it might seem a bit…interesting. 😛
Oh man, I used to have my Pokewalker on at uni, that was so fun…
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when i do support i walk a fair amount, that and it gives me something to do when it’s quiet 😛
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Yeah I had to go to work yesterday. It made me sad because I’d been at the cricket for the first two days of the Sydney test, then missed out on Clarke’s triple century 🙁
But I have my last day of holidays today, so I’m planning to spend the whole day in my pyjamas watching cricket, playing games, and posting in TAY. Yay!
Skrillex has a new EP OMG i havent been this excited for a EP ever!
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but… it’s all the same… isn’t it?
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Isn’t Space Marine pretty much Gears of War? 😛
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You are my hero BDKIAF, The album is awesome!
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I will admit, Skrillex made Korn listenable again – quite a bloody achievement!
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Checking it out now, so far I’ve heard the first track. And it’s goooood.
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*twitch*
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Haha, sorry Loops, I had to.
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dude.. that was just harsh.
My comment was an actual inquiry.Yours was…. SODOMY1
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i think i need to lie down for a bit…
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*pats Loops on the back*
there there buddy it’s okay… it’s oooookay
Captain Titus would kick Fenix’s arse any day
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Skrillex is a different breed to other dubstep, he seems to have heavier hooks and a lot more energy to his songs. I think it’s his metal influences coming through as he used to be the vocalist for From First To Last
I don’t listen to much Dubstep but I love Skrillex’s shit, I can imagine a lot of Dubstep purists probably hate his guts hahaha
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It does seem that he gets a ot of hate from dubstep artists. Probably because he is the most well know but he isn’t their sort of dubstep!
Listening to it right now, it’s making me feel like a BAUS.
Anyone notice how many Djent (Periphery, Tesseract, Kevin Suter etc.) fans are big Skrillex fans as well?
It’s understandable since they have their similarities despite being completely different genres.
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It doesn’t matter what genre he is in, he is a great producer. I am sure if he dedicated his time to do pop music it would be similarly awesome.
Tad and I saw the latest Sherlock Holmes with a few other friends last night. Wasn’t as good as the first one, but still pretty entertaining. There was a trailer for the Muppets movie, though, and now I am super excited for that next week. I love the Muppets.
Before the movie, because Tad’s been going on about Pokemon cards all week, we decided to buy some booster packs for the fun of it, and he got much better cards than me. D: I got three Boldores…he got a super fancy Thundurus.
D:
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YAAAAYAYYYYYYYYYYY!!!! *flails arms about*
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If the movie isn’t arms flailing for 90 minutes, I will be disappointed.
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If beaker doesn’t BLOW SHIT Up i will also be disappoint!
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dr Bunsen Honeydew to the rescue
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Fun fact: I’ve only ever owned one Pokemon card. It was a Pikachu card with a shiny foil effect, given to me when I saw the first Pokemon movie.
I feel obliged to point out I was 19 at the time. 19. And seeing a pokemon movie. :/
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The sherlock holmes movies arent true to the character they are batman movies with sherlock holmes being batman.
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Sherlock Holmes basically was Batman, 50 years before Batman was Batman.
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I with you on this one rockets. Sherlock uses deduction to know things that other people don’t see, too work out what will happen before it happens so that it can be stopped.
He doesn’t use powers of deduction to win fist fights-
Based on the source material Holmes was a champion boxer and a master of jiu jutsu. I’m sure there’s at least one documented example of him using her powers of perception to best someone in a fight.
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20 minute wait at the servo this morning. Now I’m half hour late for work and worst of all, when I open the can of V I got this morning, it is completely flat.
#awesomestarttoday
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KKKHHHHAAAAANNNNNNN!!!
KKHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!
Hello everyone! I know you’ve all missed me so don’t even try to deny it. So, what have I missed in my long absence?
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MAgs i was thinking about you the other day. I am good hows the new job treating you!
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The new job is great! Keeps me very busy though! Which is why I haven’t been able to get on here. What’s been happening with you?
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Hey Mags! Long time no see human, how you been?
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I’ve been good 🙂 Very busy with everything but good. How have you been?
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Yeah I’ve had a firstworldproblems style crappy christmas and new years thanks to family and a near-direct hit lightning strike destroying lots of my hardware which I had to replace and was without internet for 5 days and all it took was replacing the fricken router 😛
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Aww man that sucks! Hate it when hardware dies! 😛
And it’s always the last thing you try haha 😛
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OMG MAN, so much has happened whilst you were gone.
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Qucik summary? 😛 please?
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SPARKLETITS, erhm i mean Mr. Mags, how have you been buddy? things haven’t been the same without you man…
you missed everything dude, EVERYTHING… there was marriages and divorces, births and deaths, incest and rapes… and SKYRIM… or have i been watching Game of Thrones again?
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Someone plays SKYRIM in Game of Thrones?! Will have to rewatch cause I missed that part 😛
I’ve missed you too.
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so are you back for good or are you leaving us again?
*sobs*
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Hopefully back for good, there’ll be some days I won’t be able to get on at all and I won’t be on as much as I used to be…
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Guys.. random question.
I usually wouldn’t say anything but this is seriously starting to bug me.
I used to chat to certain Taybie a fair bit on steam, but lately, seemingly after the Sydney meats, he seems to be just flat out ignoring me, especially via twitter. He’ll reply to others but leave me completely out of the reply chain even when i’ve joined the discussion…
I don’t know if i’ve done something wrong??? should i just say something or just leave it be?
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Its me isn’t it, Oh god oh god, I have offended you, but wait loops i am not in sydney are you confused. I am sure they just accidentaly ignoring at you. I am sure no harm is meant. Unless it is and we can have a dance fight like west side story!
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I was about to ask if it was me, but I don’t have a steam account. I don’t know what to do, if it was me, I would ignore for a while and let it eat at me, then I would send a private message along these lines (figuring that I had nothing to lose if they hated me already):
Hi [insert name],
I feel a bit awkward asking this, but I’ve kind of gotten the feeling lately that you’ve been ignoring me. If I’ve done something to upset you, I am sorry. If you want to keep ignoring me, that’s okay, but just know that I would take you back if you asked, and give you big squishy cuddles.
Kisses, Chuloopa.That’s right, I sign all my messages as if they came from Chuloopa. Hope you don’t mind buddy. … feel free to commence ignoring me now.
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PS: When this kind of thing happened to me, I let the eating stage drag out to the point where it was too late to send that message. So now, it’s just a constant sad feeling whenever I think of it
So you’re better off dealing with it, if you were close enough that you’ll regret not doing it.
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Hey i thought strange didn’t like me for ages, I had no reason to think this, but it happens. Its probably just something like that!
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I’m pretty sure Strange doesn’t like you.
trolololol
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I thought the same thing, Rocket. (Though to be fair, I always assume everyone hates me. Heh. Jury’s still out.)
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Wait, what?! You thought I didn’t like you, too? 🙁
I wonder what it is I do that makes people think I don’t like them. For the record, I like all of you…except maybe that spoilery Virus guy. 😛 -
You’ve never done any thing to make me think that, to be honest. So don’t worry. 😀 (I just have a thing about respectable authority figures, pillers of the community and all that. I assume they hate. It’s just a little inferiority complex I’m workin’ on. :p)
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Guess I’d better work on being less respectable then. 😉
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I once had this awful feeling someone didn’t like me, so I asked a mutual friend about it and he assured me “Yeah, that guy can’t stand you. Like, it’s probably best if you just avoid him from now on.”
In my experience these things are usually all in your head. The seed is planted and the mind does that self-conscious trick it loves to do so much.
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^ What D.C. said. You could be over-analysing things in a negative way and this person is all like “Oh sorry man I didn’t realise! We’re cool <3<3lessthenthree"
IT'S NOT ME IS IT????
If he’s anything like me, he’s forgetful to the point of ignorance. Just ask him, cause there’s no point in wasting weeks wondering about it when you could get the (perceived) awkwardness out of the way fast.
Treat it like a band aid: put this relationship on minor cuts and abrasions.
Wait, I mean, something something faster the better.
I think confronting them may be the best idea. Get it all out in the open. Not sure about the Steam thing, maybe they’re just not around there as much anymore? I know I tend to forget I have Steam running in the background because it doesn’t actually close when you click the little close button, just minimises to your tray.
As for the Twitter thing, Twitter has a really annoying habit of unfollowing people you follow. Maybe ask them to refresh their followers page, that usually for me in those cases.
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*Maybe ask them to refresh their following page, that usually works for me in those cases.
Note to Self: learn to reread before submitting comment. 😛
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There are a lot of people from here that I don’t follow on Twitter. I’m rather lazy like that but I still see when they talk to me because all of the Twitter apps show when you’re mentioned.
People don’t talk to me much on Steam. Probably a good thing, seeing as I normally just leave my PC idling with Steam on. The other night when Harli tried to pester me about SC2, I didn’t see it for half an hour.
By my standards, I caught that one quickly :p
So anyone trying to pester me in Steam, if it doesn’t show me as in-game, I’m probably not there.
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Lies, stop covering your tracks Trjn,
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because I just can’t leave a sentence unclosed like that.
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You forget that I use a Mac as my main computer and it shares a monitor with my PC.
So I might be physically in front of my PC without using it,
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but not?
Okay I have given you 11 minutes to close this sentence. I took matters into my own hands.
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This could turn into a rather fun little game (although it might come back to haunt me
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Dear Youtube,
If i’m listening to metal, regardless of who it is, don’t you ever, EVER, suggest that i would like to listen to limp bizkit.
I will fething cut you, do you understand me?
xo Loops
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It’s just one of those days, feelin’ like a freight train…
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These wounds they will not heal?
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Does it crawl in your skin first though!
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Get down with the sickNAAEUUS!
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and we’re the three best friends that anybody could have!
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Maybe i should do it.. you know, for the nookie
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Don’t waste too much time worrying about it.
Just keep rollin’…
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I know what you mean loops
Maybe it is just My generation but when you have to Getcha groove on it’s bad when youtube suggestions don’t go My way.
You just need to Hold on and It’ll be ok, there is no need to Break stuff. Take a look around and realise that sometimes they will not offer exactly what you want. Where is the Trust? After all there is Nobody like you so they will have trouble matching your preferences.
Yay got my offer for Unilodge this morning via Email.
Rent will be $280 a week o.0
The building im moving into is brand new* and reserved for first year students \o/
I will probably live on a diet of alcohol and mi goreng. o.0
My Girlfriend Does not approve /o\
My friends live in the building next to it which is connect by a skybridge \o/
If we use the Holt Meter there is more win than lose so I must be happy right?
*it gets finished next week I think
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Holy shit!
$280 a week for a UNI LODGE?!!?!?!I’d tell them to stuff it up their proverbials!
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seriously – bee and i pay $265 a week for a 2 bedroom apartment in a nice street, which is only a 5 minute drive from my uni. lol
Man talk about highway robery.Are you sharing? you can’t be at that price, surely?!
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The weekly rate for your 52 week contract is: AUD $259.00
There is also a fixed Utility and Service Fee* of $25.00 per week.
Data usage is charged at $2.00 per week.
Total cost per week for your contract is: AUD $286.00.
Going for a scholarship that takes it down to $236.00 per week.
this is my room
http://www.unilodge.com.au/images/floorplans/9F852A5A514CBC995AA0329.JPGApparently there is a longer version which is the one im getting
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The country part of me (Wagga Wagga) tells me that’s more than I used to pay for a 3 bedroom house in a nice area of town.
The city part tells me you may be lucky it’s not over $300…
One positive you can add is potential severe reduction in travel costs.
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Country Town me was like oh sweet jesus as well lol
Canberra me was like hmmm it could be worse especially right in the city.
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One* day.
woops lol
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Uni accommodation is always expensive, especially if its done through the uni. Thats what stopped me from living on campus when I was at uni. It worked out being cheaper to catch the train in 5 days a week. Even if it meant spending 2.5 hours each way on the trains. Sometimes I wonder if it was worth it…
But being in a brand new building sounds worth it. A lot of the buildings at Macquarie uni hadn’t been redone in many years by the look of them
Does it come with meals? A lot of high-priced uni accommodation comes with meals. And from what I’ve seen, the bedrooms are single, but share a bathroom and common room with 3-4 other people.
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No meals but they have community lunches and dinners and some floors have like free pizza night once a fortnight Ive heard
Part of me wishes Australian universities had that community feel that the American campuses have. But then the anti-social kicks in. Screw that. :p
Homestory Cup IV started last night. For those playing at home it’s a SC2 tournament that will go for most of the weekend and instead of being the usual tomfoolery, the players who aren’t playing will cast matches.
It started at midnight last night, so naturally I fell asleep watching it. Missed most of the good bits according to Reddit.
Still, having the players cast the matches is both hilarious and informative. You guys should most definitely watch it tonight. Forget having a social life or playing LoL, go watch!
Or watch while you socialise and play LoL.
Multitasking!
Hey Loops!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jAFzkntcIE&ob=av3e
You’re welcome 😀
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mmmmmmm… that’s nice 🙂
If you’ll excuse me, this has inspired to go into the store room and shout at inanimate objects
Morning, Everyone.
The left side of my right eyesocket feels a smidge sore.
Other than that, it’s all good.
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Have you tried punching it?
I get this feeling that you tried punching it.
That was probably a bad idea.
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You’ve been fighting again haven’t you?
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Rule #1 of fight club!
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I just figured that he had to fight because Rocketman said his dad was the Incredible Hulk and he just knew that wasn’t true.
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You trying to do the crazy eyes pointed in different directions thing? Just leave that to the pros 😛
An actual ad for Soul Calibur [sic] 5, apparently.
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Where’s the problem? I think it sums up the game quite concisely.
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Just FYI, maybe don’t go opening that one with anyone able to see your screen.
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Thanks dude you actually saved my ass then 😀
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someone doesn’t like to live life dangerously
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I clicked it even though I was at work. Danger is my middle name.
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Wow. Your name just got even cooler!
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hahahha!!
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SirEatsAlot Danger Harli.
plain awesome
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Oh! Yes!
NSFW
Sorry!
/o\
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there’s an ad there? all i see is boobs?
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Keepin’ it classy.
Also, this is how Soul Caliber 6 will turn out:
https://mobile.twitter.com/#!/wkerslake/status/155030989691813888
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i think we all know #6 is just going to be a bukake flick
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I don’t know whats worse. Thats the ad was like that, or that I was expecting it to be like that
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I love boobs as much as the next guy, but I thought SC5 was toning down the smut this time.
A TALE OF SWORDS AND BOOBS, ETERNALLY RE-SOLD
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COME PLAY MY LORD!
Despite the fact that no gameplay or screenshots have been shown, Mechwarrior Online still has me very intrigued and may be the game to finally break me into the MMO scene.
Just the fact that I can sign up with Wolf’s Dragoons makes me wanna get stuck right in there ASAP.
That’s right, Wolf’s Dragoons, I walk that line baby.
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*sigh* It just sucks because i know my laptop won’t run it.. the second half of this year cannot come fast enough!
Ahhh – my life story song!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=nqiVvOXotyw
*jumps around*
JOO HAS SOME CRAZY HAR BROOOOO!!
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Reminds me of Powerman 5000
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ahh yes – Rob Zombie’s far-less talented brother. lol
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Ahhh nostalgia bomb right there.
Wisconsin Death Trip was the BEST album by far 😀
Man, still laughing about the Star Trek MMO F2P switch, cause I have a mate with severe bad luck regarding the situation: he bought a lifetime subscription on original launch day.
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Hah, my Brother-in-law bought a lifetime subscription to The Lord of the Rings one, but a few months in, he managed to ebay off his account (for a profit!), and then later again it went F2P.
I imagine he was chuffed.
*Crashes through door*
Oh, SH-!
*Scrambles around and slams door behind him*
Thunkthunkthunk! *The tips of spear heads peak through the timber*
*Dusts himself off*
Ok people, I’m back! I have no time to explain, but I need some help!
(*Breathless*)
Who can tell me why my colleague can’t send/recieve in Outlook while using a Telstra Next G dongle thingy?
His mentally unsound wife changed his account settings to her account settings *face-palm* and now I can’t seem (*thumping on door*) to change them back…
*Pulls hand grenade from pocket, opens door a smidge and flicks grenade through the gap*
*Closes door* THOOOM! *Door splinters slightly, but holds*
Any help would be apprecia- Oooh Shapes! *Buries a grubby hand in box Bish is holding and pulls out a fist full of Shapes*
So… What’s been *munch* happening? *munchmunch*
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Some guy just stole some Shapes from me!
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I’m afraid I cannot help you with your colleague’s problem but I just have to say: Best.Entrance.Ever!!
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Agreed with Strange. Definitely best entrance ever.
Now where have you been, hmmm? Too good for us now you’re fighting off ladies fawning over that photo of you that has surfaced on the interwebs?
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Wait… They were fawning ladies?
*Opens door and looks at the mess of human remains*
Bollocks…
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Let me at em! Let me at em! I’ll strikethrough the lot of em! Oh, wait, you already killed em all? :'(
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Also agree with Strange 😀
Best bet with the Outlook thingy is probably to remove the outlook account under mail in control panel. Having said that, only do it if you’re comfortable with re-adding everything correctly. I have no idea of your set up or tech knowledge 😛
In terms of connecting via dongle, couldn’t say much without knowing more about it, which would require you sharing info that you probably shouldn’t 😛
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Trying to help him out remotely, which is frustrating. Last thing I tried was adding a new account (without removing the old one) but the SMTP failed… So I gave up.
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I’m not great at troubleshooting Outlook or Exchange, purely cause I haven’t had enough exposure to them.
Anything I can think of at this point would be speculation, so don’t think I’ll be much more use 🙁
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WOHIN GEHST DU? WOHIN??
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Wah…?
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I rot13’d this, I got nothin’
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MEIN PAGE!
doo-doo-doo-doodoodoo
MEIN PAGE!
doo-doo-doo-doodoodoo
DU BIST HIER IN MEINEN PAGE!
MEIN PAGE!-
DU
DU HAST
DU HAST MICH
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*massive slaps*
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Meerschweinchen.
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Sie will es und so ist es fein
So war es und so wird es immer sein
Sie will es und so ist es Brauch
Was sie will bekommt sie auchTiefe Brunnen muss man graben
wenn man klares Wasser will
Rosenrot oh Rosenrot
Tiefe Wasser sind nicht still-
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Damn youtube at work o.0
My all time favourite rammstein song Ich Will 😀
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Schnitzel.
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Parmagiana
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call 123-duwierdesteinenkrankenschwesterbrauchen to claim your reward for winning
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I heard rumours that Postal 3 was rather terrible. So terrible that I was tempted to play it to see if it qualified as “so bad it’s good”.
Then I watched the Giant Bomb Quick Look.
Methinks I’ll just continue not caring about that series.
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assault suits valkan on PS2 should be on that list.
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cancel that.. it’s not ASV – it’s another game that i can’t remember it’s name now, i always get them confused..
either way there is a HORRIBLE mech game on ps2 lol
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Watch the video.
It doesn’t take long for the GB guys to start complaining about the game not being closed to finished.
Definitely a contender.
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@techie my friend who played quite a bit with Ez used this order (lolstat stalker) Doran blade, Boots, sheen,Ionian boots of lucid, bloodthirster, trinity force, last whisper, banshee’s, madreds.
dont know if that helps?
@harli i thought you where doing well with ashe in that game, you certainly did more than me when i used her lol
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aww thanks man that’s nice to hear.
Also, good luck with your moving into unilodge thing. I had a friend who lived in campus and he said it gets pretty wild!
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Thanks Harli 😀 should be fun but im going to try to be sober for at least 75% of the year, trying to make the basketball team to compete in national uni games 🙂 lol
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Yeah I can hold onto that for an AD Ezreal if I want to try that again but I want to really try this hybrid Ezreal build, cuz it looks REALLY tempting with the build I put together
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If Hybrid works it will be awesome and hilarious. If your on late tonight ( Im working at the video store until 11 probly be on after that) then I would like to see you rolling with it bot match or pvp i dont mind 😀
also will be watching how you play to learn lots of things…and because i like getting my creep on-
Yeah Ezreal is a very self-breakable character cuz everything is a skillshot or strategic positioning skill. They way you play on Ezreal is probably the most dependant than any other champion on LoL, but when you get it right, it pays off in spades. Cuz if you’re not familiar or good with Ezreal, you’re more than useless, so you need LOTS of practise with him, which I will do over time.
But the whole concept of it I really like. I just really like the challenging characters cuz it feels so satisfying when you destroy your enemies with it cuz you get the feeling that “Well… this champion isn’t easy to play, most would struggle, yet I can do it!” sort of thing, which I love. Like Kennen for example. Without his ulti, his biggest damage dealing and core ability for initiating is his Q, which is a very thin skillshot which can also be intercepted by minions, but when it hits, it hits HARD! Seriously I’ve bought a Veigar and a Teemo down from full to half health with one shot on this guy, and also, half of his abilities you need to be up close and personal to be effective with. Kennen is a squishy mage yet half of his skills encourage you to get right in the middle of a fight, literally! You need to be reckless and strategic at the same time for it to pay off and according to the guys I do that very well.
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Kennen would be very hard to master, but considering how well you roll with ken i think you will do well with Ez. I didnt know Ez was so difficult I tried her once and played against another Ez, lets just say i was dominated so severely i decided that definetly requires alot of practice and focus to play well with. In a similar reason behind you picking kennen and ez its why i play with veig, i like the challenge sure hes not the hardest of the range players but timing is so important and awareness as well*
*guess thats true with every hero lol
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One of Ez’s cons: He’s seen as a girl a lot on the internet 😛
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lol Ez is a young boy isent he. Looks and sounds like a woman.
who on TS does that remind me of 😛
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@Harli
Orbwalking?
There’s a bit of debate whether or not the term applies in League of Legends, but essentially, you can essentially ‘animation cancel’ once you get your effect off and try minimise the awkward pause.
Unless you’re talking about something else.
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I was talking about something else. ;P
Orb-effect is a term that has something to do with the properties of attacks some heroes have. For some reason, you can only have one ‘orb-effect’ on at once. See here for what I am referring to -> http://www.playdota.com/mechanics/Orb_Effects
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Oh, those things! Yeahhhh, man I remember being caught out by that.
No, I don’t believe so.
The closest equivalents to say, Skadi and Stygian are Frozen Mallet and Black Cleaver (in terms of effect, off the top of my head, slow and armour reduction, right?), and I’m pretty sure they both proc their on-hit effects if you have both.-
Most excellent.
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Hey, do you guys know if there is a way to stop from automatically downloading updates for my games? Cause, you know I have to make this 2gb last for another week? Well, steam decided it wanted to download a 1gb update for Super MNC this morning… ಠ_ಠ
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“stop steam from automatically downloading updates”…
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Should be an option when you right click the game in your library.
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If you let it start and pause it right away it won’t download anything for that game until you restart it. That how I managed to rack up about 10 Gb worth of updates for Tf2
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I’m pretty sure it still stays paused after you restart. That’s what it’s always done for me.
Pausing when it starts doesn’t really help much when it does it while I’m away from the computer for a few hours…
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Each game, if you r-click and go in to properties, has a “keep this game updated” checkbox. If you uncheck, it won’t update (funnily enough)
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Think it’s a drop down bawkz, but yeah, this.
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Hey, I’m at work- had to do it from memory 🙂
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Yeah, I know about that, probably should have elaborated a bit more in my question. I was wondering if there was an option to just not update all of them, instead of having to set it individually.
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Now I’m glad I didn’t win the whole steam library in that competition. 😛
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Pause all updates?
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You break Tay, steam breaks your DL limit
Karma?
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dammit…
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Yeah each game in properties has a “keep updated” check box just uncheck it brah.
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Switch to an ISP that runs an unmetered Steam mirror?
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I wish, but I can’t get ADSL/2+ where I live. So I have to live with wireless broadband. Sadly, no one has unmetered steam for wireless broadband.
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Bigpond do, but seriously why would you go with their over priced service. Alas they’re the only provider here who you can get an actual 3G signal with in most parts. What’s that Vodafail you don’t even offer us actual 3G…
I know your pain Lambo, even though i’m on ADSL2+ I have several friends in your situation 🙁
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BUT THAT SMNC UPDATE ADDS NEW TAUNTS DAMMIT, NEW TAUNTS!! AND, AND, FIXES BUGS AND STUFF
man… i really love that game too much….but luckily for me, one advantage (the only advantage) of having bigpond internet is unmetered downloads on steam!
oh my god..
can’t
stop
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man i usually hate fart jokes.. but mannnnnnn…
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OH GOD THERE’S ANOTHER!
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My friend linked me a Lost version after the show finished, I laughed and felt like I was a simpleton afterwards. :p
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jXzu2WQDnY — Here’s the one if you want to kill some brain cells. 😉 Lost spoilers too, I guess.
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So, I bought the Kinect during the week between Christmas and New Years and I have to say, I’m having a lot of fun with it. There aren’t many games for it yet but I’ve found it very responsive, and a LOT of fun, especially when drinking with friends.
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I love the technology, but don’t find the games all that good. I read that Tim Schafer from Double Fine is voicing a character in a new Kinect game, though. http://www.joystiq.com/2011/12/30/how-tim-schafer-ended-up-as-the-main-voice-in-upcoming-kinect-xb/
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The games so far are pretty basic, but I’ve had fun with Gunstringer, Dance Central 2 and Kinect Adventures. I’ve also heard that UFC Personal Trainer is really good.
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When you play that kinect dance game, how much does your afro sway?
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So much….so….much…
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i got a kinect, and for me it serves the same purpose as the Wii does for me… kinect sports = BOWLING+booze, kinect adventure = hurting the person next to you + booze… WHAT’S NOT TO LIKE? 😛
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EXACTLY! This guy gets it!
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If anybody is interested green man gaming has Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War II: Retribution for $7.50
I missed the space marine sale last night but at least I can still get a little 40k love
Lift your game, Harli.
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dammit, I was doing super important stuff (like being at the hairdresser
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because my hair is obviously more important than talking to some random on the internetz).
😛
I’m helping?
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I don’t like re-enrolling in Uni. It reminds me that I have to go back to Uni this year…
I’ll play Mario Kart to take my mind off it. Finally got a 3-star rating on all the cups last night! I wept! (Also, SO many people cheat on that Wuhu Island track when playing online it’s ridiculous. :P)
Hey Loops, everytime I listen to Rammstein this is all I hear these days:
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I saw you say that the other day, but decided to pretend i didn’t see it. lol
I had seen that clip a while before, and it’s actually rather amusing 😛
Loooooooops you seen Rammsteins (relatively) new video for Mein Land? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSfmWIrjsvU
Not sure what so hilarious about a band who sing in German with a video set in sunny California.
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1. Look at the top of the page. lol
2. It’s jumerous for a number of reasons, the main one being that it’s completely out of R+’s comfort zone.
It’s retro, it’s somewhat wholesome, and it’s goofy. Also the words need to be understood to convey the clip as well.
the switch at the end to a much more “Rammstein” feeling scene is great as well.
So yeah, basically it’s funny because it’s not them.-
My goal for today is to use the excellent and mysterious word ‘jumerous’ in a sentence 🙂
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I watched the making of it. everyone but Flake was cool with it. He wasn’t very keen on the idea & such. But yeah really out of Rammsteins normal comfort zone I agree.
I didn’t see that D:
Oh also there should really be a NSFW tag on the one I linked, it has titties at the end of the video.
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Why is that not safe for work? It should be encouraged.
I watched the making of too – till also wasn’t too keen on the idea, but has tremendous faith in the producer.
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I don’t remember that, but I can never remember shit I swear >_>
That surprises me about Till though cause is kind of crazy, with his stage & video antics. After all he did pierce his cheek to feed a wire & a white LED into his mouth for the Ich Tu Dir Weh video.
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In order to maintain airspeed velocity, a swallow needs to beat its wings 43 times every second, right?
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I’M NOT INTERESTED
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It could be carried by an African swallow…
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It could grip it by the Husk
Good times indeed
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A five ounce bird could not carry a one pound coconut!
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I’ve got an unusual feeling of guilt that I ruined the fun of today’s Remember This. :S
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So much so that I am going to announce a weekly Shame to accompany Kudos, and you will be our first winner!
(Kidding – I’m just disappointed it wasn’t The Dig. I was 65% sure, best EVAH!)
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THIS IS WHY NO ONE LIKES YOU!!!!!1!W#
One minute is pretty impressive though.
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*sniff*
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*pats head*
/totally not weird at all
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Why guilt?
Getting it in one minute is something to be proud of, man.-
The pride is also a source of guilt, man. 😉 (I really should see that psychiatrist. :p)
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Or a psychologist? 😛
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Nice work DC. If there’s a game you’re that obsessed over, and it comes up, why wouldn’t you go for it. Tracey wasn’t to know. I just find it funny that she said she wanted to last 2 mins and you got it in 1. Normally there’s hardly even a guess in the first 2 mins
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Did you Remember That too quickly?
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That’s not guilt you’re feeling, it’s GLORY.
Savor it.
My list of movies I’m looking forward to this year:
John Carter
Star Wars EP1 3D
Men in Black III
The Avengers
The Amazing Spider-Man
The Dark Knight Rises
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
That’s all I can think of right now…
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Prometheus and Hugo!
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“Star Wars EP1 3D”
*glare*
STOP – GIVING – HIM – YOUR – MONEY!
it just makes things worse
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I would second this. But it’s too late. If I watched it in 3D I could at least imagine that a lightsaber was going to cut off my head and end the pain 😛
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I actually think the 3D will serve the pod racing scenes particularly well. (Atleast they did on Star Tours.) I’m still not gonna see it, though. 😉
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Yeah, that’s why I’d like to see it. 3D podracing and that duel with Obi-Wan, Qui-Gon and Darth Maul.
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That reminds me, I’m totally gonna see Titanic in 3D and I don’t give a damn what any one thinks. :p
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I haven’t seen titanic. I thought it was a good film?
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Depends who you ask. Got so over-exposed that people began to hate it on principle… like Avatar. :p
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I get that feeling every time I try to watch a 3D movie…my head is too large for the glasses 😐
This actually happening? I figured that 3D Star Wars was the next logical step to get people to watch at the cinema then buy the full box set again, but I didn’t realise it was happening so soon. *sigh*
Also, looks like they’re releasing them in the order that Lucas likes, but that everybody knows is totally incorrect.
Lucas would need to pay me to sit through episode 1 again. Especially in 3D.
I wonder what he’s changed this time? Watto shoots first? Maybe a few extra NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOs?
I’d probably go see it if it was The Phantom Edit though. That made the film almost watchable.
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Midichlorians are now tiny little creatures that talk street.
All lights sabers are replaced with walkie talkies.
Whenever any one talks they now reach towards the camera COS 3D!!!
At least 3 CGI creatures added to every frame.
Jake Lloyd replaced with Hayden Christensen(?)-
R2D2 not only flies, but now has a Lucas-style beard and smokes a pipe.
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Wait so R2-D2 became more awesome than he already was?!
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There is a trailer at the start of 3D Star Wars Phantom Menace.
It goes for 2 Minutes and 30 Seconds.
It is for Star Wars Episode 7.
Which Leads to Episodes 8 and 9.
Although Lucas will probably change his mind and edit it out right before it is actually released in Cinemas.
Which actors are in “That’s All I Can Think of Right Now”?
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Didn’t you hear? I’m starring in that one! Plus, Rowan Atkinson, Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson and Mr. T. I’m surprised you haven’t heard of it…
😛
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It’s a rom-com starring Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds. Kevin Cline plays Bullock’s friendly Editor at an upscale Manhattan magazine, whilst Geoffrey Rush in a touching portrayal plays Reynold’s early onset Alzheimer’s ridden father.
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The Guy From That Thing and That One Chick, Damn It What Was Her Name Again?
Both really well known, I’m surprised you didn’t already know.
Don’t forget Brave. (Though I kind of hate the name, was much better as The Bow and the Bear. :P)
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Oh yeah, I forgot about that one.
PROMETHEUS!!!
So it turns out the Demon’s Souls Collectors Edition is just a hair over half a kilo. I’m slightly impressed by that.
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That makes it spensive to post 🙁
I think I’m over it. I go for months without flying into a blind rage. I go for a couple of years without a melancholy sigh. I can finally, finally finally pretend that it never happened, that things are okay after all.
Then it happens.
Someone says the words.
The Phantom Menace.
🙁
(“It still hurts, Bilbo!”)
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I’m helping! \o/
$177.24 for The Old Republic collector’s edition box, arriving on the 12th of January, from the States…
Man…tempting…
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Man, I didn’t pay that much for my 360 console and PS3 console combined! Where do you guys get all your money from?? 🙂
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Don’t tell anyone, but I’ve been stealing money from the education system under the guise of providing various IT support at varying levels.
That, and I have poor prioritisation abilities…new fridge and washing machine, or new computer and SWTOR?
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I know, right!?
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Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your gaming. Consume you, it will!
last night i had a massive ego trip
playing super MNC, and since it’s a tight nit community, people see a lot of the same people all the time, and people know who the good players are, and will usually comment if they are with or against a good player.
so, as i’m in the pre-game lobby, some guy goes “we have grandmaster on our team = win”, and i thought, “wait? am i actually good at this game?” and then i won the game, and was like “oh yeah i’m so boss!”
theeeeeeen i went on to lose the next two games and played terribly, thus crushing my spirits, and making me think he may have gotten me mixed up with someone else 🙁
however, with the hours i’m putting into it (51 so far) i hope i do get really good at it, since i enjoy it so much
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omg now ur posting in tay!!!!11
dis wil b da best TAY eva!!
win
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That was rather painful to type.
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I don’t mean to alarm you, but I think I’d like to beat you with a large dictionary.
If that’s OK with you, I mean.
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Shortly after I started working here, one of the ladies retired (which is why I got hired). She left behind a rather large dictionary. It’s actually larger than my work computer.
We were joking about the fact that my phone is a better dictionary and can also play Angry Birds.
Of course, beating me with a dictionary won’t do anything about the awful grammar or bizarre phonetic spelling. So if it’s all the same, I’d rather not be beaten with that monstrous tome.
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Oh…ok.
Guess I’ll go eat my disappointment away…also, its lunch time.
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OH EM GEE TRJN U R MAI BFF FOREVER!!
wow, someone shoot me…
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I’ll do it! 😀
😛
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Fus.
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In the knee.
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Which you’re sworn to carry.
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stop blowing fus up his ass.
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Fus ro dah your boat, gently down the stream!
If you so a dragon come, don’t forget to scream!-
I know a girl named Rhoda. I shouted “Fus” at her the other day.
She didn’t get it.
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Ahahahahahahahahahaha!
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Finished AC:Revelation last night.
ROT-13 follows:
V jnf abg vzcerffrq jvgu gur raq. Gur tnzr’f fgbel nep arire ernyyl tenoorq zr naq gur pvgl qvqa’g srry qvssrerag rabhtu gb gur cerivbhf barf. Gur pbapyhfvbaf bs gur byq zna Nygnve naq Rmvb gvzryvarf jrer cerggl pbby, gubhtu vg jbhyq unir orra n avpr cnl bss gb frr n ovg zber bs Rmvb’f “unccvyl rire nsgre”. Gur Qrfzbaq nqinaprzrag jnf irel jrnx naq gur 10 zvahgrf bs fpv-sv gnpxrq ba gb gur raq bs n crevbq fgbel ernyyl qvq abg svg.
Gur ovttrfg ceboyrz sbe zr jnf gung gur Qrfzbaq-Rmvb vagrenpgvba jnf ernyyl n ybfg bccbeghavgl. Bar pbairefngvba. Gurl pbhyq unir oebxra gur frevrf’ znynvfr ol jrnivat gung fghss guebhtubhg gur jubyr fgbel. Vzntvar ubj pbby vg jbhyq unir orra vs Rmvb fcbxr gb Qrfzbaq ng xrl cbvagf va gur fgbel, znlor vasbezvat uvz bs gur uvfgbevpny fvtavsvpnapr bs gur crbcyr ur zrrgf, be rkcynvavat shgher grpuabybtl gb uvz (yvxr Rmvb rkcynvavat gur tha gb Nygnve). Nyy gur vffhrf bs pnhfnyvgl jbhyq unir znqr sbe na vagrerfgvat fgbel gung jbhyq unir sryg serfu naq zhpu yrff yvxr gur NP 2.75 vg npghnyyl jnf.
Hayrff gurl *ernyyl* funxr guvatf hc sbe ahzore 3, V’z bhg. V cebonoyl jbhyqa’g rira unir cynlrq guvf vs V unqa’g jba vg sebz Xbgnxh. V’yy whfg ernq gur jvxvcrqvn fhzznevrf gb xrrc hc gb qngr jvgu gur vaperzragny cybg hcqngrf.
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V ybirq gur ynfg puncgre, V’ir tbg gb fnl. Nygubhtu cneg bs zr jbhyq’ir yvxrq gb cynl gur fgbel sebz Rzoref. (Gubhtu gung qbrfa’g znxr frafr, pnhfr Qrfzbaq boivbhfyl pna’g frr nsgre Rmvb’f cnffrq ba gur snzvyl yvar.) V fhfcrpg gur guveq ragel vf tbvat gb znxr hc sbe nal qvfnccbvagzrag va guvf bar. V’z ERNYYL ubcvat vgf gur nyy bhg, zbqrea qnl Nffnffva’f Perrq V’ir orra jnvgvat sbe jvgu Qrfzbaq nf gur yrnq.
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I hsjkl we ies nioelskn sioh klsdna lkd iohdl nkrlsi hiossalkntn idsofya tklna hioa anis iant ndiapn iklanfkdl kl ansaidfo’h ne a cvjusn htkls kl fh usopnfd gkfld shuiobpn io…
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Lbh unir gb oernx rirelguvat va GNL, qba’g lbh?
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JUI! In’g lss kqr! Wnao ajcl zlaL O av? 😛
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Fbzr zbqrea qnl fghss zvtug or BX, ohg V fgvyy guvax gurl arrq gb rzoenpr gur fpv-sv gung gurl xrrc uvagvat ng. Funxr vg hc. Pbafgnag pbzzhavpngvba orgjrra eryngvirf va qvssrerag gvzr crevbqf. Hfr gur negvsnpgf gb bognva penml npebongvp cbjref, yvxr whzcvat gnyy ohvyqvatf va n fvatyr obhaq (naq abg gb tvir gurz fzneg obzof, gung’f whfg ynml). Fbzr orggre cnexbhe pbagebyf, orpnhfr gur pheeragyl hovdhvgbhf raivebazragny bowrpgf (r.t. bar fznyy obk arkg gb bar ynetr obk gura n pbhcyr bs ornzf) naq gur jnl ur pngpurf ba gur raivebazrag jura ehaavat nebhaq vf trggvat byq gbb. Vagryyvtragyl qrfvtarq pb-bc zvffvbaf?
Vs gurl whfg znxr gur rknpg fnzr pber tnzr, jvgu n srj zber greevoyl qrfvtarq oryyf naq juvfgyrf, vg’f abg tbvat gb znggre jung gvzr crevbq lbh’er cynlvat va – uvfgbevpny be zbqrea – vg’f tbvat gb srry fgnyr sebz gur bcravat zvahgrf.
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Gurl’ir xvaq bs onpxrq gurzfryirf vagb n pbeare ol cebivqvat gur fnzr tnzrcynl sbhe gvzrf. Vs gur arkg tnzr vf enqvpnyyl qvssrerag, snvy. Vs vg’f zber bs gur fnzr, snvy. Gurer’f nyzbfg ab jnl gung NP3 vfa’g tbvat gb qvfnccbvag – vg’f gur fgbel gung jvyy unir gb fnir vg.
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Nffnffva’f Perrq 2 znqr n ovt qrny nobhg genvavat Qrfzbaq gb or na nffnffva. Nffnffva’f Perrq: Oebgureubbq xvaq bs frg guvf vagb zbgvba jvgu gur rkgraqrq Qrfzbaq fprarf — ragrevat gur Ivyyn, gur Pbyyrfrhz. Gb zr vg frrzf gung gurl’er gbgnyyl cbfvgvbavat Qrfzbaq gb or gur znva cebgntbavfg bs gur arkg tnzr, fvapr gurer’f gung jubyr 2012 qrnqyvar. Gur bayl ceboyrz vf gung gur sbhegu tnzr xvaq bs oehfurq gung nfvqr n yvggyr.
Va zl bcvavba gur cnfg fghss vf bayl fb vagrerfgvat orpnhfr bs gur rssrpg vg’f tbvat gb unir ba gur cerfrag. Vg’q or n qvffreivpr gb Qrfzbaq vs ur qvqa’g trg gb shysvy gur nep gurl’ir frg hc. V unir snvgu gurl jvyy, gubhtu. Rfcrpvnyyl fvapr gurl frrz gb or sbyybjvat TGN’f yrnq. Ovt whzcf pbzr jvgu gur ahzorerq frdhryf. Vs gur arkg bar vf n ahzorerq frdhry V ubcr gb frr uhtr punatrf va ubj vg cynlf. (Zbqrea frggvat ubcrshyyl! :Q)
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(Nyfb bar guvat V’q ybir gb frr zber bs vf gur nygreangr uvfgbel fghss gurl ryhqrq gb va gur svefg tnzr. Erzrzore ernqvat nyy gubfr r-znvyf nobhg n cynthr va Nsevpn naq gur yvxr. Zber bs gung cyrnfr!)
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Pbzr gb guvax bs vg, gurer jrer n srj vagrerfgvat guvatf va gubfr rznvyf va gur svefg tnzr gung V’q yvxr gb frr zber bs. Erzrzore Yhpl’f sevraq jub jrag zvffvat? Naq nyy bs gur ercbegf ba gung yncgbc va gur onpx ebbz nobhg inevbhf cvrprf bs Rqra naq gurve fgnghf nf bs 2012? V rawblrq nyy bs gung. Vg’q or avpr gb frr gurz oevat gung onpx n ovg.
Nygubhtu V haqrefgnaq ubj gung jbhyq or qvssvphyg tvira gur punenpgref ner ab ybatre va Nofgretb. Ohg Eriryngvbaf qvq n qrprag wbo bs vg va gur zhygvcynlre svyrf jvgu n yvggyr ovg bs rkgen vasbezngvba urer naq gurer. Npghnyyl, fbzr bs gur yngre svyrf unq fbzr tbbq vasb va gurz gung tvir n srj pyhrf nf gb jung Nofgretb jvyy or hc gb va NP3. Vg fhttrfgf gurer’yy or fbzr tbbq zbqrea qnl fghss, ng gur irel yrnfg.
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Jung xvaq bs fghss? Guvf vf jung unccraf jura V fghoobeayl ershfr gb cynl zhygvcynlre…
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Do you want me to outright explain it to you? In ROT, obviously.
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Sure, I don’t intend on playing multiplayer. Unless you think it’ll be better going into the next game not knowing? Your call. 😀
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Qb lbh xabj jub Qnavry Pebff vf? Ur’f n punenpgre sebz n fvqr pbzvp jub jnf oryvrirq gb or na nffnffva ohg jnf npghnyyl n fyrrcre ntrag sbe gur Grzcynef. Ur jnf erfcbafvoyr sbe xvyyvat gur nffnffva Zragbe va gur rneyl 2000’f. Bar bs gur zhygvcynlre svyrf yvfgf guvf rirag nf orvat Nofgretb’f frpbaq orfg vasyvgengvba bs gur nffnffva beqre – gurer’f ab zragvba bs jub jnf gurve zbfg fhpprffshy, juvpu unf yrsg crbcyr thrffvat jurgure gurer’f n fcl va gur nffnffva enaxf abj.
Yvggyr ovg zber ba Qnavry Pebff, ur’f pheeragyl cneg bs n grnz bs Grzcynef erfcbafvoyr sbe genpxvat qbja naq xvyyvat Jvyyvnz Zvyrf, fb gurer’yy yvxryl or na rapbhagre jvgu uvz va gur guveq tnzr.
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Thanks Alex. I knew none of this. 🙂
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Oh, cool. One thing about Assassin’s Creed, you can’t say they don’t have a sprawling mythology.
Thanks buddy, much appreciated!
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No worries guys, if you want to read a little more about it, take a look at some of the pages in the Assassin’s Wiki.
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I didn’t even know those comics were considered ‘canon’…
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Org lbh gubhtug gurer jnf fbzrguvat vagrerfgvat urer. Abj V srry onq nf V’ir jnfgrq lbhe gvzr. V’z fbeel.
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Nicely played. :p
Oh man!!! I still haven’t even started!!
I love AC and usually burn through them so quick I think I am intentionally holding off…
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I’d say you should wait till it’s super cheap. That usually happens to them within 6 months.
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Or a few days, depending on how you look at it 😛
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Want to borrow my 360 copy? Just say the word.
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Cheers Shane but I got a day one copy. 🙂
My best friends kid has aspergers and is OBSESSED with AC so I got preorders from every major retailer to keep him happy.
I’m putting WWE12 away and I WILL START tonight.
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Oh man, I was playing last night and one part truly, truly got me close to raging. The throw-controller kind of raging. You know the part where you’re supposed to race the recruit and beat them? Yeah. I’m not getting that 40 minutes of my life back.
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Harli, please don’t take this the wrong way, but it’s kind of a relief hearing that some gaming moment made you struggle. I had you down as an unstoppable gaming machine!
I feel kind of proud to boast that I had little difficulty with that. #ParkourChampion
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Really?!?!?! how could I take that the wrong way, Shane you flatter me!
Seriously, I resorted to things like pushing the guy off the ledges and stuff to try and beat him. When I finally did it was with a big sigh of relief accompanied by a fist-in-the-air gesture of victory.
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I missed the glyphs. Although I remember in the second game there was one I was stuck on. Had to consult a walkthrough. Left feeling defeated and like a half-witted moron after trying to solve it for over an hour. 🙁
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the…glyphs….??
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Totally unrelated to any thing you posted. Only connection is how time consuming it was. :p
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I got scared for a moment there.
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Was a little out of it yesterday…
Feeling much better today, but I totally forgot to mention yesterday how awesome it was to see the return of our resident Knight Of The Realm Of Tech!
Yay Techy!!!!
This elevates you from Knight Of The Realm to Order of The Pantless 🙂
Oh and nice to see Jamesmag stick his head in to. Was wunderin…
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Weird… You don’t usually post on Saturdays…
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Great Scott! It’s ‘Flu from the future!
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Not helping!!!! 🙂
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Hey it’s good to be back, since TAY helps me get through the dark days of my existence which are very often sadly. Order of the Pantless? haha it’s funny but Knight of the Realm of Tech I still like cuz it’s so close to another KOTOR acronym 😛
So how have you been human?
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LOL! Now that is pretty awesome!
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Yep that’s pretty much Techy right there
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He is actually a dual wielding Turian Jedi under all that armour 😉
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Pretty much my KOTOR-Mass Effect crossover imagination coming to life xD
…with an independant Geth sidekick, kinda like Legion but truly thinks for itself 😛
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Wow I just found that if I search for “Tech Knight” on google images my photos from the meat are there xD, pages down but yeah they’re there lol
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Then KOTROT you shall remain!!!
I’ve had gastro and not spending nearly as much time here as I would like. Feeling much better now but still trying to shake it
So how bout that twitter….? 🙂
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***glares at reply button***
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Yeah still iffy, but Tracey asking if I had one is pushing me in the direction to finally getting one so I can at least follow the other TAYbies. My older brother already does it (Which some of you may know)
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I am usually anti any soacial media but twitter with the Taybies is a blast. It’s worth it just for Shiggy and AP’s verbal foreplay alone!!
There is a beta version of you??? Blind Mown.-
HAHA no I’m the only robot, he’s a human, you know, like the parents I got put and stuck with 😛
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Wow, I just imagined you as Haley Joel Osment!
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I want that bear…
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A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!
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… no kudos for you reply button.
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The idea of shaking gastro is conjuring disturbing images in my mind…
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Try living it…
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I can’t go back! I WON’T GO BACK!!!
*jumps out window*
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‘Kotrot’ makes me think of Dragonball Z for some reason.
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What Kackarot? (If that’s how it’s spelled) 😛
I am currently testing a customers wi-fi by streaming SC2 matches.
It’s a hard job but someones got to do it 🙂
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I like your way of thinking.
So, what did I miss?
Was watching captain america. Was entertaining, probably as good as Thor, which was fairly enjoyable. Having watched this, thor and green lantern within the same fortnight, one thing that really irks me is how samey they all are. I just wish with one movie, they’d get all the repressed sexual tension out of the way and make the star and the love interest kiss and declare their desire to be with each other at the start of the movie, only for them to turn into a brand new bad guy/ they die or something. Or you know, just something different, because it’s just way btoo formulaic.
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People hate different. People watch movies because it reminds them of similar stuff, You suprise a audience they will react negatively.
#what hollywood think!
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Formulaic works, unfortunately.
People get a feeling of satisfaction from predicting what will happen next.
What I want to know is why they force a romantic subplot into pretty much every action movie ever.
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To prove that desptie major homo-erotic overtones of “Random Action Film” that the lead is NOT GAY!
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Sounds nuts, but probably true. Remember when everyone was insisting Tintin was gay.
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My main theory is that it’s a way to shoehorn female characters into the plot when there’s a largely male cast.
The majority of films released these days have male leads and are written by men. They don’t think about it much, so most of the characters default to being male. Then they look over it and go “oh snap, there be no womenfolks here!” so they shoehorn one in at the last minute and the easiest way to do that is with a half-baked romantic subplot.
That or someone did that once and saw some success, so things have caught on.
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I believe it’s supposed to be a way of humanising an action hero. Oh and because the idiots think girls won’t want to watch it if there’s no romance.
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SPOILERS FOR THE MOVIES DICUSSED ABOVE THAT YOU ALL REALLY SHOULD HAVE SEEN BY NOW!!!
I liked Thor in that he has no powers for a good majority of the movie. The love interest was subtle and charming enough until crucial end plot point. Also NATALIE PORTMAN!!!!!!
GL was horrific. They should have montaged the first ten minutes and just told Rebirth. The love story could not have been more tacked on. I’m pretty sure the movie was finished (and should have) and then they put on that stupid scene at the end.
Cap they had to play kinda safe cos you know he is going to be getting it on with the GRANDDAUGHTER!!!
Hmm brand new bad guy? Wonder where Bucky landed… LOL-
I haven’t seen any of them. I don’t get to watch movies very often so I’m super-behind. Thanks for the spoiler warning.
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“SUPER behind”
I see what you did there.
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I haven’t seen any of those films. When discussing spoilers, could you use ROT13 please? 🙂
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Only if you stop breaking TAY. 😛
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Sorry guys. Forgot bout rot13 🙂 I tried not to be super spoily anyway. Plus doesn’t everyone read comics 🙂 All these things are prespoiled!!!
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Using rot13.com for spoilers about GL, Thor and Capt Am.
Ru, xvaqn qvfnterr. Gube, V yvxrq gur fgneg, jura ur’f nyy cbjreshy naq pbpxl naq fghss, ohg bapr ur tbg onavfurq, vg sryy vagb gur fnzr sbezhyn bs gur bgure zbivrf: trgf fuvg xvpxrq bhg bs uvz, cebirf uvzfrys/svanyyl qbrf jung ur arrqf gb, svanyyl nqzvgf gb yvxvat gur tvey, jvaf gur qnl.
Although, as bad as Green Lantern was, nothing will ever compare to the travesty that was Daredevil. And X-Men 3. Oh god, they were terrible.
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You seen Directors cut of DD? Redeems it slightly.
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Dark Knight Rises. Batman, Cat Woman, and maybe Talia Al Ghul. Nuff said.
Also, see The Dark Knight, Rachel Dawes.-
Oh, I know, that’s what I really loved about the Dark knight.
*Dark Knight Spoilers*
Gur tvey qvrf, gur wbxre vf pbafgnagyl gujnegvat uvz naq eryrnfvat pbafgnag nanepul, uneirl’f genafvgvba sebz tbbq gb onq naq Ongzna qbrfa’g jva, naq trgf uhagrq qbja. Oebxr cerggl zhpu rirel cneg bs gur sbezhyn, evtug?
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I wish there were more people like Christopher Nolan in hollywood.
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SO TRUE.
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Batmans true love is depicted at the end of Arkham City… IMO
Still not enough evidence for Talia…
Rachel Dawes was not tacked on, she is crucial to both movies. Especially DK. I mean, how would it have turned out if Alfred had given Bruce the letter?
Katie Holmes paper cutout portrayal is the only negative I can apply to Rachel.-
Man, the second half of Arkham City was amazing storywise, I just could not put the controller down. Much better than the ending for Arkham Asylum.
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Arkham City Ending SPOILER
V guvax gung ur pneevrq bhg gur Wbxre fnlf fb zhpu jvgubhg fnlvat nalguvat ng nyy. Vs lbh trg jung V zrna? -
Lrc. V ybir gur jnl ur whfg ybbxrq fb qrsrngrq.
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I totally agree with this. Everything after the Enf Ny Tuhy genvavat frpgvba was mindblowingly compelling, and I stopped wanting to do side missions immediately.
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Personally I believe Maggie Gyllenhall’s (could care less about sp) portrayal of Rachel Dawes was fantastic and eclipsed anything Katie Holmes could have achieved with the character.
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I actually liked Katie Holmes version of Rachel, particularly the weary earnestness she brought. The second movie gave her character a little more depth, though. I was confounded why Katie Holmes would pass up the chance to reprise the role. Atleast it turned out for the best.
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I’ll have to politely disagree, maybe because I feel like every time I’ve seen Katie Holmes on the screen she is portraying the same character.
I believe Katie Holmes passed up the chance to reprise the role because scientology.
How interesting, spell check tells me scientology must be capitalised..
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You’ve got a point there, she had that exact ‘weary earnestness’ quality to her in Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark as well. Hmmm.
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I suppose type-casting can be both a good and bad thing. She’s good at doing that weary earnestness thing you mention though. I just think Maggie did a better job of making Rachel Dawes a strong character without becoming the token disgustingly annoying female.
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Awesome
So that storm last night seems to have killed my internet at home… here’s hoping I can get it working in time for some LOL this weekend.
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It was a dark and stormy Pageget…
OH CRAP I PULLED OUT A NOSE HAIR AND I CAN SEE THROUGH THE PAIN INTO THE FUTURE!!
OH MY GOD IT HURTS SO BAD!
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YEAAAAAAAAA RIDE THE LIGHTNING BOOOIIIIIIIIIII
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Now i’m wishing I hadn’t made the pageget. This would have been so much better.
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Snort some chilli powder, I heard it helps!
BISH TALES: I am not a pedo shut up
– Love Shack as I was driving past Eastwood Primary, WHATEVER IT’S HOLIDAYS, TAKE THAT WSFM
– I was Mario Karting and this 7 year old kid gets all up in my business as to what I’m playing. He tells me that he has a DSi XL, which is apparently the best because it has a big screen (can’t argue that), and he tells me of his (woeful) game collection. We start discussing Pokemon , and I teach him how to be a jerk by telling him of the Para-Flinch combo on Togekiss with Serence Grace. He seemed very happy at the idea of his enemy not being able to do anything. We also further discussed the first and second generations which made me feel old because he was born during Gen 3, and I remember Gen 1 Pogeymons back in primary school. He didn’t seem to know of gaming that existed before the DS, so I gave him a brief history of console games spanning way back into the 70s, both well before our time, and portable gaming. Though it’s a bit sad trying to describe the GBA as “Imagine the DS… but without the top screen”. He then further queried why the 3DS had two cameras on the outside, and I explained to him how 3D perception and depth of field work, but I’m pretty sure that when way over his head. And then he frolicked off.
Kids these days.
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Now you’ve made me feel old as I was in the middle of high school when Pokemon gen 1 was the tits.
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I may have to get you to teach me more pokemonz. This stopping enemies from moving thing sounds interesting…
Also this makes me think of futurama when Fonsworth chooses Lela for caption because he can’t see how depth perception would be useful.
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Bish is a hit with the kids!
this can be taken out of context!
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Bish hits kids?
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No Bish! don’t hi the kids!
Positive reinforcement is much more effective in the long term.
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No kids need to be hit and disciplined imo
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Really I believe in a bit of both. It’s too much of one or the other that can cause problems.
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Hmm I just realised the lack of grammar in the sentence could confuse the point I was trying to get across.
No, kids should be hit and disciplined imo.
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Actually I got chased out of town the first time I visited Whiterun in Skyrim because I hit a little girl that was picking on a little boy.
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You are nicer to random 7 year olds on the street than me
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i’m sure Bish will explain how depth perception works if you ask him nicely.
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So you still do drivebys even though it’s holidays and you played “pocket monsters” with a seven year old…
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And Pixel thought I was lieing when I told him that Pokemon Attracts Kids and keeps them distracted better than having candy in your van…
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I miss using my Togekiss
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Kids are evil. Was probably making fake conversion, waiting for your guard to go down so they could steal your 3DS and stab you in the kidney. It happens!
This is really bad, sorry.
The Million Deaths of the Soul Knight
(the heretofore forgotten) Part Six: The Lost Boys
Tired, so very tired. What was wrong with him? He’d been going so well for such a long time. Demons had been falling under his blade with impressive regularity. He’d found some magical equipment that had boosted his vitality, and he’d never felt stronger.
But today… today… he had been summoned to the Nexus a shadow of himself. Things seemed darker, blurrier, clumsier. He looked around and was surprised to find that all his impressive gear was missing, that he just had a tiny wooden shield and blunt short sword.
And there were survivors missing from the Nexus. Where were they all?
Confused and lost, he began to stumble towards the waystone to the palace. If Ostrava had gone out wandering again, he would probably have to go find him… AGAIN.
Sigh.
He hesitated before signaling to the waystone that he wanted to leave the Nexus. Why hesitate? He had a slight anxious feeling in his gut, like he didn’t know what to expect, even though he’d trodden these paths a thousand thousand times before.
He began to walk stiltedly along the path to the Boletarian Palace, kind of casually.
“SHIELD UP!” he heard a voice bark out.
Reflexively, he obeyed, just in time to catch a flying dregling weapon upon it, a blow that could have had his life. The shield buckled under the blow, but didn’t splinter.
Fear caught in his throat, and he turned and ran.
“NO, NO, FACE HIM!”
He turned, just in time to block another blow. This one sent tremors ringing up and down his arm, and his shoulder ached. The dregling flailed wildly with its blade, hitting his shield again and again. Wood chips began to fly.
“HIT HIM BACK!”
Hesitantly, he poked his sword forward, wondering idly where his confidence had gone, his flair for swordsmanship. The blade pierced the dregling’s thin clothing, and it shrieked in pain and rage, but kept coming at him. He lashed out with his sword again, but the dregling sidestepped the blow and plunged downwards with its own blade, severing his spinal cord and almost decapitating him.
The cold soul death swept over him, and the Nexus revived him.
“DUDE, WHAT ARE YOU DOING? THAT’S THE EASIEST GUY IN THIS PLACE!”
He looked around, wondering what was going on. Who was saying these things?
“THEY GET HARDER, THEN?”
“OF COURSE. NEXT GUY YOU FACE CAN DO TWICE AS MUCH DAMAGE AND TAKES TWICE AS MANY HITS TO KILL.”
“I DON’T THINK I WANT TO DO THIS ANYMORE.”
“FINE, THEN GIVE ME CONTROL BACK. I’LL JUST LOAD MY GAME.”
“NO, IT’S STILL MY TURN.”
He felt his body jerk from side to side, as if he was being pulled by some invisible hands. Then he started turning in circles crazily. His sword hand lashed out of its own accord, and flung his weapon into some nearby debris. A handful of dreglings took notice of this bizarre behavior and began to approach.
He desperately tried to regain control, but instead continued to flail wildly and ineffectually as they pounced on him and began to stab him to death…
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The Million Deaths of the Soul Knight
Part One: Neverending Night: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/12/talk-amongst-yourselves-149/comment-page-16/#comment-486609
Part Two: Dragonsbane: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/12/talk-amongst-yourselves-149/comment-page-21/#comment-488021
Part Three: Fire In The Hole: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/01/talk-amongst-yourselves-158/comment-page-2/#comment-494899
Part Four: The Ultimate Treasure: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/01/talk-amongst-yourselves-158/comment-page-3/#comment-495142
Part Five: Stormy Weather: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/01/talk-amongst-yourselves-158/comment-page-6/#comment-496073
Interlude #1: The Ballad of Ostrava: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/01/talk-amongst-yourselves-158/comment-page-6/#comment-496210
Part Seven: Don’t Let the Bearbugs Bite: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/01/talk-amongst-yourselves-158/comment-page-10/#comment-498027
Part Six: The Lost Boys: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/01/talk-amongst-yourselves-158/comment-page-14/#comment-499465-
Just clarifying, part seven is supposed to come before part six right?
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I skipped year 4 because my maths skills were rather awesome and can confirm that 7 comes after 6.
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As someone who repeated year 5, I’m fairly sure that 6 comes after 7.
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..Lambo is that you?
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It’s actually true. I just wanted to use the derpy gravatar.
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Just in case anyone’s wondering. That was the real me. The joke just works better this way :p
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As noted here: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/01/talk-amongst-yourselves-158/comment-page-10/#comment-498027
Counting fail. 😛
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You were being artsy and unorthodox. /nods
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Ha. Nothing like watching a newbie at a Souls game.
Also, I was kinda hoping you were going to leave six as a mysterious lost chapter, making us keen to know what is was. Then when we ask direct us to your store where we could purchase the chapter along with a new hat for the Soul Knight.
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Not to worry, I’ve planned Part 336568 as a Lost Chapter, as well as 458903 1/2.
Oh no! Did your knight not kill Yurt as soon as he saw him?!
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I’m thinking that it was a new game tarted by someone else therefore the characters hadn’t been saved yet.
And yes, kill Yurt. I didnt the first time and he ended up taking out the maiden in black. Which means no more leveling up.
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This is a correct interpretation. I have ventured into that tower but once and got my butt hurt very badly by a Mind Flayer. I escaped with my life and haven’t dared return since… (so I have no Yurt story yet) 😛
This was meant to be an exercise in stupidity to rival and parallel the strange numbering of the chapters, in which I inexplicably put 7 before 6.
I can’t help it. I like 7.
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PS: I’m thinking a Yurt-esque bloodbath in the Nexus might serve as a decent and bleak 1,000,000th death. 🙂
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I don’t think this counts as a spoiler because I might have already decided against this course of action 🙂
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After posting my comment I reread the story with the lights on in my brain and finally understood. *facepalm*
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That’s okay. I’m going to assume you were operating heavy machinery all morning and are very tired 🙂
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It’s okay. We can forgive these lapses in our senior folks. 😛
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Big thanks to Batguy who sent me a copy of Street Fighter IV. I got it today and will be playing it just as soon as my wife decides she’s had enough of Skyrim…. So, I’ll probably be playing it at 2am.
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@Batguy, you are indeed awesome. I got my De Blob 2 yesterday! Many thankles.
My wife has a protracted period of babysitting in the near future, and it will be a godsend. Also, I expect I will enjoy it too 🙂
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Oh good. Took a couple of days to get posted because I was at the cricket, so happy that it turned up in a timely manner.
I’d recommend that when you do play, ignore the collectibles. I tried to get them for the first few levels and it became a real drag. It was much more enjoyable when I just concentrated on running around and doing the missions instead… and then it was a drag again when I went back to 100% all the levels!
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Sweet. Hope you enjoy it! (And get a chance to play at some point before midnight tonight)
Does anyone know any further news on Trine 2 release date for XBLA or even PSN in Australia?
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Apparently it’s been held up by Sony Europe’s QA process.
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What about XBLA? Surely Sony can’t hold that up?
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OR CAN THEY?
I’ve got no idea about XBLA.
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I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: http://www.maximuscards.com/itempage.php?cat=1 + US XBL account = get Trine 2 today!
Even if you’re worried about the 400 “leftover” points for buying 1600 US points I figure that:
– $19.80 for 1200 AU points and an indeterminate wait vs
– ~$21.40 for 1600 US points and get the game nowis a pretty good way to go.
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One more comp to pre-pare for next week and i’ll be done with thepublic KKP stuff… all that will be left is to continue the community prizes…
WHY DID I THINK THIS WOULD ONLY TAKE A COUPLE OF WEEKS OF MY TIEM AT THE MOST?!?! lol
#Totesworthit
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pre-prepare
Apparently Office staff dont find it funny when you point out that a therapist is the rapist
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My sense of humour is terrible, immature and everything ending in ist according to the girl next to me… 🙁 oh well we cant all be funny
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Just stare her square in the eye and just say “Poo”. Then start laughing hysterically.
She’ll never put you down again. Or talk to you. Also probably try for a transfer. To another country.
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i’ve found it funny for years – you obviously need to work in my office
also, you can’t spell ‘manslaughter’ without ‘laughter’
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Oh My God thats funny. I think I first heard that as a Joker Quote.
Thank you for reminding me 😀
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Even better if you have a legitimate reason to point them towards whorepresents.com or have considered becoming the world’s second analyst/therapist, or “analrapist”.
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Di11enger was a never nude, which is exactly what it sounds like…
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When am I not nude?
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This is a riddle, isn’t it?
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Sure is, Ill Give you my clothes if you figure it all out
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Easy! You’re not nude when I fail the riddle, and you have to keep your clothes!
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Thats the correct answer. *throws his all of clothes to rocketman*
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Why did I say rocketman lol. Thats meant to be Rize, this is the second time Ive done this in 2 days 🙁
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wait a minute…
There are dozens of us! DOZENS!
Anyone needing IT help can always take a look at expertsexchange.com…
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I used to use that. Always laughed at the URL.
ALWAYS.
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Pen.
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[dot]com
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrIpPqcln6Y
the world’s first…
I’ve always been fond of Mole Station Nursery (molestationnursery.com)
My next Xbox gamertag is going to be Mole Sting, if it’s not already taken.
I don’t get it. why are therapists automatically rapists?
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NVM JUST GOT IT
LOL!
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Bahahahaha!
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Oh Harli
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Welcome to the english language Harli 🙂
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The VIC Hazard Perceptions test is a waste of time 🙂
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The Qld one wasted 11 months of my time. They never told me I had to go into the Dept of Transport to update my license, so I was officially on my red Ps for almost a whole extra year.
What’s the point of doing something online, where it explicitly says one of the reasons is to avoid you going in, and then they make you go in?
It don’t matter none now. I’m on my open license, but it was annoying at the time.
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So is the one here. Assuming we’re talking about the same thing, I particularly love the way that you can say “Turn now”, realise that you would have collided with a sneaky motorbike, then when it asks you “Did you press the button?”, you can say “No, I totally never went anywhere near the button because that would have been dangerous and I’m not a dangerous driver in the slightest k thx let me pass now”.
Also Doc What is your man for the UK OoT code. I’ve told him you were after it, he’ll probably let you know if/when he gets a chance to look for it.
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*here being NSW
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In VIC it doesn’t give you an option to say “No”, you’re just shown a video and you have to click when you think you should turn/do the action. So if you click too early or late, the video will just end. Sounds slightly easier (although still as stupid) over there 🙂
I’m surprised you remembered about the code :D. I actually managed to find a code for Mario Kart 7. So I claimed it and got the 3D Classic remake of Kid Icarus today. Since I’ve already done that I no longer need the code for the promotion but I’ll still take it if no one else really needs it.
Thanks again 🙂
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Haha, really? I promised I’d try, so I’ve been hassling Doc for a few days now 🙂 Now that I know you got what you wanted, I’ll stop, and leave it up to him to remember or read this.
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Heh whoops sorry for the trouble!
I checked the old TAY for a few days but figured there was no point posting since a new TAY was up and thought no one was likely to see the old one
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Oh no! you’re one of the people that keep trying to kill me when I’m riding my motor bike aren’t you?
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No, because I press the button to take it back when I make a mistake. I get one of them in real life, yeah?
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One of those buttons would be so handy.
Better yet, being able to re load a previous save when I chose the wrong dialogue option.
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You know in my day we drove cars. If you didn’t crash and could parallel park you were good.
Videos and buttons!!! No wonder you young’ns can’t drive! 😉
Work has decided to unblock Facebook for some reason. Odd. Oh well… me and my five friends, all family, can rock out.
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Facebook Party!
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“me and my five friends, all family, can rock out”
I lol’d
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I don’t like facebook so deleted my account. 18 months later I made a new one to stay in touch with family. Trying not to add old friends from school etc as I don’t care when they’re “OMG SHOPPING TONIGHT THEN MOVIES” and so on.
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I’ve been feeling like that lately as well. I never deleted my account but every time I go on, all I see is “OMG SHOPPING TONIGHT THEN MOVIES” and just like you, I couldn’t care less about them or what they’re doing 🙂
Sometimes I laugh at some statuses or pictures but other than that… most of it is pretty ‘meh’
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Im bored and not doing any work. So Im going to share a few of these which I have been reading for the past 2 minutes.
A doctor says to his patient, “I have bad news and worse news”.
“Oh dear, what’s the bad news?” asks the patient.
The doctor replies, “You only have 24 hours to live.”
“That’s terrible”, said the patient. “How can the news possibly be worse?”
The doctor replies, “I’ve been trying to contact you since yesterday.”
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Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson go on a camping trip. After a good dinner and a bottle of wine, they retire for the night, and go to sleep.
Some hours later, Holmes wakes up and nudges his faithful friend. “Watson, look up at the sky and tell me what you see.”
“I see millions and millions of stars, Holmes” replies Watson.
“And what do you deduce from that?”
Watson ponders for a minute. “Well,
Astronomically, it tells me that there are millions of galaxies and potentially billions of planets.
Astrologically, I observe that Saturn is in Leo.
Horologically, I deduce that the time is approximately a quarter past three.
Meteorologically, I suspect that we will have a beautiful day tomorrow.
Theologically, I can see that God is all powerful, and that we are a small and insignificant part of the universe.But what does it tell you, Holmes?”
Holmes is silent for a moment.
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A man and a friend are playing golf one day at their local golf course. One of the guys is about to chip onto the green when he sees a long funeral procession on the road next to the course. He stops in mid-swing, takes off his golf cap, closes his eyes, and bows down in prayer.
His friend says: “Wow, that is the most thoughtful and touching thing I have ever seen. You truly are a kind man.”
The man then replies: “Yeah, well we were married 35 years.” -
Been collecting the bits of paper from xmass crackers?
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Basically we had left over ones and I am so bored I started cracking them with myself
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So there’s this penguin driving across the Nullarbor Plain and it’s a *really* hot day – and that’s bad news for a penguin. So, the penguin is driving and saying “Sheesh” a lot and wiping his brow with his flipper and then the car starts acting up!
Bumpity bumpity bump… “Oh great”, thinks the penguin. To his relief, there is a service station not too far further along. He drives in, parks his car, hops out and waddles over to the mechanic. “Can you have a look at my car?”, says the penguin, “it’s making a funny sound. “Sure” says the mechanic.
“Sheesh,” thinks the penguin. “It’s so hot!. I think I’ll go inside to the air conditioning.” So he waddles over and goes inside. He mooches around, flicking through magazines, killing time. He decides he’ll buy an ice cream to help him cool down. Then he goes back out to the car.
“Sheesh,” he says as he waddles back over the tarmac. “It’s really hot.” and he’s making a real mess of the ice cream, on account of it being so hot and him being a penguin and only being able to hold it with his flipper. He spills more of it over himself than he gets in his mouth.
He gets back to the car and comes up to the mechanic who’s leaning over the engine. The mechanic looks up at him and says, “Hmm… Looks like you’ve blown a seal.” “Oh no,” laughs the penguin, “That’s only ice cream.”
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What do you call a black guy who flys a plane?
A pilot.-
Why did the plane crash?
Because the pilot was a loaf of bread.
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Three Friends, stranded on a desert island, find a magic lantern containing a genie, who grants them each one wish. The first guy wishes he was off the island and back home. The second guy wishes the same. The third guy says “I’m lonely. I wish my friends were back here.
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A stick.
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Now I know where my dad gets his material.
Which months/periods do places usually hire new casual employees?
I’m on Uni holidays and I’ve got way too much spare time. I’ve never had a job before and figured I should get one since I need the experience anyway.
I know they do it sometime just before Christmas (Oct/Nov I think?) but what other periods do they usually hire? In other words, when would be the best time for me to start applying again?
So far I only applied online for retail and supermarkets positions at Coles/KMart etc. in late Nov and early Dec so I think I just missed out on most of the spots.
Any other hottips for getting a first job?
Thanks in advance.
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Resume drops at retailers are a pretty effective way to go.
I doubt anyone will be hiring right now (they’ll probably be ditching the casuals they picked up for the Christmas period) but late January when school is back in session is probably a good time.
Or you can look for part-time/temp data entry/mailroom jobs. Boring as hell, rather simple but the pay is better than most retail jobs and office experience counts more than retail experience for most places.
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Yeah, go for the boring/labouring jobs. They usually pay pretty well, cause they’re generally tedious.
One thing a lot of uni kids I knew did during holidays was work at an abattoir. It’s not classy work, but you can expect $500+ a week after tax for four (or five, in some cases) days a week.-
I’d rather not work at an abattoir :/
Too bloody and messy and whatnot. Been watching a lot of Dexter lately too 😛
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“Or you can look for part-time/temp data entry/mailroom jobs. Boring as hell, rather simple but the pay is better than most retail jobs and office experience counts more than retail experience for most places.”
Any idea where I could find these type of jobs? I tried general searches on seek a while ago but nothing like that came up. To be honest I figured most jobs would be somewhat boring anyway but the simple aspect helps. So something like this would be good.
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I used Seek for them. Can’t remember what terms I was looking for though.
They’re almost all through agencies that will bring you in for some testing (typing speed, data entry speed, how well you can use MS Office). Pretty simple stuff really. So I guess if you can’t find that work through Seek, maybe just look up corporate recruitment agencies and contact them directly about this sort of work.
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Wow these types of jobs are sounding better and better 🙂
I type pretty damn fast and accurately as well and I’m good with MS Office. As weird as it sounds I sorta like typing, especially if I’m just typing word for word from something else.
I’ll try to have another look on seek.
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I think 60+wpm with 95+% accuracy was about what they were after when I was applying for that sort of thing.
It’s incredibly mind-numbing. Trust me. I didn’t enjoy my time doing data entry one bit (although the Breaking Bad podcasts I listened to were pretty awesome). Guess it all depends on the office environment though.
Low end admin stuff is pretty easy to get into if you’re able to impress the interviewer and show basic comprehension skills. Knowing how to use a computer doesn’t hurt either, so there’s that.
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I tried searching ‘data entry’ on seek but didn’t find much in my area.
and… Breaking Bad 😀
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Depending on what you studying try for a “work experience” placement for a week then ask for a casual position. Have a few friends in IT who have done this.
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This.
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That would be good but I’m not studying or planning to go into IT. I’m studying Business so I’ll try to go for some sort of Finance or Marketing internship later this year.
My grades are good enough but I have a feel they’ll be more likely to pick someone with any sort of prior work experience.
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Business you say. Talk to a bank!!!
Telling is a piece of piss and they looove to have students front of house.
All the big 4 have entry level positions specially for students studying related fields.
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What sort of work does being a teller involve?
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I forgot about banks.
Do it.
Banks are a great first job for a business student.
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I had a look on seek and on all of the Big 4’s websites but I could only find corporate and graduate/internship positions.
I’m good with maths so thats a +. My finance and banking knowledge is only first year though (which isn’t much) although I did do well in my Finance unit.
I’m okay with people I guess but I prefer jobs where I wouldn’t have to deal with them as often.
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Go into a local branch. A lot of advertised internal postions are available to managers.
A general application online may help to get you into the system. You have to sit a maths and psych (seriously!!) test. Oh and police clearance. They have big mass testing sessions every few months and then select from those pools.
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Thanks for the help/advice 🙂
I’m probably stating the obvious but I’m assuming if I did get a casual position as a teller it would help me get other jobs in banking and finance after I finish my degree (if I decide to do banking and finance).
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My wife used to be a teller at ANZ and that role put her on a pretty good career track in the insurance industry. But yeah, put in your time on the front line and you can move around a fair bit.
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Wow, this shit is pretty freaky. Glad I removed my credit card from my XBL account.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=457942
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Going to go do that now.
In my opinion, I think this is something gamers should be getting more up in arms about than the PSN going down and getting hacked; with this, people are actually losing money and their details. Needs more coverage!
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Will be using MS Points cards from now on…
Lads and lasses, I think we should organise an impromptu game of something-or-other during the weekend. Possible ideas are TF2, L4D2 and such
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There will be many an impromptu LoL game. Some SC2 too if I can help it.
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There may also be an impromptu dance off.
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YOU MAKE ME FEEL LIKE DANCING!
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I WANT TO DANCE THE NIGHT AWAY!
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GONNA DANCE THE NIGHT AWAY!
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But but but… you can’t organise impromptu things! Does not compute! Error! Error! Shutting Down. I don’t hate you.
Ahem, anyway… If a game of TF2 gets going, I will join in! It’s pretty much the only competitive game I have. 😛
I swear, if Bioware take down SWTOR to issue another patch tonight…
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Just dance, you’ll be fine.
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If they do take the game down I don’t imagine it would be for long. They’re just deploying a small patch, not doing server maintenance or anything. It’s the equivalent of Blizzard taking WoW down to apply a hotfix. When that happens the servers are normally only down for 15 minutes.
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They were down for ages last night and the night before, right when I wanted to play. I can’t start playing at 10pm, I need at least 3-4 hours to get a decent run at it.
Haven’t played in 3 days. Getting the shakes.
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I see new people… Who’s still due for an oaring and who’s been assimilated into the TAY?
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We haven’t had a good oaring in a long time. And we haven’t subjected people to my beautiful rendition of Friday, either. I blame Harli, she’s been letting the team down.
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I liked your version of Friday. I really did.
I’m guessing I’ve been assimilated into TAY
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Dearest JamesMacUsedMyHandle:
It is good to see you hear, mang, may I continue to call you mang? Good, good, yes. I was reminded of you recently, well, reminded of me, interacting with you. So here, http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/01/talk-amongst-yourselves-158/comment-page-4/#comment-495514 . Since I figured you’d probably miss it, what with not being there at the time.
Yours Truly,
Blaghman.
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Dearest Blaghman:
The word you were looking for there was “here” not “hear.” Honestly, for a clone of me, you really are stupid.
Yours Truly,
Blaghman.-
what the… i…
TWO BLAGHMANS?!?!
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Dearest Blaghmans.
Stop talking to yourself.
Sincerely
Scree-
Dearest Scree:
This sounds like when that guy told me to stop hitting myself.
Yours Truly,
Blaghman.-
Dearest Blaghman,
That was the vibe I was going for.
Sincerely,
Scree -
Dearest Scree:
And I am now left with emotional scarring. Thanks Scree. 😛
Yours Truly,
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Dearest Blaghman,
I wasn’t the one hitting myself, was I?
Sincerely
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Dearest Scree:
It simply reminded me of my childhood, that is all.
Yours Truly,
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Dearest Blaghman,
The emotional scarring was unintentional. The Simpsons used the “stop hitting yourself”, hence the stop talking to yourself.
Sincerely,
Scree -
Dearest Scree:
I did, of course, jest, there was no emotional scarring, at least not from that.
A day at the lake, with leeches on the other hand…
Yours Truly,
Blaghman.PS. The latter is also false, Leeches are adorable.
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Dearest Blaghman,
Don’t scare me and make me think that I’ve upset you. I am far too gullible.
Sincerely,
Scree.PS. I don’t like blood sucking things or people who don’t give me new puzzle pieces on Puzzle swap. Leeches.
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Dearest Scree:
You should understand, very little of what I ever say is true. I am a habitual liar. Not the best habit, I’ll admit, but better than cocaine. While I didn’t have the best childhood, on a bullying front, it was far from terrible.
Yours Truly,
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Dearest Blaghman,
I, too, was bullied. I found that most of my really good friend came from uni. Most of the ones in primary school and secondary were back stabbers. At least you didn’t have to put up with bitches who pretended to be your friend.
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Dearest Scree:
True, at least all my friends were, for lack of a better word, “guy friends.” So at least they weren’t pretending. My bestest buddy(for lack of a better term) is probably from primary school, of all the places, so at least I was good at making decent friends. Even if I’ve become terrible at keeping them.
Yours Truly,
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Dearest Blaghamn,
I am glad to hear that you had good friends. Girls can be horrible friends. They pretend to like you but as soon as you’re gone they’ll keep stabbing you. The thing is, you probably haven’t even done anything wrong, they just decided they don’t like you.
But my friends from uni are sincere. Huzzah.Sincerely,
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Dearest Scree:
It’s true, I wouldn’t know about girls being horrible friends. I would know about them being crazy though. All my high school female friends were crazy. But that’s okay. Because, as a group, we were all crazy.
Just the girls were more so.
Yours Truly,
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Dearest Blaghman,
There is good crazy and there is bitchy.
Tay is the good crazy I believe.Sincerely,
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Dearest Scree:
My friends were bitchy at times, they argued a lot, and did all those girl things that girls do, to the point where one of them cut off all ties to her best friend since like, primary school, and didn’t even go to the effort of explaining it to her. So, the other friend spent months just wondering what on earth was going on, and why she would refuse to even speak to her.
CRAZY.
I, like all the other guys, simply kept out of their politics. It made it far easier. And it’s also easier to ogle people from a distance.
By which I mean.
Uhhhh.
I’m not a creepy stalker.*
*There was a guy who was, for lack of a better term, part of my friendship group, though I would hardly call him my friend, who was actually like that. It was… disconcerting.
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Dearest Blaghman,
That is exactly why some girls are not worth even bothering with. Giving someone the silent treatment doesn’t work, but there’s no point interfering because it’ll be over something incredibly small and silly.
Blaghman, a lot of girl can be like that. Luckily from what I’ve seen, most girls who game don’t bother.
It’s fine, I can see you’re not a creepy stalker guy. However there was a guy from Uni who dressed up as Pegasus from Yu-gi-oh. I laughed my head off because he is such a creep.
The other one would kind of inject himself into every conversation and invite himself to any thing that was happening despite the fact that it was quite obvious that people were not comfortable with it.
There always is one.Sincerely,
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Dearest Scree:
Luckily for me, there isn’t anyone like that out of my current friends!
Wait. Oh, yeah.
I just enjoy making jokes about my own creepiness, as it’s something I can transmit better over the internet, rather than my social awkwardness, innate introversion, or physical features(repeatedly describing my large nose, or small hands is just a little too odd for me).
I think a lot of girls who game approach everything in a similar matter to guys. Except for the whole different anatomy thing. I found it easier to get along with guys, thus why my female friends from High School always confuse me.
I’ve lost my train of thought.
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Dearest Blaghman,
It’s fine joking about it. And while the guys were creepy, they weren’t too bad. I mean they didn’t smell the chairs girls were sitting on, that’s just weird. (Australian parliamentary member did this)
I think it’s less of girls who play games are like guys but rather because we all like the same thing there is a mutual respect. I’m not very good at a specific type of game because I play a lot of different games. I’m not going to get angry if say, Strange beats me at a game of killing floor or something. I know there are people out there (I don’t think it’s gender specific) who are overly competitive.
I’ve kind of changed the track of conversation. Oops.
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Dearest Scree:
I don’t think a change of conversation is necessarily a bad thing, if we bitch about how bitchy bitchy people are too much, then can we necessarily consider ourselves superior people? I don’t think so. Even though I’m definitely a better person than them. Definitely. I will judge peoples worth based on singular aspects of them, oh yeah.
What was I saying? I’m not sure, I really need to reign in my brain a bit better, it goes off on far too many tangents.
Anyway, there may be a respect element, but I still feel like the majority of gamers, both male and female, fall into specific mental types. Not to categorise, but, still. Like minds, like things.
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Dearest Blaghman,
I don’t feel I am superior to them. I just don’t want to associate with them.
As with Male and Female gamers, I think you have a point. I mean, it turns out a lot of female gamers like to sew. I’ve only been sewing for a few years and I know I do enjoy it. I mean, now I’m creating my own patterns for the rupee cushions, something I never thought I’d be capable of. Also a lot of people who play games also seem to play instruments.I’ve already forgotten what else you’ve written, so we must be as bad as each other.
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Dearest Scree:
In terms of forgetting things, I blame the difficulty of actually finding our posts, amongst all this.
In terms of being superior, I’m sure you understand that I jest. I understand that I am far better than everyone around me. At everything. Clearly.
I am a golden god. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYz3E4MckSw
I hope you can understand.
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Dearest Blaghman,
It is really hard to find our posts. Is it possibly our own fault though, posting in such obscure, yet easy to find, yet hard to read, places.
Superior…even to Mark? Or Tracey? Remember we’re in a cult now.
I’ll let you think about it.
Sincerely,
Scree
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Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I cannot accept, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those people I had to kill today because they pissed me off. And also, help me to be careful of the toes I step on today, as they may be connected to the ass that I may have to kiss tomorrow. Help me to always give 100% at work: 12% on Monday, 23% on Tuesday, 40% on Wednesday, 20% on Thursday, 5% on Fridays. And help me to remember: When I’m having a really bad day, and it seems that people are trying to piss me off, that it takes 42 muscles to frown and only 4 to extend my middle finger and tell them to bite me.
Finishing up in the office.
Pottering around doing back up etc.
Cranking the uh… phat… beats?
http://youtu.be/nfNFgj-PfyY
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Sounds like bowel movements http://youtu.be/sgzLRzI7pBQ but there’s something compelling about it…
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Wow. I can usually enjoy pretty much any music but that was just flat out terrible.
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Well my first attempt at using green man gaming was, shall we say less successful than I would have hoped.
After jumping through their hopes they have successfully debited my credit card. Unfortunately they have not successfully given me the keys to the game purchased
Stay tuned for the follow up episode, The secret of the mysterious missing support form
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And in other news green man gaming have done nothing wrong, I buy too many games and also, I’m stupid
Carry on
LoLtalk:
I think I will learn to play some melee characters like Master Yi.
That is all.
WE WILL SEE HOW WELL THE PATENTED FREYR BUILD WORKS ON HIM
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Based on how I see Yi played I think the secret is to tower dive
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Hmm, when I did that against Bish, it just didn’t work so well. Clearly I needed to do it more!
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Hahaha, you got beaten up by a guy who uses a light post for a weapon.
Also a turret, but totally 99% of that was me.…
*cough*-
You had the luckiest timing, mang. All Luck. Not me being an idiot at all.
*cough*
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Awesomely and i think Yi would be an awesome place to start the melee carry slaughter. /Evil Grin as he starts to think about the Shaco/Yi combo kills
Well I finished Driver San Francisco, for a racing game it has a pretty decent story line. The Multiplayer is hell fun too. Ubisofts always active internet connection DRM wasn’t even a problem for me. Over all rather damn good game.
Apart from the fact I think my graphics card kept glitching out in places example can anyone tell me what is going on?
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Yes, the ground texture has not loaded. That kind of error is, I believe, more indicative of an installation error, whereas GPU errors are usually more related to vertices being in the wrong location, though, not exclusively.
So uhh, yeah, missing texture. Odds are, that road texture is either a repeated one, or, they’re all held on the same texture atlus, which has failed to load.
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Ah so it’s it’s CSS with it’s black & purple checkerboard textures all over again XD
Ah those were the days when trying to skin stuff and break a guns texture and have it come up as purple & black checks LOL!
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I think, in this case, it’s just become “clear” and so that’s the skybox, though, without a hands on, I can’t really say.
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I hate drawing feet, I really do.
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Then draw more amputees.
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Draw stick men feet!
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I thought it was hands artists hated the most!?
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Them too. But I seem to be better at hands then feet. My real weakness is faces though =(
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On the bright side… Atleast you can actually draw!
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This.
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But I have no real confidence in my drawing abilities
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Is it actual feet, the drawing of shoes, or is it handling the angle that they are required to sit at which pisses you off the most?
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All 3. I usually draw the bones in stick figure form, them I create the feet and lastly I draw the shoes on top.
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Fair enough, on the rare occasions I draw anything, I just add lines everywhere, and hope that the brain will fill in the gaps. Good system, I know.
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Been away from TAY pretty much all of day (dropped in in the morning and just before going to lunch). Thanks for the well-wishes people. Sadly, I am not feeling any better. I crashed when I got home from work and have just woken from said 3 hour slumber.
So, I’m thinking I might put SWTOR on the backburner this weekend. Doing up my pile of shame the other day made me decide to spend some time on other games. I’m thinking Dragon Age 2 this weekend. I think I’m in the minority here, but I didn’t mind it. Sure, the combats not as deep as DA:O and there are pretty much only 2 locations, but I still enjoy the story.
I’ll try and pop in regularly during the weekend. If i fail miserably at this (probably will), have a great weekend guys! You’re all awesome!
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Have a good weekend, man. I liked Dragon Age 2 as well, but compared to the brilliant first game I was disappointed. Mainly in implementation, not neccessarily subject matter.
Dear Scree,
How’d that thing with that dude with the dog go?
Kind regards,
– Effluvium Boy
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Well I spoke to the dangerous dog hotline and they said to tell the police. I haven’t been near a police station. (used to have one around the corner, thanks Kennett.)
However there was a moving van out the front of the units he lives in. I’m hoping it’s him =D-
To report things like that you can always ring the local police station (will be in the phone book white pages I guess?) or the non emergency police hotline to report such a thing which is probably a different number in Vic as it is here in NSW.
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Yeah true. But I didn’t know what they could really do about it anyway aside from maybe warn him (Only there’s 4 units and I don’t know which one is his).
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I don’t even know what happened, What did I miss? Did a vicious dog come at you? =/
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Guy with small penis compensates via his aggressive dog.
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That is surprisingly similar to how I was going to describe it. Nice.
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Oh I would like to ad, he had another go at me when I walked the dog past his house. I wasn’t alone though. My mother with her walking frame was with me.
The guy watched Sid walk past, waited for us and said “Just to let you know, if my dog gets out, he’ll kill your dog.’
My mum looks like she’s in her 70’s due to illness. o_o I couldn’t believe the bastard. Excuse the language.But yeah, maybe he’s moving!
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No need to excuse the language, it’s perfectly acceptable.
He’d soon regret saying that if it did happen and his dog was put down & the police or whoever charged him.
People like that utterly disgust me. Why can’t everyone just be nice to one another..
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I bet state & feral law disagree with his views haha.
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I know. Even if his dog only attacks another dog the council can still put the dog down and I could sue him for the costs of getting my dog repaired.
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You could also go for compensation, you know psychological damage it may have caused you etc.
Cause I don’t exactly favour psychotic dogs coming out, it’s quite scary.
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It’s hard to explain. it’s possible that the dog is harmless but this guy just gets a power trip out of it. I mean, who else parks his car at the corner of a park and tells an old lady that she better put her dog on a lead because he’s a council ranger (in his SAAB convertible.)
I just dislike irresponsible dog owners. I try to be responsible with Sid. Sometimes I don’t pick up his waste as I always forget the bags. >_< I ran out and always forget to pick up some more. =(
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Ah right, one of those. Probably a short bloke as well.
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He’s probably a little above average, but he drives a SAAB convertible with his Jimmy Barnes up loud as he drives.
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He sounds like a merchant banker.
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He does, doesn’t he? I don’t know what he does, but someone needs to pull the stick out of his arse.
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Stick? More like the entire god damn tree!
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You might find more then one in there. =D
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Haha, I bet that’s the truth!
AlexPants, thanks for that Cross information a page ago, Really interesting, and I hadn’t played the multiplayer to find out.
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Ah cannae watch th’ YouTube.
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Go to a country where you can then XD
I’m surprised you can actually get on Kotaku at all from China..
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Does it even feel safe using the Internet? Do you feel like Big Brother’s watching you?
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@Virus: So am I. A lot of gaming websites are blocked here.
@D.C. There are (pretty obviously) a huge number of people here, and they have hundreds of millions of internet users. Some of them do get into trouble (or disappear) because of what they write, but that’s mostly on the Chinese social media websites when they protest against the government.
I’m sure someone vaguely tracks internet usage, but I don’t think they’d care about a foreigner.
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And Aidan was never heard from again…
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I tried to Google search an appropriate Chinese translation for ‘all hail Chairman Mao’… and the search was blocked.
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According to google translate, 所有冰雹毛主席! should do you.
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If you go to that Wikia he linked to and search for Abstergo Files you’ll find all the files and videos too. Spoilers a-plenty, so make sure you’ve played Revelations first obviiously. 😀
No worries. The multiplayer isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but at least they’re actually adding some interesting Abstergo information to it this time round.
For the guys who were looking at doing shameless gaming next month and having to update there backloggery site by adding each game individually you might want to have a look at
http://howlongtobeat.com
Also has the nice/terrible feature have having the approximate time it will take you to complete your backlog based on other peoples completion time.
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“Time To Complete: 3 Days, 21 Hours, 5 Minutes.” D:
And I only added the four games in my actual backlog (which is relatively small :P)! I didn’t even add the ones I want to replay at a harder difficulty…
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I have been feeling run down so needed something mind-numbing to do
So I added my entire steam list into it which included games that are partially complete as well as ones that I won’t / might not go back and play
Time To Complete: 72 Days, 16 Hours, 9 Minutes.
I think I need to take a year off work
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Oh and the other point I was trying to make is that they have an alphabetical listing of games everybody has previously submitted so you can just view details on the game and click backlog to add it
I’m sitting in the dark watching Ghost Whisperer. Ahhhh, to be.a young man on a Friday night. :p
Okay, I have decided…I cannot draw Batman. And I really hate feet.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/luckydogofdeath/batman.jpg
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Not too shabby line drawings at all! Feet look fine to me, the one on the left in particular.
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The left is fine but the right one is wrong. I need to fix it.
Just crash Bandicoot to go.Also he’s eating cookies and milk. =D What kind of milk you ask?
Chocolate milk of course.-
Seems to be the thing to do. :p
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I dunno mang, I don’t think Batman likes chocolate. http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3291/2397968301_e5afb8c012.jpg
(PS. I’m aware of the memetic thing relating to chocolate milk, but shh)
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I think Coffee Milk. Because it’s the greatest.
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It so is! Nippy’s Iced Coffee from SA is the best!
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I don’t have that, I tend to just go with Dare. It’s fairly standard, but it does the job.
Also, it is weird to hear someone else call if coffee milk. When I call it that I typically get weird looks, even though it’s exactly what it is.
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It’s coffee flavoured milk. I do usually call it iced coffee. Mainly because I say Nippy’s iced coffee.
If you’re ever in Victoria or SA, find Nippy’s and try it. It’s better then Big M and any other coffee milk around =D
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Farmers Union is the best.
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Nuh uh, strawberry milk is the bestest flavour on the planet. And in spaaaaaaace too
Is that Adam West Batman? 😀
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I don’t know? I was using image search to make sure it was accurate
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Ah okay. The mask/face just reminds me of when he was Batmans!
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I’m terrible with faces. I think my reference was from the cartoon.
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I’ll give you that also. I never really watched the animated series of Batman. So I wouldn’t really see that connection first myself.
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I’m only really drawing batman as a request. I just need to draw crash Bandicoot then the custom decorations are ready to be scanned in ^0^
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Ooo fanceh! I forget what I put my hand up for, was it Batman? Or was it GLaDOS or another Portal character? I’m such a derp D:
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Well first you said Glados and Wheatly and then you said Batman. I made it batman because I knew i could put a Christmas spin on it (cookies and milk are tradition for Santa. I’m not saying whether Batman may or may not be Santa). But as I haven’t played Portal 2 it was hard for me to do them.
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At my house it was beer and bikkies…
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Ah right. I won’t worry about it then, if all it is is textures missing.
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Err that was meant for Blaghs. Curse you reply button >=[
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Does it happen all the time, or is it only sometimes/does what’s missing vary? If it’s the first, then it’s not such a problem, if it’s the second, then there could be a slightly more serious problem.
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Only happens on select parts of map like 90% of the time.
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I also did install it from a torrent of the ISO I got as well. So it might be that?
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I’d say that’s a quite likely cause.
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I’ll just get the steam back up off my mate. Don’t really wanna waste 11GB if I don’t have to.
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Or just ignore it. 😛
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Yeah i’ll more than likely do this.
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Don’t you love it when you find a song that you loved when you were younger but haven’t heard in years? And its still just as amazing all these years later
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It’s why I listen to WSFM!
That and I dont like dem new fangled music, no sir, nothing but noise I hear. Now ged off mah porch.-
That was the station I was brought up listening to as well. It clearly just better music than today’s stuff
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I wish I had your awesome music station things. The best thing we have here in the ACT is 666 ABC Radio. OF THE DEVIL!
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Listen to it online, fool!
http://www.wsfm.com.au/listen/
And when you go out, steal a smartphone and download an app for it too.
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NO YOU GED OFF MAH PORCH YOU SONOVABEECH!
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So TAY, anyone here have any experience with the Australian Air Force? I am considering of joining to learn some sort of trade/apprenticeship i’ve always had an interest in the Air Force, not sure why but they just have some of the coolest stuff, like the C-17 which carry tonnes upon tonnes of cargo which is phenomenal.
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Afraid not, I’ve got friends in both the Army and Navy but not the Air Force. I can ask them for some info anyway and see what they can come up with if you’d like
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I would appreciate it, I myself don’t know anyone in the Air Force as well. Makes me wonder is anyone in the Air Force? D:
I have one friend in the Army he suggested I check out reserves before anything else, which I think is smart. But I just want to learn a trade sorta thing so idk if reserves is the way to go if that’s what I wanna do. Y’know?
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I’ve sent off an email. I’ll let you know when I get anything back
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Thanks man, appreciate it!
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Go for it, they love people with IT/engineering interests.
There are a bunch of places you can get info from, I’m sure there’s a physical recruiting centre somewhere but they have a website with some nice details about apprenticeships and traineeships.
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We use to have a recruiting office but where it use to be in a local shopping centre is literally empty now. I actually didn’t think of their website, how stupid of me.
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I did cadets, so some of my friends joined the army/navy/air force.
I will say this. They may pay for your apprenticeship/training/whatever, but you’re locked in. My friend is training as a pilot with the Air Force, but he cannot leave until he’s completed 16 years of service. So he gets his degree and qualifications (3-5 years), then has to commit to 16 years, otherwise they’ll take his log book and that basically means he has no official flying hours/experience. That’s 21 years.
He’s really happy with it though, he loves flying, so that’s good for him, but really, that’s one thing they never mention, which is how they lock you with them for a long time.
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I knew that it wasn’t something you could easily leave after 5-6 years. But it is something I should consider.
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I actually applied a few years ago, seemed like it could be cool.
Also a mate of mine is in and he loves it. He has done a few general roles and served in Dubai a couple of times.
Definitely go for Air Force out of all the armed forces though. The way my mate compared it: when going overseas the Army stay in tents or a cramped barracks, the Navy stay on their cramped ships and the Air Force stay in 5 star hotels.There is tons of info on the site so yeah, check that out.
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That’s rather interesting. I know atm the Australian Army is taking over the RAAF base out at Amberly I think. The RAAF lot aren’t impressed I am told haha.
The Air Force always seemed like the pick of the three to me anyway. Since my father grew up with his father being a officer in the Army and he has seen majority of it all, I remember he said the Navy ships stunk of diesel and it was pretty crap being cramped and all.
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Bioware accidentally put a massive spoiler in a behind the scenes video about voice acting. They showed a screen with audio files named [characterx]_death_scene.
Silly billies. I mean, the leaks leaked it months ago, but it’s hardly good for people who want to avoid spoiling themselves.
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If its for Mass Effect 3, please ROT 13 it. I’m really trying to avoid anything about that game before I play it. Cheers
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Agreed. 😀
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I won’t post anything here about it, I was just surprised that they’d put it so openly on a screen in the background when they know people go through those videos of game footage frame by frame.
(and I’m fairly sure the situation in which the character possibly dies has been changed since the leak anyway, or was out of date even then, so I’m in the dark as well)
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Sorry, I didn’t really read that properly, I just saw Bioware and massive spoiler and panicked. Sorry if I sounded a bit in-your-face
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I had the same ‘cover my ears, make loud noises’ reaction too. So close, yet so far away…
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I should start using “NOT AN ME3 SPOILER” tags 😛
(normally I’m as rabid as both of you about avoiding them, but I read three quarters of the leaked beta information before it was confirmed they were real, and I’ve given up trying to avoid more spoilers.)
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See, I’ve done so well in avoiding stuff that I didn’t even know there was a beta leak. How the hell did I manage that?
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It was quite significant.
And by quite significant I mean EVEFRYTHING.
Someone at Microsoft messed up and put the Xbox singleplayer and multiplayer demo on Live about four months too early, and even though it wasn’t nearly complete (textures missing, lots of placeholder audio, huge gaps in cutscenes, etc) most of the first level, a later level and the multiplayer were playable.
Also included in the beta’s files were .tlk files, which are basically the game’s entire text script (though this one probably had some lines missing and was heavily jumbled) and a lot of writing notes from the writers.
Even down to stuff like “here’s [Sidequest 2]. It has the theme of [emotion]. We’re using [scene in Hollywood movie 3] as reference.”
Bioware have said the leak was significantly out of date (which it looked like it was) and that some things were changed. But the main thrust of the plot and characters have been basically completely spoiled.
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Whew, glad I missed it then.
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I haven’t clicked on anything Mass Effect related in some time. Not going to look at trailers, screenshots or the like. Why would people intentionally want to spoil the last of a trilogy? Madness! 😀
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He didn’t spoil it, so you’re safe!
As an aside, does anyone else have a compulsion to read everything put through rot13, even though they don’t actually want the thing spoiled? Just me? Just me.
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But if its a 40 hour game that I’m really interested in I really have to restrain myself. Speaking of which, can someone come unlock these chains?
Anyone?
Anyone here seen the Discovery Channel show, Sons of Guns? Damn this show is awesome. The size & types of guns they get to play with, modify & build is just insane. I’m waiting for the day they get to play with a tank XD
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Ah yeah that was a cool build! I rather like the silenced 1919 Grenade Launcher they did in season 2, that was rad.
And yeah the daughter Steph is hot I agree, she knows her shit too and comes off not too much of an air head lol.
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Been meaning to look into it but haven’t had a chance yet.
Speaking of Discovery, has anyone watched Sci Fi Science?
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It might be about guns and sort of have a “FUCK YEAH AMERICA!” vibe to it. But you do learn a bit about guns & such which is what I like.
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Dearest Blaghs
Oh karma is an unforgiving mistress. I can only hope your wallet was as empty as mine.
Did I hear that there is a possibility of Canned Meat 2 : Recanned??
Sincerely
jamesmacusedmyhandle
PS your blog is awesome
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Given the plans of my parents, I am currently potentially working on two Canned Meats, depending on people’s interest, and if anyone actually wants to go to my house. Firstly, my parents are away from Australia Day and over the following weekend, so I was considering getting Shane to try and organise something then for me(I’m that lazy). And they’re also going on another international trip in June, so I was thinking of doing another one then.
And thank you for the compliment on my blog, get ready for lots of reposts of old things I put on Facebook!
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I fully support Recanned for Australia day!
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You live in Canberra right Blaghman? I’m pretty sure my parents are going away for the Australia Day weekend so there shouldn’t be any drama’s with me having the car and driving down from Sydney. It would be good to meet you, especially after all our night time TAY work.
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Hey Nova, if you’re thinking of trippin’ down from Sydney, it might be worth asking around on TAY. Chances are, there’ll be others wanting to do it, and it’ll give you a chance for a road meat 😀
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What Rize said, I know Bish is interested in coming down, so there should be a car or two, like last time. I just need to decide on details…
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Yeah I’ll definitely spread the word around next week. I know midnight on a friday night is never a good time to be trying to get ahold of a lot of the TAYbies 🙂
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BIRD IS THE WORD
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A-well-a bird, bird, b-bird’s the word
A-well-a don’t you know about the bird?
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Say wha??
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZThquH5t0ow
Best song.
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Cleaning my room while listening to this at midnight.
What an exciting life I lead.
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Oh boy. We really need to get Canberra a better radio station 🙂
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I could maybe do June.
I’m keen to indulge in the the things that Canberra is famous for…
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and by that I mean a tour of Parliament House and a visit to the War Memorial 😉
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Don’t forget Questacon!
What? Don’t look at me like that, its still awesome.
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I understand what you mean. ; )
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…roundabouts?
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Man that giant roundabout near Blagh’s place was amazing. Would drive around again.
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Wouldn’t mind doing June. As long as it’s not between June 4 – 22, which is when exams are.
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Oh man, I would organise it just for your timing Notty boy.
By which, uhh, I mean, umm, I hate you? Nah, I got nothing. I know they leave around June 10th ish, but I dunno how long they’re away for.
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They give a more detailed timetable later in the semester, so there’s a good chance i finish earlier than the 22nd.
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Aw, why do all the night crew live somewhere else? D=
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You could always hit up the day crew? (I hear Rumours though. Rumours whispered in fearful tones)
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I have not heard these rumours. And I dunno, I don’t know the day crew at all. Only they night crew and they appear to mostly live in NSW
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Just organise a trip to Canberra, it’s easy, right? 😛
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Is not. Plus the last time I was in Canberra I would’ve been like 5.
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I dunno, I’ve driven to and from Melbourne. Well, been in a car that went to and from Melbourne*.
*I think I had my L’s, and did some stretches, but I can’t quite remember.
It wasn’t that bad. 😛
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Who would look after my mother and Sid?
Also I can’t drive. I’ve only had 2 lessons and can’t afford regular ones =(
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Look after your mother using your latent telekinetic powers, and hitch-hike to Canberra.
EASY.
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You in SA Scree??
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No, I’m in Vic. If I was in SA I’d have even less of a chance of getting a game art job
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Really should have been evident by your preference for Nippy’s over Farmers Union. LOL
Your Batman was cool. Picked as Animated straight away.
Just google ‘Rob Liefeld feet’ if you want to feel better.**I thought your feet were fine and Rob Liefeld is an amazing artist.
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Well i like Farmer’s union too, I’d rather drink that over Big M. It’s strange because Big M is Victorian and both Farmer’s Union and Nippy’s are from SA.
I’m glad you didn’t think the feet were that bad, but I am a perfectionist so I will still fix it up until it’s at a standard I like. Funny how I don’t care about faces but I must always get the body in correct proportion.
I did look up Rob Liefeld feet and they looked good, aside from being a little pointy.
Where do you hail from?
Notty boy is both day and night crew, and he’s Melbournian. And you know that he’s a pretty rad guy.
I mean, uhh, a bad person. Because for some reason I’ve decided that I can’t compliment him. I don’t know.
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I can. He gifted me Mass Effect 1 and 2
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But he… uhhh… He. Ummm. Hmmm.
He’s… Racist? Sure, that’ll do. That must be why I am being mean to him. Or maybe it’s because he likes to MAKE ME CRY.
*whispers* He’s a monster.
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He always makes me cry. Always.
Hooray! TAY at night! 😀
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It’s 9pm 😀
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More like TAY at early morning… Who needs sleep, right?
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HELL YEAH!
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Sleep is for the weak-minded.
Caffeine is the liquid of kings!-
I’ve sworn off sugary drinks, at least briefly, so all I have atm is water. Delicious water.
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Oh, Ruffleberg. I shall check in the afternoon whether the package you sent me has arrived.
If it hasn’t arrived, I’ll let you know via e-mail. 🙂
So i managed to rearrange things so i could get one more night of LOL and ill be home around 0115hrs or so and i plan on playing alot of LOL
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Oh Pyrean, you’re obsessed.
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its been 8 WHOLE hours since i turret dived someone man !
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Hmm… I’m on Steam and I can’t find Spiral Knights…
Okay so I just found out there’s a show about Moonshine, called ‘Moonshiners’ yet Moonshine is illegal in the US, but there’s a television show about it. WUT?
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There are TV shows about weed, and weed culture, despite it being illegal.
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It’s a dramatization
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonshiners_(TV_series)
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I thought it was a doco when i saw it was on Discovery.
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Ah, that explains a lot. I couldn’t find it’s wiki page before when looking either, weird.
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My wife heard rule 34 mentioned this morning. I had to explain what is was. She did not believe me. “what about vegetables?” she asks. “that would be impossible” she claims. It took the very first google result to give me a broccoli and an egg. She is now developing a healthy concern for the denizens of the Internet.
About time.
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That is probably the best way that TAY could have started today 😀
I remember doing something similar with my partner. She decided that Transformers wouldn’t exist, cause that’d just be silly…she now understands the Internet.
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That broccolli is really giving it his all.
What is this. I don’t even. ._.
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Bahahahahaha!
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The link doesn’t work. It made me sad.
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Try this, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bws_eVfFoU poor Bish is bad at linking.
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That video was the best way to start my day.
Yes, my day started at 1:20pm. Shush now.
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I’m glad it made your day start well =D
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Scree: Apparently Kiewa Iced coffee is the best. Northern Victorian brand.
JamesMacUsedMyHandle…if you go to Canberra in June I will move Heaven and Earth to make sure I’m there too!
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Strange in Canberra? \o/ make it happen number 2
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I’ve never heard of it Strange. Where can you buy it?
Dammit, I got all excited about a demo being available “now” for FFXIII-2 on 360…but it’s not there. Should have realised it was just for the US. 🙁
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/01/final-fantasy-xiii-2-demo-incoming/
Woo! Billing Disputes in the morning! My favourite! /sarcasm.
Morning everyone!
It’s the weekend and I feel weird.
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Good morning! It is the weekend, but it’s my Friday as I am working and have tomorrow and Monday off work 🙂
Going to have a game of Risk this afternoon hopefully!
Mumbokumboau Diary day 7.
“Finished” jetpack joyride and deleted off my phone. Did some more 3D land, looks like we’re gonna need alot more coins.
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*Thwacks with oar*
My sister is thinking about getting an import copy of SW:TOR and wants to know what’s the best server to play on for Australian folk? Any one here got some tips? Much obliged! 😀
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Never mind, EB were sold out. She’s leaning towards the Australian release proper now. Thanks any way.
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Well, just in case, for future reference:
PVP: The Swiftsure
PVE: The Harbinger
Apparently Swiftsure gets crazy login queues though, that’s how official the unofficial Australian server is. Sucks to be the Americans on that server, heh.
Also no wonder that they’re thinking of an actual Oceanic server.-
Noted, thanks Bish. I’ll forward this on to my sister!
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Hello? *ello* *lo* *o*
Is anybody here? *here* *ere* *ear*
I guess not. *ot* *ot* *you’re an idiot*
What? *hat*
Did you just echo the word “hat?” *no* *o* *oh* *wait, yes*
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Sup? I was playing Deus Ex, forgot how fun it was, got back into it, and then I remembered why I stopped. The game crashes after an hour, wihtout fail. Am contemplating buying a console version.
So now I’m watching various ‘Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis’ episodes from the YouTubes.
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I’m just curious about how many people are here. The answer appears to be “not many.”
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Oh, man. Now there’s a game with insanely good atmosphere. The only thing stopping me from a replay is the horrible boss fights, though. I can’t bare to face ’em again. :p
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I’M HERE! I’ve missed you Blaghs!
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Bloody fail.
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Best fail!
Are you quieter on the weekends?
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By which I mean, “is your work quieter, giving you more chances to get onto TAY?”
Man, our language is crap.
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Haha i knew what you meant!
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A little bit….but not day…had so many fucked calls. Like disputes, TIO cases, all that sort of crap 😛
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http://petitionbureau.org/DarkSoulsForPC Dark souls for PC petition. Just in case anyone hasn’t got dark souls due to it not being on a platform they can play
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I dunno mang, I’d hate to have the vision of the game destroyed by all the people who are unable to play it optimally.
I mean, it would be terrible to play Dark Souls without a silky smooth framerate.
Oh. Wait.
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Apparently the petition received 3k signatures in 3 hours. Impressive
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Oh god…so conflicted…if it came out on PC, I’d probably pirate it, and maybe even buy it. I’ll still pay the Xbox version before then, though 😛
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Yeah, I’d probably get it to try and justify my PC master raceness. Also because Blighttown with an actual framerate would be a pretty rad dude.
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Well think about this. We’re lucky to get dark souls because we never got demon souls.
http://www.ozgameshop.com/ps3-games/demons-souls-game-ps3If my theory is correct, Demon souls is the first game, which was never released in Australia. We got the sequel. Basically, buy the game so we get future releases.
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Demon’s souls was released in Australia, it just had a /very/ delayed release date. http://www.kotaku.com.au/2010/04/demons-souls-gets-long-awaited-aussie-release-date/
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I have never seen it in a store though. ._.
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I saw it in JB a coupla times. Basically, because Dark Souls had a world-wide release planned from the start, it gained a lot more coverage, not to mention that Demon’s Souls was a sleeper hit.
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It was probably a JB exclusive, like Muramasa the demon sword (awesome and beautiful game). It’s very annoying that they do that because then they can charge what they like for it. Also it reduces the number of games released.
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I got mine from EBgames. It was only a limited release but they only released the black phantom edition and the best part was its RRP was only 68 bucks.
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I’m a little sad I missed it. Thank goodness for Ozgameshop. I’ll have to get it =D
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Definitely get it! It’s the same basic idea with a completely different structure than Dark Souls. I ended up sinking a ridiculous amount of time in it.
Fun Fact: Demons’s Souls was published in most of the western world by Atlus but Namco Bandai here.
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I’d just bought Katamari Forever too
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Meh, it’s okay…
No, I can’t lie. DEMON’S SOULS IS AWESOME.
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Signed 😀
Now we need one for Red Dead Redemption!
Dear Rocketman,
Chestnut.
Kind regards,
– Effluvium Boy.
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Dear Rocketman,
As an addendum to previously stated statements:
Almond.
Deepest Sympathies,
– Freeze S. Preston Icequire.
I was wondering, I use to be a frequent poster/visitor of the Pure Pwnage forums which gathered quite a following here in Aus to the point ABC2 aired their TV show last year. Was wondering was anyone else part of that community? I was active from 07 to late 09 early 2010.
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Sorry I have never been there.
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Damn D: lol.
This reminiscing lead me to their site to find out Australia doesn’t get the Blu-Ray release of the TV Series only a DVD release so rude x.x
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Hm, should I play Aquaria, Skyward sword or golden sun? I really don’t know D:
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Skyward Sword!
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It will have to wait. Mum has started watching second hand lions. Only one tv, you see.
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Put them all in a container and cook over a medium heat for 30mins. Pour into a CD mold and viola!
Skyward Aquarian Sun.
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I would play that game.
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One’s adventure, one’s adventure rpg and one is rpg. They would work together somehow o_o
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My mate linked me to a reddit thread where it was revealed who won ALL the Steam games :O
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Wow, his game reviews are the epitome of articulate elocution.
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He was from /v/ of 4chan, the trolling nature of that is expected sadly.
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I only ever received vouchers =( I was pretty annoyed
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I know how you feel D:
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I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who never got anything really good
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I know I was sads 🙁
None of my friends got anything it seemed as well.
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My friend did. He got several games, but some of them was from using coal
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Well then D:
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Dearest Freeze S. Preston, Icequire:
In your opinion, is Dark Souls, or Demon’s Souls, a better game?
Yours Truly,
Blaghman.
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Dearest Blaghman:
That is a good question. I guess if you put a gun to my head, I’d have to say Dark Souls is more fun, with the caveat that I’d play Demons’s Souls more.
Demons’s has a far more arcane background working that after over 300 hours I STILL am not 100% how it works. Dark also seems to be a bit more accessible and has a few conveniences added that Demons’s was sorely missing.
The NG+’s are very different, with me preferring Demons’s. I found with Dark I was powering through NG+ with little difficulty, whereas Demons’s just gets harder and harder, to the point where I had 2300hp and full Brushwood armour set and every boss was 1 hitting me.
I don’t think that answered anything.
Not Really Sure,
Freeze S. Preston Icequire.-
Dearest Freeze:
Apologies, I am shortening you name, but I really can be quite a slacker sometimes. I think I understand, and if you’d simply had an “A not B” answer then I would have been sorely disappointed.
Yours Truly,
Blaghman.P.S. I know it required more characters to type out my explanation for shortening your name, but that’s how the delicious cookie crumbles.
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Dearest participants,
I was hoping that your comparison of the two games would help me to decide which I should purchase first.
I am now even more on the fence then ever.
Sincerely,
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Dearest scree,
There is a simple solution, get both.
Full Of Good Ideas
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Dearest Freeze S. Preston Icequire,
I do plan to get both, but I I was hoping to find out which I should purchase first. I won’t be able to afford both at the same time. I was thinking of getting the limited edition at EBGames (unless ozgameshop has it) and Demons souls at Ozgameshop.
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I’m happy to lend out my copy of Demon’s Souls if you wanted to sample it before purchasing.
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It’s okay, I plan to get both, just dunno which to get first.
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Follow the advice of Drew Barrymore, in the cult-classic Donnie Darko.
“Sit next to the boy you think is the cutest.”
Wait, I don’t think that applies here. Nevermind.
(Alternately, judge the games solely on their covers, and use that to decide)
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Dearest Blaghman:
It might help if you used the letter format, when replying to something that is in said format.
Chin up, one day you’ll stop being such a disappointment.
Yours Truly,
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Hey Blaghman clone, stop picking on Blaghman D=
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MWAHAHAHA!
You can never stop me. None of you could ever stop me!
HAHAHAHA, THE WORLD IS AN OYSTER, AND I AM ITS PEARL!
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When does Blaghmans Clone plan on taking out Blaghman and assuming his identity?
OR HAS HE ALREADY?
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Oh, it’s been happening for longer than you can imagine. http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/01/community-kudos-12/
MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
We could just move the whole of Kotaku and not tell you. Then it would be talk amongst Blaghman’s clone.
Unlike my foolish other, I’m sure I would notice such a ruse. I will not be defeated by such childish ploys.
But you’re a clone. You have the same level of intelligence. Therefore, if it will trick Blaghman, it will trick you. And I will only tell Blaghman, and not you.
Technically, my intelligence was the same as the other version of me, when we initially became separate entities. However, the time since then has allowed me to mature far beyond him. The world is my plaything, and my unfathomable intelligence dwarfs that of my, other.
It doesn’t help Blaghman, but thanks for the effort
On the Dark Souls petition
“A port of this game has a high chance of being extremely successful for From Software and Namco Bandai. Given the sales of games such as The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim and The Witcher, there is a large market for games like this. PC gamers love unforgiving, hardcore games.”
Successful in that a few thousand will buy it and several million will pirate it?
Sorry, try it out before purchase.
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Most people are honest though. Unfortunately, the pirates ruin it for everyone.
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I haven’t pirated a game in a while actually. Last game I downloaded from a torrent was Driver San Francisco & I ended up buying it on Steam before I got a chance to even install the pirated copy.
Last game might’ve been Modern Warfare 2 now I think about it.
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Surprisingly I have not pirated a game yet. All my consoles have been unmodded, my iPhone remains in jail and I have not been a PC gamer since I was the awesome kid who had a Pentium processor before anyone else. ($7500 for a 75Mhz processor, 500MB hard drive and a massive 32MB of RAM)
TV shows are a completely different story.
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I’ve never pirated a game. My brother and uncle have though
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Holy shit that’s a lot for a PC even by today’s standards!
I once had a chipped PS1, I loved that thing ^_^
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NNNOOOOOOOOOO!!!
My net has been shaped 🙁
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Shaped to what is the question.
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256k
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I’m almost shaped, curse you sons of guns season 3 & skype yesterday >.<
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69mb until i’m capped, fuck yeah!
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Shapes are pretty delicious!
Speaking of Dark Souls, WTF?
http://www.ozgameshop.com/ps3-games/dark-souls-game-ps3-646292
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I got it for less than that, and I bought it at Game!
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In comparison
https://www.ebgames.com.au/ps3-153926-Dark-Souls-Limited-Edition-PlayStation-3
Not sure whats going on there.
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From a response letter from JEFF FLAKE Member of Congress
“As you know, H.R. 3261 was introduced by Congressman Lamar Smith (R-TX) on October 26, 2011. The legislation would allow the Attorney General of the United States to seek injunctions against foreign websites that sell counterfeited American products. The bill also increases criminal penalties for individuals who traffic in counterfeit goods. H.R. 3261 has been referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary, where it is pending further consideration.
While this legislation seeks to protect intellectual property rights, I’m concerned that it may overreach and have unintended consequences. I will continue to monitor the progress of H.R. 3261 as it moves through the committee process. Please be assured that I will keep your comments in mind should the House of Representatives consider this issue.”
Is piracy considered counterfeiting? Is it by definition?
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This is about SOPA in case it wasn’t clear.
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Counterfeiting is actually a much more accurate way to describe piracy. It’s still not entirely correct but it’s much closer than theft.
Never really thought of that before. I think I might have to start using that…
Is there a sweeter sound than r2d2 screaching? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQCWV4vuzGo
I’ve watched this so many times over so many years, and it’s still awesome:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=P9t3QVoFQnM#t=37s
For those that haven’t seen it before, watch the drummer.
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I counter with this drumming good sir. EN GUARDE!
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The only thing I can think of to top that would be more Phil Collins 😛
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Holy…
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Best thing about the video is the fact they’re playing ZZ Top, the next best is the drummer 😛
Looks like tomorrow is free now!
Sleeping in, French Concession and The Bund are a go 😀
This made me laugh. The poor dog does look traumatised.
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Ahahaha, oh god. That’s great. Poor dog though I guess.
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Yes cupcake dog is awesome. He really wants those cupcakes.
I love his name though. It’s stains.Another video
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Sorry, one more
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ahahaha, oh man. Animals crack me up.
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I love how the cat is just like “Oh crap, I’ve been discovered, meow~ There, fixed.”
And another
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Now, I don’t say this very often, but what the hell did I just watch?
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It’s a parody of a level on rhythm heaven on wii using the guy from old spice. We get it sometime this year.
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Well, the other guy from Old Spice.
And, that makes sense. I guess?
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You’ve just confused me.
This is the original
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzQYH805Gqw
If oyu’ve never played rhythm heaven it’s a music game from the makers of warioware. I love it. -
Oh, I should clarify. The main “Old Spice Guy” is Isaiah Mustafa, the guy there is a different guy that they used in Old Spice ads. I mean, I could call him the “other, other, other, other, other” old spice guy, since that field has included such greats as Neil Patrick Harris, but that would serve to confuse things even further.
And I think I understand, if only a little bit, now.
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It’s the “I’m on a horse” one. But Rhythym heaven is a pretty aawesome game. SO far we’ve only had the one of DS. The music is pretty good too.
Her eis my parting gift
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No it’s not, it’s Terry Crews: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCl5uyn5K7k
Whereas the I’m on a Horse, aka. Isaiah Mustafa: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owGykVbfgUE&feature=related
*Bam* My brain is filled with useless trivia and crap!
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I knew it was Terry crews but I didn’t know they’d changed that often. o_o I thought they were all the same guy XD In my defense, I’ve only seen each ad once.
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Bit more choke and it might start lolol.
That is hilarious.
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You’ve gotta love No no no cat. Apparently it’s because of the breed like Bengal’s meow loudly and a lot.
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OH that’s awesome if there’s a breed of cat that does it. Not just one haha.
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Yeah, it says the breed in the description. Marchionesses is the breed.
Same cat breed
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Scratch that. That’s not the breed. I have no idea what the guy was saying then.
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Oh okay =[
N’aww init cute!
I tried looking up what type of cat it was, but I couldn’t find it =(
Here’s a bengal talking to birds instead
Here is a trained Bengal
N’aww, damn cats being cute D:
I need to put up a vid of my cat playing fetch some time.
Do so then =D
Finally got the chance to give Dark Souls some attention.
Pros – almost everything.
Cons – the person who designed the controls probably still has a job…seriously, I hate him. So many deaths attributed to “*Presses parry, riposte, dodge*…wait, why did I just roll around a bunch, then stare at everyone? *smack*…f*%k”.
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It took me about twenty minutes, and a lot of Estus flasks, before I worked out the timing on parrying one attack from the basic soldier guy… Bloody Parries in that game are fecking hard.
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Haha, trying to be skillful and actually parry and riposte. That’s adorable.
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My reflexes found them really, really easy.
My brain, however, tells me to parry about 1 second early, every time…
Really annoying thing that’s been happening with parry is when I do it with the right timing, the enemy isn’t stunned, I don’t get hit, and then take full damage as though I had been hit 😐
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My brain found it really hard to accept that you would start the parry that late, so it took me ages before I even got the timing right once. :/
And yeah, I’ve seen the parry fail thing happen a few times, though it only seems to be on specific enemies in specific locations for me.
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And completely unnecessary. The risk outweighs the reward, especially when you can get through the whole game just fine without parrying at all. Just forget about trying to parry and riposte, people. It’s less frustrating that way. Unless you’re ShiggyNinty. He’s awesome at parry/riposte. He’s a gaming wunderkind.
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But it’s so cool! I have to do it!
Now I know how, it’s not too hard!
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I was running around in Blighttown learning about the game. Don’t ask me how, but I currently have a 100% parry success on them, and haven’t been hit by them. The funny part is, it’s felt like luck every time (which is now about 8ish).
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I don’t parry or backstab and I’m into NG+.
#JustSaying
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As Strange said, it’s unnecessary, just damn cool.
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It sure is. I would do it all the time if I could. I don’t because I’m too big of a wuss to parry and apparently too uncoordinated to backstab.
Yeah, I wasn’t going to mention all that 🙂
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In case you’re interested in Deus Ex, here it is for $12.50 from GMG:
http://www.greenmangaming.com/games/rpgs/deus-ex-human-revolution/
Steam copy.
By the way, I’m staying at my in-laws’ tonight and they have those security shutters on the windows. And wow, they’re really amazing!
See you all tomorrow at around 11am when I wake up. These things make it seem like it’s nighttime all day!
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I have a pretty good set of blinds(Roman Type, obviously), and they (it?) are the only reason I’m able to sleep in past sunrise. So nice.
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Ok, I’m up because someone let my dog in.
I’m at work again tomorow. Looking forward to caving it up today with some Metroid Prime and maybe some Battlefield 3. Also, Dark Souls has not yet loosened its cold grip on me despite giving the final boss what for the other day. Man that was a tough fight.
Oh wow, late 1960s campy Batmang series. Mind blown. First time I’ve watched it.
SO MUCH SUBTEXT.
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And shark repellent.
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That was the episode we watched. So great.
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The movie is even better man.
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I’ve gotta track it down 😀
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It is rather brilliant.
Fun Fact: Take a close look at the Joker. Ceaser Romero refused to shave his trademark moustache so they just put makeup over it.
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I noticed that 😛 It looks like they had a budget of about $20.
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So playing skyrim lastnight…i discovered i no long like dragons.
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0_o I also don’t like English anymore either apparently.
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You suddenly started getting high level dragons attacking you?
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No i decided to attack one, after 2 hours of being cooked i gave up lol.
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Aah, fair enough. What class are you playing?
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Pretty much a mage with a sword.
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Was in the shower wondering if there was a metal version of John Farnham’s You’re the Voice.
Damn capped net means I have to wait ages just to see if the ones on YouTube sound anything like how I think they should sound.
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First video 50% loaded. Answer appears to be “no”
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Second video 10% loaded. Instrumental, so answer is “no”, but seems to have the right idea.
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I take that back, it’s rubbish.
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Redeemed itself at the end, but still not what I was after.
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Blind Guardian did a cover on The Edge Of Time album. Try them.
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Here you go, one by Blind Guardian:
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Thanks, that’s more like it, although still not exactly what I was looking for. Best so far though.
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I feel so lazy today. Why can’t I shake this laziness?
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Because life is awesome? 😀
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There are lots of things I should do. Lots and lots of things, but I go to do them and just stop. Then I end up wanting a nap. =(
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Naps are man’s greatest invention. Succumb to the Dark Side, embrace the nap.
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Naps aren’t coffee, therefore they cannot be man’s greatest invention.
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i think food is nature’s greatest invention.
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This! Now i’m off to make lunch =D
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Oh I see D:
Better do something then!
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I know, but what? I guess I should get back to the Okami Chinese zodiac shirts…
But I can’t be bothered ^^;; -
What ever it is, it sounds cool 😛
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Played some SC2 with an old friend last night. We even played some games on the ladder.
Well, 2vs2 placement matches but it still counts.
It only counts because we won convincingly.
He’s a gold league Protoss who rather likes the cheese and I’m one of those morons who found out what playing well looks like and holds himself to ridiculously high standards (and would probably be bronze if I did my placements). We went for the rather simple gameplan of him harassing them early while I macroed up. Once macroing was done, we just went and stomped the other guys.
Worked rather well. Particularly my love of Zealot/Archon. Damn I love that composition.
Okay…. 11 hour sleep… I’ll just accept that and move on…. o_O
Just finished excavating 3 tonnes of dirt and clay from our backyard with nothing but a pickaxe and shovel…..
Remind me never to do that again.
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Jesus dude. You can hire mini excavators to help with that 😛
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I know I know. I wish I did. But when first assessing the job I thought to my self, that’s not too much do. I’ll be right. 4 ute loads and a terrible sunburn later I’m full of regret and the hole still doesn’t look that big.
And to think I could have stayed inside playing Arkham city.
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Bloody Queenslanders, never learn 😛
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Searching for pirate gold?
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What? Of course not. What a stupid idea. I was putting in a shed.
Uh, does anyone know where I can buy a shed now? Unrelated to previous points.
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What size are we talking? Garden shed to store a few tools & the lawn mower? Or one to store the car along with tools & have a work bench etc? Possibly since you’re in Currumbin anywhere that does fencing (colorbond springs to mind) probably will be your best bet to ask/enquire at.
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Haha, no I actually do have a shed for it already. It was more me implying that I actually was looking for pirate gold but am now trying to save face?
It was a terrible joke.
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Oh lols. I knew that =D
So did you find any pirate booty? Did you manage to cut through any underground powerlines/phonelines water or sewage pipes? lol
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I did hit a pipe, but I think it was just a storm water drain pipe. Easy fix. Also found a heap of those plastic plant tags and a few cat food cans so found treasure of a kind I guess?
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Most likely stormwater cause as far as I know sewage pipes are plastic, since metal or concrete would be eaten away by the acidity or alkalinity, and water usually cast iron up the street until it breaks off in to smaller pipes for your mains etc.
So yeah that would be stormwater more than likely. If anyone asks it was never you that hurt it.
My old man use to work at a local foundry that did all sorts of pipes & fittings, only reason why I know all this haha.
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http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/01/call-of-duty-dominates-xbox-lives-top-10/
Urge…to…troll…rising
Must…resist…baiting…
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Damn my weak constitution.
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You just had to throw fuel on the fire didn’t you. Thats not what Your Iciness is all about Freeze
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Apologies. It just makes me cranky all these people with their haughty pseudo intellectualism saying that CoD is destroying the industry by strangling out all other creative games. Have these people even looked at other games? Because I can count the CoD clones on one hand. I have over 100 ps3 games here and only 8 of them are shooters, including borderlands and bioshocks.
Probably a stupid thing to do but they annoy the hell out of me.
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No, I get where you’re coming from. Personally, I’m not a fan of multiplayer focussed games in general and Call of Duty in particular. About the only MP game I’ve put any amount of time into is TF2. But I get that they appeal to a lot of people, and therefore, a lot of people will spend a lot of time playing them. I don’t get the hate. You don’t like CoD, then just don’t play them.
Like you said, there are so many other games out there that appeal to other sensibilities, shooters or not. Find something you like and play them. Sure, some companies want to try and get a piece of CoD’s pie, but at the end of the day they are a business, they have to make money.
Its the same as people hating Avatar for making a boatload of money. Yeah it was a fairly cliche story, with some fairly generic characters. But it was successful and I loved it. And when the (supposed) sequel comes out in a couple of years the hate will start all over again.
I just wish it would stop. Play/watch what you like and let everyone else do the same
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Come at me, bro.
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How long before some non-TAYbie reports your comment? They just don’t know you like we know you, you know At least you were polite about it though.
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The non-Taybies are all frenzied up in the Nerd and Male Privelage article. :p
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Very true. I don’t think anyone, thinking objectively, can deny that there’s a problem. Why can’t we just accept that and move towards fixing it?
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I’m assuming the ridiculous illogicality of my post is enough to set some sort of “ITS A JOKE” alarm in their heads.
I guess it could be interpreted poorly, but this isn’t Youtube comments.-
You have an extraordinary amount of faith in the intelligence of the average internet poster 🙂
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Or no faith whatsoever, as most of them wouldn’t be able to understand that many multi syllable words.
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Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elder berries, he replied.
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Lets see what they say to mine 🙂
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Lol, nice.
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I’m waiting for something along the lines of “Burn the casual gaming heretic, your kind is not wanted here”
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Sadly, I think they’re just being ignored by most people. Disappointing.
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Shame really
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Today just passed in a series of a naps.
Wake up, read Assassins Creed Encyclopaedia, lie down and read, fall sleep, wake up, read more, sleep more, etc. etc.
I think I tried to play some Skyrim, but I’m stuck on some stupid mission. Then I wanted to play deus ex but I know it’ll crash.
AND I HAVE TO GO TO WORK TOMORROW.
This post is pointless. I think it’s time for another nap.
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A post about napping is never pointless. Never.
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Which mission are you stuck on?
Man I love air con. Best invention to combat a hot summers day! =D
My stomach is telling me I’m sick. 🙁
Thankfully this morning was fairly productive.
I finally escaped Blighttown and got to the Firelink Shrine where obviously I couldn’t rest at the bonfire because I’d forgotten about whatsisname so I’m thinking to myself that I’ll be okay, I can just go up the lift to the Undead Parish kill those three weaklings and get to the bonfire there where I’ll finally be free of Blighttown. Halfway up on the lift the game decides to stop loading stuff. So I can see the elevator I’m on, but everything else is like it has been swallowed by The Nothing. I get to the top, step out of the lift hoping the textures and stuff will finally load but nope, still Nothingesque. I can’t go on and hope it rights itself, there’s too much at stake, I do not want to end up back at the bottom of Blighttown again so I quit and reload. The game doesn’t load at all. I’m completely freaking out now. I take the disc out and pop it back in the PS3 and try to load the game again…success. And yay, it puts me at the entrance to the elevator in Firelink Shrine. I carefully make my way to the Undead Parish and finally get to rest at another bonfire. So long, Blighttown. Phew!!!
Next I tried Sen’s Fortress but it was scary so I figured it was about time to clean up some loose ends, aka The Moonlight Butterfly and The Hydra. Easy-peasy. Tomorrow, Havel.
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Heart stopping stuff. I got this image of you screaming obscenities at the tv, rocking on your heels while waiting for the game to reload 😛 Isn’t it great that modern consoles can’t be trusted with the tiniest error. I got playstation plus almost purely so I’d never lose any Dark Souls data again.
Havel can be either an absolute pain or an absolute joke depending on your build. The hydra is just a joke all the time.
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It took me a while to kill the Hydra!
Just because hitting its last head was really hard when you’re melee only.
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Which is why when even playing with a tank build (my favorite) I always carry a bow. May not always do much damage at the best of times but has helped me out of a few pickles.
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I do have a bow, but, well… I was being stubborn.
(“OK, so, it attacks really far to my left, so if I run to the right, then as it attacks, run straight to the left, then I can attack it while it’s on the grou-CRAP it hit me. OK, I’ll try it aga-DAMMIT too slow, alright, anothe-GORRAMMIT, it hit me again! Now I’m angry!”)
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I don’t think it would be a good idea for me to play these games. I got almost keyboard-breakingly frustrated with the Poison Ivy fight in Arkham Asylum. This just sounds like it would send me to an actual asylum
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It’s really not too bad. The game is designed around you failing, so it’s far less of a chore than most modern games, and their super-scripted fights, where it’s a failure on the part of the designer if you die, rather than your own.
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I don’t need that kind stress in my life. :p
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I’m super-uncoordinated and have a low tolerance for frustration. If I can play this game, anyone can. It’s basically just a matter of paying attention and being cautious.
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The thing with Dark Souls is that when you die its almost always YOUR fault. There’s never a particularly unfair moment in the game. Hell, if your skilled enough all enemies can be taken down with levelling or upgrading your weapon.
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I disagree, I’ve copped a few one-shots through solid walls, but yeah, in general it’s not ‘unfair’
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It took me forever , too. Last head would always strike right on the edge of the safezone in the water where it knew I couldn’t reach it. Spent ages running around trying to kill it and was getting frustrated.
Then I remembered I had a crossbow and some bolts.
Sounds productive all round. My day consisted of lying in bed, staring at the fan thinking about things I should be doing. 😀
For all the bronies
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What about the pegasisters?
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Eh, I’m not fussy about the gender appropriation. When I say bronies, I mean anyway who likes my little pony. I know some people are pedantic about it, but I really don’t care XD
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Or the herbrumbydites. You can’t leave them out.
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Some phat lightning striking around my place tonight. It’s glorious.
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Man, Thor is pissed!
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Lightning appears to be striking all around the neighbourhood. It sounds like someone lit fireworks in the house.
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I hope no one gets injured.
Also, my dog is frightened of the sight of fireworks, yet he likes to run around in storms barking at the thunder and lightening.
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My Guinea Pigs react to Thunder, Lightning, and Fireworks all in exactly the same way.
They sit there gormlessly.
One of my Guinea Pigs was out eating the other day, nomming on grass, less than two feet away from a cat, which just sat there, staring at her.
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Wow, most guinea pigs I know run fearfully at the slightest bit of movement within 5 metres of them
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Mine are really, really, really, really, really, reallyreallyreally stupid. Even by Guinea Pig standards. And they will run, but only from sudden movements, and they quickly forget that you’re there.
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Maybe they’re not stupid, but fearless?
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No. They’re stupid(also old and demented).
I give them “dinner” each night, which is some sort of wet food, usually carrots or celery. Now, they will start “wheeking” for food when they’re hungry.
‘Spress will wheek for food after I have put it in her cage.
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Aw, that’s cute. My guinea pig was feral. It escaped and just lived under the house where my rat dog couldn’t quite reach it. He chased it to death though
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As the person who has to look after her, I find it more annoying than anything else.
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Almost makes you feel like running outside nude, cleansed by the glorious rain.
…No? Just me?
I do love rain. Summer rain is best rain.
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Will, Sid also like raining around naked, but being a dog, he runs everywhere naked.
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For all the rain we’ve had this summer this has been one of the few real summer storms. Gotta love a lightning show at night.
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I like summer storms. It’s much better then having a drought
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At least when a drought’s on I’m not forced to mow the entirety of our back-yard with a whipper-snipper. :/
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BE A MANG
Use a sickle. -
Or a pair of scissors, make sure every blade is exactly the same height
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And then measure each blade’s growth rate, so that you can track and plan for the height they should be at for when you need to ‘mow’ the lawn.
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Really what you should be doing is treating your yard like a giant Bonsai tree. It must be trimmed to perfection
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I hate mowing the lawn. The handle of my lawn mower comes up to my shoulders and it refuses to go other the slightest dense patch of grass. >_<
I have a large yard too which make sit worse.
Our actual mower is a push mower, that is old, rusted, blunt, and stiff. With my rather pathetic level of strength, I am able to mow, at most .2% of our yard.
If I had to push mow our yard, I think I would cry.
I remember the rain on our skin
And his kisses hotter than the
Santa Ana winds
Whispering our goodbyes
Waiting for a train
I was dancing with Bish
In the summer rain
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Bish joined the army? Since when? And where does he have to fight?
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The front lines of Runeterra.
A brutal conflict.
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Yep.
Scree, I’ve been thinking about your Demons or Dark first predicament and have come up with the following confusing theory:
Get Demons first. Dark is technically the better game and it could be annoying “regressing”, as it were. Also if you like demons you’ll love Dark, but not necessarily the other way round.
I hope that makes sense.
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Thank you! I appreciate you taking the time to consider it on my behalf.
I will definitely get demons souls after I buy a new toaster. (ours is on it’s last legs) ^^;; -
Also, cheaper!
Though Souls version of multiplayer won’t be up, since they shut down the servers, but single player Demons Souls is still an experience. -
Nevermind. Purchased. =D
Thanks to Chuloopa. The $10 voucher meant that I was able to afford it. =D
Yay~!
Someone tried to sell me hashish :c
(oh, and if anyone ever goes to Shanghai, you *must* see the Propaganda Art Museum in the French Concession area. It has incredibly interesting/hilarious/scary old propaganda posters from the 50s-70s about China, Mao, America, etc. It’s only $3 to get in and it’s amazing.)
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And…….? Did you take any? 😛
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Probably how he found himself in a propaganda museum 😛
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“Wow man, look at all these colours man… Its all red man”
Too far?
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o_o
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I am greatly humoured by this, so it’s okay!
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Actually, joking aside, when I was in Washington DC, they had an exhibition on Nazi propaganda at the Holocaust Museum. It was some of the most interesting and truly scary stuff I saw. Thankfully with the internet so widespread, there’s less chance of that sort of stuff sticking these days
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I saw this one in DC http://bit.ly/A8YQEp
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When I was about 15 I went to the Elsternwick Holocaust museum.
It looks like this now http://www.jhc.org.au/
When I went there, it was very dark and pretty much terrified me. I was almost sick but wasn’t allowed to leave.-
I’ve been there as well, they have survivors who volunteer to talk about their stories. Incredibly distressing.
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Holy crap these credits for Arkham City will not end.
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They’re fairly long, but I consider them worth it.
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Arkham City spoilers upon me finishing it.
Jub gur uryy qb gurl guvax gurl ner? Lbh pna’g whfg qb gung. Gur Wbxre qrsvarf ongzna va n jnl. Trahvaryl hcfrg urer.
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As a heads up, potential spoilers within the spoiler thing. Uhhh, it’s complicated.
Qb lbh zvaq vs V fcbvy gur AT+ perqvgf sbe lbh? V ubcr abg, FCBVYREF NURNQ!!!!!
Jura lbh svavfu vg va AT+ zbqr, nsgre gur raq bs gur perqvgf, vg jvyy cynl n fbhaq pyvc, juvpu, vs cynlrq onpxjneqf, fnlf fbzrguvat nybat gur yvarf bs “Lbh sryy sbe vg ntnva, Ongf.” Vaqvpngvat gung ur znl abg or nf qrnq nf ur nccrnerq. Gubhtu, tvira Znex Unzvyy fnlf gung ur jba’g ibvpr gur Wbxre nalzber, ur znl abg npghnyyl nccrne va nal yngre tnzrf gurl znxr.
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Wait wait wait, what? I don’t remember that. All I remember is gur bgure guvat nobhg Uneyrl Dhvaa (also being vague in the spoilers language).
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I was basing this on stuff I heard just post release, I remember reading about it somewhere, but I can’t remember, however, I just did some research, and at least according to http://community.batmanarkhamcity.com/forums/showthread.php/7769-Secret-message-in-Joker-s-song-during-credits it appears to have not been real, which is disappointing.
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Ugh, I really need to get on and play this
Theres a Neo Nazi race hate music festival in Brisbane soon. And the council says they can have it because they haven’t broken any laws. Nice to see we can be so tolerant.
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Wow. I mean, seriously. Wow.
I’m stunned and speechless.-
Guys, can’t we be respectful of our Neo-Nazi brothers and sisters? They just so happen to have grown up in a different world to ours, we shouldn’t condemn them just because of their beliefs. Quite frankly, I’m ashamed at your narrow mindedness.
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I did say it was nice we could be so tolerant.
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And I heard the underlying tone of your voice. You know, this kind of attitude is part of the endemic problems we face, through insecurity and baseless fear.
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For some reason I see backlash against the Brisbane City Council from the people of this race if they tried to put a stop to it or legal action. Possibly best to let them have their fun, as long as they keep it within the law, I have no problem with that.
OMG Diablo III peoples, OMFG
Could it be true?! Would Best Buy troll us this hard? I hope not.
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Hmm, bit slow on the up-take Virus__. 😛
No, it’s false. Blizzard have stated that it’s wrong, and that the retailers will know the release date at the same time as the general public, when they do an official press release.
Also, while it looks like they went to a lot of effort for those signs, they did manage to misspell “February.”
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Eh, i’m capped best I can do is watch my Facebook news feed atm & thats where it was posted!
Also why does the Best Buy website also state the 1st of Feb?
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Silly fonetic spelling.
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#iseewhatyoudidthere
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