You guys have any burning questions? About the games industry? About my current state of clothing? This is Ask Me Stuff, which does exactly what it says on the tin. Leave me a question in the comments below and I’ll endeavour to answer it before the day is out.
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While convenient, I’ve heard it chew up a few hundred Mb per hour of watched content. Which is unsustainable on most internet plans.
If you have unlimited downloads, it shouldn’t be a problem, though.
IIRC everything is kind of ‘on demand’, so you don’t have to wait for shows to come on. I could easily be wrong, however.
Do you have an endless stream of bandwidth?
If no, then don’t bother.
Also, i find it hard to conceive on why people still feel they need foxtel, especially with the constant addition of new free-to-air channels…
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The only real reason I see for Foxtel is sport – and they know this, which is why they force you to subscribe to all the other crap as the base package, then pay extra for the sport. And I’m pretty sure that live matches are not possible with the Foxtel system anyway.
But my request for some kind of review still stands. While it’s worth taking bandwidth usage into account, let’s assume that I will always have enough available to watch what I want.
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Speed review.
Foxtel sucks
Foxtel on 360 sucks
Unless you like sport and then it sucks but is a neccessary evil suck.
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Which are months behind the us although I don’t have foxtel either but australian tv is rather pathetic
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A wife that can’t life without it?????? That’s one possibility!, An $80 a month possibility.
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Time for a new wife!
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Dude, first you mock my wording around door building then suggest breaking up my family… you are on a roll.
BTW, I am laughing while saying this. I literally lost a friend because of one smart arse comment facebook (no longer use it) a year ago so wanted to be clear… but yeah, I’ll be sure to tell her about this mate!
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Agreed. Minus some sport and SNL, there’s nothing that different to justify getting it.
…well, seeing as I can’t afford it, that’s what I keep telling myself anyway…
My other bro-in-law came over to watch the Australia loose the soccer final last week.
Sign up was pretty painless, but not having used Foxtel much before, I didn’t get the definition between on demand and signing up to a plan.
I figured I could watch the soccer game ‘on demand’, but that’s not how it works.
On demand is for one off TV shows from defined series and movies, where as the subscription gives you live access to the major channels.
Once I’d filled in the forms and logged in on the xbox, we were up and running instantly.
We watched for about 4 hours on high quality, and the data usage was around 3800gb. I tend to round up, so I figure data is around 1gb/hour.
My wife (on maternity leave) thinks she will watch around 4 hours a day, so I’m estimating that to be around 80gb a month.
I’ve upgraded to a 100gb plan, and she is watching on low quality for the rest of the month until it ticks over.
We are on FTTH, so the stream was seamless.
As for quality, I’m pretty picky, so I wasn’t overly impressed. Looked a bit like a 400-600mb tv episode. Not rubbish like a 300, but not as good as a 1gber.
The interface is simple, although it shows channels that are not included in your plan – cheap shot at an upsell I guess.
The only thing is, I haven’t been able to find the ‘proper’ way to actually launch the Foxtel app.
At the moment, I’m going Video Marketplace, then finding the Foxtel sign up ad. Loading that will start the app.
Had a quick look, and can’t find a reference to Foxtel anywhere else which seems a bit counter intuitive…
Anyway, wife has Nat Geo for $19.95 a month now, so happy days!
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Official word – the approximate data usage used when viewing one hour of Live TV is:
High Quality: 800MB
Medium Quality: 540MB
Low Quality: 360MB
As soon as Foxtel got ADs I didnt see the point. And then internet got a whole lot faster and I really didn’t see the point.
I was offered the chance to trial Foxtel, but passed because they were asking for my LIVE email password. 🙁
I’ve heard the streaming is a bit chunky. Not really perfectly placed to make a call. I like the idea because I want to watch the Premiership without the hassle of installing and price plans, etc.
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There is a free trial if you want to check it out – which is what I did before I signed up.
When it asks for your username & password just hit B & it will go into the interface. SKY News is completely free as a trial.
I use it a lot but I watch a ton of movies – so the movie channels are a good buy at $10 a month for 100 movies on demand, live channels & then another 250 movies that are pay per view.-
Could you point me in the direction of the info for the trial?
I was looking in to it as well, a trial to check it out would be great.
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The one time I get to this post early and I have nothing!! BAH!
…um, how are you?
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Sweaty.
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Oh… glad I asked. I think?
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Where’s Max Payne 3??
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Seconded.
A while back you had an article about asking Q’s to console manufacturer’s (specifically MS, Sony and Nintendo I think). What ever happened to that? I remember the MS Q’s being asked, but never any response, nor seeing any Q’s being asked to Sony or Nintendo.
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It’s pretty ridiculous. Nintendo are dragging their feet.
Every time I ask Microsoft they say the answers are almost here. By the time we get them back the answers will be bloody irrelevant.
Sorry to everyone who posted questions. Honestly. Very sorry.
Are you actually gonna answer stuff, or is this some social experiment and you’re stringing us along?
<__>
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Sorry dude, last week was crazy busy and I forgot. My bad!
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Damn! The one time you answer my question, I have nothing interesting to ask and it accidentally sounds like criticism :/
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Can I borrow a tenner?
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YES/NO
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I circled yes but every time I scroll down the yes jumps out of the circle!
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i’ll bite re: state of your clothing.
have you started wearing shorts now that it’s warmer? do you like shorts? are they comfy and easy to wear?
t-shirts, polo shirts or cuffed shirts?
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I have started wearing shorts. Today I stupidly wore jeans. Much regret and sweat is the outcome.
Open to the masses.
Black ops supposedly lets you take 2 people online via split screen. I say supposedly as it was also supposed to have a lot of local split screen options for games which apparently didn’t ship with the disc, and only 1 interesting one has been shipped since then which is bots. Other than that it has less options than previous iterations. I could rant for hours on that, but back to the question.
Can you system link black ops with more than one person per console? For example can I have 2 people on 2 consoles system linked to have a 4 player local game?
Like say Halo, the only game not to have completely ignored the split screen gamers.
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We ran an xbox LAN recently and although I didn’t actually play, I saw a few consoles linked up with 4 players per projector.
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This would make me very happy
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Why is there problems posting a comment sometimes?
Tells you to click here to comment using your FB account, click it and nothing..same screen.
Tells you that you’re logged in but nothing.
It’s been so squirrely lately that I’ve even seen myself logged in as some completely random person on my home pc that I won’t even let my wife and kids use.
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I’ve been getting that a LOT too.. I’d love to be more active on the Talk Amongst Yourselves and the like, but I see myself logged in on Facebook with some random name, or I can’t comment at all, and so I remain silent. Til now, of course.
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I have a problem like this when I post from home. My fiancees FB profile is always logged in and nothing changes when I try to log her out. Are you using firefox? I have thought of changing browser to see if that fixes the problem.
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Going to forward this to the tech guys see if we can fix it. Sorry to everyone affected!
Mark,
It’s easy for anyone to pick up a pen and write a book (or some kind of text), or to pick up some crayons or pencils and draw a picture, or even, by comparison, easy to pick up an instrument and play some music.
Do you think it’s too difficult for people to make videogames?
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Serious?
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Obviously there are barriers to entry, but making a game is easier now than it ever was. Going to Game Jam really proved that to me.
When is the article on Game Jam coming? Are you going to have details on the Melbourne one as well? (I was one of the jammers there).
We need more coverage on this to draw attention to aussie developers or potential developers!
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It’s on the site now. Please read it and share it with all the Jammers!
Why can’t you fix the comment system, it’s unreadable, wah wah whinge.
*cough* Sorry.
But in all seriousness, is there anything that commenter’s do on this site that annoys you? Mine is the example above, but I’m not the editor, so it doesn’t really matter.
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I hate it when people reply and don’t really have anything to say… just sayin is all!
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My solution is to set up an unnoficial kotaku community in the Hyper forums. They have been dying of late and could do with a high posting member injection. It’s not to far a stretch as former kotaku editor now reigns supreme at over at next media.
I love my kotaku but I have lost count the times I have not bothered to comment or follow up in the talk amongst yourselves forum because of the painful process that it is. -
I’m not just sucking up, but this is easily the best community I’ve ever been part of. It’s my favourite part of working at Kotaku.
I don’t think anyone has ever annoyed me here. I don’t mind the criticism at all if I get it, because it’s usually measured and fair.
As for the comments and accessibility – it’s something we’re working on, and the redesign will fix up a lot of your issues! 🙂
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Nothing wrong with sucking up. LOL
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Nothing wrong with a little crticism
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Any news on Puzzle Quest 2 for PSP? The last news said it was coming at the end of last year, which obviously didn’t happen.
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I’ll have a wee check for you – don’t know off the top of my head!
Fast-forward. Pause. Stop right there. It’s 2025.
You’re a major movie star and Hollywood A-List after
being adopted into the Bruce Willis, Demi Moore and
Ashton Kutcher family – five years ago on
this very day.
Bruce (new dad) & Ashton (new dad 2) arrive home
late one night and begin arguing with Demi
Moore (new mum). Things quickly escalate and even
faster still descend into a good ol’ Mexican stand-off.
With all guns drawn, this looks like the final
scene from Reservoir Dogs.
You have just arrived home after spending some
of your vast fortune on a priceless American
national treasure: the original Henry rifle presented
to Abraham Lincoln by the New Haven Arms Company.
Trigger happy and keen to try out your newly acquired
historic treasure, you enter the fray with glee and
reckless abandon. This is your moment to shine.
Ashton is going to shoot Bruce. Bruce is going to
shoot Ashton and Demi is alternating her aim
between Bruce & Ashton.
Your hungry for a piece of the action and are
desperate to fire the first shot; you aim the Henry Rifle
and push gently on the trigger. You need to make
a decision and fast:
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If you kill Demi Moore: Bruce will kill Ashton and
you can live a beautiful life with Bruce (Dad 2)
in the Hollywood hills.
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If you kill Bruce: Ashton and Demi survive and
return to being your beloved parents and lavish you
with money and priceless artefacts and all
manner of splendid things.
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If You Kill Ashton: Demi shoots Bruce and you
and your new mum embark on a Thelma and
Louise crime spree – complete with Brad
Pitt onboard – on your way to a new life and
new identity in the heart of Mexico.
Who do you kill & why?
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for some reason i read that with the tune of vanilla ice in my head
I definitely shoot Ashton. Defintely.
Punked.
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Seconded. That guy is the most annoying.
So the photo i posted on TAY?
Do we get an explanation or leave it up to our imaginations…….?
Asked this somewhere else but didn’t get a response. Trying again.
The Witcher 2 is coming out soon and it originally had a Collectors Edition in Australia with a bust of Geralt etc. Now the only collectors we get is Premium edition which is well… meh. Any word on whats going on with the retail release of The Witcher 2?
Hey Mark, I’ve noticed that all US Gawker Media sites have undergone/are all undergoing an extensive site redeisgn. Is the same thing going to happen to the Australian ones?
If so, can we not have the stupid video autoplay feature? It’s really annoying and unnecessary.
I remember you mentioning on an article about WWE All-Stars that you did a PhD on pro wrestling. Could you elaborate on that a bit? What was the topic exactly? What did you major in to do that? Is it available online?
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I’ll try and copy it off my old crappy laptop for the guys that asked.
The PhD was on the meta-narrative of wrestling that has developed with online websites constantly trying to second guess storylines through what’s happening with backstage gossip. And how the WWE tried to second guess that sort of thing by integrating backstage gossip into storylines. Just about ‘works’ and ‘shoots’ – and how they tried to blend the two.
Remember the Hardy/Edge/Lita feud that was based on the real life love triangle between those two? Things like that.
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Dr Serrels??
Am I the only person in the world who didn’t know?
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Hey Mark, where are the competitions kept now mate? Are they just in the posts and no longer under a separate heading?
Also, will deus ex: hr be worth it?
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