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Early Morning TAY. How’s things?
Any requests for Radio Numbers today?
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Space Oddity — David Bowie
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Done thing, keep an ear ou– oh wait, nvm
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With a name like that, they should play this song in a prep school!
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That is sooooo not going on air
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I F*** Dogs – DAAS?
No?
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Uhhh, no.
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All the upvotes.
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In the park?
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ADIDAS – Korn
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I’m gonna have to say no, on the grounds that my station doesn’t play metal during the workday.
Sorry, Loops.
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More Bowie then! Can you play new stuff?
Where Are We Now — David Bowie!
So Far Away — Carole King!
Hurt — Johnny Cash/Trent Reznor!
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Those are some songs…
Sure, I’ll take a crack at getting those on air.
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Best damn radio person evah!
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ALWAYS More Bowie.
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Requests? How about a spotify playlist of radio numbers
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But effort…
Also, I don’t know how, isn’t Spotify a paid service?
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It’s free with ads and they have a premium service that removes
There are some extras you get with premium as well but I haven’t looked into it much (Things like having on your mobile)I guess that is a pretty fair raisin, just play some Dusty Springfield instead then
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What’s the station (and format)?
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107.7 in a 40km radius around Whyalla, SA
We play our music through a computer, but have facilities to play CDs and possibly cassettes (unsure, they’re in the broadcast studio)
Steel Panther, any song of theirs is good. The more sexual the better though.
Dammit @shane.
If I get hooked on graphic novels, it’ll be your fault. I’ve never really read one before now… 😛
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Hooked on phonics!
Also, have you read Y: The Last Man, Shane? Recommend it?
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I’m not Shane, but yes. Highly recommend Y: The Last Man.
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I’ve always wanted to read that!
Obviously never got around to it, but still 😛
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Oh man, I can’t recommend it highly enough. It is SO GOOD. Best comic ever. So incredibly readable and really damn funny. And the ending
will make you cry like a little girl.-
all of my tears. that damn monkey.
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Y The Last Man is great, one of the best sustained arcs in comics.
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Looking forward to Brian K. Vaughan’s adaption of Under the Dome!
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Nerds call them “Comics”.
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Hey buddy! Did you get a load of that nerd!?
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Honoured to be your first. There are much more worthy choices, though 😛
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….no loops.. it’s too easy… leave the comment be… you’re better than that man…. right?
… right???
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We all know the answer man. I left it open for you.
Temptation… 😛
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…. HNGH….. Oh god…. can’t… hold… out…. o_0
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NOW GET MARVEL ZOMBIES!!
AND BEAR!!
AND CROSSED (Man that one is seriously messed up, though)
So this Colonial Marines thing is pretty good so far, got in a few hours yesterday and fairly impressed. Was very wary, given I grew up with Aliens, and is tied with Akira for my favorite movie of all time. It’s clear that Gearbox have a lot of love for it, and you can see it in the details. Things like the names of the achievements being lines from the films, stuff like the iconic motion tracker and my personal favorite, the pulse rifle. There’s some rough edges here and there, with stuff like textures, models, etc but not enough to ruin it.
Seriously though, we need new hardware, and right now. Every single new AAA title I see on my PS3 is just showing me how dated current gen is getting. Also, bear in mind I’m not saying this as a master racer either – I do the bulk of my gaming on consoles. They’re just….. really struggling these days.
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So the gameplay is good though?
I was hyped ages ago but lately I have been cautious about how the game may turn out.-
Gameplay is solid man, feels pretty tight, handles well, no complaints. Movement feels fluid, aiming feels just about right.
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Yeah, this generation has gone on for far too long. Time to kick it up a notch. BAM!
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I didn’t even realise it was anywhere near release yet, let alone actually released.
There was all this hype around the announcement and stuff, and then it just seemed to die off… strange-
I actually never really noticed that much hype, tbh. Being Aliens, it’s fairly self-powered on the hype front. Most people who are interested will be so without the help of advertising. It;s supposed to release on Tuesday, the girl at EB told me it broke on Saturday.
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My only real problems are that the motion tracker has a HUD icon to tell you when enemies can be seen on it, and that the xenomorphs so far seem a little bit cannon-foddery.
Other than that, not bad so far.
Morning all, hope your weekends went well.
Gaming talk: Finished the campaign of Anarchy Reigns, is simple and very good fun. True to form for most Platinum games the story did not make a lick of sense, but really the campaign is just one big training exercise anyways.
Dived into a bit of multiplayer and when I could get a match it was really fun, although the small playerbase means that it’s hard to find games and when you finally do it is against level 50 players :/
But still, good fun, not an amazing game but it is a solid batshit crazy brawler, and Big Bull is by far my favourite character in the game. I just want to keep playing so I can smash skulls with Big Bull all day 🙂
Also I am probably about halfway through SpecOps: The Line. To avoid obvious spoilers my thoughts are below:
It’s a solid shooter, nothing amazing gameplay wise but nothing bad either, but unfortunately I had the big moment of the game spoiled by hearing people carry on about ‘white phosphorous oh god what have I done?’ and then from hearing other comments I put two and two together. So when the big moment happened I saw it coming a mile away. It was still confronting, but I can imagine that it would have been a giant kick in the guts to anyone who did not see it coming.
Although right now it appears that Walker is starting to trip balls a little bit, so I suspect this game still as some tricks up its sleeve for me, so I’ll keep pressing on to get dat radioman.
Abridged version:
– Anarchy Reigns is good and Big Bull is awesome
– SpecOps so far would have been better if it had not been spoiled
p.s. If there is a Anarchy Reigns playdate sometime for 360 lemme know.
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Sorry to hear about SpecOps man, that game should not be spoiled for anyone. I always make sure I spoilerise anything to do with it, so I hope it wasn’t me. That sucks dude. =(
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Yeah man – seriously should have black screened anything from that game! lol
I just finished it on the weekend and it doesn’t really get any happier, that’s for damn sure. Plus a big ending twist – just make sure you keep reloading your saves once you finish and play through all the endings 🙂 -
Yeah your spoiler experience is part of why I like people to just not say (or spoilertagif it’s on here) things even if they think they’re being vague. Most of us here are far from stupid and it becomes really easy to join the dots and fill in the blanks even without trying to.
That said, I know especially on Twitter I’ve also been guilty of dropping the vague hints on things I’m going through in game. :S
I’m interested in Anarchy Reigns. I’m definitely going to grab it one day.
MORNING ALL! I worked on Sunday so it feels like Tuesday now. When Friday comes I will be grumpy because SIX DAY WORK WEEK!?
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Nothing that can’t be solved with a shiv, though – right?
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Have a FUN FACT OF THE DAY to keep you going!
Did you know that Bleach is the first series in Jump history to have the front cover and colour pages for two issues in a row?
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I didn’t know that.
How about Kenpachi Unhora…. I didn’t see that coming.
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ARGH! SPOILERS!
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Oh sorry, I just figured Alex was following the Manga and no one else would read/ care.
SORRY!
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I haven’t read this weeks.
(And by that, I mean last weeks, obviously)
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Morning everyone!!!
Bee was away for most of the weekend, so got a lot of my sort of stuff done!
Firstly, thanks to @techknight and @tigerion for the game of Space Marine Exterminatus mode on saturday night. Was absolutely awesome fun. Probably none more so than when we all went as assault marines and were just a swirling maelstrom of doom in the middle of ork hordes. So much win. Techy, you missed out big time as you don’t have any of the DLC, there is another exterminatus mode with the chaos expansion that lets you play AS choas against imperial guardsmen and orks at once. Was pretty bloody great for a change up.
Everyone else – we needed a fourth, so anyone else who wants to join we should really set up a play date 🙂
Secondly – FINISHED SPEC OPS: THE LINE!
Wow… just wow. First let me say that a lot of people slug the game for it’s gameplay, but seeing as I don’t play many “modern Warfare” type games (as they mostly all seem the same to me) i found it to be quite solid for the most part, aside from the occasion gripe with the cover and vault system. The gunplay felt good and pistols were actually a legitimate option compared to other games where they are basically pea shooters. Plus you are ALWAYS cautious with your ammo usage – there were several times where i ran out completely and had to make suicide runs just to find some ammo or a new gun – which gets me to the next point. Getting shot in SO:tL is no laughing matter. One minute you’re up and standing and next “BOOM” game over, mannnn!! There’s a lot of times where, thanks to games like gears of war and even CoD, where you think “oh man, the bloody screen damage doesn’t look that bad – i have plenty left to pop up and take out that rpg/sniper/baby with a rattle” to which you promptly get cut down. This is made all the more strenuous when you take into account that the enemy AI actually works well together and isn’t affraid of flanking you/outright running at you with a shot gun. I played on normal mode and really struggled with some sections and very rarely did i ever actually feel safe. So yeah, the gameplay, to me, was pretty damn good.
Story:
Man… it just kept getting darker, and darker and darker before that one big WTF ending. After i finished, i kept reloading the checkpoint just so i could see all the alternate endings. There is some seriously deep stuff there. I can’t help but wonder why the other 2 members of the squad never gave up on walker though, i mean during the flashback scenes where it turns out walker is just making things up in his own mind it’s pretty damn obvious the guy has a screw loose, yet they keep following him??? But yeah, mannn did that game ever make me feel totally horrible. The review over at zero punctuation is very much spot on (for a change)- I knew, from what people said, that it would be pretty deep, but i didn’t really quite get how much so.
But yeah, brilliant game – if you haven’t got it or haven’t played it, i really, really recommend that you do.
Also, put HEAPS of stuff up on ebay to clear some space/give me some money to be able to buy some stuff with so *fingers crossed*
How is everyone else? 🙂
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Been playing SpecOps over the weekend too.
Out of curiosity I’m up to thechapter where we’re heading to the radio tower to go after the radioman, how far through the campaign would you say I am exactly?-
I think it has…. 13 chapters? You’re near the end, I’m pretty sure. Not super close, but definitely on the tail end.
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You’re getting pretty close to the end now – not too far at all. You’re in for a treat, though, as things get a little cray-cray.
Welcome to the horrible person club, buddy.
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I got to the final set of firefights but
goddamned Adams keeps getting cut down in the open where I can’t safely revive him. I threw myself against that wall for almost 7 hours before giving up in disgust. I really need to just drop the difficulty from Suicide Mission (in fact I promised @dc) but something just makes me feel like a failure for doing so. Mostly because its the AI dying not me.-
Just drop it for that one section, man. Trust me, you need to see this game through – damn your morals. I mean, lets face it, if you’re still playing the game then your probably already dead inside anyway.
There is nothing to be ashamed of in adjusting difficulty, especially if it means throwing a game aside rather than seeing it through.
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Oh man, this is going to make D.C. seem like a monster, but is any one else sick of seeing naked babies on While You Were Sleeping. Put some clothes on, damn it! 😛
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o_O
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I vote to replace the use of naked baby photos with photos of angry otters instead.
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All Colobus Monkeys, all the time.
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Non-parents don’t get it. It’s okay.
Monster-
I’m no parent, I don’t even have dogs!
I wish I had dogs, but one bedroom apartment… y’know
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Who the hell is D.C.?
Rize has no idea.
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Rize doesn’t want to know.
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He made Batman
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Still waiting for that royalty cheque. 😛
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I got you address now so I’ll forward it on to Batman.
Although I’m sure Batman already knows where you live because Batman
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Maybe my hermit cave IS the Bat Cave! :O
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1: Pretty sure the baby can’t hear you, and even if it could I doubt it would be able to put some clothes on by itself.
and 2: It’s kind of disturbing that you find naked babies disturbing.
😛
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Haha, I’m a monster. :'(
There is something about that pic, I always think the babby’s head it too big at first glance
Wooo, I actually have a day to spend on TAY!
First time in weeks, this is awesome, I’m a gonna talk all day.
Yeah!
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SKYRIM!
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I started a new character on SKYRIM! on the weekend! Incidentally I spent most of my weekend playing SKYRIM!
It was a pleasure to meet Shane on the weekend, hang out with Rockets again, yadda yadda all that stuff about friends, but I forgot one very important thing – I didn’t get Shane to sign my Lesser Evil books! So I moped around for the rest of the day after he left because I forgot. Nah not really, but they were sitting in my bag all day and I can’t believe I forgot about it. D:
Mr. Smither of Cakes bought me DmC on PC so I decided it was finally time to pick up a game controller for my PC gaming. The keyboard controls for DmC weren’t too bad, but having that controller helps out soooooo much.
So that’s my weekend.
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Oh man. And I wasn’t planning to visit Sydney again. Ever.
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Shane Meat 2: The Road to Signatures
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When are you two finally going to make it official, i can see the tears in his eye when you wont hold his hand walking down the street.
Morning, sounds like Spags made a bad impression on Dave and Rockets
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You’ll always have Alex and myself. Always.
Ground Control to Major Tom your circuits dead, there’s something wrong!
Can you hear me Major Tom?
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…pardon?
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For heeeeeeeeere am I floating in a tin can…
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We know Major Tom’s a junkie. Strung out on Heaven’s High, and hitting an all. Time. Low.
Xenoblade update:
51 hours in. On the fallen arm, have just gathered the whole party together again and then lost Carna and Fiora again because I have to go get some circuit or something. Really liking the look of this zone, it’s impressive. However something I’ve noticed since Eryth Sea is that there is hardly any quest content any more. I really liked Eryth because it was a pretty, easy to navigate area which had lots and lots of quests, like Bionis Leg or Colony 9. Want more of that, otherwise I’m just going to straight-line everything after I grind out the ingredients for the next level of Colony 6 upgrades
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That was my favourite area!
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What was?
Eryth Sea or Fallen Arm? Does Fallen Arm get some quests eventually?-
Oh whoops.
I meant Fallen Arm. I just liked how cool it was. Can’t remember if it gets many major quests though.-
It is a very cool location, one of the only ones that really makes you realize you’re on a big giant dude.
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Ineed to get back to it so I can start reading your spoilers again!
And so Greenius doesn’t murder me, I guess. 😛
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>:)
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Has anyone else seen this before? It’s an Adidas promo merged with the Star Wars cantina scene!!
It’s brilliant! 😀
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Yeah. A few years ago actually. Pretty sure I posted it on TAY back then too. Keep up with the times Loops 😛
It is pretty brilliant. I wonder how hard it was to make?-
Well aren’t you just the bee’s knees 😛
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Please don’t use that phrase, it freaks me out when you do
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Finally finished The Witcher the other day, so I started playing TW2 over the weekend.
No Spoilers
Still adjusting to the changes with the combat system…much more action-based. So far I think I like 1’s more, but I imagine that will change over time.
Also, I realised that if they had changed the voice actor for Geralt between 1 and 2 I would have dumped 2 immediately (side note: apparently he’s the only voice actor to carry from 1…).
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Oh man that combat in Witcher 2. One of the quests I’m up to the monster one shots me and the difficulty is only on medium. What the hell!?
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Well, shit…maybe try keeping Quen up whenever you can? I have a tendency to forget it exists in fights like that 😛
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I played the first game in Polish so I didn’t notice the voice change, but the first game’s voice acting was considered to be pretty bad (lots of non-native English speakers so things were a bit funky) so a change might be good.
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That was one of the big changes when they brought out the Enhanced Edition. They literally re-did most of the voice acting. It’s still a bit funky in terms of writing, though 😛
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I played for a little bit with the EE English when it first came out but couldn’t hear any difference really (but I didn’t really notice the stilted nature of the original which is apparently really obvious to some people). The Polish version sounded better.
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When a new TAY comes, what happens to the old TAY?
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Ever read Stephen King’s The Langoliers?
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OM NOM NOM
Actually they are all still there, sometimes people revisit old TAYs to have SECRET CONVERSATIONS or TIME TRAVEL
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Yeah what if I missed somehting important in the old one :O
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It gets sucked into an alternate dimension, along with the commenters, in order to make the new TAY.
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That’s what i was afraid of 😛
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Soylent Purple.
@welbot
It’s too late to consider it. Some of us have already pooled our resources to acquire you a entry pass for Dreamworld so you’re coming like it or not.
No word of a lie super cereal.
Is it rude ot just blurt out questions? Not if it gives you guys an oppotunity to show how knowledgable you are, right?
What is potaku?
I get the impression @doc_what should know.
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A misappropriation of government resources.
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Kotaku community podcast, recently launched site where folks contribute articles and the like. AlexPants is editor!
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So what you are saying is, if TAY almost killed my productivity, potaku will finish it off?
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You can listen to the podcast WHILE you are productive!
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What isn’t Potaku?
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Potaku is life itself.
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Kotaku community podcast and website for people with large rants to post and don’t want them to get them lost in TAY.
More opinion pieces than news so very different content to Kotaku.
You should come on the podcast sometime! We’re always looking for guests!
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Lol i couldn’t do that – my voice sounds terrible.
Also, i don’t have interesting opinions.
I will listen tot the podcast though. I don’t mind that it is opinion pieces b/c it is form people who’s opinions I value!
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Listen, my handsome boy voice speaks about stuff once or twice!
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We’re always looking for guests!
On Twitter 😛
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And TAY. That’s how we got @phlaiman 😀
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I do want to join in on this, quite a bit, but I have no idea which podcasts that come up that I’d be able to add true value to 🙂
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You can do it! I believe in you!
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Howdy Tayberinos
Hope you all had a wonderful weekend!
I went to a friend’s birthday on Saturday- she had a pot luck dinner, so I brought an Aloo Gobi (veg curry). I’d planned to cook it and then realised I didn’t have a pot big enough, so I tied my shoelaces and went on the long arduous trek (<10 minutes) to IKEA to buy a wok.
Dangerous Proximity.
On Sunday I went to a friend’s house and games. We worked out we were semi-competitive at Uncharted 3 online, which was nice. I then Borderlanded, which is even more awesome when done in the same room.
So a Monday Morning Question: What videogame store/shop/vendor would you like to buy from? O’aka the XXIII hanging around seems like he’d be a useful fellow (from FFX)
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Marcus Munitions, Inc.
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“Got a selection of good things on sale, strangah!”
RE4 merchant, if you don’t recognize the quote.
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Which ever one is Shepard’s favourite at the citadel
Is it just me or are Kotaku articles and TAY taking forever to load for anyone else? Keeps hanging for me when it tries to talk to Gravatar.
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Ok for me, sorry 🙁
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yep
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So I’ve done something to offend Gravatar then, and it no longer likes me? D:
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I was getting stacks of errors this morning. Seems to be okay now, though. Makes sense that QLD would be a bit behind 😛
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QLD is always behind. Always.
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Mine was quote slow and had trouble accessing a couple of hours ago from home. Now that I’m at work it is fine.
New productivity feature being rolled out?
Pretty excited guys…first time posting 🙂 congrats to me. I felt the need to sign up as I read Kotaku all the time but haven’t yet been bothered getting myself an account.
Now, I’m sure that I will cop some flak for this, but I was wondering – do you guys have any information regarding a new Project Gotham Racing game? Contrary to a seemingly large percentage of everyone, I loved PGR4, and am desperately hoping that a new member of the franchise has been/will be confirmed. I’ve looked all over, and all I can find with the PGR5 label is a picture of a street sign *sigh*, so If you guys have any inside info on a new PGR game, I’d really love to hear it.
Otherwise, just playing through my many games. Mostly Forza Horizon, DayZ, Most Wanted, and Chivalry. Loving life…loving Kotaku. Great job, keep up the stories!!!
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Umm, welcome!
No idea about Project Gotham sadly, from what I know that team went off to make Blur and then god the axe. Maybe the license could be handed off to some other team, but the originals could be anywheres now.
BTW have you tried Blur? I hear it is criminally underrated.
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I, unfortunately, have no knowledge regarding a new Project Gotham game, but I bid you good fortune on your quest.
@lambomann007 is our resident petrol head. Although I think he focuses on the Need For Speed franchise.
Welcome to the jungle, Jus. Make yourself comfortable.
Beware of The Oar.
I suck at writing a resume.
Its so bad.
blergh
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If you need a proofreader, send it to me I can have a look.
Red_artifice at the mail that isn’t even cold. Nor is it lukewarm.
It’s HOT.
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Rocketmans CV
I am THE GODDAMNED ROCKETMAN!
Referees:
Left Fist
Right FistDo it.
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Somehow i don’t know if that will help me get a job fixing things.
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I feel for you, man. You’re all young and got a fleshed out work history though. You’ll be fine!
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I DONT KNOW WHAT TO WRITE THOUGH ITS A POOPY
I will figure it out but i suspect its gonna take a good portion of my day.
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Just talk yourself up ( I find that quite hard) and never say you maybe could sorta did. Say I EXCELLED or sumsuch shit. Really.
CHERRY TREE HIGH COMEDY CLUB COMPETITION TIME!
The competition is simple. post a joke and the one with the most upvotes wins a copy of CTHCC.
Information on CTHCC here: http://store.steampowered.com/app/214610/
Rules
-Any joke is allowed.
-Please tag me with @scree and also please say it is an entry in the competition so people know when to upvote.
-the joke with the most upvotes wins.
-You can enter multiple times
you have until Friday 12pm to enter. Winner will be announced at 5pm the same day.
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Why did the chicken cross the road?
To get to the other side.
@scree
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An Aboriginal person and a Asian person walked into a bar.
hahaha like i would finish that
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@freezespreston won this comp already:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/02/talk-amongst-yourselves-210/comment-page-21/#comment-1047281
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@freezespreston do you want that considered as an entry even though it’s early?
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I would like to win this @scree.
My wife laughs histarically everytime I get undressed,
I’ll have to ask her what the joke she’s thinking of is, I’m sure it would be a winner.
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I’m sure it’s a
winnerwiener.Fixed it for you.
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I don’t have da Steamz, so I’ll be saving my jokes for Dad Joke Page 6.
In the meantime, here’s a limerick I once read out to a group of 175 people.
There was once a girl in the park
Who took off her clothes in the dark
She was with a man
But the touch of his hand…
“Wait a minute!” she said. “You’re not Mark!”Not the best, I’ll admit, but it got a decent laugh at the time 😛
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I can give you a code for the Nyu media website. It’s not just steam =P there is also desura if i remember right. Either way, there is an option
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@scree
A man walks into a doctor’s office and says “Doctor, Doctor you’ve gotta help me. I can’t stop having sex!”
“Well, how often do you have it?” the doctor asks.
“Well, twice a day I have sex with my wife,” says the guy. “TWICE a day!”
“That’s not so much”, replies the doctor.
“Yes but that’s not all, Twice a day I have sex with my secretary, TWICE a day,” replies the man.
“Well, that is probably a bit excessive,” says the doctor.
“Yes, but that’s not all. Twice a day I have sex with a prostitute, TWICE a day,” says the man.
“Well, that’s definitely too much, you’ve got to learn to take yourself in hand.”
“I do,” says the man. “Twice a day.” -
Nintendo’s online account system…*ba-dum-tish*
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I would upvote but I can’t count it.
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People who think Platinum is DaBest!
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*grumblegrumblegrumble* frikimfrashimSOULSLIVURfrashum
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just me, or does the logo for Army of Two Three : Devils cartel look like it actually says Army of Tilio?
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Yes.
Yes it does.
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Army of 23?
Sounds pretty easy.
@scree
I saw a Scotsman scraping off his wallpaper!
Decorating?!
No, he was moving!
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damn it.. reply fail! sure you can figure out where it’s supposed to go
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This is bad, but, i don’ get it. (this is why I chose upvotes)
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well you see, when most people move house, they don’t tend to take the wallpaper with them.. it’s a really dumb joke.
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Oh, well, when Mum bough this house the previous owners took all the wall outlet face plates, cut the wires from the ceilings and took the curtains. so it happens.
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@SCREE ENTRY TIME! @EVERYONE_ELSE PUNS AHOY
How do you kill a Blue Elephant? With a Blue Elephant Gun
How do you kill a Green Elephant? Hold it’s nose until it turns blue, then shoot it with the Blue Elephant Gun
How do you kill a Pink Elephant? Paint it green, hold it’s nose until it turns blue, then shoot it with the Blue Elephant Gun
How do you kill a Yellow Elephant? Tickle it pink, paint it green, hold it’s nose until it turns blue, then shoot it with the Blue Elephant Gun
How do you kill a Purple Elephant? What are you talking about, there’s no such thing as a Purple Elephant
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They aren’t puns
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It was a fair warning to any joke hating person, In hindsight, I knew they weren’t puns
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Joke or pun hating person? You’d have to be a real monster to be like that!
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Listening to War of the Worlds: Eve of War
My god… so damn good
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The Alchemist cover of said track is now running through my head.
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Ah Alchemist. Eve of the War is brilliant!
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The chances of any thing coming from Mars are a million to one, but still they cooooooome…
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Possibly my favorite part 🙂
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What a great idea. Makes this grey Monday morning much better.
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It really really does. Up to part 3 now 🙂
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So, major Pokémon news is coming over the next few days… Must find rock to hide under! Must also find a Tina Salami filter to avoid all new information that she might spoil. (This is going to be a long… nine months!? D:)
In other news: Movies feel way too long. I think it’s because I’ve gotten used to watching so much quality TV over the last year-ish. I watched Se7en last night for the first time which I enjoyed! I took a small break half way through though because I was getting restless 😛
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(This is going to be a long… nine months!? D:)
Makes it sound like you are going to give birth to a pokemon 😛
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He is.
Why else would it be big news?
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Don’t be silly.
…Pokémon come from eggs.
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We don’t know where it came from, but your Pokémon was holding this egg.
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They didn’t want to give a 10 year old the “birds and the bees” discussion
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Coming up on Kotaku US!
Tips for reading Pokemon news the best way.-
“Why Pokemon should have been game of the year”
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I agree with this one…
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I want Poke-News!
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I don’t! I’m avoiding it all!
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You worried about spoilers?
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I want to go in not knowing anything. I kinda ruined Black/White because I knew everything before I even started. I just want to be surprised.
It’ll be cool to not even know what your starter will evolve into! I hope I can avoid a lot of the new info.
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Oh yeah, I read selectively. I always really wanna know the version differences so I can purchase the correct version. Really important to me 🙂
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Morning TAY!
I remembered it was October 19 last week, and by Ocotober 19 I mean February 7 and the return of Community.
I would very much like to watch the episodes through the NBC website, to give the show more hits and support it, but I’m not in ‘murrica. I tried a couple of webproxies, but they didn’t seem to want to load the embedded video. I tried Remoting to a computer in LA and browsing from there, but it was still picking up on my AUS IP.
I know there’s a few Community fans out there and I’m wondering if anyone’s watched the new episode yet and what method you used. I’d rather try and watch through the NBC site to give the show an extra hit, but I’ll probably take what I can get.
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Um well I confess I just downloaded it from my warez site of choice.
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Oh oh oh! There’s this extension that lets you view country restricted stuff!
Never tried it though but @notoriousr seemed to like it. I think he said it could be slow at times though.
I’m having a birthday dinner at Groove Train at Chermside, this Saturday (16th of Feb) at 6pm. A couple of TAYbies who are already Facey friends with me are coming, but any other BrisTAYbies are fully invited to come too!
I think mostly everyone know where Groove Train is. There weren’t many absent TAYbies from the Aleph meat. But if you don’t know where it is and would like to come, it’s really easy to find. It’s outside Chermside, right next to Gilhooleys.
I was originally thinking of doing bowling/movie afterwards, but figured that drinking back at our place would probably be a lot more fun for those who are interested.
I probably need to book the table by Wednesday/Thursday this week, so if you’d like to come, let me know! It might be a bit weird because I have both TAY and Non-TAY friends coming, but whatevs. It’s my birthday and I’ll do what I want!
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EUGH
i love hanging with Dan, Amber and you.
Boourns
Have fun though 🙂-
We loved hanging with you too! Come back to Brisbane sometime!
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Oh, non TAY friends! D: People frighten me. I might have to reponder this. Haha! I’ll let you know for certain by Wednesday.
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And my Mum!
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I’m trying to figure out a way to make it but it doesn’t seem likely at this point. 🙁
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Downvote for sad
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I will see if I am free.
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Why do you guys always do things when I’m out of town? Do you hat me?
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No! It’s just that… y’know… I kind of like to celebrate my birthday on my birthday 😛
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Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat
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Yes, TAY be working again for me again.
Now, prepare yourselves for the random meaningless posts of Hugo.
Meaningless… is that even a real word?… is it even spelt correctly?… have I asked these questions in the wrong order?…
Yeah, maybe I should think before I type.
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And nary a mention of Skyrim…
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Skyrim?
If we’re doing traditional jokes:
A crow was sitting on a fence. another crow flew down next to it. The first crow said, “What are you up to?” The second crow answered
Attempted Murder
@scree.
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WINNER.
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crap, I don’t get this one either. I am bad at this /o\
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a group of crows is classified as a “murder” of crows.-
Oh, so it’s kind of pun
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A group of crows is called a Murder.
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Am somewhat concerned about the lacklustre response to Aliens Colonial marines.
I am hoping my sheer love of Aliens will help carry me through the game.
Self denial can be helpfull sometimes.
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I am a massive Aliens fan from way back, and am enjoying it thoroughly. Lacklustre response doesn’t mean too much these days, people are just cynical fuckwads in general, especially on the internet.
There’s also the issue that no game conceived by a man could ever hope to live up the legend that is Aliens. It wouldn’t mean it was a bad game if it didn’t, either.
@spaghett: Hope you’re not being anxious, man. You’re awesome.
In honor of your awesomeness. Spaghett’s Last Played Song Game!
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Wait a sec…how do you know what Spaghett’s last played song is?:P
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Haha! Right when I edited the post too. You monster! :'(
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I started a joke – Bee Gees
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By the way, I don’t think you should have made your concert part of your Meat report spoiler-gated. I read it and enjoyed reading it.
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I Should Have Known – Foo Fighters
@spaghett
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I can’t stop listening to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bOkSne7Vt_w
(If by chance anyone watches this, make sure you at least listen until the chorus)A perfect blend of Classical Music and Power Metal. New band started by guy who sings the “Rakka Takka”guitar parts in Van Canto. Cannot wait for this album.
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@dc you can’t upvote if you didn’t listen to it and like it. 😛
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I did listen to it and I didn’t hate it. 😛
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Electro swingDramaphone- Caravan Palace
Did Rockets scare Spaghett away?!
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I didn’t mean to, i think he is cool. Just loud. I DIDNT MEAN TO OFFEND
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He sounds like he’s pretty much exactly like you’d expect him to be from TAY.
@spaghett
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Well he did ask a complete stranger who he had never met before to go and get him drugs rather forcefully. So yeah probably should of warned my friend.
Its cool, david had a merry ole time and thought spagett was hillarious, just really loud and a bit intimidating.
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If he’s any thing like me, post-meat puts you in a state of high alert where you think about every moment that happened and wonder how badly you screwed up and then obsess about that for a week. :S Shouldn’t do that, Spaghett! *shakes fist*
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Rocketman threw up on Blaghman’s couch and still came back to TAY. I seriously doubt you’ve ever done anything quite like that.
@spaghett
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oh and i also broke my heart and still came back.
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HYPOCRITE
Edit: I don’t have that worry at all. I’m okay with making a bad impression. That’s the secret! \o/
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I am a hypocrite. 😀 Still obsessing about crashing into some random person on Wednesday. (And the fear that people hate me. Haha!)
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Your solution is to have a Meat every day. Then you don’t have enough time to dwell on things. 😛
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That would be awesome. Haha!
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I’m sure he’s just hiding behind a tree, waiting to jump out and yell “@SPAGHETT!” at unsuspecting passersby.
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Wouldn’t he yell “Shenanigins”?
@spaghett <— tagged to make him come back 😉
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Yo @chuloopa!
Remember last week we were talking about tabletop miniature games for kids?
Well I found this Lego game called Heroica. Its like Hero’s Quest but made out of lego and simple enough for a four year old. He is really enjoying it, and seems like a good introduction eg adventuring in a fantasy setting with a light mission structure, hit points, combat resolved by dice rolls, items etc.
Winner huh?
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I remember Hero Quest
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I still have Hero Quest
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Heroica is awesome.
I played Goldeneye 64 & Mario Kart 64 3 player multi on a real live N64 on Friday night. Also there was Michief Makers! :D:D:D
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SHAKE SHAKE.
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HELP ME, MARINAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaa…
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I still have my original 64 with the golden controller I bought when OoT first came out (with 3 other controllers). I think a retro gaming night is in order at some point in the future.
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I’m on my third 64. Sold my first for PSone FF7 and my second for RE2 DC.
I managed to pick up a few gems like GoldenEye, PilotWings & Wave Race. I never let go of Mischief Makers or Snowboard Kids. Really wish I had Snowboardf Kids 2
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Oh man, working where I work make me feel like a babby. Right now I’m looking at a hand drawn techical drawing of a building from 1966.
Such a babby.
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I got really complacent for a long time, like how dare they expect me to do work when im not doing anything. Not the best attitude to have.
@ash
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Woah i had to look extra hard to make sure the dude wiht the star shirt was holding the gooses’s leg.
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PS I have downloaded it… Eggplants??
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Those guys are crazy! Who eats Eggplant?
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Bleh!
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Sneeze and skin comments for 1 hour and 47 minutes. Awesome way to start the week! Also I got mentioned a bunch of times. 🙂
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And here’s an incredibly recent (four minutes ago!) example of the kind of stuff that we put up!
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Bah, the author’s a hack.
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Er, just tried to login into my email, got a message saying it did not recognise the device I was using (work PC DESKTOP???) then procedeed to inform me that I am locked out for 12 hours due to security concerns.
I don’t think technology and I get along very well.
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Hugo uses Clubby on computer.
It’s super effective.
Computer is destroyed.
Watching a librarian trying to reason with a year 1 class is like watching an unavoidable car accident in slow motion, only with a lot more yelling children.
SO.
After having a particularly bad run of Binding of Isaac on Saturday I rage-deleted the game.
24 hours later I reinstalled it, returning to it’s clutches like a battered lover, thankfully the steam-cloud restored my character unlocks without missing a beat.
And then I killed Mom.
I don’t think it counts, because I did it using the Bible, which was a 1-shot kill that got me a weird, inconclusive cutscene that I think is probably some kind of alternate ending.
On the upside though, I was in REALLY bad shape when I got to Mom so I would have failed anyway had I not picked up the bible 2 rooms earlier. So there’s that.
Anyone want to chime in one what happens when you beat Mom without the bible? I’d prefer to avoid spoilers if it’s MASSIVELY different, so if it is, just tell me that.
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I haven’t played it, but I looked it up. No major spoilers, but tagged anyway
Seems like you need to beat the game 10+ times. Each time unlocks a different ending… can someone confirm whether I read this correctly?-
The achievements say “beat the full game (x) times” from 2-9, but there’s also an achievement for beating the “full” game with Cain, which I did not unlock.
I assume killing Mom with the bible does not count as beating the “full” game.
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I dunno. Nothing I have found suggests it’s any different.
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if i didn’t know what binding of isaac was about, i’d be a little worried by this post
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Considering the setting and concept of BoI, you should probably be worried anyway. Seriously. Try and explain the game to someone.
“Yeah, you play as this naked kid who got lost in his basement after God told his mother to sacrifice him, and now you have to fight monsters and eventually kill your mother to save yourself. Along the way you’ll pick up upgrades that mutate your body into twisted shapes and/or a demonic form.”
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it’s a game that if it was “mainstream” popular, news would be ripping it to shreds
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Morning fellow TAYbies … gosh what a fun weekend I’ve had. Finally got around to seeing Django Unchained, The Hobbit and Wreck it Ralph.
Django was pretty much awesome up until the last half hour or so … John Jarret’s cameo made me cringe.
The hobbit was kind of meh and I ended up zoning out for most of it.
Wreck it Ralph made me smile more than any movie I’ve seen lately and everyone should see it.
In other news, I finally hit the level cap in borderlands 2 and never have to touch it again unless it’s to finish of the last DLC, I finished DmC and won’t be touching it again till the vergil dlc comes out, I cleaned the house and either misplaced my wallet or one of the dogs found it so it’s still MIA and made me about an hour late getting to work because I ended up giving up finding it this morning and just grabbed my secondary myki which ended up either getting stolen or I dropped it while running for one of the trains. Got to work to find a veritable mountain of stuff to do and now I’m here on TAY talking to you all instead of doing it. WOO!
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I think that was the purpose of John Jarratt being in it honestly lol. So he & Tarantino could have that moment where they do a rather terrible Australian impersonation.
New Potaku to enjoy at work!
http://potaku.com/2013/02/09/potaku28/
featuring Flu and 1st time guest @phlaiman!
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Doc what, it always takes a long time for potaku to load, so much that I gave up on listening to the podcasts. is it possible to have it cut up into smaller sections?
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Curious. I’ve never had any issues, but I could look into it. Just streaming or downloading too?
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I’e neve tried downloading it (I never knew it s an option ^^;; )
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Tere should be a bit that says “Download” at teh end of the podcast post on Potaku. Right click, Save As.
You you can subscribe on iTunes and let your computer download all the episodes for you.
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i’ll try that, but not itunes, i hate iTunes.
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A game of blood bowl with @chuloopa
Over the weekend I was challenged to a game of blood bowl by Chuloopa. A nice fair game of skill, sounds good to me.
So we start the game and try to work out how this thing will work. We both create a team and it isn’t long before my dark elves are lining up against the decaying remnants of Loops undead team.
The coin is tossed and the ball is caught by my runner @Powalen, as the rest of the team set up a defensive wall as he runs the ball wide. The undead try to counter but a frenzy blitz by @Strange on the zombie sends them out of bounds and the crowd take care of him. The gap is opened and Pow run through into open space. The defense tries to counter but it is to late and we run it through for a touchdown.
The players retake the field as Lops prepares he team to go on the offensive. We kick the ball deep and reshuffle our defense. A number of taybies go down as the strength of the undead. 1-0 on the board he knows he needs to get on the offensive quickly. He goes for the ball but fumbles, ending his turn. The tables are stacked in my favor as I commence the next turn but something is wrong. Connection warning flicker on the screen before I get the final message
CHULOOPA HAS RAGE QUIT
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I don’t know what this is, but I like that I was useful in a Sportsball game for once.
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My sentiments exactly. 😀
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*Shakes fist in the air*
Strange, you were such a thorn in my side!
And @powalen was a quick little bugger.I realised all too late that my defensive perimeter was one square short 🙁 /o\
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Running and Jumping were the only events I was ever any good at!
It’s the catching that doesn’t happen…
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You sly bastard. LOL
I DID NOT rage quit!!!
In fact, we need a rematch, me thinks.That first touchdown was an absolute DISASTER, though.
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Just calling it like I saw it
With a liberal stretching of the factsDef keen for a rematch though
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Liberal stretching?
Mate, even supermodels have more substance than what you’re raving on about.
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Potaku shirts for PAX!
I’m thinking of doing some designs and sticking em on redbubble with a 0% profit margin so they’re nice and cheap for you guys. Anyone interested?
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Tell me more, I’d wear one for a day.
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They would be… uh.. T-Shirty? and possibly purple/yellow?
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Purple/Yellow is the best colour combination, so… you have my interest.
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…WHAT IS THIS MAGIC
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CLEARLY WE ARE GILDED ROYAL WIZARDS FROM ANOTHER WORLD HERE TO SPREAD THE POWER OF AWESOME.
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AND WE WEAR PURPLE AND YELLOW ROBES CRAFTED IN THE FIRES OF MT. AWESOME
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Purple/yellow is best colour combination.
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I prefer Purple/gree but don’t listen to me cos I won’t be there!
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🙁 WHY NOT!?
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Time, money, responsibility etc.
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Melbourne!
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Well, there’s another reason that only adds to the others.
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@jimu we could’ve been buds! 🙁
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We are BUDS! 😀
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In person buds!
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There’s a few of us Brisbane folks not going. We should have our own PAX. 😛
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Agreed, it’ll be a little different though. We’ll be seeing & playing old stuff instead of new :p
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Are you going to PAX, @strange? I think so far it’s just @Sughly, Jimu and me here in Brisbane!
You should order a few and hand them out to randoms while at PAX. Get some of dat publicity!
Interesting, even if I am not going to PAX.
I could wear it at home, crying hysterically into my flagon of mead.
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WHAT KIND OF BARBARIAN WEARS A SHIRT?
POSER
Team Potaku jerseys with numbers and usernames on the back!
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that would be cool! Hockey Jerseys! the Potaku Ducks!
Quack, quack quack quack goooooooooo ducks!
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Numbers?
Where did you get my picture?
NO
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Mr Cranky Pants.
Green or GTFO
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It’s the best colour, that’s true. Poor Nobs. :'(
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I’ll make you a special green variation. And a blue one for Bluemaxima.
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Vita one*
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Are you saying that all the other ones come with a game?
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Red?
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Colour bros!
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yes. that way when I try to creepily talk to industry people, I can blame you guys.
What happened to the Shakespearean Tragedy shirt? I’d totally wear one.
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I’m working on it! Working on video game stuff first.
They need names on the back 😛
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Mighty Potaku Ducks hockey shirts! Names and numbers!
Hello Friends!
my weekend consisted of watching an anime called accel world on reccomendation by one of my friends, it isn’t the best anime i’ve seen, but it’s pretty gutsy in that it’s a show about a video game where the main character is well, basically a fat anti-social loser…
however it does then go on to having most battle anime’s tropes, but hell i enjoy that stuff, so far i give it 24 and a half B’s out of 3.14 funks
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I watched some of that and gave up on it eventually because it’s just not very good. There are so many better examples of kids-in-a-video-game anime. The best being Denno Coil which you should watch.
Final documents for police application are in the post office and all that’s left is the waiting game.
Too stressed and nervous for Hungry Hungry Hippos.
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Congrats, man. You’re gonna do awesome! Good luck!
Here’s the Police Acadamy theme again to get you psyched. 😀
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BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG
That’s a game of hungry hipposGood luck, AND I”LL SEE YOU SOON
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Stressed? Why not play the most unstressfull game ever.
DARK.
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Freeze sent a simultaneous tweet, text and TAY post last night about Dark Souls. Freaked me out! D:
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DARK.
SOULS.
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Mouse Trap?
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Join SERT, that’s where all the action is. I’M TOLD. I READ SOMEWHERE.
I MADE UP.
Went to say hello to a client that just walked in, let off a mighty belch instead.
Stay classy Hugo.
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Now THAT’s how a barbarian behaves.
Is Tay running slow for everyone else?
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Strange posted something at the end of page one. Working fine here, but others seem to be having troubles…
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It’s just taking a while to load
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@shane! What’s new? Stuff?
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He’s sad you have your stupid No. Meating. Shane. rule 😛
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I’ve got my reasons! 😛
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Don’t worry @greenius, I’ll be crashing on @dc’s couch in November.
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D:
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Okay, fine. I’ll take the bed. You twisted my arm.
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I did my first page of art using my new computer last night. It’s a real beast. Also tried to use a newer version of Paint Shop Pro than I’m used to (15 year difference between the two), and I wanna go back 😛
Edit: Still no post-meat blues.
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That’s enough productivity. Now get yourself a steam account. 😛
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Hmmm. No. I tried it once, gifted a game, and otherwise disliked 🙂
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$2 games that were $80 a year ago, though! 😛
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I already have too many games I only have a passing interest in playing, thanks 🙂
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I had to unlike this because you removed the spoiler thing.
This makes me very sad, D.C..
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What did it say?
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He said that he wanted to discuss the Six Feet Under finale, and tagged you.
Inside the spoiler tags it just said something along the lines of “Hey Shane, what’s up?”
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I thought I was setting a dangerous precedence where the whole spoiler system wouldn’t be believed any more. 😛
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What the devil are you talking about Willis?
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Hey TAY.
Firstly, Taylor Swift as she appears on the Bellasugar thing at the bottom of the page: While I like that the dark eyeliner combined with the style of her bangs makes her look almost like an anime character(that is, the outline of her eyes appearing through her hair), surely if she tried to walk anywhere her hair would poke her in the eye? Is that just a problem I had when I was growing my hair out?
Secondly:
Yea? Nay? Nay and do that other thing?
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I wanna see Taylor Swift look like an anime character, but all it is showing me is Florence Welsh looking like a zombie 🙁
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I saw her too and thought Taylor Swift changed. 😛
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Hahah! That’s exactly what I thought.
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http://www.bellasugar.com.au/Pictures-Taylor-Swift-2013-Grammy-Awards-27884245
Here, this might help.
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Am I looking at the same picture here? all I’m seeing is a hooker barmaid like look.
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All I’m seeing is Florence Welch dressed up like a giant lizard.
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Wait, you grew your hair out?
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Mmm Taylor Swift.
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Blaghs is talking about this
http://www.fabsugar.com.au/Pictures-Taylor-Swift-J-Mendel-2013-Grammys-27883700
@scree
Two cows are standing in a paddock one day.
The first cow says “moo!”
Then the second cow says…
“SHIT! That’s what I was gonna say!!”
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The classics.
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That did make me laugh.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TabletopGame/Chess
:|…. 🙂 …. 😀 ….\o/
As a gamer, I can only give Sleeping Dogs a 4/10, because it doesn’t have any prostitutes I can murder for spare change, thus satiating my psychopathic needs of carnage on society in which I am in training for by playing these games.
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Spare change? I thought I murdered them for points!? POINTS!
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Sleeping Dogs is free on PS+ this month.
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There’s karaoke hostesses, they’re basically the same right? I’m not sure if you can murder them for money though.
…
I go now to face my fate.
I leave, to brave the unknown.
I stride forth, in trepidation of turbulent trials and tribulations.
In other words I’m a gonna go gets me Aliens Colonial Marines now.
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I was going to do the same, but you told me to do the other thing above, so now I can’t.
Dammit Hugo.
When can I use my Tickets to get the gold familiars in Ni No Kuni? Is it obvious and I missed it? I only just got the …spoiler.
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Not obvious, Pow had to tell me!
It’s after you finish the trials, just go back and talk to the guy!-
That’s stupid, I never would have done that. WORST GAME EVAH
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If it makes you feel better, I called one of them Jimu and he’s had a permanent slot in my extended party! 😛
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YAAAY! Best game evah!
I’ll return the favour next time I find a keeper.
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At least I’m nearby finishing off quests. Killing that thing with ice is annoying. Keeps running off!
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O yeah
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Sorry I didn’t spoilerise it I must of ruined the entire game for you.
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RE: The Rayman Legends thing.
I think Ubisoft releasing on other consoles is a great thing. Plenty of Rayman Origins fans were going to miss out because they don’t have a Wii U. Platform exclusivity is crap.
I think Ubisoft delaying the release of the game for 6 months only a few weeks from release, and offering up an “exclusive” demo is bullshit. As is the “marketing” excuse.
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Yeah, I agree. I’ve got no issue with the exclusivity stuff either…
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Way to many titles in Late February/March anyways my wallet thanks Ubisoft.
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Next game I’m looking forward to is Tomb Raider and that’s still a while off.
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That Metroid like gameplay has me interested
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I don’t know whether it means respawning stupid guys, or dynamic threats, or no danger in cleared areas. Don’t know what to hope for, either.
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I thought it meant awesome backtracking?
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I meant with regards to how the backtracking will be handled 🙂
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Oh riiiight. I’m down with respawns. I had presumed they meant hidden areas though. Maybe a plateu above where you were standing or a cave or underwater or something. So in that way I would expect new enemies(not necessarily new types).
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I won’t be buying it at all, so I guess mine is thanking them too.
It was a stupid decision on their part. Thy could have released it on other consoles but left the wiiU one to be released early giving it 6 months of exclusivity.
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Exactly. there are people out there for whom Rayman Legends was a major factor in picking up Wii U so early.
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This. It was originally announced as a multi-platform game, then they went Wii U exclusive and a lot of people were disappointed but decided to get a Wii U because the game was going to be a launch game. Then it got delayed. Then it got delayed again and is back to being multiplatform. It must feel like a bait-and-switch, especially given that it was the only oasis in the desert that is Wii U’s announced lineup for the next few months.
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The delayed release is what killed it for me. I have no problem with multi platform (I actually dislike console exclusives unless they fully utilise the console, like ZomiU) I don’t see any reason why they would delay it except for the fact they might get a little more money. Seems like a massive “screw you” to their fans.
I think its good to get it on a multi-platform release, but delaying the 99% ready Wii U version for 6 months to do so is a bit silly.
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Pretty sure at this stage it’s 100% ready. It should have been in the stores in a few weeks. Unless they were planning a crazy last minute rush, the discs would already have been pressed.
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in that case, its even sillier. ship the Wii U version & release the ps3 / 360 version in 6 months. everybody wins.
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They’re helping to bring the PC experience to a new console…
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for the true PC experience, they’d have to only release gamecube ports.
Edit: coz 90% of PC games are ports of games built on last-gen hardware.
/explaining the joke
If I downvote to people get in trouble? If so sorry @greenius
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Only if you report I believe.
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Yep, if you get eight downvotes in a day or twelve in a month, it’s a permaban.
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Really?
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*struggles to keep straight face*
Yep. Definitely.Edit: I might be Trollius.
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dammit. i wish you guys would say whether you’re joking or not.
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Just assume everything Shane says is a joke. It makes life a lot easier.
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What? I am outraged.
No. Wait. You’re right. I accept that.
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Woulden’t you be a Trollane?
I’d be Trollimu etc -
Troll hawk
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Really?
Testing theory 😛
You talking downvotes or reports?
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One of those for sure.
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How to report? That @Greenius guy is a handsome chap?
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Especially when he squeezes into those little t-shirts.
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HUBBA HUBBA!
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REMEMBER THE 3RD OF MARCH!
DREAMWORLD!
NOW FEATURING TIGERION AND HIS LOVELY WIFE/PARTNER/MISTRESS/IMNOTSURE!
GET YOUR PLANS IN ORDER PEOPLE!
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I like how we’re meating all the interstate TAYbies one-by-one.
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Make it quicker. Come to Sydney!
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COME TO DREAMWORLD AND FORCE @DC OUT OF HIS COMFORT ZONE!
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That requires booking flights and accommodation and explaining to parents that I’m going to theme parks with people I’ve never met from the internet.
Effort.
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Uni friends.
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I used the ‘Uni friends’ line for the first few meats.
The first time I said ‘Internet Friends’ I got a lot of strange looks.
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We’re both pathological liars. 😛
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NOOO WAYNE BRADY NOOOOOO
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Just say they’re friends from the internet that you HAVE met. Less effort.
Edit: Or just say “I’m off to QLD for a few days. My plane leaves in 45 minutes. Seeyakthxbai!”
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Uni. Friends.
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Work colleagues! Potaku, right?
Can I book in a Dreamworld day for November pls? kthxbai
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YES! COME MARCH AS WELL!
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I’d love to, but even November will be a stretch!
Hell, a $25 bus trip to Sydney (my Christmas present too!) was a stretch.
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at first, i thought “imnotsure” was something in french…
maybe i should go back to bed…
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It’s the subtle ennui caused by the inability to choose between options.
The French have a word for everything.
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True story: my phone autocorrected imnotsure to imposter. I was tempted to leave it.
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Then you found $10?
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I’ll bring them all \o/
Wait having them all together might be awkward, I’ll just bring my wife
Hay @dc, are you PAXing?
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PAX North! It’s a thing! Might go see a movie or something! 😛
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Dammit DC
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C’mooooooooon
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Haha, I would if I could afford it! Maybe. You guys are pretty terrifying, though!
Plus I wouldn’t stop talking about Soviet Arcologies and why you aren’t responding to the petition to get the ending changed! 😛
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My rules for petitions are the same as the White House’s.
Get 25,000 signatures then we’ll talk.
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@dc, if you can get 24,999 signatures, I’ll make up numbers for you.
#MakingLifeEasier
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I had no say in this!
Get away from me!
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Also, to effectively write that I need internet at home, which I don’t have. Besides, have I not Potakued enough for you of late?
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You left me hanging, man. I need to know what those ruskies do next!
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PAX North I believe
@chuloopa
War of the Worlds was possibly the greatest start to a Monday morning ever. SO AWESOME!!!
Except for the sound of the lids unscrewing… it still sends shivers down my spine *shudder*
Also… I emailed my resignation to all relevant parties (and probably some irrelevant ones too!) today.
No acknowledgement yet, which is strange. Whatever, I’m out come Friday \o/
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Congrats, man! So. Damn. Proud.
That War of the Worlds OST used to creep me out as a kid…
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It’s so good! SO FREAKIN’ GOOD!!!
Also thanks ^.^
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If an employee resigns and no one hears it, did the tree really fall?
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I sent it to… 5 people, plus the board.
I don’t care if they didn’t see it, I’m not showing up come Monday 😛-
I’d still recommend at least one face-to-face, even on Friday afternoon, just with your supervisor:
“Look, you got that email I sent on Monday, right? Been nice knowing you.”“Can I have a reference please?”-
Got references from people who respect me and my work, I think I’ll try to go for a clean cut and leave it at that with those remaining.
Issue with face-to-face is that the managing director, superintendent and both supervisors left for holidays this morning prior to my starting work 😛
I’ll give the MD a call this afternoon and wish him all the best however. Be a bit rude to just disappear like that! -
Don’t forget to leave a forwarding address with the new girl!
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Zooey Deschanel?
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Oh she already has my address.
Except for the fact that apparently she’s dating one of the other employees here.
…except for the fact that he lost his job and therefore accommodation and therefore is no longer living on the eylandt.
Eh, she’ll move on in 6 months or something anyway, probably back to Canada. Not worth stressing over! -
I think I just talked myself out of my attraction to her.
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\o/ ?
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Both the managing director AND the Super Nintendo on leave?
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Yeah, they’re pretty good at organising downtime, eh?
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Quiteph Null
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I thought I had a pretty piss-poor work ethic before…
And then I resigned. Holy shit.Still more productive than anyone else here mind, just… less so than usual.
AAAaaaand I broke the accounting software AGAIN.
I don’t actually believe it was fixed in the first place. The company appears to apply bandaid fixes which keep falling off.
Add to that the $150 flagfall on a support call + $150p/hr thereafter, and I’ve already cost us a substantial amount in the last week.
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It’s time to start using ‘them’
Add to that the $150 flagfall on a support call + $150p/hr thereafter, and I’ve already cost THEM a substantial amount in the last week.
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I like your style, sir.
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\o/ on both parts!!! 😀
God damn it, that moment when you realise that the album you’re listening to is ripped in sub par quality. What makes it worse is I own the album on disc. So yeah. Also it’s all tagged wrong, what the fuck man D=
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What’s the bit rate?
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Nowhere near as bad as that moment when you realise you burned the bacon for your lunch BLT and don’t have any more so you either have to eat the charred remnants of what used to be awesome bacon or just have a lettuce and tomato sammich. D:
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Lettuce and tomato /o\
Blend it all (charred remnants inclusive) and have a BLT shake.
This is probably the worst idea I’ve ever had. Just saying. -
Still sounds better than my lunch. 😛
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Bag of chips?
I need to spend more time in Brisneyland next run through, and cook for you. It’s going to happen at some point, you don’t have a choice 😛
(Also Christmas lunch with @strange was AMAZING. She got skillz to pay the billz, yo!)-
I’m having Steggle’s Chicken Fingers. 😛
Ah, Christmas. That takes me back. All that refreshing. 😀
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Gravity Falls is back this Friday with new episodes!
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The Walking Dead is back today as well!
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I saw an ad on Foxtel saying it was airing 33 hours after the U.S.
That’s probably 30 hours too long. 😛
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OMFG FASTTRACK HNNNNNNGH
Seriously? T.T
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I’ll be obtaining it by [REDACTED] it because I don’t have Foxtel.
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[REDACTED] is terrible. You monster! You guys should totally watch The Americans… *shifty eyes*
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I’ll be using [REDACTED] even though I have Foxtel.
But I don’t watch TWD.
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Community came back a few days ago as well!
so much stuff coming back 😀
“NSW Food Authority tests conducted in January 2008 show most cassava chips and crackers could produce higher than expected levels of cyanide. ”
Don’t you hate it when your food contains MORE cyanide than you expected?
Cause that stuff goes STRAIGHT to your hips, right!?
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Cracker co. can turn this to their advantage.
“Now with 15% more cyanide!!!!”
“Free cyanide?!?! I am so in!”Edit: or just advertise the ‘new almond flavor!’
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Do not consume if pregnant, lactating or under the age of 18.
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Do not consume if cyanide intolerant.
Failing that, just advertise that Cyanide builds muscle and you’ll have bodybuilders buying it.
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I suppose we could also market it as a miracle weight-loss pill.
Side effects may include minor headaches, loss of life, nausea.
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Like if making apricot brandy, NEVER leave the stone in. It actually leeches cyanide or it ends up making a liquor that is full of cyanide. Not my ideal alcoholic beverage.
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THIS JUST IN
RIHANNA HAS A GIANT FUCKING FOREHEAD
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YOU MIGHT EVEN CALL IT A FIVEHEAD.
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Tyra wannabe.
Now EB Games has a red one as opposed to JB Hifi’s blue now.
*INB4 ‘It looks cheap and nasty’
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Looks like it’s covered in lipstick. And JB has better pricing, unsurprisingly.
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They do look pretty horrible. I just prefer my electronics to be consistant, black and blend into the entertainment unit dealy. Felt good to finally replace the Wii with the spiffier Wii U.
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Speaking of blend in, I’m still kinda keen to (at some point when I have some workspace/tools) intergrate my X360 hardware in my PC case.
…I’m going to need a bigger PC case. -
I was tempted to get that limited edition EB Xbox 360 slim in white a few months back.
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Y no green one?! ;_;
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This gal gets it!
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so i bought a Dante figure last week and it arrived today and looks mighty fine… and i’ve been thinking maybe i need the vergil one as well?
then it hit me, i think i’m gonna get addicted to these things D:
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It’s a telltale sign that you’re addicted when you start buying glass cabinets to protect them from dust.
That’s the point of no return.
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After @beardymcmuttonchops took us to Comics Etc in Brisbane last week, I could easily see myself buying all those collectable dealies. 😀
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That’s not Dante! This guy has white hair!
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*quickly ducks for cover in flame resistant bunker*
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;D
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IT IS THE REAL DANTE THAT OTHER ONE IS EMO AND GAY BREBARBEARBAERBAEBRAB
although i prefer dante’s previous look, i am one of the devil may cry fans who quickly stopped caring about how he looked in DMC.
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They put plenty of references to old Dante in there anyway. Devil mode Dante goes red coat with white hair and (potential spoiler? dunno)
he gets that white streak in his hair after you use devil mode for the first time)I think old Dante was just dated.
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yeah, the whole “Crazy pizza party, what’s up, 2cool4skool” attitude is pretty dated, but for me it’s like watching a movie from the 80’s and it’s just enjoyable.
honestly, the best representation of Dante was in the Anime, he was way more down to earth in it, less douchebaggy.
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I haven’t bought any Revoltech figures for fear that I may not be able to stop 😛
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It’s a slippery slope, trust me.
BUT THEY’RE SO FUCKING PURTY.
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So. Many. Badass. Mechs.
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Revoltech and Figma have nothing on the pure addictive power that is Nendoroid
Last count I was just shy of hitting 150 of the little bastards. 🙁
I have a few Figmas but the only Revoltech I have is Danbo.
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I like the way they say a “wonderful hobby life” on their site.
It’s like they know it will be more than a hobby, addiction is certain -
Oh, that’ll be an ad for Wonder Festival. Bi-yearly figure expo where all the manufacturers show off their upcoming stuff. It happened this weekend just past.
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Niiiiiice. That’s the Play Art figure, yeah? I’ve been thinking about picking him up.
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yeah, i’ve always stared longing at play art figures at stores, and since i’ve been working a ton at my job over the holidays, i thought i’d treat myself!
i got him for about 75 bucks at an australian website called game-lane, if you wanted to know 🙂
Chris Brown get the fuck off the bottom of my TAY page.
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LOOK AT THAT GORRAMN FOREHEAD HOLY SNAPPIN’ DUCKSHIT
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My only issue with Rhianna is that she went back to Chris Brown, not setting a good example there
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Yeah, that’s messed up.
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*off my planet
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Insert wife beating joke here
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Wife beating is no joke situation.
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sorry if i offended, i meant it in a “that’s what the internet would do” way
in no way was i joking about wife beating.
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And his Stockholme Syndrome lady pal!
Oh man, Win and Regine from Arcade Fire scored The Box! I didn’t mind that movie in a Twilight Zone kind of way. Need to rewatch to hear the music!
Edit: Arcade Fire page get! That calls for Coachella 2011 again!
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Hipster
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Guns can’t kill what soldiers can’t see!
haven’t left, had the day off work and spent it with Sam, don’t worry @rocketman
I have a spare minute, so it’s time for a new round of TAY Charades!
TAY Charades is a random game I just made up where I offer a clue from a game, and you have to guess what it is. The winner can then think up the game and clue for the next round (if they so desire).
Round 1’s clue is:
The game has only just started and you’re already drowning.
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Steven Hawking playing water polo.
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:O
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oh snap!
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David Bowie, Omikron: The Nomad Soul! 😛
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Bioshock
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>:(
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Also Crysis 2
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Actually, speaking of Bioshock, I’ve only played the first hour or two and had the ending spoiled. Still worth playing, or not so much?
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Definitely worth playing. Such a cool world to explore. Someone on the 2K forum spoiled the ending for everyone too, I still loved it.
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Close, but no ;P
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Bioshock?-
nope ;P
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Sounds like me if I were playing Dark Souls I guess.
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I like this game!
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The Dig
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Kingdom Hearts?
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Bioshock
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Echo the Dolphin
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Clever! But not the game I have in mind.
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Rune
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I don’t remember the start of Rune, but not what I had in mind
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You go Viking on a longship with your village and then IIRC Loki appears and conjures a storm up and you drown and go to Hell and then Odin is like “hey that kind of sucked, how about we fuck some shit up” and so you fight your way out of Hell and stuff.
Rune was an awesome game. 🙁 Human Head has basically disappeared since Prey though.
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Well, nobody has guessed it yet.
I’ll wait until tomorrow morning to see if anyone has nailed it yet 🙂
Just booked accomodation for next saturday, was quite pleased with the price, then realised it was actually for mid next week.
*sigh*
After very confusing phone call and much headeskbashing I think I have somewehere to sleep next saturday.
I hope.
Stupid technology, I blame you for my idiotic mistakes.
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You should book in for accommodation at the Gold Coast for 3rd of March. I hear all the cool people are going to be at Dreamworld.
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And D.C.!
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I thought you lived nearby. I’ll be training home as usual.
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Are you on the western line? Trackwork!
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/headdesk
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We get trackworks whenever there’s meats here too. Someone’s conspiring against us! :S
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🙁
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Yep. You can always rely on City Rail to be unreliable.
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Not sure what to do now. Can’t afford to stay in the city because MASSIVE manga purchase coming up… Hrrrm… Camp out on a park bench!? I HAVE A TENT!
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I’d offer my couch, but I wonder how my folks would react.
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Nah, I am staying out near Quakers Hill for the next few months and the last train leaving sydney for that area is (I think) at about 11:30.
Screw that!
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I’m in Penrith…
Oh yeah, I should organise something…where are you and how much for a night?
Giggity.
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Book me in while you’re at it, Rize!
Epidode 329 of Doc’s OCD Game Box Disorder!
So it’s been a great many months since last time I asked, but I fugure I’d put out the call again!
i’m looking for an AUS PS3 copy of MASS EFFECT 3. Standard PLASTIC CASE with the REVERSIBLE FEMSHEP COVER which I will swap for the Steelbook.
Any takers?
I know @Jimu likes the steel books…
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Just grab one from the shelf at JB HiFi and walk out predominately.
If you get caught just pretend you are lost and confused.
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You could be on to something. Or I could take along my game disc and slip it into the box then claim it’s my own copy from home!
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I’ll check mine at home. I it’s the reversible one I can swap no problems.
Is the steel book DVD or Bluray size?
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All steelboxes are DVD size I believe? I don’t think I’ve ever seen one smaller.
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Call of duties and Resident Evil 5 are all Bluray size.
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Learn something new everyday I guess.
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And Uncharted 2!
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It’s DVD size! D:
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Ew. No thanks. Makes the collection look weird.
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Pretty much the reason I don’t want it. All my PS3 games are in a blu-ray tower. ME3 doesn’t even fit!
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OUCH! My FF13-2 and Tales of Graces came in DVD sized boxes…makes NOSENSE
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But bigger box, bigger art book!
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With FF yes, with Tales no.
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DVD sized which is one reason why they suck. They’re a different size to standard PS3 cases!
I HAVE THAT EXACT ONE! Except it’s PC.
Not that exact then huh.
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D:
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There’s a limited PS3 copy at my local I was going to pick it up. It’s $29. Does that version come with the cover you are after?
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I think the limited edition comes with the Steelbook. The one I want is the regular one :/
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I bought the Trilogy. I got a non-reversable man-shep cover.
Thought I was giving up Fem for Digi-Pak. Instead I get a Slip case (which is nice) covering el-cheapo standard covers (they are not nice). The problems with online preorders. #1stWorldProblems
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the US got a digipak
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Don’t make it worse. O gawd, my life is OVAH!
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I haven’t even re-beat 1 yet. I could have prolly picked up a cheapy US copy and … *sob*
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I want the trilogy. I could buy US and trade! 😀
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heya folks whats happening? how is everyone?
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Zetrox! How’s things, man? Still investigating interstate/San Fran moves?
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yeah think ive got my resume together, like the mrs and i discussed, will apply for 4 or 5 jobs in the states and see what happens… wont be moving unless i really really want the job. wont be going just for the hell of it… also yeah one of those applications is going to WibiData… 🙂
HOw about yourselves? ive been a bit absent for a while…. ive just had way too much on…. :/
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Things are decent, man! Was just weirdly thinking about you before and you post! 😀
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hahaha thanks man! im feeling all warm and fuzzy on the inside now…. 🙂
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I want a Vita now but have to wait until I have the spare funds.
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i want GAMES for my vita 🙁
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TAYlist for the 11th of February 2013 TAYlist – the TAY Playlist, sponsored by Lucifer9783
Fleetwood Mac – Rhiannon
Michael Jackson – Beat It
Carole King – So Far Away (thanks to @dc for the request)
Thirsty Merc – Mousetrap Heart
Alien Ant Farm – Smooth Criminal (this was a personal addition, I didn’t like the song set to play prior to adding this one)
Kings Of Leon – Use Somebody
INXS – Never Tear Us Apart
Good Charlotte – Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous
David Bowie – Space Oddity (thanks again to @dc for the request)
Pete Murray – You Pick Me Up (this one was a listener request)
Things Of Stone And Wood – Happy Birthday Helen
Green Day – Holiday
Mr Mister – Broken Wings
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Aw man! That’s awesome! Thanks! 😀
Following a Good Charlotte song with Space Oddity is pretty jarring. Also that Carole King song is one of my favourites and I don’t care who knows it. 😛
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Once again, NOT A COMPLETE LIST, every time I don’t say it, someone makes that mistake
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Needs more Incubus.
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What’s their style?
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Pretty much no style. Every album is flippin different from the last.
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If I had to pick one song it would be Megalomaniac, the song fits in well here on TAY.
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Good.
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I like only one of these songs.
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It better be Space Oddity. >:|
😛
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Damn straight. 😀
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No Steel Panther, I am sad.
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Missed your comment, I had an appointment at 10:30
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The image for “Are Quiet Trains Good or Bad for the Community?” Lifehacker article on the right looks exactly like my ex-girlfriend (just the features, not the expression) and that’s weirding me the hell out.
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I’m on the mobile site so I can’t see pictures from other articles so I’m just going to assume you used to date a train.
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Until she went off the rails.
Sorry.
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Congrats! Biggest laugh of the day goes to these two comments.
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“This better not be that train video …it’s the train video…”
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Little know fact, the person in the ad is actually very cross eyed, thats why they had to crop the image as they did.
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In an only vaguely related point, man, the commenters in that article are dicks.
I know I should expect that, comment section and all, but geez.
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Something something self hatting something something comments section something something WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!?
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Until that article, I never realised that the Quiet Carriages weren’t a normal thing across all Cityrail lines 😛
Just listening to anything Jack white has been Attached to ever. He truly is one of the best guitarists of the 21st century and i love blues punk.
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Just listened to that song, 🙂
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“Jack white is not a clean soloist; he plays like a blowtorch”
–How Rolling Stone described White’s playing style.weird & confusing simile, but I’ve always like that description.
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Thats why i think he is so brilliant, you can tell its him playing in all his songs.
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Jack White is a freaking genius. The fact that The White Stripes had one of the worst drummers ever and they still managed to be fantastic is a pretty massive testament to his ability.
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haha he was pretty shocking.
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…she?
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He?
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Oh, Rocketman.
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It’s the EB incident in reverse. 😛
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All things in balance. Equilibrium has been restored.
Two wrongs make it right, etc. -
And two Wrights made an aeroplane!
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fantastic is a very strong word
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Aren’t subjective opinions fun?
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Nope.
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I love the start of ‘It Might Get Loud’ where he puts together a Coke bottle guitar.
He can play but doesn’t have a great voice. Serviceable but not great.
I still remember the damn kids trying to claim that he had a better voice than Dust Springfield
Hnnngg
Afternoon all, quick question. I’m looking into taking part in the shave for a cure, would anyone have a team/care to do it with me?
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Potaku’s doing it I think, check Kotaku’s front page!
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YEP! There should be a link in the article.
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Potaku has a team!
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DDC, etc.
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WHE.
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That doesn’t work in this context. 😛
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Potaku team are doing it
http://potaku.com/2013/01/30/potaku-and-the-worlds-greatest-shave/
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Nice one, Red!
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thank ye, I am now part of the potaku team. Now to see if I can get work to sponsor me.
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Fuck this fucking motherfucking day.
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Upvote for agreeance. Not cos I enjoy your pain.
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🙁 Hope things are alright, man.
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They’re fine. Why wouldn’t they be?
Edit: damnit, @dc, this was meant to be funny.
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:S Stupid question. Should’ve said… feel better, man.
Edit: D.C. gets jokes! As always, I’m laughing on the inside. 😛
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And this time it does involve chicken and gravy?
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Okay?
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Use protection. It’s a right whore of a day.
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Sounds like you’ve got post-meat rage.
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True story, my work browser is so old I can’t see who upvoted me or use any neat functions like the spoiler button!
#WINNING!
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Me too! The mystery persists until I get home tonight!
also for spoilers, you can just put “s” in between pointy brackets “<” and “>”
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test-
success!
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… this has been upvoted
Must. Stop. Entering that comp.
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Next Top Model?
also, Sleeping dogs and Quantum Conundrum free for PS Plus peeps 🙂
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but i already bought those for ten dollars each on steam sales! 🙁 #masterraceproblems
Sleeping Dogs? Excellent! Quantum Conundrum? Pretty damn good!
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Sleeping Dogs? Excellent! Quantum Conundrum? Started off good and portally! became a broken platformer mess.
Fixed.
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Eh, it’s still free.
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Plus John De Lancie is in the game. If you were a Star Trek fan, this would seal the deal!
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Sold!
I have no idea who that is. -
He was also Jane’s Dad on Breaking Bad and Desmond’s Dad in AC3.
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He was Q in Star Trek. I was excited but it sounds like he just phoned it in.
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For some reason the Skull Kid’s scream from Majora’s Mask just went off in my head. Hopefully, stating this has made it happen to a bunch more people now.
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I hate you.
Done out of boredom.
@freezespreston – Your net sort itself out? may be BLOPS2’ing it up today if you are up for it! also, the other 2 guys yesterday were my brother, (drwog) and brother in law (cypriani)… we are also on Skype when we are playing so feel free to join in the convo too!
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I have no idea what the problem is. Blops2 just seems to hate my connection. Every other CoD game runs silky smooth but Blops2 just lags like crazy for me. It’s why I’m a few Prestige levels on all the other games but only 30 on blops2.
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Set your PS3 IP address to static, and assign that IP to the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)… thats weird stuffs though man!
I cant imagine many people having as weird as my connection to my PS3…
Stay with me…. Modem runs to a router which runs to another router, which runs to yet another router, which connects to my PC through wifi, where a network cable then runs out of my pc and into my ps3. The wifi and lan adapter on my pc are bridged so my ps3 theoretically connects to my pc’s internet…
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OK what the fuck o.0
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And because you’re a network engineer or similar you actually made this work. 😛
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@mythamphetamine @negativezero, you dont want to see my port forwarding setup…. o_0
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Halloween 2013 “VS The Dead” project.
So despite a rather bad script, JVTD became a bit of a success for us. (Success = Not looking dreadful) and as much as I didn’t want to do zombies AGAIN this year, I had an idea.
Watch Julie VS The Dead and pick out a character. Any character and wonder how they got where they were, or what happened to them afterwards. Once you’ve got that down, write a short script/story.
Hugo Vs The Dead is a given, obviously.
Anyone willing to take part!?
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Yes. Would you consider a short comic entry? (Not that I’ll do one, just want to know)
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Sure! Motion comic?
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Can I write one about @blaghman acquiring his burger and force him to be filmed eating many more of them?
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By upvoting he has agreed to take part, so yes!
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I must have missed JVTD in my time away from TAY. Is there somewhere to watch it?
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There are also 2 trailers up.
Teaser Trailer – http://youtu.be/YDO1U4PpOik
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And 1982 Low Budget Trailer – http://youtu.be/yLm8me7y7Vg
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6th worst…
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@chuloopa
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Dammit! Don’t tell him, I want to win!
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Heyyyyy i’m not THAT bad!
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<3 !!!!
THANK YOU!
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Entered!
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I was like YES then I realized it was 360 copies.
Fuck 360. Mine are not even connected any more.
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The Ts and Cs don’t specify the platform- for the Far Cry 3 comp we got to choose
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Nothing mentioned (just the image used) so figured why not.
If it is 360 only then could probably find somebody to trade for a PS/PC version
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Hoping for PC edition but will likely not win, so it doesn’t really matter anyway.
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OMG OMG OMG OMG!
TAY doesn’t miss me?
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Who’s this guy?
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SPAGHET
SURPRISE
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Yes it does. See, we left your room unchanged.
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Did you not see all your mentions? We thought the Meat had scared you away. 🙁
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Oh and DC even honoured your memory by starting the last song played game back on Page 2.
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I always miss you Spaghett *hugs vigorously*
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Everyone who upvotes @tofu’s post is joining in on a group hug with @spaghett !!
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Chivalry : Medieval Warfare (Multi-platform) classified R18.
Source
Edit : the interesting part is the multi-platform bit. possible console release?
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I expected a rating like that, due to the decapitations and hacking of limbs.
Trouble is, most people already own it on Steam. :\-
Classified for a multi-platform release. Coming to consoles perhaps?
the rating doesnt surprise me, especially since the recent patch that adds in more blood, but the reason I mentioned it initially, was the multi-platform thing.
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Multi platform??
Sound City get!
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Enjoy! It’s a fantastic film.
How easy is it to get at a MicroSIM to SIM adapter? Got a pre-paid data SIM for my old iPad which I never use now, so want to put it into my Vita, but the Vita only takes a full-size SIM 🙁
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$1.18, free postage, located in Melbourne.
No idea if it works though.
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I need the opposite, I think. Gotta cut my SIM down to MicroSIM shortly /o\
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I’d suggest you wander into any mobile shop corresponding to your carrier and get them to swap it over (takes like 5 minutes to set it up and then it’s active within 30 mins) but you live literally in the arse end of nowhere 🙁
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Yeah, slight issue there 😛
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Yeah Telstra cut mine down and it didn’t work had to get them to swap it out for a microsim free of charge.
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It’s just a tray as far as I know. I have to train in and out of work tomorrow and was thinking maybe some Persona is called for.
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http://dx.com/p/micro-sim-card-to-standard-sim-card-adapter-black-41528
im ordering some stuff from there today, if youd like me to order you one let me know!
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Cc @negativezero
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Nah, i’m not in a rush or anything. If I really need data on my Vita I can tether my phone to it.
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Note: I’m not opposed to making one if it’s easy as well.
Crap! I am the worst mother. I let my daughter go to the park to meet “one of her friends” there but I forgot to ask who. :S
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I can’t think of a joke here that’s at all funny.
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You mean to say you HAVEN’T gotten your children microchipped yet?!
MONSTER!!!I’m sure she’ll be fine though, is there a general curfew rule that’s set for her in these cases?
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Yeah,she has a half-hour time limit when she goes by herself. I just really should have asked who she was meeting.
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On the plus side, you have her location and ETA. Does she have a phone for contact?
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She’s back now. I just need to remember to ask who she’s meeting next time. She’s in High School now so I really need to be more aware of what she’s doing.
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Microchip. I’m telling you now, it’s just like lo-jacking your kid.
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Don’t worry mum, it’s just some old guy I met on the internet. He offered me candy and everything.
I shouldn’t make jokes, though I’m sure she’ll be fine.
FFS! I have the money to buy a 920 in my wallet. Only people who have one is the Telstra stores who sell them outright locked and charge $200 to unlock them.
Everyone else just tells me to pay and order one but can only shrug on how long it would take. This is just getting too much trouble. 🙁
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Any possibility of unlocking yourself? I did it with an older… I think it was a Nokia mini-somethingsomething?
Not really helpful, I know :S-
NO idea whether this is trustworthy or not, but dependent on hard/firm/software security implemented within the 920, you could feasibly use this website as a cheaper method to unlock.
However, if they’ve got the algorithm, it can’t be too hard to do it yourself. I’ll try to find more when I get home.
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If there’s a Harvey Norman near you they should have them for the same price there (unlocked). If they don’t have any in it shouldn’t take them too long to get one.
I was always under the assumption that phones bought outright from Telstra were unlocked? I’m pretty sure they usually have been, at least a year ago.
Edit: Apparently it differs between phones now, so disregard that last part.
Edit 2: http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/86028 says they’re unlocked, so no idea. I’m rambling.
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http://www.kogan.com/au/buy/nokia-lumia-920-32gb-black-unlocked/
I’m planning on doing this in the next few weeks if they still have them in stock.
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‘My’ (read: work’s) 920 displays the Telstra logo at start up… even though it is on the Optus network :S
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My phone does that too. Oh the hilarity.
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Yeah as far as I know Telstras only locked handsets are iPhones (they were last year at least) and they will unlock any iPhone for free if it is locked to them. Cause all the Telstra phones i’ve had have all been unlocked apart from dad’s old Nokia 1100 (I think)
So it being locked sounds like a load of shit to me :S
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There’s a lot of demand and not much supply right now. 🙁 We employees have to wait until customer demand is satisfied before we get ours.
If you just want a WinPhone and don’t mind marginally lower battery life and a slightly less good camera, the HTC 8X isn’t too bad. Lighter too.
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Pretty sure I want the 920. Found a place has has a couple in stock. Just have to wait until Wednesday when I can get up there to pick one up.
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I get so confused when phone shopping. There’s too much to think about 😛
Oh man, I wish I could get my weight to stop fluctuating so I could actually make myself some nice clothes and know they’ll fit by the time I’m finished making them. I need my body to make up its mind whether it’s going to be average, large or very large instead of cycling through them all. 😛
I’ve just been looking at the New York Fashion Week things on Fab Sugar and the Prabal Gurung collection is so awesome it’s making me want to make things like it.
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Just make one of each size
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Ha! That’s the problem though, it takes a while to make something because I first have to find the right fabric and then save so I can buy it,and then make a muslin so I don’t mess up the real fabric when trying something for the first time and then I can finally make the item. I doubt I’d still like something if I had to make it in a few sizes. 😛
I guess I could make something in one size and then cross my fingers I’ve taken enough time for my body to cycle back to that size again by the time I’m finished. 😀
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I just need my body to stop being XXL.(Sadly my actual shirt size) That would be fantastic.
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That’s your shirt size?!!!! You appear to be a M/L. I would never have guessed you were a XXL.
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Shirt size is screwy in general, man. I’m pretty scrawny and my t-shirt size is XL. Sometimes just being tall requires a size up, not always a weight thing. *shrugs*
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XXS \o/
It’s a legitimate size, I swear…
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Wait seriously?
I wear XXL shirts.
Shirt sizes are fucked up.
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Really broad shoulders, long arms and torso means any smaller are too tight across the shoulders and too short.
To get ones that fit properly there also means it hangs like a muumuu. I hate shirts.
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You just need to get your shirts tailored!
Too easy!
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Or wait until winter! Hoodies and jackets and none of this horrible shirt stuff…
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I still just wear a T-shirt in winter.
T-shirts in negative degree weather is good fun. You get all the weirdest looks.
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I think one of the most depressing days of my life was when I was fitted for a suit and an XS shirt was still too big 🙁 I’ve moved up to an S, but I still find it depressing.
@thecracks
OzComicCon announced today they’re doing a Once Upon A Time dinner with Raphael Sbarge….
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You guys should go and keep calling him Carth! Cosplay as Bastila and Dustil!
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Bastila and Revan, you mean.
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HRNG
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I think I’m going to have to fly over, aren’t I?
Salt & Vinegar Kettle Chips for dinner! 😀 Good eating!
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D:
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Don’t worry Strange. D.C. only eats as badly as I do, and we’ve seen how healthy I am.
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Tastiest damn self-destruction evah! 😛
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Smiths crinkles are beddah!
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You’re right about so many things Jimu, but here you’re wrong. Kettle Chips perfected the Salt & Vinegar flavour!
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Nooooooooo! I usually prefer kettle in most cases but they’re vinegar to salt ratio is off. I prefer el-cheapo to “deli” style.
(Not so el-cheapo that it tastes like cardboard middle-range?)
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DC! Honestly!
At least have a chip sandwich!
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Too late, Pow. Too late. I ate them from a bowl though to give the illusion that it was a proper meal! 😛
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Remember it when you’re hungry again in an hour or so 😛
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BRB, making chip sandwich.
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Organic corn chips here 😀 I think I even prefer them to doritos!
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=488789
North American PSone compatability list for @mcgarnical
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*reads*
*Suikoden is on the list*
My wallet will weep this evening.
EDIT: OMG Xenogears is compatible.
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Awesome right? Actually only a few missing! 😀
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Super helpful – thanks!
Yay, TAY did miss me 😀
You guys*and girls* and the blurst!
I mean, the amazingurst!
I agree with @shane. Today was a terrible day. You know all that resting, relaxing and revitalising you’re supposed to do on holidays? Completely shot to hell within 2 hours at work this morning. Major problems with a client’s trip (thankfully not my fault this time), and had to spend most of the day chasing it up. Tomorrow can only be better, right?
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Right?
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Aw man, hope your week improves.
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And as if I’m not emotionally drained enough, I plan on watching Clannad or playing Spec Ops tonight. Best plan \o/
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Just keep remembering that DC got beaten in a strength test by a 40kg girl to keep a smile on your face 😛
(One day I’ll let that go*)
*not this day.
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Haha! Mrs. Freeze could take me in a fight, I know that. I was far more embarrassed at the laser tag thing coming last out of every single person there. Every one. Even the girl that screamed hysterically every time she saw someone. :S
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I’m surprised no pictures from that meat have materialized too. Haha!
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Like this one? http://imgur.com/BTb0bn4
Also have video of the rape chairs.
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Aw man, I look so dopey. :S
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o.0
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“o.0” was in response to “rape chairs”.
My response to the image is “BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!” followed by”I’d tap that”.
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It’s pictures like that that makes me want to wear a mask and live in the catacombs underneath an opera house playing gothic tunes on an organ. 😛
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While cool, something tells me you’d be doing it for all the wrong reasons.
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Go redeem your Magicka key, it should make the day better! 😀
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I have, haven’t had a chance to play it yet though
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Ah 😛
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If @Freya and I break up, it’s going to be because she got me into minesweeper.
Fuck that game.
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Hahah. Oh man that’s unlucky.
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Been in that position so many times.
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Mine. <3
Having to cook for myself makes me realize that while i know how to operate ovens and how to prepare food. I always used to ask gran how long to cook stuff for. So like the most important thing.
lets hope these lamb chops are not burnt or undercooked.
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Just do what I do: Continually chop up the meat as you go to check if it’s cooked.
By the time it gets to your plate, it’s in bite-sized pieces 😛
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THATS GENIUS.
STIRFRY PARTAY. 😛
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Kettle Chips!
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We got a new oven a couple of weeks ago and I had to cook for myself on Satuday, and I had to call up my mum because I couldn’t figure it out :S It’s got like 15 different settings for the knob and then these function buttons as well. I miss the old one where you turned the knob to the temp you wanted and off it went!
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Haha! Mine’s like that too. You can ‘pre-heat’ for twenty minutes and realize you didn’t press one of the random buttons so it hasn’t been doing any thing. :S
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Aha yeah I told my mum what I did after the food was still frozen and she said I had it in pre heat mode. It was probably the most embarrassing call of my life. “Hi, how do I work the stove?”
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This is why I eat Kettle Chips for dinner! 😛
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They’re probably healthier than the pizza I cooked 😛
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I’ve never gone by timings. The food is cooked when it’s cooked. Ovens are finicky though, so temperatures are probably the most important constant to be aware of.
You stick a fork into it and if it’s tough to pull out it’s not done
You just eat it and then wait a while.
If you start pooping uncontrollably, it might be undercooked.
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You are a genius
Don’t pierce them,you’ll lose all the juice that keeps them tender. So no cutting them open or sticking forks in them. Press on them and if they’re super-squishy they’re probably too rare, you want them to be a little soft but also a little resistance when you press them gently with your forefinger.
The only meat I’ll put a fork in or cut open to check on is chicken . Because that’s probably the most dangerous. You want your chicken to be pretty resistant when you press on it, but cut into a bit to check there’s no pink left.
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Thanks mum
Cooking lamb chops/steak in the oven is great (it’s the way I do it too due to lazy) but if you cook/sear briefly on each side in a pan first, you’ll seal the juices in better and the end result will be less dry (I am normally too lazy to actually do this, and one of my housemates who works as a chef is very disappoint).
@greenius
Stop lurking and upvoting things. Talk to us.
How’s Singapore?
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The last time I went to Singapore, I remember it being a fine place.
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Let a man catch up!
I was going to post stuff before but decided not to, here it is now without any context:
– something something scared spider something wife
– STOP EATING CHIPS
– yes! Saw it before it gets deleted!
– something something size joke
Singapore is alright. Just seeing tons of family/people who know me but I have no idea who they are. I have a cousin who’s like 60 :/
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Greenius, hope you’re well my friend!
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This is amazing, and super creepy.
Also, Greenius is a monster for making me want to draw things.
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Just thank me later and send me all your future art books for free.
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Hahahahahaha.
Ha.
You’re a funny guy, Greenius.
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Awesome. Love it.
EDIT: Oh wow. The rest of them are even better. The Lithium one is brilliant.
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Those Rockabye Baby – Lulaby Rendition albums are great! There are albums by a whole ton of different artists.
I have given them as gifts to every music lover I know who has had a kid for years now.-
It’s fantastic!!!
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I’m looking forward to this Dreamworld meat. That is all.
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DC ON A COASTER BITCHES
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D.C. ON BITCHES IN COASTERS
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DC BITCHIN COASTERS ON BITCHES
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D.C. BITCHIN BITCHES ON BITCHES.
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DC ON A COASTER IN BITCHES
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DC bitching bitches on the bitching bitch coaster
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*scratches head*
You so crazy!
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The only people who have said they are coming so far is yourself, Sughly and Tigerion.
Come on people. Interstater is coming. Lets show him how Brisbane does it.
@trjn @strange @jimu @beardymcmuttonchops @dkzeitgeist @sernobulus @welbot @virus__ and whoever elsae I’ve forgotten. I’ll let @dc fill in the blanks.
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I think Mumbo Jumbo wants to! Mentioned it in Community Kudos last week!
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@mumbo_jumbo_au
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Mumbo? Perhaps. Jumbo? Perhaps not.
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*shakes fist* I’ve been saving that for the meat to say in person. 😛
@lambomann007
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And now it will look like you were copying me.
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We can both agree that Futurama’s The Honking ripped us both off somehow. 😛
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Swear thats the second time you’ve said that.
Will we be doing stuff after Dreamworld too? Surfer’s again maybe with Tigerion in town? Too early to say? (D.C.’s excited at the prospect of hanging out. I get so lonely. :P)
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Don’t see why not. My place is available too as usual.
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Options always there to go back to Brisbane too and do something. (Depending where the Tigerions are staying.) Either way, good times a-plenty.
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Err put me down as a potential yes. I’m meant to be off to Leyburn in the next few weeks, when? The old man hasn’t decided when, because he’s great with shit like that >=[
But I <3 Dreamworld. It’s the best place to go to for an assignment for project management for webs design when at TAFE =P
I haven’t said I’m coming yet because a) I don’t yet know if I can afford the ticket and b)I have no idea how I’ll get there or back home.
We bought VIP passes for Sea World/Wet N Wild/Movie World this year so there’s no way we can afford to grab Dreamworld passes for the whole family so Mr. Strange definitely won’t be able to go. I could probably scrounge together the money for my ticket but then I stillhave a transport problem. So I’m hoping I’ll be able to sort these things out because I really want to see Tigerion again and meet Mrs. Tigs. At the moment I’ll need to try and convince Mr. Strange to drop me off and pick me up which will all depend on what kind of mood he’s in on the day. 😛
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Maybe we can work out some sort of car pool/split petrol money kind of dealy with the Brisbane TAYbies? Worst case, there’s always the train as well. I used to walk from Coomera Station to Dreamworld when I worked at Big Brother. Was a fifteen minute or so walk, might not be ideal but I’m pretty sure there’s shuttle buses during the day too? Would be awesome to have you there, Strange! 🙂
Still a whiles off though. I’m just getting ahead of myself. Might be psyched up. 😀
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I do not live in a very train-friendly area. Don’t worry,I’m still working on a plan. I still have the “But you went to 70K without me!” card up my sleeve. 😛
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Haha! Don’t forget to mention the part where it stormed and you were stuck in a house with out power! >:D
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You could always ask Sughly nicely?
If I do end up going (no idea at this point), but if I do, I’m happy to give you a lift.
Whats the date and time?
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March 3rd, probably all day. 😀
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Moving into our first house (we bought) on the monday, think mrs mumbjumbo will kill me if im not cleaning the old rental we’re in. :,( im going to the next meet no matter what tho.
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Nope, sorry.
WORSTEST HERMIT
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And you’re not looking forward to your November Dreamworld meat? 😛
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I never claimed to be a hermit.
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:'(
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Looks like I’m going to have to do some computer maintenance. Possibly replace some parts. My CPU (i5 750, stock heatsink, not overclocked) is idling at 55 degrees which seems way high, and the instant I do anything it spikes to 65+. Safe temp before it starts to throttle itself is about 73.
Hoping it’s just dust buildup around the heatsink but I may need to accelerate my upgrade plans. 🙁
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Shit, that’s high. Try applying some new thermal paste or something, or try a better heatsink/fan. That CPU is a little old now but it should still be good for a while yet.
I know Intel’s run a bit hotter, but my AMD CPU idles at around 37 degrees stock.
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I know that it idled much cooler when I first built it. But that was in a different case and with a different GPU. The GPU’s sitting idle at 37 though so I don’t think it’s a case issue. Cleaned out the dust and didn’t see a temp difference but the CPU fan seems to have backed off considerably.
Might just need a new cooler. Was going to get one anyway, this case (Corsair Obsidian) has a pre-built mount for a Corsair liquid cooling loop, which would be way more than this needs but should make it run pretty cool and quiet.
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Actually it looks like once it’s stabilized a bit and since I opened the side vent it’s dropped down to 45. Still hot but acceptable.
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45 should be fine. It shouldn’t get into dangerous territory unless you try stress testing it or something, so I wouldn’t worry.
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I find I’ve been skipping dialogue in Ni No Kuni. Something I never do in games. Mainly just the rambling ten page side quest dialogue. Where the objective will just end up being: leave conversation, go back in conversation and give them something I’ve already got. 😛
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The heartbroken sidequests? Yeah I skip all of them too 😛
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When it comes to heart transfusions, I skipped all of that dialogue, simply because it got ridiculously repetitive.
On that note, a qualm with the different pieces of heart (probably don’t read if you don’t have 6 or so of the heart types unlocked):
Some of the types of heart are way too similar to each other. Am I the only one who thinks confidence and belief are similar enough that they didn’t need to be split up. Confidence was usually someone going ‘oh I have no confidence I can do this’ which could also easily be ‘I don’t believe I can do this’. There’s another two that are similar but one of them is the last one so I won’t mention it here…but yeah. Why am I complaining about this anyway?!-
Agreed. Also on the heart things: (Spoilers for the END of the game! Don’t read unless you’ve finished the game/discovered all of the different types of heart)
I was surprised that ‘Love’ wasn’t the last type you found 😛 It seems like the big one to end on, you know? I half expected the ending to be Oliver needing Love to bring back his mother or something. Though that probably would’ve been massively cliche, heh.
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Another problem I have with the game is that it’s got some of the most lush, beautiful graphics I’ve ever seen in a game evah yet some of the places feel completely empty. I think I’m used to BioWare kind of RPGs like on KotOR when you explore Taris you get a sense of the place just by talking to the locals and exploring, instead of the town just being a set piece for one major quest. I know it’s probably just the difference between western and Japanese RPGs.
@rocketman @strange
The talk about Rocketman’s dinner above reminded me of this old trick to tell how well cooked a steak is. (works for chops too) It’s all about how soft the meat feels when you press gently on it with your finger.
Touch your thumb to the tip of your pointer finger. Now use your other hand to press gently on the fleshy part between your thumb and finger. If the meat feels liks this it is Rare.
Do the same with your middle finger. This would be Medium Rare.
Ring finger indicates Medium.
Pinkie for Well Done.
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I think all of my fingers have been cooked the same.
@ash You died in my XCOM game
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I bet if you name a soldier after me they’ll die on their first mission without getting any kills.
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Well if classic difficulty keeps bending me over the table like it is I wouldnt be surprised.
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Rad! Did I do anything interesting, or did I just walk out and get wasted?
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nope short pathetic existance. But dont take it the wrong way. Classic is doing a number on me. Had to restart 3 times now.
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@dc I forgot to link Wake Up Jeff by Bluejuice from the Rewiggled album! But fear not, I’m here to rectify that! Watch it now! It’s amazing!!
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Haha! Oh man, completely forgot about that conversation. Can’t say it’s my kind of thing. 😛
The…
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Toenail.
We have a movie title!
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The toenail…
looked…
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… the part, but that wasn’t enough.
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@dc felt a stirring deep…
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ness inside of him
It was his doubt, slowly…
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… but decisively shutting this story down. The end.
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Aww Ben J beat me to it. Oh well.
Has anyone read this? It’s quite humorous to say the least.
Watch this song. It’s Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra playing a medly of Baby Elephand Walk and the Sesame St theme song.
Guaranteed to make you smile or your money back 🙂
Dinner tonight consists of the very last of @smurfydog’s amazing beef hotpot.
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Hope you like it :s
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Damn straight I do.
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Well I have chicken nuggets and salads!
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Roast lamb sandwiches.
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5 pages on Monday.
And I can’t read during the day.
Back to this old chestnut, huh?
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How goes the teaching, man?
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Good!
Fun!
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This was exactly my reaction about an hour ago :/
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Too much awesome.
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Well screw you too iMessage y u not show my message as being delivered?!
Something feels off tonight. Dunno what. Just… feels not quite right, or something.
Can’t put my finger on it, exactly!
The pope (who I think is a bigot) resigned! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTIorwtJbhE (Very strong language)
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you changed it, so disregard my message
however, i still i fucking love Tim Minchin
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Yeah you’re probably right there. I toned it down a bit.
PS. Tim Minchin is amazing live!
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my parents saw him when he came to perth, was fairly jealous i didn’t get to go 🙁
next time however!
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So, I bought and watched Sound City (Which was fucking awesome. Seriously, go and buy it right now.), I’ve been checking my e-mail, and I get this message:
Hey there….
Thanks for scraping up your hard earned dough and buying the movie direct from our site! We’re stoked! Hope you love it as much as we do…. Ummm………Holy shit! I made a movie!
^(Those are only a minute amount of the entire message, which in it’s entirety, is bloody awesome).
It’s a nice little way of saying thanks, and it’s great for a brilliant doco about a studio that tried to stay afloat during the shifting of formats, from analog to digital music creation, and how some of the soul of music is lost due to the added complacency with digital music creation.
Also, go buy Sound City and watch it.
Now.
You won’t regret it.
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So sad that Analogue recording has gone out of fashion. I know of a few artists who still record via that method, and the sound they produce from it is still better than anything digital will ever produce.
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The last Foo Fighters album was recorded analogue in Dave’s garage, and it sounds incredible.
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My point exactly =D Also having the right engineer and producer work on it is also essential.
Like I am quite certain Slash recorded his latest album to tape, because he favours it. Sounded amazing. Airbourne did the same for their last album, again awesome sound.
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So I went on a quest tonight to try and purchase this song. First I went to iTunes, $2.20 for a 192k rip? Seriously, no thank you. Then I went to BigPond Music, not there at all. Which was depressing since they offer 320k MP3’s. So then I was informed about Spotify, so I download that and install it. Nope nothing there either. So I decided I will suck it up and buy it from iTunes, go to purchase it and my cards declined, seriously? My bank must’ve taken my last 5 bucks for fee’s that I am not meant to charged >=[
I also then investigated more “unethical” options, it’s not available there. Whatever i’ll just buy her album when it comes out at the end of the month from JB HiFi.
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Considering you only had five bucks I’m more surprised you didn’t go for the unethical options first.
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I like supporting the artist where I can. But yeah I usually go there first honestly. I prefer buying the physical media over digital media.
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I just realised that rainbow paddlepops are merely coloured vanilla icecream.
The magic is lost, I think I’m about to cry.
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You sure about that? From memory they never tasted like vanilla.
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Go buy a rainbow paddlepop tomorrow, and have your childhood torn to shreds.
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I don’t even know of anywhere around here that sells them =(
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Oh my deity, I can’t sleep!
Anyway – I recall rainbow paddlepops tasting like bublegum.
Bubblegum flavoured ice-cream was huge when I was a kid 😀-
Bubble O’ Bill anyone?!
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…they never used to be, if they are now.
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Caramel, not vanilla!
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See this is what I was thinking!
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Bedtime!
Goodnight, TAY. o/
Paranorman started off a bit slow but it turned out ok at the end. Interesting visual style with the stop motion animation and the faces were especially emotive.
It was also really nice how at the end of the credits they showed a brief scene of how they made Norman. Finally, the visual effects( all the yellow lightning) for Aggie looked great.
Fun thing for the DotA 2 people: List of console commands.
Just have -config as one of your launch options and you can get into the console to set these magical things. I was watching a stream and saw a guy with a permanent radius around him at blink range. Turns out he had dota_range_display set to 1200 (which is the XP range as well as max blink range). You can set that to whatever you like to have a permanent ring around your hero to get an idea of how far you can be from things, so setting it at your attack range or a spell range is pretty neat.
dota_disable_range_finder 0 is apparently also useful for ranges. Not sure the exact effect but yay things.
Another useful one is dota_minimap_misclick_time which sets let’s you set a grace time for minimap clicks (so if you accidentally mouseover the minimap when trying to run away, the game will pretend it’s not there for however long you set. Apparently 0.2 is a good time for that.
One for Nobfrond: dota_health_per_vertical_marker. Default is 250.
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In regards to dota_disable_range_finder 0; When spell is selected, a range finder is shown. It is by default set to 1.
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I found this guide on team liquid which seems pretty comprehensive.
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=337793
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Perth time night TAY party! Woop woop!
Morning TAY
SPAGHETTS LAST SONG PLAYED GAME
Her Ghost In The Fog by Cradle of Filth
Great song, great band
Apologies for my absence yesterday
I didn’t take into account that people would think I had left TAY
I haven’t left TAY
I am a loud mouth dude
It semi covers the anxiety I feel
Usually because no one else is talking or there is nothing to say
Missed you TAY
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On Time – Bee Gees
Hey man.
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#OldManShane
Hey 🙂
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You’ll rebel to anything – MSI
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Good morning Spaghett! I’m glad the Meat didn’t scare you away. 😀
And funnily enough, my last song today is the same as yesterdays: http://heavatar.net/
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No meats can scare me
Probably won’t be going to 35’s thing the day before Soundwave though
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Soft.
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Pretty soft yeah
Stupid me living 2 hours away from Sydney
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Seven Nation Army – The White Stripes
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Such a good song
How you been man?
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Indeed.
Stressing a little because I have to write lyrics for a song before Friday so that we can play it at a show on Saturday and I haven’t even started. I’ll get it done, but right now I don’t even know what I’m going to write about.
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The death of the world at the hands of media?
A heroin overdose as it happens to you?
The embrace of chaos?
Try these horrible suggestions and more if you purchase Spaghett’s bad suggestion book
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Those truly are terrible ideas.
I’ll take 6.
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Don’t know what you usually write about so threw out some suggestions
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Most of our songs at the moment are about friends and family. I’ll find something. Usually I’ll stew on it for a few days then I’ll come up with one good line and build the song from there.
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Backbone – Gojira
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Such a great band
Hallelujah — Jeff Buckley
Haha! Last night I said on twitter that the song was so overexposed that I can’t listen to it any more. I then listened to it for the next twenty minutes. 😛
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Hahaha, yeah I saw you tweeted that
Ugh, Stalkius 😛
Make Yourself – Incubus.
Hey Spag! Soup?
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Not a lot buddy
Stressing, anxiety mostly
Mostly because I am worried I will get in trouble for not having done stuff
Then I continue to waste time
You?
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That sucks man, I’m sure they won’t mind you being a little behind one day, you’re too kickass at your job!
My day is looking surprisingly easy. Spent a couple of hours in the office this morning talking games, and my tasks for the day consist of 4hrs driving and one payphone that needs fixing.
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That would be Astronomy by Metallica. Which is a cover of the Blue Oyster Cult song.
@freezespreston – in the past ive unlocked my phones for free by ringing customer service and advising them that i will be going overseas and needed to unlock my handset to use local services. not once have they said no…
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Handy to know but I found a place or two that have stock and are unlocked so if Telstra don’t want my money they can have it.
I think I might start a pool at work every morning, how many vital tools that we use for day to day functions will break today? And again I’m never listened to so another issue I knew was only going to get worse has… you guessed it, gotten worse to the point of unusable! FML… -.- I shouldn’t have come into work today seriously.
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That’s what TAY is for bro. Unleash!
First song today was Black No. 1 – Type O Negative #oldschoolpride
REPOST!
CHERRY TREE HIGH COMEDY CLUB COMPETITION TIME!
The competition is simple. post a joke and the one with the most upvotes wins a copy of CTHCC.
Information on CTHCC here: http://store.steampowered.com/app/214610/
Rules
-Any joke is allowed.
-Please tag me with @scree and also please say it is an entry in the competition so people know when to upvote.
-the joke with the most upvotes wins.
-You can enter multiple times
you have until Friday 12pm to enter. Winner will be announced at 5pm the same day.
Well, today’s going to be another yesterday
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Fuck.
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Don’t worry, tomorrow is a brand new today!
Cheesius.
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Stay strong man 🙁
try to give zero fucks and focus on something in your day that makes you smile, even if it’s something small like this puppy-
Man, even I’d want to lick that puppy. It’s adorable.
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*manly hug that doesn’t last too long, nod of acknowledgement.*
I like competitions! 😀
Morning everyone!!
Scored a Chaos Terminator Squad on ebay for $40!!! \o/ THE SAVINGS!
This is all made possible by my Darkness 2 statue actually selling! 😀
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Enter @scree ‘s competition!
Last week at school my daughter’s sports bag was lost, presumed stolen because it hasn’t turned up. The school is doing nothing about it. This means we have to buy her sports top, shorts, socks, cap, bag and shoes all over again.
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Downvote for meanie school and meanie thief
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d’oh! That sucks.. but seriously.. who the fuck steals someone elses stanky sports clothes?! that school must have some fucked up kids!
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Well it was before sport so they were washed. And had only been used once. Which is the most sucky thing. $100+ on things that were only used once, and now I have to replace them. :S
By the way, Thanks for your potential offer of a lift to the Meat. I’m crossing my fingers for you be able to make it, anyway. You haven’t been able to go to a Meat for ages!
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indeed! far too long.. don’t really like my chances given how close it is though. Even if I do manage to get a job now, it’s gonna take a bit to catch up on all the debts 😐 Still.. I wont give up hope!
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Try slashed bike tyres when just deflating them with a screwdriver wasn’t enough.
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Yep had that one done numerous times to me. Also had the dickheads snap keys off in my bike lock and pushing my bike over and jumping on it to fuck the rim up beyond use. Eugh I hated high school so much at times. In the end I gave up and just walked to school.
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Morning all,
looks like nobody guessed my TAY Charades clue from yesterday.
Tell ya what, I’ll give a little bit more time to guess the game 😉
Remember, the clue is: The game has only just started and you’re already drowning.
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Crysis 2
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Did farcry start like that? been a while since I played
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The Walking Dead. The drowning you speak of is metaphorical. You, the player, are drowning from despair.
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Oooh nice
The the correct answer but I love it 🙂
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The Dig.
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Never get tired of that answer 🙂
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I’ll give you all an extra hint, it’s a 2D game
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Another World? Though you start out underwater not actually drowning…
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BINGO
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Dammit Neg, I was thinking that it might be that game(which, admittedly, I’ve only played a tiny bit of), but I couldn’t for the life of me remember its name, so I gave up.
Good work.
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…Limbo?
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Dang nobody got it, once again I’m going too obscure, or perhaps my clues just suck 😛
Either way, the answer to the clue was in fact Another World, where the second the game begins you find yourself underwater and you have to swim like hell to the surface, otherwise you will be snatched by whatever the hell lies at the bottom of that watery pit. Awesome game that.
Edit: Scratch that, @negativezero got it! Just in the nick of time too 😀
My anxiety at work is my own fault I think
So many little niggling things not yet finished
But there is only so many hours in a day
And It’s not like I could go and say “I have trouble concentrating due to anxiety”
It’s true, but who would believe it?
I obsessively check this website, the Sydney Morning Herald Website, my emails and my bank balance
Maybe so I don’t have to work, I haven’t thought that much into it
I really don’t know
I cannot seem to function
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I can prescribe you some heroin.
(JOKES! AMIRITE?)
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Good one
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Also, I can kinda relate to how you’re feeling, bro.
Sitting at work, on Kotaku, and wondering if maybe I could just go to the store, or go sit in the bathroom and play games for a bit. Just sitting here and thinking about all the things I could do instead of what I’m supposed to and NOT thinking of all the other crap building up that I have to deal with as well.
Remember we’re all here if you need to chat 🙂
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Thanks man
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anxiety is a legitimate medical condition. if your employer is aware of it (and they’re not a total dick), then they can probably come to some sort of arrangement that helps you & helps them.
Used to work with a woman who had anxiety / panic attacks. Our manager, who was a bit of jerk most of the time, in this case was pretty understanding. manager suggested that if she was having a hard time, that she just leave. drop what she was doing & get out of the place for 30mins & go get a coffee, go for a walk or whatever. make up the time when she was feeling better.
Also, if she had an anxiety attack & couldnt get to work, the boss waived the requirement for a doctors certificate for those circumstances.
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I appreciate the input man
They know about it
I don’t want to be seen as using it for a scape goat
My desk is covered in work because of me
That’s my problem
That’s my fault
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I dare say you’re not using it as a scapegoat. If you know it’s genuine, you shouldn’t have anything to fear.
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Can’t help myself but fear dude
I can’t say “I didn’t file these files because I was distracted” It sounds weak
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Went into EB and asked if they’d be willing to swap my Mass Effect 3 Steelbook for one of their regular cases. He said that was fine (they can probably nudge the price up a bit).
So last chance for anyone who wants to swap 🙂
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I was gonna do a FUN FACT OF THE DAY every day this week for you, but I don’t have any more fun facts. My research material (ie all of the Bleach I’ve been reading) has not produced any more fun facts! LAME!
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ONE DAY!
Worst!
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I hereby declare myself pope.
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Have you resigned yet? I would like to be Pope.
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Do you have enough evil listed on your resume? 😛
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I call for the Catholic Church to be disbanded!
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I just want the hat.
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I feel nothing but hatred when I think of the Catholic Church. I think I might have some sort of prejudice going on. 😛
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It’s a really cool hat.
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You can have it when the Church is disbanded. Who wants the Vatican? 😛
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Only if I don’t have to keep the room full of concrete privates.
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The car, and all the Fanta I can drink!
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Fuck the hat, have you seen the popemobile? Imagine riding that shit to work every day.
Customized Google Doodles? That’s really, really cool.
I went to game development update meeting (BRAG!) in the city and bought myself the Femshep (because Femshep is real Shep) Play Arts Kai figure!
I took it home and the figure is kinda… flimsy. Her… crotch area… is loose. Uh… It wiggles. I’m not saying her… uh… ANYWAY!
And her arm fell off.
I put her back in the box and hid her undermy bed with all the other Play Arts guys and gals. Final Fantasy / Mass Effect battle pics coming soon!
Maybe. (Probably not.)
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Space leprosy?
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From all those alien’s she’s always hanging around with. Seems like Cerberus had the right idea.
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She got too “calibrated”
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Well she’s basically half robot anyway as of ME2.
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Seems impossible to describe parts of the female body without double entendre’s.
Oh mannnn…. so now i need to sink another $30??
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=488040701233686&set=a.270843626286729.59396.270825842955174&type=1&theater
How could anyone pass this gut up, though?!
Ron Gilbert at PAX! That’s the second biggest keynote speaker I’ve ever seen!
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Looks like you will have to come to South PAX now. =P
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He’ll come to PAX North, I just know it! *waits*
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So I have no plans again today. People keep rainchecking. ITS NOT EVEN RAINING PEOPLE.
😛
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It is over here!
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its nice and cool here
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Also if people keep cancelling i will have to do things.
If you’ve got an account on Adventure Gamers (I’m assuming you don’t. :P), don’t forgot to vote for @sughly’s Anna’s Quest in the Aggie Awards!
Hey, it’s Aleph’s birthday! HAPPY BIRTHDAY! You’re a damn cool, easy going guy man. You deserve good things. Hope the day and year treats you well!
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It is? Happy Birthday Aleph!
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Haha, thanks man :3
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY @MYTHAMPHETAMINE
Valentines special on Potaku this week. Anyone feel like talking about love in dem vidya gaems? cc @Tech_knight
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Get The Cracks and Strange to talk about their love of Carth Onasi! 😀
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Ah I had a crush on Bastila while playing that so… 😛 yeah
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I wonder about their sanity honestly. Carth drove me up the wall with how annoying and whingy he was.
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Is he any different if you play as a female? I don’t know since I never did that and I agree, he was a whingy prick while I played and I didn’t like his whole “I don’t trust you” attitude and he only tells you when you try to get to know the guy more.
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I dunno, it’s been ages since I played it through and my female Revan went dark side and
flipped Bastila and Juhani to dark, killed Jolee, forced Zalbaar to muder Mission and then made Carth run away crying like a little girl. Crowning moment of evil, and yet so incredibly satisfying because I hated Mission and Carth so much.KotOR II is by far the better game. I can actually stand most of the cast.
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Huh, this I could be up for, been playing plenty of Mass Effect recently 😛
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Weren’t you replaying Mass Effect when I was down in Melbourne in December? I think I recall you mentioning that.
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Yep, still going this time with an Engineer lol
Edit: I’ll elaborate, I’ve done 2 more playthroughs of Mass Effect already, both Femsheps, one vanguard sentinel, and one renegade everybody dies adept. After this Engineer manshep neutral-vanguard (w/ Liara) I’ll be doing a renegade spare everybody manshep Soldier (Playboy basically w/ Ash at start)…
I don’t know why I’m doing this but I want to just experience the different skillsets in the series as well as the relationship banter between team members 😛-
I should really play Mass Effect 1 & 2, I think I said that to you when I was down there, actually haha.
Man how many hours would you have logged in it now you reckon?
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60-80 maybe, can’t remember but Steam should have logged it for me 🙂 can’t check right now cuz at work
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I’d love to.
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Woo!
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I’d rather post a written submission though. No talk. Just straight to getting down and dirty.
I need to think before I share my mind.
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That might make for a boring podcast!
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Sounds great.
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Okay no podcast then. My throat is a little.. ehem.. shithouse right now.. ehem And always. EHEM
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Whoever talks, don’t forget to talk Catherine!
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Also, someone needs to mention “To the Moon” on my behalf.
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You want catherine to be spoken about, come on the show!
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Better you or Blags go on than me then cuz I have not played either of those and they would certainly be hot topics for this kind of subject
It’s still Aleph’s birthday, can’t let that get lost on the previous page! 😀
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Stop it, you’re making me blush 😛
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Happy Birthday Aleph.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY HNGH
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Was… was that a birthgasm? :S
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CLEAN UP ON AISLE FOUR
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Happy Birthday James
@mythamphetamine
@mythamphetamine – Happy bday dude!
HEPPY BORTDAY ALEPH!
I was going to reply but making new comments seems to be the next cool thing (I JUST WANT TO FIT IN!).
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALEPH!
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I thought it was a TAYbreak, and started to worry!
Happy Birthday @mythamphetamine! You share a birthday with two of my cousins, and also with Michael Ironside, who is Sam Fisher.
HAPPY BARFDAY
Ehh, I’ll join the crowd.
Bappy Hirthday, ‘Leph.
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Apathyius 😀
anyone without PSN+ there is a special on –
90 days for $13.45
even if you bought 4 x 90 day (so for a year), it would only cost…. $54ish
versus the normal price of $19.95 for 3 months or $69.95 for a year…
Gotten some killer games lately actually, totally gotten my money back 10 times over…
Lately:
Crysis 2
Bioshock 2
Sleeping Dogs
Quantum Conundrum
Gotham City Impostors
Uncharted Golden Abyss (Vita)
JSR (Vita)
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Also, if you already have PS+, this just gets added to your already existing subscription.
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Do eet
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PS+ is ridiculously good value.
OHMIGOD CANBERRA TAYBIES /o\
@shane @blaghman @shadow_rize …and others?
Got off the phone to my father just this morning, was discussing purchasing older game consoles, and reminisced about the megadrive and mastersystem II we used to have when I was a kid.
He told me he was cleaning out the storage 2 weeks ago, and took the megadrive to the tip.
I THOUGHT IT DISAPPEARED YEARS AGO!!!
Anyways, would someone mind going to rEVOLVE at the tip and seeing if it’s there? I don’t want it, I just want to make sure it’s going to a good home ^.^
Off the top of my head, Megadrive games include:
Altered Beast
Sonic 2&3 (I think?)
Alex Kidd
Mastersystem II:
Spy Hunter (I think that’s what it was called?)
There’s a ton more games with them, I just can’t recall them. It’s seriously been years.
*wipes tear*
that was the first console I ever owned :’)
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@rize
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If I knew where that was, how it worked, or was capable of driving, I would help you…
Sorry.
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If I was anywhere near Canberra I would be interested. I’ve got my Megadrive plugged into my second montor at home.
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I don’t know when I’d be able to get there, man. Feel like every minute of my life for the next few weeks is already spoken for 🙁
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But you’ve just gotten rid of lots of stuff, meaning you have room for more! 😉
All good man, at least dad took it to rEVOLVE instead of landfill. He said he thought about throwing it up on ebay, but couldn’t be bothered.
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I’ll try and head past there on the way home from work. No promises I can make it though.
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Too easy man, just thought someone might be interested in it 😀
It’s in top-quality, too. Probably got typical wear’n’tear so it’s far from mint, but it was well looked after.Hopefully it’s still there for you!
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Mr. Beardy McBeard Beard Action Beard is trying out video reviews of games these days. SHOW HIM SOME LOVE. Or don’t. Your choice, I ain’t judging bro.
(I’m so bad at links)
Also HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALEPH YOU CRAZY KID. Your b’day is on a Tuesday, so celebrate with a certain dinner that everyone has come to associate with Tuesdays.
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Satay chicken?
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Too. Bad.
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Managed to play a little bit of Aliens last night. Not the best game around, but fun and I have hopes for the story.
The greatest thing though was using Ripley’s Pulse rifle/flamethrower.
That thing is FRIGGIN AWESOME! Damn near had me giggling every time I used it. Seriously OP for the beginning of the game, but so much damn fun!
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Does it play much like Borderlands? not the levelling, but the shooting?
The more I hear about the new Xbox, the more shitty and anti-consumer it seems. This whole all-seeing Big Brother Kinect eye thing they’re rumoring now sounds like someone at Microsoft has decided that 1984 was a guidebook and not a warning. 🙁
It’s going to need to have a fucking incredible lineup to make me even consider the thing if all the rumors are true. I hope Sony doesn’t drop the ball, I might have to stop playing games on consoles completely.
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I’m getting there as well.
If always on/no used games turns out to be a thing on either of them (PS/Fatbox) I can almost see myself making the move to permanent PC gamer. I’m already growing tired of consoles for various reasons with the current generation. They wouldn’t have to do much to convince me to shift.-
They’re going to need to get ahead of some of these rumors pretty soon because I suspect the reality will be a lot more palatable (eg I suspect it’ll probably just be a one-time activation, and I doubt that the Kinect Big Brother stuff would actually happen because consumers will look at that shit and straight up refuse it) but they’re building a lot of negativity right now.
At this point I’ve retired my 360 a couple of weeks ago because in 2012 I played only two new games on it (Halo 4 and ME3, and in ME3’s case it was only because I wanted to carry over my saves). The only reason I’d get a console now is stuff you can’t get anywhere else, which basically means Japanese games, and Microsoft has had a shitty track record with securing JRPGs etc.
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Yeah the internet rumor machine is probably making it sound worse than it is.
I sold my 360 some time ago, as having both PS3 and 360 seemed a little silly. My biggest problem these days is I’m getting older and I’m having massive game-fade. I keep buying new games for my PS3, playing them for 2 hours, and not touching them again. This has become a regular pattern, so much so I don’t think consoles are working for me anymore. This, combined with the way things already are, DLC/activation codes/DRM, etc and the way consoles may be going, I think I might bow out.
The other issue is, it’s hard to take my PS3 seriously these days when modern games take 20 seconds to load textures when you enter a level, and games just look fucking woeful compare to their PC versioned brethren. And to clarify, I’m not a master racer either – console gaming has always been my primary venue for AAA titles. For example, I’m enjoying Colonial Marines, but my god does it look rough as guts on a PS3. This will be negated when new consoles drop of course, but I think the next gen will age even quicker than the current. Technology is moving even faster and I cant honestly see a PS4/720 (or whatever) pulling a 7-8 year lifespan. I reckon they’ll be looking dated as current consoles within 3-4 years.
Pretty sure handhelds will still be a thing for me, for some time though, as they seem to be by nature, a little immune to some of the issues plaguing consoles like PS3, 360, etc. (SOME issues, not all – things like region locking etc still exist and are an issue)
Yet somehow, I keep going back to my PC and playing MMO’s, Minecraft, etc. A lot of this is personal preference, but I honestly think many of the things that made consoles appealing to me since I got my first NES as a kid, are going, or already gone.
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I’ve stopped reading the rumour articles 😛 I’ll just wait until E3 or whenever they officially announce everything.
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All seeing Kinect won’t be practical in my house. I keep the consoles at near-floor-level of a low-lying TV unit. It’ll be able to see my ankles, and that’s only if I move the furniture around… which I won’t do. If it’ll work without the Kinect, I’ll just duct tape the lense and be done with it 😛
Other rumoured features are starting to concern me though!
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Apparently it has a much better sensor with a much wider field of view (probably a fisheye or similar) and so it doesn’t need to do the head bob thing any more and I’d imagine it would also work in smaller spaces and from lower angles too.
I’ve had one from launch and personally I’ve never found the thing to work correctly.
Even the microphone stuff was broken. Eg playing ME3, characters would randomly act like I’d yelled an order because of ambient sound in the room, or me swearing at the game when someone did something fucking stupid because it picked up ambient sound in the room, or even picking up on feedback from the speakers.
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I had a wallpaper for a while that read “1984 was not meant to be an instruction manual” at the time I thought “How true..” Every day it shows to be more and more true that large companies, governments etc some how think 1984 was a good thing.
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Increasingly, large companies basically *are* the government. I feel like the recent resurgence of interest in Cyberpunk is because people are noticing that again. 🙁
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Aleph, you’re just one day away from sharing a birthday with the single most awesome kid in the whole world (my daughter, equal tie with my son). Thanks for not stealing her thunder, and happy days!
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Valentine’s day will forever steal our collective mid-February-birthday thunder 😛
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Valentine’s day can die a in a fire!
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Will you be my valentine?
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If you like it =P Lol, I don’t hate Valentine’s day for the reason I have no one to spend it with or whatever. Though it does disgust me that the local paper ran an article saying “Valentine’s Day is a chance for romantics to shine” if you’re a romantic you shouldn’t be governed by a select date, everyday should be your day to shine.
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Yeah, but that gets pretty tiring.
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Yeah, I’m a single hermit type but I’ve got no objection to Valentine’s Day. Just never been in a couple when that day’s come along ever. Haha!
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Happy birthday @mythamphetamine!
Spleghs
Edit* One of those moods/those days
February *Despite Soundwave, meating with the TAYbies and Sam as always* has been bollocks
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Spleghett!
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Spleghaningans?
It’s taken my neighbours THREE days, to mow their quarter acre block, and half the back yard is dirt?!
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You can’t rush perfection, friend.
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By the time they have finished the grass will have grown back!
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Question time! With the Pope quitting due to God making him sick…
Who was/is the best fictional “Pope”?
Edit: Added inverted commas to denote that the person can hold a fictional title that is pope-like. eg. Hughnon Ridcully, High Priest of Blind Io from the Discworld series.
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The Space Pope. He’s reptilian.
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I said FICTIONAL!
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Clearly the one in Grandia II who turns out to be basically the devil.
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Oprah.
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Pope-rah
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The one you get to beat up in Assassin’s Creed.-
He wasn’t fictional though-
Fictional representation of a real pope? Also, isn’t that the same pope from The Borgias series?-
Yup, Rodrigo Borgia, pope Alexander VI. His rep was pretty nasty.
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Or was he..?
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The one in my Crusader Kings game who got conquered by the Aztecs
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I already have the answer and image for this, it is none other than Lemmy from Motörhead!
BIRTH!
@mythamphetamine
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GET YOUR ASS TO THE DUMP AND PICK UP MY OLD MEGADRIVE.
It’s not a euphemism, I swear.
Ni No Kuni question, well into the game so you should probably only read if you’re finished, I guess?
This leap frog puzzle in the Cobra dungeon dealy. Will it give an indication that you’re making progress? I mean will squares light up and the like? Don’t want any spoilers, just want to know if I’m on the right track. Never played leap frog in my life and not entirely sure what to do. I want to solve the puzzle myself and have read the writing in the cell, but still getting my mind around it… 😛
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That puzzle isn’t straight forward in the slightest way and the squares will not light up, let’s just say the hard part to figure out is where to put the pieces after you’re done.Edit: If you want to save yourself some grief I could just tell you how?-
I’m assuming once you’re done they should go on the opposite side from where they started, but then I might confuse which one is which. Haha! Thanks man!-
Nope, it’s even stupider than that let’s just say the end of the puzzle doesn’t end where you think it does.-
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I think it was the developers idea of a joke, let’s just say you might figure it out when you are at your wits end.
Edit: I’ve said ‘Let’s just say’ alot -.-
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Haha! Got it. Oh man, I feel so damn stupid. Thanks man. Your advice got me to change my mindset a little. As jokes go, I ain’t laughing… 😛
Actually I totally missed the pattern on the stone work. That would’ve been something worth noting by me, so my mistake. 😀
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Late lunch to be had at 1:30. think I am having Subway with a colleague
Then, leaving and meeting up with Sam
Because fuck today
Ahhh good cuppa tea on a cold rainy day. =D
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If TAY was a TV show, it would then cut to me slowly melting in my chair in 40 degree heat…
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Cue laugh track?
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so….. Colonial Marines. the games been out unofficially for about 4 days, officially out today. so whens the embargo lift on reviews? nothing on any gaming site, nothing on metacritic.
hmm… remember last time Gearbox acquired an IP that had been in development hell for 10+ years? hope this isnt the same outcome. though the lack of reviews hasnt got me hopeful
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I’m getting increasingly sad that Sega cancelled Obsidian’s Alien RPG for this. :'(
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Obsidian themselves said that the Alien RPG wasn’t really working well for them so I wouldn’t be that sad about it.
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Has it been out in the US though? there’s only a few reviewers who a) are in Australia or b) review from retail copies
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I HAVE NO NEED OF YOUR LOGIC :p
so apparently its a simultaneous worldwide release. I thought it was out a few days earlier in the states… which means that probably sometime tonight the review embargo will be lifted.
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OLD!!!!!
@mythamphetamine
happy old day.
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Happy Birthday Aleph! Null! Void! @mythamphetamine!
May your Birthday ever be remembered as Schnitzel Day.
Yeah I know I’m breaking the trend of separate posts but I’ve always been a setter of trends, not a follower. 😛-
Schnitzel day? but its PANCAKE DAY today! which is a heap better.
(I’m sorry Aleph)
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It’s shrove Tuesday!? AW MAN! I WANT PANCAKES!
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pancakes on the rocks meat?
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Is it really? Hmmm…wonder if I could get away with making pancakes for dinner? 😀
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Get away with it? isnt pancakes for dinner basically compulsory today?
either way, I’m having pancakes tonight 😀
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We usually have pancakes for dinner on Shrove Tuesday.
Tomato saucey stuff, meat of some kind, cheese.
HEALTH FOOD!
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That’s it, I’m totally doing schnitzel pancakes for dinner!
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Urk. In a weird mood and Tales Of Graces f is not helping. Because I’m in a maze-like place and the way forward is blocked which means I missed something on my way here. Worst thing is, I can see the save crystal which would allow me to stop playing, but I can’t get to it. 😛
Edit: Sorry to pageget with an “Urk.” Here, have a cat picture to make up for it.
Relevant because if my days keep going like this I just might end with that. 😛
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Also in a weird mood
Really sullen
Like, King Sullenius of The Sullen Empire
Population: TREEEEEEEEEEEEES *all sullen*
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y?
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One of those days man, one of those days
It is the blurst
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Bah I’m not getting notifcations for some reason.
For some reason I read blurt as blueth and assumed you were pumped for new Arrested Development?
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I AM!
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Those cats look they’re conspiring against us! D:
One of the Amarcian ruin sequences with the moving platforms? Hated those areas.
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Indeed.
Bathus Citadel on Fodra. It was interesting to start with but quickly became tedious.
I’ve finally made it to the Save Point so I can stop now. Problem is, I don’t feel like stopping anymore. 😛-
That’s the area where they go into what happened in the past right? Explain who Sophie is and stuff? Or is it the zone after that? The Fodra stuff kind of blurs for me because I did it I think all in the one day, and also because you revisit it in the f chapter (which IMO is a more interesting story than the main plot).-
Yeah, that’s the place.
I’m back on the original world now. Inside Richard/Lambda’s Cocoon. Which is way too pretty to be something as gross as what it is. 😛 -
Pretty much on the home stretch! If you’re feeling completionist make sure you make a special save at the final save point before the boss. You’ll need it if you want to go back and beat his normal form – once you do the F chapter you can re-challenge him with those levels intact, but he gets upgraded. It’s a bit strange. -
I’m still loving the game but I’m very glad I’m nearing the end. I have Ni NoKuni waiting to be played and the longer I leave it, the guiltier I feel for not playing it yet, considering it was a gift. Although I suspect I may want to hang around in Graces for a while longer, pretty sure there’s still loads of things I’m missing out on by rushing through like I have been these past few days.
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Graces has heaps of extra content if you want to do it, like the EX Dungeon, collecting all the Carta cards and beating the cheater AI at the game and so on. But the biggest thing to do is the F chapter and I really strongly recommend it because it brings closure to a lot of the characters. And it’s probably a good 10-15 hours extra. I think all up I spent about 60-65 hours in Graces (I could load up my last save and see if you want)
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Happy Heroin Day @mythamphetamine
Because birthdays are old hat
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I feel like I’m morphine into an older version of myself!
Thanks to @35 I realised that the Pope didn’t quit! He’s just giving up Poping for lent! What a guy!
(Last time I mention the Pope)
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MAte of mine on FB thinks he’ll now be known as Ex Benedict.
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Nah, he’s just going on hollandaise.
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I hear parts of Italy are nice atm, could be a Florentine vacation
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HAHAHAHA, you guys.
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I dont get this at all.
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You reminded me lent was coming up.
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Don’t make me pope a cap in yo ass
Mrs Freeze handed in her resignation today. Moving onto to be the boss of her own place.
Finally. All the \o/’s!
Also happy day of being expelled from your mothers vagina @mythamphetamine
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\o/
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Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving person. Mrs. Freeze is awesome.
Congrats to the Family Freeze!
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Woot! \o/
All my congratulations to the Kindergarten Cops 😀
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Woo!
Sort of turning around @Doc_What’s suggestion: Which game character would you like to see appointed pope?
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Kratos
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Dante for pope!
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I’m pleased to report my mind automatically infers Dante from Alighieri’s Divine Comedy.
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Ditto
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Ditto will fuck anything.
What a champ.
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Handsome Jack
The Emperor of Mankind from Warhammer 40k.
He’s basically a more kickass Space Pope anyhow and will help prepare us for the grimdarkness of the grimdark future.
Alternatively, Bowser. Just because it’d be fun.
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Horus would’ve made a way better Emperor.
Gordon Freeman, because as a silent protagonist / pope, he couldnt speak out against gay marriage & other progressive issues that the Vatican has been against for centuries.
…he’d have to use sign language or something.
Randy from Futurama.
“Hey! There are parts of the bible I like, and parts I don’t like!”
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Or Scruffy from Futurama.
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Second.
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Arkham City Batman.
Deckard Cain
I grow weary of Kotaku US’ articles of ‘Thing X is weird when you think of it this way.’
What the shitting fuck.
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That’s weird, when you think of it that way.
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Still better than “Best Way To Play X” when X isn’t even out yet.
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That “Play journey the best way” that said the best way was offline was hilarious
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I dunno. ‘Best way to play’ articles are pretty brainless, but at least they pretend to have a purpose. ‘Thing X is weird’ articles are just…. what the fuck?
‘Your cat will seem weird if you think of him as a Tourette’s suffering time travelling acorn with aspirations for world domination and a penchant for poop.’
What the fuck do they even mean? Anything can be weird if you think about it a certain way.
Sorry.
Rant hat is back on the rack.
*cough*
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Legitimate question not a troll here: what are you talking about? I’m not sure which articles you’re referring to (I tend to only skim a lot of Kotaku’s stuff though, the signal to noise ratio isn’t fantastic)
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Ah they (KotakuUS) seem to have these articles from time to time going something along the lines of : ‘This thing is weird, if you think about it like this.’
They just seem to serve no purpose whatsoever.
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I’m making steady progress through DmC : Devil May Cry, having just unlocked the second Demonic weapon.
So far, Dante has shown the emotional depth of a character from a M. Night Shyamalan film but there are moments that seem pretty fun. I encountered the infamous “Fuck you!” “No, fuck you!” scene and had a pretty good giggle. It seemed to fit what was going on pretty well, so I’m not sure what the problem is. Maybe Dante doesn’t make enough quips?
The visual design is fantastic. I’m a sucker for the warped landscape thing they’re doing and there are nice background details. Plenty of room for exploring the levels to get keys and lost souls but none of that Resident Evil puzzle solving ridiculousness.
I’m willing to say that this is a solid adventure game with a neat combat system and cool visuals. It’s fun and that’s all that matters.
My only problem is that I can’t seem to play for more than two or three chapters at a time.
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Those YouTube compilation videos without any context really do the game a disservice.
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I for some reason stopped after that camera mission that ends at the church and I havn’t gone back since the 15th it really is quite bizarre since I actually enjoyed my experiences with it.
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When I first picked it up, I got about that far and then put it aside for a week. For me, one of the reasons was because there is a bit of a warm up period with the combat. So if I’m not prepared to play through at least a whole chapter, it doesn’t seem worth playing.
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The end of that mission has my favourite line thus far.
It’s rare for a game to make me chuckle as much as DmC has.
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I have to counter by saying that I failed to understand, or play the original Devil May Cry series for more than 2 hours per game. I played DmC, and whilst wasn’t blown away, had an infinitely easier time of it. I’ve finished it, and gave it a solid nod on completion.
Original Dante was just an insufferable twat.
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gave it a solid nod
I totally pictured Raichu looking all proud from when he + Lt Surge defeat Ash for the first time in series 1….
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Man, tay is quiet today. Where’s @dc? Where’s @ash?
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@dc is playing Ni No Kuni I think.
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I’m here, but struggling. 18 m/o was up ALL NIGHT with croup, so Dad didn’t get any sleep. Plus I took him to the doctor this morning so i didn’t get to work until after lunch. So now I have to stay bakc to make up the hours, becuase I don’t have any sick leave left because my fmaily has been sick all the time these last twelve months.
oops you are probably sorry you asked now 😛
Silver lining: seeing as how I was sitting up with the kid I downloaded mechwarrior online.
Bronze lining: I died within like 60 second of my first match and also I think my lag makes it hard to hit anyone i think i need Mechwarrior tactics to go into open beta, lag shoudln’t matter there.-
:'( Hope your kid feels better!
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Oh he’s ok – he doesnt even know he is sick. too young to relaise he needs to sit down and rest.
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Hey man! Yeah, been playing Ni No Kuni. How are you? Hope you’re well! 😀
INCOMING RAGNAROK ODYSSEY @doc_what
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zenny plz
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WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Please oh please let my N64 arrive in the post today…
PLEASE /o\
Seriously. Lylat Wars, on today of all days, will make me a very happy manchild.
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Just for you, I’m going to go home this evening and play it.
Oh wait, Colon Marine. Disregard.
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DUMP. MEGADRIVE.
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Colon Marine
Sounds like a new brand of yakult
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http://sequart.org/magazine/14935/sharpening-the-image-introduction/
Kids like chains
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Who is TAYs resident comic expert(s). i need to ask them something.
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That would be Jimu. I like my comics but I’m WAY more into manga and anime.
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Ok I’m gonna hit him. PS What manga you reading atm.. apart from Bleach. Friend at work just convinced me to read Naruto. I thought it was more for kids but nope, I’m loving it ^_^
Oh and what anime are you watching atm? I half way through Persona 4….
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Love Naruto! been reading it for over 10 years now Recently decided to go back and actually buy it in English.
I’m also Rereading (And buying this time round) One Piece. Also finally getting round to Fist of the Northstar. the only manga a read relatively as soon as it comes out is Fairy Tail. Love Fairy Tail!
I’m not really reading any scanlations ATM. Read my last chapter of Bleach last week and I’ll be waiting for a few months before going back to it (Weekly manga goes SO slow!)
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Weekly manga goes SO slow!
true that!
A few people have recommended Fairy tail now, so maybe that shoudl be next for me.
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It has a higher pace compared with most other weekly shonen manga.
I stopped reading manga and just concentrated on Spider-Man for a while but I’m going back. I need to check out my old manga folder and try and remember what I was reading before hand. I have a list on my phone of all the series I’m reading and what vol I’m up to otherwise I’ll accidentally buy the same book twice. SO MUCH GOD DAMN MANGA!
Anime wise, I’ve been watching Fairy Tail too, but the filler (and recently there is SO MUCH FILLER) is possibly the worst filler I’ve even seen. Also been watching Dragon Ball! Nothing new really. Need to pick up Shakugan no Shana season 2.
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Fair warning: the middle half of Shana S2 will make you want to pound your head against a brick wall until the pain stops.
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Have you seen FLCL?
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Sorry, Doc. Your boobs are good but Masamune Shirow draws the best boobs!
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He draws a mean pair o boobs indeed.
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And also
face
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Pics pls
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I’m at work, just type Masamune Shirow into Google and turn the safe search off. Not only did he invent Ghost in the Shell but he does erotic art too 😉
@powalen
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Oh, you.
Yo @jimu, @doc_what tells me you are a comic expert!
I have some comics that have sentimental value to me. They are Uncle Scrooge from late 80’s, early 90s, The Maxx by Sam Kieth (mid 90s – all issues except those damn crossover ones which sold out too soon), and a few odds (such as Armature 1 and 2 by Steve Oliff who I think was Sam’s colourist).
Point is, they are collecting dust, but I can’t bring myself to bin them because of said sentimental value. I want to pass them on (for free) but don’t know how to put the feelers out for people who might enjoy reading them. How can I go about connecting with the comic community, or in your opinion is interest in these items nil?
EDIT: @powalen, @effluvium-boy dobbed you in for thsi too 😉
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It’s hard, man. Comics from the 90s boom are just too common, they printed so many.
I have At least a long box full of comics that I try and give away, once I sold a bunch at the markets for a dollar or two each.The other option, I guess, would be to just throw them up on eBay for 99c and see if you get any takers.
If theyre not worth too much (don’t wanna rip you off) I’d take them Maxx issues though. Love the Maxx! I only bought the TPBs years later. (my pocket money was tied up in endless Spider-Man crossovers and Gen 13’s boobies)
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@jimu, if I could send you my Maxx collection and if you would enjoy reading them, that would make me very happy. Could I send you Armature issue 1 too? It is very asthetically pleasing imo.
How do I contact you more directly, to arrange such a thing? Also, subject to the postage not being too rediculous (damn comics can get heavy if you stack them high enough).
Scrooge could probably go to the ‘friends of’ my local library, where they sell second hand books etc for next to nix. Hopefully some young person could get some enjoyment from them, like I once did.
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mij sixtynine underscore ninteysix jim at yahoo dot com
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I can hook you up with postage if it pleases
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Uh… The thing you should do… Um…
ADVICETAY!
Been with Telstra mobile for about a month now, really not happy with their 3G and I have had a couple of odd glitches where my messages were not going out to anyone. Considering I left a nice month-by-month contract with Optus to lock myself into a 12 month Telstra plan only to find the product is not even that good, I am unimpressed, and I want out.
I’ve sent a complaint to Telstra explaining my dissatisfaction and stating that I want to cancel my contract (preferably without paying a $700+ fee), they have responded saying I would need to ask the Telstra shop I got the plan from to cancel my plan (they were clear to add ‘if they even decide to waive the cancellation fee’).
So here’s my question, should I:
A) Take a chunk out of my Saturday to try speak to these guys in person and hope they are kind enough to let me out of this contract without de-stroying my wallet
B) Send an email to the ombudsman and get them to sort this out (is this too extreme or unethical? Maybe I’m being too nice I dunno)
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C) Just harden up, put up with it and let my 12 month plan run its course
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A followed by B.
Always exhaust all options before going to the ombudsman.
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This. If you go to the ombudsman without taking the correct steps yourself, chances are they’ll just tell you to do them first.
Also, I don’t recall having to run a cancellation through a shop in my life…though I haven’t been with Telstra for years now.
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Do what I did (albeit legitimately) with Optus.
Find an area of Australia that is NOT covered by the provider, but IS covered by another provider (might be difficult with Telstra :S). Then, give their customer service a call and let them know that you’re moving to this area, and are wondering if they service this area. Hopefully, they’ll say yes. (Optus did such a thing with quite a few people I know that moved here). Might be an idea to get email confirmation or at least something a little more concrete, too.
Call again a week later stating that they can no longer provide the service, therefore you have no use for the contract.
I managed to get all disconnection fees waived, and kept my phone on top (Granted, this took me 9 months of fighting them. My brother went through it too, and the whole thing was over in 2 weeks, so they’re getting better at streamlining it). -
I vote for option a combination of option 1 and 2. You need to be seen to fallowing the grievance process of telstra, so i think you should go explain the situation at the Telstra shop, but don’t waste much time there, especially if (or should that be ‘when’) they jerk you around. Follow up with option 2. Bosses at work freak out when they get a letter from the Ombudsman (even worse if it is a MP letter), but government is probably more sensitive to these thing than Tesltra. Still, they will probably listen to him more than you.
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check your contract, with any luck theres a cooling off period in which you can leave & not pay disconnect fees.
…though most of the time, that period is only about 20 minutes.
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Yeah I was hoping that I might be right for something like that, but it looks like I don’t
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I have one question is the handset you’re using from Telstra? If not is it certified by Telstra to work properly on their network? Because some handsets just don’t work properly with Telstra for whatever reasons.
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It’s a BYO iPhone4
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Well you shouldn’t have any issues then since they’re standard throughout and play nice with the Next G network, i’m using an iPhone 4 on Telstra prepaid and haven’t had an issue. Sucks man =/ Hope you can resolve it easily enough.
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Thanks for the feedback all, looks like the best option is A followed by B if necessary.
Of course I forgot to mention the secret option, option D) Fling my poo around the Telstra shop while wailing like a banshee. Hrmm, might leave that one as a last resort.
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No way, option D should be the first resort! garunteed to get results.. some kind of result anyway.
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A then D then B.
Always exhaust all options before going to the ombudsman.
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Usually A) with threats of B) is a good solution. Chatting to the ohmbudsman a while ago revealed if the communications ohmbudsman even receives a complaint it’s an automatic $600 non negotiable fine to the company so if its going to cost them less just to let you go they’ll generally do that.
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That’s VERY useful information to have! 🙂
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Spent an hour with a client asking questions and having her fill in forms
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I’m sure we can make that sound dirty if we try hard enough, maybe add a sleazy accent?
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Done and done 😀
Such a waste of my time though
I missed my lunch with Suzie, Subway sounded so good
Now just sitting here eating Easy Mac, Bacon flavour
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Who is Suzie and does Sam know about her?
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Suzie is a coworker and Sam knows I was having lunch with her
Cept for that client coming in
Not a problem, I see Sam this afternoon
So in love guys
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Since getting a better router for Wii U reasons, PS3 gets a much better signal. Can actually use 1080p YouTube on there now! Coachella 2011 Arcade Fire dealy again on HDTV. 😀
Edit: Actually 1080p is streaming too slow still. :S Found a site that lets me download 1080p YouTube stuff onto PS3! 😀 Old router could barely use YouTube at all through wifi.
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You do know YouTube has other videos, right? 😛
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Haha, it’s that or listening to the albums on loop. I think I prefer the live versions! 😀
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Check out BlimeyCow
Also, more importantly
The PBS Idea Channel!
GO NOW!
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NOPE! 😛
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DO IT!
YOU ARE THE BLURST/BEST
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Also
REGULAR ORDINARY SWEDISH MEAL TIME
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1080p HDTV is often high enough bitrate that the PS3’s 802.11g connection just doesn’t have enough reliable bandwidth to process it.
I used to run PS3 Media Center on my PC and if I threw high bitrate 1080p video at it, it would stutter because of bandwidth unless I deliberately reduced the video quality.
Try a wired connection.
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This. 1080p is helluva lot of bandwidth, especially to run reliably over wireless. Also remember advertised wireless speeds are incredibly subjective, and vary according to all kinds of factors like distance, electrical interference, even weather conditions.
Always run wired for video streaming. Then again, it’s not always practical. Just bear in mind for wireless you may have to fine tune, like make sure the speeds on your gear is matched – having a 300mbps capable wireless N router, connected to a 150mbps wireless N adapter won’t make the most of it.
Also can be worth switching channels and frequencies on your router/access point, as most default settings are the same or very similar for most brands. What you find is all your neighbours are using the same frequency and channels as you, greatly reducing throughput.
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That last paragraph is a very good point and one that I’d guess 99% of the population have no idea even exists. If you do happen to have a 300mbps router and only 150mbps adapters (or less if you’re using wireless g equipment), set the channel to one of the higher ones (11 and up I think?). It will provide a much more stable connection and you’ll find that almost nobody else is on these channels.
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Cool, thanks for all the advice. Much appreciated. Speeds are so much better than old router anyways, not a huge problem if I can’t stream 1080p stuff via wifi. (That’s probably a little naive anyways. Haha!)
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You guys wanna come round and set up the router @welbot sold me a million years ago?
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Sofa King Bored, leaving at 3:30
I need…something. STAT!
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Open up the lids
Helpahelpahelpa the kids-
Gonna tease me with a blocked website while Im at work, huh? :p
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The intro was fantastic!
The girl in the pink jacket knows what’s what!
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And also at home…WE HAVE BEEN CAPPED!
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*zip*
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Oh goody, felt tip pens!
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Funnily enough, when I wrote that I though “If someone accuses me of being dirty I’ll just say it’s a pencil case”
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I nearly wrote “A pencil” and then I thought otherwise.
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Headache, sore chest, itchy sore eyes
Spaghett may be sick guys
Joy
Well, I haven’t had the best day so far, but I got some good news. I’m going to see Danny Bhoy on the 6th of March. Woot!!!!!
Since the last ten minutes of my lunch break, I’ve had people harassing me to fix their technical woes. Got them all sorted but now I desperately need a cup of tea.
PBS IDEA CHANNEL! GO GO GO GO GO
Love that channel
Thoughts on the latest episode of The Walking Dead (Ep 9):
(just my impression of the episode, no spoilers! Hiding it just in case)Eh, new Walking Dead episode didn’t really wow me. Nothing happened. You’d think they’d want to bring the show back with a bang, you know? I guess that’s the problem with mid-season breaks 😛
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Oh well.
I won’t be watching until the whole lot has aired. Roll on March!
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I agree.
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Well honestly I wasn’t expecting Daryl to tell them to stick it, especially since how Merle had treated those in the group and what he did to Glenn.Otherwise I thought it was pretty good. But I guess I keep comparing everything to the first 8 episodes of Season 2 which will probably be the lowest point of the show.
You must go
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no i have a heaache
Man, it has been a pretty slow day!
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You’re telling me. Feel Inside (and Stuff Like That) has helped me survive it. Work has precluded TAY access
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I’ve been playing games! Things are tough all round, man! 😛
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Booo! Downvote!
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NOOO! They sustain him
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And Shane’s tears!
Ficticious meat!
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Because last week you said you’ll cry if I said the November meat was ficticious. Then I said your tears sustain me. Then you said that I require too much sustenance. The end.
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Not that I actually comment that much, but I’ve been playing Aliens: Colonic Macroglobulinemia. It’s not bad. I wish it was a lot better, but it’s not bad.
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Gunna be hitting that tonight, and apparently some co op with smifcak Wednesday. Here’s hoping co op is amazing, cause that’s what really got me keen for the game.
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Yeah, ummm, about that…
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Hello TAYbies.
I’m after games like Black and White 2 where you are a god. It can also be a strategy/rpg hybrid if there are no God games.
Has anyone played From Dust? is it any good?
As many recommendations as possible please!
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From Dust is incredible if you can forgive the AI problems. (And there’s plenty!) Worth playing, though.
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The tech behind it is SO COOL, and the way everything interacts is really, really good.
But yeah, that AI…
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Those villagers, man. :'( Spend minutes… MINUTES building them a bridge, but they’ll walk into the lava every time.
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From what I’ve heard, I think I was pretty lucky with the AI. Like, they were stupid, don’t get me wrong, but they never did anything quite that dumb. They’d take the long route around things, they’d complain that a bridge wasn’t done, when it clearly was, but otherwise they were alright.
Until they forgot that, as a group, they were able to repel fire, or water, or something. And then I’d drop fire on them for a laugh, and the whole village would burn down.
So dumb.
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Monster! D:
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THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO REPEL IT. I WAS SUPPOSED TO GET A SMUG BIT OF SATISFACTION FROM THE FACT THAT MY VILLAGERS HAD LEARNT SOMETHING. THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO SHOW THAT THEY WERE ADULTS, THAT THEY HAD GROWN, AND COULD LOOK AFTER THEMSELVES. INSTEAD THEY PROVED THAT THEY WERE ME.
MY PEOPLE, IN MY IMAGE.
WWWWWWWHHHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYY??????????
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Civ? Crusader Kings 2? SimCity?
Black & White 1.
EDIT: More seriously, Godus.
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This is yet to be released? I think I remember it on kickstarter and I immediately threw my money at the screen.
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Yup, I think it was slated for Q2/3 2013.
It’s specifically what you’re after though, according to official descriptions etc.
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I am super excited for it!
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Don’t you listen to Potaku, man!? Geez…
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I don’t. Are you referring to a specific episode that I can check out?
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Well there’s this: http://potaku.com/2013/01/26/potaku27/
From memory I’m not sure if they actually provide recommendations re. recent/upcoming titles, mostly general musings on the subject.
I just remember @doc_what mentioning From Dust.
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The moment you know you know you knoooooow…
I’ve spent almost this entire afternoon fixing misc technological problems and in an hours time will be bombarded with even more of them.
It’d be nice to go home and pwn some n00bs. Except I’m a n00b, so being pwned is more my forte. There’s always the AI to beat up on, but even then it stands a pretty good chance of beating me.
You win again, non-reality.
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Go home and pwn yourself.
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Seems a little masturbatory but okay.
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I’m glad I’m not the only one that saw that.
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That was the joke I was going for, yeah.
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Aleph gets jokes etc.
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Being in a long distance relationship I would have figured that’d be the norm?
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It’s hard when your girlfriend is 863km away
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Double entendre?
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My girlfriend is 17707.8km away… give or take.
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go poon some nwbs
@dc
The Bowie Song.
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Haha! I like the pronunciation. Authentic! 😛
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Such a good impersonation!
I’ve got a friend in Townsville who, while not quite as adept at imitating voices, is REALLY good at picking up on mannerisms.
He seems to do it subconsciously, so acts EXACTLY as I do when I’m around, which is weird 😛
Absolutely brilliant at Ozzy Osbourne though!-
That’s off-putting. 😀
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The only imitation I’ve ever been able to do semi OK is Bob Dylan.
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I can do Marvin the Martian, and Lil John.
That’s about it.
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I GOT (most of) MY 3DS GAMES BACK!!!
YOU GUYS!!
SERIOUSLY!!
NINTENDO FTW!!
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HHHNNNNNNNNGGGH
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Haha! Didn’t expect that at all, man! Hells yeah!
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I sent them a nice letter last week, along with bucket loads of documentation to prove when I purchased my original one, when I lost it, when I claimed it back on insurance, etc.
I received a call this morning saying that management had decided that even though it was not standard policy, I had enough supporting information that they could re-enable the ambassador program for my new 3DS 😀
Unfortunately they couldn’t transfer the other 6 games on my system without having the original system there, but the only one that really hurts to lose out of them is Zelda 4 Swords Adventures, because it was a promotional thing that I can’t buy. But it would not surprise me if they release that again anyway, maybe when Wind Waker comes out later in the year.
But hell, I didn’t even expect them to do this. So I’m pretty damn stoked right now. It’s amazing how powerful a nicely written letter can be (especially when you also provide evidence).
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wait… its not standard policy to give you access to the stuff you’ve paid for if your device is nicked?
Edit: i’m glad you’ve gotten your stuff back by the way.
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Yeahhh… I think they see it as some way of committing pseudo-piracy. “Lose” the device, get stuff installed on a new one, BAM! Copied software.
Though all reports are that they’re going to fix this later in the year. I really hope they do, because they’re living in the past, and I’m not going to spend another cent on their 3DS eStore until this happens.
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It’s like… and this might sound crazy, but it’s like they should have a system where you have an ID. And that ID can be moved between different systems. And your purchases would be connected to that ID.
Pretty far-fetched and futuristic I know.
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Congrats!
Stupid that you had to go through all this trouble in the first place, but congrats!
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I did mention that as a backhand in the letter…
This is made worse when you consider that virtually every one of Nintendo’s competitors enables software recovery on a new device by simply entering a username and password.”
Unfortunately, NAL has nothing to do with these policies, so complaining to them is unlikely to change anything 🙁
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Ouch what did the five fingers say to Nintendo’s face?
SLAP! 😛
Glad to hear you got it sorted though 🙂
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YE-YUH
Today I walked into EB to pick up my pre-order of standard Colon Marines (forever referred to as this from now. Thanks @rize)
I walked out with the collector’s edition. With the loader.
I don’t even know how it happened.
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Did you take it to Bay 12?
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Installing mine now \o/
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The loader statue is pretty cool.
Looks like a Pokemon mystery gift event for Meloetta at EB Games or Target is starting on March 4th, time for another embarrassing experience for me.
@greenius I believe you said you were interested in hearing about upcoming events?
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On one hand, I want Meloetta. On the other hand, I don’t want to leave the house to get it 😛
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They can obviously use Nintendo WFC for this, these in-store promotionals are a real drag.
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Mendōkusai.
Edit: Since this will probably go over most people’s heads, Shikamaru in the English version of Naruto has “What a drag” as a catchphrase of sorts, the Japanese version(which translates out as “how troublesome”), is the above word.
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I’ll take my chances and wait for a possible WiFi event. They did one for Keldeo.
The closest EB to me that’s holding the event is 2 hours away, so yeah. No. 😛
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Since this promo covers BW & B2W2, I’m going to end up with 4. I can trade one to you if you like?
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Interesting! Thanks for the offer. I’ll wait until it’s over though. Might get the chance if I’m in the city for something one day! (I’ll run away from a Sydney Meat or something :P)
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Suit up.
Go in there looking as classy as possible, look the clerk in the eye with absolute confidence and authority and say ‘I’m here for the Pokemon’-
I would go the balaclava, sawn off and “gimme all your Pokemon”
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Googles Meloetta.
Omg, she’s music, want. On the other hand, going to an EB store for a Pokemon.
Yup! I knew about this one but I’m mostly interested in Wi-Fi events. Much more convenient for the hermit lyfe! 😀
Get home today and Mrs. Freeze is a big ball of happy. It’s great to see her like this. It’s been far too long since she was last.
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That’s such a wonderful thing to hear. I’m glad 🙂
Dinner! Cheese & Onion Chips!
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Roast pork leg with garlic and chilli crackle, hasselback potatoes, beans, carrot and corn.
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Aw man, I think you win. 😛
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Spit roasted hogget in a satay marinade, with roasted veggies, will probably put a nice spice rub on them, not sure what sort yet.
For those who don’t know hogget is sheep between the ages of 1 & 2 years.
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Dude you’re making me want to eat healthier just so I can smugly think to myself ‘HEH I’M EATING BETTER THAN HIM’.
Probably good for my health. Thanks man! 😛
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That’s it, DC! You’re moving down here so I can cook you a proper meal.
Like, cheese on toast or something.
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Powalen’s famous pumpkin soup!
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HAI
Nexus 4 is scheduled for delivery tomorrow.
Kinda realised I need a proper plan to go with it. I was thinking a $35 a month dealio with Optus, but it only has 200mb of interwebs. Can anyone recommend good phone plans?
Also, Aleph: http://i.imgur.com/gBvGldG.gif
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Have a look at Kogan Mobile.
$29 a month for unlimited calls, SMS and MMS and 6GB of Data. Pre-paid so no contract.
Uses Telstra network so coverage should be pretty good.
http://www.koganmobile.com.au/plans/-
Gotta figure out what plan I’m going on… I think there’s a Telstra $30 prepaid which will suffice, but I can’t recall which. Will have a bit of time to look at it though 😛
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Does anybody know if Kogan mobile any good? It seems like one of those things that’s way too much better than what I have now to be real 😛
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Uses Telstra 3G for most of the network, and they say coverage in 97% of the populated areas in Australia.
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Do they have a cheap prepaid option? I’ll be able to verify whether it works in Telstra-only “NextG” locations, if that helps with a decision.
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You can get a SIM with limited calls and data for $5 postage fee to test it out.
100 minutes, 100 SMS, 100 MB data.
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I’ll find their site tonight and order, will get back to you in a couple weeks when I receive it 😀
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They have a map where they have coverage by the way.
It’s not showing ANY coverage at all for Groote Eyelandt man 🙁 But it’s worth a shot for 5 bucks I guess.
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Welp, I’d probably trust the map, but if I can get it here for $5, I may as well give it a shot.
Does anyone know if piggybacking on the Telstra network has varying degrees of coverage available as another provider? Could be that there’s multiple “service packages” in which it costs a higher premium to gain access to further networks, eg. Groote Eylandt.I’ve no idea how it works, to be honest.
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I’d love to know what plan you end up with. I’m thinking of getting the nexus 4 as well. Please post your impressions when you get and use the phone 🙂
So, when did they change blackcurrant skittles to grape? I am disappoint.
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What? You should try Apple and Blackcurrant Rekorderlig Cider
That stuff is like alcoholic Ribena !
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I don’t drink. =P
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Awww 🙁
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Sorry, just not something i do.
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Same here, Scree! Haven’t drank since 2008!
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Same here! Haven’t drank since… Saturday, oops 😛
But to be fair I didn’t even know it was alcoholic 😀
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Don’t need to apologise Scree
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I know, but apologising is what Scree does best!
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But I thought it was Rupee cushions and illustration and all-round baddassery?
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If you want Alcoholic Ribena you should try Korean Black Raspberry wine.
@mythamphetamine
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Not from the store though. Needs to be at the Korean BBQ in Homebush.
Talked over how to kinda get my brain sorted when at work with Sam
She is a lot of help
Love that girl
Obligatory sappy stuff gone
How are we all?
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Spaghett: The Saccharine Fairy Floss
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You know it baby 😉
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Yeah i’m feelin pretty good now, I blame @freezespreston for it though. Damn that dude.
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The worst.
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Agreed.
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Good
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HAI!
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@mythamphetamine Hippo Birdie Two Ewe!
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Eye wheel tri two keep typing phonetically, but I don’t think I’ll be able to 😛
Thanks man!
So, let’s look at some Aliens: Colonial Marines reviews.
Well, damn.
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If it had launched in its current state alongside Doom 3 in 2004, A:CM would’ve been laughed out of the room for not even surpassing id’s graphics engine, enemy AI, acting, or missions.
Doesn’t sound good. :S
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DREAMS ARE BEING SHATTERED, MAN
AND THE TEARS, THEY FLOW LIKE A RIVER
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Sounds like it might be a better purchase to buy the Alien movies on Blu-Ray instead.
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It’s just easier if you accept the Alien franchise ended in 1986.
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I loved Prometheus! (There’s even a lot to like about Alien Resurrection! Especially the Call/Ripley dynamic. I might be the only guy who liked that movie. :S Was shot pretty terribly and could’ve been so much better…)
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Also Alien Resurrection has a damn good score! The whole Betty crew was almost a prototype Firefly as well. Maybe this movie needed to happen for Whedon to make Firefly! 😀
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Resurrection was good. Not great.
Prometheus was so full of stupidity and plot holes that I really couldn’t take the movie seriously.
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Resurrection is a good film so long as you’re prepared to suspend all your knowledge of how DNA works.
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Going to go watch Black Hawk Down
So, from tomorrow I am only going to check TAY once an hour
Trying to curb my compulsive habit to check it
It has nothing to do with anyone here or anything
This should also lead to me getting more work done at work
Hopefully also ease my anxiety as I won’t be as worried about unfinished work
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Good luck with that man.
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Thanks 🙂
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Welcome.
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Good luck with it, man! Sounds like a good step to take control of your anxiety!
We’ll all be here when you check in. Some folks go days between checking and they’re still loved and part of the community and all that!
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Thanks brother, means a lot to me to have ya say that
I am hoping it helps, it was some of what Sam and I talked about
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Restraint is one of the biggest lessons to learn, good luck with it.
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Thanks
I hope I learn it, it will be tough and I’ll probably be shitty towards my co workers but I don’t care
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Son I am disappoint. You choose work over TAY, and I’m genuinely concerned about your ability to fit in here.
Just kidding. Sorta. You’re all right. All the best with your plans!-
Thanks Shane, means a lot
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So the upcoming trails game (Trails in the Flash) has tie-ins to Trails in the Sky and Trails of Zero 🙁 SO MANY GOOD GAMES WE WON’T EVER SEE IN ENGLISH 🙁
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All part of the Trails Riddle, huh?
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Well Trials has a riddle. Why not Trails?
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Is the riddle “why won’t you release the game in English?” 🙁
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I started playing Kingdom Hearts 3DS the other day, it got delivered while I was on holiday. Probably not huge spoilers but I’ll do it anyway.
Now, knowing this is my first KH game, I was expecting some things to go over my head, but I’m 3 hours in, just finished Traverse Town and I have literally no idea what the hell is going on. I’m guessing a lot gets explained in previous games, but there’s so many basic questions going either unanswered or straight over my head.
Also the camera is really annoying me, especially in boss fights. Its either really schizophrenic if you lock on to the boss, or you spend 90% of your time not being able to see what you’re fighting
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Summary of the series thus far with pictures.
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Is it Dream Drop Distance?
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Yeah
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Yeah, that one is so bloated and full of wtf’ery compared to the others.
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Considering the rest of the franchise is barely coherent, that’s saying something.
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i’ve played every kingdom hearts game, and i still scratch my head at parts of the games, and 3D is the most confusing of them all…
i wish you luck
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That doesn’t bode well. I was always interested in the KH series but I never owned a PS2 so I couldn’t play them
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I feel like watching all the Alien movies back-to-back after all this Colonial Marines talk!
Cloud Atlas trailers before everything on YouTube. Looks so damn good. I love a well realized scifi world!
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It’s looking good. There’s nothing I’m looking forward to in cinemas at the moment so I might go see that when it comes out.
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I might go see The Impossible sometime this week, but yeah, I think Cloud Atlas is the next big movie!
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That’s the Tsunami one right? It looked ok. Nothing cinema worthy for me unfortunately.
Your twitter conversation with Dan yesterday made me consider Silver Linings Playbook . I stopped reading when you guys started discussing the ending though. 🙂-
Yeah, The Impossible is the tsunami movie. Trailer basically spoiled the entire thing! :S Silver Linings Playbook is probably the best movie I’ve seen in a long time. Could really relate to some of the stuff.
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Sat my brother down in front of Antichamber.
Watching his reactions to the puzzles, is absolutely fascinating. Watching his approach to finding the solution, even more so.
Have now sat his girlfriend down to give it a shot. I’m really interested about this one, as she DOES NOT play vidjagaems, and has no clue about the things we take as a given (keyboard = move camera, WASD = movement… took her a little while to notice the “All you need to know” board in the antechamber).
I think I’ve found the ultimate childhood-ruiner:
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5:37-5:42 is TAY in a nutshell.
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That show looks awesome! I’ve never seen it before! Beautifully animated AND funny! 😀
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Never saw Animaniacs or Pinky & the Brain? Man, that was *almost* a staple of my cartoon consumption as a kid 😀
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Yeah, I don’t even remember it being on. Must’ve been another network or something.
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I loved Animaniacs. Especially the short skits at the end of the show.
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I started a blog, you don’t have to read it. I don’t expect anyone to but i needed somewhere to write down stuff to figure it out in my head
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you’re awesome rocket! You’ve got my vote for president of earth!
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Time out from everything else, isn’t selfish. On the same token, time spent with or for others isn’t necessarily selfless.
People are, as a whole, shit. What’s amazing though is that, for whatever reason, whatever ulterior motive, we still care.
I care, and I’m thankful you’ve shared.Obligatory “Oh Rocketman”, though I’m not sure whether the title was a troll or not. Kudos, my friend, kudos 😀 -
Ahh Rockets. May you one day know peace.
Welp, off to bed.
Thanks so much for really making my day, folks. You’re all fantastic.
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And a HUGE thanks to @cakesmith
Totally didn’t forget my b’day, and gifted me Aliens: Colon Marines. WTF?!-
Well, you’d best play multi with us now. 😛
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You’re awesome, man. 😀 Hope you had a great birthday!
I’m going to sleep too. You guys? Awesome. :’)
Also, hero space dogs! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laika
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dis is not teh Laika I no.
*insert AF Coachella 2011 Laika link here*
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Please never speak like that again.
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Ok Blaggles, just for you because you responded at 2am- :P. So why are you up so late? Watcha doin?
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I was writing, now I’m drawing.
I can’t seem to get the right style for what I’m doing though. Very annoying.
How about you, what are you up to, Greenmang?
Edit: I see, you’re ignoring me.
What a monster.
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Ugh, Monsterius
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🙁 sorry mang! I fell asleep
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Goodnight, TAY!
No sir – I don’t like it,
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You forgot a part.
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Thank you for knowing what I was talking about.
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also page-get time!
I purchased the game From Dust last night and it is amazing. It’s a god game/puzzle game but the puzzle isn’t static, it keeps changing as the environment changes. I fucking love it. Played for two hours last night and it only cost me 15 dollars. Gaming is such great value because I’m sure i’ll play it a lot more.
I’m thinking of writing a story about the game and possibly submit it to Potaku.
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From Dust is soooo good! My save file got deleted and I had no problems playing the whole game through again.
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Kind of makes me want to play the game again. So good when the AI’s working properly.
Hey @virus__, turns out I was a bit wrong about the time total spent on Mass Effect, currently clocked on Steam for 320 hours total hahahaha xD
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Holy hell man! That’s more than the hours i’ve spent in any game, well probably not Tekkit/Minecraft. Thankfully I don’t know the hours on that haha.
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You obviously never heard of my 2000+ hour Guild Wars game time 😉
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Nope, that’s a fair bit. Well actually I have 500+ hours in WoW since I started using Raptr 8 months back and my main character I have 3000+ hours logged :S
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morning everyone.
CTHCC competition, only 2 more days to go
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How about that airline food?
*crickets*
I’m bad at jokes!
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Don’t worry, I am too
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What’s the DEEEAL with airline food? Guy next to me can’t get enough, meanwhile, I’m looking for a DOOG to slip it to – Guy impersonationg Seinfeld
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What’s the difference between a golfer and a failed parachutist?
One goes Whack, Fuck@scree
Spaghetts Last Song Played Game!
Save Me by Poets of The Fall
Good song to start my checking once an hour TAY thing on
“save me, I’m my own worst enemy”
Me, I am my own worst enemy
An update for anyone who didn’t see
I will only be checking TAY once an hour to try to curb my obsessive habit to check TAY
This will also lead me to getting more work done and hopefully feeling less anxious
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Space Dog Laika!
(Yes, Arcade Fire still. Laika!)
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Build That Wall (Zia’s Theme) – Darren Korb (Bastion OST)
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Must… resist… posting… lyrics… 😛
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Mini-Boss – Super Metroid OST
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Teenage – Veronica Falls.
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The Rat – Infected Mushroom
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Such great heights – postal service
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Postal Service ^.^
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Uhh…
Pink – The Truth About Love
/o\
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Wuthering Heights- Kate Bush.
HEATHCLIFF! IT’S ME, KATHY, I’VE COME HOME
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Summergirl – The Mayfield Four
God I wish Myles Kennedy had made one more album with this amazing band before they split up and he joined Alter Bridge, but he doesn’t get involved with crap music so I really can’t complain.
Oh how I wish Mark Tremonti hadn’t had to pull out of Soundwave this year 🙁 I was looking forward to seeing him so much! But I think I can cope since he’s off making a new Alter Bridge album and the world needs more Alter Bridge!
Hope you’re able to stick to your plan and check once an hour leading to less anxiety man. It’s a horrible thing to have 🙁 I have a few friends with it and I feel bad for them that even the smallest thing can trigger it for them. Also more work is good, means less trouble from the supervisors!
Finished SpecOps: The Line last night.
Spoilerized thoughts:
At first I thought the biggest impact of the game was going to be the white phosphorous and that was it, but those last few chapters are a real slow burn in terms of letting it sink in what you have done over the campaign. From the way Walker’s appearance and voice become more desperate and broken, to the way the game’s loading screens are telling you things like ‘This is all your fault’ and ‘Do you even remember why you came here?’
It is just amazing to see a war shooter like this that acknowledges that at the end of the day you didn’t save shit, you just slaughtered a lot of people. (I imagine this would be even more shocking for American players sue to the fact that they have been shooting American soldiers the whole time)
The game is not shy at pointing the finger at you as the player either, although I found it interesting that that sort of thing was kept only in the loading screen text and that was it.
Non-Spoilerized thoughts:
This game made me feel like a terrible person, and I thought Dark Souls was dark.
In all seriousness though it really did give me pause in regards to we as a generation play military shooters, and are so carefree about gunning down realistic looking digital people with realistic looking digital guns.
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Glad you dug it man. Was so refreshing to see someone take a game and not only look at it from a different angle, but implement that viewing angle so perfectly.
I was the same as you, the degenerating of the characters was the most astounding part. Walker goes completely sideways by the end of it. The voices tones, the language, their physical appearance. Combined with the loading screen images changing, and gameplay tips becoming slightly unsettling observations about you and the situation you’re in, just wow. -
It does make you think, doesn’t it?
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Oh man… play it and don’t stop playing it 😛
As i mentioned earlier in the week, while the gameplay is solid, there is some issues with the cover system, but i’m pretty sure you’ll be able to look past that. Just be mindful of your ammo, or you may find yourself running out when it counts 😛-
Yeah this, just play it on normal and enjoy the ride.
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Yeah, playing it on anything above normal will probably just end up frustrating the shit out of you and you won’t be able to enjoy the rest of the game.
Don’t worry, you will still die plenty, though!
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Awesome – glad you finished it off, man!
Did you reload the final checkpoint and play through all the endings?
As @scree said – I would play shooters more if they were like this.
Holy crap, yeah – those loading screens! That was pretty dark stuff even of itself. So, were you expecting Konrad to be dead and be all part of Walkers gradual breakdown?-
Yeah right before I entered the tower I suspected that Konrad may be all in Walker’s head, still an amazing ending too, especially with the post-credit sequences
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Im finishing it tonight, I think, Im up to chaper 12 so cant be too long left. Seems shortish campaign to me so far.
Well.. out of random curiosity this morning, the distance between my long distance girlfriend and me is around 1/22 the distance between the Earth and the moon.. yikes lol. 17707.8km 😛
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Still less than 24 hours away 😛
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Only just
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Thats adorable. You see each other again soon hopefully.
Man your stories of love make me all gooey inside techy. You are a awesome dude and i wish you all the luck in the world. 🙂-
You’re a gentleman and a scholar Rocketman, don’t ever forget that even when you’re down. And you play a mean (By that I mean good) summoner in LoL 🙂
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My waifu moved back to Taiwan for about a year while we we’re still dating. She is now my WAIFU!
Here’s some interesting news (to me… hopefully to others).
Games Workshops website was “down for maintainance” for the ENTIRETY of yesterday, which is an extremely strange thing for them, even if they have a overhaul of the aesthetics of the website. It’s never been down for that long. Now it’s back up and business as usual, it seems.
But it gets stranger… Their Facebook page appears to be gone. Yesterday it was still appearing in searches but not loading.. now it’s not appearing at all.
I’m wondering if this rather large amount of bad pr they’ve been getting this week has lead to attacks on their sites? Their Facebook has been FILLED with ‘angry nerds’/Irate people, Especially when Games Workshop posted a rather blunt statement in relation to the whole mess that just had a bunch of legal jargon that effectively read “like it or lump it”…
So yeah.. possible hack attacks in addition to a seemingly endless trail of hate mail??
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Is that the whole “member of an infantry force that specializes in naval operations such as amphibious assault who operates within a vacuum” thing?
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Yeah – it’s been downhill for them this week since that
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Please point me to where I can read about this controversy. I love me some drama.
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Games Workshop tried to bully some author over the use of SPESS MAREEEEN because trademarks and blah blah blah. It backfired.
They’ve been doing this for decades, I’m not sure what made this incident the straw that broke the space camel’s back.
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That not nearly as entertaining as I was hoping.
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It’s the Christians angry that they were going to sue the Vatican over the trademark of near-dead corpse-like figure ruling over a religion. It’s why the Pope stepped down right?
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MORNIN’ ALL!
English copy of Hyrule Historia arrived AT LAST! Quite a bit larger then the Japanese copy and the paper is much thicker. Very impressed with the overall quality.
It was also nice to have English text!
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I liked it how the product history pages at the back showed alot of Australian retail versions of The Legend of Zelda, makes it feel like we are a blip on the radar.
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they were in the Japanese edition too.
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I picked up my copy yesterday
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Um um FUN FACT OF THE DAY
I think I have one!Vol. 43 of Naruto is 13 chapters long, which is big for Naruto considering most don’t go over 9-10 chapters. The introduction from Kishimoto is him apologising for this, because it meant the price of the book went up. So apparently the prices in Japan can vary based on book size – interesting because I paid $12 for this copy just like every other English copy! 😛
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Interesting!
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I’m saving for a Vita
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the book was $19 😛
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That will buy me Mortal Kombat (planning ahead)
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So DC Shoes do some RAD promo stuff with their athletes – most of you will be familiar with the stuff they do with Ken Block.
Just yesterday they released a new clip featuring Australian FMX legend Robbie Maddison in a military aircraft graveyard – and it is pretty damn amazing! There is some good trials-y type stuff in there too which is just all sorts of impressive. check it out.
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Meet the man behind DC’s shoes.
@dc
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When I slide my foot into @dc it’s like I’m wearing nothing at all. Which is a bit disconcerting really.
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O.o
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I don’t even know what to say to this…except thanks for that disturbing visual, I guess.:P
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DC’s promos are always ridiculous. They sponsor some insanely talented dudes.
I still won’t be wearing their shoes though, since I’m not a rebellious teenager.
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Yeah – my days of wearing DC’s are long gone. Or any form of ‘skate’ shoe, for that matter.
Still, the clips are stonking
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You mean like the Batman Chucks?
Game stuff!
I haven’t signed any non-disclosure agreement or, well, contract of any kind… But I figure there is stuff I shouldn’t blab about.
But currently, as well as the 3DS, Vita and iPhone versions, there is a Wii U version in development. \o/
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MY VITA WILL HAVE A GAME?!?!
#SHAKESPEAREANSUCCESS!
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It will!
Although the game is being developed for 3DS and ported (I believe) and it does use both screens quite well. The Vita game probably won’t be the best version.
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I like games!
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Nerd!
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so, I”ve been playing Pikmin but I am terrible at the bosses and end up getting all my Pikmin killed. Should I try playing a different game for a while or try to continue with Pikmin? I think I should mention that I can feel my interest waning.
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Best thing to do when you get frustrated / bored of the game is to have a little break from it. That’s what I do with some games I play.
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It’s getting harder to go back to though
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Guess you have to ask yourself the question, “Am I still having fun?”. Remember, games are there for us to enjoy!
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This is the point where I just change the difficulty to easy and knock that game out just for the fun of it.
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You should never play a game for the sake of playing it. Maybe give it a little break and try again but if you still aren’t really enjoying it, just drop it. Remember, we play games for fun! :D, as soon as it becomes a drag you’ll hate the game a lot more.
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But pile o’ shame /o\
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How did the chicken cross the road?
It looked left, looked right and looked left again then crossed safely to the other side.
@scree
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How many chickens does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
To get to the other side! … Wait I think I told it wrong.
Hey guys, I’m a bit frustrated at the moment and I need to vent. I’ll hide the rant in spoiler tags so you don’t have to worry about it unless you want to. I have a friend on Facebook who occasionally asks for help with computer issues. Yesterday, however, was a very frustrating time. My friend asked me whether just accidentally opening up the iTunes store would cost her anything. I said no. Then she asked me how to close the iTunes store so I explained that to her. She seemed to accept that and left me alone for a bit. Then about an hour later, she messaged me again asking me exactly the same question. She then proceeded to ask me whether listening to songs on her computer or iPod would cost her anything. I told her no and thought that would be the end of it. Nope. Over the next 3 hours, she asked me exactly the same question 3 times. I kept answering her questions to be polite, but I was getting annoyed. Finally, it seemed to be over, but this morning, she’s been messaging me with exactly the same questions. Headdesk. Giving free technical support sucks. Thus endeth the rant.
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Start charging for helping her, that’ll make her stop pretty quick 😛
Editing for a more serious answer:
What I usually do is leave a note at the end saying how they can save this info for later dates, so they can simply find a previously answered question and they won’t forget how to do X 6 months later for instance. Is she asking via messages or just posting on your wall? -
Tell her it costs $10 per song and she should stop listening to music.
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It’s a bit odd she’s asking the same questions over and over. Do you think maybe there’s a problem on Facebook’s end (or her use and understanding of FB) and she’s not seeing your responses or isn’t sure her messages have gone through?
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Or she likes him and just looking for an excuse!
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This!
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Maybe the questions are just an excuse, and they just want to communicate with you more often.
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@tech_knight She’s messaging me. It’s getting a bit frustrating.
@strange The messages are definitely getting through.
@freezespreston I considered telling her something along those lines. As to the other point, I hope not
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Oh lovely. I have had the exact same issue regarding computer support with a family friend who is blind. No matter how many times I answer her question she always forgets. Also I still can’t get it through to her that flicking the switch at the powerpoint is bad for the computer, very bad.
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I think the reason is that she wants so ontargett action and is delibratly trying to start conversations over a trivial issue, its a reaosn to start contact, the next offer is, Do you want me to come over and look at your ipod; then; badda bing badda boom, 9 months later you find out the swimmers were on target
So over the weekend I finished Far Cry 3. Thoughts:
*No idea what the racism issue was about. Didn’t notice any of it.
*I found the final couple missions a little bit tougher than the rest.
*All bosses are quick time events (except for one). I was hoping for the final boss to at least be a heavy armoured dude, with a lot more speed. And maybe a couple tigers that are trained to only attack you.
*Only criticism I ever hear for FC3 is there’s nothing to do after you finish it. This doesn’t make sense as there are about a million sidequests to do. I guess they could have made the side quests continue to auto-generate (like Skyrim did), but still, it keeps you going for a long ass time.
*It surprises me how much work they put into the environment and actions npc’s are capable of. Quite a few times I would come across them doing something I had never seen them do before.
*I wish you could set traps like FC1.
*Amazing game.
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Racist.
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I swear there is some extremist anti-racist guy with a hat full of video game names. Every once in a while he will draw a name and claim the game is racist.
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I read that as “hate full of video game names” and was wondering why it wasn’t making sense.
TAY, you’ve ruined me.
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Either that or internet nerds easily gravitate towards mob mentalities. I like your explanation better.
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Fairly sure this falls into the Resident Evil 6 style racism.
Problem in a place full of black people? Better call on the white guy to save the day!
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So that Colonial Marines eh? Those reviews. Ouch.
Sounds like people are still having fun with it though. There were quite a number of people playing it on my Steam list last night.
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Those jerks. Instead of playing DotA2 with Nobfrond and me, they were playing some game with bad review scores because they were having fun.
What jerks.
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They are the worst, don’t they know how to VIDYA GAEMS properly? If it gets a bad review score you don’t play it, regardless of wether you are having fun or not.
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It seems it’s not the best game, but what bugs me is the utter joy some people seem to be taking in tearing the game apart.
Does anyone watch Black Mirror? Anyone? No one? For shame.
Black Mirror is a British Twilight Zone-esque drama set in twenty minutes in the future. Each episode is an hour long exploration of a really dark and twisted version of what the future might hold that share no relation with other episodes.
One of the episodes from the first season, involving a young couple and memory implants that record everything you see, has already been optioned off to become a full-fledged movie but the most recent episode was probably the best and most brutal.
Not to give anything away, but it involved a young widow and something not too dissimilar from Cleverbot.
Brutal and brilliant.
Watch it.
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That’s the one. There are only 3 episodes in the first season, one so far in the second with two more to be aired in the UK in the next two weeks.
They’re an hour long and so very definitely worth watching. I’m generally not a fan of the term “speculative fiction” to describe sci-fi/fantasy but it’s a pretty good descriptor of this.
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Is that made by Charlie Brooker? Cos if it is I reeeeally wanna watch it.
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It is indeed. His name is all over the credits and the episode 15 Million Merits is so incredibly him that there are times where you can put Charlie in place of the main character and it wouldn’t change a thing.
The first episode is also distinctly Charlie Brooker, at least if you’re familiar with his views on a certain politician that may or may not have been called a lizard several times on Twitter.
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Yeah, Im gonna have to grab it then. Awesome!
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Was planning to go out again today and get pretzels from the markets, and chilli cheese fries for my lunch but I don’t think the weather wants me to to go anywhere.
Maybe the weather wants me to stay home and play games all day. 😛
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Mother Nature and I usually don’t see eye to eye but in this case, I agree with her. Spend all day playing games!
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If someone would deliver me some chilli cheese fries it would be perfect!
Unfortunately we live in a place that’s difficult to even get Chinese food delivered to, let alone chilli cheese fries.
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Caved in, ordered Fire Emblem.
It’s sold out everywhere and Play-Asia has it on backorder 🙁
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I’ll join you in… 2 months 😛
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If this is anything like what happened with Theatrhythm then you’ll probably get it first.
It’s like the 3DS has sold so poorly in the US that they do tiny print runs for everything and anything that’s remotely popular sells out immediately 🙁
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Kinda glad I ended up with an Aussie one when you say these things. Think there’s a game or two I’ve missed though:(
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I’ve got Devil Survivor OC and Code of Princess. I think the former is out in PAL in March? And the latter is digital-only here. Etrian Odyssey IV is out in a few weeks in the US, and I don’t think that any of those games past the first got released in PAL areas.
But generally speaking having a US system is a pain. The reason I got one was because I was anticipating a lot of Japanese games would get US releases and never get PAL ones. That hasn’t really happened. Well, it has a bit, but none of them were games I actually give a shit about.
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So Bungie are formally announcing Destiny on the 17th. Just in time for Sony to announce them as a launch game for PS4?
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Maybe, or multiplatform, who knows.
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It’s already multiplatform. X360 and PS3 and possibly PC as well. PS4 and Xbox vNext would have to happen surely since they’re contracted to Actiblizzion make like 5 games or something.
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I may have just broken a co-worker’s iPhone.
Good thing I broke it while getting ready to transfer everything onto their new iPhone.
Girls are weird and have cooties.
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Luckily I got my cootie shots!
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I read that as Girls are weird and have cookies.
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I’m sure sometimes they do.
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Well one girl I know she’s always baking cookies I swear, so this is a valid sentence!
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Really? I think girls are awesome because they give me unlimited attention 😛 Really feeds the ego, I almost feel like Duke Nukem!
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Girls/women/females in general, or are cooties an age-restricted illness?
I’m not sure if I have mentioned this here but I am really sick of those “Lets list X things from best to worst” Kotaku US articles.
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You couldn’t ask for more perfect hit-bait though! 😛
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I’m not sure if I have mentioned this here but I am really sick of those “X” Kotaku US articles.
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Every time I see them, I just think “let’s not”. Seems to work for me so far.
Hey *waves*
Welp, back to the coal face
Bye *waves*
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What a guy
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Makes you cry!
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Don’t get the black lung in there.
Drive all the way to Helensvale (~40min drive) to pick up one of the only 920’s in stock on the entire Gold Coast only to discover I left my bank card at home.
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Is it wrong to laugh when I read about your misfortune. If so then I am wrong.
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I trust you held on to the phone and said “I’ll be back in a bit to pay”?
I’m so glad I started playing Brotherhood last night. I was like ‘Oh, I’ll just play for half an hour and get a feel for it and go to bed’ …that didn’t happen.
Also, how awkward do sex scenes look in games?
You might even say they look a bit…stiff.
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You mean… Sex isn’t that awkward in real life?
That explains a lot.
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Ideally not.
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I think FIFA nailed it.
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*snigger*
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Well, I’m assuming they don’t motion capture sex scenes.
I wish they would though, I’d watch the shit out of that behind the scenes video. So awkward.
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Only a matter of time
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I saw the bustop poster for Crysis 3, I want a future-bow!
In what could be a terrible mistake I’m going to have a quick look at spec ops during lunch
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Be a mistake not to.
There’s an unmarked van in front of me with the number plate CANDY 3
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Oh man, that dude gives out the best candy. It was so good that it got nicknamed the party van because every time he stopped, it was like a mini-street party.
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What’s more concerning: There’s a CANDY 1 and a CANDY 2 out there as well.
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Government surveillance vehicle? Whenever any kid comes too close they scare them away by offering them candy.
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HAWT!
I dont envy whoever has to go through all the entries to the Colonial Marines comp. 99% of them are really… not very good.
…but then again, neither is the game.
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I know my entry was terrible.
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helium balloons? I actually liked your entry.
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Well thanks. I always doubt my entries into contests. I’m not nearly as creative or funny as I like to think I am.
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Sturgeon’s law
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Just give it to the first 10 TAY regulars who entered… or maybe don’t give it to them, depending on what act you think woudl be nicer.
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Chuloopa will win. He always wins. ALWAYS.
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I respect that
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@strange: I’m sorry. Didn’t mean to sound creepy, was just trying to be funny. Now I feel terrible. :'( Just too much cuteness first thing in the morning. Hope you don’t think less of me. 🙁
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creepy can be funny. its all about context & intent.
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Didn’t intend for it to be creepy, though. Was just trying to say enough with baby pictures already, pretending to be riled up. (Wasn’t serious.) DC. Not. Funny. :S
Edit: I guess one person’s sleeping kitten picture is another person’s sleeping baby picture.
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the pic used this morning freaks me out slightly. just how the kids laying with their legs curled up underneath em. looks weird & uncomfortable…
also, I miss the cute animal pics.
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But thats how they sleep man. I got 18 mo twins and when i go in there room and they are sleeping heads down bum up, well its hard not to wake them by laughing!
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in that case, its just another reason I will never have kids. cant even sleep right.
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So I followed you home last night. Going through your bins, I noticed you didn’t finish your dinner. Didn’t you enjoy it? Who was the woman you were on the phone with? Was it Jill? It better not have been Jill. You know I don’t like it when you talk to Jill. Did you know you talk in your sleep?
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its funny because its creepy. its creepy because i really was on the phone to a woman named Jill last night. I am not joking.
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I don’t think less of you, don’t be silly. I just had a problem with the fact you were objecting to the baby being naked. Kind of a creepy thing to say. I should have used a “:P” so you didn’t stress too much about it. 😛
Recently decided to get back into Dark Souls and try and finish it. Started up my old character who was stuck on the fire spider woman and decided to backtrack a bit and maybe find a good grinding spot and try and pick up the rusty (or is it rusted?) ring from the Undead Asylum so Blighttown isn’t such a pain. Turns out, the Firelink shrine was out, and when I died in the Asylum I woke up again in Blighttown. I decided to just create a new character, and this time I’ll play through properly. Grab the drake sword, not skip the return to the Asylum, actually reverse hollow and kindle fires etc. Was thinking about trying out a mage or tank type character since my last character had been light armoured melee, but ended up making basically the exact same character, cept I started as a theif this time instead of a wanderer. With Dark Souls, and Demon’s for that matter, I find I prefer to have mobility and avoid enemy attacks rather than try and take the hits.
I’m still early on in the game. Things feel a lot easier than I remember them being when I first played. Not really looking forward to a couple of fights, such as that giant croc monster in the sewers, but I’m still having fun.
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Demons rewarded dex builds.
Dark REALLY rewards tank builds.
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I’d read that. I still don’t know if I like to idea of letting a giant monster pound on me though.
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Glanced through TAY.
Misread ‘Demon sex’ and ‘giant monster pounding on me’.
I’m not sure what to think about this.
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To me, it is like you wrote that in a different language.
I look forward to coming back to your post one day after playing Dark Souls.
Hope this day finds you well? Where’s @shane? Hope you’re okay man!
I’ve been playing Ni No Kuni all morning. Such a beautiful game!
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I really need to take time off work to play Ni No Kuni! I’m so far behind everyone!
It doesn’t help that I stopped playing because the Zelda Symphony inspired me to finish Skyward Sword! (I’m at the end boss now! Just gotta do dem side quests!)
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I feel like everyone’s ahead of me too. Only 30 hours into the game, which sounds like a lot but I’ve had it for two weeks now and I haven’t been playing any thing else. 😀
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I’m surprised you aren’t further in actually 😛
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Not last weekend, but the weekend before I was hermiting it up on the Gold Coast. Then the meat last Wednesday. Other then that? No excuse! 😛
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I only just left Ding Dong Dell! D:
I can’t believe I just typed “Ding Dong Dell”…
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I cant believe theres a character referenced to as ‘your meowjesty’
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The Japanese love puns and word play. I bet it worked way better in the original Japanese too.
Nyajesty?
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i understand where its coming from, but it pushed the twee-factor a bit too far for my liking.
but if thats the only complaint i have with the game (and so far, thats it) its not doing much wrong.
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@jimu
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I’m not a fan of the balance of the game. Lots of grinding and lots of backtracking. Handholding too. Otherwise the charm of the world is awesome and I really like the story too. Can’t wait to see what happens next. Has an artistry to it too.
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i’m only about 9hrs in. only just got the 1st follower person, I’m hoping the invasive hand-holding goes away once all the mechanics have been explained.cos seriously, if Drippy turns up during the final boss & starts reminding me how to change characters, I’m gonna have another annoyance.
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The difficulty thing is so weird, the game is all handholdy and over explainy then suddenly you get your ass kicked by insanely difficult enemies. Definitely balance problems. Really awesome game, though.
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OK, I am further than you. Have you been playing at all? :p
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I’ve been working, working on vidya gaem art and finishing skyward sword, so, no. Not really.
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How’s Skyward? I never played it ebven once. Don’t think I even watched a vidyer.
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Like other Zeldas. Without the exploration. And with REALLY shonkey controls.
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@doc_what D:
Man, wiimotion I do not like
I’m up to Yule at 25 hours or so :(. I wanna play…
I bet you’re further than me. (And Sughly). I didn’t get to play last week Wed-Fri and haven’t touched it at all this week (sunday not included)
I just can’t make the time 🙁
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Where are you and @sughly up to?
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If @Sughly is still moving then he is yet to start D: and I…
just got the boat, got beaten by Shadar so went back to quest. One too go! It’s that damn, kill this weak enemy with ice one and my “friends” familiars keep finishing them off before I ice them *IF* I manage to get in a fight, because they run off and they are FAST! -
Haha! Ah, good times. Seems like ages ago I did that quest. 😀
I think Sughly found a place last Wednesday and has been playing the game ever since. XD
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Lucky devil, he will have passed me soon.
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I already have it seems. Done quite a few things after said travelling device. I DONT WANT THIS GAME TO EVER END!
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@jimu, @sughly: You guys playing in Japanese with subtitles or English?
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@dc Japanese
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Japanese for shizzle @dc
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@jimu, @sughly: English! Gotsta ease into this Ghibli thing!
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Ni No Kuni? I reviewed that today!
#shamelessplug
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Will not read until I finish in a year (sorry, pants)
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I really should do another review for you guys.
Perhaps when the next CK2 expansion comes out, that first one got quite a few hits.
Day off for daughter’ s third birthday \o/
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Happy birthday Girl Shane Jnr! 😀
Obligatory post
Fuck
Seriously
I am not sure how much longer I can deal with…..*shudders* humans
They call, and they ask for things, sometimes they are indignant, like they are perfect and everything they say is correct
Makes me want to throttle them
Seriously, if I didn’t hate unemployment I may just fucking quit
What’s that? You don’t understand why you need to send your indentification and you think it’s silly?
Just do what the fucking form says!
Or….eat a dick
Rant ended, for now
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nomnomnom nomnom
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Spaghett never stops ranting
But that one is over
Time to collate
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Heh… humans
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They suck so much!
Pathetic meat filled sacks
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Well they’re not all bad, you got the TAYbie humans/cyborgs/other majestic creatures here whom are all awesome people, and you also have Sam, who I’m sure you call her more an angel than a human right? 😉
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You are right
Thanks for that 🙂
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Helping my sister pick out what shoes to wear with a dress:
Yes, those look fine
I don’t know
Yes, fine
I don’t know, those look fine too
Those ones. Oh, okay, than those other ones
No, they look fine
So spec ops seems like a pretty cool guy.
It’s interesting that my miondset playing the game is different due to the non-spoiler spoilers that have been provided in TAY
More details on what I mean (spoilers of the first 30 minutes)
Although nobody has come out and actually spoiled anything there talk around it has given me some insight into the game. Go into it I’m not expecting a rah rah military superman shooter. But because I know there are going to be things that challenge my thinking and investigate the morals of war I find myself thinking about that more.
The opening sequence is pure rah rah shooter fare, but shooting at the helicopter I started wondering where my shots were going when I missed and 50 cal rounds and smashing into the windows of buildings. Who is in those buildings, was I hurting anybody. There has been nothing in the game right then to prompt those thoughts other than the expectations set by TAY.
So far it is fairly generic cover based shooter, I suppose the person I’m supposed to rescue getting executed as you get there is a bit different and shows promise of developing into a very interesting dynamic
Gameplay mechanics
Finding some of the gameplay interesting. The use of sand in cool and the sandstorm is interesting but has been done before. What I really like is the use of sun, making it hard to see when you look in the direction the sun is helps a lot with the immersion. Even if most of that emersion is ruined by being a linear shooter that allows you to take cover behind a pile of boxes but not a car.
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Something something, I didn’t like that game. Something something, Walker’s a dick.
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I think it’s interesting that you automatically make a separation between yourself and ‘Walker’ as a character. It’s not you that’s making those decisions, it’s ‘Walker’. Most other games like this, it’s you as Walker, not Walker himself. You’ve had to mentally take a step backward because of the implications of his actions if you were in control etc.
Spec Ops was a really important game for the advancement of the art, IMO, even though it’s not that great a game.
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I’m generally with Bunny here(I liked the game more than he did, but I’m still very cynical towards it), and in my case, the separation between Walker and myself is nothing new. I’m never the guy in the game, I’m just some guy controlling them.
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In other games like this, you don’t make decisions. While you might claim responsibility for actions, but that’s just because they were enjoyable experiences.
Many of the decisions that Walker makes in the game are simply not the actions of a reasonable person. I felt railroaded and often Walker would take actions that would further the plot but I simply did not feel were adequately justified. They weren’t my actions, they were the actions of a character in a game.-
So you’re saying that Walker isn’t sane?
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Also third person. Personally having a game in third person immediately destroys any chance of character immersion. You can’t pretend you are that guy if you spend the game looking at him as if from someone else’s perspective.
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In Fire Emblem Awakening, you can have children.
Children who can inherit their parents’ growth rates.
This, in turn, has made me start playing the game like Pokemon. Trying to figure out optimal units to breed to create a super-spawn.
I assume this is normal game-playing behaviour and is in now way weird to creepy or disturbing.
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Which character is acting as the slutty Ditto?
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Yeah, thats how you play
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Go go master race. I assume you’re culling the weak ones so they don’t contaminate the stock?
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I could just imagine that.
“We need a divorce”.
“Why?”.
“It’s our child”.
“What? What about our child?”
“Well, his stats only increase by 1.4 per level instead of 1.5”.-
“When’s little Timmy coming home, darling?”
“He aint.”
“What!? Why?”
“Low DEX. Couldn’t undo the ropes before we got to the orphanage. Maybe his sister will last longer.” -
“You gave him low Strength rates!”
“You gave him low Luck!”
“What does he even need that for!?”
“What does he even need Strength for!?”
“Weapons!”
“He’s a Mage!”
“AND WHAT IF HE EVER WANTS TO HIT SOMEONE WITH HIS TOME”
“YOU’RE THE ONE WHO WAS OKAY WITH HIM ONLY GETTING ONE STAT POINT ON HIS SECOND BIRTHDAY. I WANTED TO RELOAD HIM AND EXPLOIT THE RNG BUT YOU’RE THE ONE WHO SAVED HIS STATE”
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I always thought this sort of thing was an interesting mechanic for stats-oriented games like Strategy RPGs. First time I remember seeing it was the Agarest games though it’s not completely transparent exactly how the stats inheritance works there. I guess you could argue that Disgaea’s reincarnation system is similar as well. It’s a mechanic which would work kind of interestingly in Disgaea too.
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Eugenics has its uses?
Having a good laugh about this on twitter, but: https://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/rockstar-games-release-the-gtav-demo-which-was-shown-to-game-informer-ign-ect-2
Check out the petitioner “Gareth Jones” comment
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Has Rockstar ever released GTA demo’s? I don’t recall one ever.
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I think GTA2 might have had a demo.
I was called GTA.
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Oh Bunny, still a smartass I see 😛
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If that ever changes; don’t cry for me, I’m already dead.
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If that ever happens I will know humanity is doomed for sure.
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Bahahahaha!
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I’m looking at the Gareth Jones comment & not noticing anything noticable.
I must be having a brain-dead day, coz I dont get it.
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“I believe we have a right”
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its sad when an unjustified sense of entitlement & wankery is so wide-spread it doesnt stand out enough to be noticed.-
The comment itself sounded a bit self entitled, but arguably he has a point. Do people have a right to try a product before spending money on it? I don’t know which side I’d fall on, but it’s certainly an interesting question.
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I think that if a company has confidence in their product, they’ll release a demo, or at least have a playable demo to show press.
if they dont… then yeah, thats when I’ll be questioning my decision to pre-order.I dont think consumers have the ‘right’ to try something before its finalised & released, but they do have the right to not be kept in the dark. If a company doesn’t a) respect their customers enough to show them what they will be buying, or b) have the confidence in their product to show it before money has exchanged hands, then I’m gonna be wary.
But then again, looking at it from the other direction, Id go so far as to say that its the consumers responsibility to do their homework & find out about stuff before committing money. Demos make this easy, but previews, reviews, videos, and trying to get some hands on time in-store or something is an alternative.
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It’s been put up on various sites before, but a playable demo is problematic for developers, which is why you see less of them
http://www.penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/demo-daze
Given Rockstar are self-admittedly behind on the development, I don’t see one in the pipeline.
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I am sad that people are tearing Aliens: Colonial Marines to pieces, but even I have to admit that this is the glitch video of the year (so far).
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Is it true the campaign is only 4-5 hours long?
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No idea, I’m just hearing the fallout right now and it doesn’t sound good 🙁
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So far as I can tell, it will take about that long in single player, and closer to 3 hours in co-op, since you really do blast through that.
The game’s multi is pretty fun though. And I’m usually the guy who’s all “rarr, rarr, multi is annoying and I hate other people.”
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Now I feel like playing fallout
Valentine’s day tomorrow.
Yeah yeah commercialism etc. But I’m still feeling warm and fuzzy towards Mrs.
What’s everyone got planned (pain that it is mid week, no)? Especially @spaghett, considering how open you have been about your feelings in TAY.
PS I’m cheating by organising a holiday for Mrs in May when it is her b’day, but because it costs $$ it is valentines pressie too. I’ll still get her some choc but considering she is sick and kids are sick i think this V day will be a write off 🙁
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I’m going to crawl out of bed, go to work, come home and cook a delicious dinner.
Because I love food.-
You should get in the spirit of Valentine’s day and try to make as many babbies as possible …
in Fire Emblem -
This is my favourite comment
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I’ll be spending the day with my true loves TAY and video games. 😛
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Oh good point re true love. I better game tongiht because Mrs won’t be pleased if I do it tomorrow 😛
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Sam will be coming home with me tomorrow night
I already made her a present
Admittedly it is digital art, and not complex, but she loved it none the less
I also bought her two Emily Strange badges from Kings Comics on the Weekend
Now she has them proudly on her bag
She bought me mini microbes
Including genital warts!!
Those mini microbes plushes are the best
Thanks for the @mention @ash 🙂
Goodbye again for an hour
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Including genital warts!!
So romantic! Actually you better explain what they are because I’m not googling that at work.
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http://www.giantmicrobes.com/au/
They are literally plush version of microbiotic organisms
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Mini microbes are little plusies of microbes magnified by 1,000,000 times.
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Did you glue macaroni on to some card in the shape of a heart? I bet that’s what you made her!
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Digital art man 😛
A digital macaroni artwork 😀
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Badass!
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I’m heading down to Sydney for the weekend to help @freya shift some furniture.
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shift some furniture
Romantic!-
We’re both such complete saps.
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Make sure you move the bed last so you can just flop on to it afterwards 😉
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Is that some sort of euphemism?
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I’d say that “flop” is a pretty good description of my sexual performance.
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Given your rabbitness, I thought “flopsy” would be the term
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Why would I pretend to get hit by a car?
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Sounds like it could be turned into a euphemism if you ask me.
Hey, it is into our new place!
Making a lovely video mail for my elven angel princess, since I know she’s very busy studying and she can watch it anytime that works for her.
Then I’ll spend the rest of the night gaming! Yeah!
I was thinking I’d spend the whole day crying to myself as the loneliness in my soul overcomes me. Or just play vidya gaems. Both are good options.
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I will be doing both! Multi-tasking! \o/
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Happy Singles Awareness Day!
NOTHING ಥ﹏ಥ
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Dat face. I like.
If she is feeling sick, even more so if she is in bed, then get her some flowers
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I know you are right but, I’ve got ti wrong in that space in the past. Also you pay $$ for flowers that aren’t even as nice as the ones she grows herself. hmm maybe on my way home from work, I’ll see.
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At least tell her that, even though she’s terribly ill, she still looks gorgeous.
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Bonus points for wearing a hazmat suit whilst doing so.
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Well on friday i bought her hot cross buns and she gave me a big pash…. and later that night was really sick, so i was just like ‘omg u r contaminated keep away from me’ and that made her feel worse 😛
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I don’t have anyone in particular I kind of wish I did at times, always been single when it came to Valentines Day D= heh.
Though tomorrow marks the first anniversary of the loss of a close family friend 🙁
But I wrote a letter to my friend who’s been rather down of late in hope it will cheer her up, I kinda wanted it to get there before the week is out but I don’t think that will happen, curse you international mail!
So I will celebrate this
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and probably watch this!
She wasn’t even planning on being home until recently, so … no idea.
I just received a message from Mr. Strange that he pre-ordered the Heavatar album and ordered the first three Winterlong (Thorbjorn Englund’s old band) CDs for me for Valentine’s Day. \o/
I will probably sit at home and pretend not to care that nobody wants my booty.
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I get no booty b/c babies tire Mrs out, so yeah, I’d take your booty.
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I am sure people want your booty.
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Oh c’mon, that’s a lie! We all know your friend who keeps texting you wants summa dat
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Took me a while to figure that out, but yeah, you’re probably right.
Although he seems to busy these days. Maybe he’s finally paying more attention to his girlfriend.
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I will be content with my singleness & make no changes whatsoever to my routine.
Worst day of the year.
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I think that award goes to the 1st Monday of Daylight Savings, but Valentine’s day is certainly a contender.
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Daylight Savings is awesome for me, all my meetings with people in Redmond move an hour later. No more 8am meetings!
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I’m back from getting chilli cheese fries! Only got rained on a little but it was worth it because thechilli cheese fries were pretty great and I bought half a dozen pretzels which means I’m set for breakfast for the next few days.
Took my son to Big W to look for a cheap toy and he chose a one dollar claw-hand grabby tool toy. And then he kept trying to grab people with it. 😛
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Oh man, I forgot to get those huge pretzel dealies last week after you suggested them. Where do you get them in the city?
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On Wednesdays there’s a small market set up on the George Street end of the Mall. The King Of Cakes stall has them. $2.50 each.
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Thanks Strange! 😀
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Comment of the day:
rockman_uli 5ptsSep 29, 2012
cave story is a beautiful game no mater what version you can get. Obviously you would want the most new and with more plus version. but the difference between them is not like marvel vs capcom 3 roster and ultimate marvel vs capcom 3, is more about street fighter 2 versions, some got better art style others got better graphics others incremented speed and even on cellphone platforms it remain the same (minus the awesome dpad or joystiq controls if your phone dont supported) there are versions on sega consoles, nintendo consoles, sony consoles, microsoft consoles, web platform and pc i think even my washing machine have a version of street fighter somewhere around to be unlocked. what Im trying to say is even if you only played the 2004 version with a keyboard you will experience what “pixel” created and enjoy it. I, myself have 2 versions of cave story (dsiware and steam + version) but because my location (Ecuador, in south america) game stores (we have 2 stores both with outrageous prices like 80 for a 3ds game) withouth support from any publisher, they didnt bring nintendo 3ds points cards or games besides the most populars. SO i have to get them importing and i ended just saving less than 10 bucks doing that. i really really want to buy the 3ds eshop version and the 3ds cart version, why. i think the answer is the same every fan of cave story would tell. support nicalis and his amazing videogame ideas, maybe im overtelling this but he can be the next miyamoto in less than 10 years, or not is up to him and his ideas. but i want to support that guy, the same i did with heavenly sword and enslaved. the same i did with castle crashers creator and the same with binding of isaac and super meat boy. buy everty piece of software they reales, now people will say hey but why so many versions, i can gift them to people i want to experience the game thats one reason the other one is have my favorite game in portable an d home version and the thirds again to support those dudes its the same people do with theyre call of duty, street fighter and fifa games. to support. please internet shower me in trash after this toughts but at least let me save some interesting toughts of fellow gamers that want to show theyre point of view also =D good night everyone
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I haven’t seen a wall of text in two years or so. Good work. Now, learn what that return/enter bar on your keyboard does, and then read about paragraphs and how to use them.
I, myself, shall go back to reading “The Book of Snark”. Good Day.
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Wut?
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Wut wut?
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In the butt.
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my location (Ecuador, in south america)
Dude obviously isn’t a native English speaker. Making fun of him seems like a bit of a dick move.
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the author’s spelling is pretty good actually. especially if english is his second language.
lack of paragraphs is a bit annoying though.
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But he’s making fun of his ability to use paragraphs, not spell or use proper English.
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I’m clearing out our library email inbox for the first time in 6 months.
90% is advertising, 6% is spam & 4% is useful work-related stuff.
Theres one book publisher who releases 2 or 3 new titles per month, each on the topic of some current social issue. They must be using a template for sending their emails out. Subject line is always in the format : Highly Recommended : [book title]
Which has resulted in us receiving some unfortunate / hilarious emails with subject lines like:
“Highly Recommended : Drug abuse”
“Highly Recommended : Racism”
“Highly Recommended : Child abuse”
I’m a bad person for laughing at these.
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“Highly Recommended: ?” should be a Cards Against Humanity card.
Initial impressions of the 920:
the hardware is fantastic. Phone feels very sturdy and the glass has a great silky feel to it. The matte black back is really nice too. Camera kicks the bejesus out of the iPhone.
pity about the OS. Definitely prefer the IOS over wp8. Very cluttered with bizarre restrictions on things (eg no background downloads)
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What colour UI did you go with? (The important questions!)
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I bet hot pink!
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When i’m on a call, sometimes my ear lob presses the ‘end call’ square, causing me to hang up on people.
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Stick with the interface a few days and it’ll grow on you a lot.
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Such a great phone
But I was a user of WP7, and never of IOS
Is Zone of the Enders HD still coming to Vita.
(Kojima still comes to TAY right?)
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Kojima don’t TAY.
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Downvote for Kojima!
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Looks like @freezespreston and @virus will have to start smuggling games into Queensland for Brisbane TAYbies.
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In their pants!
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I charge a 150% mark up, I call it “The i’m a jerk deal with it tax” 😀 Not really lol.
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So basically you charge “Australian tax” for games.
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Nah, Australian Nanny State tax! Blame your state gov’t for me having to charge more tbh. I think that’s how it all works.
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That is a lot of God Of War discs to shove up your butt
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The age of cartridge-base consoles can’t come soon enough
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Well, thanks to this comment my brother has discovered my internet identity and is now listening to Potaku and laughing at me.
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Sucked in 😛
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No booty for you.
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I take it back then!
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He knows my PSN ID but wouldn’t give it much thought usually, and I know he occasionally reads Gizmodo.
Got a text:
Him: “Ha! Dude I just stumbled upon your ramblings on the internets.”
Me: “From today? Gizmodo?”
Him: “Yup, the name rang a bell and I was like “I think that’s my brother” so I googled it, found a podcast and it was all like “mrmrmrrrmrrmrrrbrrrmmrrr” and I was like “that’s his voice””-
“mrmrmrrrmrrmrrrbrrrmmrrr”
Its like you’re in the room with me right now.
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Jealousy?
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He is down with the phlaiman though, right?
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No doubt.
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Is it because of your use of the word ‘ninnyhammer’?
Post because afternoon
I have gotten so much work done
I managed to not check TAY too much, but failed a bit I am sure
Still, day one so far I did alright
Just sitting here now, half an hour left, about to prepare a Statement of Account and file the file
Yay my life
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Nice man, glad you were able to stick to the first day!
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Thanks
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You are most welcome.
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What song did you play last?
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I thought I played that on page 10
It was Save me by Poets of the Fall
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I can’t confess my inner most thoughts anymore cause gorzy might read them and ask me about it. Ill have to talk in code from now on to avoid awkward moments.
needless to say the couch was vacuumed.
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A vacuum isn’t going to get those stains out.
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Mustard stains are impossible to remove from leather couch.
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There’s an Ask Reddit thread about renaming famous movies from the villain’s perspective.
Bourne Identity: What The Fuck Is Jason Bourne Doing?
Bourne Supremacy: I Can’t Believe We Still Can’t Kill This One Guy
Bourne Ultimatum: For Fuck’s Sake Guys
Bourne Legacy: NOW THERE’S ANOTHER GUY WE CAN’T KILL
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I liked the description of many movies:
Shit, here comes Bruce Willis
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I’m pretty happy with my suggestion for The Lion King: The Lion King.
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Pretty sure Thor would be “my idiot brother ruins everything and my biological dad is a jerk”
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Iron Man: really should have tested that prototype.
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I think the top suggestion for Iron Man is along the lines of “I Want One”
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Avengers: My brother and his stupid friends gang up and bully me
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The Matrix: WTF? HACKER!
The Matrix Reloaded: WHY CAN’T WE BAN THIS HACKER?
The Matrix Revolution: Finally upgraded our anti-cheat system!
I think I might be ready for the next generation of Pokemon…
To the best of my ability, Gen 4 is a reboot/remake of Gen 2, so I should be fine going to gen 4 and then to Gen 3 at a later date, right?
In which case I just need to decide whether to go with Gold or Silver.
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No.
No, no, no.
Go to Gen 5. Gen 5 is the reboot.
EDIT: Unless you mean HeartGold/SoulSilver, in which case: Yes.
Yes, yes, yes.
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But seriously, HeartGold or SoulSilver would be the perfect game for you. Full of “GEN WUN” nostalgia with most of the latest features.
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I don’t think the remakes are considered seperate generations.
Gen 1: blue/red/yellow
Gen 2: silver/gold/crystal
Gen 3: saphire/ruby/emerald
Gen 4: pearl/diamond/platinum
Gen 5: black/white/black2/white2
Gen 6: X/YGo silver.
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Sorry, meant generation of release, so gen 2 would be silver/gold, and gen 4 would be soulsilver/heartgold, I think?
Either way, SoulSilver will be purchased at some point, thanks 😀
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Remakes are defined in what generation their game mechanics come from.
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Bingo.
Fire Red/Leaf Green = Gen 3.
Heart Gold/Soul Silver = Gen 4.-
Ooo, okay, my mistake. He was sort of right calling gen 4 a remake.
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TAY CHARADES!
This rounds clue is: Slang for severe friction burns
Protip: DO NOT google image search ‘severe friction burns’ if your are squeamish
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Chinese WhispersBut I’m not sure that’s entirely a video game.
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Road Rash-
BOOM, Flu’s got it
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*facepalm* yes.
It’s… that’s really obvious, come to think of it.
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Clothes shopping. Fun! Almost as fun as setting yourself on fire!
I did get a really nice jacket, hoodie and pair of jeans though. Although I almost died when I saw the total price.
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Still summer, man. You crazy! 😛
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That may be true, but you’re forgetting where I live 😛 give it 2 or 3 weeks and the temp will be under 20 degrees most days!
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Oh man, that must be nice!
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Aha it’s amazing! I love wearing hoodies 😛
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Noooooo! DC is right. It should be dreaded! All I feel is a sense of shame when I walk out of a store up 3 items of clothing and down $210 😛
You’d fit right in with my female friends though. Come down here and you can spend all day frolicking through clothing stores that I refuse to enter with them 😀
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Downvotes for both of you! 😛If I had a limitless amount of money, I’d spend sooooo much time clothes shopping. Buy all the clothes! 😛
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Are they single? 🙂
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Ahaha yeah they’re single, but I’m well and truly friend zoned 😛
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I’m asking for myself ;D
Shopping aint that bad. Did some the past few days in Singapore
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Smoothius 😛 I don’t mind shopping, just clothes shopping with staff members following you around asking if you need help all the time!
If I accepted their help, people might mistake me for somebody with a hint of fashion sense. We can’t have that!
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Oh yeah… That happened the other day. She also kept asking whether I wanted to buy other things on sale like polos or pants and I kept saying no, “are you a ____ member?” “want to be a ____ member?” blah blah blah. Then I got bored and bought something else a fee minutes later and she asked all those questions AGAIN
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Friend zone doesn’t exist.
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Man so I am officially stuck in Antichamber.
Up to level 7 and have done all the things but have no idea what I am supposed to do next 🙁
Everyone else enjoying it?
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I definitely enjoyed it(finished it earlier today).
I mentioned that I was stuck in a bit on twitter, and the main developer guy messaged me, telling me to take a break. Surprise surprise, his advice helped.
Hello @gutsoup
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hello @jimu, only a week late
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Yep, There’s a new TAY now…
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@tech_knight
Double checking to see if you were still keen on Potaku tonight or wanted to wait for another topic.
Also, anyone else out there with an opinion on love and it’s portrayal in games and “romancing” options?
Podcast records in 2 hours! WE NEED YOU!
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The sims is the only accurate portrayal of love in games. =P
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Wait, it’s that easy?
Brb, off to go and “flirt” with my neighbour.
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Okay, I have results. Speaking gibberish while gesticulating wildly does not work.
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Doesn’t count unless you come on the show and say that. 😛
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What happened to FF?
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Shiggy does all this bit!
I have no idea. It’s the ep I most want to do but it also seems to require actual “planning”.
Best idea might be recording it between series 3 and 4 during the break, That way we can record whenever and I have a while to edit it.
Need a date and time that you, @jimu and @strange are free.
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Is there a list of future topics somewhere?
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I would love to listen to any combination of Faction, Strange, McGarnical or Sughly talk Adventure Games. Topic might be too obscure, though.
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D: The prospect of doing a podcast would keep me awake at night.
Plus I don’t think I’m articulate enough to talk about the intricacies. It would just be fanboy mode talking about writing to Jane Jensen as a teenager. 😛
Thanks, though. :’)
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Have you ever listened to Potaku? Articulate we aint!
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Which is better, Xbox or Playstation?
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Is that next week?
Hella busy lately and when I have the free time I’m exhausted.
If you can get @strange & @freezespreston at the same time, go ahead without me.
I just can’t give a firm date atm, sorry. 🙂
Every night after 7 QLD time except Thursday night
Valentines day themed isn’t really for me, I’ll wait for another topic, but thanks for keeping me in the loop. Work makes it harder to keep up with TAY nowadays so this really helps 🙂
So managed to get my hands on some actual Pear Scrumpy. 8% abv is what cider should have damn it!
For an extra five bucks you can get an artbook? very interested.
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ARGH! I WANT IT! BUT I WANT THE STATUE!
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Whoa! Proper art book too 😀
So the 920’s contact system is an absolute pain in the arse to set up each contact but brilliantly powerful once you spend half an hour fudging around with each individual contact. Putting every service updates and photos and notifications under their name is a cool feature.
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The integration of everything under ‘me’ and ‘people’ in WinPhone is IMO fantastic. It’s one of those ‘why didn’t anyone think of this before?’ things.
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So far a lot to like and a lot to hate. I think a lack of back/forward buttons in the browser is a real annoyance. Its a little too forceful in trying to integrate Facebook and email into EVERYTHING when I don’t really use either much. The UI in almost everything is a little over cluttered. The touch sensitive buttons down the bottom are too close to the keyboard and too easy to accidently hit. App store is really pathetically sad.
on the flip side the hardware is fantastic. The screen is big and responsive. The integration while forceful is great when its where it should be. Camera is REALLY good. Music app has a mix radio function where you select a genre and starts playing random new songs from it which has already let me discover 2 bands I would have never heard of otherwise. If I was an Xbox gamer I’d probably adore the Live functionality of the phone but I’m more a PS3 guy.
still not 100% sure if I did the right thing yet but its only first day.
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Facebook and email…I don’t really use either much
How do you keep in contact with people…?
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Sadly, this.
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Thanks for your initial thoughts 🙂
Hopefully it works out for you.
When you say the app store is really bad – is that just the apps available, or a problem with the actual store?
One thing I love about iOS is that I can hear/read about an app and have it on my phone in a couple of minutes. I should confess though, that I only use a handful of apps regularly, and could easily live without most of the apps I have.
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Just very few apps available. The store itself is actually quite good if extremely similar to the AppStore.
Oh man I was so embarrassed the first few times I fumbled around trying to enter people’s numbers into my windows phone while they stood there wondering wtf I was doing 😛 You’re right though, once you figure it out it’s by far the best and most powerful contacts system ever invented.
Erm, for any TAYbies that use Artrage, Artrage 4 is out now.
If you have ArtRage 3 Studio Pro, you can upgrade it for free.
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Sweet! Remind me next week 😀
Dinner! Tempura Chicken! Sometimes I don’t eat chips. Some times!
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DC. Eats. Food!
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Sometimes.
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Your diet makes me feel sorry for your internal organs!
I’m basically going to have to avoid the internet tomorrow. :\ All my hat, Feb 14.
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Haha! Could be worse, man. Could be April Fools Day. (Actually that’s always the worst on April 2 when it’s passed here, but still going on in the rest of the world. :S)
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Come talk about love on Potaku tonight and get it outta your system!
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I don’t feel very qualified to talk about that. 🙁
EDIT: Though I do admit I’ve played a dating sim or two over the years… :V
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I don’t think I can go back to using a normal mouse…
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What do you have now? A ‘special needs’ mouse? 😛
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MS Touch Mouse. Impulse bought it from Dick Smith for $30. The touch gestures on it are really nice. One finger for panning/scrolling. Two finger swipes for maximising, minimising/restoring, and snapping left or right, 3 finger swipe to show all open programs. Swipe thumb up and down to go forwards and backwards. Can be changed so they’re pretty much programmable ‘buttons’.
It’s pretty awesome. 😀
Also, apparently they usually sell for $70.-
Oh sweet!
I’m so used to using right-click gestures on my computer I’m not sure I’d have a use for the touch gestures, but I can see why you love it so much. I hate using other computers that aren’t running gestures.
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Im so awesome at games that I just have to look at them and I start earning achievments. Or I broke logic. Shogun 2 wasnt even running.
SORRY GUYS! Working Sunday has addled my brain! We’re recording Potaku TOMORROW! Ugh! WILL THIS WEEK NEVER END!?
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Sure it will, in 2-4 days time depending on your definition. Just in time for the next one to start again. Convenient huh
Hi everyone!
Havnt been around much the last week, been flat out with work, and not 100% well, so havnt even gamed much.
Thought id pop in and say Hi, and that i miss all your shenanigans! *Waves*
@freezespreston and anyone else with Windows Phones.
Assassin’s Creed: Altair’s Chronicles and Earthworm Jim are free right now for an undetermined period of time. Both are Xbox Live Titles.
Head here: http://www.wpcentral.com/deal-alert-earthworm-jim-hd-and-assassins-creed-free-right-now
Or just search for them on the store I guess 😛
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I played Earthworm Jim for hours on end many, many years ago, but now I can’t even figure out how to defeat the garbage can boss in the first level 🙁 The AC game is decent though, if a little too easy.
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Downloading Jim now.
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GROOOVY!
Man, busy, busy week this week! I’m excited for Sunday though! Right now all I want to do is sit in my comfy rocking chair thingy and play Forza 4 all night, but I think it’ll be spent cleaning and packing 🙁
I’m still not sure whether to bother taking my Wii with me or not. I probably would never touch it, but I’d feel kind of sad leaving it behind. Even if I don’t I’m still bringing my copy of Okami with me 😀 That game is special to me. I also wish Centrelink would hurry up a bit. I’ve got enough money to last a month or two but I kinda need that relocation money soon :l
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Xenoblade.
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How could I forget about that? I’ve got a copy of it saved on my computer though, so I can play that regardless of whether I have the Wii or not!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg7_m2cnUx8 so pretty~
So maybe it wasn’t the best thing to do to my body by going to bed at 4am last night and deal with a few hours sleep. But I think it was worth it staying up that late to chat to a girl who wants my attention ^_^
Also maybe alcohol wasn’t a smart choice for this evenings beverage consumption, but I regret nothing. Nothing I tells you!
Also how is everyone?
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Hit with the ladies! 😀
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Always am 😛
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Best wingman!
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@thelastquestion I won’t be able to make it to your birthday meat. I’ll be busy then 🙁
@freezespreston I probably won’t be able to go to the themepark meat II. Money and transport are kinda big problems for me. I need a job…
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Good god. Just found a SNES emulator on the windows phone store.
Between that and the Archer eps playing on it with no conversions seals this as an excellent choice.
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GBA emulator or get out.
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Pfft, Vectrex emulator is where it’s at.
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But what colours your UI! TELL ME! 😛
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Not green because he’s a monster.
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My UI is lime green, I think that’s close enough 😛 The “Green” one isn’t very appealing though!
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Yeah, I’d go with lime green too if I had one.
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You should get one! TAY really seems to be embracing the world of Windows Phone!
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Blue.
Haha. The City Lens app is hilariously out of date. Its directing me to The Nine Pines Restaurant as being 2kms away. That restaurant closed down 22 years ago.
I had my 8th Birthday there after they sold it and it was a Sizzlers.
How did they get it that wrong?
Quick question, where’d you get your phone from? Telstra? Harvey Norman? Allphones? Some random person wearing a trenchcoat in a dark alley? 😛
All the Harvey Normans near me seem to be out of stock. 🙁
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Was going to Allphones but Harvey Norman was closer.
Back to Ni No Kuni! No one probably needed to know this, but… uh… *runs*
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Jealoussss
The Friendly Favourite Fairy http://i.imgur.com/57j2wxj.png
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Not the manliest of phrases =/
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The manliest of statements.
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Haha! You deserve them, Pow. 😛
Hey gang, had the day off from work (and TAY) to celebrate my little girl’s third birthday! A great day, nice and simple, just keeping things reasonably low-key. She seemed to love the whole day, and we’re all feeling really happy.
@dc, only one ep of Freaks and Geeks to go. Not sure how to feel about that. Awesome show!
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Thanks for the ram, it arrived today
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Awesome! Enjoy 😀
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I think the last episode is up there with my favourites, so you’ll end on a high note man! 😀
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Awesome 🙂 Then the DVD set can take its place on our shelf of high-end TV programs.
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Mrs. Shane like it the whole way through? 😀
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Totally. She appreciates quality when she sees it. Except for her taste in men 😛
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Why is playing blu-rays on pc such a pain in the bum?
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Once I stuck my velcro eye-patch on, and made a hat out of a newspaper, it was surprisingly easy for me.
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Oh Blaghs…
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“Oh Blaghs” is right, who the hell thought that a velcro eye-patch was a good idea? First my hair got tangled in it, and then I pulled off half of my eyebrow!
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That would’ve been quite the painful experience.
I also liked your pirate reference 😛
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It’s a pain in the ass if you don’t pay for a program. I fucked around with trying to get BD codecs etc to work on everything from VLC to Media Player with no joy. After fuck knows how many hours, I just bit the bullet and bought a program online, think I ended up with Cyberlink PowerDVD 12, was close to $100.
Trust me, it’s easier than trying to get BD’s to play for free.
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I had issues with this a couple of nights ago.
Managed, after roughly 40 mins, to get VLC player to run my Indiana Jones blurays, but the other one I was testing with (I, Robot) still wouldn’t play.
I don’t see the point of having a bluray drive in a computer if you can’t even watch the bloody things.
HEY TAY
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Hey! o/
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I’VE BEEN DRINKING@
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Tell me something new.
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There are eight sub-species of the Colobus Monkey!
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HOW DARE YOU
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HOW DARE I INDEED
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‘sup?
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The thing this post fails to mention is that there a probably more Quartz movements that keep worse time than an auto/mechanical movement than there are good ones. Find me a digital device that keeps good time. They’re pretty hard to come by. Granted most brand name analogue quartz watches keep pretty good time.
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I have a wind up pocket watch and i keeps awesome time.
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I use a sundial.
keeps perfect time for 12 hours, then for the next 12 hours, it wont work for some reason.
batteries or some shit I guess.-
It’s solar powered, dingus. Put it under a bright lamp or something.
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One tries one’s best…
I really hope the Star Trek game coming out in April is awesome. Hasn’t really been a decent Star Trek game since Elite Force 2…
How long does it usually take for international distribution of Ghibli films after Japanese premiere? Investigating The Wind is Rising. Do they release the Japanese print with subtitles in some places internationally before the official dubbed version? (Ni No Kuni might’ve captured my interest. :D)
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There’s a back catalog you need to dig into before you can concern yourself with that.
I might go sleep. Good night, folks!
OH MY LORD I NEED THIS GAME RIGHT NOW.
CAPS LOCK.
ALSO APPARENTLY PAL FRIENDLY.
AS IN PAL/NTSC, NOT YOUR BUDDY.
THOUGH I SUPPOSE IT WOULD ELICIT QUITE A FEW HEARTY CHUCKLES WITH A PAL, IF YOU TURNED IT INTO A DRINKING GAME.
IF I CAN FIND A COPY, I SWEAR I’LL TAKE IT TO EVERY MEAT I GO TO HENCEFORTH.
HOLY SHIT, GOTY.
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Oh dear, that looks weird but awesome. There are some cheap versions on Ebay that are really tempting. I might buy a copy, maybe I’ll dig out my PS2 for this.
Bed.
Night.
Also, I need this game, now:
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It’s weird that you and Aleph posted about games made by the same developer at the same time and both games are equally odd.
🙂
Can you watch the livestream Nintendo Direct on mobile?
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There is a livestream tonight?
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Tomorrow morning.
Coincidentally one week before Sony announces the PS4. I’m expecting them to beg people to buy the Wii U.
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I see. Thanks.
Can’t wait for the Sony one as well. It’s in the morning(around 10am AEST) in Au so we don’t have to stay up late \o/
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This one is at 1am for you but 10 here. Perth time ftw 😀
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All I want from them is an Animal Crossing release date! I hope this time we finally get one.
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HEAR HEAR!
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Is there a UStream app on mobile? If there is then you probably can.
PS3 owners, there is a sale on the Australian PSN store at the moment and there are some pretty good discounts, other games have received a permanent price drop as well.
You can check out the details here: http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2013/02/13/new-playstation-store-sale-starts-today/ or I’ll just list down the new prices below 🙂
I’m guessing the permanent price drops on the THQ games are because of their recent problems.
Games on sale until 27/2/2013
Batman: Arkham Asylum (ends 27/02/13)-AU$14.45 Additional 10% Discount for Plus Subscribers
Batman: Arkham City (ends 27/02/13)-AU$17.95 Additional 10% Discount for Plus Subscribers
Dishonored (ends 27/02/13)-AU$38.45 Additional 10% Discount for Plus Subscribers
The Sly Trilogy (ends 27/02/13)-AU$14.95 Additional 10% Discount for Plus Subscribers
Twisted Metal (ends 27/02/13)-AU$21.95Additional 10% Discount for Plus Subscribers
Watchmen: The End Is Nigh (ends 27/02/13)-AU$11.75 Additional 10% Discount for Plus Subscribers
Games with a permanent price drop
Darksiders (permanent drop)-AU$5.85
Darksiders 2 (permanent drop)-AU$14.95
de Blob 2 (permanent drop)-AU$9.15
Red Faction (permanent drop)-AU$3.65 PS2 Game
Red Faction Armageddon (permanent drop)-AU$9.15
Red Faction: Guerrilla (permanent drop)-AU$7.35
Stuntman Ignition (permanent drop)-AU$3.65 PS2 Game
Darksiders 2 is so tempting at that price, but I haven’t finished the first game yet /o\
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Man i would love twisted metal and the sly trilogy. But I think I’d rather have a boxed copy =/
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Is that twisted metal the original PS1 game? Or the new PS3 version?
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New PS3 version.
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Wow, Darksiders 1 & 2 at that price is a bargain, in my opinion.
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Man, if only I had internet and didn’t have like four games to get through, then I’d be all over that Dishonoured deal
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Awesome price for the Slys!
So it’s going to be hella funny if Sony don’t announce the PS4 on Feb 20th. They haven’t said or even hinted that’s what it is. If it turns out to be a Vita hardware revision or some such I must admit I’ll laugh. The rage that will flood the internet will be palpable, despite the fact people are assuming that’s what this mystery date is all about.
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And that came off sounding more than a little cynical.
Hngh.
Sorry, had a particularly awful day yesterday.
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vita price drop? =D
I know it won’t happen but I can wish-
Who knows, it might. I doubt it, but considering the Vita floundering as it is, could be a spiffy move.
The article yesterday showing the Vita patent with HDMi, etc, made me think Feb 20 could be about anything, and a revised Vita with a price drop? Maybe.
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Ynefel?
Cynical?
HAS THE WORLD GONE MAD!?-
I see what you did there, ‘Nef.
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like when Apple hyped up an announcement for a few weeks & most people figured it’d be an iPhone 5 announcement? I gotta admit I found it a bit funny to see the shit hit the fan when they announced the 4S.
Still, even if theres not a PS4 announcement next week, we know its coming. probably by the end of the year. no point in crying if its not revealed immediately.
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Yeah for sure, I’m certainly hoping we get announcements soon, I’m jack of current gen.
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Anyone who didn’t expect a 4S was an idiot. I remember getting into an argument with a phone shop employee over it.
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When it was first mentioned that there was an announcement I assumed it’d be something with the Vita to try and give it a boost.
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Oh, so much rage…
It’d be hilarious.
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Given how much they’ve hyped it up, I assume it can only be PS4.
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I don’t think Sony’s hyped anything, they just made a very vague and intriguing announcement. The hype has come from everywhere else.
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TMNT get
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Radical!
I choo choo choose you!
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It’s funny because it has a picture of a train!
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And there’s a picture of a train on it!
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Lets bee friends!
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They did the mash.
Spaghett’s Last Song Played Game
American Psycho by D12
Very good song, very violent imagery
Good thing for a Thursday morning
Another day of TAY once an hour
Hell, maybe even less
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President Rd – The Bride
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FEEL INSIDE (and stuff like that)
Flight of the Conchords-
Helpahelpahelpa the kiiiiiiids <3
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I’m sort of halfway in between an MMM and an IN, so EH? because I’m confused.
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Van Canto – The Master Of The Winds
Could this be my first appearance in morning TAY? :O
Yes
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Woo \o/
Now grab a mop, those guys in night TAY made a terrible mess.
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Those rowdy scallywags!
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Busy as hell day yesterday, but today appears to be all ready for far too much TAY action \o/
I want to Skyrim on my computer, which I may do now that I got paid
My nephews left their copy of Avengers Earth’s Mightiest Heroes at my place the other day and last night I got bored so I decided to see what it was like.
I was surprised by how much I really enjoyed it.
I then saw that it won’t be renewed for a third season and I was like, damnit!
Oh well, at least there are two seasons to watch.
THOR!
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Yeah, it’s not bad. Not sure why it was discontinued.
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My son really likes that show. So much so that when I was buying him something yesterday he almost passed over the grabby tool toy in favour of a Little Golden Book about The Avengers.
And also when we were in the comic book shop the other week and I bought him his firstcomic book, he chose The Avengers. He also does kind of a happy dance when it starts onthe TV. 😀
Had to go up to the high school last night to listen to my daughter’s form teacher and the heads of all the departments talk about what’s expected of the kids this year. 2 hours of sittingin an uncomfortable chair listening to teachers drone on. I certainly don’t miss that aspect of school. 😛
Felt a bit sorry for my daughter’s form teacher though. He was super-young, like early 20s,and had to talk to a room full of people of whom I’m pretty sure I was the youngest by a long shot. Pretty intimidating.
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STOP SCARING ME!
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I mean, how interesting. *cough*
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Teachers have to do that? Oh man, another career to cross off the list of possibilities 😛
I nominate person number 1 for gifting person number 2 a whole heap of games on steam bahaha
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I nom @baron
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that Person number 1. what a great guy.
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Agreed, person number 2 didn’t even deserve those games.
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What!? You’re joking right? How can you say that after Person number 1 insulted and yelled at Person number 3?
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but that was after 3 was mean to 2. ON THEIR BIRTHDAY. 1 did the right thing. although 4 also stood up for 2 against 3, so I nommed 4 as well. and 3 apologised to 2, so 3 is ok in my book.
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Getting back into Dark Souls.
Took down a Black Knight in the Undead Burg last night. He was kicking my butt until I went and bought the Heater Shield from the merchant. Remembering just how much of a waste it is to spend souls on levelling up. Equipment and patience ftw. I think I might just keep my thief at his starting level and spend all my souls on upgrading my gear, etc. Will be interesting to see how it works.
Taurus Demon tonight.
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I’ve been thinking I might get in to Dark Souls properly at some point soon. Think I might mark off Colonial Marine’s campaign first (which, from what I can see, won’t take long).
Still freakin’ love the multi! -
Bow, shoot lots of arrows at Zombie Dragon and get Dragoncrest Shield and Astora’s Straight Sword, both very powerful early game equips-
if you are fast enough, you can pick up the sword & shield before it even wakes up.-
But then you lose out on Proud Knights Soul and all the Dragons Souls. -
I tried that, but it did not go well 😛
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Even of you have to die to pick up the items it’s not too bad. Your blood stain should be heaps away from the undead dragon.
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Thanks, yep, I did that last time I played.
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Buy firebombs. About 15 should down Taurus. Don’t forget the Drake Sword too if you can use it bAccept my fiend request so I can invade/coop!
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Last time I played through, I took down Taurus first try with just a sword. Gonna try that again.I’m on the xBox version atm and don’t have Gold. I can’t access MP at all 😛
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Or just use that gold-powder-type-stuff, forget what it’s called. Enchants your weapon, you know the one. Taurus is an utter joke with that on one of your weapons. You find some somewhere along the line before you get to him too. Pretty sure it’s in a chest out the back of the little house at the base of the stairs leading up to the spiral stairs before him.-
Yeah, I want to try a vanilla boss battle with my current build first, but will keep that in reserve, thanks 🙂
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Ah I see, well good luck! I think I need to grind some more so I can survive
Blighttown-
I couldn’t get far into Blighttown if I went through the Depths, but if I went through New Londo Ruins and in the back way, you can get a lift pretty much straight down to the boss area. It’s actually easier climbing back up through Blighttown afterwards… or at least, that’s what I thought. -
Really? I though New Londo was levelled higher than Blighttown? Or did you just sprint through it? -
You don’t really have to go through it at all. Sort of skirt around the edge once you’re in there, and it’ll drop you in Valley of the Drakes… which you won’t really have to enter either. There are shortcut guides in the wikis that can explain better than me.Edit:
Requirements: Master Key (Gift)Go down from Firelink Shrine to the New Londo Ruins by taking the elevator down.
Over you exit the elevator you will enter New Londo, go right up another spiral staircase and into another elevator.
Take that elevator up, it will bring you to a locked door that your Master Key an unlock.
Enter the Valley of the Drakes.
Take the bridge across the cavern to enter Blight Town.
The fire is to the left after you get to the swamp below.
From http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/606312-dark-souls/65297078
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Ah. I didn’t take the master key, took black firebombs for the first boss.
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So, Valentine’s Day… what’s the plan?
For my part, we’re not doing anything today. I bought my wife a couple of presents, but ended up giving them to her on Tuesday: DVDs of Mad Men and Downton Abbey (season 1 of each). I also bought her some flowers last weekend, and some cheese and crackers to celebrate the third anniversary of us becoming parents (yesterday). Mutual agreement that it’s a better milestone to celebrate than V Day.
Edit: do guys ever receive anything on V Day, or is it a ‘please don’t leave me lady’ day?
I’m not expecting anything, but have been surprised in the past.
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Something something weeping about loneliness something something.
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It’s basically an excuse to go have a nice dinner for me and my girlfriend. I don’t really like the sheer commercialism of it, and she’s not big on jewellery.
Come to think of it, I might try and start a new personal practice: Valentine’s day traditional gift? Anything gaming related!
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This backfired on me last year – I bought her a copy of Kingdoms of Amalur. She loved it… And didn’t come to bed for 3 days because she was up playing it.
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Me and my wife demand a specific gift from each other. Sometimes to be extra romantic we go out and get our own!
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Got wifey a gift voucher at a fancy day spa thingy. Probably going to pick up some dinner on the way home and have a little night together.
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“little” *snigger*
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Mr. Strange used it as an excuse to buy a bunch of cds and I’ll use it as an excuse to send the kids to bed early. 😛
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Living with my parents, I’ll be spending as long as I can at the pub so as not to hear any wayward noises…
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Carry on my wayward soooOooooon
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And you could pick-up a sheila, mayt!
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Happy Valentine’s TAY!
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Bought the waifu coffee pods from that over the top Nespresso shop in Brisbane’s CBD.
Will get home just in time to see her leave for work and will spend the evening watching Pokemon Season Two Orange League with my son.Romantic as all get out.
(My Valentines gift will be money for Vita related stuffs)
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A Shakespearean tragedy.
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This ones a romantic comedy :p
Probably of Ben Stiller levels…
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So just a normal tragedy then? 😛
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Internet slang usage tip: your Waifu and your Wife are not the same thing.
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Wats a Waifu then?
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Usually a fictional character or unobtainable person that you really like. The unobtainable part is the important thing.
EDIT: Also you can have many waifus but only one wife unless you live in Utah.
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I’m married to an attractive smart woman, so she still fits the desrcription. WAIFU STANDS!
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As for your edit: I’ve always given Valentine’s Day gifts. I’m not supposed to?! I always thought it was a reciprocal romance day.
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I dunno. I’m confused. Sometimes I get something. But I think my wife staying around is supposed to be enough 😛
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Shouldn’t wives feel lucky enough that you’re sticking around that they get the boys something? 😛
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Depends who you ask. She’d probably agree with you.
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I thought guys were meant to get their gifts on the 14th of March
Not sure what the plan for tonight is. I bought her Legend of the guardians so thinking I might go get some popcorn or something and have a movie night in. Most likely watching something other than the one I gave her.
I often get something from her, normally just a little something. A couple of years ago I got the cutest little tiger which I called Thor.
But most often all I get for V day is in trouble
Ever since I started playing Dota2 daily, it’s become rather difficult to watch LoL streams. They just seem so dull. Man, I’m a boring person.
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Welcome to my world when trying to watch a Dota2 stream… for me it’s more like “Oh god what’s going on?”
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The answer to which is often “I’m not sure but I think this might be fucking awesome!”
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My answer is “did he just … where did … How? When? … Whaaaaaaaaaaat?”
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4 second stun, 4 second stun, 3 second stun, silence… any chance we can actually play the game some time?
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I’m beginning to enjoy the game beyond a sense of bewilderment and confusion.
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It’s a fun game.
Particularly when you random a carry that melts the other team. Then it just gets silly.
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Well you do watch streams of other people playing games 😛
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Needs a little kid with a huge folder snatching cards off me.
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Did you dob?
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Yep, although more often than not the roles are reversed.
So Last of Us is delayed. This is turning out to be the crappiest 6 months of gaming in memory.
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It’s okay, it’s okay. We still have Bioshock Infinite, and… Umm…
Hmmm.
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Crysis 3, SimCity, Tomb Raider 😀
I think I’ll be pretty much set until the end of the year 😛-
You missed Heart of the Swarm, and the model that’s coming with my copy of Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm 3.
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Yeah! Naruto! I will probably play it for an hour and that’s about it! I’m good a video games. =P
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You both missed Metal Gear Rising: (cupcakeless) Revengance.
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Dammit, I knew there was another with a super sexy statue.
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I really can’t wait for Tomb Raider. I hope it’s as good as I want it to be. 😛
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None of those I would really consider blockbusters though. I was keen for Simcity but the way EA are handling it is putting me off.
Tomb Raider might be good.
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Half Life 3!!!!
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I forgot Bioshock. I guess it threw me with its last delay and long ass production. That will be good.
At least GTAV is… oh wait… fuck. You’re right 😛
Eh, I still have Dark Souls. I’ll survive.
Lucky for me theres a whole bunch of cool Japanese stuff coming! HOORAY!
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Like?
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Muramasa redo on Vita and some other Vita things. Vita.
Seriously, can only remember Muramasa at the moment. There’s at least one other new game…
Dragon Crown? Maybe? Sounds awesomesauces anyhoos.
(Bladnimz bedder)
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Vita always has some interesting looking games but I usually hear people complain that it has no games.
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Jacobean tragedy.
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I think it’s become more of a running gag than truth. There are only a few great Vita games, but the same with 3DS. I still think it’s early days, really.
I’m sure things could have come quicker but, oh well.I’m keen on a bunch of the non-Vita specific titles like Sonic Racing, Mortal Kombat & MGS HD because I don’t get much time to game on the home consoles these days. 🙂
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But you said a whole bunch of stuff and only named Muramasa :(. I can’t think ofupcoming localised Jap stuff :(. Is that other Vanillaware game getting localised? Last time I checked there was no news on it.
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I mentioned TWO! Dragon Crown as well. But yeah, I’m blanking. Fire Emblem Awakening is not far off either.
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I could be wrong, maybe it’s a ways off…
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Confirmed:
– Soul Sacrifice
– Muramasa Rebirth
– Vallhalla Knights 3
– Ys: Memories of Celceta
– Dragon’s Crown
– Dead or Alive 5+
– Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2
– Toukiden (I think?)Rumored / Expected:
– Senran Kagura: Shinovi Versus
– God Eater 2It would be nice:
– Tales of Innocence R
– Tales of Hearts R
– Time Travellers
– Legend of Heroes: Trails of Zero
– Ciel NoSurge
– Atelier Totori Plus
– Atelier Meruru Plus
– Monster Monpiece
– Demon Gaze
– Project Diva f
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So I just realised my mouse effectively has 8 programmable ‘buttons’ (touch gestures, really)
😀
One of those days where I sit in front of the PS3 and slack jaw gawk at Ni No Kuni for hours at a time. I think I’m getting close to the end too. :'( Catch you guys on the flipside, home slices!
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I think Ni No Kuni might have stolen Uncharteds crown for prettiest game of this generation!
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I’m getting really invested in Ni No Kuni, talking at the TV!
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Ugh jelly
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It’s going to be finished soon and I’m going to be sad. :'(
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And then you’ll wish you had no time to play, like me! (only not)
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Sounds like it’s time to get all those PSone JRPG classics on PSN 😉
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Haha! Nah, usually I’m not a fan of JRPGs. There’s even plenty I don’t like about this, the good here outweights the bad, though.
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Wait’ll you play Final Fantasy VII!
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Didn’t like it! Haha!
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Tried to write a few comments now re RE6.
Can’t get it right.
Tried playing for third time last nigth.
Tried fighting the creeping sense that i wasn’t having fun.
Eventually just let the zombies eat Leon, and said to myself ‘this is how his story ends, they finally got him’ and on that note I ejected the game disk.
It was a melencholy moment.
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Actually I can’t leave it at that. Let’s break this shit down.
Resident Evil 6. Two words, one number. let us examine:
Resident referred to the mansion in RE1, which got blown up. So now what does it refer to? Leon was a resident fo Raccoon City, which also got blown up, so it can’t be that. In fact he has been in a different location every game I’ve seen him. He is no resident, he is transient. Also, I have seen trians in RE. Transients who go by trian are Hobos.
Evil refers to… what? Can’t be the zombies, as they are mindless, acting on instinct. Is a lion eating the gazelle evil? What about Umbrella Corp? Well that is a company trying to meet its legal obligations to its shareholders, inclduing increased profits. It is really capitalism gone mad, Ultra Capitalism, if you will (ref Dick Smith http://www.dicksmithfoods.com.au/dick-smith-secret).
Finally, we have #6, depsite the game bearing little resemblence the the numbered enteries that came before it. Considering I have shelved the title and intend not to finsih it, wouldn’t that suggest no ending, or an incomplete RE experince, like staring into infinity.
On this basis I suggest the game should have been called:
Hobo Ultra Capitlaism Infinity.
Then it could have just been a mediocre third perosn shooter with no ties to the games I’ve enjoyed prior.
PS If you are fans of the way the Robot Taisen series names games, and considering the recurring characters in HUCi, you cna ad OG to the end fo you like, giving:
Hobo Ultra Capitalism Infinity: Original Generation!
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… You know that Resident Evil is a title they came up with for the US release right? And that the actual Japanese title is Biohazard?
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Yes, and it makes much more sense.
But I don’t live in Japan, so…..
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DINO CRISIS!!!
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Surely is refers to the evil that lives there and not the protagonist? :p
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No, that would be an Evil Resident!!
But seriously, I had assumed the negative reviews of RE6 were jaded critics etc. Is it just me that has been dissappointed by the game, or were you guys in the same boat and it is old news?
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I wasn’t overly impressed by 5, so until someone lends me a copy I won’t be playing.
I’d rather just replay RE2 & 3 for the bajillionth time.(I just don’t want to own a copy, I may think it’s fine for an action game)
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Yeah fair enough. I was just a bit dissappointed last ngith so I’m trying to get it off my chest.
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Hey guys, I wrote a thing on Potaku, you should go read it.
Or at least, go and look at the pretty picture I drew.
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Nice picture. i can’t read the article as I haven’t finsihed (or started playing) The Moon yet
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Damn it Blaghman, now I have to play this game.
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You and me both
Dammit
DCBlaghs-
MY PLAN IS FINALLY COMING TO FRUITION!
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Awesome!
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Or I guess, alternately, if you just want to look at the picture, there’s a high res version here: http://i.imgur.com/CVklXSd.jpg
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When I read the article, I assumed that pic was in-game art. I guess that’s a compliment. Nice work!
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Just socked $50.00 aside
Possibly for my PS3 fund, possible for the box set of The Twilight Zone
Possibly may end up spending that this fortnight just because I may need to
Who knows
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Or, maybe it’s your sock’s money so it can buy a new foot.
*Cue Twilight Zone music*
HAPPY HERMIT DAY!
A day when we hermits stay inside and play video games before wondering what happened to the sun
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That’s every day,isn’t it?
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well, true hermits can stretch it into year long festivals … but unfortunately I am not at that level yet and can only keep the festivities going for a day.
The sun’s kind of like this giant light bulb that no one knows how to turn off … damn thing gets annoying with its glare.
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What?! I have to work 🙁
Can I take this up with my boss? Hermit day sounds like a very important occasion.
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Claim it’s for religious reasons.
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Alternatively, move to Canada, go outside, and still never see the sun.
Man, Final Fantasy V is spoiling the party for everyone!
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It bugs me that they have the FF Anthology cover for FFV on PSN. Yes, I’m that picky.
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It bugs me too. So much. But looks so much better than the US games.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BCdTNr-CQAElIOB.jpg:large
ALSO! Ragnarok Odyssey arrived today! THANKS DUDE!
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Yeah man, the US cover images are fucking terrible. And that awful black spine thing down the left side? Bleh.
Yay for Ragnarok Odyssey! Enjoy mang.
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Dissidia background, nice.
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Grabbed the first image i could at 11:30 last night.
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Why is it spoiling it? I don’t get it 😛
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Sheesh! I get it now… I think? The whole non-white cover thing? Also those US covers are hideous.
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They sure are.
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I’ve always loved the PAL / JP FF covers. Just that stark white with the name of the game and the stylized logo in behind. So minimal. So awesome.
Shame they’ve basically stopped doing it even on the PAL releases now 🙁
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Yeah but IIRC 13 didn’t have that, and I know 14 doesn’t. 🙁
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My FFXIII looks like this:
https://lh3.ggpht.com/_bw3abEJccaA/S7RL0wB2bAI/AAAAAAAAAEA/P1jG7ekCRdA/s1600/P1000407.JPG
My copy of FFXIV has this cover:
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I had to buy FFIII from the US because the Japanese and European cover had crap in the BG. The US cover was white wit the logo. So weird considering that’s not how it works normally.
I was tempted to buy XIII from Japan for the plain cover, but I already own the PAL version and the HK version (Japanese with English text) and that’s already more copies than I’d like to own.
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i bought the collectors edition of XIII solely based on the fact that the box had the regular white background + logo cover on the box.
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I’d just like to take a moment to dedicate this song to any fellow TAYbies who might be feeling abit lonely this Valentines day
1 week
Thats how long i have been away from my oldhome.
I HAVE SPEND LONGER AWAY FROM HOME ON HOLIDAYS
Yet im starting to miss it. I think i am just a little overwhelmed with things i need to get done and it becomes even harder because I have to do it by myself. I guess im just missing the familiar things that i like. Going to that awesome bakery in town for lunch, Asking my grandad how he did at golf. Listening to dubstep on the 2 minute drive home from work.
Seriously though its 1 week and i am pathetic, so because its valentines day i will allow you all to call me a variety of different names to shame myself into being more positve. I’ll start
Rocket you are a boob
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You poor darling man, come and let me give you a hug.
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THIS IS NO TIME FOR SARCASM
actually wait everyday is a time for sarcasm-
I was serious >_>
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Heh, Boob.
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rocket boobs … I like where this is going.
Seriously though, you’re not pathetic. Everyone likes being in familiar territory and gets a bit high strung when faced with something different. Now, you accept the hug from ash and have this chocolate someone gave me.
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Rockets you are more betterer than you know. 😀
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Sentimental fool.
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Rocket you are amazing
I need to start storing all my technology stuffs way up high.
My son had my iPod in his room and ended up tweeting Shiggy some nonsense (btw, “qwefty” is now my favourite word. 😛 ), and this morning he’d managed to get onto YouTube via our TV’s apps and woke me up complaining that he couldn’t find the “beautiful song” anymore. After much questioning I found out he’d navigated his way to You Tube and apparently been watching something before messing it up by pressing more buttons.
So if anyone has any idea what “the song with the girl with the beautiful black hair and the fireworks” is, I’d very much like to know! 😛
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fireworks katy perry
shes hot and it has fireworks-
Thanks, Rockets! You just brought the biggest smile to my son’s face when I called him over to ask if that was the song. It was. 😀
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Fireworks coming from her tits, if memory serves.
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I think it was supposed to be more from her heart but yeah, from her bust. 😛
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This is the same person that has worn a cupcake bra and I’m fairly sure had a bit in that film clip involving cream.
The fireworks are definitely coming from her tits.
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Man I love that video for California Gurls.
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I watched it and was like, this song is awesome because fireworks and katy perrys chest
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I’m quite partial to Katy Perry’s “Fireworks” too.
Except the part where she rhymes “moon” with “boom”. Ugh.
It’s not this one is it? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGJuMBdaqIw
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It sure was. And it was also the first time I’ve heard a whole Katy Perry song. The things we endure for our kids. 😛
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I hear “small kid” + “technology” + “distant supervision” and think electrocution. I’m on the fence about whether being forced to listen to Katy Perry is a worse fate.
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Pretty sure you just called me a bad parent. 😛
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Noooooo, I reworded it about eight times to try to lose that inference. I just wanted to make a joke about how bad her music is 🙁
For the record, I think hovering over a 3 year old like a helicopter is worse.
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I got the joke, and was far from offended. And then I decided to mess with you anyway….
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Gah. Very successful.
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@shane
I’m a bad person. 😛
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Monster! D:
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HAHA! Got you back. Now we’re even
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The reason I wasn’t offended is because I know I’m not a bad parent. And I know I’m not a bad parent because I know I could be a better parent. I think a bad parent might be one who thinks they’re doing just fine but aren’t really, and a good parent might be one who is worried they’re not doing a good enough job. 🙂
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Can’t you go to “recently viewed”?
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It’s a weird LG TV app and it wasn’t signed in so I couldn’t find anything like that.
Your son is awesome! XD
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Think you missed the bit where he asked to hear “Firework” again :\
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I don’t see a problem here.. Katy Perry, her actual singles are quite tolerable and the videos are great for given the genre of her music. She also has awesome boobs.
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I listened to the whole song.
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No Lambo. This
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OH GOD NO KILL IT WITH FIRE!
I was actually thinking of Bjork’s Venus As A Boy…
hmm.
I have a phone interview today but the guy didn’t tell me what time so I’ve just been sitting here doing nothing because I know as soon as I start something he’ll ring 😛
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Shouldn’t you start something then? Otherwise, you’ll just be sitting around, and he’ll never call :\
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I deffinatly never waited for a similar thing and held off going to the toilet for as long as I could and then got called whilst i was on the toilet and tried to get away with it but realised after that toilets have a certain unmistakeable echo.
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should of put a towel over your head as a makeshift sound booth
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Poop with the door open, and the echo disappears. It may or may not have helped me get my new job :S
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I think you’re talking shit.
(edit or is that your talking shit? :P)
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Did you get dressed up for the phone interview? I’ve done that before
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Yeah I’ve heard people do that. I probably would if I had a set time! Otherwise I’m just sitting around in a suit all day 😛
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A suit? It’s not just a suit but a…
POW-er suit 🙂-
-mouse hovering over downvote button-
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I upvoted it in anticipation.
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Feelings hovering over sadness 🙁
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Yeah, that’s THE WORST
I got told I’d be called on a day but didn’t get called until the following day where I was called TWICE. Get yo shit together Holden.
Oh and good luck Jobalen! Soon you can buy us all the copies of Jurassic Park The Game!
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Dude, that’s not the worst.
The worst is showing up for an interview with DSTO, being told to park somewhere, not understanding and parking slightly off from there and having a fucking armed escort back to the gatehouse. And then you’re not even in the list of expected people because they told you to come on the wrong goddamned day (and you had arranged to take time off work for it too). And then finally getting to your interview and getting halfway in and realizing they think you’re one of the other guys in your university class and that you’ve probably stuffed up both his and your own chance of getting a job there because of their administrative fuck-ups.
That is the worst. Late phone interviews are just an inconvenience.
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That would be pretty bad. Good thing that could never happen to anyone.
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Melbourne DSTO was the epitome of poor logistics.
I also interviewed with them for some jobs in Adelaide as well and everything was handled and scheduled so carefully that you’d think they were part of the military :V
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Good luck, Pow! 😀
Thanks to Mr. Strange, I now have a ticket to see Tool. \o/
I’ll be going by myself so if anyone else is going to the Brisbane show let me know.
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FOR THE LOVE OF GOD TAKE ME WITH YOU.
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@dc will go
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Nah, he’ll be too tired from attending this the night before. 😀
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DC IS TOO HIPSTER
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Just tell him Arcade Fire will be there
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I don’t have any hipster street cred. Should be obvious after discovering a band that the hipsters discovered nine years ago. 😛
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I love arcade fire.
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So do I, I just know it gets @dc’s ears to prick up
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@Powalen the new eevee evolutions name doesnt end in ‘eon’ pokemon ruined
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C’mon, man. I’m trying to avoid all this news :\
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Just to be clear: I’m not angry. I don’t mind if you guys want to discuss all the new stuff, just please don’t tag me 😛
(I know I’m being stupid and this is a very minor piece of info, but it’s a slippery slope).
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Ok, ill adapt a new stratergy where I say nothing about the game but how I feel about new info
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I know, and Im trying to tell you nothing by making it sound like spoilers
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Hey man, remember to respect the blackers (those on a media blackout)
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Hey…Oh, I just saw the brackets 🙂
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WHITE POWER (ranger)
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Thanks @rocketman and @cj. Now I’ll be spending the rest of the day watching Brock’s Dub…
😛
If i wanted to feel sad by listening to a piece of music or watching a movie or TV show or playing a game what would you reccommend?
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Cantus in Memoriam of Benjamin Britten by Arvo Part
It’s said that the first people dying of AIDS listened to this piece as is perfectly encapsulated their despair.
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Holy shit, this song man, it hurts to listen to.its beautiful but it feels so bad.
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Arvo Part is one of my favourite composers, so much of his stuff is beautiful.
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Play Nier if you want to feel sad.
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Also – and I don’t know why, as I typically don’t appreciate this sound – Wasteland – 10 Years
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Children of Men – movie
Walking Dead – game-
Six Feet Under – tv?
(Wouldn’t necessarily say it made me sad on an episode-to-episode basis, but it did tap into something almost every week that I could relate to in my cold, black heart.)
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Scrubs used to break me, frequently.
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MASH was my bleak of choice between the ages of 5-12. Scrubs obviously drew a lot of inspiration from that show. 😛
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Yeah, that’s a good one. But there’s plenty of uplift in that show too (ups and downs of life, etc).
For sheer bleak, go The Sopranos instead. A show that really makes you think to get the sadness, but it’s all there, and there’s almost nothing to offset it.
Edit: oh yeah, Freaks and Geeks should get a mention for sadness here, too.
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Oh god I forgot the game, yeah. Walking Dead, followed by Spec Ops: The Line.
But the walking dead takes the cake, holy shit.
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I tend to find that kind of thing really depends on the person,and their experiences. What would make me sad would most likely not be same thing that would make you sad.
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To the Moon.
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dunno if it would have the same effect on others, but for me…
music – Pan’s Labyrinth OST
movie – Big Fish
series – Doctor Who : End of Time pts 1&2
game – To The Moon / certain parts of Mass Effect 3-
Oh man, that Pan’s Labyrinth OST is so good. Also the movie too, that unspoken sense of isolation and no sense of control Ofelia felt at the start especially…
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That is one sad movie.
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Love Big Fish. So touching…
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I felt myself tearing up watching Glee last night. For a show that shamelessly plays into stereotypes and features pleanty of upbeat music it can be surprisingly moving at times.
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…why do you want to feel sad?
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Now and Then, Here and There. So bleak and devoid of light and hope that I had to stop watching halfway.
EDIT: Also for games, Clannad and Air are pretty sad, though not as crushingly depressing as NTHT.
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The first 5 minutes of UP
Got caught out on some stuff here at work
The feeling sucks
But so far no other repurcussions
Just “That should have been done a while ago, that looks bad”
I think I am lucky it was the person who grabbed the stuff that did
If it was the person above him I may have been in more trouble
Here ya go, you big bunch of saps.
Ta Douleur – Camille
For a song about pain, I can’t help but want to dance. AWESOME feelgood tune.
Surprise Taybie invasion/mini lunch meat ft. Virus__
Always brightens the day a bit when that happens.
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Aw man, now we all know how you felt last week after that impromptu lunch thing. :'(
😛
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Hardly a surprise when I said the other night i’d pop in this week to catch up 😛 But yeah man good to see ya, nice to get out of the god damn house and see friends.
Also I really hate to say it but there very well could be a Nokia 920 up for sale very soon.
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I give you
five dollareight dollars-
Racist. 😛
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Why???
Give it time
It will grow on you
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Victory! \o/
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Because I’m an old grump that hates change and every fiber of my being is screaming at me to go back to IOS
I can recognize how good the phone is just hating the UI pretty intensely. If I could run IOS on this thing it’d be a perfect phone.
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This is pretty much my reasoning for staying with iOS and I ♥ iMessage probably sent around 1500+ texts in the last 6 weeks because of it and that’s just between one person and myself, we converse a lot it would appear lol.
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Oh no! And you were so looking forward to it.
let me guess – ear lobe hanging up on people too?
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Not going so well? You only bought it… yesterday? Give it some more time man, is this your first experience with Windows Phone?
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Shouldn’t’ve got a Nokia.
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Is it the UI or the lack of software? What are your main pain points?
I initially didn’t like WP7 when I moved over from iOS and there’s still some things that irk me but I’ve gotten to the point I like it a lot more as an interface, but on the other hand I work for MS so possibly have been sipping the Kool-Aid.
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I leave you alone for like an hour and you’re already deciding to sell it, damn it!
Yeah
Fuck today
Now I am going to stay late *my decision* to try to get some of that work that I got cautioned over done.
Why am I posting on TAY
*rushes off to work*
Fuckkkk
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Sounds like these hour post things aren’t working for you. D:
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They aren’t man
But this stuff is before I decided to start checking hourly
Now, that I am really anxious I am just falling back into old familiar habits
It’s alright, it will ease off a bit I think
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I’m overworked too, man. This Dark Souls wiki is just too big to read before I head home 😛
#DoingPublicSectorWorkTheRightWay
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I should probably read up on how to play Dota 2 properly while I’m still being paid for it.
#NotPublicSectorYetButHeyIMayAsWellGetSomePracticeIn
#HiHarli-
Start by playing the easiest champion, Invoker.
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Invoker? I’ve been focusing on Skeleton King, though have played Doom and Lich too.
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I would hesitantly suggest that Bish may be stretching the truth. Slightly.
Maybe.
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Yeah… it just clicked, I think.
I’m really good with sarcasm and the like.
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Yup, there is no skill gap between Skeleton King and Invoker
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You see, the joke here is that Elvis (AKA Invoker) has a skillset far more complex than pretty much all of the DotA heroes, to the point that he arguably becomes anti-fun not necessarily due to the the complexity of playing him, but rather the complexity of playing against him.
Much of the time, through time and experience, one can learn the basics skillset of every hero in the game, however, Invoker has such a varied movepool that’s it’s incredibly difficult to just simply observe and learn from him.tl;dr: I am a filthy liar.
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Oh I get it, it’s a joke and jokes are funny, therefore the statement is funny.
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It is humourous because I intentionally mislead a new player of the game into falsely believing something, it what can only really be described as me being a jerk, but the elitist attitude many people feel on the internet actually means that said people will find it amusing.
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Hehe!
Mule.
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Thank you for the explanation! I’ve become accustomed to feeling like an idiot when Dota 2 is involved.
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Time and experience, m’friend!
You can’t pick a game like DotA up and expect to know everything after 2 days. Reading works, but actually seeing what heroes can and can’t do (not only by themselves, but also within a team/in team fights/against certain enemies/on the map/etc etc), I think helps massively.
*hugasaurus*
Happy Singles Awareness Day!
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“Happy”.
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Acronym win.
*slow clap
Xenofronds: how much of the game do I have left? I am still at the Fallen Arm.
EDIT: I am trying to plan things out and see if I will have time to spend the ~40-50 hours on Ni no Kuni I need to finish it before Bioshock and Tomb Raider or if I’ll need to push those back.
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Hm…
I think you’ve still got a fair bit left. At least 2 or 3 major story events left, if I’m remembering correctly.How many hours have you been playing? It took me 120ish to finish and that was completing the majority of the sidequests (though other people finished it in a lot less time than I did so you’ll probably finish earlier).
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I think I was about 45-50 hours. Closer to 45 than 50.
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@bish @saturday and everyone
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/02/watch-the-canadian-parliament-hilariously-debate-the-zombie-apocalypse/
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Just when you thought Canada couldn’t be more awesome…
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That’s it. Screw moving to Bathurst. It’s Canada or bust.
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Deleted my entry for the Alien competition. It was pretty damn crap any ways, but I don’t want to risk ending up with this game. 😛 Also, a little riled up how deceptive Gearbox have been about the development. I guess they can’t exactly speak their mind, having to work with a publisher and all that but seems like outsourcing basically the entire thing without telling anyone isn’t good. :S
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I figured the free-ness would make up for the crappyness. Same way I played through Medal of Honor (the first PS3 one)- for the $3 I paid for it it was worth it
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I agree, man. Outsourcing contracted work is a really bad business practice. I’d be surprised if this doesn’t breach some/all of their publishing agreement, to be honest.
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Just the deceptiveness has kind of diluted Gearbox’s brand for me. When they promote the game talking about how awesome it is even when there’s troubles internally… don’t think I’ll be buying any of their games on day one again any time soon… :S
Edit: *shakes fist* Damnit Shane!
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I decided to edit out a murder confession. Can you blame me? Didn’t affect your point at all, except you were laughing oddly 😛
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I still forwarded it onto the police, the laugh was to defuse the situation so you wouldn’t kill me next! 😛
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Outsourcing work is reasonable if the guys you outsource to perform as they should.
From what I’ve read, the blame seems to lie with TimeGate, the dev studio that they sent it to. it appears that they didn’t do what they were contracted to do, or did it at a bare minimum standard, and Gearbox had to rush it out to pick up the slack.
Poor project management.
I actually think the real issue was that Gearbox did Duke Nukem, which threw out their schedule.
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To be fair, I think the enthusiasm at one point was genuine too. I remember reading the personal blog of a Gearbox employee where he seemed all kinds of pscyhed that he was working on the game. Clearly something changed down the line, it just sucks that no one told the people buying the game. 😛
I’m not insane with rage or any thing. Just a little sad. :'(
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I think that in the midst of CRUNCHCRUNCHCRUNCH for Borderlands 2 there was an assumption that the other studios had it covered.
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(Disclaimer: If that article is right)
TimeGate were allowed to run with what looked like little or no supervision for years. No one knew they’d chucked out all the previous work, etc. Incredibly poor project management – and ultimately, the buck does stop with Gearbox. They really didn’t stay on top of this at all.
All it would have taken was one progress meeting every three months to prevent surprises from happening.
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Again, poor project management.
Also, as an aside, i’d stay away from that reddit thread, it’s full of FANBOY RAGE
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Someone thinks highly of their entry!
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Haha! Not at all. It was pretty terrible. I just didn’t want to take even the smallest of risks of winning it when someone else would actually want it more. 😛
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Coffeefronds: Tell me about capsule coffee machines.
I currently have an extremely old and shitty espresso machine at home. It has no water gauges, no temperature indications or anything, and it gets way too hot so you have to toggle the switch on and off to stop it going over the top and burning the coffee. It’s also got an issue where I can basically only make two cups. After that pressure builds up inside the thing and if I take out the grounds and try and add new ones there’s a good chance the thing is still pressurized and the equalization of the pressures will cause hot water to burst out and the wet grounds to explode everywhere. Also it has one water reservoir (with no meter on it) and you’re effectively pouring water straight into the pressure chamber so once it’s hot, you can’t add more water until the whole thing is cooled down again which takes hours.
I’ve gotten used to it to the point that most of the time I can make myself a decent latte, but it requires a lot of fiddling around and careful adjustments and stuff and so the long and short of it is that I usually only have time to bother with it on weekends. So in the end I go to a local coffee place before work and drop $4.50 on a coffee every morning $100+ per month on coffee seems frightfully wasteful.
So I think I need to get a new machine. The low-effort low-cost capsule stuff seems interesting to me. Anyone have any experience with them? Are they worth it? Coffee they make actually good or is it effectively a machine to make Blend 43 aka dirt scraped off the bottom of a sewage treatment pond?
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In my opinion, the one we have at work sits on the low end of the area between blend 43 and a cafe beverage. They’re not great, but better than instant, and pretty convenient, and (I think) roughly 60c a pod?
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Better than instant coffee, not quite as good as good cafe coffee. Basically.
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Yeah, this. We’ve got a pretty good quality nespresso machine, and as Rize said, it’s about 60c a pop, but better than instant. Doesn’t take long to make a cup, although the machine in general confuses me a little.
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The Aldi machines are good for the price.
We’ve had one for about a year, until it broke down, but we got another and it’s working like a charm.
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2012/03/lifehacker-tests-the-aldi-expressi/
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/10/aldi-expressi-2013-coffee-machine-review-viva-la-caffeinated-revolution/ -
You seem passionate about coffee. I think you would prefer an espresso machine coffee to a pod coffee. May I suggest that you choose a cheapish easpresso machine, anything that can push hot water through a group head where you can control the time of the shot should be fine. then spend more money on the grinder, so you can grind your beans fresh at a consitent fineness of your choosing.
Unless you want to be like George Clooney, in which case I hear the pod machines are a big hit with da ladies 😉
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I already have the grinder and a super basic espresso machine, that’s the issue. It’s actually *too* basic. And also too much work when I’m half asleep and need a coffee.
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You need one of these: http://www.aeropress.com.au/
I got one for Mr. Strange from Amazon for under $30 a few years ago. Really simple and good results.
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Not the same – I don’t like drip / plunger coffee at all.
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and drop $4.50 on a coffee every morning $100+ per month on coffee seems frightfully wasteful
Small potatoes, theres people who spend $100+ a week on iced coffee.
I feel like a Iced Coffee now =( but it might be too hot for Milk.
Sorry I’m not in anyway helpful lol
Edit:Reply fail page get
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Best page get 😀
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Once I stopped buying coffee, I put $4 a day into a money box.
Was my video game fund for a long while
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i had an old shoebox where I put the change I got from getting coffee.
after 3 years (and another 2 shoeboxes), I cashed it in & got just over $1400.
I’m scared to think how much i wouldve had if i’d given up coffee.
Edit: regardless of possible financial benefits, I am never giving up coffee.
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I didn’t give up, I just decided to use the work machine… which got replaced shortly after with an awesome one.
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I should convince my boss to give us a coffee machine.
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What sort of business? Claim it’s to impress clients.
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Hell, any business. Claim it’s a cost-saving measure to stop employees walking to a distant coffee shop in company time.
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Also works.
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I should do something like that except not use a money box and let the money stay in the bank.
But than again I usually always buy the games I want so all that would be left is to buy is dumpy games like Aliens: Colonial Marines.
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I used the money box instead of using my bank funds
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I understand that.. just mentioning if I were to save money I wouldn’t put it in a money box and would bank it instead.
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There’s something satisfying about walking into JB hifi with 80 dollars worth of gold coins
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One of my mates cashed out his coin collection prior to leaving the eylandt.
We carried it down to the pub in a backpack that weighed more than I did.
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It’s not too hot for iced milk.
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It is if you don’t drink it quickly.
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Milk with ice is the best!
MILK WAS A BAD CHOICE
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IT’S SO HOT!
Coffee tastes gross.
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I’ve never gotten that far. It smells gross.
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Your face smells gross.
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*sniff sniff*
Yep, fair call.
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Booo!
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I saw coffee and drop and thought this was about ni no kuni
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Oliver’s drank more coffee in thirty hours than I ever have.
Guess that’s why I gots no mana! 😛
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I haven’t used a single item!
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How is that possible? Maybe you’re better at balancing the familiars…
I mainly use Oliver during boss fights. Basically the only way you can keep fighting if you wanna use magic is by drinking coffee and lots of it.
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I try not to use magic :P. Never been fond of using magic or items in games. Just don’t really like the limitedness of MP/Mana
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Hey guys!
Just so you’re aware @freezespreston is an awesome bloke not only did he hook me up with a identifier tag with contact number on it for our new dog, he also hooked me up with a Soundwave ticket. So excited.
Also subway is more filling than I recall o.o So tasty though.
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I heard a rumour about him.
That he’s all right.-
That rumour is scandalous and completely without merit! I demand you withdraw those disingenuous assertations immediately! Forthwith!
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Too late. I saw it. I’m suing.
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yer he is totally made of awesome!
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Damn right!
I also seem to be good for his place of employment, I stand around and he’s run off his feet with customers!
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I hope they put him down eventually.
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Has anyone ever told you to try comedy
The Lesser Evil is great
But your funny comments on TAY kick ass
Ok, the anxiety would be crippling, but the comedy would help you overcome it
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Shane HATES stand up comedian types!
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I like stand-up comedy…
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Dude, you know everything about me!
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It’s all in the Rain Man-esque vault. 😛
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Such an awesome guy!
Apple wins.
Fatality.
Taking the Nokia back to Harvey Norman tomorrow. Giving me store credit. Might get a bigger TV for the bedroom instead.
*sigh* Was so excited too.
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D= Such a shame!
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Any company that likes to make a profit that manufacturers in China tbh 😛 But if my uncle is actually correct Apple might be moving all their production to the USA, not just a few lines assembled there, bu entirely made in the USA. But it will still not excuse them for wanting to make a profit and be greedy 😛
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Ah, probably shouldn’t have used that image I suppose. I’ve got nothing against Apple 😛
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Hahaha, oh Pow =P If anything that image reminds me of Bill Gates & Steve Balmer from the Pirates of Silicon Valley movie lol.
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You should buy a Leisure Computer instead.
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Boo! Get off the stage!
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\o/
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You are lucky you seem like a genuinely awesome guy
Because if you weren’t
AND you loved Apple
Well, we just wouldn’t get a long
But, I <3 BDKIAF
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Don’t get me wrong. Its a fantastic phone. Its just WP8 is too busy choking on diseased donkey penis.
I lie. Its not that bad. Just the minor annoyances are too annoying and the damned thing isn’t compatible with my Ute.
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That’s cool man
It wasn’t for you, so you are changing back
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That’s a shame man.
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You went to Harvey Norman.
We cannot be friends.
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They were actually the cheapest by a good $40.
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Oh god. I’m a cheap consumer whore D’:
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Oh alright.
Gimme a hug big fella.
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I think you should give it a bit more time, but if it’s not working for you, then I guess it’s just not going to work out.
FWIW I have a new ipod touch and a windows phone. I used to have an old ipod touch with ios 4 or something on it and didn’t want an iphone because of the impression that gave me, but ios 6 is miles better and there’s a lot that I prefer about it than WP. There’s also just as much I don’t like about it though.
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What happened?
Got 4 of the 5 things I got reprimanded on done and completed
Sucked in to them!
Just give me some time and I will get your stuff done
Doesn’t help when the phone rings and interupts everything
Fuck
Still, feel better
A slap on the wrist that lead to even more work getting done and even less TAY getting checked
And nothing further than that
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You should slap their wrist!
I now have all 9 ‘seasons’ of the remastered Dragonball Z on DVD. So. Much. Dragonball Z.
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That roughly equals the narrative equivalent of nine episodes of a western cartoon.
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The dragon ball z fight with freeza did my fing head in – there was like a new form every week!
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Man the Frieza one kills me. It just doesn’t end.
Then later, Trunks shows up and murders him in 10 seconds flat.-
I bloody gave up watching before that :O Now I wish I stuck with it.
No seriously, i stopped watching DBZ b/c of the freeza fight 🙁
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The spirit bomb was ridiculous, and that was only a *minor* part in that battle!
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I imagine it’s not too bad on DVD, but watching it when it was on Cheez TV was an exercise in extreme patience.
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Have you watched DBZ Kai? It’s meant to cut out all of that filler stuff.
I’ve been meaning to get it but I need money 😛
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Yeah I got the complete DBZ Kai, and have watched about half of it. It’s pretty great in that it removes fillers and time wasting (mostly, but not completely), but they’ve inserted what looks like new shots all over the place. I mean stuff that wasn’t in the original and very clearly wasn’t done by Toriyama.
Some of it’s actually pretty crappy looking (quality wise), and the shift can be pretty jarring, actually.
As much as the fluffing really can get to me in DBZ, I’m not the biggest fan of the sticky tape they’ve used to but DBZ Kai together.
Also, to those ‘sad’ about Valentine’s Day because they’re single, man the fuck up. Sick to death of asshats saying ‘Oh woe is me I hate Valentine’s Day! *sadface*
How about on Valentine’s Day, all the single people sit down and instead marvel at all the shit that’s just plain awesome about being single. I’m not going to list them, because they differ for everyone, but damn I fucking love being single most of the time.
C’mon guys, being in a relationship isn’t the be-all and end-all. Nor is not being in one.
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Single five o/
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Has any one been legitimately sad here, though. There’s been jokes, but no moping? 😛
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Not really talking about here specifically. It’s more a general observation.
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Carry on then! 😀
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I get to buy what I want, when I want. I can also fap whenever I want, without fear of consequence.
Money fills the void, etc.-
Being married puts no dent in the fapping.
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I am a little sad I’ll miss out on Steak and BJ Day though…
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So I didn’t have to eat all of those tubs of icecream!?
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Probably not, but I bet they were tasty, which totally negates the issue.
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Sometimes I miss being single and childless but then I think just how damnned awesome the wife and kids are. Also going out with some of my single “friends”(they’re not very good ones, @virus__ knows) the sad desperation they display trying to “pick up” is kind of off putting.
Not sure where I’m going with this. I think I’m just musing out aloud.
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You turned me into a perv. Not that I try to pick up per se.
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Just because you’re not eating doesn’t mean you can’t look at the menu.
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But I’m HUNGRY.
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As Steel Panther sung in a song ‘Eatin’ ain’t cheatin’ ” maybe I shouldn’t get relationship advice from a bunch of rockstars who are a parody of themselves and the 1980’s rock culture.. It might explain a lot about me 😛 (I joke)
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Oh god not him.. Is he sure he isn’t gay? From what you’ve told me it sounds like he might be in denial.
Whilst being single is awesome, like I can become super friendly with any female and not have to worry about being beaten to death by my girlfriend, which has happened before. Though I was really going to run away to Sydney or Newcastle to shack up with a girl who had a boyfriend who was also a good mate of mine. I never understood that. There’s downsides to being single, but atm they’re kinda pointless. I have someone who i’m pretty close to who treats me more than a friend so yeah..
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How the hell did you survive being beaten to death?!
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I’m fucken magic bro!
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Aww yeah!
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i like my family but damn I wish I could get some time alone. But when single I had too much time alone. Where is the happy medium??
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Move next door to a female hermit type. Ocassionally make eye contact before closing the curtains! That’s the dream! 😛
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Romance!
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You sly dog you DC!
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If only there was an alternative to Valentine’s Day. Maybe a day where about awareness for singles.
We could call it Singles Awareness Day!
#HappySAD
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Hahah. It didn’t click that the acronym of Singles Awareness Day was SAD until just now… Have I been missing the joke this whole time!?
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Oh, Pow.
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If it makes you feel better I didn’t realise either
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Oh…
Okay.
*Sigh*
You can’t tell me what to do. You’re not even my real dad.
Oh FFS UTAS! 3 days before I move I get an email saying the Games Physics unit is no longer being offered :l As if I didn’t already have enough going on now I’ve got to find another unit to do instead within the next few days. I have no fucking idea 🙁 Most of the suggested units are all in my course anyway and now I’m starting to get really stressed out.
Add to that I finally heard back from Centrelink but the higher rate of youth allowance + relocation/start up scholarships aren’t being given until March 11th, that’s going to run me down to almost no money at all :l
On top of that I’m currently facial hairless and I don’t like it! So yeah, I doubt anybody cares but I needed somewhere to vent. I’m getting fucked around by everyone at the moment, and I prefer to be wined and dined before I get fucked. (South Park joke)
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:S Just do something really unrelated to your course if you can’t think of any thing. I took a photography class one year at Uni!
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I’m completely clueless about all of this stuff and it’s part of a major I was planning on doing from my electives. I have no idea how it works or what I’m doing so I’m going to have to get help on what I’m meant to do. The course is from semester 2 so I don’t think it’s all that important to have it worked out right this minute. So far whenever I’ve asked anything at UTAS everyone has been absolutely clueless. The last reply had “I guess” and “probably” in it 5 times after being sent around 3 different people. It doesn’t exactly fill me with confidence.
Edit: Photography sound nice though, as long as I don’t need to spend $1000 on a camera!
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QUT let you book equipment for a couple of days.
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Yeah, what DC said!
Except do something fun. I did Marketing in my first year thinking I’d be making all cool advertisements and stuff. But it was terrible 😛
(Email your degree coordinator if you’re really struggling. They’re there to help!)
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Marketing is right up my alley, but from everyone I’ve talked to who has done it, it’s nothing like what I’d expect it to be. My business studies teacher in year 11 told me I’d be really good at it though, so who knows 😛
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I presume they’ll throw you onto the set of Mad Men.
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Well whatever you do it’d be worth having a look for your degree coordinators name/email for future use anyway! Helped me with so much during my first year when I had no one else to ask 😛
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Hey… Marketing is pretty fun! Super easy too.
The four Ps!
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Woo! The Marketing Mix!
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I prefer to be wined and dined before I get fucked. (South Park joke)
i thought Michael Douglas uses that line in Black Rain…
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I don’t know what a Michael Douglas is or who’s Black Rain 😀
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He’s the old fart banging Catherine Zeta Jones.
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Extra mathematics? Maybe a proper physics course?
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Science and maths are my two most hated things in the world 😛 I’m good at maths (can’t remember anything now though!) but hate it, and I know almost nothing about science and absolutely loathe it. I doodled my way through high school science (years 7-10 here) and left it there.
IT, business/law and creative things are really my only strong points. Oh and essays. I’m fucking ace at essays.
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Don’t forget the grease monkey.
Putting these up for posterity: My gaming valentines rhymes
Roses are red
violets are blue
You conquered my heart
Crusader Kings 2
I love you so much
you’re the one that I need
You’re so much better
Than Assassins Creed
You are so great
I find you a dream
I only hope
you’re available on Steam
You’re so great
you are a beauty
I’d play you
at Call of Duty
You’re sexy
so get the lube
Will you be my
Companion Cube
And my personal favourite:
Roses are nice
Violets blue
So, guys at DICE
Mirror’s Edge 2?
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Was trying to think of a word that rhymes with cube other that the one used. So I could blatantly steal it but not get slapped.
So far all I’ve got is boob-
You’re much better
Than what’s on the Tube
Will you be my
Companion CubeBest I can come up with
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You’re far sexier
When you are minus the pubes?-
I’m not entirely sure what the obsession is with neck-down alopecia.
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Beauty standard enforced by the media?
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Bleh, ‘standards’.
I guess we’re all hypocrites to an extent though.
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Well personally I prefer women without chest hair that puts me to shame, likewise armpit & leg hair =P
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Roses are Red,
Violets are Blue
I gave up wanking
The day I met you.
wait… is that good or bad?! I might have to try that out! :p
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I’d try it but it’d be a lie.
Roses are Red
Violets are Blue
One day we’ll cruise
Down Bloodgulch avenue
TOTALLY NOT STOLEN FROM ANYTHING
Love is eternal
My heart you collect
I want to romance you
Like in Mass Effect
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We should travel
to places like Paris
And when we’re there
Make love like Garrus-
I would take you
To so many nations
Where every night
I’d show you my calibrations-
That night of love, oh
The games that we played
I was Asari
And you, Renegade
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Damnit, no matter how high my Paragon score seems to be the anal option is always greyed out. I must be missing a side mission choice somewhere.
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You need to do more scanning before you can send a probe to Uranus.
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Anomaly detected…
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Romantic Haiku
Because I can’t rhyme for shit
Refrigerator
Job applied for at JB HiFi! If I get the job all you poor souls in Qld can buy R18+ from the Tweed City store before R18+ is effective over the border 😛
Now if only they could display a price for the new Orianthi CD I would be happy! I can’t even find a local price, why is it so damn difficult to try and support and artist by buying their physical CD these days?! 🙁
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To ensure acquisition of said job make sure you fax them 30 pages of nothing but photos of yourself oiled up in a g-string. No need for a cover letter. They’ll understand.
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Should I Photoshop in a bunch of tattoos and piercings just to make it more possible of getting said job?
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It would be foolish not to.
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Just use sharpie. That way you can have fresh and interesting new designs every week!
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And use whiteout as nail polish, then use a texture to colour it whatever colour you want. All the cool kids are doing it.
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texture? That’s some fancy arse designer stuff there
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Google tells me they’re actually called textas. Curse you products that sound like something but are actually spelled differently from that something. This is like fruit/froot loops all over again.
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Excellent idea! You should be that department where the thinking is done!
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Deep Space 9 is on tonight. For once I’ll actually be able to see the start of a Star Trek series, having missed the first few episodes of both TNG and Voyager (why are they even in the Delta Quadrant, I don’t know). More so than any other Star Trek, DS9 is the one I’ve heard the most negative stuff about, with the exception of Sisko, who is apparently badass. Still, I love Voyager, and I know that gets a fair amount of hate, so I’m sure I’ll like DS9.
As to why I haven’t just gone out and got all the series on DVD to watch at my leisure, it’s because I’m old fashioned and still enjoy watching TV. As someone raised in the digital age, this is weird, but whatever.
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DS9 starts off pretty screwy, but is the most unique, serialized of all the Trek shows. The later seasons are exceptional. It’s much more a long haul, ensemble kind of deal. Ron Moore went on to create the reimagined Battlestar Galactica after this. It’s not my favourite of the Treks, but no where near bad. Sisko is actually one of my least favourite characters. 😛
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NNNNNEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!
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Truer words, never spoken!
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The only one I ever watched from the start was Voyager, purely by chance. I love femalecaptainface and african-americanVulcan, so progressive!
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Janeway! Tuvok!
That show is all kinds of underrated. The Doctor and Seven of Nine are amazing!
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Adventure game trivia no one asked for:
Tuvok cameos in The Longest Journey in the Police Station!
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We’ve been watching an episode of DS9 a night to wind down before going to sleep for a while now. On the final season now.
I had really fond memories of it from when I saw an episode here and there on late night TV way back in the olden days. But now I just can’t wait to be done with it. Sisko is a dick and I hate him, actually I hate almost everyone on the show, and I especially hate all those people who told me it gets better. I’m pretty much only continuing to the end because I’ve invested so much time and money into it.This final season seems to be better than the previous few though. The seasons everyone kept telling me were amazing have been some of the worst things I’ve ever watched.
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D: I thought it did get better. Haha!
I think every Star Trek show has gone on to get better, though. The elements are always there in the first few seasons but I found Voyager, Enterprise, TNG and DS9 didn’t get especially good until around season three. If you don’t like it, you don’t like it. 🙂 Even when it did get good, I still preferred the other ones. 😛
It’s definitely an acquired taste show. (I liked the arc based story telling in particular, but suspect that BSG went on to do every thing much better afterwards.) I agree about Sisko, though. Could never understand the love for him. Worst character on the show! My favourite Trek would be TNG and Voyager.
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N64 arrived! BEST valentines EVAR!
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OooooOOOoooOOOOooh
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I need new material.
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@sughly, @greenius: OMG! Survivor! (Or something. Commence conversation…)
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D.C, you can’t force these things. It has to be natural. You’re removing the heart, the spirit. Where’s the love here?
Where?
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Oh, right. Got to play it cool…
So, uh, what was that show you guys both liked? It’s back soon, right?
(New episode of Gravity Falls tomorrow too! Boss Mabel!)
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Where is the love? People killing people dying, children hurtin can you hear them cryin? Can you practice what you preach, can you turn the other cheek?
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Father father father help us, send some guidance from above, cause people got me got me questioning… where is the looooove.
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Oh god I had to sing this song (along with a little dance routine) in primary school. Bad memories!
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It’s the only Black Eyed Peas song I can stand! 😛
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I’m sure you’d like it more sung by the angelic voice of an 11 year old 😛
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You forgot the magic word.
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Pffft, I don’t care if they talk about it. 😛
It was my way of saying I saw it on a certain place while looking for certain things… *shifty eyed*
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You saw it on top of your TV, while searching for biscuits?
You have some weird hobbies, friend.
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“I saw it on GO! while looking for Big Bang Theory” 😛
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@dc
Dreamworld
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, the home of Big Brother.
Watched those opening credits too many times. :S (Back when I was employable. :P)
Any more people confirm yet?
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Welbot is coming after I broke the news to him and he offered to pick up @strange if I remember correctly so she has no excuse now.
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Man, that would be so fun!
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Movie World was probably the best damn first meat evah! 😀
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Hold a place for me next summer! Maybe 😛
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No. Meating. Shane. >:|
Pows are okay, though. 😛
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Why the downvotes!?
Pows ARE okay!
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Canberra Meat was an excellent second meat for me. Have never laughed so much as I did that weekend.
Especially Little Big Planet shenanigans
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Oh man, Little Big Planet is probably the best party game ever, in the history of ever.
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Playing by yourself would be nowhere near as good as with other people (not a euphemism)
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I dunno.. my first meat was pretty awesome.. but then, my meat was the first meat, so it had to be, or noone would have gone to anymore! 😉
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Awesome! First Brisbane one or first in general? You’re a pioneer! 😀
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First on both counts!
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GIANT DROP! Best. ride. ever. Followed by The Buzzsaw, Wipeout, Tower of Terror, AVP Laser Tag, White Water Rapids, then the rest.
The Claw is exempt because I their harnesses are shitty and are like the Superman Escape and refuse to go down over my chest >=[
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A little unsure about Buzzsaw, but I’m sure I can be peer pressured to go on it. (Not a fan of upside. Though I’m fine on coasters and the like. *shrugs* :P)
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You went on The Green Lantern which is a more vicious ride tbh. The 2.5g’s (I think) you pull on The Buzzsaw is awesome!
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Yeah, it’s not about the intensity of the ride. I LOVE rides. Just the upside down thing and that’s all this ride seems to do. I’ll probably go on it, though! 😛
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You do recall that the Green Lantern went upside down right? 😛
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Haha! Yeah, I don’t care about upside down. It’s CONTINUOUS upside down. (Though I’ve been on the WipeOut many a time, so I’m just a complicated guy. :P) It’s not fear or any thing either…
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Buzz saw goes upside down once then see saws 😛
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Booyah, Jack Cup, expert is MINE.
Still got it, after all these years.
Current gaming plans:
– Xenoblade
– Ni no Kuni
– Tomb Raider
– Persona 4 (probably have to spend a week in the US so saving this)
– The Witcher 2
– Fire Emblem
– ? by this time it’ll be like october 🙁
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Plenty of Kickstarter adventure games for me. Add BioShock and The Last of Us to that list too. Probably more. 😀
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No Sim City anymore?
– ? by this time it’ll be like october 🙁
Just in time for Pokémon! (Don’t push it, Pow!)
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And Next Gen consoles! Hopefully Pikmin will be out sometime soon.
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Nope, I was massively, massively disappointed by the beta.
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Well I had best take the little lady out for dinner
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You two crazy kids have fun!
Valentine’s Day!
Not to be confused with the other VD.
Also, a Valentine’s Day poem for all TAYbies:
Roses are red,
They’re also quite thorny.
Break out the riding crop,
I’m feeling horny!
Beep boop boop beep boop boop bop
Nintendo Direct soon! Any guesses on what they’ll show/announce?
I think they’ll finally announce an Animal Crossing release date. They can’t keep pretending the game doesn’t exist in the west much longer.
There’s one in Japan as well, so that most likely indicates that they’ll show something new, instead of just localizations of things already announced there.
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A few stills got leaked from their Youtube channel. Iwata wearing a Luigi cap, LEGO City 3DS, Fire Emblem and Animal Crossing, I think they were.
So yeah, not really expecting much new. Probably just final dates or something. But, who knows!
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Not related to the Nintendo Direct, but this is pretty exciting! http://mynintendonews.com/2013/02/13/fantasy-life-coming-to-australia-late-2013/
Apparently Fantasy Life is getting a localization. It looks a lot like Harvest Moon/Rune Factory, only better.
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better than rune factory?
hmmmmm, i dunno, i think i played over 200 hours of rune factory 3…. AND IT WAS WORTH IT
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But Level-5! Level-5 are da bomb diggity.
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Tried to get Crysis 2 working one last time, ended with the same result.
“The CD key you have entered is invalid.”
The CD key being the one that was provided with the game.
🙁
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Where did you get it from? Steam, Origin, retail?
Have you tried looking for a crack or something?
Origin has it on sale for $12 right now if you want to buy another copy as a last resort. (stupid Origin having no gifting function *shakes fist*)-
Retail.
Bought it from JB Hi Fi last year. 🙁
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*refresh*
Weeee! There’s a new Mario & Luigi game! The first one is still one of my favourite games all these years later. I can’t wait for the new one. Oh and it looks like Etrian Odyssey 4 is coming out in Europe, which is nice. What would be even better is if every Atlus game was released here.
Also Animal Crossing FINALLY has a release date. June 14th. Mark that in ya calendars. Shit just got real.
(Whenever I feel like I’m growing up a bit, I always remember how excited I get over Animal Crossing :P)
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I was accidentally watching the US stream. Didn’t know I was on the wrong one until Iwata left! 😛
Best news from this I think is the massive DLC coming for NSMBU. Redoing the entire game with Luigi levels! I wonder how much that’s going to cost.
Also, Fire Emblem!
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Fire Emblem 🙂
Fire Emblem XL 😀
EXCLUSIVE Fire Emblem XL 😀 😀
Pre-installed game … D: -
Anyone have a link to a video that has the stream?
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Hey brosephs and brosephines.
Last night, I finished Freaks & Geeks and the Taurus Demon, and started putting together a launch trailer for Peaceful Tomorrows. It was the most romantic Valentine’s Day I’ve ever had.
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In that order?
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@dc, my wife said to tell you thanks for last night, and 17 other nights too :\
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Haha! Any time! 😉
I’m glad you guys liked it, though. Makes me happy. 😀
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Your wife was thinking about @dc on valentines day
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Morning TAY
Spaghett’s last song played game
The Promise of Fever by Cradle of Filth
It made my morning perfectly filthy
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I GIVE MY LIFE
NOT FOR HONOUR
BUT FOR YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU-
I miss you too buddy
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White Limo – Foo Fighters.
Also, you see the article about the WWE games? I’m asking you because I know you play them. Keen, assuming 2K do actually develop them.
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Yeah I did briefly last night
It’s awesome man, might be a breath of fresh air
Not that THQ was ruining it, but it could go either way with a new Dev on board
How you going man?
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Excuse the absence yesterday, work decided that valentines day mean HOLY CARP GET ALL THIS STUFF DONE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE day. All good now though… I hope.
So in other news, I’m out of the loop with anime and all that, really wanna get back into it, but did anybody else know that there is a Viewtiful Joe anime out?
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Also good morning
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You’re excused! apology accepted!
REPOST
Morning TAY
Spaghett’s last song played game
The Promise of Fever by Cradle of Filth
It made my morning perfectly filthy
Shenangians
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Boston – More than a Feeling
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I CLOSE MY EYES AND SHE SLIPS AWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII[dissolve into supersonic]
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Beautiful :’)
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CAN’T REPOST BECAUSE THE ANSWER IS DIFFERENT
Back & Forth – Foo Fighters
CONTEXTLESS REPLY
2K are pretty great, I’m excited to see what a new developer can do with the licence. Should be fun.
Also, I’m great. Got that song finished on Wednesday, playing it tonight with the band, then playing it at our show tomorrow night. Pressure.
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Under pressure! Pushing down on me, pushing down on you…
(cc @dc)
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HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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Cause love’s such an old fashioned word and love dares you to care for the people on the edge of the night and love dares you to change our way of caring about ourselves this is our last dance… this is ourselves… under pressure.
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Man on Fire – Andy Gibb
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Listening to Ys soundtracks. Ys music is so badass.
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The Tony Danza Tap-dance Extravaganza – 12.21.12
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Oh man, I genuinely listened to another Arcade Fire song last night.
I’m not really obsessed, though. I don’t think… D:
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Finally checked out one of your links. Listened. I like that sound.
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😀 That song actually took the longest time to grow on me… Such a great band. I needs to go see them live sometime.
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No Compromise – The Haunted
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Sabaton’s Swedish Pagans.
Haven’t actually properly listened to it today, it’s just stuck in my head. I don’t mind in the slightest. -
Smashing Pumpkins – Tonight, Tonight
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HNGH!
Such a great band and song
Was so good live last year!
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Sade – Smooth Operator
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Bloodhound gang- The Ballad of Chasey Lain
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Great band and song
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I want DKCR 3D!!!
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Hopefully it means there is a sequel on the way.
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Diddy’s Kong Quest Returns? I would be in heaven
with a mean hard-on!-
Sometimes I wish I could stop clicking spoiler buttons.
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Thought I was doing the right thing. Had I just written it out in the open, would there have been less cjance of you reading?
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Dammit! Avoiding all this Pokémon info is harder than I would’ve thought. I suppose it doesn’t help that I subscribe to so many different Pokémon Youtube/Twitter/etc things… 😛
Oh well, it could be worse. At least we’re only getting pre-release drip-feed info due to the simultaneous release, not the entire game info dumps we usually get when the Japanese version comes out.
ANYWAY, enough about silly things! Hope everybody is well! Hope everybody is excited for GAMES! I hope Ninty hurries up with a proper account system for 3DS, there’s a whole bunch of eShop games announced that I want to buy! Rolling Western is getting a sequel! Mario vs DK also looks really good, like one of those pipe-laying games in 3D. Also Harmoknight!
Not buying them until I can be sure I won’t lose them with my system though :\
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Your quest to avoid pokemon info will likely be as futile as my quest to avoid all images of the LotR movies when they were being released – i didn’t want Peter Jackson’s vision of the story to over power my own built up from years of reading and re-reading the books.
Jackson won 🙁
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Yeah I refuse to buy anything off Nintendo’s eshop until there’s a real accounts system.
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I bought a few things. Been under $20 though so no biggy atm.
Would be more devastated to lose Metroid Fusion (even though I have a physical copy)-
Yeah same for me. I stopped buying things once the horror stories of people losing everything started coming out 😛
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I do feel loathe to spend any serious money on the eShop, because they tie the licenses to consoles. What happens if my 3DS has $500 worth of stuff on it and the console dies? How do they deal with that? (honest question, btw)
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Also, it’s a little horrifying knowing my 3DS ambassador certificate and games could be lost if my 3DS decides to pack it in one day.
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According to what I’ve read, you’re more likely than not to be screwed. There are things you can do to transfer the licences over, but you need to have access to the original console. So if it dies, you might be plum out of luck (unless you send it to Ninty). If it gets stolen, you are totally buggered (unless you’re a suave and jammy bastard like @batguy)
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If it dies, you’re sweet. You send them both in and they do some magic with serial numbers to transfer the rights across. If you lose it, you’re stuffed. The absolute best they can do, if you sweet talk them (and provide mountains of documented evidence) like I did, is get them to re-instate the ambassador program. I was pretty excited that they were able to do that because most of that ambassador stuff is unobtainable any other way.
I still lost 6 games in the process (Super Mario Land, Link’s Awakening, Kid Icarus, Excitebike, Pokedex 3D and Zelda 4 Swords) but all bar one of them (4 Swords) is replaceable if I’m willing to pay for it. But I’m not. Because like several people have mentioned here, I’m not going to pay another cent for 3DS eShop games until they have a real accounts system in place.
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Morning folks!
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Morning Deece.
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Morning Blaghs! Hope you’re well, buddy?
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I am indeed well.
Well, as well as I ever get.
Well, well, well.
Well is a funny word.
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Heroin
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Well, we are wishing you well while standing at a wishing well feeling well.
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Well, my tears are welling well; well, my wishing well is well; well, my wellingtons are swell… and well. Well, well, well.
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I’m glad I’m reading all these “well”s and not hearing them,or I’d most likely be getting a feeling people were talking to me. Names that rhyme with commonly spoken words can be awkward sometimes. 😛
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There’s no place for real life name discussions here. Jeez, Arabelle.
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Le Funar!
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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
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Well hello there…
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Happy birthday, Mr President…..
I miss TAY
Bye bye again, for a while
I am not too good today at only checking it once an hour
I think I have Fridayitis
This morning I couldn’t decide which seat I should take
There is only one fucking chair here!
And everyone I encountered on the street said “Partying partying yeah”
I kept mumbling “Fun fun fun fun”
Strangest occurence
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Friday is really the first day of the weekend. Just sepnd the whole day on TAY.
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So true. It’s like a warm-up day for Saturday!
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You have no idea how tempting that is man
After getting called out on not having filed files yesterday I feel great
I don’t actually seem to be in any trouble at all
It’s like a weight has been lifted from my shoulders
Fucking yes
I miss TAY though
Specially @ash @dc @greenius @shane @bdkiaf and @everyone else!
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It’s the public sector. They rely on guilt for discipline. If you have no guilt, you have no problem \o/
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It was actually pretty good man
And it is less work than I thought it was originally anyway
It is only me and Feroza in our section who deal with all the Trust work that comes in
Two people, doing mostly everything, of course things are going to fall in the grass
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Yissss got a mention!
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😀
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Ok post Valentine’s day break down. I can post this here b/c anonimity prevents embarassment and besides I’m curious of TAY’s take on this.
Dot points for ease of reading:
Didn’t want to make a big deal of Vday b/c everyone in the house is kinda sick atm, but left card and choc for Mrs in morning.
She emailed to say thanks and seemed genuinly pleased. Repeated thanks when I got home. Nothing for me but thats OK, she has been sick after all.
Once kids are in bed, she says she just wants to vege infornt of TV b/c not feeling well so I oblige and put ‘her’ shows on.
Ipad dings at her and she starts emailing. This goes on for a bit. When show finishes I ask ‘what next?’ and she’s like ‘hang on I gotta do this email’. I make her a cup of tea.
I come back and she is frustrated b/c she can’t get messanger to work on her ipad. She asks me and I’m like ‘well, let me see’. She won’t hand over the pad so I realise she is emailing this guy she met online when we were in uni like 10 years ago. He lives in america so no real threat I guess.
Anyway I sit down and she’s still at it and im like ‘well are we going to watch somehting or not?’ and she says ‘I just want to email for the rest of the night so why dont you do something else’!! So im like ‘but but’ and she’s like ‘what, you getting sentimental about valentines day now?’ and i say ‘what do you mean now??’ and shes like ‘well timezones etc and i dont get to speak to this perosn very often (wouldnt say name so makes it sound secretive wtf). So i go “FINE!” you know when the word is fine but the tone is not fine.
She accepts me at word face value and goes “ok” smiles etc and goes off to the bedroom to email away. I park it on the box playing eternal sonata for the rest of the evening and feeling an uncommon emotion which i guess was jealousy.
Anyway, to summarise, Eternal Sonata is a really nice game.
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Too long
Did read
Hmmmm
*man hug*
Jealousy is ok to feel
Feel that feel
Just don’t let it spread like a cancer
TAY is here my *freshly minted* brother!
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Thats rad, im gonna assume now whenever someone replys with tl;dr that it means
Too long
Did read
I havent felt jealous for ever. I shoudl tell her as proof I still care right? or maybe i should hang out with the hottest chick at work and make her jealous
Both good options right?? Nothing can go wrong!
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:'(
Don’t get jealous. Sucks to think innocent friendships can change with female friends just because they’re married or in a relationship. I understand it, though. I totally get that it’s not the best time/night to hang in this instance. Hope you feel better, man. 🙁
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Oh I’m Ok – I got to game afterall – I just think what woudl have happened if the roles were reversed.
Anyway good precedence set now that Vday is n o t h i n g s p e c i a l
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Haha, I just realized I’m not qualified in the slightest to give relationship advice. So disregard every thing I said… So… do you like stuff? 😛
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I’m all about stuff baby.
Unless it is clutter, then i chuck that stuff – im a reformed hoarder, dont you know?
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Then there’s the little matter of things! THINGS!
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hahahahhahaha it’s so cute that you think it means that
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Just poo on the rug when nobody’s around.
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Then when queried as to the origins of the poop, point at the poop and say ‘Big fucking cat.’
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Or “What, you getting sentimental about the rug now?”
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You’re my favorite.
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Extra funny as there is a nice persian rug in the room that this exchanged happened in, which we bought together when we first moved in together so potentially an object of sentimentality.
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nice persian rug
Nice? Huh.. Never heard a persian rug described like that 😛
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Sorry @bdkiaf I ran out of replays.
Whats wrong with the persian rug.
PS it was persian styled, although i stongly suspect it was actually made in turkey on the cheap.
PPS it kinda looks like this one: http://www.iranreview.org/file/cms/files/persian-rug.jpg um looks better in person?
Protip : Don’t read too much into it. She could have been great friends with this person once upon a time, and just wants to catch up. Guy or girl, it shouldn’t matter unless she gives you a good reason to be worried. If you dwell on this kind of stuff for too long without just cause, it can be pretty destructive.
Remember, she’s your missus and you should give her benefit of the doubt until she gives you a proper reason not to.
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I like this advice as it is better than anything I could have said.
I know you kind of want a take on this, but with only one side of the story, I’m reluctant to commit to an analysis. So instead, I’m going to be extremely helpful and assume that wife’s illness is a brain slug, and that it wanted to spend its VDay with another similarly lodged slug.
In all seriousness, I’d be feeling jealous too, especially if I thought that she was actively trying to hide her actions from me (indicating she knows they’re not entirely innocent). But my advice: don’t be the one to blow it out of proportion (because it’s likely nothing). If TV has taught me anything (and I’m not saying that it has), it’s that jealousy has a +10 bonus to wreck things (purely for perspective, infidelity is only +7).
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I believe the technical term is “yeerk”
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only one side of the story
Come on @shane, keep up man. My first rant on TAY like less than a week ago was about Mrs getting huffy when i wanted to game. So now you have two sides of my story 😉
Doesn’t anyone see the double standard here?? I have grievances and I want to find a way to use them as leverage for more gaming time!!
Ack, serious note now, maybe she thinks ‘oh well he’d prefer game than spend time with me anyway so i might as well email my friend’?
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I tend to think of marital interaction as a series of episodic encounters, rather than one interconnected storyline. Mainly because things tend to gravitate back towards the norm between conversations 🙂
TL;DR: I assumed that earlier conversation was not connected 😛
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…do you live inside a sitcom by any chance?
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Feels like it sometimes. My kids are definitely larger than life characters 😛
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Single camera or multi-cam kind deal? I’m thinking single camera dramedy? 😛
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Not enough drama to be a dramedy. I think we go for flat-out comedy. Dad has a pointless dead end job and gets minimal respect in all aspects of his life, mum stays at home wrangling crazy kids and is a thoroughly competent, capable and almost-always sensible person, and the kids think they run the world and are impossibly cute.
It’s like every sitcom you ever saw ever 😛
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You’re even a writer, that’s one of the three jobs you’re allowed to have in a sitcom. 😛
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You’re right.
I actually have two of the three jobs: dead-end office soul-suck, and a writing gig 🙂
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Clearly her gift to you for Valentine’s Day is gaming time.
Disclaimer: As a 21 year old male, my relationship knowledge is almost nothing.
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Clearly her gift to you for Valentine’s Day is gaming time.
Damn, i think you might be right!
Yes,Eternal Sonata is indeed really nice.
As for the wife thing. I’m going to make a comment here based on what you told me of your wife and what my experience as a wife in similar situations is.
She most likely very much appreciated the thought behind your morning gifts.
If she’s stuck alone with the kids all day an unexpected email from a friend(gender wouldn’t have mattered) may have been something that made her feel happy and she probably jumped at the chance for adult socialising.
The not handing over the ipad thing for me would have been a pride thing. If I couldn’t figure it out, there’s no way in hell I’d let my husband take a look and make me feel silly by fixing it where I had failed. 😛
So yeah,even if it was a guy she was emailing it’s most likely not because he was a guy or even that particular guy that she was happy, she’s more than likely just happy to be talking to someone that’s not the kids, someone where she can be herself and not a mother or even wife. I’d be very surprised if there was a need to be jealous.
From what you’ve told us, your wife sounds very lonely.She sounds like she’s in a similar place to where I was when I started hanging out in TAY. I loved my husband but he wasn’t around most of the day,and when he was around we were both exhausted. I’d forgotten what it was like to just be myself, becoming a parent can make you lose yourself and you find you’re only you the parent and it feels like drowning. I was lonely and looking for any human interaction to fill that void. Thankfully I found TAY, and I hope your wife finds something to help her feel like herself again soon.
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I don’t understand. How is this advice supposed to destroy their marriage?
I think you’re missing the point of the discussion. Just saying.
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OMG that is spot on. Pity you live far away, you could be a good freind for her i think.
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but you already said your wife knows how to email \o/
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You know, there’s this wonderful, magical thing known as the Internet that might be able to help there :p
Although I can tell you that geography is indeed a bitch.
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The only things I remember about Eternal Sonata is that there was that one character who has like a 20 minute soliloquy while she dies and I was just like HURRY UP AND DIE ALREADY. Also all the characters have music names. Also I never finished it because I was trying to get every extra possible on one playthrough (because New Game+ increases the difficulty and remaps the controls completely just to fuck with you) and I missed an optional boss and didn’t realize and I couldn’t backtrack to it and it killed my momentum. 🙁 But it was very pretty and it was one of the games that convinced me to buy an X360 originally.
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The only things I remember about Eternal Sonata is that there was that one character who has like a 20 minute soliloquy while she dies and I was just like HURRY UP AND DIE ALREADY
Because that is deffinatly not a spoiler :S-
It is but it isn’t because I just said someone dies and takes a long time at it.
Remember it’s a game that plays out in the mind of Chopin as he dies.
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Cryptic spoiler is cryptic!! But still a spoiler 🙁 Maybe idk?
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If it’s any consolation, it wasn’t Valentines day in the US last night.
Man I can only reflect what I have done myself in a similar situation. I had a reason to be jealous but I sat back and let things take their natural course everything worked out honky dory. If your partner is going to cheat on you, there isn’t much you can do about it except make sure you are doing all the right things in your relationship.
I didn’t have kids involved though….
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Shit man I just meant i was jealous she wanted to spend time with soemone other than me on Vday. I didn’t think she was chetaing or anything 😛
Le sigh.
In Feb 2012, I bought a $25 set of headphones from DSE (came with a 12 month warranty). In May, they broke, and I got them replaced. In November, they broke again, and I got them replaced. Now, my third set has broken, just now while I was listening to music.
I’m starting to think this product is a total lemon, but as long as I can keep getting it replaced for free, Imma stay on this train.
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Oh, Shane.
The most life I ever got out of earbud headphones was 15 months, on a $120 pair. Given when I was buying $30 ones they were lasting one and a half months, I considered it to be pretty good value.
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So… $25 for a year’s subscription to as many headphones as I can break is a decent deal? 😛
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A decent deal but not so decent headphones.
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I have $400 Bose headphones, noise cancelling to boot
I am not suggesting you get them or anything
But you totally should
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I had these cool Sony ones that disintergrated over the summer. Now using Apple headphones. Don’t recommend ’em. 😛
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Yeah.. Not keen on Apple’s headphones.
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\o/
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Shut up.
Edit: “Shut up” looks weird in text. Shaddup? Shuttup? I don’t know. Pick your favourite.
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I’ll go with “You complete me Spaghett”
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The default Apple ones are really really bad, however there was a sweet spot in… ’09 I think(might have been ’08), where their in ear headphones were of a similar quality to equivalently priced Sennheisers, though the Senny’s had a better high range, and the Apple’s a better bass.
They were pretty nice. No idea if they still exist.
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BOSE noise cancelling headphones
Make my two hour commute a delight
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I used these really cool noise cancelling ones back when I used to work on Big Brother. So good. So expensive.
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So so expensive!
So so worth it!
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Oh man. Except for my computer, I haven’t spent $400 on any one thing for me in about ten years. I’m pretty much convinced that kind of money just doesn’t exist.
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With a family it doesn’t
But then, you have the joy of your family
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He doesn’t have to bury his crushing loneliness under cool stuff! 😛
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Yeah
And now I have Sam I don’t have to anymore
Except, well, of course two hours on a train
I so had to get noise cancelling headphones
Blocks out all the people
I wear music like a shield around me
Always have
Unless I am with someone I don’t go out alone without headphones
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I don’t wear my glasses in public so peoples faces blur a little. Helps.
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I wear my glasses
That’s what Sam has noticied about me
I can’t help but notice…..everyone and everything
Sam will be “Did you see *blah blah*
Yeah, already saw it
She only beats me playing Spotto *spotting yellow cars*
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Milk it baby!
I bought a cheapie vaccumm cleaner for the shed from Big W on the assumption it will neve rlast longer than a year and i can get it replaced annually FOR EVER!
The obvious choice is Beats. Natch.
This is why I never spend much on earbud headphones. They last me about 6 months if I’m lucky, and then eventually one side will go all quiet or I’ll step on them and smash them or something will go wrong like that.
description of a new pokemon spoiler
new eevee evolution looks like a high-class escort. bit like Billie Piper in secret diary of a call girl.
Edit: used the word ‘new’ few too many times.
Edit 2 : also, for those who consider that a spoiler, dont look at kotaku’s front page for a while.
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Ha. True.
Also, any Pokemon stuff should probably be spoilered, as insignificant as it is, Powalen and Greenius both don’t want any information.
Edit:
Whoreon-
fixed. thanks for the heads up.
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Thanks for the consideration, even though the way they slowly reveal new info makes it pretty much impossible to completely avoid. I’ve been accidentally spoiled the image of the new Pokemon like 3 times now haha
Ah well. As long as it’s not major information I’m fine with it.
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Mrs catches you in bed with it… “It’s not my fualt, I was aiming for a Flareon!”
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HNGH.
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Any news on what type it is?
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no, sorry. just saw the image in the side-bar & thought it looked call-girls ish. Not been into pokemon since Red / Blue.
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THIS JUST IN
XBOX 3600
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What does this mean?
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THE FUTURE OF GAMING
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exks bawks dubble oh
because it has twice as much ‘no gaems’ than the ps tripple
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Yes.
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Infinity Blade is free until next week on the App Store!
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That sure is helpful from here, D.C..
I’m off to go enjoy the fruits of my unwalled garden!
*Starts licking rocks, desperate for sustenance*
My Monster Hunter 3DS pre-order was mysteriously turned into Monster High: Skultimate Roller Maze.
Neat.
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GOTY
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Only three left in stock!
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Wow, lucky you got a pre-order, @bish
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@freezespreston Dreamworld
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@freezespreston Dreamboat?
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@freezespreston Loveboat?
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Exciting AND new!
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@freezespreston Lovedream?
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@freezespreston Boatboat?
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@freezespreston motorboat?
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@freezespreston @ash
I would love to motorboat a dreamboat on the loveboat on the way to dreamworld
@dc because raisins
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@spaghett is a linguistical genius!
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My lexicon is quite illustrious and immeasureable
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Ok thanks TAY, you’re the best.
But I haven’t done any work all morning :S
Everyone ignore me until the afternoon otherwise I wont do anything all day 😛
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Okay!
Hey guys @ash is working!
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So don’t disturb @ash
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Just to be clear, I don’t mean ash Ketchum the Pokemon trainer. In referring to the TAYbie, @ash
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So continue to talk to all ash’s except for the TAYbie @ash.
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I won’t
@ash
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Ok @ash
@ash gotta catchum all
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You’ll teach me and I’ll teach you. Pooookemon.
@ash, we miss you, come back
You haven’t posted for so long
@ash, the Heroin hounds are after me
As big as Cerberus and twice as sexy!
I am scared/turned on by these turn of events
WWJD? More like WWAD
What Would @ash Do?
He would catchum all
Or use his boomstick
Damn i kinda asked for that didn’t i? :S
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@ash
I don’t think you did
I would complain to management, ask for a refund
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Hi @ash
Dammit, I disturbed your work
@ash
There’s a band named after you!
So what’s the deal with those Valve firings?
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From what I understand, they were mainly hardware people. Maybe the project for SteamBox has run its course?
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According to this there are animators and the like included in that figure as well :\
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Ah. I hadn’t read up much. Interesting.
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The employees probably weren’t working well in the environment.
Uhh, I mean, that’s boring and logical, so, it’s all part of the next ARG, all leading up to the release of Half Life 3.
Edit: I mean, just look at the name “Jeri Ellsworth.” I don’t think it’s a coincidence that if you rearrange the letters, take a few out, and add a few in, you get the name “Judith Mossman.”
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HALF LIFE 2: EPISODE ONE CONFIRMED!
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Sounds like a mechanical/engineering question.
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Too productive.
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They didn’t reach their 1 hat per week quota.
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They’re not valve, and they’re not firings.
Wat, that doesn’t make sense
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Maybe they don’t make as much money as we thought and they needed to adjust their outgoings.
I have a secret, but I want to tell someone this secret.
WAT DO?
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Buy me lunch.
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My broke ass can’t
butbuy anything.Edit: Butt
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Fun fact!
People here are gossips.
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Sounds accurate, I won’t blab then.
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I can keep secrets! Like that time Shane killed his Lesser Evil ghost writer, never told any one…
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*facepalm*
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Tell @greenius.
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WAT DO?
tell, ofcourse.
use anonymity as excuse.
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Okay then, someone I’m related to is playing hooky today, due to both parents being away.
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Mystery Question Super Action Fun Time!
Y/N?
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N!
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If you’re ever in doubt, say N
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Y!
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Y, just to add balance.
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I like how you’re making it difficult.
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Classification information for Atelier Totori: The Adventurer of Arland.
ESRB (US)
compared to….
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Rah, rah, something, somthing, nanny state.
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Yeah, that’s just weird.
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The Oz classification if for a Vita port of the orginal PS3 version, with a few extra maps & skins.
Having a hard time seeing how the extra skins & maps bump up the rating from Teen to R18+
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It looks as though the violence is being classed very differently. It’s “Fantasy Violence” with “Mild Blood” in the ESRB thing, whereas it’s straight up “High Impact Violence” on the Aus one.
Seems very odd.
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Yeah I know.
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I’ve played the Atelier games and there’s definitely no ‘sexual violence’ in them.
The original PS3 game was rated PG. Every Atelier game before it was PG. Atelier Meruru got an M rating for ‘sexualized imagery’. The most recent one, Atelier Ayesha, is a different setting with a darker plot and even it only managed an M (Mature themes).
For a port of a game which was previously PG to suddenly jump to R18+ is ludicrous.
The games are light and happy fluff for the most part. There’s barely anything remotely objectionable of a sexual nature in the games, especially relative to every other niche JRPG, even the other Gust games. Ar Tonelico III for example where the girls’ magic powers up as they shed clothing and become more embarrassed, I shit you not. Guess what Ar Tonelico III was rated in Australia? PG.
Someone’s clearly made a mistake here or the guidelines are being really badly applied.
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@negativezero
I’ve never played em, I’m just going off the consumer advice on the ACB site.
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I realize you haven’t played it – I’m probably the only one in TAY that cares about the Atelier games, sadly – which is why I was pointing out how strange it seems to me that it’s been rated 18+.
Doesn’t affect me at all since I’ll be getting a US copy anyway, but JRPGs have a bad enough reputation when it comes to sex, misogyny etc without utterly batshit decisions like this ruining perceptions further.
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MORTAL KOMBAT!
Dire Wolf’s DS9 thoughts after watching three episodes last night: it’s okay. It’s cool to see the Bajorans getting a focus, I always liked them. Also glad to see O’Brian as a main character. I always felt he got a little shafted on TNG. The orb stuff in the first episode was weird. I was a little worried the whole set up for the show was going to be Sisko and his quest for magical orbs, so I’m glad by the second episode that turned out not to be the case. Speaking of Sisko, he’s a little weird, isn’t he? And by that I mean the actor who plays him acts weird. He’s not exactly great at facial expressions or emotions.
@dc @strange
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Yes! Sisko over acts. Sometimes it’s embarrassing to watch. :S
I loved the whole long haul, space station set up though. The one constant as people come too and from their adventures is this little outpost in the middle of no where. O’Brian was my favourite character too. I liked Kiera and Odo as well.
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Kira irks me. Strong female character does not necessarily mean belligerent,bitchy character you stoopid writer-people. >:(
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CTHCC competition is over
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And the winner is?
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Patrice!
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*red artifice as far as i know (i need to check), but he had 15 upvotes last time I looked
I am a fucking derp
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congrast @redartifice!
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After much consideration, I have come to the conclusion that carries in DotA2 are dumb.
Dumb fun but still dumb.
They snowball like crazy.
Last night, as Faceless Void, I could have easily won a 5v1 team fight if Nobfrond didn’t come along and steal three of the kills. That jerk.
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Hey man, don’t knock carries! They are the hardest heros to play. I had so much trouble with dwarven sniper last night!
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That’s pretty much the idea of them 😛
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Maybe that’s a sign you’re getting too comfortable with bots.
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I’m happy to try playing against people but it looks like the others aren’t quite ready yet.
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Holding you back as usual
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Those jerks.
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the thing about hard arries in dota is that if you don’t get enough farm, you become the opposite of good, which i believe is known as “bad”
that’s why i usually play semi-carry/support heroes like nyx, who can still be useful even if they don’t get enough farm.
EDIT: i also forgot to mention i’m garbage at last hitting
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I like the idea of playing support more than carrying. It’s just more interesting to me.
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Wii U owners:
The free-to-play version of Tank! Tank! Tank! is out now on the eShop! I don’t think it has online-play though, but hey! Free is free!
Also Wii Street U (Google Maps) is up for free as well. I… guess that could be useful? 😛
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Sometimes when I get lost travelling around Toronto, I stop, unpack the Wii U and TV I’m carrying around, plug it in and try get directions right then and there.
It hasn’t been effective so far, but Wii Street U seems to be able to help with this!
TAY CHARADES!
You know the drill.
Todays clue is: SAM LAKE’S BIG SCRUNCHED UP FACE
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Max Paaaayne?
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CO-RECKT!
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Winner!
I assume.
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The Dig \o/
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The answer is @spaghett
Ni No Kuni! So damn good! Studio Ghibli meat? Back to Ni No Kuni!
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Suck it up and go rent the movies!
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Aw, man. I just want to hang out with people. *runs off sobbing/runs off to play Ni No Kuni*
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I’ll watch Ghiblies with you deecee!
But in Japanese with subs. What are you doing playing it in English man!? Easing in is nonsense, it’s like a Japanese guy easing into Six Feet Under by watching a Jap dub.
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me too
/votes for laputa or kiki
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Aw, Sughly. You’re awesome! :’)
I played the demo in Japanese and liked it, just seems like a game I’d prefer to watch what’s going on instead of reading, though. Although I guess I’m reading most of the time anyways. XD I’m down with watching Japanese with subs though! (I’d have to wear glasses… in public. D:)
Edit: Also disappointed I couldn’t find Six Feet Under Japanese dub on YouTube. Haha!
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Worst Hermit Ever.
Also if you lived in Melbourne I’d totally do a Ghibli movies evening with you. 🙁
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Think I’m near the end of Ni No Kuni. Not game to go to next area, trying to prolong it. :S
@redartifice You have indeed won the copy of cthcc! Please email me at scree(at)y7mail(dot)com
Sorry, sorry, got bloody apathy and Red artifice mixed up (blood is red and I am a derp)
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/02/talk-amongst-yourselves-211/comment-page-2/#comment-1048569
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Runner up was Jusking3888
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/02/talk-amongst-yourselves-211/comment-page-3/#comment-1048773
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Woo! Yeah! Games!
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I’ll take “Things Ruffleberg would never say” for $100, Alex.
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Comment of the year. <3
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Afternoon TAY
Obligatory @ash mention
Nose kinda blocked
Sam watching Daria in my living room at home *my brother showed her how to work the Xbox, she is a PC gamer*
And I am stuck here, working
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Sam ….is a … gamer
You win my friend, you win.
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Mostly plays WoW but still
Thank you
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So I signed up for that Adobe Creative Cloud thing yesterday (student prices FTW). Downloaded Illustrator and started doing some random doodles. Came up with something I think would be cool as a small platform game. Already come up with a name and some ideas for the story 😀
http://imgur.com/ayTrz7m
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That’s one dope ass pet cockroach
If you like Dead Space and haven’t played System Shock 2… PLAY SYSTEM SHOCK 2… 😀
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I tried to play that once.
It’s some sort of Bioshock clone, but in space, also with really bad graphics.
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Meh, I was talking about that on Facebook yesterday. You’re so behind, DC. 😛
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I was talking about it in 1999. *hipster glasses*
😛
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Ha! In 1999 I was too busy being a social butterfly. 😛
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I was alternating my time between watching Stargate, Star Trek, Buffy, Adventure Games. Then going to school and not talking to any one. 😛
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Well to be honest I was spending all morning sleeping, all afternoon playing PSX games and all night getting drunk and going to see bands and stuff. 😛
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Not any more than I did when I realised that 1999 was the last year before I became a mother. 😛
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If you like Dead Space check out Afterfall : Insanity.
started playing it last night & first thing that struck me was is similarity to Dead Space. except theres no guns in it so far. & hallucinations & stuff. bit buggy, but its interesting.
Thought I was the only one freaking out about going grey in my 20s, but found out today my brother bought hair dye. XD
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It’s not terribly unusual, really. I’m 32 and have well over 50% grey hair now.
Fuck dying your hair, you look stupid.
Grey hair is cool, man.
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I’ve been dying my hair since I was 16. Wow, I’ve been looking stupid for 20 years! 😛
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No, it only looks stupid when men do it – not hair coloring in general, but when it’s very obviously a bad crack at covering up grey hair.
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To be honest there’s probably been a at least a few times when I looked stupid though. Like when I was growing my hair out after being bald for a few years and I dyed it purple. Pretty sure that didn’t look very great. 😀
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A uni friend used to dye their hair purple. I thought it looked damn cool! 😀
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I thought it was going to look cool but I didn’t do a very good job and it looked patchy and weird and not at all vibrant which is what I was hoping for. So yeah,I looked pretty stupid.
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I just get scared I’ve wasted my youth. Haha! My eye brows are going grey too! :O
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Grey is sophisticated. You can be a sophisticated non-hermit.
I’ve been going grey since i was 25. i think its awesome. I want more grey hair.
@freezespreston I think this is up your many many ally’s
http://smh.drive.com.au/motor-news/holden-unveils-export-model-20130215-2eh8t.html
Biggest news of the day? The giant spoiler for FAST AND FURIOUS 6 over at http://www.aintitcool.com
Beware… it gives away the baddie for part 7… it’s HUGE news and its AWESOME… big spoilers for part 6 too so YOUVE BEEN WARNED.
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WHY WAS I NOT WARNED ABOUT THESE SPOILERS!!!
you’ve ruined the movie for me now weresmurf. It does look pretty cool though.
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Riiiiiiiiight… lol
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@Rocketman in relation to Blade runner (directors cut)
To make this more relevant to Kotaku, there was a great point and click blade runner game!
For those of you who didn’t see the tweets about it, Pyrean and I made Rocketman watch Blade Runner yesterday and at the end Rocket questioned the inclusion of the dove. As I’m talking about the end of the movie this is going to be filled with massive spoilers so If you haven’t seen the movie and intend to watch it at some point I suggest stopping now. Due to the age of the movie I’m not going to bother with spoiler tags though.
So, why the dove? The short answer is symbolism. But Symbolism is far from a complete answer. Why this particular symbol? Well, as a form of art the movie the meaning is largley open to interpretation by the viewer (though I’m fairly confident it wasn’t “you know what this movie needs to be awesome? More birds!”) My opinion is as follows.
The dove is held by Roy through the final stages of the chase where he harasses and taunts Deckard through J F sebastion’s house. You never see where he picks up the bird and assume he finds it inside the building when heading to cut Deckard off on the roof.
Roy was built to serve in the military. He is a killer. You’ve seen this yourself not long ago when he finally comes face to face with Tyrell. During the sequence with the dove he even has a monologue where he tells Dekard of the horrors and wonders he’s seen in the military. He’s been on a mission to acquire more life for himself and his friends and, each time he finds he can’t he kills someone instead. Yet here he is carrying a dove, an internationally recognised symbol of peace, gently enough not to hurt it.
To me the dove symbolises Roy becoming more then he was ever built to be. He overcomes his programming and actively decides not to kill Deckard. He shows mercy, a trait usually reserved for talking about humans. It also represents the peach Roy finds in death that he never had in life.
There is also a religious side to it. The entire movie is filled with references to Christian religion throughout the entire movie. The dove can be a symbol for the Holy Father and to me the dove flying away as Roy represents the soul leaving the body. But does Roy even have a soul? He was made by humans, not by a god. Roy is nothing more than a machine. How can a machine have a heart? The word machine originates from slave to man. A fact Roy knows well He says to Deckard dangling above a fatal drop “Quite an experience to live in fear, isn’t it? That’s what it is to be a slave.” Roy’s entire quest involved becoming more then his masters ever intended. Something, I think, he achieved even if it wasn’t in the same way he’d set out do.
Also, the movie did need the extra bird.
PS: I’m glad I decided against explaining this on twitter. Would have taken soooooooooo many tweets.
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I need to watch Blade Runner again. So damn good. (Also, I had the adventure game but can’t find the CDs any where! :O)
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When the game came out I couldn’t get it becausemyPC was too crappy. When I finally got a PC that could run games again, I couldn’t find a copyof the game anywhere. 🙁
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I used to buy games I knew I couldn’t play because of my crappy computer. Had Grim Fandango for about eight months before playing…
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I would have but I couldn’t afford it. I used to have to try and finish my console games in a week so I could take them back to EB and trade for another one. 😛
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… I should probably get around to watching that movie if DC’s seen it and recommends it.
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Totally played the adventure game first, though. The adventure is a little like Syberia, plenty to see but nothing to actually click on. Haha!
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Haha, yeah, I do remember it was a bit hard to work out what you’re supposed to click on to advance sometimes. But then that’s pretty much my memory of every pint and click I’ve ever played.
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I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like… tears in the rain.
Time to die
chills
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IIRC he wrote that on the set just before they recorded it too, it wasn’t in the script.
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There were elements of it in the script, he just distilled it.
Perfectly.
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I always assumed that Roy had realized that Deckard
is also a replicant himselfand was trying to make him understand what it felt like to be hunted. That he never intended to kill him in the first placebecause he was one of them anyway.I kind of like your explanation better though.
Blade Runner is a masterpiece.
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Yours is a good explanation as well especially since
Roy has just come back from Tyrell’s office where he may well have had access to all Tyrell’s information. Though this assumes that Deckard was indeed a replecant which is never established (although I tend to lean that way.)
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Good explanation, A+. You would get HD’s in film school
Just made my own Double for lunch.
Two chicken breast pieces, with cheese and bacon sandwiched between them. Yum.
To make it better, next time I might deep fry the chicken to get a nice crispy coating on it. 😀
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I had twelve KFC chicken nuggets! Yours, like always, sounds better! 😛
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If you didn’t live so far away you’d have to leave before breakfast to get here in time for lunch I’d invite you over for lunch one day.
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😀 You’re awesome, Strange!
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Compare your meals, it is probably worth leaving before breakfast to get there
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And to be fair, I don’t even eat breakfast most days. 😛
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Haha, good points guys. In that case, I formally invite you, @dc to my house for lunch one day. So you don’t feel intimidated as much by having to hang out with me and my son, you can bring up to 2 TAYbies with you. Anymore than that and I’d probably be in the kitchen forever. 😛
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Strange, you’re awesome! 😀 Thank you! So damn kind!
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Mrs Tigs and I will be up for a week after the dreamworld meat
Not sure I’m telling you that but I thought you might like to know ;P
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Go to Coles
Find Southern Fried Coating
Apply to chicken
????
Profit?!?!
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I have this awesome Korean fried chicken coating I got from the local Asian Grocer. It makes the best fried chicken ever. I have no idea what the actual instructions say but I marinate my chicken in buttermilk overnight and then coat it with the magic Korean stuff before deep-frying. Deep-fried heaven. 😀
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I am jelly
I only have Coles
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That looks…poisonous. 😛
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How dare you madam!
State icon and all that
(just between you and me I feel kinda sick now – no breaky or lunch and a big load of sugar. Worse is they only had packs fo two so I got another fing frog staring at me here).
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They’re good, but I find them a bit much.
That said, part of my breakfast most days:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8c/Iced_Coffee.GIF
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Much like the frog, I find your breaky item of choice delicious, but a bit much in one go.
I still feel quite sick from eating ti actually – too much sugar for an empty stomach. What shoudl i do with the second one? they costa bomb but it is kinda sweating in here – the office air con obviously doesn’t agree with it!
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FYI I just went a got a sausage roll and the fat in that displaced thesugar in the frog cake so now i feel better.
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Frog cake? Frog cake.
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Also, if we do a meat, it needs to be at a malaysian restaurant.
Then it can be SATAY Meat.
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Fo’ sure!
Where is good for SA meat? Does it need to be central, or are we all based north/ north east etc?
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I think it’s too dispersed atm, but if @lucifer9783 was coming to the city or something we could do a thing with stuff.
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If I ever have a meeting in the City i will @redartifice you to see if you are free.
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Oh Nike, such horrible timing of your campaign with Oscar Pistorius
For anybody who hasn’t heard the horrible story, He has been charged with shooting his girlfriend yesterday.
In a PR nightmare Nike currently have billboards around the place with him on them along with the slogans, “My body is a weapon” or the unfortunate “I am a bullet in the chamber. Just do it”
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Yep, that’s a thing… Kinda unfortunate.
He supposedly shot her mistaking her for a burglar
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…several times.
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Emphasis on supposedly
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I’m sceptical of his story. Especially since the cops have been called to numerous domestics at his place.
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Bad taste campaign to begin with, but in the current context….
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This post didn’t exist when I posted, and appeared after I did so
QED ninja’d by miliseconds
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The body as a weapon was in poor taste but the bullet in the chamber works pretty well for a sprinter.
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I don’t know, maybe it will lead to more sales for Nike. People love the morbid after all.
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Read Jennifer Government. If that book is telling the truth, Nike sales will skyrocket.
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that’s the first thing i thought of when i heard about it
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Synopsis sounds interesting
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It might well be my favourite novel. It’s so damn readable.
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The basic idea of “there’s no such thing as bad publicity” applies here. Simply because the purpose of most advertising campaigns for megabrands like Nike is brand awareness. They want you to think of them first when you’re thinking about buying anything that they might sell.
So right now, this huge controversy is a massive boon for them because it brings the name Nike to the forefront of people’s minds.
Marketing is weird.
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Afternoon Fridayitis is the blurst
I have 3 more Investment submissions to do
Then some filing
My life, it is complete
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File it under ‘X’
Play x-files intro tune in head.
Call the next female co-worker you see ‘Scully’
^^ remainder of the day becomes awesome 🙂
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Profit?!?!
Sounds good
No redheads though
May just sit here quietly
Blurst!
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New girl started at work.
Red head and canadian… also called Gillian!
I make x-files reference –> blank expression?
Shes too young :O I crash and burn D=
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D.C. might’ve had a thing for Gillian Anderson back in the day. And then Anna Torv in Fringe. What is it with female FBI agent types? 😛
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What is it with people who talk about themselves in the third person? 😛
And I could be wrong, but it may be that female authority figures with guns are your type. When Freeze joins the Force he might be able to hook you up. 😛
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Haha! I’ve been doing the third person thing a lot lately. I don’t know why. Maybe trying to distance myself from that creeper. 😛
Edit: Actually I think I like Anna Torv, Olivia to be specific cause she’s all broody, broken and mysterious. And purdy. 😀
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What’s wrong with redheads?
Redheads are great.
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Nothing wrong with them man!
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Linux TF2 Promo Item!
It’s a Tux (the penguin) you can wear!
How to play Crysis 2:
1.) Start the game
2.) Play the campaign with the somewhat boring protagonist
3.) ????
4.) Prophet!!!
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What if you can’t start the game because some turd is using your CD key?
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I tried playing Crysis 2 last night.
45 seconds in & I already hated every single supporting character & wished them to hurry up & be picked off by aliens & make their heroic sacrifices already.
Just the level of gung-ho, aint-marines-hardcore, GI Joe nonsense in the opening cutscene was vomit-inducing.
Edit: I quit after 90 seconds, lest I overdose on patriotic aggression & bravado.
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Really?
I didn’t find crysis to be too gung-ho at all. Sound like they have dialed it up for 2-
might not be like that all the way through, but in the opening cutscene, its pretty full-on.
Really wasnt in the mood for that sorta thing at the time, so I quit.
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Hooah! 😛
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PODCAST!!! (’bout poo, and stuff. It’s like a golden years Blink 182 record)
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/2013/02/15/dan-karls-zeitgeist-s02e18-undeniable-intelligence/
I LOVE YOU!
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TUMBLR!!! (it’s basically the same ‘cept we’ll occasionally write funny (debatable) words and post pictures of our obscure bodies)
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Comparing yourself to Blink 182 is probably your harshest critique yet.
‘Mudflap.’
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oh my :O
STUFF!
– I suck at RPGs. but not really, I suck at starting them coz I keep wanting to change my character. Warrior, Mage or Rogue? I CANT DECIDE DAMMIT.
In the last 3 days, I’ve made 7 characters in Dragons Dogma. because of either not being happy with what class I pick, or just because the face I’ve made the character looks damn stupid when its in motion. Does anyone else get that? Paralised with choice in character creation?
For me, its always a choice between warrior & rogue. Warrior is a bit more straight forward, but rogue is a bit more interesting, if maybe a bit more difficult. Dont much like playing as casters. Usually let NPCs deal with that.
– flying down to melbourne this afternoon. just got a text saying my flights been delayed by an hour. disappoint. but on the plus side, All Tomorrows Parties Festival over the weekend, so that should be good.
– Fringe has sucked me in. half way through season 2 at the moment, but I’ve gotta wonder why season 3 costs twice as much as season 2 or 4…
– that is all.
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I always play rogue characters in RPGs or the equivilent. Just feels like a good mix of gameplay. I spend a long time on the character creation screen too, especially if I know this is going to be a long haul kind of character. (Shep in Mass Effect.)
Fringe is all kinds of awesome!
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Rogues.
Because Rogues
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I couldn’t play oblivion for much the same reaosn. I literally spent more hours in Oblivions character creation screen, only to be dissappoint with my character and quit once existing the sewers.
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Go back and play Oblivion
I was still playing it 220 hours in
Stick a helmet on your character and you only see the back of them running anyway
I also towards the end was listening to Velvet Acid Christ and Smashing Pumkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness album
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I sold it like a month ago 🙁
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Buy it, hella cheap
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Ok i lied damn it! I played it until i couldn’t break in to some house becuase my pick pocket was too low and I rage quit D:
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Ugh!
GET IT PLAY IT
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I get character creation paralysis when it comes to actually naming my characters.
Was really upset recently when I logged into TERA and found that all my characters had been moved to another server and their names I’d had since before the game launched had been reset and I’d lost them all to other players. 🙁 I’ve spent so much time with those characters and renaming them makes them feel like they’re basically not the same characters any more.
EDIT: I generally play whatever class fits me best, will try multiples until I hit one that feels ‘right’. Usually in fantasy stuff that ends up being heavy armor melee DPS classes, especially if they have a nice rhythm to their attacks, but I’ll do all sorts if they have a good feel to them (eg when I was playing TERA I was using a Priest because she could absolutely demolish large packs of small monsters, to the point it felt unfair)
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All of my characters are named Lucifer, it saves me from such problems
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I used to be the same.
“Effluvium Boy” works in some scenarios, but it’s not really appropriate for a fantasy setting. Nowadays I use “Flu” in those situations, since I think it works quite well, in the same tone as “Puck” or whatever.
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I call my character Dan. To honor @dkzeitgeist maybe, but most likely cause it’s my name too.
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I reuse some names but I usually have way too many alts. 🙁
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any type of character that’s slightly stealthy?
i’ll play it
I love to deal damage
A LOT! of Damage!
That, or slit throats in the cover of darkness
So you will find me with an a mace with bits of bone stuck in it, or a blade that ever drips with blood
I pick characters based on aesthetics/demeanour/etc., but often I lack the skills required for their play-style, so I just end up being terrible at the game.
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I pick the one that looks the most like a tweenage girl.
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Flowchart:
< has cat ears? > —-(yes)—-> [select]
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< is not ugly?> —-(yes)—-> [select]
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(no)
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[Fuck this game, play something else]
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Mescaline!
Hi TAY!
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Hi Spaghett!
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Hello Lucifer!
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Sooo, new Gravity Falls episode
YAY!
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I really should watch that one some time
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Probably the best cartoon Disney has ever done! That includes Ducktales and all the nostalgia stuff from the ’90s. (Obviously I’m not including their movies. :P)
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Gargoyles would like a word with you.
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RIGHT. ON. THE MONEY.
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Gravity falls > Gargoyles. And i loved gargoyles.
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Big call DC, very big call
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Didn’t nom any one this week. I know it’d just end being an Oprah thing with all the usual suspects, so just know you’re all awesome. That is all. 😛
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… Gay.
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GAY
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This was me, about 20 minutes ago.
I’m free! FOR A WEEK!!!
Now all that’s left is to jump on Oprah’s couch, and claim that I’m a Thetan.
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Congrats, my friend! Hope your new job is all kinds of awesome!
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and claim that I’m a Thetan
Don’t joke about that. I had a ‘close enocunter’ in high school when trying to take advantage of a ‘free IQ’ test advertised outside some building in the city.
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I got drunk and peed on the doorstep to the scientology institute in Canberra.
Granted, this was years ago, but the memory lives on.
Much like the memory in a drop of onion juice in a drop of water that’s been purified and diluted to miniscule amounts, or something, I guess.-
Much like the memory in a drop of onion juice in a drop of water that’s been purified and diluted to miniscule amounts, or something, I guess
Like homeopathy!
Granted, this was years ago, but the memory lives on.
are you sure they didn’t stick you on an e-meter and fuzz your memory??
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That’s the best thing to do to that doorstep.
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You sure it wasn’t a free stress test? That’s what they usually offer.
I did some work next door to their Sydney HQ, was approached quite a bit.-
Maybe they were Scientologist imposters!
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Goddamn Raëlians, moving in on Scientology’s turf.
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Sign said ‘free IQ test’. I’d never had my IQ tested before and fancied myself as reasonably smart (the arogance of youth perhaps), so I went inside. at this stage there was nothing indicating what the ‘buisness’ was and I assumed it was some sort of community service!
When I got inside they said ‘oh dear we have run out of IQ tets, here is a personality test instead’. I was still none the wiser and naively went along with it. Once completing the test I got sat down and told about how much of a mess I was, that i needed to go on the e-meter (which they showed me) and I also needed to buy all these books buy a guy named L. Ron Hubbard. More stuff was said, I got freaked out and ran out the door!
Funny thing is of the four friends who went in, three were like ‘wtf how did we put ourselves in to that situation? that was scary’ and one was like ‘but.. they made some good points’ and was all quiet thereafter. I always wondered whether he went back…
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Cheeky bastards…
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That’s a scary thought…
I’m all for those WTF moments at times, but the idea that one of them was kinda hooked just like that… I don’t know. A small part of me would rather someone lose themselves to substances than to theology.
Perhaps it’s due to it being tangible? Because I can comprehend it that way? I don’t know.
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nah not unnecessary. I think it shows how they have tailored their approach to target certain vunrabilities. Quite insideous imo
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Remember Me looks so damn incredible! They had me at futuristic Paris! 😀
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I’m reading the article now. It looks purdy!
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I can’t get interested. I hate being the odd one out. Please talk me into it!
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Paris, but in the future! 😛
I just really love a well realized sci-fi world. This one seems to fit that criteria. So much attention to detail and a story we haven’t really seen in a video game. The whole memory thing is cool too, interesting gameplay hook.
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Meh frenchies everywhere /le sigh
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http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/02/five-things-you-should-know-about-remember-me/
Kirk and I seem to be on the same page with this one — especially the Fifth Element/Uncharted/Enslaved comparisons. Obviously I haven’t ‘previewed’ it, but I’m psyched!
Edit: Also, I’ve got fond memories of going to Paris. Such a pretty city visually, can’t wait to see it all science fictionized!
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SHUT UP AND BUY IT. TAY MARKETING, BIZZITCH.
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in my love of fighting games, the first thing i thought when i saw it was “she’ll be really cool when she’s put into the next capcom fighting game crossover!”
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I’m excited for it. Looks like a lot of fun. Plus, female protagonist. That shouldn’t matter, but it sort of does.
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I kind of get the impression it’s going to be a cult hit like Mirror’s Edge. I don’t know why…
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Will she actually be a female protagonist? Or the standard gaming ‘female’ protagonist where she’s actually a man that experienced a terrible character design accident that resulted in the addition of teh boobies?
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You ole romantic you
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I haven’t checked out anything about it recently, but when it was first revealed, I couldn’t help but think it looked like a mix of Batman AA/AC, Mirror’s Edge and Tron.
Not that that’s a bad thing. 😛
BAH! Tried to post a big question but got logged out instead. What gives? Anyway…
I NEED AN EXCEL SMARTY-PANTS
I know some of you smug, intellectual bastards will jump at the chance to spray your brain-spooge all over this joint.
I’m trying to set up a HYPERLINK formula which uses a cell reference as the filename.
Consistent file location all down the line.
Consistent naming convention, with the filename in a corresponding cell (set up another field which adds “.pdf” to the end to try and simplify things).
Is this possible? What am I doing wrong?
Inserting a hyperlink the other way will be too time consuming and I want this to be dynamic/easily duplicated.
EDIT: NEVER MIND I JUST FIGURED IT OUT (AND TRJN IS ON THE MONEY)
I just put the whole file location in the corresponding cell, instead of just the file name and trying to work the cell into the formula’s file location.
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So something like:
=HYPERLINK(X:\101 Collections\101 DWG\***CELL REFERENCE GOES HERE***,Drawing)-
Have you tried having the link in a reference cell?
So =HYPERLINK(A1,Drawing) and then have A1 be the filename & location, possibly just using the same cell you’re using to attach the “.pdf” to the end of it?
EDIT: Here’s a relevant example from the MS help site:
=HYPERLINK(“[http://example.microsoft.com/report/budget report.xls]Annual!F10”, D1)You should be able to use =HYPERLINK(“[X:\101 Collections\101 DWG\FILENAME]WORKSHEETNAME!CELLREFERENCE”, Drawing) and get results.
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Yeah, that’s what I just tried and it appears to have worked.
Thanks man!Ah, cool. That edit is how I was trying to do it to begin with, but I was stuffing it up. I’m going to give it a go now and see if I can get rid of some superfluous fields.
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I tend to just go to the Microsoft site and find examples that are doing something similar to what I’m trying to do. As long as you can work out the logic behind the example, it’s fairly easy to do pretty much anything.
Then again, I don’t do very many complex things in Excel. I’ve never had to set up a hyperlink before.
EDIT: Changed my formula above, forgot to close the quotes and add a space after the comma.
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That’s what I try to do, but couldn’t find it. Obviously wasn’t looking hard enough.
Still can’t seem to get that other method to work. Might stick with the 1st solution for now. Will fiddle with it later.Thanks for your help.
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As usual, there’s a dumb way that works and a smart way that you can’t quite get right.
People have found many dumb ways.
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brain-spooge
Byo Kleenex.
I NEED AN EXCEL SMARTY-PANTS
I know some of you smug, intellectual bastards will jump at the chance to spray your brain-spooge all over this joint.
HEY, that’s me.
I’m trying to set up a HYPERLINK formula which uses a cell reference as the filename.
Consistent file location all down the line.
Consistent naming convention, with the filename in a corresponding cell (set up another field which adds “.pdf” to the end to try and simplify things).
Oh wait, that’s not me, never mind.
I know how to make a bar chart?
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Sweet. I’ll call upon your services when necessary.
I’m goin on a date with @dc tonight. Just sayin’
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Play it cool, Sughly. Play it cool. 😛
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Worst hermit
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Hey, I think if you look carefully I haven’t once described myself as a hermit!
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Nice try 🙂
Remember me looks great. Yep, changing subjects mid-comment.
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You guys are a day late for Valentines days. 😉
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I hear he like chocolates and flowers
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What! I thought @dc was a strong, independent hermit who don’t need no man.
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What can I say. My powers of persuasion, charm, good looks… should I go on?
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Please.
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Ummm… errrr…
That was meant to be rhetorical D:
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He likes adventure games! 😛
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MmmmHmmm
*snaps fingers*
WHAT!
I thought we had something.
:'(
I was just another conquest wasn’t I?
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Had to know the truth someday
Good to see you moved on from thinking I liked you. I just wanted to be friends, nothing more =P
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Who said I moved on?
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I did. Now move on! heh.
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Ooooo! Boyles new film is a mindtripper with mcavoy and cassell. Veeery interesting…
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First minute of trailer looked great! Then it got too spoilery so I closed the window and posted this!
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I approve. Also cassel, i will watch anything with him. Such a presence. La Haine, highly recomended. Also Irreversible, for those with stronger stomachs
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Fuck the po-lice!
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Youve seen it!! :O
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You can thank World Cinema at uni. The lecturer seemed to have a thing for Mathieu Kassovitz. Haha! Same day I saw Amelie and I didn’t wear glasses for either! Most of it was lost on me… :S
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Hey, before you downvote me I was a poor student who didn’t even have a pair of glasses to wear then. Squinted my way through university. 😛
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Did you like it though? Thought it was really well done, pretty hard hitting. Especially that ending
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I think I need to see it again, honestly. Amelie I could enjoy visually without the subtitles, but I can barely even remember La Haine, so I must’ve tuned out and started drawing on my note book. (Not cause I didn’t enjoy it, just cause I couldn’t read it. :P) Best student evah!
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Looks pretty groovy.
Ohhhhh and the oldboy remake is with josh brolin/elisabeth olsen/sam jackson. That trio is the only reason ill give it a go now.
I asked this on Twitter but I might as well ask it again here in case anyone has a solution.
I’m having a problem with my Samsung TV where it turns itself on after I’ve turned it off. It just started happening a few days ago. The sleep/wake up timer is off and initially I thought it might be because of the PS3’s automatic update feature but that’s not the case.
Dan said he has been having similar issues.
And the issue is not ghosts(Doc and batgirl) or gremlins( Pow) either. Finally I will not throw my TV out (DC)
Thank you.
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I should say, I wanted you to throw it out BECAUSE of the ghosts. 😛
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Is this relevant?
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I got your tweet as well. I’ll try out the suggestions on there, thanks. 🙂
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My Samsung monitor is doing the same thing oddly enough.
Samsung TV is fine though.
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Gremlin ghosts.
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Dammit pants! 🙂
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Turn it off at the wall when not using it? If it turns back on I suggest calling the Ghostbusters. We finally might get that reunion we all want.
That meteorite footage is pretty crazy.
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Yeeeeeeeep.
Damn, Skyrim is 60 at Steam or 40 at JB Hi Fi
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I guess you could say you’re split 60/40.
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Every day Steam becomes more and more of a ripoff. I don’t know why people hail it as the greatest and best thing ever and buy all their games from them. A good 95% of the time you can get everything on there cheaper elsewhere, be that retail, or another digital distribution service like Amazon or GMG (you still get to use the games on Steam anyway!).
I’m not even counting the Australia tax. Everything’s cheaper than the US prices elsewhere.
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Desura?
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The thing is, the majority of the “cheaper than steam prices” things, are in fact, bought off steam. They’re just done so via other countries.
Steam is hailed as the greatest because it’s convenient, and it has great sales.
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Amazon and GMG get their steamworks codes straight from the publishers. Valve makes money somewhere down the line from it.
Those 100’s of cd key sites do that though. I got Skyrim for $19 on launch day from one of them and nothing went wrong, so I don’t have anything against them as long as they’re legit codes.
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The fake blood on this Connor statue thing kinda creeps me out. :S I’m glad I have no interest in that dismembered torso thing that everyone got upset about 😛 Having that thing sitting near me would induce nightmares.
Now I can play Darksiders on my PC properly! \o/
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I bought a similar thing to play FIFA on my laptop. It also works with the PS3.
Interested in cringe comedy? Why not try The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret?
Todd Margaret (David Cross, the guy what was Tobias Fünke) is a temp salesman at a major American company that gets sent over to run the UK operations selling an energy drink known as Thunder Muscle. Todd Margaret makes increasingly poor decisions as the show continues. It started by saying he spent his summers in Leeds (he didn’t) and then he burnt his hand on a jam jar. That was the best he’s been able to perform in the three episodes I’ve watched so far.
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I enjoyed that show.
The good thing is, it’s only 2 seasons long (12 episodes) so the show ended just as the concept started feeling old to me.
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It definitely feels like a sketch from Mr Show turned into a full fledged show. To be honest, I’m not sure how I made it through three episodes in a row. One of those shows you might need to take in small doses.
Oddly enough, I get the feeling my parents would absolutely love it.
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Just finished watching Ill Manors. That is one bitter pill to swallow, Plan B. Kudos on articulating depravity to the nth degree.
Sughly’s awesome! Thanks for hanging out, man!
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Best date ever
Started and finished Ys I in a single sitting. 4.5 hours. First Ys I’ve completed, only ever dabbled before. Really enjoyed it, though I prefer the combat system in Felghana onward where you have to actually time Adol’s attacks and stuff. Enjoyed the way it tied into Origins as well – I think you’d want to play this before Origins, even though Origins is chronologically the starting point.
The game is like a JRPG distilled down to its essence, almost all the fat trimmed. Pretty impressive for a game originally released in 1988 (though to be fair, Ys I&II Complete is a 90s remake).
Also the music is absolutely amazing. Soaring epic guitars everywhere.
Might aim to do Ys II tomorrow.
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Scratch that, definitely playing Ys II tomorrow just to hear that in context. Best boss battle theme ever?
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You just sold me. 😀
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Falcom’s music guys are awesome. They have a full band and play concerts and stuff.
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Wooooo! I finally sorta kinda caught up on TAY. Doing stuff outside is tiring :/
I feel dirty skipping over like 90% of what everyone said but then again 90% of you will skip over this! Hi D.C.!
There’s some crazy Stream game cafe LoLfest thing I found today in some shopping centre and they also sold plenty of LoL plushies like that badass turtle guy Nob layed as once! (Rammus?)
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then again 90% of you will skip over this!
No, we all read all @grennius posts
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TL;DR
Bloody Jetstar.
I was rushing about this morning, getting ready to fly to Sydney. My phone alarm is still going off as I get out of the shower. I turn it off, see a text message from Virgin. Flight’s been cancelled.
The only other flight they offered today would have got me in after dinner time. At least they gave me a refund. Still, had to book a flight at the last minute with Virgin, that gets me there at 1:35. I feel like I’m missing most of the weekend now.
Yay /o\
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One of my colleagues had the same thing when she was going to adelaide a couple of weeks ago. Jetstar were no help at all, no options for a different flight, just a message to say this flight is cancelled, sorry for the inconvenience. This is why I rarely book them. At least when our flights to the gold coast were cancelled because of the rain Virgin did everything they could to get us on a different one
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It was the only cheap flight that got me to Sydney reasonably early. Now I had to go with a cheap-ish flight that gets me there mid-afternoon.
Oh well.
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Still not sure why blaming Jetstar when it was Virgin who canned your flight…
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Im guessing it was a typo.
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This is possibly true.
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Not so much a typo as a brain fart. Jetstar cancelled, rebooked with Virgin.
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Ah righto. DAMN IT JETSTAR!
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Hello customers! Please you will find here a video that explains everything.
It’s actually a pre-launch trailer for Peaceful Tomorrows which explains almost nothing.
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Still haven’t read The Lesser Evil yet! D:
Congrats on launching the trailer!
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A hermit would have plenty of time for reading… 🙂
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Happy vaginal expulsion day @beardymcmuttonchops
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Man, all these Feb babies. Happy birthday, @beardymcmuttonchops!
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Happy @beardymcmuttonchops Day!
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Happy birthday, man! Hope the day treats you awesomely!
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Thanks man! They had to actually use a plunger on my head, so it’s more “Happy You-Got-Sucked-From-A-Vagina Day!”
That’s why my head’s shaped so funny. It has a peak and ridges. I’m gonna look so stupid once I go bald.
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I did the hermit thing and refused to leave, had to be cut out. 😛
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HAHAHA!! Amazing. Herpy berkaday beardy!
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Weekend TAY!
I’m on baby duties today – they can watch me TAY 😛
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Fun for the whole family!
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And they are sick – I just went over to one whoe was sitting quietly wiht a book (18mo so more toddler than baby really) and he turns aorund and his face was like a horro movie, eithe rthat or he’d just been ‘slimed’ ala ghost busters – so gross!
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Sick kids are gross. Then they get it all over their hands and start touching everything you don’t want them to.
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and start touching everything you don’t want them to.
Yeah, like touching me :S
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@dc and anyone else, I want TAY/Hype/Gaming and non-gaming news updates!
PS4 maybe?
The Last of Us delayed
N Korea Nuclear tests?
Pope resigns
Leg guy charged with murder
Russian meteor
New Gravity Falls
Freeze is (apparently) awesome
… I unno, stuffs
That should keep weekend D.C. busy, unless he’s too tired from all the partyin he did.
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Haha! I’m about to leave the house for the rest of the day! :S
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You still have tomorrow!
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Got tentative plans to help a pal out, maybe!
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Pal! ^_^
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PAL!
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POKEMON @powalen.
Totally not helping, but at least there’s no spoilers, right? 😛
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HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME
Fun Fact: I’ve been accidentally spoiled the new Pokemon many, many times now. People just randomly post images of it in unrelated forum threads and/or have it as their avatar. I couldn’t avoid it if I tried 😛
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As I anticipated, the boobs over at Kotaku US had a pic spoiler for it on a main article. Ah well!
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Why can’t the spoilers over at Kotaku US have a picture of boobs on a main article?
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But they do! Haven’t you seen the cosplay and anime ones?
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Why have you got an umbrella in your drink?
Because I’m drinking a dry martini and I don’t want it to get wet.
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*Slow Clap*
So if I can manage to land a job this year and am able to save, I might consider going over seas next year to the UK/Europe during our Winter for Download Festival (line up permitting) and other maybe some other European festival if I can.
It’s something I have wanted to do for years now, it would be awesome to make it happen.
Real Racing 3 – So very disappointing. Yet another case study of what happens when EA get their hands on something good.
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Where is the enjoyment in races that are 1 lap or around 2 minutes long?
I feel so let down. I was expecting something great with this game. I should have known not to put my faith in an ios game. And yet people keep insisting that this is the only “future” of gaming 🙁
I wonder if I’ll have time to finish spec ops the line before my wife gets home
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oh wow
Skyrim installing on the PC with Dragonborn DLC downloading
Coraline by Neil Gaiman purchased and 3 Strawberry and Lime Rekorderlig cider’s in the fridge
Finally, some beef mince and packets of Mi Goreng in the fridge for dinner
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Unrelated comment: Nice LSP Tshirt on your xbox avatar spaggy 🙂
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Thanks man
Friend add me did you?
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I tried to add a bunch of TAY people using the lust on potaku, but part way through it said I couldn’t send any more requests (yours included). You can add me as Tali360 if you like (can you guess what I was playing when I got my 360?).
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The lust on Potaku? 😀
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God damn touch screen key pad! (it is it that potaku makes me horny?)
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So damn epic!
Also, Star Wars Battlefront 2 kicks so much arse! \o/
Sam having to go home has so far lead to a boring night
Skyrim nearly fully updated with the High Res Textures
EDIT* Penismonkey, because it is way too quiet here on TAY
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Because @dc has gone to another meat without me.
Because hat.
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My nights been quiet I guess, but also not /o\ haha. But it’s the good kind of also not. Not the bad kind!
Looks like the Persona 4 Golden release date was changed to the 21st a week earlier than expected the wait for the Australian release is almost over.
DOA5+ also got its official release date setup so that’s another vita game to add to the collection next month.
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now it’s the same day as revengence 🙁
i guess i’ll get it before i go to Sydney for a wedding a weeek after it comes out, it’ll make some fine aeroplane gaming!
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I believe Rising got bumped to the 26th.
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Morning all … while I’m waiting 3 hours for a tv show to stream, I give you part of a design I’m working on. I think this has taken 5ish hours so far and my eyes hurt.
Enjoy a linework version of something pretty.
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Looks ace! 🙂
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Who’s this guy? 🙂
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Stuck on a boss in Ys II 🙁
Up until this point I was really loving the game too. Maybe I’m underleveled or something but more likely I’m just not doing something right because I watched a youtube video and it looks like they take it down in about 7-8 hits and I’m hitting it 30-40 times and barely doing a scratch 🙁
Last night at home. I’ve been excited all week, but seeing everything packed up, it’s finally hit that I’ll hardly be seeing my parents, brother and dogs and friends anymore 🙁
On the bright side I’ll finally have the freedom I’ve been wanting for a long time now.
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WOO! congrats on the moving out.
I hope it’s as awesome as it should be for you.
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The only thing I regret about moving out of home is I have to cook my own meals 🙁
You’ll enjoy the freedom!
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This
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But cooking your own meals!
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But I’m a terrible cook /o\
Also lazy
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I like to cook actually 😛 It should be a good opportunity to become a more competent cook!
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I actually do enjoy cooking I’m just usually too lazy to do it. If only I could cook whist playing games.
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Also looking at an overflowing bin and wondering why no one has taken it out yet.
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Make the kids do it.
And the dishes.Man, I’m going to have SO many children, it’s bound to make my life much simpler.
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@greenius, you upvoted @benj’s comment the exact time I tagged you there.
Creepius.
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I upvoted his and Novas (maybe someone else’s?) before I even saw your notification 🙂
Traded the 920 for a 42″ 3D HDTV for the bedroom.
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:O
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Either the phone was expensive or TV’s are cheap. Got the TV and a wall mount for the price of the phone.
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Baragin.
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Wow.
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Poor Lumia! :'(
Guys, I made a thing!
http://sxe-enforcer.deviantart.com/art/Kessels-Run-shirt-design-354735765
Thoughts?
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I like it. But to be honest the simple line art one you had on a white shirt would be awesome.
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Yeah … I do have plans for the line art eventually.
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but for now, ask and ye shall receive
http://www.redbubble.com/people/speechbubble/works/9990661-white-falcon
http://www.redbubble.com/people/speechbubble/works/9990650-millennium-falcon-lineart
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MQFT
D, E, or F
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D. Because Dave.
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F
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D
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Even with the votes, I still can’t decide. Its like trying to choose which of my non existent children is my favourite. (I’m assuming parents don’t pick favourites, right?)
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Geez, you can tell when DC is back in the building. All the instant upvotes
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Just as well I don’t have a smart phone. I’d feel compelled to upvote all the time! 😀
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What’s new, TAY? Feels like it’s been a while! :'(
D.C.’s Brisbane on a Sunday observations. Tourists take photos of the weirdest things. I saw a couple posing in front of a busway. Another taking a picture of a store front.
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Although I totally took photos of alley ways in Paris. 😛
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Pfft who takes photo’s when on holiday.. I sure don’t!
Though it would be the opposite if I go to England next year as I want to. Would rather this year for Download but I don’t have the spare couple of grand and I assume Download is sold out.
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What’s Download?
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3 day Metal festival in June held at the famous Donnington Park!
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Something like that would be awesome to build a holiday around! 😀
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Honestly i’d even just go for 5 days and spend the other 2 days with my friend who lives there.. Though she would going to Download as well. So really it’d be all 5 days!
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Post meat blues!
But then:
DREAMWORLD!
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You’ll leave me out of that one too won’t you?
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Hey, I’ve planned none of these meats. It’s everyones fault but mine. 😛
Hope you’re well, man?
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Chilling on the couch playing Dark Souls.
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Sounds like a good Sunday!
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Man, saying goodbye to my parents was the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do 🙁
I should probably get off the computer and go and meet people 😀
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Milestone, man. So damn proud. Hope you have an awesome adventure.
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I got a bit teary when they left, and now again thinking about it 🙁
But thanks 😀 It should be an awesome year!
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My parents had been away for about 2 weeks when I moved out. My sister wasn’t there either. Best family
It’s for your own good! It’s for the neighbourhood!
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This song I think I kinda know!
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When daddy comes home you always start a fight, so the neighbours can dance… in theeeeee po-lice disco lights!
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Yay! It was the song I thought it was 😀
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My sister bought System Shock 2 on GOG (even though I still have my disc version), really cool that it works flawlessly straight away without any screwing about. I love GOG so damn much. :’)
HELLO?
IS THERE ANYBODY IN THERE??
JUST NOD IF YOU CAN HEAR ME
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@spaghett!
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Nah my head has been vacated for the weekend for fumigation!
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Is there anyone home? RELAX. I need some information first…
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Just the basic facts
Can you show me where it hurts?
WOW there are a shitload of people I know from year 11 & 12 here! Even one of my best friend’s best friends. At the welcoming thing they literally had more pizzas than they did people…
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Oh man, that sounds like good eatin’ right about now. You staying at dorms or off-campus?
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On campus 😛 It’s pretty good. The rooms are fairly modern and it’s all pretty nice. Everybody’s pretty friendly in the “I don’t know you so I’ll ask the standard questions” stage.
This O-week thing seems really immature though. We got a handbook and it’s covered in dicks and “Amy’s sex laws” and “official” drinking game rules. We get 50 points for bin spews… (Team with the most points wins something, idk)
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O-weeks and hermits don’t go together!
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I think that’s the whole idea of O-Week haha.
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Good to hear you’re meeting new people. Some of those people could be your future friends or who knows *wink*
🙂
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Nemesis?
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Don’t you mean nemeses? 🙂
No DC! I meant a pretty hermit girl who he can date, fall in love with, decide to marry or not. Regardless of marriage they will have little hermit children and live in a little hermit hut continuing the hermit bloodline that you sullied.
Sorry to plan your future life BenJ 🙂
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Don’t be sorry, sounds like a good plan 😛
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The refresh game sucks. :'(
Time for Virus’ new segment of out of context text messages! 10 points to the first person who can guess what the real context of this text is!
I fake it a bit with clients, but not with you.
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Laughter?
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No, but you’re actually quite close!
Edit: I can’t spell!
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Smiles? That emotion you call… love?
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Now you’re just being silly, no girl loves me 😛
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You and me both, man. You and me both. 😛
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Haha. I just like taking pot shots at myself!
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Sadness?
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Even closer, but no.
Empathy?
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Negative!
It’s sex isn’t it. I bet it is sex.
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I wish!
Nah, I think i’ll put everyone out of their misery, righto everyone line up out the back.. I mean uh, it is happiness I am informed.
Actually knowing what you are talking about?
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You’re the worst Nova, THE WORST! =(
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What? We’ve all done it. I know I have
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I’m just joking around dude =P
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So I was right? 😛
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We will just go with yes, because my brain is not wanting to comprehend!
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Got the TV set up in the bedroom. Very happy.
https://twitter.com/freezespreston/status/303064981757374464
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Hells yeah!
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I like your HD porn display for the PC!
Guys, I need help.
I think I’m addicted to placebos.
I tried quitting, but it didn’t seem to make a difference.
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You’ve ruined page twenty for everyone! :'(
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Your negativity is ruining this page, Deece!
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Also, I was joking. D:
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Sure you were, Diet Cola.
I don’t believe you.
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Downvoted.
Then upvoted again.
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Whats this, cancer sticks?
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Haha! That’s what I thought of immediatley too. Watched Cruel Intentions one too many times back in high school.
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Their cover of Running Up That Hill is amazing… just… wow.
I’d totally sleep with Brian Molko given the opportunity, too 😛-
Eww. I totally wouldn’t.
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😛
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*squeeeeeee*
The Honduran White Bat is so kyooot!
Nearly finished these Pokethings @powalen ! I wish he did more 😀
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OHMYGOD, THAT IS THE CUTEST BAT I HAVE EVER SEEN!
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The Australian Fauna website?
Awww. 🙁
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Oh god no I’m looking at internet dating sites /o\
I’m not sure if this is more of a sin than reading comments sections!
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You need to move back to civilisation. I don’t want to have to worry about you like this. 😛
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Although…now that I think about it,a few people I know have met their partners on an internet dating site and seem happy. Although I doubt there’s much choice where you live so yeah, I stand by my first statement. 😀
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It’s… interesting. I’ve had profiles on social networks/dating sites (vampirefreaks/myspace/facebook for the former, fetlife and others for the latter) but never with the intent/assumption of meeting someone new, it was simply catching/keeping up with pre-existing friends.
This is new, and…weird. Also questions, lots of questions. I think I’ve answered 900 questions to ‘better evaluate me and my matches’.
Which seems to be about twice the amount of questions as anyone else seems to answer, if not more.-
Oh I know that site, I couldn’t even be bothered finishing those questions and deleted my profile.
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Aside from my profile, the highest “questions answered” count is about 350.
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Fuck that!
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I might be intoxicated (though not so much as to negatively affect my typing), but this is fun!
Lowered inhibitions seem to assist, even in non-personal one-sided encounters! GO TEAM.
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I swear half the girls on these sites are bots anyway..
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LEAVE ME BE WITH MY DREAMS MAN, WHY WOULD YOU SAY SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
I’vetotallyhad6girlsfromthailandslashmaylasiaslashsingaporetotallycheckoutmyprofilealreadyimeanthatsagoodthingright1ofthemisgoingtoflyovertomeetmenextweekihavetopayfortheflightsbutshestotallygonnapaymeback-
Hahahaha. Sadly I can say I was able to read all that in one go…
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Finished Ys II \o/ No Xenoblading this weekend but it was worth it. Finally beat the goddamn spider boss I was stuck on – the main thing that was shitting me was while dodging he would sometimes hit me and push me back out the door which would reset the whole fight. 🙁 After about fifty attempts I started to get the hang of the timing and managed to finally beat the fucker. Fists were pumped. Every boss after him was pretty, though I needed two attempts at the one with the bats.
It’s surprising how decent they ended up making the story since it has such minimal dialogue. Adol isn’t a silent protagonist in that he actually speaks to the other characters but it’s always like “Adol explained what happened” and stuff instead of having him actually have spoken dialogue. So I guess it’s a nice compromise between a silent and non-silent protagonist?
Anyway, very tempted to start Oath in Felghana now, or maybe Origin since I got a little way into that, though IIRC I got stuck on a boss there because the game wasn’t reading my controller properly and wouldn’t let me jump attack. On the other hand, Oath in Felghana, while ostensibly Ys III, is chronologically set after Memories of Celceta (which is a remake of Ys IV). On the other other hand, I feel like Ys Origin will be a lot more fun since I’ve seen Ys I & II and so much of Origin is call-backs to I & II.
Or I guess I could go back to Xenoblade.
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Related: Ys II starts with Falcom delivering a Master Class in how to put together an opening video for a game.
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I vote for Xenobladder
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I ended up starting Oath in Felghana because I was on a Ys kick but I’ll probably put it aside and finish the Xenos first.
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Good night, folks. Thanks for hanging out with me! You guys? Awesome!
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Goodnight, D.C!
See @spaghett
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Join us on new TAY buddy
I will never concede defeat
WP forever!
Been playing Absolution.
Anyone else find it weird that 47 has an instinct meter that runs out as he puts his hand up to his face. That’s ridiculous. How can you run out of the ability to cover your face with your hand? I’m actually not digging the whole instinct system and i’m not using it. But that’s easier said than done.
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