Talk Amongst Yourselves
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Don’t forget to try probe Uranus!
Tricia Helfer gets the best line in the game.
Liked ME1 better, less shootin more RPGing…
Yup, its damn good. As soon as I finished, I change to a lady shepard and started all over again. I rarely do that. 😀
Why Andy WHYYYYYY!?
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First the Socceroos, then Murray… bad weekend. :/
On a brighter note: bought and got stuck into Trials HD this weekend – congrats to Fatshady for being so awesome! (I’m sure he’ll pop-up and explain)
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Its k. Everyone knew he wasn’t going to win anyway, besides you…
Someone should’ve told you.
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I wanted to believe.
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Sadly this isn’t a Disney film, the power of love, and your belief that you will succeed (or, in this case, someone else) is not actually enough to bring you victory. Sometimes, the better person actually wins. Sometimes, the hero of Karate Kid is actually Johnny.
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Quack…
Quack… Quack… Quack… Quack…QUACK QUACK QUACK QUACK QUACK QUACK QUACK!!!
GOOOOOO DUCKS!!!!
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Sounds more like anime to me?
But, back to Murray, apparently he’s never won an actual set before in any of his grand final appearances so he’s really not doing the British tennis establishment any favours just yet.
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This was the first year where I cared more who won the womens final than the mens. So wanted Li Na to win… she was owning the first set, too. 😛
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Yeah, I was gutted about that as well. Her speech was awesome.
“My husband, I’ll love you even if you become fat and ugly.”
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I loved his reaction. 😀
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Yeah, but Kim thanked a random Dentist… that was pretty awesome in itself
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To borrow a punchline from Buzz Killington, you know why Murray bottled it? Because he’s a Scot! Ha ha.
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Funniest comment ever!
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Good Morning all!
OK, I’m not really that enthusiastic, but still…
Anyway, I noticed last week, after FatShady’s promise (PROMISE!) to get us Minecraft server time (Promise), that some people began showing pictures of their wonderflonium based Minecraft creations. Since this all got lost in the depths of TAY, I figured I’d start up a fresh one for this week. I promise (prosime) that I won’t out-do you all.
Trust me, I’m a doctor.
Anyway, to get the ball rolling, or, in this case, the large square blobby thing sitting in exactly the same place as before… Uhhh…
Here’s my Minecraft house: http://i55.tinypic.com/waln28.jpg
Post your weird, wonderful, or “OHSHITCREEPER” related Minecraft things below!
Or don’t, and just make me feel really awkward.
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Love this topic
I will show mine tonight. I am working on an underwater viewing room like an aquarium. You’ll see what I mean.
It is actually harder than you think (or what you’d expect) building underwater.
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Oh, I know, some friends of mine (I helped a very small amount, but I really only got grass into it, which took ages) made Rapture, not the realistic to the game version that the P.A. fans did, but our own little version, with a biodome, and the tower, and all kinds of awesome. Took ages, and was really annoying, sadly, I think that server has closed down, so we lost all our work. :/
Still, excited to see what you’ve made.
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On the trials HD side of things.
I was boasting to my brother in Scotland about being a Golden God for finishing the last level on Trials HD. He then found out I used FatShady’s guide after reading Kotaku. He’s been giving me so much shit ever since…
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You notice i didn’t mention it on this site just sent via twitter. You were the one throwing it round here. You only have yourself to blame. Lol
I don’t care how you finish it. Just finishing it is awesome.
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I know! It’s my own stupid fault!
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Nice house, I hope your not compensating for your virtual self.
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No.
I’m compensating for my exceedingly small penis in real life.
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HA!!!
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That beats my guard tower that reaches up into the clouds, on the top of a hill where I have put my home, that digs down to the centre of the earth, spiral staircase style!
Really that’s an awesome look with the lava falls (Are those lava falls?)
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Lava falls, over my glass ceiling, and it all goes down into my lava moat.
It sounds really impressive, until you find out that I died about 20 times while making it. :/
Man… maybe i need to jump on the minecraft bandwagon…
Then again, it looks kinda pricey for a BETA.. what is it, 15 Euros or something?
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i got it for 10 in Alpha. It is still worth it i would say. Many hours spent to date and no sign of getting bored (mainly because you make your own fun!)
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I never looked into it, but I was under the impression it was like pay-per-month basis? If its just a one of pay, I think I want in too!
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It is a one pay only thing. I was skeptical as well, till I gave it a go, now I’m hooked. GET IT!
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I would never sign up for a subscription thingy.. not for games anyway.(damn you mobile phone and foxtel)
Yeah, one off payment, you can install on as many computers as you like and all future updates are free. Not sure if the Beta codes are much different than the Alpha ones.
Be prepared for what it is. There is no story and no real objectives. But if you think about it as a survival game that has a bunch of collecting and the environment is made out of lego then you should be in for a treat.
The whole concept of making your own house out of nothing, then finding the right resources to make tools to allow you to extract more resources to make more impressive stuff then upgrade and build your base, then start farming and playing around with electronics….
It is a good experience, but don’t let us build up your expectations, the graphics are nothing special (except you grow to love them) and as i said, there is NOTHING pulling you through the game and no real game to speak of (storyline/objectives etc). understand that, spend the $20 and you wont regret it, especially if i can get multiplayer working.
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Ok, you sold me. I’ve purchased, haven’t got time to play tonight, but hopefully will get at it tomorrow. 😀
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Nice house. I’m looking forward to somebody making a house IRL that resembles a minecraft house (complete with lava). Or how about “Minecraft World”, a huge Theme Park that’s built to look like you’re actually in Minecraft.
Here’s something I made – It’s not realy “in” minecraft – but it is minecraft related. It’s my attempt at “minecraft using an HD graphics engine”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjhtjDnneLQ
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Woah… that is so purty 😮
Did you steal that wondeflonium from a van?
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Well, a man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do.
Hi all another wonderful week of TAY i just wanted to ask you mark a quick question how did that game creation event go on Sunday i was going to pop in but then the weather was so good the beach seemed far too enjoyable to pass up..
on another note splinter cell conviction arrived from UK smashed through it and really enjoyed the single player campaign..
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Yeah, Splinter Cell conviction was pretty fun. Story seemed too drawn out though, but at the same time, quite short. Ah well. I still had fun leaving a ghost then running up on the pipes to commit death from above. Funsies 🙂
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Almost went out there, but it was just too damn hot to catch a train, so I too am interested in how it went…
Hi guys,
I’m staying in Glenelg at the moment for a conference. I have a couple of days spare to do my own thing. Considering I have never been to adelaide before, is there any must-do things before I leave?
cheers in advance
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You’re in Adelaide, so you should…
Leave early?
No, sorry, I can’t help.
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And thats from someone who lives in Canberra!! LOL
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Silly Billy… no-one “lives” in Canberra.
They just exist.
A place like RAdelaide, where your life’s in your hands everyday… now that’s living.
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Hey mate – i’ve been to Radelaide a couple of times now, nd my lil lady is from there (and surprisingly smart and attractive considering the fact), so i’d suggest you DEFINATELY make a trip to Handorf in the hills.. i think it’s half an hour out of the city.
Rundle mall in the city is not bad for a day of shopping fun, if you’re into that.
umm….
Apart from that i can’t think of much else.
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“my lil lady is from there (and surprisingly smart and attractive considering the fact)”
If Bee was to ever come on TAY for the first time… I hope its now.
You are amazing, and courageous. Also amazing.
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haha i’ve said that to her a few times.
I’ve admitted to her that Radelaide wasn’t anywhere near as horrible as i had imagined (but we stuck to the nicer parts), so i get away with slandering it most of the time.. i mean, what’s being a victorian without being able to slag off other states?!
But yeah, one of my favorite things i’ve said is “if you’re from adelaide, how are you attactive and intellegent… and why do you have a job??…and teeth?!!?”
Then she hit me…
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Well I met my mrs here, she grew up here till she was 18.
I get to make fun of her to. lol
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Ahhhh, good old Karratha.
We actually stock a couple of shops there.
it’s Hell-expensive to ship to… BECAUSE IT’S IN THE MIDDLE OF BLOODY NO-WHERE!!!
Seriously, a box i’d ship to Perth for $25 costs $110 to get to Karratha.
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Damn mexicans getting uppity with the rest of the country. Although when I went to Melbourne with the wife for a weekend we did quite enjoy it. One thing that amazed me was how the afl teams suburbs are like a 5min walk from each other. And each one still has fans numbering in the hundreds of thousands. Blew my mind.
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The Rainforrest in the Botanic Gardens should be cool today.
Ignore Handorf, it’s full of tourists… and Germans… and, well, old people.
Hit up the free samples in the Barossa.
Given that it’s cricket season, you could check the Bradman exibit at the state library.
Have fun in your 42C heat today, Hind! Sucker!
Back home, it’s an awesome 29C 😛
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It’s going to be 39 and in melb again 🙁
*sniff*
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Yeh its hot ><.
yesterday when we arrived there was a reception BBQ dinner. It was in a hall with west facing windows, and a hundred or so heat generating bodies.
Oh and did I mention the blackout?
No aircon.
No fans.
No…..Cold…..Beer
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Bwahahahahaha! HA!
Okay, I think I’m done.
Nope.
Bwahahahahahahahahaha!
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Success! Assignment submitted.
Not so success! Annoying person waking me up on the train because of their blaring music. Seriously, how can people listen to music on their headphones so loud, that the person next to them can hear the lyrics perfectly clearly? Headphones would suggest that only the person wearing them can hear stuff from it, but nooooooooooo, look at me, I’m a douche-baguette with my ‘awesome’ loud music.
Douche.
I’m just bitter because I hate these people. And I stayed up for a while finishing this stupid assignment. They are the bane of my existence. Time to really try Mass Effect. Hopefully it gets better.
Which brings me to my second rant/point. Has anyone ever had a problem with Zavvi? I bought RDR at about launch date from them last year, it took about 3 weeks, and arrived in a broken case. I ordered the Sly collection in the first week of January and it still hasn’t come yet. I think I’ll just stick with ozgameshop.
/rant.
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i Haven’t had any trouble it took about 2 and a half weeks for all my stuff. Also i have only one problem with my stuff coming in a half broken case( Still usable)
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I dunno dude. I ordered Hot Pursuit and NBA Jam from Ozgameshop on the 7th and it still hasn’t come so I want to ask has anyone had an issue with them?
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I ordered a couple of games from them, order placed on 20th/21st of December, arrived about the 5th/6th of Jan? Not bad, considering it was Christmas, making the post service busy AND England had some pretty crazy snow that time, which delayed a lot of flights.
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I’ve bought from ozgameshop twice.
They’ve been very quick to ship and arrive both times.
In fact, the first time took only a week to get here
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Yeah, some people (with their loud music, and their freestyle dancin’ and…) really worry me. I was sitting on the bus, listening to music from my in-ear headphones, probably a little loud, and I could hear someone elses music clearly over the top of mine. It really worries me that people can do that (The worst part was that they were really low quality headphones (I refuse to use anything cheaper than $100, but that’s also because I break the cheap ones really easily))
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I seem to break earphones on a regular basis. So I hit up eBay and bought 3 cheap iPod imitations for $10. Only broken one set so far. Not bad, considering I’ve had them for about 4 months.
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I went through a pair of earphones a week for over a month late last year. (Not joking).
I have now got a pair of Phillips ones from Harvey Norman that have lasted over a month.
Once you get good ones hold on to ’em.
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Man, I had these ~$30 EP-630s that were pretty darn good back then. Lasted 2-2.5 years before finally succumbing to daily wear and tear of walking/public transport, which I thought was a pretty god run.
Every pair since has never lasted more than a year. 🙁 -
Yeah, I wasn’t quite that bad, more a new pair every 2 weeks, for about 3 months…
Then, strangely, I got Apple in-ear headphones, much higher quality than their normal ones, and they lasted me just over a year, so totally worth it.
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I’ve never had ANY problems ordering ANYWHERE in the UK. Including Zavvi. That being said, there have been horror stories. Somehting too ka while to arrive before x-mas, and Bee contacted Zavvi and they said if it didn’t arrive in 4 weeks they would just declare it missing and refund her… so even if it has gone bye-bye, you should still get your money back.
Last things i ordered were conviction and tattslotto v capcom, both arrived in 2 weeks.On a side note, you reminded me of this time i was on the train and this cute girl kept looking at me.. she started walking towards me and my heart skipped a beat. I took out my earphone and she said “can you please turn that down, it’s really bothering me”…
“o..ok..” i stammered out and slunk deep into my chair.
Man i was soooo embarrassed… i didn’t even realize it was so loud… it’s all heavy metal’s fault.. it always sounds better louder…-
Ha! Good one. I mean, sometimes at home I play music loud (But still not loud enough for anyone else to hear) and just sit there patting the doggies, but yeah. Too loud makes me rage at people.
As for the Zavvi thing, that’s intresting. I sent them a message a last week, they said give it a week or two and then they’ll check it out. Hopefully it’s there when I get home. Or a refund would be good too.
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Could be worse. Seems everytime I get on a train there is always someone listening to some really bad rap on their phone without headphones. Just using the phone speakers.
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Oh god, they’re the worst. I also become ashamed (I myself am Indian) whenever I see another Indian playing Bollywood music off their phone speakers. It makes me cringe.
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I’m glad you said ‘bad’ rap as opposed to just generalising rap music.. (thanks)
But yeah, Not once in history has it been cool to do this. Either use headphones or just talk to your freaking mates!!! No-one cares what you are listening to!
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GOD I HATE PEOPLE LIKE THAT!
Worse is when they do it around the shopping centres and walk with a “swagger”That being said, my dad often listens to Irish music on his phone’s speakers… that not annoying so much as it is embarrassing…
I must admit, they are rather jaunty tunes, however.
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I useed to wurk with people who did the speaker thing. I know that if I started blastin some Metal the boss would make me stop. But it’s OK to blast that brain deadening POP bullsh*t …
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AMEN BROTHER!!!
TESTIFY!-
Hallelujah!
Choops, do you listen to Devin Townsend or even Strapping Young Lad?
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I’m embarrassed to admit, but i haven’t listened to much of his stuff, but what i have listened to of his i’ve really liked..
I just don’t buy CD’s much anymore, and i never buy music online.. so i’ve been listening to the same stuff for over a year now.. lol
I’ll have to go out and get either one of his solo cd’s or a SYL CD…
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Why do people in Australia use the term ‘douche’? I mean, not that I’ve been looking, but I’ve never even seen a douche for sale anywhere in Australia?
As far as I’m aware, women in Aus simply don’t use them?
And anyway, wouldn’t it kind of be a hetrosexual compliment? Like “you’re so good at giving vaginal enimas” or something?
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A compliment…
Ask some females, see what they think…
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I don’t see why it matters that Australia doesn’t have douche’s as such.
The power of the word lies in its implication, not origin.
Also, the term ‘Douche’ is shortened from “Douche Bag”, which is, of course, the bad that collects the resulting fluids, which is far from pleasant.
That being said, it makes me wonder why people don’t ever get called “catheter bags”
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Or colostomy bags. Haha. From now on I’m calling people colos.
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Your a catheter bag!
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Yeah, well your face is a hazardous waste bin, boy-o!
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That would prolly be all that hazardous waste I’ve been eatin’…
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Wait, isn’t the douche bag the bag that holds the contents that gets shot up the watzit?
Incidentally, did you know that a large contributor to yeast infections is because the ladies clean themselves out? It flushes out all the bacteria that usually eats the yeasty goodness…
you know… just so you know…
I think I’ll stop talking about this now…-
This gave me to go to google images, turn off safe search, search “yeast infections”, avert my gaze and post the link here for everyone to enjoy…
Luckily my common sense intervened…
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i.e. you did it to Gizmodo…
…right? 😀
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wait, what?
I know “douche” from South Park, it’s used as an insult extensively on that show. I imagine that at least helped spread it.
I’ve seen them in some pharmacies.
I’m worried. Is douche like an orange? As in, I can’t think of anything that rhymes with douche!? argh! help!
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The Mighty Boosh?
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Ha, my daughter said the exact same thing, I told her thats not allowed as its a namey thingy. 😛
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Cartouche.
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Whoosh?
First off welcome back all. Hope your weekend was good. Mine was. (this is what Ambrose was talking about)
I made top 100 in trials HD. I actually got 98th globally out of dome 1.4m users. Still 3rd in Aus but Second place is 92nd so now I have a shot at it. Been working at this on and off for 6 months and the closest I got was 119th.
Also I know no cool people like gamerscore but I cracked 20k this weekend also.
Good weekend all round if you forget I’ve slept on the couch for the past week because my 2yo has taken my place I’m bed and ive not had much sleep.
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Congrats man – that’s pretty awesome.
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Nice work, I choose to believe that it’s the MBA that’s giving you your powers of insane hand co-ordination, thus allowing real life things to improve your gaming.
Uhh, where was I? Oh yeah, that’s seriously awesome, I’m happy that I managed to finish a single one of the extreme levels.
(And nice work with the Gamerscore/e-peen, since cool people don’t care, I guess it’s okay that I do)
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Mate, that’s awesome!
Congrats!!Also, if TV has taught me anything, you should put your two year old on a coathanger and put him in the closet, he’ll have the most restful sleep he has ever had and so will you!
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Congratumalationsssssssssssss
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You are one mighty man! Are you in contact with the other guys in Aus above you? If so, lets raid there house and steal their 360’s! mwhahahah!
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First place is Aussie is 18th globally. I speak to him a bit. 2nd place I’m friends with but haven’t spoken. The undisputed legend of this game is also from Melb so ausssies do ok! No need to get them. We should focus on robbing guys from other countries. Lol.
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***Minecraft server update***
Ok. I have a server. I have server side software installed. I have an ip address and port number. I have no problems connecting to other public servers. My connection is seen on the server but the game tomes out each time.
I have had 3 people try it with no luck.
Anyone with minecraft server experience please let me know. We are close.
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does it timeout on connection, or once in game?
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On connection.
I have not got access to the server but the guys setting it up for me run a bunch of games so know what they are doing.
On client side, you load up game, enter multiplayer menu, enter IP.IP.IP.IP:Port then select connect.
If you change the port number or IP address, you get an instant message saying failed. When you use the correct settings, the ‘connecting’ screen appears for some time, like 30 sec +.
On the server it is visible that i am attempting a connection and it looks like i am there (I am making it that far at least so we know the details are correct) but then the game fails to connect.
We have tried using the default port 25565 and another one. We have found the setting file on the server and altered the port/left it on default settings. It just does not work.
On the client side, we have played other multiplayer servers and have not had any issues (We assume this to indicate no port forwarding issues on client side) so what we are left to beleive is that the server is not configered correctly.
Are there any common mistakes with MC. We got the latest version from minecraft.net (offical site) and followed instrructions. Not sure what we missed.
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I’m not really sure what the problem would be and I know you covered some things, but these are all I can think of:
*Ports not forwarded properly
*Firewall blocking external connections…that being said, it seems to be a pretty common problem and I usually see the response “just try connecting a few times and eventually it’ll work”, so yeah… not much help, I’m afraid.
Any idea if people can connect through something like Hamachi?
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whats Hamachi? I read this name but didnt really look into it?
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Hamachi is this wizard* little program that (basically) allows you to create a virtual network & emulate a LAN over the internet. It’s quite nifty – you’re unlucky if you have to reconfigure anything… and as a result, I guess that it’s mostly used by people playing cracked/pirated games (LAN) who otherwise couldn’t use the multiplayer. I *think* it even works with Xbox Live, if you don’t lag too much…
…but a lot of people use it legitimately too, beyond gaming because it creates a VPN. Theoretically, this means that people could play Minecraft without the dedicated server, but I don’t think anyone has the upstream.
If you wanna check it out (sorry if the links aren’t that useful, I just skimmed very quickly because I thought you might be interested):
Hamachi – http://www.hamachi.cc/
Minecraft without server – http://rockpapershotgun.com/rpsforum/topic.php?id=3451
Minecraft using server – http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=1013&t=35032
Video – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwQJYKAP8Cc*After Mark and Tristan earlier today, and the latest Robot Chicken Star Wars special a couple of weeks ago, I’m bringing ‘wizard’ back!
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I’ve done Neverwinter Nights servers before, so I could help a little. One thing you gotta make sure is that all local security points in your network allows the port. So in my home network I had to open up the port both on my computer’s firewall and set up a Virtual Server on my router.
But yeah when it comes to game servers, the very first thing you check is “Is it allowed out and in your own network?”
Gurkhas are pretty freaking hardcore.
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Holy crap… that was awesome..
…and hilarious..
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They really are.
Their pipeband played with us in 2007, and they’re such nice guys too… but they’re dangerous.
One of the British Cavalry guys at the base picked one of them up… just walked up behind him and put him over his shoulder. Everyone in the bar saw it… and there was this sudden cracking noise… the whole place went quiet.
The Gurkha broke about 3 fingers on each of the cavalrymans hands, and just hopped of his shoulder and walked back to his drink.
He was about halfway across the bar before the cavalry guy started screaming.The whole thing was just surreal.
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Man it is s awesome that dudes like this exist in real life. That’s movie actions hero stuff right there.
I spent my weekend putting together a computer for a customer. Doesn’t sound all that exciting, but the good thing is I can put the parts from their old one in to my media centre for an upgrade! w00t!
Apart from that, it was a busy weekend in M&M. Just wanna say a big thanks to all the guys. Not only did we fend off lots of attacks, but we exacted our revenge to the point where one of the other clans members wrote to me begging us to stop the war! mwooohahahaha! Classic stuff guys! Well done!
Apart from that, I finally caved and bought Minecraft with littleJJ’s permission! In exchange I think she’s going to sub to M&M cos she’s an addict now 😉 Oh wells.. she deserves it I guess. She had more to do with the war planning in there than I did.
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Damn right he was begging! I would beg to if my whole army got beaten by two stacks!!!
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haha yeah that was amusing…
I’m a little annoyed that my army was so pathetic that Olympians city just swatted me away without a fight..
Oh well..
I’m building up now, so lets hope i have something worthwhile soon…
You know, maybe we should convince the other guy to join us.
“Join us of we will continue ransacking your city”
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When did you turn to the dark side, Darth Chuloopa? Battering people into submission and forcing them to become your apprentice.
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When i discovered the Dark Side had both Cake and a damn good dental plan to go with it.
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I guess that dental plan was instituted after Malak, huh?
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ZING!
I’m totally a grey-jedi fence sittin son of a gun.
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Some of the most awesome Force-users have been or are ‘grey’ (or labelled so by others). Jolee Bindo, Qui-Gon Jinn, Kyle Katarn, Cade Skywalker, etc.
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Kyp Durron, Jacen Skywalker.
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Solo… not Skywalker.
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I wouldn’t say Jacen was grey, so much as a douche. He learned from other non-Jedi Force traditions, but was still an adherent to the Jedi code up until he turned Sith.
And Kyp is an arrogant dandy 😛
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Sorry, for a minute there it looked like you said “Kyp was the third greatest NJO Jedi… behind Corran Horn and Kyle Katarn”.
Which would have been the correct response.
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Pretty much all the Jedi who ended up on the Council are awesome. Except Kenth Hamner.
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Kyp was & always shall be a douchebag. Suspect it’s largely because I abhor Kevin J Anderson as a writer and find most of his creations are disinteresting.
Now, Corran & Kyle. They’re awesome. No questions asked there.
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Exactly.
Unfortunately we aren’t covered for “horrble burns” any more, no thanks to Vader.Apparently after his mishap the insurance company decided it to be too expensive and not worth their time.
Of course, losing his limbs didn’t help either.
Bastard…
You think you had it bad? Try getting your attack army wiped out from not only one stack, but they didn’t lose ANY troops after steamrolling through your own?
Dear Heat,
I hate you, you give me headaches.
Kindly F-Off!
Sincerly,
Chuloopa
Seriously, guys, i should have been enjoying my weekend, but instead i spent most of it with a massive heat-induced migrane feeling sorry for myself.
I couldn’t even play Mass Effect because looking at the TV only made it worse…
*grumble grumble*
On a happier note… it’s Monday..
Wait.. that’s not a happy note at all.. damn it…
*grumble grumble*
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PS.
Whoever it was that posted on last weeks TAY informing us that the Old Spice guy was back, i freaking love you.
That made my whole weekend.He’s a dreamboat!
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You’re welcome. i thought original ad was hilarious when i saw in states last year. Got overkilled a bit, but there are just some things you can’t deny.
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/me gives you some of my special migrane pills!
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HEadaches?? Me too, this whole sit in air con all day go out to lunch and go home in the heat is ridiculous!
Who was the smart-arse who came up with aircon?
Makes my mild headache into a full migraine level pain!Argh!
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It’s early Feb… summer was bound to hit at some point.
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One thing I can say about the heat, is that I’m working near surfers paradise beach at the moment and the view is SPECTACULAR
So for anyone in the north eastern suburbs of melbourne, my self and a couple of friends have just started up a LAN gaming group focused on raising funds for disaster relief efforts, and other good causes.
Our first one is still in planning, but we are aiming for mid-feb, raising money for the Queensland floods.
If your interested, check out http://www.relieflans.com
Sorry if this sounds like too much of a ad, but I’m just trying to make some noise!
Also, I watched Lock, Stock and Two smoking Barrels for the first time on Saturday. Followed by Snatch. Both are awesome, awesome movies, but too similar. Still, they’re awesome.
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OMG! Lock Stock is just supremely awesome! One of my fav movies! Partly cos Jason Statham is just awesome in everything, but all the other characters in that movie rock too! Now I wanna watch it again!! And Crank.. if you’ve never seen Crank, put that at the top of your list of awesome movies to watch!!
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You see Revolver? Awesome Statham!
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Oh god, Crank. It’s just…..
I’m trying to think of a videogame that describes Crank. It’s hilariously bad. But awesome. But stupid. But AWESOME. Should I bother watching the second one?
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Crank 2 is more of same, but worth checking if first gave you a giggle. You need to check out the Lock Stock TV series, all kinds of awesome wrapped in hour episodes!!
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They good, You see the others he did? The gypsie/boxing one and the prison/soccer one?
Also good.
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Finally i can look down on someone for not seein ga movie i had seen 100 times, and not the other way around!!
WOO!!
*backhand*
NEVER TAKE SO LONG TO WATCH SUCH AMAZING MOVIES!!
Lock Stock is one of my all time favorites, man it’s just so brilliant how everything comes together from little pieces… Same with Snatch
good stuff, old boy!
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I used to recite the whole Rory Breaker in the Battlecruiser speach.
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And now you must watch RocknRolla. Yet another Guy Ritchie gangster film, featuring Mark Strong, Gerard Butler, Tom Hardy, Thandie Newton and more.
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Oh yeah, we wanted to watch that, but nobody had it. We was sad. Then we had Nerf Wars. Sadness REMOVED!
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Don’t forget to check out Layer Cake, too. It has a different mood to the others, but there are a couple of brutal laughs in there. The same engaging, involved plot, but a good deal darker.
A bit of history then a question for you people:
I don’t play FPS multiplayer. I have played doom/wolfenstien back in the day, I played bioshock/2. black, PC version of the original red faction, borderlands and a few others im sure. I even played a fair bit of operation flashpoint and loved it. My issue has been that the multiplayer experience seems so shallow. I have always sucked at them so end up just getting eaten alive and spend more time watching the loading screen for a respawn than playing the game.
Issue is that a bunch of my mates always and only play FPS online. I want to join in but just can’t get myself into it. As a result, I have never even seen MW2, black ops or halo reach and this is really not an issue for me.
BUT, last week, when battlefield 1943 was on sale for 600 points, I picked up a copy. I thought it would be a cheap entry into the FPS side of things and i could test it out.
I am actually really enjoying it. I think i got as many as 11 kills in one match which for me is amazing. I am still not fantastic at it but i have only been playing online for a couple of days. I am however better than i thought.
So after all that.. here is the question. have i missed the boat with the current FPS games and should i just wait for te next AAA title to come out (what is the next big game coming and when?) OR should i just get black ops now and be done with it?
If the next big game is coming out in a couple of months i’ll wait, but if you think that BO will get a thrashing for the next year i’ll consider it?
Thoughts appreciated
Also, if anyone wants a game of BF1943 let me know.
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You haven’t missed the boat – get Black Ops now and you’ll be playing for ages. People till play MW2 and WAW. Black Op’s is really fun for some intense fun, thought often I prefer playing Bad Company 2 as the teamwork can be heaps more enjoyable when it works.
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Get Perfect Dark on LIVE arcade…there never seemed to be anyone online when I played.
Good game though
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Perfect Dark will never, ever get old.-
Specially not with the HD treatment.
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Black ops will be played for a while yet. Great fun online if you just want to zone out and shoot things for a while. I do find that I get frustrated after a while from there always being one guy who finishes every game with 30-40 kills and 1 or 2 deaths. Your not sure if he’s just awesome or cheating but either way it’s not a lot of fun.
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Hey Fatshady
Saw you sticking up for hip hop before, what you listening to at the moment……-
Hip Hop Horayyyyyy….. Hoooooooo…. Heyyyyyyyy
Atm, Im actually listening to Ill Bill (check out a song called ‘Society is brainwashed’). I have never really got into him previously but he is doing an Australian tour in March that I am considering going to.
On regular repeat for me are:
Reef the Lost Cauze
Apaty (who is also a HUGE 360 gamer)
Celph Titled
Jedi Mind Tricks
Luis Logic
King Magnetic
Immortal Technique
Army of the PharohsI am a 29yo white Hip Hop Fanatic. I am massively into US east coast underground stuff because thats what the cool kids say… but i have listened to it all my life. I actually become a huge groupie and it is really embarrasing.
I managed to see an AOTP/Jedi mind Tricks show in Brooklyn a few years back and had a drink with the guys, photo with Vinnie Paz and since then I’ve been hooked.
Man i hope you know what i’m talking about. If you’ve not heard of them (any of you reading this) go out NOW and get some.
Now you can see why i made the comment about Strange’s post. I may not know much about her musical taste but i am very passionate about mine!
PS, see a trend here. I am very passionate about certain select things and once you got me, im a fan for life!
How bout you, what are you listening to right now?
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Underground is an understatement. 🙂 I consider myself extremely well versed in all things hip hop, but even i hadn’t heard some of those.
Was really into whole Psycho+logical thing for a while, but was more into the music than the content. I think necro and illbill are two of the most underappreciated producers in hip hop. Little bit more mainstream with my purchases now :
Just got the Games “Purp and Patron” free on hiphopdx
Apollo Kids by Ghostface is sick (looooongtime fan)
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Do yourself a fav and at least check out reef the lost cauze. All time fav for me. Funny talented and a real nice guy.
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Over the weekend watched Sherlock which I order from zavvi, Can’t exactly remember who told me about it in TAY but thank you. Probably my second favourite tv show ever. DR who being first, Man I love steven moffat.Who is also a scot. Much like Andy Murray who lost a championship final……. again.
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He could’ve at least gotten one single effin’ set! [sobs into another giant can of irn bru]
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At least is mum still loves him.
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**his
damn no edit button and my poor grasp of the egrish language.
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Sherlock was fantastic. Blink remains as my favourite Doctor Who episode.
Also. I want Sherlock’s coat.
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Blink is also one of my favourites anything with those angels is awesome. I also love his coat, the only
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I spent the weekend trying to find a lag free game of Magicka to no avail. Anyone interested in a few games tonight?
We’ll make it a private host and set the password to something to be posted here.
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I was sure vlad was a vampire but then he assured me he’s not
So
I finished NieR on the weekend.I must say, great ending to a fantastic game.
3 more endings to go…sweet. Lot’s of fun!
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Added to folder, saw it pretty cheap somewhere on the weekend…..
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Should be, got the crap kicked out of it in reviews. Was overlooked by many.
Appaz there was a vid on youtube of how hard the fishing segment is.The doosche is fishing in the wrong spot. There is a big red X where he should be and he aint.
A Kotaku article made me aware of the amazing music which is fantastic and possibly amazing.
I enjoy the hack and slashness of it, get a bit bored with other games.
The bosses are some of the best Ive seen for a long time, take some lateral thinking to beat. Becomes a bit like one of those top down shooters sometimes thanks to the way the magic works.
And finaly: it is like Zelda for grown-ups!
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LOL i had only heard about fishing.
I think i read somewhere that we got a “watered down” version to Japanese….? Not sure..
I gout all caught up in DragonAge over the weekend. Too a while, but wow. Can’t wait for 2
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Oh, another thing.
I have made my first Kotaku track for Trials HD. It is actually not that good, just me playing around with some ideas, but the Lotaku logo is in the game!
If anyone has the time, go and test it out.
to get it, go to user content>get>friends list (I have to be friends on XBL) then find a track called FatShady Kotaku.
Feedback welcome. I have not ever got into track building but as I am about as good as I can get in this game I thought i’d make you something.
Happy to make more if you like the idea. let me know what you think.
**Doritos Crash Course Competition**
Once again, Batguy is the undisputed champ of the world! I didn’t put in as much time this week but my placing didnt suffer all that much.
Batguy – 1.04.307
Blaghman – 1.15.543
FatShady – 1.24.432
Tristosterone – 1.48.913
Jimu Hsein – 3.19.989
No-one else posted a time.
Well, I think that concludes this comp tbh. With all the Trials HD love and the constant performances by Batguy and Blaghy, I think we call Batguy the winner and just leave it at that!
If you guys want to keep at it, I suggest Japan Track 4 this week because there is also a cheevo for doing it under 1.40 and it is pretty tough to get.
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I’d just like to use this occasion to announce my retirement, undefeated from the world of video obstac… Oh, it’s been canceled due to lack of interest 🙁
It was pretty much what I was afraid of with this game – it was fun trying to shave time off a run at the first level that take 30 seconds, but not one that take 90 seconds and can be screwed up completely by a cheap paintball.
Still the actual competition good fun for those first two weeks. Thanks guys.
I say screw Trials HD, let’s turn our competition to Super Meat Boy…
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SMB would SUCK… (only because i am soooooooooooooooooooooo bad at it). I thought that with all the similarities with Trials i’d rock… I don’t! Then again I can’t get away from Trials long enough to inflict this much pain on myself all over again.
Perhaps we could run them side by side. Only issue is that when you get into it, Trials will take the whole week to get in a good time so having two comps would just kill you.
We could do a season of Trials then a season of SMB (or if different people want different comps, then do both?
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It’s OK, I’m not serious. I just wanted to keep the focus on something that I’m good at (#171 now)!
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Well your taking the focus off what im good at so stop it!!! lol.
I truly suck at SMB.
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Man I totally forgot about this last week :0
I was pretty busy though so I’m not surprised really. I didn’t have a chance to play much in the way of games yesterday either cos I was out celebrating my g’mas 87th b’day! Go Grandma!! -
I got too into NieR this weekend. Doritos didn’t even cross my mind!
Woops!
I have been thinking about a Trials HD comp for a while but not sure how to do it. We have people of very different skill levels and some who haven’t played the game yet.
Not sure what would be fair, but all I am thinking of is having a track a week and we just go at it. Not sure if we want to do a cumulative points system with a leaderboard or just a week to week competition on a single track each week… let me know what you’d think about that.
Even if you are just starting out, this WILL make you a better rider. Just competing with people and trying to take time off your PB teaches you new things.
This week we can focus on ‘Groundhog Begins’. It is an easy track but going fast on it is not easy.
I have a Trials HD flag that I am happy to offer up as a prize, but more of a grand prize for the overall comp rather than just a track.
If you are keen, send me a message and post a time on GHB by Sunday 8pm (and make sure i’m on your Friends list (FatShady Live)
We can decide how and if we want to continue it???
BTW, I am not competing in this (just keeping times etc) BUT perhaps the flag can go to the first person that beats my times on a track. I still have the oportunity to challange by the end of the week but if you hold a better time than me on Sunday at 8pm you get the flag??? That sounds like fun!
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One problem with a Trails HD comp.
WINNER: FatShady
LOSER: Everyone else.
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I’m totally happy to race for second place.
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WINNER: FatShady.
SECOND: Everyone else.
LOSER: Mark Serrels.Sorry Mark, FOR I HAVE SPOKEN!
I AM A WIZARD! LOOK AT MY STAFF!
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I’m a wizard. I almost made this comment disappear!
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That would be pretty damn wizard. ‘cough’
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I think you missed thepart where i said :
“BTW, I am not competing in this”
OK, fine. I’ll remove the figurative shrinkwrap from my copy of the game tonight and give it a go.
I better not get sore thumbs like I did after that first week of Crash Course!
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The pain goes away after the first year.
I’ve been thinking about running Kotaku competitions over the weekend – like a Trials HD or Super Meat Boy one. We’ll post it on the Saturday morning and everyone can post their times and a pic of the screen in the comments? Best time gets a prize. Would you guys be up for doing that? We can kick it off with Trials HD this weekend?
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Are there still plans to have a regular Friday night fragfest?
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Do eeeeeeeeeeeet!
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Sounds cool, but does that mean there will be a comment moderator active all weekend for prompt approvals??? Its such a lonely weekend sometimes *sniffles and hangs head*. 🙁
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I like it, but with the comp i was suggesting, I was not competing. If there is goodies up for grabs, I’d want in but I worry that it would therefore discourage others…
Do i exclude myself, but miss a chance at getting something from the ONLY game i am good at, or do i just go for it and see what happens?
I would prefer as many people as possible competing and don’t wan’t to discourage anyone… what to do?
How bout this. If i compete and there is one or many riders who I am going back and forth with throughout the weekend then its a fair game. If i end up winning by 5+ seconds or something crazy, i’m out?
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If there was a regular rotation between games, I would have no issues at all with you competing – if you’re good, so be it… let’s just not play Trials every week so that you’re always winning 😛
I almost suggested a handicap, but I think that’d be pretty stupid tbh, and I was thinking about people competing in pairs or small groups to balance it out with a mean time taken… but I think that’s probably unfair to Mark/Kotaku, having ‘x’ number of “winners”
So a few kinks might need to be ironed out (probably need some PS3/PC/Wii weekends too, but I won’t have any of those games D: ), but yeah – totally still compete.
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This would be AWESOME! Though… maybe we should find out games that we’re all mostly new to. I liked it when Explody did that for Chime, which ended up being a really fun game. I feel too far behind everyone on games like Trials and Super Meat Boy. Actually it’s just me complaining about my abilities I suppose 🙁
I’m game, add Jocon89 if you are not my friend already.
Added you on live FatShady and pulled my Groundhog Begins time from a high 25 to a low 23. Not even close to platnium though but good practice.
Anyone else wants a terrible XBL friend? Add ‘sledcommando’
Wow. Sunburn. Not cool.
I’m hurty all over… 🙁
Anyone got a cure?
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You’re just going to have to man it out.
Sun burn is just part of my every day life in the accursed country.
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Yeah man. I know what you mean, us Europeans (by blood) come from a place where the sun is like a cousin; it comes to visit occassionally and doesn’t overstay its’ welcome.
I’m pretty much the pastiest guy I know. A badge of honour that I wear with pride 😀
As to the actual sunburn, it’s really not THAT bad. No peeling, no scabs, just raw, red skin. It still hurts to do anything though… 🙁
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Oh wow. That’s brutal! xD
I’m not that bad. I’ve got about three quarters of that redness.
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Do they still sell “Nice’n’Icey”?
That is the best sunburn treatment i know.
Pasty Ginger Seal Of Approval
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How did that even happen!?
I was born with Ginger hair yet a fine olive tinted complexion. I’ve been in Aus now for 6 years and I’ve never had sun burn. Ever. Also, my ginger hair slowly turned dark brown. So everything turned out okay in the end.
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Cut a tomato in half then rub it over the sunburn.
Also, don’t go out in the sun…
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I hate Aloe Vera so much. I have spent so much of my life swimming in the stuff. I hate how cold and slimy it is. I hate once you put it on you feel all sticky. Urgh.
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I was told to use it, and was planning to, until that very specific moment:
*Shopping Aisle, wel lit, surgically clean. Two large shelves tower on either side of TAD, one side is refrigerated. TAD grabs the arm of a passing SHOP ATTENDANT.*
TAD: Excuse me. Do you know where the “Aloe Vera” would be located?
SHOP ATTENDANT: Yes, right behind you sir! That’s an awful sunburn you’ve got there.
TAD (smarmy): No, this is my natural skin colour. Are you being racist?
SHOP ATTENDANT: Not at all sir. Which one do you want?
*TAD takes a look at the bottles of Aloe Vera and picks up what he considers the “cheapest looking”. 100 ml bottle.*
TAD: How much is this one?
SHOP ATTENDANT: Thirteen dollars.The moral of the story is:
Aloe Vera is fracking expensive!-
Hahahaha!
Racism.
Yeah – my mum-in-law somehow came into roughly 20 bottles of Aloe Vera through her work. She gave every single bottle to me.
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As a white person, there aren’t many opportunities to scream “RACIST”, so I take them as they appear 😀
I honestly don’t think that girl understood that I was joking about the racism thing, though… xDOh man. If I win another Community Kudos, can I respectfully request one of the bottles be a prize? xD
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Grow a tree in the back garden, you can snap it off and rub it straight on!
Trues
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Try owning one of those big bottles.
No matter how pasty you’re skin is, if you’re single… you’re going to look like a pervert.
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Does that actually work, or are you just trying to make me feel stupid after doing it? xD
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Not at all, my mum used to do it all the time.
Ironic that when you’re red all over, the only fruit that can save you is, in fact, a tomato.
Isn’t that for being skunked on by a skunk?
I went out to the Aus. Open (Golf) in 2009… worst sunburn I’ve ever had – including a 3rd degree burn on the back of one of my ears. For srs… lucky I only have a small scar left over 😐
It sounds bad, but I never actually saw it for myself, so I take some comfort in imagining that Mark’s sunburnt feet were more hideous 😛
That being said, I use aloe vera for burns and it helps a lot… but that’s because we have plants growing in the yard, dunno how the gels’n’stuff you buy go… just whatever you do, DON’T have a hot shower <_<
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Wow. I’ve never had 3rd degree burns. That’s insane.
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Oh dude, I tried having a hot shower yesterday. I got into the shower and promptly screamed. It’s awful 🙁
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Sleeping is the worst. I don’t envy you man. 🙁
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I replaced my matress with pillows, and then covered myself in baby rash powder*. I closed all the windows and murdered all the mosquitoes (about 5 of them) before laying down stiffly and awkwardly trying to relax. Needless to say, it took me about 2 hours to get to sleep 🙁
*It works surprisingly well! (I don’t know why we have a bottle though…)
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Argh, dude… no! D:
When I had my bad sunburn my grandparents were trying to force me to have a hot shower, “it draws the heat out” – You’re just burning your raw & delicate skin even more… :/
And seriously, invest in an aloe vera plant one day – low maintenance and the cold, gooey sensation Mark doesn’t like is awesome on burns.
Also, apparently someone took a photo of my ear while I was sleeping – I’ll have a look around for it and if it’s not too graphic I’ll post it up 😛
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Don’t know about 3rd degree burn (that’s some intense stuff right there o.O), but my brother once burned so much his back turned purple…
I try and keep out of the sun as much as possible. My dad’s a ginger(ish) pommy, so the sun is not very nice to me. At least I’m not a redhead…
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I got burnt so bad I lost colour pigment on my legs… took about a year before they went back to being white.
Moral of the story… never fall asleep on an inflatable pool thingy.
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Back in ’08, my friend shaved his head. 3 days later, his head was sunburnt. He couldn’t sleep, because when he lay his head down on a pillow, it’d hurt, a lot. It was pretty uncomfortable for him. I suppose I didn’t help by sleeping in front of him in the train 😀
Secret medical cure that we don’t let non-medical people know about (I always say we, still not sure who “we” is).
Steroid cream.
You can find it in pharmacies, or nick it from drug reps / hospitals (what I do), and you just put a really thin layer over the burn, and let it sit. Will clear up sunburn hella-fast.
Trust me, I’m a doctor (Still not a doctor, and unless i manage an honourary one somehow, never will be).
JIMUUUUUUUUUUUUUU! Didn’t get an email over the weekend about AC2 D:
So, send an email to: tarkov.h *at* gmail *dot* com
You can sign that one up to all the you like, I’ll reply to you with one of my proper accounts >_>
😀
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…aaaaaaand replied.
On a totally unrelated note, good lord it’s hot – hit 39C at 11am.
Too scared to look at the temperature now :/
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so school will be starting up again, and it’s year 12 so i have to get serious 🙁 so there will be a a serious dip in video game time, although i am in a video game design course at school, so i might have to do research.
and by research i mean play monday night combat for 6 hours straight, damn that game is addictive!
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Year 12? Serious?
Do like me and hardly ever turn up and when you do sleep or go home early.Leads to sweet jobs like cleaning toilets and picking up other peoples idiocy!
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This is a high quality post.
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100% true as well
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LOL
Sounds like my Year 12. I failed.
Got my shit together for Year “13”, worked my ass of, got the grades to get into Uni course i wanted.
I then thought “another 3-4 years of this, plus more if i want Masters…..Pffffft’ and went and got a real job 🙂-
PS not bagging anyone at uni, i just meant i worked out it wasn’t for me 😀
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Don’t you own yer own business now?
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That i do 🙂
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I agree completely mate.
I got HSC but did not care about the marks one bit. I always said that there was no way i was doing uni. I actually interviewed for my first full time job during the trial exams and actually had an annual leave day to sit my last HSC exam as I was already working. (HIH Insurance btw – i’m sorry)
I have worked full time ever since (1998 to now).
BUT, I have my Masters also.
I guess what i am saying is that Uni straight from school is not for everyone but if you really want it, Uni and even masters are still possible.
Too many people think that the only way they will get a job is with a degree, but you end up with a degree and no job. I think that doing it the other way (get a job first then do Uni) will make you a much stronger person and more capable dealing with real life.
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Horses for courses. It’s all about what you enjoy and what you want to have by the end of it.
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I dropped out after failing year 11… now umteen years later it’s back to school to get a dimploma in commerce… the vicious cycle.
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I barely graduated Year 12, lost focus in Year 10.
I would not reccomend that to anyone, although I’m doing okay, now.
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Holy f***balls that was an amazing cruise. Best. Week. Ever. HANDS DOWN!
Highlights include but are most certainly not limited to: randomly bumping into and sharing an elevator with members of the bands, waiting in line to see Sonata Arctica (with my Epica shirt on) only to find I’d lined up next to the guitarist from Epica who was also waiting in line and ending up chatting for about 10 minutes until the doors opened, oh and last, but absolutely not least…Jon Schaffer(Iced Earth) and Kai Hansen(Gamma Ray and ex-Helloween) joining Blind Guardian on stage for ‘Valhalla’! Most epic concert moment ever! Also extra incredible due to the fact that Kai Hansen winked at me as he politely pushed past me to get up on stage.
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HANDS DOWN PEOPLE!
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Welcome…back..can…we…start…doing…exciting…things…again..?
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No soup for you!
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You still have a week to go before you can be overtly exciting. I’ve seen some covert attempts to be exciting though and we are not amused. 😛
About to head back to Miami and South Beach. Maybe I should get a tattoo? 😛
Oh, and if you’re ever in Florida people, don’t bother with Universal Studios but don’t miss Islands of Adventure either, especially Harry Potter World. So awesome.
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Achievements unlocked! Nice one Strange 😀 great to have you back!
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I have no idea who any of those people are but am very happy for you. Nothing like life shows and personal experience to make it memorable. Awesome.
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Sounds like an awesome cruise 🙂
Welcome back to reality.
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To say i am jealous is the understatement of the century.
The peak of my metal-hang-outs is hanging out with Frankenbok after one of their gigs and having a quick chat and photo with the lead singer from Alestorm.
Mind you, both of those were still damn awesome!
I was actually really depressed on the weekend due to band-related reasons.
Came to the relisation that i couldn’t afford to go to BDO (with moving and all). We were meant to be going to the adelaide one on a road-trip after the melb one sold out in 5 minutes.
I wanted to go solely to see Rammstein. They are my favorite band ever and all i have ever wanted to do since high school was go and see rammstein live… and now that’s never going to happen, as it also looks like this might be their last tour… I really hope that isn’t the case, though.
I watched a few clips of them in sydney and aukland and it only compounded my grief…. they just looked so awesome…
But i digress, i’m glad you had a killer time. It sounds like it would hve been amazing.
I explained to Bee where you were going but she didn’t feel my enthusiasm on your behalf… haha
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Rammstien were at the BDO? How the hell did I miss that one? One of my fav bands. Saw them at the 2001 BDO and it was awesome!
Oh well. I got my soundwave tickets. The lineup this year is the best I’ve seen in a long time
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Can’t afford that either.. 🙁
Maybe if i scrip i can go see Rob Zombie… or ill Nino… grrr i don’t know..
*implodes*
Would have loved to see the Queens, but they sold out SOOO quick!
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Sounds pretty f**n sweet. A lot better than my week.
*giggles* Sughly…. I’m sorry to inform you but I have increased my Chime score. I’m now 55th world best and at 7.9 million. Almost cracked the 8 😀 If you like, and have to admit defeat… *evil grin* you can choose another level, I haven’t even got into those other levels yet so it could be a nice change.
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Errr…..Hey there…Q-bo…..How’s it going? Everything alright? Not going insane from the copious amounts of Chime being played? Seems like every time I open up Steam, it says Qumulys, in game, Chime.
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EvErYthIng goes Piiiinnnnngggg!
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Gah! I only tried once or twice since you last told me your score. I’ve had my nose in books researching for my game 🙁
But concede I do not! It may not be soon, but one day, I WILL beat your score. The statement has been made.
Hey does anyone own a psp go if so how do you get games on it I am thinking of getting one for playstation only titles but I don’t think I will if you can only download games
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If you want a psp, then get the 3000, with an 8GB memory stick. Then you can get a lot of good psp games on umd, and you won’t waste your download quota, plus you can fit most of your music onto it. I use a 4GB memory stick, and I have most of my albums on there for convenience.
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Thanks man, don’t really need it for music as I have an iphone. But my internet is shit so i can’t download much stuff. I haven’t seen many deals on psp 3000’s. But I will have a look.
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@Crazy guy
Most of your albums on 8gb?
I have filled my 80GB iPOd…no trouble.
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4gb, actually. And that includes all of the Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Foo Fighters studio albums combined.
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Games like little big planet, GOW ect.
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Yeah, get a PSP3000 model for sure.
They trump all others.I’ve had mine for years and have over 50 games – it’s a great little system 😀
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Chupoola, you need to slow down on the buying and speed up on the playing. There isn’t 50 PSP games worth playing. NOW WAY…
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*nods*
ah the days when i had a disposable income..Can you believe i bought a bunch of the release titles too?
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yes
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*tries to stifle laughter*
http://www.badassoftheweek.com/blasdelezo5.jpg
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That’s just terrible, man… XD
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Just wait. Some day the Mon Cal will have their revenge.
ahhhh Ebay.. how deliciously shady you can be at times..
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*facepalm**facedesk**grabs a “Bang Head Here” sign and makes use of it*
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Paypal ‘Excepted’?
Oh god. Anyone who buys it deserves it.
I hate people that do take advantage of people this way though. For instance, region-free-gamez are there to rip people off:
Makes me facepalm hard. I made them an offer, the lowest they could go was $450. I just ended up getting the US collector’s edition.
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I love how at the end, the seller says ‘payments excepted’, rather than ‘payments accepted’.
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Just ordered 100 of them. Going to resell them amd make thousands!!! So happy to see they are region free. I’m sure nintendo must have been lying to us about the whole region protection thing… right???
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I’m tempted to purchase one, just to see that comes in the mail xD
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*”what”, not “that”
damn having no edit feature! 🙁
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Continueing from Page one
Nohandle:
NieR isn’t watered down in the west. What they did was instead of the androgynous brother for a main character they made hime and Ugly old father!
Mixes things up, makes the story a little less generic.
Choopooloopa:
Devin Townsend: Infinity
Strapping Young Lad: City
Do yourself a favour and pirate them. You WILL go and buy all his albums after so this will be a case of Piracy helping the artist!
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Spelling fail…
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Not if you’re an ork!
We needs more dakka, boss!
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I wish I understood what you is torkin aboot Kraky…
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Sometimes, I wish *I* knew what I was talking about…
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I just realised, Choopsipoo.
With your demented sense of humour it is prolly worth checking out Ziltoid the Omniscient,-
Consider it done, young squire!
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Ahah I love that album!
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I couldn’t handle the funniness the first few times…which is weird because the main reason I love Devin so much is his ability to make fun of himself.
Got over it, love it now.
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Sughly
Any progress on Lost Odyssey or are you doing homewurk???
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Argh! Sorry Jimu!! Evidently it’s been strictly homework week for me 🙁
But the intro was pretty darn awesome, I’ll give you that…
…something really strange just happened…
I was sitting here perusing the price speculation for the PSP2 and a thought came to me (which is strange enough in itself):
“Okay, so this is probably gonna be like $600… but to do that, it’s going to need to be ultra-versatile to compete with tablets and smartphones… wait… why would I spend (up to) $400 on the 3DS when this is going to be a bit pricier but has so much more potential…?”
…I will say the games look better (in terms of what I’m most anticipating) on the 3DS, but even just the screen on the PSP2 is amazing and I feel like this is the beginning of a serious crisis; I can only afford one.
Am I going crazy? Did Sony get to me? :/
I don’t know what to do now – I guess wait for a price from Nintendo Australia… but if they take 2+ months to answer some questions, I wouldn’t be surprised if the PSP2 came out before they made an official announcement >_>
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TWO – THUMB – STICKS
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But Ocarina of Time.
Your argument is invalid.-
But HD graphics, Cheevos and no friend codes…
Your argument is outdated.
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Heres my crisis.
I can’t afford either.
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The way I see it is do you want to play more puzzle and casual style games or portable console games?
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Which is which?
I have both PSP and DS and I never play puzzle games…
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Well, 3ds pricing according to Game is $400, according to EB it’s $350, and according to Nintendo Aus, we’ll know on the 8th of February. So uhh, wait for a week (and a bit), and you’ll know the 3ds price. Since it won’t be out until the end of March at the earliest, we’ll probably have some idea of the cost of the psp2 at that point.
From there, use logic and deductive reasoning to work out what you want.
Or screw it all and go nuts with disposable income, which is what I plan to do.
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The more I think about it, the more I found myself intrigued by the NGP. They’ve gone balls out: 2 thumbsticks, which I think is a pretty signficant thing in terms of dev, touchscreen, touchpad, GPS, two quad core processors. This pretty much means devs have a huge range in choice in terms of how they want to implement whatever they want, and can also implement some pretty clever ideas. But of course, this hardware is going to be fairly expensive. I think it’ll be similar to the PS3; it’ll struggle at first with a high price point, but by the time the slim version rolls around that’s when it’ll really take off.
The 3DS on the other hand, the more I think about it, is sounding more hype about the 3D. Beyond the 3D, what else is there? Improved hardware, which is a given, and an analogue stick. The 3D is obviously will be a big selling point, yes, and I definitely would like to get a 3DS (want to know a secret? I’ve never played a single Zelda game. I would love to try ocarina though).
But yeah. Honestly, I look forward to both consoles, and would hope to own both when they reach an affordable price, but I think the NGP has the more potential in the long run.
Mr Serrels,
Did you get my email RE Dead Space 2 on ps3?
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Someone wanted a PS3 version – was that you? Sorry can’t remember…
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i was asking if we got a ps3 version for our prize, does it come with the wii version bonus?
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basically, if that wii version (is it called extraction?) is included I’ll take the ps3 version, but if it’s not included, I’ll take pc!
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Ah… I don’t know yet mate – we’re getting the prizes tomorrow. I’ll let you know as soon as I know.
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I’m in the process of buying myself a Subaru Imprezer RX (Black)which leads me to two important questions for my fellow Kotakuites.
1) Should I turn it into Itasha and cover it in gaming and/or movie stickers?
If so
2) Should I pick one character/game/movie or have several favourites like Cloud and crew rocking out with the Dragon age: Origins characters and the Master Cheif whilst overhead a Yamato Battlecruise is attacked by Starfox’s Arwing.
What the car looks like:
http://www.subaru.com.au/models/impreza/rx/sedan/exterior/
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Cloud kissing Alistair would win points!
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Omg, this idea made me laugh so much. Almost tempted to go with it, with the addition of Sepiwroth impaling them both.
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Pop into Forza, grab a car, then go completely nutso all over it. Design it EXACTLY how you want it. All done? Great. OK now if I told you you cant change that car again, and you have to drive it to work everyday, and you just heard the chick in the office you have a crush on say that she hates tattoo’s especially on cars. Well, that’s too bad, cause you’ve just cocked up your transport.
BUT, if its truly in your heart, then eff the world and do as you please! (You can always respray, but there go’s another 10 grand if you want to do it properly)
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I was thinking of just getting stickers printed rather then actually painting it on. That way if I decide I don’t like it or want to change them it’s easy.
Also, I figure any girl I end up with has to be able to put up with my gaming so I might as well let her know what she’s getting herself into.
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You know what I usually find gives awesome nerd-cred whilst maintaining a relatively clean car?
An Autobot or Decepticon thingy.
Only about the size of your palm, but whenever I notice one, I’m just like “Awesome”.-
I was condiering that too. Was figuring I’d go D
Deceptercon because Autobot seems to be the ony one I ever see. Any idea where I’d find them?-
Everyone sticks them on their window…stick it on the hood like a “real” transformer!
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You can get ones that replace the cars original badges from most markets.
Failing that, most auto stores should be able to track one down for you easily.
As for the stickers – they often look tacky – if you want to do it, do it right – have it airbrushed.
I saw a STUNNING one at an Autosalon once which had a car pained orange, with flames cascading over it. Spread across the hood was Devil Jin.
It was AMAZING.
Also, while i couldn’t find Jin, check this shiz out:
http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab105/xemanh/XAD-20-8-ve-tren-o-to-10p/airbrush-car01.jpgAWESOME!
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That car looks epic. I would love to do something like that if i can justify spending the money.
My sister is a graphic designer and owes me a tone of favors so I’d get her to do the design if I can work out a general idea. Then i’d just have to pay transfer it to the car.
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SERIOUS TIME.
I’d just like to give out a helping hand to Chuloopa, a motivational hand if I may.
Right now I am saving, saving big time for travel. And I would totally buy two of your tshirts, the kotaku one and the mass effect one. HANDS DOWN SALE THERE! If only I had the spare cash. Believe me an order is coming.
Anyway, I’d just like to say, if you don’t think you’ve been getting the amount of orders to give you the confidence to keep going, I say screw it. You are doing amazing. Keep pumping out your ideas on to that cotton SOB and the buyers will come with them.
Just thought you ort to know, the support for you is there. Even if you can’t see it.
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Loops,
Put the commission on that Kotaku shirt and I’ll buy that (on the weekend when I get uncapped though. I distrust buying anything online when it takes a billion years to load the page, I fear that I’ll probably be charged twice for some reason).
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Yeah, gonna back up Tristan here, I love the shirts thus far, and I’ll be working on buying one ASAP.
So yay, have some vocal support. Hands partially down, then out towards my keyboard, I will be attempting to get a shirt.
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Yep, when I’m back in the country I totally plan on placing an order. At the moment I can only really quickly skim just Kotaku and Facebook when I get a chance to be online so ordering something would take a bit more time than I have whilst not at home.
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Got my t-shirt Chuloopa! Well chuffed with it.
Fits… like a glove [/aceventura]
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I love that word…
“Chuffed”
niceee
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Wow.. guys… just wow…
You are so awesome!I haven’t been on kotaku today (besides a quick post earlier on homefront) as i have been super busy with work today, so now that i am catching up on TAY i come across this.
You guys are seriously the best. Words can’t describe how much your kind words mean to me. It really is brilliant.
Don’t worry – there will be more shirts coming very soon, just with preparing for the move i haven’t had a lot of time to work on them.
Also, Toctopus were on holidays, which is the reason for the massive delays of my first shirts getting sent out, but that appears to be fine now.
Also, Fatshadyaid-ie will be resuming very soon. At the moment the DS i have for him is in a box waiting for the move, so i can’t send it out right now even if you guys did buy up a storm… but once again – thank you. From the bottom of my heart thank you all 🙂
Alright guys, a fair number of you have probably seen this, but so far as I can tell, Kotaku hasn’t posted about it (at the time of writing at least…), but there’s some very early footage (for lack of a better term, publisher ads, that is, saying, we have a game, look, give us money to make it better) of this game “Awakened.” http://www.destructoid.com/a-second-trailer-for-promising-superhero-game-awakened-192841.phtml
OK, so it needs a lot of work (Anything that isn’t a main character model, the animations, particularly the particle effects, back to the animations because they really are bad, and the shame that the awesome ending part will be entirely pre-scripted), but still, I think it looks pretty cool, so figured I’d bring it to attention for anyone who missed it.
As a final point, you can “Bamf”, which is really all I care about at this stage.
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…that does look quite cool – definitely needs some work and a lot of polish, but it’s got some great potential and it’s only early days.
The one thing I didn’t like was the dark, gritty environment – a bit too GTA IV/Fallout for my superhero preferences: I like a vibrant & colourful cityscape.
Hadn’t seen or heard of this before, so I’ll keep a close eye on it…
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I’m excited… Big Kev style.
But, why do swords always take five hits to kill a target, and why don’t they sever things?
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Yeah, swords seem to have the inverse of the FPS weapon bash effect. It’s rather odd, but who needs consistency or logic when you can Bamf?
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Big Arse Sword… 6 hits till death
Melee Knife… Instant frigging death!
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This may well end up next to my previous post, making me look like a right twat, but still.
Just for you Jimu:
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/286309/news/homefront-pc-in-3d/
It’s more than the 3d thing, that’s simply a limitation of the consoles graphics, so not something you can really rage about. Another thing they have is three modes of control for helicopters, but that may well utilise lots of buttons, and thus be impractical on a controller, so you can’t really complain about that.
No, for some reason they’ve decided (so far as I can tell from the horrible writing style at CVG… What?) that only PC gamers get first person controls for vehicles.
What?
I’m sorry, as a pc gamer whenever I can be (which is fairly rarely), I have to say that this is a stupid addition, and I question why they couldn’t also give their stupidity to the console sector. Anyway, just for you Jimu.
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I can’t understand a word that article is saying…
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The pc version will be different to the console versions, with a difference that could quite easily be put on both.
Therefore you should rage.
Actually, the reasoning is that the PC “port” is being handled by another company, but still.
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HULK SMASH!!!
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TOMBA IS COMING BACK!
http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2011/01/31/psone-classics-where-we-all-stand/
I’m excited. I never actually played the game, but I remember playing the demo over and over and over and over again. I don’t actually know why I didn’t buy the game. Probably because I was like 6/7 and had to save up for every game we got (CRASH BASH! Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater! CTR!). Ah those were the days.
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My cousin owned Tombi. I had a lot more fun with the demo than the full game.
For some reason it just got boring after a while…
Does the Australian Dead Space 2 collectors edition come with EA online pass… I should be able to access the Force gun and the Unitology suit but there is no unlock code. Has anyone else have this problem.
Well, the long awaited Kotaku Wars Prequel trilogy is complete!! Sorry for keeping everyone waiting, last week was busier than I expected. Well, here they are
Episode I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0r8xbQ7_5Q
Episode II
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYdYL32KpNw
and Episode III
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22b1Jbs_HrM
Cast
Jimu-Hsien: R2-D2
Tris-Tosterone: C-3PO
O-Bish Wan Braaaains-only: Obi Wan Kenobi
FatShady Qum-Ul-Blaghman: Padme Amidala
General Chuloopious: General Greivous
BatGuy Loopwalka: Anakin Skywalker
Count Marku: Count Dooku
Sughly-i Moderators: Jedi Knights
Seamuth Lord: Sith Lord
Chancellor AmbroseIV: Chancellor Palpatine
JamesMacUsedOurHandles: Clones
James Mac: Jango Fett
Strange NotoriousRay: Nute Gunray
Jimu Jimu: Jar Jar
21st Century Welbot: 20th Century Fox
Also
Jimu J. Jarrick: Wicket W. Warrick from Episode VI
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*sighs and hangs head sad* well back to work for me
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Woops, sorry, how about Tech Knight the Lesser: Poggle the Lesser?
No? Erm…*scratches head*
D’oh I forget about Qui-Gon
How about Tech-Knight Jim?-
Haha nah it’s cool, not the first time I’ve been forgotten certainly won’t be the last xD, yeah Tech Knight Jin = awesome, or the Tech Knights – Jedi Knights would fit too.
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Love it! 😀
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Will watch when I get hooome
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EEEeeeekkkk! I’m crossed with Blag and we’re a former queen! Swwwwwwwweeeet! 😀
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Thank god you spotted that, I completely missed that I was on it, and was about to pretend that I was offended.
But, since you noticed that, I have to say…
Why do people keep saying I’m a queen? Pshh, I’m just fabulous.
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Damn it, I just read Jimu Jimu…FFFFFfffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuUUUU
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Jango Fett…
Hell yeah.
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Hells yeah!
Temperature is going to be in the high thirties again here in Victoria for the third day in a row. Man I really hate Summer.
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I can’t handle this. Temp is incredible out in west sydney.
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*high-five*
…for putting up with western Sydney temperatures with me (and I don’t have AC – hits 30 at 8am @_@)
You should petition to move your offices down to Wollongong… Tasmania, even – somewhere cooler.
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We should be grateful, I guess. Usually this 40+ degree peak hits earlier than late Jan/early Feb, so there’s normally more suffering until Autumn hits.
And the school kids, boy, I do not envy them, having to roam outside for PE/recess/lunch.
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Oh and I just remembered something else worth mentioning (damn kotaku you need an edit comment button). I got my health care card in the mail the other day and it lists my middle name as “Single”. My middle name is not Single it is Ronald and that’s what I put in the form. The only time single was in the form at all was a box I ticked for relationship status. I’m unsure what to do next. Should I try and have them fix it and send me a new card or should I just go with it?
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roll with it
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OH! What a classic f*ckup, get it fixed…someone will deny you some privelige at some point because of it.
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Heh heh
Dire Ronald Wolf!
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lol
You HAVE to change your name to ‘Dire Single Wolf’
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This is correct
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Move to Perth, we’ve had high 30’s – brushing 40 degrees temps most days since before Christmas this season. Humidity was around 70% in parts on the weekend. Thankfully its cooled down since then.
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I’m loving the low 30s weather here at the moment.
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You live in the ocean right?
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Magicka received an update overnight that fixed a lot of bugs in the game. I’m keen to get a multiplayer game going, find me on steam in the evenings if you want in!
Also, it’s my bucks this weekend, I’m going to see titties!
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Pics or it didn’t happen@!
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+ >=Kotaku community on this one
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I played some Magika with a friend earlier today and it’s the first time it’s been playable online. Much improved.
Have fun at your bucks night.
Everything that is posted as a reply to this will be read as part of a voice over. I want to test my mic, and shakespeare makes me sound like an obnoxious tw*t.
Comment away!
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When I was boy $1 for an icecream was expensive. Usually I bought the middle of the range 40c icecreams.
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Everytime you pass wind a fairy gets high…
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All this extra cheese has filled my stockings to bursting point.
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Twas brillig and the slithy toves did gire an gimble in the wabe, all mimsy were the borogroves and momerathes outgrabe.
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Now, a woman who’ll kiss on a very first date
is usually a hussie.
And a woman who’ll kiss on a second time out
is anything but fussy.
But a woman who’ll wait till the third time around
head in the clouds, feet on the ground
She’s the girl he’s glad he’s found
she’s his Shipoopi-
Shipoopi! Shipoopi! Shipoopi!
The girl who’s hard to get!-
I doubt there was anyone in here that didn’t sing that in their heads. Thanks mate.
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In west Philadelphia born and raised
On the playground is where I spent most of my days
Chillin out, maxin, relaxing all cool,
And all shooting some b-ball outside of school
When a couple of guys who were up to no good
Started making trouble in my neighborhood
I got in one lil fight and my mom got scared
And said “You’re moving with your auntie and uncle in Bel-Air”
I Begged and pleaded with her day after day,
But she packed my suitcase and sent me on my way
She gave me a kiss and then she gave me my ticket
I put my walkman on and said I might as well kick it
Dear FatShady MBA,
I hate you and your stupid game. It makes me miss sleep and gives me a headache. It is stupid.
Regards,
Batguy PhD
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Dude, I was checking the friends list a few times last night… you seriously hate yourself huh? I saw you on for well over a couple of hours…
I am impressed with your level of dedication but there are others from this site higher than you on the leaderboard (that’ll make you lose more sleep!)
How are you approaching it, are you trying to just get through each track then move on, or are you trying for a good time (silver or gold) before moving on. No real ‘better’ way to do it, just wondering.
Also, anyone else having as much fun as Batguy?
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Trials HD made me want to hurt myself. True story.
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Most of the time was trying to set up an unassailable second place (behind you) on the competition track. This was because I was trying to chase my best partial times, about 1.5 seconds faster at the half-way point than my current best.
But beyond that I ripped through them to unlock the bikes, then repeatedly revisited a few of them to take second place on my friends list, usually above Mark.
I’ll end up in overall second place on my leaderboard though, mark my words…
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Hahaha! I’m heading back on tonight. Going to try and rip through your scores.
Why does my head hurt thinking about it?
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You do realise that we’re playing into his hands, right?
That man is evil.
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I am enjoying all this trials talk.. but if you think im being evil now… you just wait! we haven’t even started to talk about platinum medals or tournements.
Evil is the following:
After you compete all extreme tracks, you will unlock platinum medals. When you buy the BigPack DLC, there is a tournement in there that is all 6 extreme tracks, back to back with no restarts (a restart counts as a fault). To get the platinum medal, you need to do all of them with less than 6 faults.
THAT, my friends is evil. This is just me toying with you. (btw i have done it with 5 faults even as good as i was at the time, It still took me weeks to put it all together)
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Also, one thing I should say is that trials players (like me) are more than willing to lend a hand to those who are learning. I have no secret moves and you can see everything i do in my replays, but if you ever need a hand like Mark did because he was not even good enough to get through the last level without help (lol), just ask me.
I am pretty much at the best i will ever get (in that the amount of time i would have to invest to get any better outweighs both the fun and the other games i would miss out on) but i still love this game and play it regularly. I enjoy talking to new players and teaching them stuff because it keeps me playing the game for enjoyment, rather than the hours you can spend to take 0.01 of a second off your best.
Always happy to lend a hand to any of you.
PS. Batguy, I am confident that you can beat my times.
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I just had an idea. I am going to post my times on here with the ‘other’ bikes in trials. I will try to do the fastest time with the other bikes to see how close i can get to you.
I’ll let you know how that works.
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Over the last 3 days I’ve been gradually improving… got all the golds up to the start of hard – keep going back to try and improve and rip through Mark’s times :3
It’s a good kind of frustrating, like Meat Boy, which makes it addictive. I can get some decent times just off platinum on some tracks and I know the exact spots I’m falling behind…
My timing is feeling a lot better, but my actual technique needs some work… still got the last hard track and a couple of the extreme tracks to complete.
…so to summarise, this game will end me…
I downloaded the demo of Trials last night/this morning. It’s like the lovechild of Joe Danger and Super Meat Boy. It’s this abusive game where I kept on restarting so many times, yet I was still playing for some reason. I kinda like it. But I also hate it. Just like I love/hate SMB.
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It is actually more like the step father of the two, considering that Trials was released in August 2009!
It’s not even lunch yet(QLD) and I am BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOREEEEEEEEEEEDDDDD
Where are you Nohandle?
Where is you’re constant egging of myself on?
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!
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Either that pedopad is so good he is too busy to comment or it’s so sh*t he can’t…
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Hehe, pedo pad has yet to arrive.
Supposedly they got sent with Android 2.1 not 2.2 and all the nerds flipped out and sent them back.
Will be coming with 2.2 but an extra week…..
If i can’t comment with it i’m gonna be pissed!
But i really only got it so i could play game dev story…..
***looks at faded bandwagon tracks***
Oh….Wait for me….
****runs of arms waving***
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You lost your good-time buddy and I can see
you are going through difficult times.
Maybe even harder times than any of us here
could hope to imagine.
And under stern interrogation i confess ’tis only
a brutish terror and dread I face at moments
contemplation of the dark and twisted form of this
mysterious pedopad of which you speak.
Chin up and see this through to the end. Just eyes
on the horizon and one foot in front of the other
until the sunlit green forests echo
with birdsong and the sounds of summertime
abandon.
Always remember, weary traveller: the end
is closest to the beginning.
But where to look for acquaintance lost?
Tell me: did he escape?
If so, you have only yourself to blame.
Of course, your culpability doesn’t make this
situation any less traumatic for any of us. May I be
so bold – presumptuous if you will – as to
suggest a more fortified dungeon/basement for your
next best friend forever.
You too can prevent tomorrow’s embarrassment
today.
xxoxoox-
Aaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
That’s sweet. Thanks Plainview!-
Just got on. Think the heat fried optus and dodo coz i’ve had not internetz since yesterday 🙂
Nice to know i’m missed 🙂
Star Ocean on Cheapskate for $17!! Link won’t load!!!Noooo
Saw your reply to Loops, i gave you a list of at least 30 decent PSP games last week!! 🙂
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The closet racist.
I let the no getter slide…
I tol’ you, I only like a few of them games. PSP is better off being modded and playing SNES games on. I don’t know if you were around for my chat with Sughly about this topic. PSP is the ultimate in portable emulation.
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I did not know, but now i have a semi!!!!
I got Megaman Maverick Hunter X for $8 on PSP, thought that was the closest i could get to SNES glory, but if i can emulate rock’n’roll racing…..***happy dance***
I keep looking at Gizmodo headline “Ten ways not to make an Android tablet”
I’m to scared to click in case it just 10 pedo pads!!
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Saw The Green Hornet, in 3D. I really don’t know why they bothered with 3D for this particular movie, it didn’t really add anything, not even cheap thrills.
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Excellent. My brother wanted to watch this, and insisted we should go watch it in 3D. I’ve told him the 3D will be pointless and just a cash grab, but he won’t listen.
How was the movie itself?
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You still in US Strange?
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Movie was fun, Mr.NotR. Fun but not awesome.
And Mr.Bot I am still in the US, leave Thursday US time and get home on Saturday Australia time. And then proceed to sleep for a week…oh, wait, I forgot…I have kids. No sleep for me. 😛-
lol poor chika!
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Well, I’ve decided to use my username indstead of my real name 😀
So anyway, wanna see a stupid captcha? http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb449/lamboman007/whatthe.jpg
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What does it say?
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Dunno, I think it’s french…
😛
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I mentioned it a few weeks back but my one was better…
C**t52
We got it as a complaint/polite suggestion.
It was generated in a program that sold insurance policies that customers would have seen. Totally random and by sheer fluke but funny all the same.
Your all a pack of bums. Now I have turfed out my Chime addiction and (while keeping to the block theme) have been glued to Minecraft all day. I found gold, was so pumped! Then I died… 🙁
Back to forging!
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haha littleJJ let me buy minecraft on the weekend.. I’m still not sure why I bought it, but it is interesting. Perhaps one of these days I’ll get around to building something and get myself addicted 😉
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Psch, Gold?
Wait till you find Diamond. It roughly goes something like this:
“Squeeeeee! Diamond!”
*Mine, mine, mine, break through a wall holding back lava*
“Aw, f-”
*dead*GOOD TIMES
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I like the one where you mine a block of ore out the ceiling and there is a massive column of gravel on top of it that falls down and crushes you to death.
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Heh… Yeah, that one’s my favourite.
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I read on the wiki that at levels between 0 and 19 from the bottom (water level is at level 64) you have to dig 867 blocks to have a 50% chance of finding a single diamond ore block… that is why we get pumped>
But yeah, I had a massive stash and jumped into lava and lost the lot. sad day.
Glad to hear qbo and you guys loving it. Multiplayer here we come (almost)
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I went on the biggest mining spree last night… over 2 hours underground, easy.
Then it took me 45 minutes to get back to the entrance – fighting skeletons, getting lost, etc.
Right at the entrance, I got killed and all my stuff washed away down a stream that ran parallel to the path I was following.
…it was awesome! (and frustrating)
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make a compass and watch. the best investment i have ever made… gets you home every time and you always know when its safe to surface.
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You guys are making want to try minecraft.
This is not a good thing. I already have to much to do and not enough time to do it in.
too
hot
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I was wondering where the hell everyone was!
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42 here in Carlingford (NW-ish Sydney). Worse out west?
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I think it’s similar. 41 last I checked…
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42 in Camden… one day is okay, 4 or 5 or 6 in a row is too much
…earlier I melted through the floorboards a la the T-1000…
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Downstairs, with the fan in their face, watching Dexter.
At least, that’s what I’m doing.
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Personally Im hovering around the site waiting for someone to post something…
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Don’t worry, I have access to the interwebs now!
No wait, I’m boring and have nothing to say, DAMN!
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Doh!
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Working in over-A/C’d offices in the Melbourne CBD, I had to walk through the CBD to get to another building about a half hour ago, not fun at all out there.
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It’s like walking into a fricking brick wall.
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I went out to get lunch earlier, had to cross the street, walk into Woolies, and it was only 30ish, I was so relieved (at least, it felt like it was around 30, completely guessing though). So hopefully when I walk home after work today it won’t be too bad! 😀
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No, wait, according to the BOM it would have been around 36 when I went out… Well, on the bright side, I still don’t live in Western Sydney. Even the ABC website is talking about how hot it will get for you precious flowers (I kid, it looks friggin hot out there).
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I am at homebush (Olympic Park) today and went out to get lunch. I seriously thought some of the trees would spontaneously combust.
Auuuuuuuuuuugh, 10:45 PM and still 35 degrees.
Hate you so much right now Australia.
Fatshady, I need your help D:
I’m up to the last two log-ramp things on the first Extreme track in Trials HD.
It took me 7 minutes and ~80 faults to get to that point, trying to get to the finish line (which is in sight!!), I’ve made another 180 faults and lost 9 minutes…
…I wanna give up, but I’m soooo close!? -_-
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…don’t worry, another 90 seconds and 10 faults and I got it…
As I said earlier, this game will be the death of me -_-
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Awesome work. Completing an extreme track this early in your career is awesome in itself. Sorry i couln’t help i am working n stuff…
But if your on later we can have a chat.
Actually, the technique i showed Mark for InfernoII about jumping onto an upward incline would help with that part also. watch the vids (right at the last part of part 1 or the start of part 2)… just search fatshady1 on youtube.
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The think that transformed my Trials HD skills was realizing you can just sit your rider in different positions on the bike and it affects the way you hit jumps and the way you land…
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You would have noticed in my vid (think the first jump in InfernoII), i spend an equal amount of time explaining the starting position compared to the actual jump. That is a good thing to have picked up on.
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Once I got that (it took me a while because I’m an idiot) it made things so much easier.
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And it won’t be the end of you, just gaming as you know it.
I have spent hundreds of hours on this game, much more than any other game in my life. For a total spend of $30 including DLC that has lasted well over 12 months, it was money well invested.
Considering i also got 2 Trials HD flags, a hoodie and a kids t-shirt out of it i’ve actually come out in front i think!
btw, this winter you will all be so green with envy when you see the hoodie i got. Bukake Kane has seen it!
I actually have the matching hoodie that my avatar wears!!!!!
http://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/fatshady%20Live/avatar-body.png
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AmbroseIV, do I have you on my friends list? If you’re going after Mark’s times, you’re going to have to make sure you stay ahead of me!
And no FatShady, I don’t want you to suggest some more friends with demoralising times that will “make me a better player”…
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I went through a stage where i was so sick of being down my list of friends (because i stupidly accepted FR from anyone) that i went and cleaned up my list to remove anyone who was better than me. Sad to think about it but it was a good feeling being that awesome again.
Now even with my skills I am usually about 5-10th on my FL. I guess it is time to delete them again lol..
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Yup, I’ve got you – I’m S117MP
And, challenge accepted. 😀
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Hahaha! Extreme levels are so bloody difficult…
Holy crap, I thought I was the only one.
Given I only managed it a few days ago, it’s fresh in my mind, but the worst part for me, was that I almost managed to get over it in about 20-25 tries, and then twitched, then spent another 100 tries before I got even close again.
That was the closest I have come to ragequitting, the controller spent a minute sitting on my bed, with the game paused…
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Don’t worry, I timed out on Extreme lvl 2 about 3m from the finish 😛
And cheers shady, I’ll check out your video now (…but no-one tell Mark’s brother…)
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Yeah man – he’ll lose his shit!
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Gorram it!
Carroll has left for Liverpool.
So EB Games has just put the expected RRP of the 3DS from $349.95 to $399.95. So much for competing with internet prices. Might import from America now and save $150. I’ve got a Gameboy Advance to play GB games so I don’t need the store.
Also; any chance of there being a new system for these “Talk Amongst Yourselves”? Scrolling through hundreds of comments. GUH.
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Redesign is happening, and making TAY a bit more manageable is a huge priority. It really has exploded in the last couple of months.
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Wonder why?
***pats mark on back and ruffles his hair***
As usual not taking anything away from the Goose!-
Can no handle win “Suck up of the week”?
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LOL
What do i win?
I know it’s kinda lame ( and also kinda true), but you catch more flys with honey…. 🙂 -
You win fly spray
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I always imagined if you wanted some flies to congregate, rotting raw meat would probably be top of the list.
So… you catch more flies with rotting meat than with honey?
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Ok then
***Slaps mark with a piece of rotten meat***(Sorry if double post, damn internetz)
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You catch more flies with Zombies?
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Oh…Ok then
***Slaps Mark with Seamus***OOOOHHHHH YEEEAAAHHHH!!!
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Actually it seems to coincide with when i started posting…
****Pats self on back and ruffles own hair***
Sorry, I should stop talking about Trials!
Hey, did you (or anyone)check out my custom Kotaku track in Trials?
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I am guessing your tag is FatShady?
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Already sent you a FR.
FatShady Live
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IN the interim, a very simple solution can be employed to allow people to know when their comments have been replied to.
Because the poster’s email is always taken, add a checkbox to indicate whether they want to be emailed when that comment is replied to. Not only is it less than a day’s worth of work, it would be infinitely more useful! 🙂
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You’re hired!
OK Mark, suggestion for between now and when the redesign kicks off.
Put something in the editors picks saying “read this or get flamed” and have an article that simply says “Yes, we will make TAY more readable.” From then on, rather than being polite to anyone who questions the format of TAY, and asks about it being changed, we can flame them!
What, I’m the only person who wants to be a complete twat to people on the internet? Damn.
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Hey, dont count me out. Im bored an at work. Flame AHOY!!!
Where’s Sughly and why isn’t he playing Lost Odyssey…or maybe he is??? I hope I hope!!!
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Heeeey Jimu, I haven’t been 🙁
In case you didn’t see my previous belated reply, I’ve been doing homeworking. That being said though, the intro was friggin awesome!
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I am happy you saw the intro at least.
Homework is importatnt, that way you can get that well paid job and when I need to borrow money I know you’ll be there, man.
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Mark!
What is the deal?
I know I spend way too much time on this site and I know far too much about games for someone who has zero involvement in the industry…
What is with these last few random misinformed posts?
You had the “Gray” screened gameboy and now the “Japan Exclusive” PS2…
Research optional????
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What? I didn’t write those posts…
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I thought you was editor…don’t you edit?
J.Jonah Jameson would never put up with this!
Am I becoming one of those “problem” readers that you wish would just dissapear?
For a fee I can send you a discreet (mis-spelled)email so you can edit on the fly.
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I laughed at almost every part of this message.
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So you don’t edit?
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Yep, I guess the buck stops with me, but I don’t have time to fact check every single story that the US writers post on the site – that really should be their responsibility. But thanks for pointing it out. 🙂
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Thank you? Really?
I thought I was going to receive a cease and desist letter … -
It’s in the mail! Hahaha!
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One thing i have learned from constantly re-writing DVD synopsis for work, is NEVER trust an American to do something right the first time around.
Their grammar and spelling is ATROCIOUS!
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Dam Merikanz fink dey kan spull gud. HUH we Ossiez r waye smarder!!!
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Seems “research optional” was self referential 🙂
LOL
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Damn strate
……than with vinegar
Flame Ahoy-hoy 🙂
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Hurh???
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Ive read your previous post, now I understand.
I prefer gasoline!
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http://www.podiatrychannel.com/pod/Images/ingrowntoenail.jpg
Anyone hungry?
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Im in a constant battle with my left big toe to stop it ingrowing.
Right got operated on back in highschool.
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Same with my right one. No matter what I do, it won’t stop ingrowing, and it hurts like hell. 🙁
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I cut my toe nails at the reverse angle someone normally would and the doc told me to cut little Vs in the nail to make it try and heal the V and grow inward rather than outward…The battle continues!
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Could catch some flies with that!!
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All I can say, Crazyguy, is, as the son (I was about to write daughter :/) of Doctors, don’t tempt me.
Also, Om Nom Nom, delicious.
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Huh. Just noticed that it kinda looks like a jam donut. :/
I would like to thank Mr Serrels for posting that awesome article about making a mini mame machine. It had pretty much all the stuff i needed to get started thank you. I have continued my battle to make a design that is functional and doesn’t look like a 8 year old got some wood, nails and screws, and put them in a blender. On a side note I suddenly have the urge to tell you about music I like atm, I would post youtubez but i’m feeling lazy, just search yourself.
Gypsy and the cat
these guys kinda sound like 80’s pop music put more electronic, good lyrics and catchy beat.stand out track: Piper Song.
Yeasayer
Awesomely catchy you can’t help but to feel happy when listening to ampling alp. (The songs about max scmellings fight with joe louis in WW2)also educational.
Other awesome bands
crystal castles
Two door cinema club
children collide
Amity Affliction
So Who are your favourite bands? Huh huh punk yeah I’m talking to you.
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I listen to all sorts of crap…a lot of soundtrack stuff like Vangelis and Uematsu (obviously).
The two bands I always go back to are
Nine Inch Nails and Devin Townsend plus all their side projects.I also like
Bjork
Goldfrapp
Neurosis
Melvins
Coil
Outkast
and I can’t remember.I lived with musos for years and got to hear all sorts of strange and delightful stuff. Made me lazy to find new stuff though as I got it hand delivered daily for so long…
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I am so embarrased… I didn’t mention The Roots.
Shameful…
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a man with class i see amity affliction are one of aussies top bands in my opinion i love those boys all good blokes well maybe not joel haha, but yer they are killing it at the moment.
and thats my two cents about your music taste
I just posted htis in reply to Gorzilla on the prvious page, but i know a lot of you will miss it..
So check this shiz out!!
http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab105/xemanh/XAD-20-8-ve-tren-o-to-10p/airbrush-car01.jpg
A-MAZE-ING!
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After further consideration I may get that pic, of the mechwarrior (I think) airbrushed car, airbrushed onto my car.
Then i’d take a picture.
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That’s so freaking epic. Now I want to play Mechwarrior again!
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Screw that – i want my own mech!
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In related news…
MekTek, the guys that are continously patching Mechwarrior 4 are talking about remaking MechWarrior 3 in HD.
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Finally got Picross 3D 100%, all puzzles, in time, no mistakes. For a simple little puzzler I got more hours out of this than any other game in the last six months.
If you have a DS, pick it up for cheap, blast through the boring tutorial and enjoy.
Just finished Assasins Creed II. I liked it.
Are many people still playing brotherhood online? It seemed all the rage before Christmas.
Might see if i can pick it up cheap.
But my real question is; What to play next in my pile of games I have at home? The options are:
Lost Odyssey
Over Lord 2
Vanquish
Darksiders
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HA HA!!!
LOST ODYSSEY!!!
do it…
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That thing i sent you…
did you get it?
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Are you typing to me???
And if so, by what means was the “thing” sent?
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It was couriered by one Peter Potamus.
Of Sebben and Sebben Lawyers.
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No Harvey Birdman fans?? really?
“If you’re not careful, you’ll get us all whacked. HA HA! Body in a woodchipper.”
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Sorry, been a long time
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Here is some links for JamesMac’s Handle stealing friend that I thought you’d appreciate. Sorry for taking up so much screen space but once I got started i couldn’t stop!. Please don’t hate me.
I told you i was a crazy hip hop head. Anyone who has ever been slightly interested in hip hop please check out some of these links. There are still some truly awesome people making awesome music out there.
Reef the lost cauze
The sound of Philadelphia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoiojiYyPPI
I Wonder
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr1JZteUF4c
Commander in Chief
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgJ_PoR9424
2 Guns Up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgr2YWRSWZo
Vinnie Paz
End of Days
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47piCmAB0s4
Raw is War
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wae-DfjQfK4
Jedi mind Tricks
Blood in Blood out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeVIugzMGhM&feature=related
Celph Titled
4 Course Meal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxrbj4J91Io
Styles Aint Raw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhQN7kzEL5M
Apathy (Gamertag ‘Mr East Coast’)
The Winter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Cv02w4nzDQ&feature=fvsr
Immortal Technique & Diabolic
Frontlines
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2r8kBnGtAU
Immortal Technique
Obnoxious
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LUkErRmHTc
Point of No Return
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Igt-jW4e8ts&feature=fvsr
Dominant Species
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T22-lHISxOY&feature=related
Jedi Mind Tricks f/ Ill Bill
Heavy Metal Kings
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNITJsOrHr0
Ill Bill
War is My Destiny
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRLl2yVrJzE&feature=fvw
Society Is Brainwashed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjNmGsQ16Vg
I’m a Goon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpltIDtrjxE
King Magnetic
I don’t Know You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tny3AaD5yt8
Fullest Extent
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOpnI95TqpQ&feature=related
Army of the Pharaohs
Agony Fires
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Oh yeah. NSFW lyrics but if you decide to listen to hip hop at work then surely you know what you’re in for.
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I usually don’t like Hip Hop…
But then again that’s mainstream stuff that i usually hear, and it usually sucks.is any of this “gangsta” sort of rap.. because i REALLY hate that shit…
If not i’ll have a look at some during my break..
anything called “Jedi mind tricks” can’t be bad… can it?
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If i had to listen to gangster this and bitch/Ho that I would not still be listening to it mate. This is underground stuff so doesn’t usually confirm to the mainstream.
Also something funny i noticed recently, when growing up (and please don’t read any racisim in this at all), all the artists i was listening to were black (African Americans). I really could not relate to them physically but growing up in a shitty neighborhood, broken family, 2 bedroom flat with 4 people in it and a sister who ended up as an alcoholic/problem gambler, I guess i related to some of the struggles (and it was cool).
You will find it more raw and sometimes more graphic but that is just because they don’t tend to make ‘clean’ versions for radio stations.
If you want a good story to listen to (as opposed to appreciate the hip-hop-ie-ness of it all, check out a song by Immortal technique called ‘Dance with the devil’. Seriously a confronting story but a good song. It will give you an appreciation of the depth of the content.
But I am not trying to convert you all, I know that most people don’t like it. If someone came on here and said that death metal was deep and meaningful i would lol. Funny thing though, Ill Bill, one of the abovenamed, actually started a death metal group and one of his songs is a biography of Slayer!
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Just as long as it’s not like listening to Necro.
A friend took me along to one of his shows.. i’ve never seen a bigger White Douchbag..During his “show us your tits” song, he got a bunch of ugly as sin girls on stage and tried to get them to show everyone their tits, of which none of them did… loser.
lol
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I saw Xzibit and it ended the same way. Concerts with crazy boobie ladies only happen on the DVD’s.
I have not listened to any Necro stuff, so i wont now.
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I saw Blink 182 at a big day out one year which ended with a group of guys crowding around a fairly attractive woman doing a full on strip tease on one of those mosh-boards.
She went full nude at the end…I was an impressed 15 year old!
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Instrumentals are good. Like i said before the music is great, just the lyrical content and mic skills are lacking.
There was only two groups that did “horrorcore”
righthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=elBAoINk1j8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjKQc-UyL6w
Definitely NSFW!!!!
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AC/DC still managed to get some chicks to take their tops off on their recent tour. And those guys look like they’re gonna die on stage due to their age.
Thankfully the camera guy was skilled. At the first Perth show, some older and unattractive woman tried to get her top off, but had a little bit of difficulty. The camera guy pointed the camera somewhere else before she could mentally scar the crowd 😛
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Cheers Fatshady!
Reef is crazy!!! Thank you!
Have you heard Asher Roth?? http://dailykush.com/
Last mixtape was free…
http://www.rapbasement.com/mixtapes/Seared_Foie_Gras_With_Quince_And_Cranberry.html
something a little different but should still appeal to your underground predeliction 🙂
Upon reading Penny Arcade htis morning, i almost spit my coffee all over my laptop..
here is why:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/1/31/
god i love those guys.
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Really?
The most amusing part for me was the popcorn dropping on the head.
I love a story within a story. -
Read it on the train, it’s very true!!!
Went and saw Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros last night.
Amazing. He got 500 people to sit down and have a sing a long at the end. Was just surreal for that many people, all together, being so chill.
Band members came out into the crowd and sat down and played during the sing a long while like 30 people from the crowd got up on stage. Was amazing
Thought it could only happen with small gigs but no.
I WILL CUT OFF SOMEONE ELSES HANDS AND SAY:
IT WAS AMAZING! DOUBLE HANDS DOWN!
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Great, now I have to type with my nose.
Using caps lock for capital letters is hard.
Might and Magic has been offline all last night and won’t be up again until 6pm tonight!!!
MY GOD I’M GOING TO IMPLODE!!!
I NEED MY FIX!!!
THERE ARE TOWNS THAT NEED TO BE SCOUTED!!!
THERE ARE MINES THAT NEED IMPROVING!!!
THERE ARE PLAGUE ZOMBIES THAT NEED RECRUITING!!!
OH GOD!! MY CITIES!! THEY’RE NOTHING WITHOUT ME!!!
*curls into the fetal position and starts mumbling incoherently*
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Loops, relax, under their currently posted times it should be up in less than an hour. That’s EST, not AEST, or, more importantly, 11pm GMT, which is 10am here.
But, since they kept postponing the up time last night, I may well be wrong if it changes again.
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RELAX?!?!
HOW CAN I RELAX!?!
I HARBOUR AN ARMY OF THE UNDEAD?!?!
HOW DO I KNOW THAT WHEN I LOG IN AGAIN I WON’T HAVE BEEN SURROUNDED BY 13 YEAR OLD MARALYN MANSON FANS PLEDGING THEIR FEALTY TO ME!?!I DON’T WANT TO BE SURROUNDED BY PEOPEL WHO DYE THEIR HAIR BLACK AND WEAR TALCUM POWDER AS FOUNDATION!
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Hey, I like Marilyn Manson… Oh, right, the no taste thing…
Well, my hell city is probably going to be surrounded by a huge force of headbangers, ready to worship my demonic powers.
Wait, that sounds friggin awesome.
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Don’t get me wrong.. i like Mason too..
But have you seen his fans?
I saw him on the Eat Me Drink Me tour, and it was an all ages event…
I was at the very front surrounded by 13 year old girls who wouldn’t stop screaming “PLAY TAINTED LOVE”… Probably because it’s the only Mason song they saw on Video Hits or something…I have never wanted to punch so many people so badly…
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I have never had the opportunity to see one of his gigs, but OK, yeah, I can imagine that the fans were shit. The 2 most hardcore gigs I’ve been to were Alice Cooper, where half the audience was at least 40, the other half in the 16-25 age group, and Metallica, which was a fairly similar deal.
Man, I’m such a badass metalhead…
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I saw Pantera once.
There was a fight in the mosh pit involving a man that looked suspiciously like a troll.I backed away slowly…
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I know right.
Twas truly a fall to your knees with hands to the sky screaming WHY?! kinda moment.
littleJJ is havign withdrawls too i think :0
But even worse for her, is she subscribed yesterday, and now they’ve robber her of a days worth of sub.. bastards!
Man, I just refreshed the page, and imagine my glee to see it was loading a normal-looking brown-ish page. Then imagine the crushing disappointment only to realise that it was an updated “We’re still doing maintenance” page.
I could be halfway through building my Jousting Arena by now.
:<
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It’s pretty infuriating, yes?
Off to see The Big Yin tonight (aka Billy Connolly)
I’m going to imagine it’s an older, greyer Mark Serrels standing out on stage telling jokes – I’ll let you know if he’s gonna make it in the stand-up industry or not 😛
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My Mum hates Billy Connolly. True story. I don’t know how it’s possible to hate Billy Connolly, cause he’s awesome. But my bitter, bitter mum has found a way.
She also hates Sean Connery. In fact – anyone who’s Scottish and famous, she hates.
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I bet she can;t hate Craig Ferguson though. He’s too awesome!
… And he’s now American…
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…that’s kinda hilarious. Surely she can’t hate Craig Ferguson, though… right? :/
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Your mother, with all due respect, is a bloody loony!
NO ONE can hate Sir Sean!
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I couldn’t agree more.
Just for his performance in The Last Crusade, Sean will forever reside in my heart.
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Aww, thanks guys, it means a lot.
Oh, you mean, THAT Sean…
Awkward.
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Make you a deal – develop a heavy lisp over a scottish accent and i’ll make sweet love to you
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Doth theth apply tae anybody laddy?
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You lucky bastard….
Guys. I’ve gone mad with fanboyism.
I dreamt about Skyrim last night (not joking)…
Tell me the cure! PLEASE! I NEED SKYRIM! 🙁
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Did you buy your first ever gaming magazine (obviously Game Informer) simply to get the stuff about Skyrim?
I did.
It was totally worth it.
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When I was a poor kid growing up and I couldn’t afford anything, I used to make it myself.
I once made a console out of cardboard and old sewing stuff…I’m not suggesting you make a Skyrim out of cardboard but maybe some fanfic? Concept art?
Have Captain Computergames visit Skyrim in the next episode.
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Have a cold shower? xD
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Skyrim cure? Play Morrowind again.
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I’m a nobody, and this is my favorite suggestion on the message boards
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HA HA, comment ‘O the daye!
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Soooooo
Global Agenda is 75% off on steam until (american) Thursday…
Anyone played it.. is it worth the buy?
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Not for you, go and play all those other games you have first and then start worrying about games you know hardly anything about…
Unless it’s Dragon Age 2…WOOOOOOOOOOOOP!!!
Or the new Pokemanz…woooooooooooop!
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jimu we totally have to pokemon battle
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Once… Just once, i’d like to see Pokemon Trainers declare a battle, only to have A Pikachu and a Scyther come out with backwards caps, fubu an mics.
they then proceed to “throw down the mad beats”
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Scyther would kick poopoochoos arse!
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he would look pretty bad-ass in a do-rag, i must admit.
I always loved old Scythy… pity he was next to useless in game.. damn bug pokemon…
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I used Scyther in Platinum. He was well good. Also a must have for catching all the low-levels that appear later cos of his false-swipe…Love false swipe.
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Let’s not forget Scyther is still a very popular Baton Passer.
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You in BrisVegas Rocketman?
I need to reconfigure my router if I want to get online with the DS and I never seem to find the time…
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Nah im in qld though I’m up north near townsville
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OUCH!
How is it up there, I went to Townsville a few years back for easter weekend.
Also lived in Emerald for six months in grade six.
Was damn hot, I dehydrated…
Jimu Hsien – Speaker of Wise Truths
Chances are i wasn’t going to buy it, but i was compelled to ask the question.
Thanks to you the idea is now completely out of my head 😀
You are, surely, a king among men!
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Hurrah!
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How many times am I going to have to tell you to play Ocarina of Time?!?
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The man makes a good point, Choopsioo
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At least 3 more..
I’m still i my second run of Mass Effect.. i was going to follow that up with shadow of the colossus
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Go play Ocarina of Time.
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Go play Ocarina of Time…
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Go play Ocarine of Time!
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Go play Darksiders!
It’s the best bits of Zelda (I use the name because every Zelda game is the same as every other Zelda game), and it’s not about a pre-pubescent Robin Hood impersonator.
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Blasphemer!
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So was Jesus at one stage…
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Yep.
I just compared myself to Jesus… where’s your ACL now?
Sitting next to one of those calanders with the quotes on it. This one reads
“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door”
No idiot, if it hasn’t knocked it is because you didn’t build a door when you made your house!!!!!
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And now you’re trapped, cold, and alone. The only sign of your failure will be the decrepit corpse they find as they demolish your house, replacing it with a high-rise strip-mall airport.
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How does one “build a door”?
Aren’t doors something you INSTALL???
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Nah Loops, you use a crafting desk, then put six planks of wood together in 2 columns. Voila, you have a door. Alternately, you can use iron, but then you need to make sure you have a switch so you can open and close it.
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You are the winner.
As i typed it all i could think about was a cobblestone room with no doors, the the timber turned into planks then the door is built…..
And thanks loops, I will try to be more technically accurate in the future!!
Loops Killington?
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Bugger i just realized, i did sound like a buzz kill…
I was talking about the dude that wrote the calendar.. not you… *pouts*
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That is true but surely someone must build the actual door first and then install it …ready for some KNOCKKNOCK action…
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Now that I think about it, don’t people usually ring doorbells?
I for one hate it when people knock on my door, I have a bell for a reason… I can actually hear it from my room.
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But what if you already have a door? What good would a second door do?
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Now your making sense! If it hasn’t knocked, perhaps you are rubbish and not worth knocking in the first place.. ever consider that one. Depressed much?
Eventually you die alone in a house with one door, but surrounded by doors that you made in the hope that more doors would equal more knocking.
Perhaps instead of building doors your whole life, you should go out and knock on someone elses door.
You may be surprised to see someone sitting in their one room with a door, building doors all day and you’d be like “Hi, did you read that freaking calander also”, what a waste of out lives… lets get drunk and play ping pong!
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So Jimu said i was sucking up to Mark, i was going to make a joke about hair but then i found this
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.facebook.com/profile/pic.php%3Fuid%3DAAAAAQAQm9JHmtdDCU9EeB2dB-tVPwAAAAmR2rmCzQOS32jAisPzNsKb&imgrefurl=http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Serrels/529400195&usg=__DG4z_GQwNSYEKuk1aU0wk0vkizw=&h=266&w=200&sz=14&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=5op7AqU9Ev8rSM:&tbnh=138&tbnw=99&ei=1JJITb7sFIHEvQP136nxBQ&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmark%2Bserrels%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG%26biw%3D1139%26bih%3D405%26gbv%3D2%26tbs%3Disch:1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=624&vpy=68&dur=8830&hovh=212&hovw=160&tx=81&ty=96&oei=xJBITbrEOYigvQPJ1-2ZBQ&esq=8&page=1&ndsp=11&ved=1t:429,r:3,s:0
Hope link works…..
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It worked!!!! 🙂
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Dunno why but that link is totally blocke by the wurk computer.
Doesn’t even give a reason…
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It’s doing you a favour by protecting your eyes…
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Now i distinctly remember Mark asking for suggestions for replacement graphic for Ask Me Stuff….. I think we have a winner!
Who’s with me? Vote below…
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No way!
That graphic is the only love Alpha Protocol ever gets!
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I… Can’t… Stop… Staring…
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It’s… it’s like what would happen if Johnny Depp and Simon Pegg had a child together…
It’s… it’s beautiful…
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Quick, kill it with fire!
Zack Snyder has cast his Superman! Henry Cavill (The Tudors)http://www.chartmovieinfo.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/henry-cavill.jpg. Anyone have any opinions? Superman I can see, Clark Kent? Not so much unless they base the movie more on John Byrne’s revamp.
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Should be good with Nolan’s help (but catwoman???). Did you ever see any of the Watchman actors without the costumes and make-up?
Some looked nothing like the comic but after the movie-magic they looked great.Oldmate seems to have the chest and Jaw for it.
That last poozer was far too thin(?) to be a Superman.
Christopher Reeve doesn’t look like Superman to me either…-
I like Snyder’s films so I’m sure he’ll do a great job. The way Chris Reeve played Clark and Superman was amazing and requred an actor with amazing skill. I also liked Brandon Routh and would have liked to see if he could do more with the role outside of Bryan Singer’s car wreck of a film (Really? Superman has a son?).
On another note, have you seen the new set pics of Spider-man? I am not digging the new suit. The spirals on the arm are weird.
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I’m never that impressed by many actors so as long as they get the visual dead on I am pretty happy.
Spidey’s new costume:
Don’t really like it but Ive been readin spidey since I was ten. Been through quite a number of costumes in that time.
Don’t know why they bother since they always go back to the classic, Steve Ditko was a design genius.
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Cavill I can live with, his name even sounds a bit like Kal-el.
Anne Hathaway is still yet to convince me but i have faith in Nolan.
Well i did….
http://www.whatsplaying.com.au/2011/02/hollywood-insider-the-hunt-for-lois-lane/Noooooooooooo!
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That is the worst selection of potential Lois’s I have ever seen.
Is that site very accurate?
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Can we please implement a better layout for this website. Similar to Kotaku US? Please?
That or more importantly, the gawker commentating system. Please? Pretty pretty please?
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OI, Jimu.
Flmathrowers Ready!
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Flamethrowers, rather.
Damn you no edit button!
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TOOOOOOOOOOOORCH
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Muddy Mudskipper, read the posts above, Mark says it’s coming soon!
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Oh. :O … 😐
Fine.
But eh, this site’s just so plain ugly that I tend to miss things. And the comments section is rather hard to read. I just love the way they’ve done it with the US sites so much. And now I’m scared shitless because they’re going to change it. Hopefully for the better, though I didn’t quite like the io9.com overhaul.
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Gawker is currently preparing to overhaul their whole system, so you can expect some changes here over the next month or two.
Improved commenting system is apparently on the to-do list – just not at the top!
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Building my tower of money. I decided that it would be more amusing if the Gawker media people had to build it.
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Yes! 😀 But … the last bit of your sentence just made me cry.
Gotta be optimistic, gotta be optimistic. It’ll eventually be here, at around 2012 maybe.Oh god. *breaks down*
Oh well, good to know something is happening.
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Bravo and well argued, old chap. But I can’t help but
think that your problems don’t amount to a hill of beans
in this crazy world. Someday you’ll understand that.
Until then, just remember to live more in the moment
and all your problems – just like that – will disappear.
Good luck on your journey, friend.
xxooxx
: )MINDFULNESS:
Mindfulness is simply being aware of what is
happening right now without wishing it
was different.
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Something I thought a few people would find amusing, given the discussion in the Star Wars bluray article:
I received my copy of the Bro Code in the mail yesterday, and found the following near the back.
‘AMENDMENT II
If a Bro writes and directs a trilogy of awesome space-themed sagas that define a generation’s childhood, he is forbidden from later tarnishing that legacy by crapping out a prequel trilogy that forces Bros to specify “Episodes 4 to 6” or “the *real* trilogy” when referencing what was once a perfect set of movies, regardless of how anyone feels about Ewoks.’
Barney Stinson, I salute you.
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Screw bros,
That prequel trilogy is better than most faf that gets a cinema release these days.
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While the prequel trilogy is nowhere near as good as the originals, I must agree that they are still pretty good films. Except for Jar Jar and Hayden Christensen.
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Better yet, just play the Lego Star Wars games.
You get the gist of the story but with better acting and less faff.
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Today I bought awesome Bioshock and Dragon Age II shirts for under $10 each. I <3 America.
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As much as I want to hate America it provides far too much cool stuff to justify it.
Also, where did you get them from?
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Was going to get you this…
http://www.teesnthings.com/marvel-t-shirt.aspxwas 2 for $15 last time i went…..
Still kicking myself for not getting -
Oh and this place is within walking distance of my hotel…
http://www.midtowncomics.com/
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I hate Steve McNiven, he draws the ugliset everyone ever.
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I’m more impressed that you knew who the artist was! Wasn’t on site.
Searching for Alan DAVIS Tees now….
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Thorpe announcement… who’s watching?!
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…he looks like he’s the real-deal, this should be good…
And, to carry over from Nadal last week, some of the questions being asked by reporters are a disgrace.
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Is the broadcast in 3d?
Imagine Thorpies nose in 3d!“LOOK OUT EVERYONE! HE’S TURNING HIS HEAD AGAIN!”
“WWOOOOAHHHH!!!”
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/02/01/3127004.htm
THEY LIE!
For those of you who aren’t familiar with the Canberran walk in clinic, it’s a nurse centre, with I think 4 nurses operating at any one time, and people turn up there, and get treated for minor problems. There’s just a slight problem. It’s increased the number of people turning up to the ED of TCH. There is no “doubt” about the numbers, there is a definite increase, and it can be correlated directly to the WIC.
OK, so ones that aren’t at the hospital may well be a good idea, but even so, I wish they wouldn’t sugar coat.
Also, a nurse seeing ten patients a day, for minor problems… That’s pretty poor. Back when it started running they were getting one patient per nurse every 2 hours.
Anyway, just wanted to get that off my chest. So, how’s about them local governments huh? *notices that a fair few of you are in NSW* Oh, yeah…
BAHAHA!
Hitler’s reaction to Torres’ transfer to chelsea
Also – Fatshady – I watched your trials HD instructional last night…
Holy crap, dude – you are a machine!!
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I can confirm this to be true: you’re awesome.
I need more practice, but in trying to emulate your technique I’ve cut 2-4 seconds off a lot of my existing gold-medal times on a dozen tracks.
I even got my first platinum medal, purely by accident – I was only trying to improve into the top 4 times on my friends list! Good times.
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Nice work mate.
Platinums are like crack.
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Thanks chaps. It is easy to do. Just spend close to 1000 hours on it.
I’m actually terrfied for our QLD buddies. Sure, we have a go at each-other after a sporting match, but this is going to be devastating if people don’t get to safety:
http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/floodrelief/north-queensland-braces-for-cyclone-anthony-as-cyclone-yasi-brews-behind-it/story-fn7ik2te-1225998711771
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QLD boys and girls, evacuate if you can!
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Can’t be that bad. They haven’t evacuated the CBD yet…
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Yeah, with a possible rating up to 5, the cyclone is using ethernet cables, so it can’t be too bad.
Nobody’s gonna get that joke, are they?
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I lol’ed, but don’t tell anyone… it’s one of those lame jokes that people find funny, but it’s cool to play down:
Dude… that was bad -_-
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Being a Cisco certified networking associate, I see what you did there, hehehehe 🙂
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We got your VOIP phones at work
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I hate when I come back after lunch and nobody typed anything.
You guys all get 2 hr lunchbreaks or sumot???
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We went about 2.5 hours with one comment… I’m not gonna lie, I was scared for a little while :/
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I think the moderators went and did some real work. Cos a shittonne popped up all at once.
Or they were having 2 hr lunches…
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The Kotaku office are all all playing Game Jam games! Look at the times, people were posting, just wasn’t getting moderated…..
I normally couldn’t care less bout NHL, but they got Stan Lee to redesign the mascots and give them backstories!!!
http://www.guardianproject30.com/main.php
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Classic!
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Check this out too…
http://kyozokicks.com/I can’t even begin to describe the awesome
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Can’t order shoes, link not found or sumsuch!
Want to see pricessssssssssssssssI hate those slipper things the kids get around in, I need more purple cons!
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Nope nearly 200$$$$$$$
Cannnot afford!
I should just paint my own damn shoes!
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They is good but they scare me
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Got sick of going back a page
***passes Jimu link as he sits a top his artistic high horse*** LOL
http://www.goodguycomics.com/servlet/the-Comic-Book-Artist-T-dsh-Shirts/Categories
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Look down…
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As i’ve said before i usually only go to IGN for sneakers and then i found this!!!
http://au.wii.ign.com/articles/114/1144014p1.html
Gamer sneakers!!!!!
Loops needs to read this, seems he has had no issues with copyright…..
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This one
http://www.goodguycomics.com/servlet/the-901/All-Star-Batman-Robin/DetailThis one
http://www.goodguycomics.com/servlet/the-2484/Zatanna-Ed-Benes-Shirt%2C/DetailThis one
http://www.goodguycomics.com/servlet/the-2581/Marvel-Universe-by-Leinil/DetailThis one
http://www.goodguycomics.com/servlet/the-2336/Supergirl-Portrait-Michael-Turner/Detail-
Sorry I took so long to reply before, I was actually doing some work.
Been able to spot artists for as long as I can remember. Guess cos I draw…dunno.
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http://www.goodguycomics.com/servlet/the-1793/Spider-Man-T-Shirt/Detail
http://www.goodguycomics.com/servlet/the-2322/Kabuki-White-T-dsh-Shirt/Detail
http://www.goodguycomics.com/servlet/the-2323/Kabuki-White-T-dsh-Shirt/Detail
http://www.goodguycomics.com/servlet/the-2327/Kabuki-White-T-dsh-Shirt/Detail
http://www.goodguycomics.com/servlet/the-1693/Sandman-Death-Mike-Dringenberg/Detail
http://www.goodguycomics.com/servlet/the-2086/Batman-Splatter-Logo%2C-batman/Detail
This one I will gladly pay fpr, Death is awesome!:
http://www.goodguycomics.com/servlet/the-1860/Death-Chris-Bachalo-Hoodie/Detailhttp://www.goodguycomics.com/servlet/the-2172/Joker%2C-Killing-Joke%2C-Brian/Detail
This one for Chuloopa:
http://www.goodguycomics.com/servlet/the-2296/Star-Trek-Captain-Kirk/Detail-
Dude – that Kirk one is pretty epic.
Not actually a HUGE Trek fan, but Shatner is a man among men!
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All your talk of shagging blue women has me convinced you need a Kirk shirt.
I used to love Star Trek as a kid. Read some REAL scifi and it’s never been the same.
At least Star Wars doesn’t pretend to be Science Fiction.I can still handle the 60s stuff cos it’s funny, with GREAT music!
Oh and I enjoyed the new lens flare…I mean movie!
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I loved Top Gun in space, was a lot of fun, getting Spock back was silly, but enjoyable.
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“He had too much LDS in the 70s”
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Well thats some good news (and killer artwork),
i really don’t know where i stand with copyright stuff – it’s a massive Grey area..
I mean, if it was a problem, then surely places like split reason would have been out of business long ago?!?
Played minecraft for an hour or so last night. Spent most of that time just digging a cave in to the back of my little hovel. I really wish there was some sort of goal! I mean, it’s fun as hell to build your own stuff, but I reckon it’d be cool if they had like.. little empty template objects in the world that you had to fill in to complete quests or something. Even better would be if they served a purpose. Like.. Build a shop.. then once you build it, you can go and buy things from it. Or build a train station and train which you could then use to travel across the land etc. Build a clock tower that then goes off every ten minutes to warn you of impending darkness or that morning is coming!
I mean.. don’t get me wrong.. freedom is great, but it all just seems so pointless 🙁 That’s the only thing I don’t like about minecraft so far.. there’s just no point to any of it bar self satisfaction!
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You can do the train thing using tracks and a powered minecart. Train station you could make yourself.
Also you can make a watch but not a working clock tower sorry.
But fair points. I still can’t stop looking for diamonds while wearing a solid gold outfit. Big pimpin’!
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Multiplayer.
1) Get on with some friends.
2) Lull them into a false sense of security.
3) Tunnel into their house while they’re off mining.
4) Steal all of their stuff.
5) Burn their house to the ground.
6) Comfort them as they rage about their house burning down.😀
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Sometimes when I get bored with nothing to do, I randomly look up things to inspire me. Last thing I was building was a waterslide.
I have a friend who builds stuff like this: http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/4558/20110115105435.png
And this: http://img802.imageshack.us/img802/636/21159003.jpg
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Yeah that’s the trouble I have too.
I get enthused for a bit and half build something and then struggle to see the point.At least if you are on a multiplayer server you can show off your stuff to your mates and help each other build.
Life in the fast-lane is sometimes all too fast.
So it is I concede defeat and begin planning my
cut-and-run exit strategy back to the farm.
I want to hunt quail at dusk and hear the wild river run.
I want to drink your milkshake. I want to smoke my
pipe under moonlight & starry, starry skies.
I want to be the calm centre of the universe. This
young fellow seems to be living the dream: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4c_wI6kQyE
What this kind of infinite adulation and respect
must feel like; I can only go so far as to speculate.
Sometimes I imagine the towns-folk gathered around
me, taking photos, whispering tales of my
magnificent, mysterious adventures into the
wilderness as I stare somewhere far off into the
distance, contemplating life and reflecting upon the
day’s events already transpired.
And, of course, should the young man in the video wish to
hunt quail, his friend at 00:01:05 minutes appears to be brandishing some kind of Dirty Harry hand-cannon.
You need to really watch the recoil with
something like that. But a gun like that could really stop
a quail in its tracks i guess.
What it is to dream a dream. To dream a dream . . .
xxoxoxxo
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Magnificence! The world’s most splendid man!
Orson Welles was 26 when he directed, starred in
and wrote Citizen Kane. Can you imagine? 26?
And a movie never to be surpassed. An actor
unmatched. An artist immortalised.
The kind of man that makes you just stop trying.
Orson Welles directing, writing and starring in Batman
would’ve really been quite something; made
my day; well done, old chap!
Splendid!
I am writing a cowboy-noir screenplay, and in my mind, Orson Welles is the key protagonist! Impossible I know,
but we are all but dreamers and imaginers of all
things.
You’re a jolly good egg & a real sport!
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You just made me realise I have never even seen Citizen Kanye…how sad…
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Seen the social network?
Same thing.
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Just found this sale:
http://www.mightyape.com.au/sale/172/Game-Overstock-Sale/Games/?nt=1
Not sure when it finishes, so get in quick.
Wugh. Just got back from a pretty lame attempt to get to Egypt. Stopped at the airport in Dubai by the tour company and had to wait 3 days for flights back to Australia. The security situation is pretty terrible there at the moment, I haven’t seen how it’s being reported in Aussie media but some crazy/horrible stuff is going on there.
Dubai is a pretty amazing place, but can’t shake the feeling I just spent 6 days wandering around the Gulf not doing much. Hope we can get the money back for the (huge, expensive) Egypt tour that was cancelled :/
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Dude – i’m surprised you guys even tried to go, so many people had already been killed BEFORE you left – i don’t know why your family would even CONSIDER still going… :S
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I’d been following it very closely for a few days before we went, yeah, so we definitely knew that we’d probably get turned back.
The tour company gave us some crappy advice when we called them on the day we left – they said everything would be fine and it would all blow over.
Understatement of the year :/ Also, if we’d withdrawn before it was officially cancelled I don’t think we would’ve got our money back…
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Yeah i thought when you said last week you ‘were’ going that you had decided not to. Not to cause additional concern but even if you did have travel insurance, if you travelled against the reccomendations of the government then they may not pay out. Hope they do for your sake.
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Thankfully we were already on the plane to Dubai when the DFAT advice changed from “advised not to travel” to “Do not travel”. If I remember correctly we were only an hour away from landing when it changed…
I don’t think we’d get the money back for the flights to Dubai in any case, since we didn’t pay any extra money (they just rescheduled the existing bookings we had for the tour).
But I’m really hoping we get the money back for Egypt, given that we took the DFAT advice and avoided it entirely.
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FatShady, when you purposed the Trials comp I was very enthused cause it is awesome.
But that game has produced so much rage and frustration I am not sure I will play it again. I just don’t have the endless patience and eternal methodical nature to learn from you and compete with Batguy.
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Perhaps I can suggest another strategy, stop trying to compete with batguy or anyone else for that matter. This game is more a challange between you and yourself. Sure the leaderboard comparison is a good thing and a bit of fun, but I spent the first 6+ months not even looking at the leaderboards.
Don’t be discouraged. Forget about us all and take your time. I was pushing for a competition to get started because that helped me get SSSOOOOO much better. In saying that, I only started participating in a comp when i was already pretty good (top 2000 or so).
Stop competing with anyone but yourself for a while and focus on getting all bronze medals only (not sure where you are up to). Spend a bit of time on the easy/medium tracks trying to improve your PB.
Even if new players are watching my replays, you are prob doing more harm than good. This game is easy to play but extremely hard to master. I have spent hundreds of hours getting to where i am. None of you should expect the same in any less time.
Please don’t be discouraged. When i started i had no idea what i was doing and had hundreds of faults on many of the tracks. There were some parts i could not pass at all and at times, I have given up and taken a week to get the courage up to try again.
Trust me when i say that the reward you get when you see your skills improve is well worth the frustration, but you have to be able compete against yourself first. You will notice that this is not actually a multiplayer game (not live MP anyway). Take that as a suggestion to just focus on your own skill level and improve that first.
Hope that helps. Always happy to have a chat and share some more wisdom if you want it. I woud hate for you to stop playing because if this. It is a natual reaction to this game.
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Also, I kind of had fun making that tutorial vid for Mark so if any of you want me to do more, let me know what track and I will do a video for all skill levels, starting with the easy ‘just get through it’ and include some tips and tricks for more advanced stuff?
I’m happy to help, otherwise im just addicted to battlefield 1943 so will just be playing that. Damn this FPS thing. I never wanted to like it!
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Yeah I know, I just spent about an hour and a half trying to replicate how you go over the box at the turtle bit in Groundhog begins until I punched my coffee table. How do you get the speed? You are nuts!
But I think I shall leave it alone and do other tracks, I just cant can’t crack the 23 second mark at my current skill.
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Yeah… i may have made it look easy on that groundhog begins track.. IT IS NOT. I tried it a couple of time this week and couldn’t do it again.
If you are trying to do that jump already (note that there are prob only a couple of hundred people in the world who have done it), you are perhaps aiming too high too fast and yes, this will lead to broken coffee tables or hands or controllers or TV’s.
Just move on and once you complete some more tracks, come back to it again and you will be faster.
BUT, to crack 23 seconds, here is the trick.
Do the start of your track as you have been. Just before the turtle bit, there is a large hump (up then down ramps) that lead into a small, then larger ramp.
If you go flat out through this, you will hit your head and fault. What you need to do is go over the large hump, but slow down when you land. Go slowly up the first small ramp then floor it. Do a bunny hop off the top of the second ramp and you will then get enough speed to make it over the dip using the upper path (so going over the top on the wooden plate) and it should shave a second or two off your time if you are clean throughout the rest.
Let me know if that makes sense?
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If you can, try to watch the replays of people who are closer to the 4-5000 mark. They are not super fast but will show you what a decent time is without watching the robot runs at the top.
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Oh, and if you want to watch my reply and see where the speed somes from for the super jump over the wooden thingy, it actually starts to build up at the first checkpoint. You have to get a good run at the large hump thing, but you willnotice that my back wheel is the only thing touching the ground, the speed somes from the extra spring you get from flicking your weight forward while doing a wheelie on an upward jump, this gives you the speed to clear the large hump, which then allows you to clear the big gap and make it over.
It was crazy had to do and took me days. I only did it twice i think?
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Yeah I tried but I don’t have the fine control needed. If I can get under 23 I will be happy for now.
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As Fatshady said, stick with it but don’t focus too much on anyone else – Batguy’s even got me depressed, everytime I load the game he’s wiped out my time on another 5-6 tracks XD
That being said, it’s just as rewarding to beat your own times than it is beating anyone else… if that doesn’t sell you on it, we can hunt down Batguy and break his fingers 😀
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Batguy has me depressed. Not yet, but after his SMB and Doritos efforts, it wont be long before he is beating my times. He is a freak and should stop playing the game now.
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We need to hire the Joker. We need to stop the Batguy.
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*Gives Mark the Slow Clap*
Enjoy (and go get yourself checked out).
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[a clap that is not unlike any ordinary clap, but always has the last clap that you can hear, even if another person tries to have the last clap, this clap will always be heard last]
I wan’t my own clap so this one is mine! (unless anyone else took it already?
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No, I have the [slow booming clap that starts slightly later than the normal clapping, but ends slightly later too, however not to the point where it is unusual].
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You’ll need to work out who the guy behind the mask is first.
I’d suggest starting with all the billionaire playboys in town.
Thanks all, I aim to please.
The main thing stopping me from catching FatShady for now is the bunny hop of a ramp. Even though I can see how to do it, I just can’t pull it off consistently enough to get the air I need on those technical jumps. I’ll need to nail that before I can make a serious run at those scores.
I do enjoy the speed run levels because they have that same short, sharp, repetitive Zen feel as SMB. But I’m unlikely to make a run at the times for the technical levels with moving parts any time soon.
So just survived the cyclone i’n ayr. I pretty much slept through the whole thing. No power and trees all over the road. On the plus side ds is fully charged as well as iPhone
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Wow. I hope everything is alright…
I saw some pretty devestating stuff on the news this morning…
Today is a pretty crap day by news standards due to Egypt, Afghanistan and Queensland…
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Damn you must be a heavy sleeper. It would have been funnier if you had not seen the news and didn’t know about it, just to wake up and see it. I imagine you walking out of the house like walking out of the vault in Fallout 3 for the first time..lol.
But seriously glad to hear that you and (from the sounds of things) most people are ok. I mean property damage is horrible but glad to hear that no lives are lost so far.
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Good to hear you are amogst the living.
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hah must have been really piss poor.. I slept right through it. i went down the hole last night in a big way though. Dunno why cos I didn’t feel tired, but was definitly a good sleep
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We had fairly heavy rain in the Berra last night, heavy enough to the point where it kept me up. Now, it’s hot, and way more humid than Canberra usually gets outside. But I can’t really whinge, we didn’t get a CAT 5 cyclone (I would be impressed if Canberra got hit by a cyclone).
@Rocketman:
Good to see you’re okay, and I hope everyone is alright.
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Lol yeah well As far as I know no people damage but I’m fairly certain no work for the rest of the week cause no power also gaming except for ds. Damn me and my heavy reliance on electricity.
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Now you wish you read comic books…
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I read the phantom but I don’t have any new issues living i’n a semi rural town you can get the phantom and Betty and Veronica. And I don’t know where I can order comics online from suggestions?
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I never have had to rely on ordering online…
I know my local store does mailouts. Not sure how the price would be.I have bought plenty of comics from eBay when the dollar was strong.
Maaaaaaaaan, I read a fair bit of Phantom growing up. Your sir are missing out. Archie comics are well loved, haven’t read any since I was 8…
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The local is called Comics Etc.
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Guys, LBP2 for $67 at EBGames. Damn good deal, especially since Ozgameshop sells it for $63 and you have to wait 2 weeks for it to be delivered.
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Because I’m a penny pincher and because I hate EB.-
That’s fair enough I suppose. But I head back to uni in 3 weeks, so this makes it appealing. Also, if I ever go to an EB, it’s the one where I’m friends with them. Then I normally just screw around and try to make pyramids out of their PC Gear (nobody seems to buy any of their PC peripherals).
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When I go to EB I try to flirt with the chicks working there to get myself a discount.
It actually worked once, to my great surprise.
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You’re in Blaghman!! Now you just need to get a little pvp action going and you can drop some smooth lines…
“What do you say I take my flag to your base and score?”
“I think something is wrong with my auto-aim. I can’t take my eyes off you”
“Mind if I run a sniffer to see if your ports are open?”
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All those girls play Dance games and Final Fantasy , you will need some new lines.
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I had a conversation with on about how Brutal Legend was fun, but a very flawed game, which led to the divide between games with good gameplay and those with compelling stories, and how so few have both.
Didn’t get a discount off that one, but you still shouldn’t write them all off.
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“I used FLIRT, IT’S SUPER EFFECTIVE!”
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Bahahaha.
I like to go for Starcraft ones.
“How about I Nydus your main?”
“Just like an SCV, I want to put my gear in your rear”
“Why don’t we make like an archon and merge together”
“Baby, you’ve put my tank in seige mode”
“Oh, don’t worry, I’m a macro player, I can go all night”
“Why don’t we go back to the Hatchery and see what evolves?”And when none of these work, because they’re terrible:
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“A stunner is you!”
“DO A BARREL ROLL… into the best night of your life…”
“All your sex are belong to us.”
“The princess is in another castle. The other castle is in my pants”
“The cake in my pants is a lie”
“FLIRTALITY!!!”If all else fails, just tea bag her.
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The other castle is my pants…
That’s just about the greatest line I’ve ever heard.
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“Have you researched burrow yet, cause I bet I could dig you out.”
“Girl, let’s go back to my place; I could make you want to cry for Aiur”And my personal fav
“Girl, you’re choke is so tight, I wanna bust it. Don’t worry, we’ll practice safe rushing. I’ll use a guardian. When I roll up in your base girl, it’s gonna be a whole lot of sieging and a whole lot of pushing. But wait, have you been scouted? I can’t f**k with no ifested b*****s.
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@ Notorisor
I used to have “freinds” in EB but they kept moving them around.
They would do discounts and all sorts of helpful things…mostly discounts.
Everytime I go in now I either get blank stares after a question or someone so keen they can’t possibly be telling the truth…
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I think you mean “@Notorisaur” The most fearsome of all gamer dinosaurs. Capable of… ummm… Winning something…
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Oh MAN! Notoriousaur is awesome! It’s what I’ll call myself if I ever become a dinosaur.
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wHO’S STOPPING YOU?
Fellow M&Mers,
Seems we get a weeks free subscription for servers being down!Log in, click on news item bout outtage and scroll all the way down.
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What did you think of my Tee picks???
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I really liked the Jim Lee Batman and Robin, the Zantanna, the splatter and the supergirl. Oh and the full color Marvel one.
That death and sandman one is cool to, had never heard of before. Really interested in Steampunk now.
Did you see my midtown comics link…. i can’t wait!!
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I take a skinny guy with a gut and manboobs…I think thats a large.
You should check out some Sandman, the art’s all over the place but the writing is topnotch.
I prefer Death’s 2 solo series myself.
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When you say Steampunk, are you referring to the genre?
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Can get Death in combined volumes yay!!
RE Steampunk, the genre is cool, but was referring to this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Bachalo#SteampunkFound this too
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I have both of those.
You a Bachalo fan now?
Word of warning Steampunk doesn’t finish. Don’t know if it ever will…
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There is an Bsolute Death if your willing to spend. Nice massive hard cover in a slipcase. I bought one for my birthday…from my wife!
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Definitely into Bachalo now. I like that his art looks “dirty” but then close up you can see the detail. Knew I had seen name somewhere else, he did the art for Wu-Massacre (one of the most overlooked albums of 2010)
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Oh yeah, I have all three.
Bachalo I find is better with certain writers.
His messy artwork can be unreadable sometimes. I love his style though.Death is my favourite Bachalo work.
All 3 stories we are talking about are readable.Steampunk less so and it isn’t helped by Kelly’s writing. He’s great but likes to keep you hanging and it leads to a bit of confusion.
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Was glad you knew what i meant by dirty.
Have recommended Yu before, checked my Jimu folder 🙂
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Awww man, i’m gonna go broke….
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Absolutes go for $110+ here in shops.
Don’t buy his Jim’s artbook get more of his comics!
When did I recoment Yu???
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You talked bout Leinil Yu on December 23 at 4:23PM
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Two good reads:
1 – Even though it’s old (2007), here’s an interview Rock Paper Shotgun did with Gabe Newell. Gabe is just so awesome. Here’s the final quote, in case you can’t be bothered reading it:
“RPS: I have a friend (an idiot) who is determined that in six months Valve will be owned by either Microsoft or EA…
Gabe: Tell him that I’m not interested in buying either one of them.”
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2007/11/21/rps-exclusive-gabe-newell-interview/
2 – Over the next few days, Andy Gavin, co-creator of Naughty Dog and former co-president, will be writing about creating Crash Bandicoot, which was basically my childhood.
http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/02/02/making-crash-bandicoot-part-1/
Enjoy!
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Hey man, I’ve loved every Naughty Dog they’ve made on PlayStation. Crash 1, 2, 3 and CTR as well as Crash Bash (which wasn’t ND) are the only Crash Bandicoot games I’ve played a.k.a all the awesome Crash bandicoots. Then along comes Jak and Daxter, which was an awesome series as well, though I didn’t play Jak X. And now, I’ve been playing Uncharted. They’re just as good as Valve and Team Ico in my book 🙂
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I feel so bad for myself, I played Crash Bandicoot 3 and Racing at a friends house (a lot), and I played bits of number 2 on multiple occasions. I’ve played through both Uncharted games, and am really psyched for the third. But I’ve never played any part of any Jak and Daxter game.
I agree though Naughty Dog are amazing, I’d love to see a new Crash Bandicoot game made by them. It’s a shame it’ll never happen.
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Im oldschool Nintendoid(NES) nothing ever seems to compare.
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You make me feel so young Jimu. I wasn’t even born when the SNES was released (in Japan), let alone the NES.
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SNES was my(is) main love. First thing I played a game on was Commodore 64.
I’m 29 this year…
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I played my first game on this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IntellivisionYeah, im old (31!)
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Well i’m turning 20 this year. The original PlayStation was my introduction to gaming when I was about 6/7. So I didn’t grow up with NES. My cousin did have a SNES though, so I do have some memories playing Mario. But Crash Team Racing was my introduction to kart racing though, so i’ve always had a soft spot for it.
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20 this year and my introduction was the days of SNES and seeing battletoads and supermario the day dad bought it home it was love at first sight <3 ahhhh those were the days care free childhood haha
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Totally agree, the PSX Crash games ere the shit as were the first two Jak and Daxter games.
I really should play Uncharted sometime.
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I think it’s pretty safe to say if you’ve loved Naughty Dog’s other works, you’ll love Uncharted. It’s an amazing series. Go and play both of them before November rolls around!
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Crash Bandicoot was just the greatest, and I agree hands down on all the ones you mentioned mate. I know cuz I got all except 1 and 3 unfortunately. Crash Nitro Kart was also awesome! Gotta love the power sliding xD
Never got to play the Jak games unfortunately. I really missed out
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Again not bad, but how can you compare to Mario Kart???
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Because, in a lot of ways, it was better…
I’m just saying.
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I dunno,
I played a lot of those style games.
I love Diddy Kong Racing
Snowboard Kids 1 & 2
SpeedfreaksThere must be more, but nothing ever matches up to the glory of Mario Kart.
Also I MK DS was the last good game, although fun MK Wii is whacked…
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I even like Sonic and the Sega Allstars racing!
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I’ll admit, that was a little bit of a troll, but not entirely. As far as my memory of playing them both goes, I prefer CTR, there was something about the boss battles, and the system of progression, not to mention the non-racing goodness parts, that just made it seem so much better than the relative sterility of Mario Kart, and its straight up focus. However, this is all with my rose tinted glasses of lies firmly stuck on my face, so I wouldn’t necessarily believe what I say.
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Can’t say I put a lot of time into crash racing so…
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CTR and CNR lacked the 100cc and 200cc, whatever mario cart did, but that was because it didn’t need it. You can make a really epic speed run with over a hundred power slides without losing your speed. I’ve done that before and it feels so darn good when you’re so far in front.
It always just clicked for me whenever I play CTR or CNR. With Mario Kart, whenever I tried power sliding it was always awkward and hard to control that I just ended up playing without using it at all. You can say I just suck at it if you want, I don’t care. I’m proud to be a CTR/CNR fan 🙂
Not saying that Mario Kart sucked either, just saying the driving system it had just didn’t do it for me.
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Depends on the version.
I suck at the power slide in Super and Super Circuit (GBA).
I rule at it in 64 Double Dash(GC) and DS.
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Yeah, I only played SNES, 64 and Wii versions at friends houses, DS was the only one I actually owned for a while. So I can’t speculate with 100% accuracy between CTR and MK.
CTR I just loved for the driving and the weapons lineup (Rolling bombs over green shells! Ahhh those were so darn fun I always just knew when to fire and when to detonate even while power sliding, good times :D. The bowling ball sound it made I loved a lot!)
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Thats funny, I can say the exact same thing about green shells.
I must admit, I enjoy these convos they bring me down off my high horse reminding me there are other equally valid opinions out there.
Sometimes all it takes is to ahave experienced something else first. I think that’s both our problems.
I’ll bet Gabe would buy them if they made cheeseburgers.
Does anyone know of any Melbourne stores that sell a variety of tablets PCs? Most stores I go to have none or only 1 (ie JB has iPad, Vodaphone has Galaxy, Telstra has T-touch or whatever), I want to compare and use in a single place.
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I have seen this site a few time whilst researching myself. I think they are based in Melbourne
http://www.tabletpc.com.au/category/104/tablet-pcs-
I wasn’t going for anything to highend, hence i went with current dodo offer (Pedo Pad)
https://secure.dodo.com.au/wireless/PlanSelection.aspx?
But i needed to upgrade work internet so pad and router were a bonus.
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‘Pedo Pad’?!?
Better watch out for the feds, buddy.
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Just popped in to say that WRESTLING IS REAL. And here’s the proof.
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Wow. I can’t believe the crowd kept clapping!
*****ROYAL RUMBLE SPOLIER******
I haven’t watched for a while but who the f**k is Alberto Del Rio!!!!
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…that reminds me of the Henry Winkler (Fonzie!) movie ‘The One and Only’ – go watch it now!
Anyways, I lol’ed. This is why I like wrestling: ’cause it’s “real” 😛
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What in the…?!?
Funniest bit was 1:30 in 😛
Anyone have experience importing the PS3 from the US? Australian exchange rate is so very good at the moment.
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I’d like one of those original PS3s that play all PS2 games…
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Oh yes please, but for me, I’m wanting it for the SA-CD feature.
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SA-CD???
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Goddamn, I finally grabbed the Bulletstorm demo on xbox. Some type of in-you-face attitude having Gears of War meets Duke Nukem with a leash for extra excitement game right here. Leash and kick, sliding kick, shocker, rear-enry and more. Makes for some superfuntimeextrahappy killing FPS gameplay.
The only question now will be whether to buy it on xbox or pc.
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I played it last night and was not interested at all you summary above is fair. It feltblike gears on crack with leaderboards which sounds good but just don’t think it’s for me.
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Fair enough, not everyone’s cup of tea. It could be just my longing for a substantial FPS. Apart from a lot of BF BC2 online play I haven’t had a decent fix in months. Sadly, Black Ops just didn’t cut it no matter how many chances I gave it.
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I should clarify that I am not a big FPS guy anyway, so was never really expecting to love it. If you are into Gears, then i can see you going nuts for this. It looked good. Perhaps it was just too overwhelming, trying to do crazy stuff when i can only think of like 3 combos, that mostly see me just kicking people!
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If anyone was thinking of picking up Little Big Planet 2 this weekend, JB HI-FI has it on special for $64, and EB Games has it on special for $67.
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Oh mang! $64 at JB! Damn it! Here I am, being a sucker and paying $67 at EB.
Oh wait. Would’ve cost me 1.70 to catch the bus to get to JB. Meaning LBP2 would’ve cost me 65.70 at JB. Hrmm. TIME TO GO AND REFUND LBP2 AT EB AND THEN HEAD TO JB, so I can save $1.30! With this $1.30, I shall…..(you fill in the blanks here).
Also, re-reading my comment, this may sound a little condescending/snide to you, VGPrices but it’s not meant to offend you at all. Apologies if I hurt your feelings!
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You could but 2 soft serves from Maccas!
Pig lard or not, it’s still delicious.-
Mmmmmmmmmm, pig Lard…
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Sory about that, I didn’t look to see if someone had mentioned this already. All I know is I suddenly feel like ice cream.
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Nice to see you back in TAY, we missed you buddy!
Sorry about my behaviour before…
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Just had a look at your site, It’s really coming together now!
Good to see Donkey Kong and Mario Kart(Not that I own either) in the top ten!
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Thanks alot, I really appreciate it!
People have been playing alot of Donkey Kong during the lunch break at work, it’s so much fun even to watch.
Mario Kart Wii has sold nearly 25 million copies, which is just insaine. It’s no SNES edition, but it is still pretty fun and has motorbikes!
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My fav is MK DS!!!
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Hi VeeGeez, glad you back, was nearly going to post another link myself.
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Cheers for that. (The bribe money is on it’s way)
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What ??
Nohandle got a bribe???
Damnitt, I was being nice for free.
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OFF TO SAN FRANCISCO TOMORROW WOOOOOOO!
Jimu, you still want me to price the Absolute Editions for you?
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See how much for Absolute Planetary VOlume 2, please.
If you are in victoria it will cost a bit to get it up here though…
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I’ll try and suss it. I have vol 1 and they are the same size. Depends how much you can get it for really…
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I jelly. How long you going for/business/personal/holiday trip?
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2 weeks holiday. Didn’t take any time off at Christmas so this is technically my belated xmas time off. Gonna spend my GF’s birthday and valentines day overseas and escape this crazy NSW heat!
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Nice! Though if you waited a week or two, you could’ve made GDC! (I’ll eventually go…one day….)
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*bleary eyed* STILL stuck in my minecraft addiction. I built a Lord Farquad’s Tower, I went past the clouds, which was awesome seeing as I had dug it all out. But I went higher and higher, I was personally hope for space, but eventually it stops you building higher. Poo to that I said. Now, I dig down, down DOWN! Trying to build an enormous perfectly square room. But I keep hitting other caves and caverns… Best thing is, my youngest daughter, who normally hates games, has been playing it with me the whole time, she LOVES it! But, today my kiddies are back at school, grade 5 and my eldest starts High School today, so hopefully she survives. 😀 I’m a very proud daddy-poo (as my kids call me) today.
back to minecraft :/
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I was trying to show a mate of mine the game and he just didnt get it. His young son (8-10) LOVED it…
As for the height. I think it goes 64 blocks up and 64 blocks down from sea level. At the bottom of the map there are these blocks that just can’t be moved, but if you dig around them, you can actually fall out of the map. There are some blocks on 64 down that are not filled so if you are lucky/unlucky, you can squeeze past.
The height you are at is good to know. When i dig down, I place signs at the levels so i know where i am. Certain stones are more frequent at different levels so if you want something in particular, it helps.
I can’t wait to play multiplayer with you mate. I will have another crack at the server thingy this weekend.
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Sounds cool! I did try and get a skin working with it, but I had no luck. I must be doing something wrong there, but I dont know… So I’m looking forward to a shared server world, but will probably need some advice on how to get it going. My elder daughter said ‘borderlands is better and more fun’ so she didn’t quite get it either.
You were right with the advice to me on “you make your own fun”, that was spot on, but its also the fact that a blocky cartoon polygon can make you shit yourself when your on your last legs. My problem is I find cave systems that just keep going! I have to weigh up when I should surface to replenish my piggy stocks and get more wood, but the pull of finding gold and diamonds is too strong!! 😀
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dude, if you’re getting wood while playing it then maybe you bought the wrong (or right) game! lol.
You may have missed it but i already have a server but i am having trouble getting MC to work so will try again this weekend. Once available, I have a chat server thingy (teamspeak) and the Kotaku AU MC server at my disposal… I will be sure to let you know when it is working.
I want to keep it private to just us so will not publish details here, but will use Marky mark or someone to distribute them i think?
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Yeah, I knew about your server planning 😀 It will be awesome if you can sort it. But as you said, its probably a good idea to keep private. Can you add me on Steam? ID: Qumulys
Also, I HAVE XBOX FUNDS NOW!!! Just have to catch Batguy on steam now and get some money to him. What a champ he is, also he’s giving me a warranty! So I’ll be torn between minecraft and trials for a year or so now…. 😀
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I have played Minecraft just once.
It was about 11pm, and I had work the next day. But since I had just purchased the game, I really wanted to find out what it was that I had spent my money on. So, I started it up with the intention of playing for about thirty minutes.
…I looked at my watch, and it was 4am.
Since then I have avoided Minecraft, lest I fall victim to its spell once again.
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Just start playing it at lunchtime… you will still end up playing til 4am but at least you would have got to play for longer!
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i have one thing to say I LOVE FRIDAYS because it means i have adequate time to play games again as it is the weekend
i love the weekends. me and the xbox reunite..
does anyone else have the problem that they are so busy during the week they get very little to no time to game i find it quiet upsetting?
also any sign of this weather settling down to a nice high 20’s temperature anytime soon?
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I have a six month old son, I get to play games after he sleeps…everyday.
I usually get about 2 hrs or so a night.Try to stay up a bit later but not so great at it anymore.
Is funny, I worked nightshift for six years.
Used to get to bed at 6 or 7am for the first three and then about 2 or 3 for the next.
Now I have trouble staying up past 10!-
i go 5am wake up work then training and dinner hit about 8:30pm and im almost dead haha
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What do you train?
Please tell me you’re a Ninja!-
its a secret society so things must be kept secret if that helps narrow it down 😉
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YES!
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Mr Serrelicious,
We are still yet to see you in Lord Shepard sans pants.
We are dissapoint.
Sincerly,
Legion
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I really want to watch this but the stoopid site won’t load the flash! Hopefully it will be working by the time I get home tonight.
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MENDOZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Played the new top down lara croft game with a mate in coop last night.
I am really really surprised at how polished and thought out that game is. like HANDS DOWN SURPRISED!
Its the only co op game that i can think of besides left 4 dead that i can think of that requires Coop.
Also, ilomilo is amazing.
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I was very impressed by the co-op in that Lara Croft game. The co-op puzzles were fun, and used the different character skills really well. I thoroughly enjoyed it!
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ilomilo is really fun. Though I STILL CAN’T GET THAT MUSIC IN THE MAIN MENU ACHIEVEMENT. AH well. I shall just have to relax and listen to their awesome soundtrack.
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The thing that bothers me about IloMilo is that the puzzles are generaly the same on WP7 and Xbox, which means that if I do it on one… I know how to do it on the other.
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I really enjoyed playing Guardian of Light coop as well but I didn’t get to finish the missions. If you’re ever after a game, just send me an invite!
Alright guys, my sister’s 21st was last Saturday, and as you may recall from my failed attempt to get your help, it was a fairy tale themed party. Luckily, my sister has a very loose definition of Fairy Tales, and I ended up going as Death from Discworld.
Anyway, more importantly, is this. http://i53.tinypic.com/ehxksl.jpg
This is the “cake” my father made for her birthday, it’s supposed to be the chandelier from Beauty and the Beast.
Now, the reason I bring this up, apart from the fact that I think it’s really cool, is that, while my 21st is still a very long way away (I’ll be OLD), I need your help. I need ideas for a cake that is both feasible, but exceedingly difficult. To give you a sense of what my father is capable of, over the years my sister and I have had:
A Charles Babbage Difference Engine
A Mandelbrot
A Dinosaur (actually, he made 2 dinosaur cakes that year)
A Bombe Alaska of the Hindenburg
A Bombe Alaska of the weighted companion cube
Elphaba from Wicked
Death from Discworld (with attached rat death, and flea death)
So, my father is quite good at this kind of thing, so, given you should all have the Friday sillies, give me your silly suggestions.
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An ultralisk.
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Dammit! By three minutes! Who do you think you are? James Mac? LOL 😀
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*gets out “The List”*
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A SCV, Zerg Drone or Protoss Probe.
Up the diffuclty by choosing higher tier units.
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Based on these ads Kotaku are showing me, I’d say make a cake that looks like a burger, fries and a sundae.
Or a Toyota Rukus.
Or a Sackbot, which is a keyring I bought and is now looking at me: http://www.croftminster.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/lbp_compSackbot_L.jpg
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awww that sackbot tis so cute!! DO WANT!!
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It was $7 at gametraders, I couldn’t resist!
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Lets see just how good he is! Make the death star! A Spherical cake would be quite a challenge!
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Well, he hasn’t done spherical ones, but hes has managed both an ent, and a tree with a heart hanging off it, which were cylindrical.
And delicious.
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You know what he could do, just have several layers of ~inch thick slices of sponge cake of increasing then decreasing radius so it looks somewhat like a jagged sphere, and then sphere it out with a crapload of icing.
The devil will be in the detail. Can you imagine carving all those tiny trenches and turrets into the surface?
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Alright, I’m poking my head out of my weekly hibernation (which I might had has been hugely productive) to try and peddle myself. I’m opening my site to commission work in cartooning and illustration, and would greatly, GREATLY appreciate any help you guys can give. If there’s anyone at all you think may be interested in commissioning me then please pass on my site – http://www.kramsdesign.com/
It’s not really well setup as a portfolio, but examples of my work can still be found in the scrapbook on my site – http://www.kramsdesign.com/scrapbook/
or on my deviantart page – http://sughly.deviantart.com/
Thanks in advance for passing it on, and my apologies for spamming TAY with… me 😀
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hahaha i’m sure we all love a bit of shameless self promotion! As long as it doesn’t try to compete with what’s already here *cough* here’s looking at that guy who tried to stamp all over cheapskate *cough*
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But we love VeeGeez now 😀
He/She/They (It!) saved The Notoriasaur $1.70!
Imagine how diappointed he would have been if he’d gone into Gamtraders with only $5.30 and couldn’t afford that sweet SB keyring.-
Hey, I got nothing but love for the VeeGee!
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Just taking 5 out of my busy day to say:
a. hi guys!!!b. I WANT TO WEAR YOUR WELL OILED MACHINE!!!
That sooo needs to be a tee! lol
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I would buy that!!!!
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“I’d buy that fer a dollar”
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Remembered to change my name back!
Continued from Game Journo Story…Ever been here Jimu?
http://rpgmaker.net/ -
I have headache…is it any good?
Are we makin an RPG?
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It seems that some people have put a LOT of time and effort to make some of them. Lots of old school FF love. Kinda intriguing, might download a couple to play while i’m OS.
Dunno bout making one, but seems interesting….
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Reminds me of the RPG maker that someone I knew in high school used, basically it was one of those “you face your enemies” kind of RPG and not from the side like on FF1, 2, etc. He made a game he called Hitler’s revenge xD.
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Yeah well, threadless would disagree with you! I submitted to them, but I think I kind of got lost amongst the million other submissions. I’m not sure what the rules are for threadless when you make a submission in terms of who owns what, but I’d still like to make a print of it some day.
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But thanks for the kind words loops! 😀
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Get a redbubble.com account then, mate 🙂
You can manage that and you don’t have to apply for squat.
Or toctopus.I use both
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Hi, Brudda.
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Ey brud. Wassup?
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Work is boring…
You finish UNI yet?-
Nah.
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Even though I didn’t care for GTAIV, this is one mighty fine PS3:
Don’t know if any of you are Futurama fans, but this is possibly the greatest news I’ve heard today:
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/02/futurama_renewed.html
Also, I never realised that all the McBain clips in the Simpsons added up to a full movie (sort of), thanks college humour! (p.s watch the video underneath it too.. DISTURBING)
http://www.tv.com/the-simpsons-mcbain-the-movie!-video/story/25061.html?tag=news_list;title;11
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I am assuming there will be a huge amount of futurama love around here. I am a HUGE fan so thanks for the update.
Can’t wait for the next half of the season! and beyond.
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YES! Awesome! 😀
I think I speak for all of us when I say “Good news everyone!”
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I still haven’t caught any of the new season – heard it was a return to form after the slightly sub par DVD ‘movies’…
either we all have really long lunch breaks, we all have meetings after lunch like myself or everyone started gaming at lunchtime…
only explanation for the quietness at the moment on TAY
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I’m busy splitting my time between work and Entanglement! damn Mark and his lunch time wasters! .. or in this case week waster..
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Just rolling through
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I just rarely ever have anything interesting to say. Or possibly I just have a hangover (but not really, I’m one of the lucky SOBs that don’t get them).
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I’m hovering..ended up at Wikipedia readin about the master system, they still make em in brazil, they’re wireless now…
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And megadrives to.
You seen the “SNES” that takes nes and snes carts?-
Haven’t got that far yet. Going home now, perhaps next week!
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I’ve realised what’s wrong with the world:
twats.
Seriously. There are those few twats that make the rest of the world seem awful. For example, Adolf Hitler; without him, WWII probably wouldn’t have even started.
Another one, Egypt’s president; he’s letting his people kill each other just to stay in power.
Final example, the idiot who listens in on your conversation (eavesdropping) and then claims it is innappropriate (happened today…).
I’m pretty sure that these 1/1000 people are the reason that everything is bad sometimes. I propose a culling of people more twatty than Dr. Phil.
Who’s with me?
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+1
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I think anyone who is more of a twat than I am, as it gives us a very solid, constant measuring point.
Whatever measurement system we use though, I’m all for this culling, I can claim it’s Darwinism (Natural Selection via artificial selection of traits, it’s natural because we’re the same species).
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Amen to that!
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I am all for this. Destroy all these useless humans and their fragile human bodies. If not then your society’s evolution will very soon reach it’s peak and you begin your journey back to being cavemen beating each other over scraps of meat.
I agree Tadmod, these kind of humans do not deserve existence, their behaviour does not compute in my logic databanks. Therefore, they must be eliminated!
*charges and primes arm blaster*
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Pass mee mah shootin gurn!
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Indeed, I am most eager to engage in some unadulterated violence. At your command, of course, master.
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Hey it’s good to see you again, buddy.
Now about that droid factory…
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Check out this NES!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PSOne_Style_Famicom_Clone_adjusted.jpg
You piraters are a classy bunch!
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That is one classy console!
I have fallen in love with the Sega Nomad, If I were single I would have bought one already!
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Haha! But… why?
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Because it’s shiny and plays Rock ‘n ‘Roll racing via RCA’s
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I dont know about you guys but i’m starting to get discontent with this community.
I feel this community is too amazing to be just communicate through Kotaku AU. I know Kotaku AU love us using the site as more hits etc. But goddamit!
WHY CANT WE ALL MOVE TO AN ISLAND TOGETHER AND JUST HOLD HANDS SINGING SONGS AROUND … a…
… an…
ATARI 2600!
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Because the Atari 2600 has terrible arcade ports!
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Should have said SNES or PSX for our younger typists.
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Now if only E.T. had multiplayer….
btw you totally need to TM “hands down” i’m waiting for Chuloopa to do a shirt….. 😀
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That is HANDS DOWNtm a good idea.
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Because several of us are pasty redheads who don’t do well in sunlight.
Hey guys, anyone know if this game has a release date? I’ve been waiting for years!
http://iamalivegame.uk.ubi.com/
In other news – applying for a US I-Visa is the most annoying thing I’ve ever had to do in my life. Ever.
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