Talk Amongst Yourselves
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Email sent. Thanks again you bloody legend!
The week has started off incredible shit at work, adding to the shit week last week…
Overall, currently in a really low point in life it would seem, would really like to get up and just go home…
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That really sucks, mate.
Hope this cheers you up:
http://www.vgcats.com/news/valen/falcon.jpgif it helps, i feel like that quite regularly too. Ir is also combined with wanting to slug certain people in the face just before storming out.
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Oooo. Postie lady just dropped of my xbox from Batguy the baby making legend… Staring at box…. Trembling slightly….. Promised will wait for kids to get home b4 opening….. Arghh…..
Will play tdu2 to take mind of the goodies…. Dont think I can hold out until 4pm.. oh noes.
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Explanation.
I started to reply to oggob. Trying to decide what to write when someone is feeling down and depressed. I tried a few lines, but kept deleting them, not knowing what I could say to cheer you up oggob. 🙁 Then the postie arrived, which was easier to post about…. Forgot I had your reply waiting. Sorry mate.
I do wish you well though and I hope things look up for you soon 😀
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Xbox??
As in 360?!?1
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Yup, well, it could be a box of porno’s, or bricks, but I’m pretty sure its real! 😀
I put him up for a nomination in kotakudos for this amazing gesture of awesomeness and for having a baby on the same weekend, but I think Mark may have forgotten about it??
Anyways, I’m super pumped and I’m sure he will have good karma now 😀
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Glad to hear that Stage 1: Delivery was successful. Here’s hoping that Stage 2: Everything Is In One Piece was equally successful.
And you can safely open the Australia Post box… you won’t be betraying the kids because it’s a little like pass the parcel inside. Without the lollies though 🙁
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lol, no dramas, actually when I read your post about things arriving, I also noticed that I had mail here… and finally my copy of Vanquish arrived from the UK…
Only took 116 days to get here! So they did make make me slightly happier!
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116 days!!???? nice!
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Nice score Q-bo! Hope you find time to enjoy all the goodness that xbox can bring!! 🙂 Once you’ve got it hooked up, you’ll have to be sure an post your Live ID so we can all add you!
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BAH! I’m in trouble. I could not handle it any longer. Box has been “accidentaly opened” it was packacked up extremely well!
Also, Batguy gave me a free game as well! My HUGEST thanks go out to the Bat 😀
I’ve plugged it all up, turned it on… Crossed my fingers… andIT WORKS!!!! So, I’m in the process of setting it up now, but I’m having trouble getting it to communicate to my Windows Media Centre. I think it may be my stupid modem/router which has been giving me hell lately. I’m just reading up a few help sites in getting that going.
*wiggles and squirms with happiness*
I think, if it works, my ID is Qumulys. Obviously 😀 So add away everyone.
Thanks again Batguy! 😀 Your my new valentine. 😛-
I never could get my 360 synched to the craptop.
I just throw stuff on a USB stick -
Still trying to persuade it! Usb sticks seem to go missing at my place, funnily enough, it coincides with my kids saying, “can I borrow the usb stick?”.
Why has no body yet invented a USB stick with a whistle finder, like for keys, but for a usb stick. A Whistle Stick ™ (c) 2011.
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Oh yeah, media! You’ll probably want the remote control that I forgot to give you! Makes a big difference to what you can do with it.
I’m not using it so I’ll put it in the mail ASAP.
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That would be awesome good Batguy! But there’s no hurry or anything 🙂 Do you want some extra monies for it?
Also, I grabbed Trials HD last night, man, you’ve got some tough times posted! (Your the only one on my friends list atm). I was about 2 seconds behind in every track, until I finally beat you on one. No idea what it was called, but I couldn’t go to bed until I beat you at one of them 😛
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I will hunt that score down and return the favour!
Add “FatShady Live” to really feel the pain.
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Will add him tonight. I think it was a medium track, will let you know tonight 🙂 I think you were 1.00minute, i was 59 secs
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Soooo….Mass Effect.
Got some time this weekend to play for the first time in a little while, so i tackled a few things, one being “bring down the sky” dlc for the first time ever.
See i got both sets of DLC before my second play-through 🙂
Anyway, this was a great piece of DLC until the end…
***possible spoiler alert***
So after saving A WHOLE DAMN PLANET full of people, i am faced with the choice of saving either 2 other people and letting the bad-guy escape, or sacrificing them to kill the bad-guy to ensure this kind of BS never happens again…
Now, i like to stick to a parragon char, but i though “damn it, i just can’t let him go – he tried to wipe out a whoel damn planet”.
So of course i sacrificed the 2 technicians and proceeded to cut that bastard and his henchmen down..
You know what i go for that shit?
+25 to renegade!!!
+fuckin25!!!
I do some god-like shit and i only get +3-6 for paragon most of the time, but oh no! Save a damn planet and kill the bad guy with VERY MINIMAL colateral damage and i get +25 to renegade!!!
Man that just made me so pissed – now i’ve got this big-ol chunk o’red in my stat screen that will never go away…
FUCK YOU BALAK!!!
FUCK YOU IN ALL FOUR OF YOUR EYES!!!
***Swearing in Kotaku thread – +50 Renegade***
GOD DAMN IT!!!
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I – SAVED – A – WHOLE – DAMN – PLANET!!!!!
GAH!!!
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Morality is weird. Mow down hundreds of enemy grunts and you’re a good guy, kill one boss and it’s +25 evil points.
The end of that mission, if you let Balak go, says that Shepard will keep hunting him down – nothing has been mentioned about it since, although it could be in ME3.
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You got the bad guy points because you’d won.
And then you chose to kill 3 people instead of none.
Realistically though… that dude deserved to die.
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Is there any bonus for going one extreme over the other?
I just did what I wanted, never felt like replayin ME cos too much guns, not enough swords!
(I’v had 3 full playthroughs of DA: O.)-
Hence why I thought a jedi garrus would kick arse! No swords bring lightsabers!
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Nah, no bonus’… i’m just a sucker for the “punch the bad guy in the groin, save the princess, have a ticker-take parade” sort of approach.
I’ll get over it, i’m sure.
i’m also with techknight – there needs to be more lightsabres in mass effect 😛
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Totally with the lightsabers, was shocked they went without any swords…
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yeah, it would have been good to have some form of close combat equipment. When you run up and hit someone all you do is whack them with the butt of your rifle, which is kind of lame considering there are points that you can attribute to assault specialties, which includes a beefy melee boost…
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Hey it’s BioWare, they made KOTOR, they made ME, therefore they got the right! 🙂
You see this BioWare? Do it! Make Garrus into a badass jedi plzzz!-
Phantasy Star Online had lightsabers and Sonic Team had nuttin 2 do wit nuttin…
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So did Zero from Megaman X. Though not 100% a lightsaber but still similar. Love Zero, he’s awesome.
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lol @ Chuloopa
Lets put it into context: If a real life cop, in order to take down a mafia boss had to shoot through 2 innocent school girls to kill him, would that be OK? But it’s Al Capone himself!! The biggest gangster this side of the galaxy has ever seen and surely he will go and kill another 20 school girls, but it doesn’t make the killing of the 2 girls any more morally correct.
But yeah I know what you mean.
Hey Mark,
I was looking at the links on the comments and noticed that this is week is ‘talk amongst yourselves’ number 99, any plans for number 100 next week.
Also, ignore Tadmod’s offer,i should be your valentine because:
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
there will be no quarrels,
coz I love you mr.Serrels.
Roses are red,
They grow in the park,
Will you be valentine mark,
Coz i feel a spark.
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4 my loopy buddy 😀
Roses are red,
or so I am told,
but dip them in cheese,
YUM YUM GLORIOUS MOULD!-
roses are red
your name’s like a cloud
come back to my room
and lets get loud-
The rosies are red
Your name is Sir Loops
My trousers descend
Viagra quick, I got the droops!
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GAH!!! HORRIBLE POEMS!! GET AWAY! GET AWAY!
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Roses are red,
Blu-tak is blue,
Put them both together,
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Roses are red,
Kotaku is pink,
Mark even gets sunburns,
in the ice rink!-
[slow clap with single tear running down cheek]tm
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Are there any other Kotaku folk that would love to see the latest “You Don’t Know Jack” released here. I loved these games and the quicklook on Giantbomb website was quite impressive but it seems there is no local release.
I am investigating if it is region free.
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Yes, do want.
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Gah! My name-link disappeared!
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Blaghman,
You still up for doing CheapSkate tomorrow? Will you be doing the guest comic as well or are you going to let someone else do it?
You’re a legend for putting up your hand btw! 🙂
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Ill try and pop out a hastily drwn comic today, whetehr its gets used or not doesn’;t matter!
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I’m up for doing it.
Jimu, if you get something done, pop an email to bobleau@hotmail.com (now I can prepare this account for even more spam.
Since this is my first post of the day, here’s my valentine crap (so sad and alone :P).
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I find your lack of xbox disturbing.
Also, let’s be lonely together.
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So… browsing through Zavvi’s monday sale… and i see this..
http://www.zavvi.com/games/platforms/xbox-360/pdc-world-championship-darts-pro-tour/10242629.html
Really??
Does this really make for a game that people would actually buy??
REALLY?!?!
I mean… lets all be honest here… a Dart board isn’t somehting that is that hard or expensive to actually set up at your own place…
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Luckily, nobody is being forced to buy it. So I feel more sorry for the developers. I mean, it must have been the most boring game to make in the world.
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Children, sharp pointy things, bad combo…
I know I’m spamming today, but:
I just found out that “Frurent Engrish” is an option for “languages” in facebook.
I haven’t laughed this hard for years.
Well, if anyone wants to play Minecraft with me, I’m currently in the Simplicity Australia Server
Just enter sMinecraft.net in mulitplayer to join
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Im keen, suffered from a large MC addiction over the weekend so keen to actually do something that others can see. Thanks for sharing this.
I am still keen on the idea of paying for a server ourselves as a private space for us would be awesome…
I am back from the rainy Blue Mountains! How is everyone?
Now I sit at home waiting for Ikea to deliver me some furniture for free as a make-up for all the jerking around they’ve done for the last 3 or 4 weeks 😀 I sincerely hope they actually make the delivery or today will be a rather large waste of time.
Hello internets friends.
I ran a PC LAN over Saturday/Sunday, and I an now a zombie. For reals.
Started the day with a regular V, and think I need to up the dosage.
Come to think of it, any TAY readers be up for a LAN some time?
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I used to hate LAN’s for being so darned tedious.
Now I have a beefy laptop!
A Kotaku LAN would be pretty damned awesome, methinks.
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Have to consider where people live though. I’d probably be interested, I’m from Melb, if thats where it happens to be?
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We’re in Sydney – but how crazy would it be to link up states? Probably not possible for gaming – but webcam hijinxs and state vs state nerd trivia could work 🙂
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I miss LAN parties, a lot, back when I had real friends that didn’t make habits of stabbing me in the back. :'(
Screw you high school life!
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Wait, your friends were stabbing you in the back during high school, and you miss lanning from before then… you were lanning in primary school?
Kudos-
Lol no this was back in year 7-8, while I had friends who moved to different high schools but in same high school (they eventually left from various reasons). So it ended in 2002 roughly, and only did one more with randoms back in ’05 at an internet cafe. Since then, no. And I got a great Asus Laptop with 1GB dedicated graphics on it and 4GB RAM 🙁
Btw I’m from Melbourne too, south east
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Years 4, 5, and 6 all celebrated my birthday with a LAN at my house.
Playing Marathon and Myth 2.
Those were the days.
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A mac LAN!? Sounds expensive!!
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Actually, given my age, this was the time of Aleph One, so it was cross platform. My dad would swipe some computers from his work (the hospital) and we’d use them. I only had like, 4 friends though, so it wasn’t too bad.
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Anyone else miss Jolt Cola?
Erhum, first time to spam here. [Replies don’t count]
Don’t know what took me so long, but I finally played some BO zombies, my first zombie experience, properly with 3 others over the weekend. Twas fun!! And boy did I suck.
Anyway, now I’m slightly addicted. 😐
I’ve yet to play with a room with mics, so I can’t imagine how much better it would be :O
If anyone is interested in playing, please let me know… I… feel so ronery… maybe because it’s… valentines goddamn day today.
*weeps*
-spam turned out gayer than I had originally planned for-
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Now I’m confused.
I thought spamming was when you keep repeating shit like the classic Python skit it was named after?
What is a spam?
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You’ve confused me too now. Fine, I won’t ever describe anything as spam again… because now I can only think of the luncheon spam.
Also, I was thinking about Python the scripting/programming language instead when you said… oh nevermind. Today is turning out sadder than ever. I’ve been bumping into things, saying the wrong things and just not feeling right. Why!?
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BO opened my eyes and made me quit COD for good. Their fault, screwing up PC development twice over (Granted it’s IW and Treyarch but they both had their chance and blew it)
I hate valentines day, I always got tricked or mistaken for someone else (like locker notes). I apologise in advance to Kotaku peeps if I snap at you for no or little reason.
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What’s wrong with it?
Provided I’ve only played MW2 and BO on PS3…
It’s okay, you can snap at me. I can take it!
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This is isolated to PC versions only, I hear nothing but good things on console versions, but I can’t console aim so it’s kinda pointless to get it for PS3. I’m a keyboard and mouse kind of gamer for FPS.
MW2 had everything great except for one thing: Multiplayer quality. 7 out of 8 games I was in, it failed for me, suddenly kicking me for strange reasons. That was its only real flaw gameplay-wise. Still greatly impacting my experience though.
BO however was an abomination for PC! Multiplayer problems still an issue, despite dedicated servers added in, it’s actually gotten worse. This was deemed unplayable for me even after all my upgrades. You can’t even join parties successfully in multiplayer. I had to fight the fricken game for 3 hours just to get one game in with zombies, and we had to do a lot of indirect complex crap in getting the game we wanted. We all pretty much hit “Auto Join” at the same time crossing fingers, eventually we got lucky. And Then during that game, the host of the game (Some random noob that kept getting himself killed) decided to leave and… what’s this? No host migration? It just booted us and ended the game. That’s just the multiplayer, the worst was the optimisation for PCs. From what I’ve heard, Trey did a way-too-close port from consoles to PC, only allowing quad cores minimum, which was not specified on the box. Min reqs were dual core, which I had. So I thought, okay, I’ll get a high end dual core since the socket on my MB was 775, not many quad cores to choose from, none any good anyway. I upgraded my graphics card AND processor (Which costed me around $500 all up), and the game still doesn’t run smoothly for me at lowest graphics settings (Which look way worse than MW2 and that runs darn smoothly on highest). Their so called “fix” for it, ineffective. All it did was stop my game from freezing randomly for 20 seconds. It still stuttered like a bitch and in the end I just exited it and never turned back to it. I think they just turned their back on PC gamers cuz of another majority who thinks pirating it is best to do cuz they whine on price.
*takes a deep breath* That ends my rant… sorry
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Problem.
I LIKE to go onto the US Kotaku. Sometimes they have things the Australian one doesn’t. I also like reading the comments. There are more of them and usually very humorous. People usually add a picture for the right moment and I’ve actually found heaps of useful websites from comments on there.
But EVERY TIME I try to visit the US site now I get redirected to the Australian one. It is really annoying. Why can’t I read both? Can anybody help me please?
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It’s a problem on their end.
PRO TIP: copy the link you want to go to, then put ‘us.’ before Kotaku on the story link. That’ll let you read it until they’ve fixed things at their end.
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BRO TIP: Beer glass not big enough? Use a vase!
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BRO Knowledge: You’re a man… what are you doing even knowing what a vase is?
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BRO remembering: Its that thing the missus tells you to put the flowers in that you bought her for forgetting the anniversary.
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I just tried the US site now and it all works for me, but I know from Twitter there were issues over the last couple of days.
…I think it’s a DNS problem – things get changed/break and it takes forever to propagate to Australia (sometimes I hate our isolatededed-ness) so for it to get back to normal you just have to wait it out.
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I have the opposite trouble at home, I want Au and keep getting US…go figure!
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I have the US Kotaku bookmarked as us.kotaku.com so that makes things easy for me. But whenever I click a page it either comes up at the au version OR not at all because we didn’t have that specific thread. I’ve tried copying the page url and putting “us” in front but it still redirects to the Australian one. This is beyond annoying!!!! I had an account set up and everything. I want to use the site dammit!
So checking out Morrowind for original Xbux on eBay.
Easy enough to pick up, but I noticed theres a Game of The Year edition. This goes for way too much. But I am patient and a shockin sniper and I know I can get it cheap eventually.
My question is: Is it even worth it? I have GOTY Oblivion and Shivering Isles is fantastic…but I’m not even sure what the other DL pack did…
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Why not get it on PC? it’s much cheaper and look prettier.
The GOTY is definitely worth it, even for bloodmoon alone.
You can become a vampire of a werewolf!
And this is before twilight came along, so they aren’t sissy vamps or were’s!!!!Go for it, i say.
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Not an option
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In that case, get it for xbox then… just make sure you get it either way!
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yesir, sir!
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The other main DLC for Oblivion was Knights of the nine, which was just some big pretty armour thing (it had related quests, but meh).
In Morrowind, there were two (I think) expansiony DLC things. Tribunal, which added some crappy city that you got to via teleportation and was lame, and Blood Moon (or something like that), which added werewolves. Awesome, blood curdling, murderising your family, werewolves.
I would say it’s worth it, but I never actually played it, my friends who did enjoyed it though.
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Dammit, I was hoping they were sh*t…
Oh well…
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Tribunal was kinda fun, but ultimately forgettable. Bloodmoon, on the other hand, was freaking amazing. Werewolves! And you could become a werewolf and do quests for the werewolf deity!
The GOTY edition is well worth it just for Bloodmoon.
This is a thought that I had regarding the whole Piracy debate, something recently brought up on the Crysis leak article.
From a developer’s perspective, what’s the difference between someone borrowing the game off a friend, or pirating it?
I ask because I have seen a lot of people come down very hard on piracy, yet I think most people see borrowing games off friends as ok.
Off the top of my head I could see someone saying that if you borrow the game, you don’t own it yourself and so might go out and buy it after playing it if it was worth it. However this is only if your friend wants the game back and won’t let you borrow it for an extended period of time, or if there is some multiplayer component you want access to whenever you want.
However many games you would probably borrow, play through the single player campaign and then give back. If ever you wanted to run through it again you could borrow it again. This seems to have the same consequences as pirating.
If you are buying it after borrowing it solely because you liked it, ie you were borrowing it to give it a trial, then this is exactly what many pirates claim to do, try the game via piracy and buy if it is worthwhile, so it is no better.
It isn’t really the same as borrowing it from a video store because I’m sure some money gets back to the developers out of those hires.
I’m not looking to come down on anyone that borrows games from friends, I personally do it myself. I would like to be able to say it is better somehow than piracy, but when I think about it they seem to amount to the same thing.
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I think it’s a massive grey area in regards to intent and the scale on which it’s shared – you could probably say it’s more innocent and less saps less money from the developers… but I know what you mean.
As a side-note, my brother downloaded the leaked Crysis build before I even heard about it – it’s not really my kind of game, but I saw him playing and it’s quite impressive.
So much so that I preordered the 360 version… I don’t condone piracy (including the ‘try before you buy’ reasoning), but go figure.
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The way I see it is sharing like is fine cause it is just the one copy. Piracy is creating illegal copies of the game and giving them out.
Take used cars or loaning your car to a mate; nothing wrong with that but if you had a magic wand that could make duplicates of the car which you then sold of gave away that would hurt the car makers.
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And there is also the question of DRM and ownership rights.
What if a car maker built a car that could only be driven by ONE person EVER. Would you think that is fair? Would you buy that car?
Yet I can’t lend my copy of SC2 to my sister because it is account locked.
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Piracy also leaks into what’s the right thing to do in my opinion. For example: You have an old PC game, floppy disks are what it’s installed from. Somebody else decided to damage it unintentionally, making it uninstallable/unplayable. Today, what’s the chance that you can get a replacement? Practically nil if not very VERY unlikely. So one may think that since they already DID buy it, they download an installable version online from a torrent and play that, therefore no harm done. It’s still technically pirating but it doesn’t seem wrong to many people, me included, and I have done it before, with classics like Day of the Tentacle or Red Baron. I know it was illegal, but I did buy these in the past, so I thought to myself, if I download a working copy and NOT provide it to anybody else, it’s like getting my own replacement. But of course, that’d be wrong too, since it’s like making my own custom and endless warranty, which isn’t good.
Yes I am guilty of a being a pirate in the past, but only when there is no other choice. I don’t do it cuz I didn’t want to pay. I never EVER do that
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Think of it like this. Borrowing a book is fine. Going to Borders and stealing this book is not fine.
Borrowing is better, because someone has legally purchased it and is in full ownership. They can therefore do whatever they want with it.
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As said, it comes down to this: Lending out your Dan Brown book to a mate is OK. Photocopying 10,000,000 copies of the book and giving them away, selling them for $2 each is NOT OK.
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I think this is why you’ll increasingly see games with a multiplayer element (even if its shoehorned in there) to keep up the replayability which cuts down on trade ins and rentals (rentals are practical for single player but if you have a MP game you really like its more cost effective to buy)
I kinda wish that games would stop coming out for a year, even though the industry would just die and there’d probably be no more games ever, but there are to many tempting choices these days. I can’t remember the last time I played through a game for a second time let alone a first time.
Roses are red,
Daisies are white,
Just like that restraining order
You sent me last night.
Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone!
Just saw Wayne Rooney’s overhead kick. Holy shit.
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He’s a bit of a knob… but that was awesome.
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that is some crazy shit. Good thing he did score hadn’t scored a goal in like 9 matches.
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Even though I’m not a Man Utd fan, that was still bloody awesome.
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When I first saw that, my jaw hit the floor. It just looked so ridiculously cartoony I couldn’t belive it…
Even watching it now, it’s just so incredible!
What a legend!
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It was pretty damn impressive. And it was against Man City, too. Spectacular way to win the derby, and goes to show that Rooney still has a few tricks up his sleeve (down his socks?).
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Thankfully they don’t make a video with all his tries and misses, but finally he did it and the title should be in the bag!
Weee what an adventurous morning. Started of with littleJJ running late, which made me late cos I had to take her to work! Grr! But all was not too bad as my doc’s appointment was running late anyway! Then I had to go shopping for clients! Oh it’s so much fun! Just wish all these goodies were mine!! LOL. Can’t win em all I guess. And speaking of not winning, I had to go to 4 different chemists just to get my prescription filled cos they were all sold out! Like really.. how many people are there out there taking opiates! Damn! Guess I might not be one of a few as I thought 😐 Which kind of scares me in a way. While they don’t effect me the way they do some people, I worry about the ones who do get whacked out on them.. Hope to hell they’re not on the roads! :0
Oh, and during my shopping, I came across a 1Tb HP SimpleSave Drive at Target! Only $89! If you’re in the market for an external drive with automatic backups, go grab one! That’s a score!
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Are you sure the opiates aren’t effecting u?
That has to be the longest comment I have ever sen you post!
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Lol.. that’s by far not the longest I’ve ever posted. I’ve posted much bigger in the past. And they do effect me to some degree, but they don’t make me drowsy like they do some people. Others I know who’ve had similar things before can end up almost unconcious from the drowsy effects, but for some reason, I never get sleepy, which is great, cos if they did, I wouldn’t be able to work, and I take them so that I can work without being in horrendous pain 😉
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my partner is not a gamer. My hobby is an issue (apparently). She has no hobbies to speak of. It’s hard for me to explain my I enjoy my hobby as much as I do when she has nothing that compares to it. Do any of you have this situation? besides whinging/sulking like a little girl when arguments don’t go your way, how do you deal with this?
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My partner is also a non gamer4 – but funilly enough does own a ds and is addicted to angry birds.
I have always said to Bee that if she tries to stop me from gaming, it’s over.
Games came first, games stay.You should probably say the same thing. If she really cares about you she wouldn’t mind your gaming.
She should just man(woman)up and deal with it.
Of course it also depends on how much you play. if you’re playing for several hours each day, then yeah she’ll probably get annoyed lol
But yeah, just because she doesn’t have a hobby doesn’t give her a right to get in your face about yours. Personally i wouldn’t put up with it.
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Mai Wifu was a non-gamer. She played NES as a kid but that was all. I let her use my DS, she got addicted to Zelda Phantom Hourglass, she got everything…EVERYTHING!
She still kept playing the shooting range at the end, now she plays lots of Tetris and Mr.Driller.
She also fell in love with Dynasty Warriors for a time.Even after all that she can’t understand why I would want to game 24/7. Problems arise. What I do is get my part of the chores done first and then game.
These days I can only game at night cos of the baybee. So it’s less of an issue!
Ooo fishpond.com.au is having a sale! Up to 50% off DS Games!!
I’ve only just started listening to podcasts. A bit late I know. Can anyone recommend some good ones? So far been listening to smodcast, the nerdist and Adam carolla.
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I’ve recently started listening to the The GAP (GameArena Podcast) mostly because someone in TAY mentioned that Serrels was in the 18-01-2011 episode. 😛
I’ve never really listened to podcasts before this (so I don’t know what constitutes a ‘good’ one), but it feels like natural banter and conversation between all the guys, and I like that. My only complaint would be that sometimes there’s just concentrated bursts of swearing.-
Yeah… I’m enjoying the GAP too.
I also listen to the 1UP – Active Time Babble… which is about RPG’s.
I did listen to the Joystiq one… but aside from one joke about Robert Bowling being the last person at Infintiy Ward, and the suggestion that he’s in a big empty warehouse with one desk and a “coding for dummies” book… it wasn’t that funny.
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If you like comics then
Wordballon is a good one.wordballon.com…
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I just started as well.
I don’t really watch Red vs Blue, but I’m subscribed to the Rooster Teeth Podcast and the Gamers Rapport, among a few others that never update, so I don’t really listen to them. I find them pretty entertaining.
I’m gonna go check out the other ones you guys have suggested.
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Irrational Interviews and Irration Behaviour are awesome, you must listen to them. I also listen to the giantbombcast, the GameInformer show and, like Bish, the GAP, because Serrels was in it. And it turns out Jung is in it, so it’s all good!
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The Irrational Podcasts are by far my favourite gaming podcasts. Especially behaviour. Those were just so well put together. When we get our Kotaku podcast going, I want to make something a bit more focused like that.
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Did you say Kotaku Podcast?
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I love science time with Dr Karl from JJJ. Lots of interesting randomness
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Hi guys n gals,
Going to be a bit quite for a while. I am working on a project that is just about to start its testing phase and i will be heavily involved in that. Also i have a graduate assigned to me who is ‘shaddowing’ me so can’t really sit on here all day like i used to.
Quick shout out to all my Trials HD heads. I hope Qbo gets it soon. I am still keen to arrange some sort of thing (Kotaku leaderboards rather than a full on competition) as we are all at different levels of skill. Would be good to target a track each week and see how you all get on.
If you are keen and able, lets see what you can do on Building blocks… As always, if you want i’ll record the track times and post them next week.
minecraft… this game is killing me. I have spent way too much time on it this weekend. I made a portal and went some scary time in the nether. zombie pigmen are tough! I also made minecart tracks that lead from my house to the lower part of the map so it is a super fun happy slide ride down to the bottom each time.
I am interested to hear any more comments on the idea of a few of us chipping in for a dedicated private kotaku AU minecraft server. As I said, I think we can get one for about $2.5 each per month assuming that we get 10 people involved?
Also, spent a bit of time skinning a car for a mate of mine for an upcoming season (RFactor mod league)…
http://www.moreongames.com/uploads/rFactor/Cars/Grubby87.jpg
Just is you were wondering. Was good to get back into skinning as I do enjoy it.
Also saw 127 hours on the weekend. Good time. was funny watching wifey trying not to puke. Wasn’t that bad…
Thats it from me…
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Man I thought you said skinning a cat for a second, with pictures.
I’m down for chipping in, let me know when and how much.-
Funny… i had to re-read it to make sure i didnt say that!
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I’m still on board with chipping in FS, just let me know how and when.
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Hazzaa! I’m offically a console-ist…? Just downloading Doritos to see what all the fuss is about. Then I have to work out these points things to get Trials.
I think my PS3 is jealous. I’ll give it a hug later.
I would be in for a minecraft server if its as cheap as 2.50 a month. I’ve still yet to make any tracks yet, or electrical switches.
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Well, after trying to get this message to you 4 times, I finally found out what the problem was. The spam filter was blocking my message. So i’ll have to try to be a bit more creative.
Hey Fatshady,
I’ve come across a VPS provider you might be interested in for your minecraft server.
It has a J, a U, an M, a B, an A, and maybe a .com.au as well.
They have a 10 d,o,l,l,a,r a dd/*MM*/yyyy plan that might work, I’m not sure how much RAM a minecraft server needs though. This p,l,a,n has 512mb.-
I am pretty sure Minecraft uses a butt-ton of ram, need 2g at least I hear.
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this “but-ton” confused me, I thought you were saying Button…when you meant Butt-Tonne…right???
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Building blocks it is. it’ll give me some focus for a few days.
Lisa needs braces…
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Dental Plan!
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Don’t know why, but it jumped into Spam for some retarded reason.
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damn… i know i’m a bot, but i’m not a spam bot! How insulting!! Boohoo :'(
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This is insulting to machines everywhere, hmph!
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I used to have them. God-awful for the first few months, but totally worth it once you get them off.
I know that sounds like a crappy testimonial, but it’s true.
Just make sure you do EVERYTHING the orthodontist says, or he may add a few months extra onto the procedure! 🙁
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Pshh, I did nothing the orthodontist said, and it turned out fine for me.
It’s only the fact that I don’t wear my retainer which is a problem.
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DENTAL PLAN!
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What happened to my comment above? I replied to fat shady but it didn’t show up.. now it wont let me reply to that thread anymore :\
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Uma, you brokened the TAY! Imma tellin Mr Serrels on you. 😛
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I didn’t know Welbot’s real name was Uma!
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Anyone interested in doing supercoach with me this year?
A Kotaku league?
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Wth is supercoach?
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Rugby league or afl loops. I could do either I know them both pretty well.
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http://supercoach.heraldsun.com.au/
sorry guys ^^^that one.
I’d love to get a bunch of kotaku guys together to have a shot at this in our own league… i don’t know much about footy at all, but i still managed 2 minor premierships last year, which also happened to be my first year. Pretty good.
It’s great fun, especially the smack talking in between
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You do realise you are asking a bunch of geeks to play footy right?
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Geeks do like other things you can have a healthy relationship with sport and games after all the both share similar traits, you need skill to do both and its funny as hell when you play them drunk.
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No, not play footy – read a bunch of statistic sheets and adjust fantasy teams to give yourself the best advantage over your opponents…
What could be more geeky?
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I don’t follow footy enough to be good at this so I’ll have to pass, sorry 🙁
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that’s ok – i don’t really follow it at all! lol
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when it comes to podcasts…..
My faves are the IGN gaming ones like Podcast Beyond (BEYOND!), Gamescoop, Girlfight and the IGN AU Pubcast.
Another good aussie one is Australian Gamer Podcast and The Geekbox.
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I’ve recently fallen in love with the Game Arena podcast – I only listened because Mark was on it…
…so I figure those guys owe you a drink/lunch/something Mark 😛
Mr Serrels.. Dun wanna be a PITA, but any word on what’s happening with the Dead Rising 2 prizes yet? Will I be getting them with my Dead Space 2 prize or something?
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I thought they’d been sent last week. Turns out they’re going out in the post today.
Sorry – we just moved offices, which put the delay on a lot of that stuff.
You should have it by weds/thurs.
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PHAT BABY!!! So looking forward to seeing my zombie model! Should look right at home next to all my hellraiser figures!
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Jacket jacket jacket jacket! 😀 😀 😀
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Good news everyone! Yesterday I put my deposit in for my apartment, it’s now officially put in place. I’ll have my own apartment in 2-3 years. 😀
Minecraft mission update: So far it’s been slow, I’ve been clearing out the beach, paving it down to sea level and patch up one of the corners with the sand I harvested. Now it’s the dirt next. My tower is now complete, it’s at absolute maximum height with a balcony and all, just be careful not to fall off that balcony :P. I’m now wondering what I should use in this thing I’m planning on making. Dunno whether I should use coloured wool or just cobblestone/wood/sand to do this. Ah well, I’ll figure it out.
*** ALERT: ME1-2 spoilers head, you’ve been warned, but I’ll put this in: Chuloopa, you can keep Liara, Tali is my woman! 😀 ***
In other news, my ME2 playthrough has gotten much more interesting. When I played ME, Turians were my favourite race with Quarians close behind. With ME2, Quarians went way ahead of Turians, they’re now my favourite race of all sci-fi races, hands down! Now that I’ve gotten insight into their race as a whole, their culture, how they live, I just love and respect all quarians now without question. They all live with honourable intentions, despite that opinions can deviate. Listening to their words, I hang on all of it, lots of what they say make me respond “I understand them”. I’ve gotten most of my allies recruited and so far Tali is by far my favourite, with Garrus in second but far behind Tali. I think I’m just missing one character but I haven’t got a dossier for him/her yet. I guess I’ll find out.
Nohandle, you were right, I definitely do like this one xD
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She never, ever, takes that suit of… never.
Imagine how slimy her skin is?
How bad she must smell under that thing?-
Well for me mate, looks aren’t everything. And she can’t seem THAT bad, she’s been in a clean environment all her life, she’s got a humanoid face from what can be seen behind the mask. No time in the sun means pale skin, I’m cool with that. Also, her personality is awesome, which is where it counts my friend, and quarians have healthy figures too so you know they can look after themselves very well.
Good enough for me I say 🙂
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Glad to hear about the deposit man! Congrats! Nothing sweeter than having your own place to do with what you will! 🙂
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Thanks brother bot. Yeah I just gotta keep saving to get as minimum a loan as possible. We got a plan in and it looks like it’s going to be easy 🙂
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The mission on the quarian Flotilla (guessing you’ve done that one) has to be one of my favourites of the entire game. The internal tensions between the admirals are really interesting.
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Yeah I felt so connected with the Quarians while I did that mission. You got to see first hand how their system worked, with their discussions on whether to take their home back or bury the hatchet and try to live on alongside the geth/going their separate ways. My favourite part of the game so far too
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Dear Mr Serrels,
Just letting you know…
Kotaku Australia 1,693 People Like This
Gizmodo Australia 1,921 People Like This
79 more people, and you’re buying Nick lunch…
Regards,
SAD FACE 🙁
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It’s because he’s giving away a frickin’ car!
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Hey, if it helps at all you can give me a car!
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Nah, give away your pants, you don’t need them do you?
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Surely you can match this heinous pandering? Give away your BLACK HEART, Serrels!!!
Wait till they find out how much insurance will cost on that damn thing…:)
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That’s why if I win I will sell it and buy a bitchin motorbike.
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HE MUST GIVE AWAY HIS PET SCOTTISH DRAGON!http://zerosumloser.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/evocata_draco_dragonheart2.jpg
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Voiced by Shean Connery.
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a) I would ‘like’ the everloving Jesus outa that thing.
b) what the hell is a ‘Shean’ Connery?
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**Minecraft Server update**
I ‘think’ i just rented one? I found a site that had Aussie servers for $25 per month. Only issue is that it is 512mb and i think that as we get closer to the upper limit of 10 players it may struggle. I am hoping that it is set up within the next day or so and i will test it out. All going well we could be online this week.
I have paid initially just to get it all up and running ($13) so as a proof of concept. If it works, we can talk about you all chipping in for next month.
Also, if we need to upgrade to 1gb ram, then it will be $40 per month instead of $25 so will have to see how it goes. I guess if there is only 5 or so people online at any one time it should be OK.
Now, if you are interested in playing on this server, please leave me an e-mail address below. If you are not a regular around here i will nicely say no. Not because i’m rude, but as i will be relying upon you to contribute funds toward this eventually so details are strictly private.
If you can please leave your e-mail address along with your Minecraft username (that you use to log in) it will mean i can communicate with you privately and directly.
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tadmod (at) hotmail (dot) com
ingame: TadModI’ll defs pitch in for next month if you need it! 🙂
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Count me in, I’m sick of people griefing my house…
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lamboman007 at live dot com dot au
minecraft username lamboman007
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At this point, it is approx $2.50 per person per month. That is based on 10 people contributing. Including me there are 9 people that have expressed interest so it will perhaps be a few cents more.
As i originally suggested, it is probably worth just each of us chipping in $10 to a paypal account where we can fund this from.
The only concern is that as this game has not been optimised, there may be need for us to upgrade the server which will result in an increase to $4.00 per month each($40 pm). If this is the case, we can discuss it again.
I suggest however that before you all part with any money, lets just test it out during the next week and see if it all works. If so, then we can get into the detail.
I understand that i have already paid for the server until the end of the month so we can decide before then what needs to happen.
I will keep you posted.
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My email’s bobleau@hotmail.com (more spam now).
I’m very interested, and I’ve started looking into getting internet payment things, so if this works, it’ll be good.
Name is Blaghman (what a surprise).
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Nice one FS 😀 I should get me one of thems MBA’s, you can do amazing things now!
Count me in mate, jeffkent (at) pacific. net (dot) au.
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Wow, that is 9 people out of the 10 slots i have available gone already. Good news but if this gets set up soon, i think i will gradually test things this week and next with gradual increases of numbers. We should do a full load test by the weekend with all of us.
I am still fully expecting lag issues so lets just see how it goes.
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I would love to get in on this however I don’t currently have the time for another time sink game (which from all I’ve read minecraft is).
I’ll keep reading the related posts though and if it sounds like you’re struggling to get money together I’ll probably throw in a few dollars myself just because I love the idea.
Good luck with it.
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You shouldn’t need to do that but thanks anyway.
By the sounds of things we have a number of willing participants.
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I’m interested. I’m on my honeymoon over the next 4 weeks starting next wednesday, but totally down for it now and when I get back.
mrexplody (at gmail
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i’d love to help, but i’d rather get your e-mail or something, as i only have a personal e-mail, and i’d rather not put it up on here 🙂
oh and my minecraft account is: grandmasterbfunk
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Nice work dude, I’m adamruch and adamruch with a gmail dot com at the end of it 😀
Let me know if there are any spaces.
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Blaghman
I just sent that Commander Computer Games strip to ya.
Man, I know I was supposed to be bad but….whooooo!
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Don’t worry, I laughed.
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The layout is a mess, I couldn’t concentrate having to look over my shoulder all the time!
I hope it’s legible…
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Ehh, it’s fine.
The only real problem will be making sure I get around to doing it.
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hey shady im interested email adress is
rossfear at msn (dot) com
rossfear12 is minecraft name
Good news everyone.
A pal o mine is gettin Dead Space 2 but not Dragon Age 2 so he is passing along the code my heart has been bleeding for!
Wooooooooooooooooooooooooop!!!
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That’s brilliant… could he give it to me instead?
Or Mark, if you’re not using yours… could I please have it?
Do they work across platforms?
Cos… I don’t have a PS3.If you’re willing to give it away, that is.
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I was reading about that, they dont go to PS3 cos of the way PSN works or something…but if you have it on 360 then you have it on PC.
Problem is it links to the one EA account, so even if you only used it on one then you couldn’t share it on the other…with another person.
Unless you somehow shared an EA account, this would screw with importing DA:O decisions, i’m sure!
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Sorry was in a rush dint mean that. It is now linked to my account, woo hoo!
I meant if hypothetically a freind had it on another system and they shared ,,, it wouldn’t work…does that make sense???
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Arrrrrrrrgh Im logged into FACEBOOK!
Now evryone knows my real NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAME!!!
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Yay. Enjoy the armour 🙂
Mark,
As a Valentines present, I decided you’d probably like to join our tartan clan (you know, being Scottish and all).
http://img808.imageshack.us/img808/7838/kotakau.jpg
Yes; It’s rubbish, but that’s the best I can do in 30 minutes! Don’t be picky! xD
WELCOME TO THE CLAN SERRELS! <3
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That’s… that’s beautiful man.
That’s our new logo.
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Glad you like it!
I’ll try and make a better one when I return next week! 🙂
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*weeps*
It’s soo beautiful… I dunna haf tha wurds.
Where’s ma pipes?*starts playing Flower of Scotland*
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There ish shomething fishy about your shcottish acshent…
I think thish ish a cashe for jamesh bond…
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Just learnt that tune last wednesday.
Could get a kotaku pipes and drums band going.Anyone feel like writing a Kotaku.au theme song?
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Hey, what do you play?
Who do you play with?
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Learning the Great Highland Bagpipes with Manly Warringah Pipe Band. Good fun.
I pretty confident on the practice chanter now but I’ve only recently started on the pipes.
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They were on the opposite side of the castle from us in the Sydney Tattoo.
Good times, shite weather…
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I hadn’t started learning then bit I did go and watch the sydney tattoo. It was good fun.
After the last show I ended up going to the Highlander for drinks with some of the band and that was possibly even more fun. Probably had alot to do with getting me to start learing too.
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Is that the night that that Carlyle bloke was standing on the bar and playing?
Some really good times in that bar.
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That’s badass, Toddie.
Don’t sell yourself short!
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Thanks Jimu!
I wish I could sell myself short, but, being almost 2 metres tall makes it very difficult… xD
So… apparently,
The DNF Balls of Steel edition has been confirmed for AU… at EB $150.
Also, the limited edition includes ‘early access to the demo’.
So, is that confirmation there’s going to be a demo?
Alright guys, I doubt this is something that is entirely isolated to me, and you may well have experienced it yourself, but I wanted your opnions for the most hilarious things I could do (it will be too late by the time anyone answers, but meh).
So I got a text, wishing me a happy valentines day. I of course have no idea who sent this, and the number is a complete mystery. I am assuming this is a misnumber thing, given that I only know about 5 people, and they’re all in my phone already.
So, in the interest of “teh lulz” as they are known, how should I respond?
(A friend recommended a “meet me at my place in 15” as a response, I on the other hand have chosen the “pretend it never happened / I have no credit)
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Respond with a similar message, maybe google for ideas.
Worst case scenario: some stranger thinks you are weird.
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Oh Jo, hahaha.
Hahahahaha.
Have you seen my face? Or read anything I say?
An admirer, me, Hahaha.
*wipes tear from eye*
Thanks, you’ve made my day.
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Blaghman, I’m not sure what you look like but based on the things you say around here you seem to be intelligent, with a good sense of humour. To me and all the females I know, these qualities are more important than what guys look like. Good personal hygiene habits don’t hurt though. 😛
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Yeah, but I’m a bit of a twat, let’s be honest.
My nickname in College was “the Monstrosity” so that should give you an idea of what I’m like IRL.
OK, so only one guy called me that, and it was an in joke that was hilarious, but still.
Where was I going with this? Oh yeah, LET ME HAVE NO SELF ESTEEM, YOU’RE ALWAYS RUINING MY FUN! 😛
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It could be a trick. Like an ambush planned by people who didn’t like you. That happened to me a few years in a row. Basically luring me somewhere and bash me up. It was from locker notes to SMS messages.
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Yeah, I’m not really at risk of that. The people in my year at school couldn’t throw punches for shit. When we were in year 10, and a “fight club” got started, one of them was beaten up by a year 8 kid.
My year was embarrassing at times.
Also, your school life really sucked, in the least condescending way possible, I really am sorry for you.
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You know what Techy, we all love you here 😀 And there will forever be cock heads in this world, sadly, only a few ever grow out of it. I copped it quite a bit in school, I was a long haired muso who hid in the music rooms, but unfortunately my sister was the worlds most embarrassing depraved free sex unit whose reputation cause me much grief.
There’s a few of us on here who’ve suffered in the hands of bullies. I think its personally great that we call all talk about it openly. 🙂
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How do we get TAY back to 1000 posts this week?
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We just need to reintroduce Blaghman’s CYOAG v 2.0.
OK, that wouldn’t help, but it would make me feel good.
Alternately, we hire some cheap labourers to spam the pages while making it look like they are genuine posts.
Option 3, we rely on the fact that nobody wants to go to KotakUS, and so we use them to fill the pages with posts that don’t mean anything. Like pretty much all of mine.
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Holy goat tickling greased fingers. I was just checking out the old TAY’s, and it seems that I am the only one here that posted in the very first one way back when Goose was our lord and master.
I guess its final, you can all can me Gramps now. :-/
*trembles
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mate, that was actually dug up a few months ago i think, yeah i had a look through it and you were the only one still around old man.
Just be careful when getting out of cars not to leave the top of your cane in there.
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It was? Lol, I think my mind may be slipping! Gah, humbugs….
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Don’t worry, it was around the Christmas period, when the site was suddenly having to deal with JM2 appearing, and me suddenly becoming talkative, so it kind of got lost.
Not to mention that I know what you old people are like around holidays, you can only think about how much better they used to be., and won’t pay attention to the present. 😛
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So, Gramps, how’s the Xbox going now? Does it work?
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It works!! Cheeky young whipper snapper!
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Good to know! Have you got any games playing?
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YES! I do, Grabbed Trials HD last night, will have another bash at it tonight. Also have got Doritos, and Batguy kindly included a free copy of Banjo & Kazooie n&b. Have 800 points left which I’m going to use for the trials dlc stuff. 😀
I really just need to get some more friends in there, or add me if you like.
Live ID: Qumulys
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Wait, so you’re not actually my Grandpa?
Then why do you keep getting me to sit on your lap?
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I’d be yelling at myself though… my mind, thing, it hurts. :/ NURSE!
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MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARK!
This is your old buddy Jimu Hsien complaining that yer darn site won’t log out of my facebook account!
Theres an option there that just doesn’t work!
I don’t want to reveal my elephant man face to Kotaku just yet…
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Awww jimu… i couldn’t help but look at your pic.. is that really you?! So cutee!!!! 😉
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Thats the boy, mai wifu took over my account many moons ago.
You muct click more to see me drunk…or something.
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The facebook function can be stupidly annoying. Try making sure all the facebook windows are closed. If you find one that is still open go to account>logout before you close it.
If none of them are open, open an new one just to log out on it.
once you’re logged out of any/all facebook windows you should be able to post as a guest.
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Jamu means ginger in chinese…
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Ack! You’re a ginger! You have no soul!
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Definitely not my notion. 😛
My son is one of these ‘gingers’ you speak of….
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I had this happen a while back. I had to go to the settings on facebook and disallow Kotaku as an application. If you’re still having problems Jimu, this might be your fix.
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Ta, that sounds like what I want.
Sorry that I’m reposting this, but I happened to post it right at the end of the previous TAY’s lifespan, so here it is again:
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**ATTN FATSHADY (OR ANYONE WHO KNOWS WHAT THEY’RE DOING WITH TRIALS HD)**
After seeing the love for Trials that you spread throughout TAY most weeks, I decided to give some of the harder tracks in Trials that I couldn’t complete another go.
I’ve now managed to get up to “Goin’ Up!” in Extreme, and for the life of me I can’t get past a certain part. It’s from the checkpoint just after you make a backwards jump by bouncing against a wall on the right and then rolling down a ramp on the left. You have to make it up a staggered box ramp on the right, but the problem is that the 2nd, higher box sits in a way that your back wheel hits it, making it nearly impossible to make it up onto the surface it provides. You can see the previous section I was talking about, and then the section I’m having issues with, at this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xnpo9Nk5xg&feature=player_detailpage#t=69s
Now every YouTube guide I’ve found basically says “do the flick jump thing until you don’t f*ck up”, which really doesn’t help me anywhere near as much as they think it does. I’ve been at this for a ridiculous amount of time now, and it’s driving me insane! I even went and bought the first DLC pack just so I could have a break from it (really solid pack for 400MSP, IMHO).
Help me, Fatshady. You’re my only hope!
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Hey man, I didn’t see this originally so sorry.
OK, I’ll make a vid for you hopefully tonight with this. Going up is actually the second hardest to get a platinum medal on and it is very technical in parts.
I think i know which part you are stuck on, but what i will do is make one vid for the whole track addressing this and other common problems.
send me a FR if you havent already to ‘FatShady Live’ and msg me. I will have a chat and talk you through it also if you want!
Good on you for showing Trials HD some more love! Also, if you bought BIG PACK DLC, go and spend the other 400msp on BIG THRILLS DLC, it is even better!
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THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU!
I’ve just sent you a friend request (‘AshuraMGS3Sub’ is mine), and I’ll make sure to send you a message so you know that it’s me.
I’m definitely keen to grab the Big Thrills DLC (especially after seeing the fantastic value in the Big Pack DLC), but sad little me needs to make sure I’m going to have enough points for the Jill/Shuma-Gorath DLC for Marvel vs. Capcom 3 (yes, I am pretty much Capcom’s bitch, sadly). But as soon as they announce a price for the DLC, and assuming it leaves me enough points for the Big Thrills DLC (it should, but better safe than sorry), it’ll be on like Donkey Kong. ^^
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I had a look at youtube last night for this track and it seems that as hard as this track is, very few people actually take it slow enough to actually teach someone how to play it.
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Posted the video on page 5 if you missed it.
so not feeling work so far this week just out of it got too much other stuff going on to really be bothered with it. In other news i think i might finally get around to ME2 i mean had it for like 2 weeks just havent had time to open it up and get into but with all the talk and love being spread about it hard to resist taking the rest of the week off
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Not into work today?
Lucky you, I’m not into work EVERRRRRR!!!!-
I wish I was in to work today! Slow week so far.. ring phone!!! RING!!!
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Well, I just managed to finish C$G while at work, so I’m enjoying mine thus far.
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haha yer im lucky i normally dont mind work likes its intresting and constantly learning as im out of my comfort zone in terms of knowledge base haha, but yer keeps life interesting other then the SUPER SLOW out of it week im having BRING ON LUNCH TIME :3
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Hey Marky Mark, I just sent you Cheapskate Gamer. I couldn’t remember what email address to use, so it’s just gone to the tips at kotaku one, hope that’s okay.
This will be the week when everyone realises that we really need Tadmod to write this stuff…
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Including the comic…
continuing from last weeks TAY nostalgia related posts
This was the first Game to really hook me. Not the first one I played by a log shot, nor the first one I enjoyed. It was the first to deserve a capital G.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4QaHSwtwKI
Dune showed me how much fun a game can really be. I’ll go to my grave still saying it’s one of the best ever made.
To the rest of kotaku. What was the first game to make you a Gamer?
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Marathon (DUN DUN DUUUN DUUN DUN DUN DUUN DUUN DUUUUNNN DUN DUN DUUUN DUUN DUUUUN DUUUN DUUN DUN DUUN DUUN DUUN)
OK, only people who remember it well will remember the opening music for it, which I have transcribed terribly here. (well, I think this is for number two, which is the one I really got into)
here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el5yD2AyokwI played some games before that, but they were kiddy in comparison (Bugdom and the like), got into Marathon when I was around ten-ish, thanks to my Dad.
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I’m pretty sure I’ve never seen that game before but that music made me feel like I’d been playing it for years 😀
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I think for a lot of us here RTS games would have been a real eye opener i know myself games like AOE were big influences where u were able to verse other people via LAN and the web but for me the first game that made me go WOW this is amazing was Red Alert, days of Having a 4 player LAN game with my cousins when they visited those were the days.
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First game i ever played on home console was prolly what hooked me for life.. played a couple of arcade games before that, but when I got my atari 2600, that was the beginning of the end! Pitfall baby!! My dad and I played that game to death.. always competing to see who could get the furthest!
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played it to death as well. Also had a game called China Syndrone which was pretty intense. But I spent a lot of time in Dragster 😀
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I honestly cant remember, my uncle had a Commodore64 when I was 5 and I played it.
The first games I remember clearly are:
Super Mario Bros NES
Wonder Boy SMS
Alex Kidd SMSThe first games I owned were Tetris, Mario Land and Bart Simpson Escape from Camp Krusty all on Gameboy.
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It had to be Sonic the Hedgehog on Sega was when I became a real gamer (First alias was Simosmash). Duck Hunt was when I really enjoyed playing a game for the first time.
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Man, i was hooked on Rockford and Qubert. Then came along Harley Davidson, road to Sturgis. Man that was an awesome game. Had so much fun, even though the handling was naff.
Wish there was a good remake of it.. 🙁
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Stunts. It started my love for racing games as well. I still hum the menu music from time to time.
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Wizard of Wor on the Commodore 64. First game I owned, and played it a ridiculous amount of hours as a wee child.
OK people!
I’m packing for an O-camp (going as a student leader). How should I behave toward the first years:
– Good Cop/Bad Cop (With Dissociative Identity Disorder)
– Pure Evil (A dictatorship)
– Friendly and Sociable (…only if I absolutely HAVE to)
– Suave (flirt with the girls, overpower the boys)
– Evil Genius (Get them involved in my mad-cap plans)
– Nerdy (turn them off uni completely)
You’re choice, p33ps, choose wisely! xD
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Suave man. Suave.
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Evil Genius, no question.
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Go for the suave evil genius.
You coerce the women into doing your crazy crazy plans.
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[nods approvingly]
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[joins in nodding of approval]
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[nods approvingly]™
BOOM! I got the trademark on it! 😀
Suave evil genius it is then, people! I’ll tell you how many members of my group survive the camp! 😀
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People agree with me!
I feel so cool now.
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Oprah camp!
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Cars for EVERYBODY! *throws hands into air*
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This is the best day of my life!
Of my life!
MY LIFE!
BEST DAY!
OF MY LIFE!
OF!
MY!
LIFE!
YOU GET ONE!
AND YOU!
AND YOU!
AND YOU!
AND YOU!
BEST DAY OF MY LIFE!
OF MY LIFE!
BEST!
DAY!
LIFE!
OF!-
YOU’RE GOING TO… AUUUUUUSSSSSSSTTTTTTRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAALIIIIIIIIAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
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Good cop/bad cop for sure
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pffft pure evil all the way1!!. The ladies are dopey like that and go for the evil men. Never understood that really…? But bad boys seem to appeal.
DUH DA DA DAAA DUN DAHHHHHHH
I was playing Minecraft on my server this morning!
I can’t really comment on lag or anything yet as i had to test it with the wifey telling me to get ready for work and had to get my son to daycare.. but i did log in OK. I am still to get the admin control panel working so it kicked me after a couple of minutes, but it did seem ok.
I am still holding doubts that it will be OK with all of us on at once, but for now we can try it out. I will get the admin account set up, and then send an e-mail to all those involved.
I will be in touch, prob not til later today as I am flat out, but by tonight i will try to send ther IP/Port details.
For anyone who needs to port forward, make sure port 25567 is open on your machine. If you are not sure, just wait til i give out the details and we can test it.
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Oh yeah so everybody is clear, under no circumstances do you provide the address to the server on here, in any public fashion, or to any “friends”. I know you won’t Shady but this is to all that’s joining in on this. Last thing we want is griefers and I’m sure everybody else joining in on our server would agree.
Thank you for your time to read this automated security message from Tech Knight, protecting its friends online from noobs and twits.
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Griefers are the scourge of the world…
BTW, that last line should read “Thank you for your time to read this automated security message from Tech Knight, protecting its friends online from noobs, twits, twats and nobs…” 😛-
The Twits was an awesome book… Just saying is all 🙂
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Thank you for your input human. I will update the note accordingly 🙂
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Will put it all in the e-mail, but on looking at the server side software, I think i have that control anyway… I have already set you all up as users but not sure if it will work. Can’t test at work so will just have to put in the time tonight.
I will send an e-mail as soon as i can.
if this works, we then have to sort out chat…
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can we just use steam to chat?
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Well I’ll be very impressed once it does, makes my work much more safe.
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I’m 99.7% sure a whitelist can be setup to restrict the accounts that can login.
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Oh man!! Just as I get Trials HD up you bring this to the table! Your like those drug dealers mum warned me about… I’m finding it so hard lately to share out gaming time between games / life. But pumped to play MC!!
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If you find a drug dealer charging $2.50 a month you stick with him. And hand out his number.
Sorry dude but as all dealers would argue on just providing the supply to the demand. If I didn’t someone else would.
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Just a big shout out of thanks to welbot. I let him into my inner-sanctum. It was eerie… All of a sudden he had his super-powers moving my mouse! It was crazy cool! But he fixed up all my network problems, xbox is playing movies now, all computers seem to be accessing fine, modem settings tweak. He sure knows his stuff!!
although, I panicked for a second which in my movies folders, up popped the folder called ADULT MOVIES. As quick as i could I was typing, “Its not porn!”… Was rather embarrassing, but tis actually just movies the kids aren’t allowed to watch. I really need to consider renaming that folder.
Either way, welbot, thankyou so much! Very classy work my friend! 😀
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Ah Gramps. You so silly with your Adult Movies. Here I was thinking they’d be 20’s classics. You know, ‘cos you’re so old.
I joke. We all love you 🙂
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Its almost the 20’s again! *lovingly messes up NotR’s hair* You sweet scallywag you. :p
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Yay, for both of you.
I’m a fan of the “Definitely not porn” folder. To make it really creepy, inside are a bunch of pictures of really cute animals, so that if anyone found it they’d have that little bit of doubt about me.
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ROFL….actually… now I’m worried.. :-/
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I like this idea. I may have to crate one in which the pics are several nintendo characts saying “I’m sorry, your porn is in another castle.”
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I’d be more worried if you DON”T have porn!
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In this day and age, who actually stores it on their computer?
Well, apart from that one guy in my year, who temporarily had it stored on the school server.
When they decided to check.
My school was special.
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Glad I could help sire! I understand how annoying network issues can be. It’s so nice when things just work! 🙂 Especially when you don’t have to spend a couple of weeks tweaking this and that to figure out how to make it so 😉 Hopefully should keep you out of trouble for quite a while!
So I was looking at that post for the Dragon Ball movie. I can’t recognise who they’re all supposed to be.
Obviously the guy is Goku, but had I not seen the Dragon Ball in his hand or known I was looking at a Dragon Ball poster I wouldn’t have picked it.
I guess the chick with her hair up is supposed to be Chi Chi.
And if one of them is supposed to be Bulma…why does she not have blue hair?
I didn’t see the movie in case you were wondering, I’m pretty stupid, but not that stupid.
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My greatest dislike, of this film I didn’t see, is what it did to Emmy Rossum. I think she played Bulma, I’m not sure. But she was Christine in the 2004 version of The Phantom of the Opera, so it was a shame she went and did such trash.
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I actually watched that movie. I can’d remember the circumstances, because it seems like something I really would never do. But it has been done, and I will never get that time back.
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HA HA, and all I did was pay $130 for the FF13 collectors…suckahhhhhhhhh!
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Watched the new DA2 trailer from LIVE last night, I am mega excited.
Still don’t know if I’ll go mage or rogue yet.
Rogue should be fun with the new consle controls…
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I tend to stay away from trailers other than the teaser type because I like to start a game with little expectations of what it’s like, but I’m finding myself tempted by DA2 trailers for some reason. So far I’ve resisted though.
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Is alright, no spoilers…just a look at the three types…which were in the first sooo…
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It’s not so much a fear of spoilers as it is about the feeling you get when you put a new game in and enter its world for the first time. That sense of wonder and excitement.
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Ive been excited since it was announced, DA has been my filler until they make a new FF I enjoy.
I’m kinda like the guy from the parody Skyrim trailer only without the singing or the hard-on…
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Hey, I’ve never thought about it that way before but I think you’re onto something.
I feel exactly the same about dragon age as I did for FF years ago. Loved the last game to pieces but sitting hear in horror that the next one won’t be up to the standard I’ve come to expect.
Here’s hoping they havn’t consolfied Dragaon Age too much. And I pray to Mark Serrels that they havn’t taken out the towns.
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Im keen on most of the changes.
If you want it playing the same get it on PC, only the console versions have the new button mashing style.
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Only the Casual difficulty has the button mashing.
On both PC and Console.
Action Game: Casual.
Tac RPG: Every other difficulty.and apparently it gets more complicated the harder you go.
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Nice to know.
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@ James Mac
Whered you see that?
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http://www.1up.com/do/minisite?cId=3176689
Current podcast.
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Dammit, I can’t watch that! I’ll get my arse fired!
Thanks dewd.
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It’s audio… nae visuals.
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There’s a new trailer? Brb, swooning.
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I have to admit that was pretty awesome. I liked the warrior class originally, but mage is looking tempting now as well… will see how they all turn out with the new control scheme.
The music also sounds great, I was a big fan of the DAO soundtrack and it sounds like they’ve taken the best bits of that and carried it over.
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I went rogue originally in Origins, I recently played Arcan Warrior and had a lot more fun I think…spells is fun.
Dont like lack of armour and shooting though, so no AW no dice.
Warrior bored me the most, but I guess the new console control will make it more fun.
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Plainview dissapeared when nohandle dissapeared…just sayin’ s’all…
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Maybe they went together?
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Let’s not discuss what they might be getting up to.
Actually, gutter time *checks pocket* Crap, I lost his wallet.
Well, that Plainview fella sure could talk, I wonder what else he gets up to with that mouth?
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It’s dangerous to go alone.
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Boardwalk empire. Anyone seen it. Spoiler free thoughts? I have seen the first 2 eps and am enjoying it.
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Haven’t seen it – but my folks back home are raving about it. It’s all about Mad Men for me ATM.
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Wife started watching mad men and was hooked. She watched all the catch up eps then asked me to ‘find’ the rest. No more til mid year, so this show came up as an alternative/substitute to fill in the time. I’m enjoying it.
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Have a look at Deadwood too.
Unfinished… but 3 seasons of awesomeness, and apparently a movie coming out too.
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My wife was traumatised by Deadwood. She loved it so much and was heartbroken when they cancelled it.
Now every time we start a new show she asks, “DOES IT FINISH! DOES IT HAVE AN END!”
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Al Swearengen has a twitter feed.
Also, don’t let her watch Firefly.
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Swearengen is on twitter? (squeals like a girl)
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http://twitter.com/#!/SwearengenCD
Working as a computer programmer now… apparently
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@ James Mac
Why not firefly, Whedon did and ending…
And a damn good one, I was pleasently suprised!
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Just finished season 2 the other day, a few eps into season 3 now. OMG… so, so good. Last ep of season 2 was one of the best eps of anything I’ve seen.
Have heard a lot of good things – HBO makes some awesome dramas.
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Speaking of HBO, I’m having trouble containing my anticipation for ‘Game of Thrones’ in April.
I have a feeling it’s going to be amazing, but I’m trying not to get too excited in case it doesn’t live up to expectations.
I saw a trailer for it on American TV while I was there and may have squealed like a big girly girl.-
That actually looks pretty cool.
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Just Wikid it, sounds alright.
If its that political drama they did on Battlestar I’d be keen. Too many TV series that are worried about the setting and forget to do everything else.
Sounds promising if they can keep to the books, not that I’ve read the books.
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Have just heard David Bartlett (Tasmanian AG, former Premier) supports R18 and will lobby for it at SCAG.
But Robert Clark (Victorian AG) seems to be very conservative, based on some stuff I’ve seen him say. Highly doubt he’d support it very easily.
Yes No more ARSEBOOK!
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Welcome back
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Home Jimu is back again!
Right now yoo speakin to wurk Jimu
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What are EB Games online like with delivering pre orders? do they have release day delivery. I have only ever bought 1 game off of EB online but it wasnt a new game. At $8 postage i expect release day delivery, considering that Game has free delivery.
Hey so, not sure if this has come up since I’ve been away of late, but… I saw Hereafter last night. I lol’d so much. “Jason! Jason! JASON!”. Can’t believe they already made a movie of that 😀
Oh and Jimu, I tried to reply to your message but xbox messaging is hard and lame and I accidently deleted my reply three times in a row and gave up. But my reply was just ‘no I havent played it’ XD
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HA HA HA
I KILLYOOOOOOU!!!
Did u ever play Blue Dragon?
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Nooooo…. stop making me look like a bad RPG fan!
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I thought you were a point and click guy?
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Can’t I be both? No it’s true, I do dabble in the adventures more than anything else.
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Im just pointing you in the direction of good “Final Fantasys”. Also Dragon Quest IX is a winner!
I dug some of those point and click games growing up, never played one to completion though. Only bought my first computer 2 or 3 years ago.
The following is one of those vague questions about a demo I played once many moons ago…
You ever play one where this girl is afraid of a certain colour and you have to go around and do all this stuff so at the end of the level which is the start you put on a blindfold to grab an item that you needed?
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I was all excited when I started reading your query… but then as it progressed I realised I have no idea what game that is. Now I just feel shame 🙁
But I’d be curious to know what this game is myself now…
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Hey Strange
Did you ever play any of these?
if so, what u tink???
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Ummm, did I play any of what? I played Blue Dragon, if that’s what you’re asking? *confuzzled*
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OH YEAH!
This convo began on LIVE…woops!Blue Dragon or Lost Odyssey. The “REAL” Final Fantasys…for me.
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I played Blue Dragon but kinda got bored and didn’t end up finishing it. Got sick of fighting Poo Snakes, too. It didn’t help that I found most of the characters annoying….
Lost Odyssey was a masterpiece, and had all the soul the last couple of Final Fantasy games lacked. I was gutted when it ended because anything else I played for a while seemed shallow in comparison.
The music was brilliant, too. As soon as I finished the game I went straight to my computer and bought the soundtrack.I’m looking forward to The Last Story. I <3 Mistwalker.
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I really liked Shu, I dig the hero that is a hero because he’s too stupid to do anything else. That right there is purity.
That little fat turd with a pot on his head pisses me off, I set the voice language to Japanese and he seems less annoying.
I’m shocked that LO didn’t just suck up all the FF crowd, I guess we were all over on the Playstation side of the fence so missed out…a shame.
The music is amazing, and all those memories, they make the game sad but give a feeling that life is special.
I’m scared that we may never see The Last Story, keep reading the odd article saying “if”. I need that game, and I need it with english!
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I extend this q out to anyone who’s a diehard FF fan…
Mistwalker, you try any? Whatchootink?
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Or anyone who isnt…
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Or just anyone…
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It’s ok, I don’t think anyeone else has seen Hereafter and hence does not get my Jason reference. Slight spoiler (sort of but not really, happens near the start) – because Jason gets run over! Again! And his brother’s like, “Jason! Jason!”.
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OH! Bananas…
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FatShady,
Boo.
Yah.
Medium level – Let’s Get Physical (that’s the name of the level folks, not a proposition).
Sure it’s tricky for you to maintain a lead on every single level, sure you’ll probably overtake me again soon enough, and sure it has taken me till 3am to do it, but my name is above you on a Trials HD leaderboard. Thanks for the challenge 🙂
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OMG.
This should be front page Kotaku news.
The world is crumbling!!11!
(well done, must have been one heck of a mammoth effort!, hopefully I get some Trials in tonight so I’ll see how shamefully behind you I’ll be). Oh, did you find the track I was above you on?
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I found it and beat it!
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Curses to you!!! 😛
I figured you could do better! Now I have to reclaim it…. mwhahahahah… after minecraft 😉
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That is a huge achievement to beat any of my times after only playing this game for such a short period of time. I am truly impressed. I knew you would be able to do it mate.
I have to make a video of an extreme track (going up) tonight so will have to have a look.
I don’t really remember that track until i see it but will def have a crack at beating you.!!!
Really early start to my day today. I haven’t had to wake up this early since before xmas :0 Why on earth did I suggest I would gladly be at a customers house at 8am :0 Oh well.. Sooner I get started, sooner I can come home and play around on Shadycraft! w00t! Logged in last night to see how things were, and was nice to be greeted with some friendly familiar faces as soon as I popped in! Should be plenty of fun to be had fellas! Looking forward to seeing what we make of it all!
Hey thanks to fat shady for getting minecraft server up and running. Played for a few hours last night and it was awesome ( except the part where I fell i’n lava 3 times with 3 diamond that I couldn’t get back.) Had a great deal of fun
Well, I can gladly say that FatShady’s server has no lag! 😀
Well, okay, I was the only person on there this morning…but still, I had no lag 😀
How was it last night guys?
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I had some lag, and it spiked at random intervals, especially at night, but I didn’t lose connection once which was a breakthrough. This was while there were 2 other players online last night
@Rocketman you’re a lucky bugger, during my dig I only found 4 iron and you found the motherload! All I got were about 8 full stacks of cobblestone, might be able to begin a new tower lol
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I found 8 iron on the surface! 😀
I’ve also got another 7 iron from spelunking.(In my own cave not anyone else’s)-
I found a bunch of iron in my cave, I can make peeps an iron pick axes if they need one.
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did you get the flower i sent you. I used my super server powers to give you a single yellow flower. Did you see it? I did it from the train!
I too shall make a separate post from the above to thank FatShady for his wonderful homely hospitality in MineCraft. Was very grateful for being put up the first night, and the furnishings were tastefully done. Spectacular views could be taken in of the lava falls, which unfortunately has a taste for diamond.
Although, I did tire of Neighbours pretty fast…. 😀
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I had to stay at Shady’s house one night this morning(that sounds weird), I got killed at night…
Nice house BTW.
Ok, I’m off until Monday.
Don’t do ANYTHING interesting while I’m gone.
You have been warned!
But seriously; See you guys on Monday! 😀
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Bye ♣TadMod♣!
Now, anyone got any ides for interesting things we can do?
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Organise (and participate?) in some kind of guerilla attack on his O-camp all covered in mud and sneaky-like, a la Predator.
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You say ‘Predator’… you mean ‘Major Payne’.
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Byyye TodMad,
Have fun with oprah. Eat some extra cake for me!
Has anyone else watched the highlights of the AC Milan-Tottenham game yet?
Solid goal by Crouch early on, heated finish with a denied goal to AC and then some Italian twat follows up the game with that… and on Joe Jordan (a Scottish legend) no less!
The sport is getting beyond farcical, I really don’tk now why I make any attempt to follow it.
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As a Rangers fan (who Gattuso played for, for many years) this is ridiculous.
Joe Jordan would tear him a new arsehole. He should have bent him over his knee and given him a solid spanking.
Guys, any idea if Marvel vs Capcom has broken street date??
Please let me know !
Cheers.
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You didnt preorder from ozgameshop? for shaaaaaaaaaaame.
I didn’t either, keen to check it out, just get no time for multi anymore so not keen to buy.
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Ozgameshop’s good, but the last time I bought somthing from them, it took 3 weeks to get to me!!
Went with JB this time, purely because it’s down the road from my office.
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3 weeks is not so long when were talking almost half price with free shipping.
I went into a JB on the weekend and wa shocked at the prices, I can’t beleive they get away with that crap. I used to think they were cheap!Old games still at full price, and discounts of 5 or 10 dollars…disgusting!
I’d rather wait than line their pockets with my hard earned cash!
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Totally Agree Jimu!!
Thought I’d take JB over EB anyday. (Anybody else get seriously F&^%$ing annoyed at that loser puebesant twat that does the VO at EB branches)OZgames is def the way when I want a singleplayer game experience and don’t mind the wait.
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Neouw – at EeeBEeeeEEE – youuuu ceeeaaaaan!
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I must close my ears when I step in…I wonder if people offer help and I ignore them?
Went in the other day with the boy and was offered help, I was just killing time while the MRS was in the chemist.
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This. Man, that EB guy’s voice is ANNOYING.
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Dungeon Crawl in Melbourne said they may have it in tomorrow (and selling it). Im going to try to pick it up tomorrow.
Ahhhhhh stupid work! I want to play Minecraft!
“Sobs quietly into keyboard.”
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OH JOY.. the life of an addict haha 😀
http://www.qj.net/qjnet/games-for-windows/ea-reveals-dragon-age-ii-demo-details/page-3.html
MOre DLC in DA2 if you complete the demo! WOOOOOOOOOP!!!
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Definitely playing the demo now 😀
ausghohgah
where are the details of the minecraft server?
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have to email shady for the details and if you are allowed sorry.
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You shall have to ask the lord and master Fatshady for an invite.
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They won’t be posted here…
If you want to be the 10th player, who will contribute to the server fees of approx $2.50 per month, then send an e-mail to
claimsboy [at] hotmail [dot] com
hehe.. Qbo’s online NOW!!!! Damn i want to play! Bet he is getting in time now so he can play Trials tonight.
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Sorry bru, I will have to talk to my account see if I get leverage the rental income from the 4 properties north of the city against the interest rate which will free up $2.50 a month in the balance sheet.
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HOLY DUCK FUCK!
Grammar is amazing!
how did I miss all that?!
Ally is changing our comments very subtly to make us have egg on le face.
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*gasps*
You said a swear.
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For all you minecraft junkies out there, I have made this! StarWars texture pack http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12860924/StarWars.zip
Just go into minecraft click mods and texture packs,
click open texture pack folder, then copy the zip into there, don’t extract the zip.
*What does this texture pack do?
It turns the sun into the twin suns of Tatooine, and turns the moon into the Deathstar.
Also, diamond swords are now blue lightsabres.
Enjoy 😀
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Change the skeletons to stormtroopers! MAKE THIS HAPPEN!
Defs want to use this regardless! Excellent work, human 🙂
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It’s happening.
In fact i’ve already done it before, thought it’s not in this texpack. It looked a bit weird, because they have a normal sized body, then these stick thin arms and legs.
I also changed the bow to a blaster, and turned the arrows into lasers. I’m making these look better at the moment, then i will add them.-
It’ll look really funny when stormtroopers light on fire when the sun comes up lol.
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This sounds awesome…wish I had a minecraft…
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Dude you really need to get a computer.
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I have a craptop….It runs games that were on ps2 or OXbox, could prolly run Minecraft?
Problem is my wife is a putener hog.
The beauty of having a console is that while she goes MSN and FB crazy (+solitaire, movie/TV show and blog reading all at the same time) I can sit back and play some mean killins and collectins games!
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Nope, probably can’t play minecraft on it. If your pc can play crysis, it can play minecraft…
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Its not that bad if you turn all the settings down.
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But it looks like a 3D NES game…
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With thousands of blocks to render…
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So long as you haven’t bogged down your computer with crap, you should be able to get it to run. This laptop, not that it will mean much to you, is running a dual core 2 ghz, 2gb RAM, and 7950 GTM, so, it’s old, but was good in its day. Prior to me frying its graphics card, I could run Minecraft on max draw distance, high graphics, full screen resolution (1050 * 1680) at a steady 40ish FPS.
I don’t know what other people are doing wrong to make theirs run so badly.
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Cant wait to try it!! 😀
I’ve spent the morning in Minecraft. Porforming woefully i must say. Lamboman keeps saving my stupid arse though, what a legend!
Thanks FatShady, the server is heaps of awesome on a bacon bun 😀 !!!
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Cool as! I managed to get it working. I lovedddd the DeathStar. Very nicely done! 😀 Can we all use this in the multiplayer server?
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Yep, it only effects your computer, so you can be using this in smp and see the deathstar, and someone else can be using the default pack and see the moon, and there won’t be any glitches.
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Is there a trick to it?
I put it in the texture folder but it is not showing up.
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Are you on Windows? Or are you on Mac/Linux
did you put the *zip file* into the texpack folder, or did you extract it into there?
If it is showing up in minecraft under mods and texpacks, you need to click on it, it should have a picture of the starwars logo beside it.
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Mac.
Did it a different way, all good.
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Is there a venue in Sydney where I can drink cocktails and play video games at the same time? Like a Mana Bar.
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Sorry, Sydney isn’t sophisticated enough for one of those…
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HA HA, BrisVegas…Sophisticated…HAW HAW!
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HEY! We had a floating walkway, isn’t that sophisticated!?
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No… but just think, if you start one you could make a killing!
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Your house?
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If I had a house I might. Looking for flatshare places right now.
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Your house, please invite some freinds so you aint cocktailing alone!
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Currently, so far as I’m aware, no. However, due to the success of the mana bar, they’re looking to expand to multiple locations, and I believe one is planned for Sydnay.
No love for Canberra though. Everyone seems to hate us.
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I have dreamed of a place i can go that i could have a bottle of tequila and Trials on a big screen… If this ever happens in Sydney, I’ll be with you.
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I have access to a lecture theatre with a HDMI input…
But I think if we were found drinking in there without someone with an RSA, we’d be kicked out and I’d probably be fired.
Anyone got an RSA?
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I have an RSA, it’s a canberran one though, so the requirements for getting it are having a pulse (they actually check through your work, and tell you to change any answer you get wrong, just to make sure you pass).
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Any one ever play shadowhearts from the new world?
Will I like it?
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Yes.
And maybe.-
Did you like it?
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I did like it, but only because I’d played the others as well. I had a lot more time back then too so I didn’t mind the grind.
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The second always caught my eye, never played the first so I never got around to trying.
When the 3rd came out I was sooper excited reading reviews and stuff, I think I decided against it in favour of saving for an overseas trip.
Seemed like the third was taking a different more light hearted direction. Didn’t think I needed to play the first two to enjoy it.
Played a little Koudelka(?) on PSX once, liked the ten minutes I played.
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You don’t have to have played the others to enjoy it, it just helped in my case. It’s pretty stand-alone so you don’t need to know the story of the other two.
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Cool, thanks!
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Just got into the server.
Thank you FatShady.
There are monsters everywhere, it is night, and I am so very cold and alone.
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Come take shelter in my shack!
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Now I’m lost underground, and all I can hear is the moan of a zombie.
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wow.. adventurous morning again.. had to go out and install a new cpu fan in a machine this morning. I know.. fun and excitement right? :0 I replaced the fan, turned on the comp… and nothing.. fan spins.. but nothing else 😐 So my quick $40 job turned in to a $200 job 🙂 weee!! sucks for them, but I’m not complaining 😉
Came home to enjoy a bit of Shadycraft, but something is borked I think. Every 5-10 mins, my screen goes black and minecraft stops responding. No idea why. Never happened on any other server or in single player :\ Dunno if minecraft has any logs or anything, so I’m not sure if I can give you any clues as to why it’s happening either 🙁
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Feel like attempting to login now, I’m online, so I may be able to at least laugh at you…
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It would be good if you could see his guy having a fit with a blk cloud around the head!
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feel so left out of the kotaku community all this minecraft talk and ive been stuck internet-less at home for like 3 months since i moved to sydney stupid rental and current situation :S miss my xbox live and PC gaming
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Sorry man, I know it has hijacked a bit around here. It will die down soon enough, especially once we can get chat working.
Until then, if you want the minecraft experience, got and punch a tree til it falls over!
That sounds harsh but I think it is funny!
what do you want to talk about?
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http://getsatisfaction.com/mojang/topics/bwod_black_window_of_death
Try reducing your draw distance otherwise look into this further, referencing the BWOD.
This sound like the issue you were having. As the game is not optimised for online yet, just teething issues. I play on fast graphics with normal draw distance with no issues.
btw, log just said you disconnected for
:generic reason..No help there.
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mm ok.. thanks for the tip.. i’ll give it a whirl next time i log on for multiplayer!
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That is my favourite error message of all time. (OF ALL TIME!)
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I have had an issue like that where blocks respawn after being mined due to lag and you get trapped in them, causing the screen to go black.
But it fixes itself after a bit and reducing the draw distance stopped it.
What are the names of the other cheap game sites?
I can only remember ozgameshop…
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thehut and zavvi isnt it?
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So is anyone else gonna buy the Dreamcast collection on xbox and get the vinyl record?
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oh thanks jimu ill write that down. btw did you hear americans froth that stuff and its a australian limited offer.
but yer dreamcast was pretty much a failure but it does have its fanboys
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Arrrrrrrrr
I be one o dem phanboiz!I jus kiddin , dawg. You allright!
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Minecrafters, I have a quest for thee!
If you happen upon any wool you do not need, I will need a lot of it eventually for my project.
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Any contributions will be greatly appreciated with many thanks.
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I shall assist you in this valiant quest, however, in return, may I beg the use of any gold that you may come across.
Guilding the inside of the Pantheon is going to take a lot.
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Dear lord, I have missed so many question marks lately, ugh, stupid English fail.
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Actually I’ll trade you gold for coal.
I need a lot of glass.
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This movie deserves to win a Best Foreign Language Film oscar.
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Actually – hearing about The Rock at Wrestlemania got me excited, but I think WWE could really benefit by introducing a squid.
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His promo was the first thing to get me excited about wrestling in years.
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Bring back ULTIMATE WARRIOR…
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Watched 127 hours yesterday and Black Swan today. Both are awesome movies.
Pro-Tip: Don’t eat a lot of sugar while watching 127 hours. You’ll come crashing down from your sugar high, and combined with the gore at the end, it makes it fairly unpleasant.
Also, Black Swan: Awesome. Slightly confusing, screws with your head a bit, but it’s a great movie.
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Black Swan is amazing. Watch Perfect Blue though if you haven’t seen it, it’s pretty much what Black Swan was based off.
I have updated my Star Wars Minecraft Texpack just for you Tech Knight.
It now replaces skeletons with stormtroopers, bows with blasters and arrows with laser bolts
Download it here:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12860924/StarWars.zip
Enjoy!
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Can’t wait to test it out when I get home tonight then. Awesome work mate.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT
Just pre ordered, PC Duke Nukem Forever Balls of Steel edition and Game. There is something i never thought i would say.
Anyways i pre ordered on EB online for $148 + $8 postage and $2 postal insurance, from which i have heard they dont do release day deliveries and could be 2 – 4 working days to deliver, so i went into game and pre ordered it there for $139.95 saving myself nearly $20.
Is anyone else as excited as me knowing Duke Nukem Forever IS COMING? and its uncensored for all the titty gloriness, Aamazon is sold out of the BoS edition so i have a feeling this is going to be epic.
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I’m excited by won’t be buying straight up. I’ll probs borrow it from a mate.
Sounds good so far but I am scared they have raped my teen memories!
Not sure if he will beat it tonight but I took batguy on that track. Your move mate.
#trialshd
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Let’s Get Physical (Medium)
Batguy – 28.496 (1229th)
FatShady – 28.375 (1011th)It sucks also because i didn’t want to stuff up the ending and as a result lost at least .2 or .3 of a second.
I think that if we keep at it one of us could break into the 27 second space…. If we did we’d make top 500ish for the track.
I will respectfully leave that up to you until you beat me again. Nice run btw. It is good when you start seeing your replays show up.
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These comments r GOLD!
“NOT sure if he will BEAT IT”
“Let’s get physical”That’s all win in my book!
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Ugh. I know it’s like fisherman’s tales of “the one that got away” but I reached the final bit with nearly half a second in the green TWICE… and catapulted into the shipping crate both times 🙁
I’ll edge you out eventually, but given that there’s only 24 hours in the day it may take me a few days yet.
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Ive actually cut down my trials time to almost zero so looking forward to you beating it (or others)… Stil waiting for you to beat an extreme run but baby steps….
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Batguy – 28.317 (905th)
FatShady – 28.375 (1011th)One of the advantages of not having to go to work right now 🙂
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Its on like a Nintendo Barrel Monkey!!
Nice work. 0.058 of a second!!!!! Crazy close.
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I’m trying, but only managed a paltry 32 seconds so far. I’m still on the mid range bike though, so not sure how much that is costing me. But my thumbs are sore, so I’m stopping for lunch 😀
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There are two bikes tat are both 250cc.
Scorpion is faster in a straight line but bad acceleration, Phoenix is slower but accelerates better.
A simple rule of thumb is when you are starting is use the Phoenix for everything. If that is the bike you are using, then it is NOT mid ranged. It is what we are using to get 28 seconds.. Let me know if im mistaken, but that bike unlocks pretty early.
What are you using?
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It was the blackish one, 125cc I think. But I finished off the medium tracks and got blue one. (technical). The best I can do so far is 29.3 secs I think. Almost up to your times, but not quite 😀
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Yay, finally! Sonata Arctica’s ‘Flag in the Ground’ was finally added to the PS3 Rock Band Network.
I know what I’ll be playing tomorrow.
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Mario Kart?
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It appears EB Games has another “Managers Special” offer this week.
Assassins Creed Brotherhood for 360/PS3 for $68.
Something I properly noticed for the first time a few nights ago when Rocky II was on:
Apollo Creed is Dillon from Predator.
Something I noticed for the first time tonight when Rocky III was on:
When they’re training on the beach, the camera spends far too much time focused on Apollo’s junk bouncing around.
I’ve only been up for an hour and I’ve already been on a spending spree…finally bought Deadly Premonition.
I haven’t played any games all year apart from a bit of Rock Band/Guitar Hero and Infinity Blade on my ipod for about 10 minutes.
I didn’t have time before I went away and since I’ve been back I’ve been out of the habit of playing while my son sleeps.
Hopefully Deadly Premonition will get me out of my non-gaming rut and give me some much-needed stress relief. I’m sick of being grumpy. 😛
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I actually had a rut a few weeks/month back. It was a strange feeling but i know what you mean. I just couldn’t be bothered with anything in particular. I think xmas holidays were good but after i got back to work, i was just not feeling it.
Hope you get your mojo back!
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YAY!
Deadly premonition!
Don’t forget to head over to game critics.com for the small guide on where to find the wrench and the radio that make playing the game that much less painful.
And when you are disgusted by the shooting, remember “the man” made them tac that on at the end of development.
I have yet to get back in and finish it, but man it;s kewl!!!
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don’t give up on GH and RB just yet! We have yet to battle it out together!! 🙂 We should do that one day soon! My wife’s keen!
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I doubt it will be much of a showdown, I fully expect your wife to kick my butt.
We should probably have our battle next month sometime. I’ve got a lot going on for the next few weeks, including my son’s 2nd birthday this weekend. I probably won’t even get time to practice and my skillz will be so lacking that even my husband could beat me. Eek!
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I totally understand your gaming ruts, I get in them very often.
I’ve always got a stack of games I should be playing, but often I just can’t be bothered getting into any of them. It’s just easier to watch Channel BT instead.Then I pick up a game that keeps my attention, and end up blowing through half a dozen games in 2 weeks.
I’m hoping my copy of MvC3 arrives from amazon today. Most likely tomorrow. I look forward to some online where people will humiliate me I’m sure!
Also put an order in for the ‘Nano Edition’ of Crysis 2 from game.co.uk. A bit pricey but *cough* my interest in this title went up several notches last week 😉 It will probably sit there unused until I do my new PC build in June anyway.
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So it seems like the People’s Republic of Kotaku struck another crucial blow to the Gizmodo empire.
Early this morning. Seamus Byrne came to the office ready for work. He had one problem – his mouse had stopped working. After ten seconds of futile movement he checked underneath the mouse to find this:
A crucial blow my friends. A crucial blow.
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Bwahahaha!
Hmm, so that’s where Mr. MadTod went….
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That is genius!
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lol! nice work mr serrels! you da man!
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What you need to do is plug a wireless keyboard into it, have the adapter at the back of the PC, so that you have two keyboards plugged into Seamus’ PC.
Then, just mess around, do things like open notepad and write messages to him in it, make him think his PC is possessed. 😀
I did it to my sister yesterday, it was soooo much fun 😀-
That’s always fun. Did the same thing with wireless mouse at my workplace. I kept minimising whatever window my colleague was using at random intervals.
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Another blow struck! 😀
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Surely that can’t outwit the Kotaku team!!??? This can’t be! Run out to the carpark, cross out Gizmodo and paint KOTAKU ROOLS!! over their fancy Rukus in hot pink nail polish.
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Dont you dare do that to my car!!!!!
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I suugested that to Blaghman on here last week. Hmmmmm
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Excellent work, General Serrels.
Now, to enact Operation: Shave Seamus.
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Oh I would so totally help finance this operation.
When he’s on TV his hair makes him look like he just rolled out of bed. Not the greatest image for our gaming ambassador.
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Okay, so I wasn’t all that interested in the 3DS, and was planning to wait until the inevitable hardware revision but…then I saw a preview of Resident Evil:Revelations in Hyper. Damn you Capcom!
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I’ve been avoiding looking at anything. If I were still single I prolly would of snatched up that Dick Smith(?) deal.
I bought the DS on day one, me and a mate were waiting outside EB Toombul before it opened.
I managed to hold off on the PSP until the 2000 model dropped, it helped that I wasn’t bothered by any games yet.
Didn’t get my 360 until I was damn sure I didn’t want the PS3 (I want one, I had to choose). I put a lot of effort into researching prices and games etc.
You know what could be cool? A game where you play as a zombie.
Not a mindless, shambling one but a sentient one. Maybe with the ability of bursts of crazy super speed and strength.
The game would be about you trying to escape the humans hunting you and taking them out from the shadows in a reverse horror game. It could have moral themes and choices about needing to kill people and eat their flesh just to survive, people who not that long ago were just like you.
Perhaps in the end you have the choice to either give yourself up and die or unleash a zombie apocalypse to survive.
Would be a very adult and violent game but an interesting one I think.
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What on earth have you been smoking? [slow head shake]™
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Aha! I caught you! The Stig never speaks..
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Damn, forgot to change my username back…[slow head shake]™
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So I got Trials last night FatShady. And… it’s… AWESOME! But I don’t think I’ll ever invest the time or patience into mastering it à la you. I gave up on a hard track that involved me driving up a plank with a bump on it that literally seems impossible to get over. I don’t get it at all.
Sorry Jimu. I’ll play your game too. Soon. Now I feel like a betrayer! :'(
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The learning curve is so delicious. Best part of the game I reckon.
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The second-to-last hard track? Just before the end? If so I am stuck on that bit too, it is what made me give up Trials the last time.
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Yeah that sounds like it… I don’t get it! 🙁
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I am making a video for Neil Williams (sorry man) tonight so tell me the track name and i’ll make one for that also…
My son has meen up til after midnight the last few nights so hard to get time to make em (and Minecraft wont play itself!), but tonight I will try and get them both done.
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Ahhh your too kind FatShady! But it’s ok, I finally did it! Woo! Finished the last of the hard tracks AND managed to do the first extreme track. I feel so, so, so angry, so tense, yet so satisfied.
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Awesome work mate. The next few extremes will end you. !!!!! They are crazy hard
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That Bravia TV comp is massive! Gah! I have to think on this one… but I don’t envy Mark judging all the entries :/
By the way, that nostalgia entry is awesome…
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Haha oops, I forgot I was replying to you and got distracted. That wasnt meant to go there 😀
But while I’m here, I did at least track back and start getting silvers on medium and hard. Hard, hard, hard game…
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Your point and click brethren are shakin their heads…
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No, not true! NOT TRUE! Well… to be fair, I downloaded a trial of stacking first (being an adventure game of sorts), but I dunno… wasn’t really digging it.
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Come to the duck side Jimu, you know its better over here.
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woops, forget to set my name back to lamboman007. The Stig would never say quack quack. Or maybe he does…
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I dont have the time or patience for such a game. All it will do is piss me off, and piss off my wife cos I just bought another game!
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Im tellin you cloud man
I is a grey , fence sittin MF, I go where its most comfortable and floow the path of least resistance.
It’s here, join me and …REEElllaaaaaaaaaaaaxx…
Another victim!! Keep at it man, its worth it. I loved the steam version, took forever to complete all the tracks, but the challenge is there what is missing in other games. Sometimes the challenges can be brutal though.
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Wait, you mean I don’t need to buy an xbox360 to play it!?
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Hal-lelujah hallelujah Hal-leh -lu – jaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!
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Yup, there is Trials 2 2nd edition on Steam. Its tough though, be warned. Still good grfx, but Trials HD is better. But I probably played it more than any other steam game. It goes on sale pretty regularly too if your lucky.
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Well, I’ve downloaded the demo, and I’m addicted now, I’ve almost completely forgotten about minecraft…
Thanks Qumulyus for ruining my life 😛
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Greetings from NYC.
I can’t believe all the awesome i have missed. Took me an hour and a half just to catch up!
Highlights of my trip so far…
I got to play Marvel vs Capcom 3 today. Unfrickinbelevievable!!! $68 brand new, damn region locking!!!
I got to play Dragonquest 6 just released(i think) at Nintendo World got kicked off for playing to long. No 3DS yet but maybe next week.
A third pound Angus burger patty stuffed with cheddar and jalepenos.
Crisis Core for $15 on PSP and they threw in the original FF for free.
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Oh and Jimu, i am not Plainview. Wish i had half the talent or supply of narcotics he has though….
I have bought Arkham Asylum soft cover on your recommendation. Loving it.
No Absolute Hush yet but got Hush in softcover. I think that Jim Lees foot drawing skills are ok 🙂
I’ve just found out about All Star Batman and Robin by Miller and Lee …. had never had a nedrgasm before, should be picking up tomorrow.-
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I loved it. Art is fantastic, love Lee’s Robin.
Miller’s writing is a bit whacked, but as long as you remeber thsi is set in Miller’s own universe then who cares.
I think Lee draws fantastic feet these days. Glad he realised it as a weakness and improved.
Theres a vid of him drawing Batman on an iPad on Comics Alliance, HE ISN”T WEARING ANY SOCKS IN SHOES!!!
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Lee’s art is superb. But what happened to All Star Batman and Robin? I think the last issue I got is #10 or #11, it seems to have just died 🙁
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DC have abandoned the ALL STAR thing, the next book worth is called Dark Knight something something, to make it more obvious that it fits into Miller’s Dark Knight series and not contemporary DC continuity.
Sio it will be back, I imagine Leee is quite busy with all things DC digital and Miller is off in hollywood getting his boners polished by underage slaves.
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“and Miller is off in hollywood getting his boners polished by underage slaves.”
Keepin’ it classy.
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Me or Miller…Did you see Scarlett Johansen’s boobs in The Spirit?
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Ha, both of you. Also, I’ve yet to watch the Spirit. Is it (both the comic and the movie) any good?
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Dack that freaking singing cowboy, man I hate that guy! >:-(
Reef the lostcauze. Buy his stuff. Have you checked to see if there are any local shows on ATM???
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Will be looking for reef later in the week. He has a huge buzz here atm. I think he’s going to play summerjam… no shows while i’m here though:(
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sorry, just realised he tweeted from a plane this morning, and I know that he will be doing UK shows soon so perhaps he is on his way over. But be sure to pick up some music if you can.
If you find anything else good, be sure to let me know.
BTW, I loved NYC, could not get enough of that place. Enjoy it mate.
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I want that burger. *drools*
Or rather: FatShady – 28.375 (1012th)
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Replied above.
I will see if i can put some time in tonight. It took me about 20 mins to beat you last night, but i realised that i will have to take much longer to beat it again. When you beat it a second time it always takes longer.
How u going on the other tracks.
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This was only down here because of a copy-and-paste fail, followed by a reply fail 🙂
It took you about 20 minutes, it took me many hours. I think I have about .25 seconds max to shave off my time, so once you beat that I’ll leave your time in peace. I have too many other things I should be doing!
The other tracks are very slowly getting there – I usually start out trying one, then get distracted by speed running the easier ones to improve my times.
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If anyone wins the PS3 and 3D TV can I buy your OLD PS3 for cheaps???
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where might these be won from?
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Page one Kotaku, dood. Invent a colour!
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No way, he’s lying. It’s on erm, *cough*, page 4, *cough cough*. Yeah….
I wants it! It’s my precious!
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If by some miracle I turn into a person of wit and manage to win, I would absolutely try and help you out on the PS3 side of things. Especially considering we already have 2 of them.
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and 2 PS3s??? I am Jelly!
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How about if I tell you there’s a PS3, a Wii and a 360 in the loungeroom
A PS3 in my bedroom
A 360, a PS2 and a Dreamcast in the family room and
A Gamecube and PSOne in my daughter’s room?All of these are actually mine except for one each of the PS3 and 360 which my husband already had when I moved in with him…and that’s just what’s plugged in.
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Unless its some special ps3 of magic quantities, surely anyone who already owns one would send you the new one. At least, I would, means I wouldn’t have to mess around with changing the hard drive or anything. But I’m exceedingly lazy…
Just thought I’d point that out.
Man, the gutter is really lonely this week.
Everything is way too quiet. We need more PG 13 smut. Now who’s with me?
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BOOBIES Nah, Im far too matooer 4 dat…doodle, pecker snatch! BUM!!
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PENIS!
*cough*
I’m mature, I just live in the gutter, there’s a bit of a difference.
We just need Elly to make some vaguely sexual comment that we can all jump on and then terrify the poor girl (the terrifying and poor part are entirely questionable though).
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I think she’s a closet gutter dweller, especially after the bra comment!
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Yeah, I have begun to suspect that too.
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Well the Rubik’s cube is very suggestive. 12 edges and 8 corners, all rotating and gyrating together in any of 4.33 * 10^19 positions.
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I HATE TRIALS HD! I HATE IT SO MUCH!!
So
Im having one of those days at work where I just dont care (more than usual) I still manage to slap on a fake smile whenever anyone asks how I am but…
The whole idea of work just pisses me off! I could be home right now spending some quality father-son time with my boy. Instead I’m sat here like a doosche so I can pay for all the food and electricity I need to support my fantastic family.
I’m sick of all these doosches who can’t figure out why the photocopier won’t copy even though the damn touchscreen says exactly whats happening. Theres a sticker on the top that says call this number if you need a service and quote this serial.
Everytime something happens they come over to me!
At least I get paid too much for the tiny amount of work I have to do. It just confuses me why so many University Educated workers can’t read the simplest set of instructions.
They should let me sit in the corner playing games and I just pause whenever they can’t find the right pencil.
Bah
How things with you?
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I’m sitting at home, wondering about how I can become a productive member of society, and wishing I could motivate myself to work (I have lots of ideas, but no motivation).
Overall though, since all my problems are entirely my fault, I can’t really complain.
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The only productive thing I’ve ever done is reproduction…if my kids turn out all screwed up then I’ve wasted my life. 😛
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See, if I ever have children (god forbid), and they don’t end up screwed up I’ll consider it a failure.
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I have complete confidence that your children will turn out… strange…
{insert quote from the Joker here}
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[Slow Gonorrhea]tm
Uhhh, take it as a compliment.
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It was meant as one, since we all like Strange around here (well I havn’t seen anyone say otherwise).
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Oh no, the compliment was directed at you, since I gave you the slow clap.
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Ahh, I completly missed the first part of your comment.
BRB, going to see a GP.
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It’s things like that that remind of why I chose to go back to uni and pursue something I could work on as freelancer and on my own terms. It’s not easy, but the reward is not having to put up with that kind of thing. One downfall I am so far experiencing is my gradual decline in my ability to be sociable and talk to people :/
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I found that in my entire year spent at uni, I went from being a shut in introvert, with some good friends, to being a shut in introvert.
My social life is dead, buried, cremated, resurrected, then used to bring back the Time Lords from some weird time lock, then dead again.
I know exactly how you feel.
Also in regards to uni it is my experience that the more a person knows about one subject the less they seem to understand about anything else.
Professors in particular seem to often be utter morons when it comes to anything other than their chosen field.
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Yeah, this happens to the point where it’s simply ridiculous.
First year (yeah, only first year, but still) computing class at uni, and they had to teach people basic lessons about using linux (Ubuntu, specifically). I was sitting there stunned at what they were saying, amazed that anybody could not know this, particularly in a friggin computing class. Some of them were brilliant programmers, but didn’t know the first thing about using excel or word. It was bizarre.
Mr Serrels! I got my Dead Space 2 today, but it’s xbox version! I asked for ps3 or pc?! Any chance to swap at all?
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oh, and any word on the dead rising 2 stuff aswell? Was I supposed to get that at the same time?
At the ‘meet the teacher’ afternoon today I noticed there were things hanging up from each child with the title “What makes me me” which had things like the kid’s favourite stuff on them. Some of the boys’ favourite TV shows were ones like South Park and Family Guy which surprised me a bit considering these are 10 year olds we’re talking about.
After I got home I was talking to my daughter about it and she mentioned that a lot of the boys in her class played games like COD:Black Ops!
Now I wasn’t just surprised, but worried. I doubt the parents would be letting this happen if these games were rated ‘R’, but there is a definite blind spot where parents think games are okay because they’re, well, games and cartoons are okay because they’re cartoons and don’t bother checking the subject matter.
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This is totally anecdotally, but I’ve noticed a lot of the same things.
I was ‘mentoring’ (guh?) a class of Year 7s (12 year olds) last year and most of them had played/were playing military shooters, GTA, etc.
Not that any of them were homicidal maniacs, but their parents should probably know more about the sorts of games they’re playing. More education is probably needed about classification.
… and I just realised that was the position of the Australian Catholic Bishops association on R18+. Probably the one and only time we’d ever have the same view on anything.
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Yup, codblops seems to be all the rage in the 10-13 age group from what I’ve heard. But this is how Atkinson wanted it from his silly warped principles. We could have had codblops stricly adults only if only pollies could weigh up pro’s/con’s properly, but thats asking a bit much…
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I was in JB shortly after the release of Black Ops and watched as a father bought his young son the game.
The kid said, “yep, this is the new one… I’ve got all the others”.
I looked suitably shocked and disappointed…
I said to the guy, “Mate, I’ve played that… and it’s pretty graphic, it’s really rated for someone older than your boy”.
To which he said… “Yeah, but it’s just a game”.If people don’t want to listen… we cannot make them.
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Yeah I kinda hold to the “its just a game” point of view these days.
Kids grow up with computers and games these days and really can tell the difference between a game and reality. Even movies are more of an issue than games because they have live actors.
Sure they are young and still developing but a 12 year old is still a thinking, reasoning person just like you are now.I’m sure your grandparents thought that your parents playing the shooting gallery at the show was training them to be killers back in the day.
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I wa at a 30th a month ago and met a 10yo who was playing it. I spoke to his dad and while i was trying to be polite, was asking WTH he was doing. He was actually proud of his son in a way, and said it really depends on the kid. Now i have a 2yo now so i can’t really judge, but damn dood… 10! There are plenty of other awesome games that a 10yo should be playing…
Bring on the R18 rating i say.
Im sure we all have similar stories.
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I grew up watching the most violent and sex filled movies available, I saw porn in 5th grade, like proper porn, not that tame arse shit from the video store.
I grew up to be one of the more sensible people I know, apart from a few years of depression when I first left high school I’m a pretty normal guy.
Some of my freinds that lived a too sheltered life growing turned into the laziest pot smokin e poppin fucj ups I know.
I’m not suggesting every kid gets to watch Blue Velvet at 4 years of age. I think balance is very important. If you totally shelter a child then when they finally see the real world it can be detrimental to their mental well being.
Just sayin s’all…
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My biggest complaint is that it’s clogging up xbox live with all these damn children.
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It’s not that I think violent games make kids desensitised or grow up to be serial killers, I just think they shouldn’t be exposed to certain situations before they’re emotionally developed enough to deal with them. 10 is way too young for MW2’s “No Russians”, or any of the ‘trials’ in Heavy Rain, for instance.
I also agree it depends on the child, which is why parents need to try things first to see if it’s something their child could cope with, and not just blindly let them play or watch anything because it’s “just a game” or “just a cartoon”.
I’ve let my daughter watch M and MA15+ movies and play some M rated games but only after I’ve seen or played them myself.
How the **** did the Lakers lose to the Cavs today?
This is a totally neutral observation, but…
Has anyone noticed how many people pop up for competitions and never post on anything else? There must be hundreds if not thousands of people who read Kotaku daily and never leave a comment. Just interesting to realise.
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… and woah, I didn’t realise there were seven pages of comments.
Poor Mark. I don’t think any ‘Goose comp ever had that many entries.
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I think the last time there was a TV prize it was another whopper of entries. I cant remember who won it though, I don’t think it was a regular commenter though. If they are though, say hi!!! 😀
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you would be the only one to remember it.. old man!
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If my lungs had the power, you would now hear a huge gasp.
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I think the first time I posted on Kotaku was when they had that NOVA 2 iPad comp. But I’ve stuck around…
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I only really got involved with the community when I started entering competitions. I’d posted stuff before, but for me I would have felt bad entering competitions without becoming a part of the community to begin with.
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Yeah, it is amusing. Mind you, if they were all chatting in TAY, I think I would throw my hands in the air and give in. 😀
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I was a reader for a bit before commenting.
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I was a reader for about 6 months before my first comment, and it took like, another year, before I really joined the community.
I’m awesome.
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Yeah, I was a reader for a very long time before commenting and even after my first comment it took a while for me to comment regularly.
I was even around for the TAY’s maiden outing but didn’t have the courage to actually say anything.
I’ve been spying on all of you for ages. -
I too was a silent spy, but after a few months i couldn’t help but join in. Plus all my friends are in “breed” mode or coupled off and just roll their eyes if i talk bout comics or games.
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I hate that.
I can’t understand why people think they need to give up the stuff they love when they’re in a relationship or have kids. You need to remember who you are and what makes you tick in order to maintain a healthy relationship or indeed, to be a good parent.-
I gave up some stuff in the hope to save cash for the boy.
Still right into gaming and comics but have been to a concert in years.
Haven’t had any alchohol since he was born 7 months ago either. That’s more cos I’d rather game than socialise though.
I wont roll my eyes nohandle!
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I’ve been reading Kotaku for years, but only comment occasionally. Mainly because I’m at work and don’t have huge amounts of time, and I’ve never been big at writing online.
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I think I started commenting after a contest as well. If I remember correctly, it was the Mass Effect 2 contest back in Feb last year (which I won a copy of ME2 Collector’s Edition in ^_______^).
Well, I think I’ve written the winning entry for the De Blob 2 Comp(well, at least a runner up):P
Only problem is that it’s on page 6 of the comments, so I thought I’d post it here for everyone to see, because it’s my best work ever.
Hello commenters,
Look at your colour, now back to mine,
Now back at your colour, now back to mine.
Sadly, it isn’t mine,
but if it stopped imitating girly colours, and switched to imitating Old Spice, it could look like it’s mine.
Look down, back up, where are you?
Your in a room painted the colour your colour could look like.
What’s in your hand? Back at me.
I have it, it’s an oyster with two beta codes for that game you love.
Look again, the tickets are now Mark Serrel’s pants.
Anything is possible when your colour looks like Old Spice and not so girly.
I’m on a Hummer.
Do-do,do-do-do-do-do-doooooo
😀
Also, on FatShady’s MC server, what’s with the huge wooden building on fire in front of Blaghman’s pantheon?
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I built a pyramid last night but i used wood that i got through cheating (server side)… I was just playing around with a large design… So Jo and I decided the only right thing was to burn it. So we did.
Here is a pic:
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man, I wish I could burn down the elephant…. my scale all got cocked up, and I kept falling off my pylons, there now seems more pylons than elephant. :-/ I think I need to start on the legs, then body, then the head. That way I will have stairs up there (which I should have listened to you FS…sorry man). How much TNT would it take to be destroyed????
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No need to blow it up. However if you really want to, I have really been wanting to make a serious planned explosion, with redstone fuse wire and a heap of TNT all wired to one switch…
If you want, I can help with that, or finishjing build it.
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I dont know! I love a good boom… When I get to the body, I’d love some help, its I don’t know how to direct you atm since I don’t know what the hell I’m doing as I’ve made a dogs breakfast!
ok, yup, I just decided… Hows about a planned explosion for tonight? I will move the stash of cobble to a new location, and start Crafterphant II ™ But I will work from the arse forwards this time, that way you can help easier.
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Here’s a tip: when building up high, build over water 2 blocks deep. That way when you fall off you don’t die.
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Just saw the pic! awesome!!!! 😀
Mr Serrels sir, you need to get in Minecraft
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Lol 😀
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Rofl! I think my entry (page 4 or 5 maybe?) may be seen as slightly sexist, but it was all a light hearted jest I assure you….
😉
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I don’t know what yours is, however in my mind it’s now:
“Graaaww
The colour in your eyes when you see a woman outside of the kitchen, when she’s not delivering sandwiches to you.”
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All right guys (collective), since I spent the last 11 hours drinking (though remaining far too sober), and I just got home, I’m curious. Excluding sleep, what did you all do in the last twelve hours?
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Played Minecraft 😀
BTW I’m the only one in the server right now…
I’m kinda lonely…
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So torn!! I’ll put in some minecraft time later, in the meantime I promised myself I’d try and get my moneys worth out of TDU2, so I’ll give that an hour. Also I’m trying to finish all the hard tracks in Trials HD. Too much on my plate, how the hell is one also expected to work????
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I would love to join you Lambo but there is this guy who keeps telling me to do things. Things like “Do some work” and “Stop messing around on the internet” and “Sign this termination form”
Wait a second…
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Ahh, there’s your problem, just sign it and you’ll have heaps more time for MC!
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I went to the Intrepid
http://intrepidmuseum.org/The first thing you do is see a movie bout the history of the ship told by “the men who were there” , thinly veiled racisim and lots of references to “Japs’, all the while surrounded by stereotypical snap happy Japanese tourists. Surreal.
Got to fly microsoft flightsim in a full G-force cockpit. Was supposed to be shooting stuff but i just kept doing barrel rolls 🙂-
Slippy’s hit!!!
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LOL 🙂
Was exactly what i was thinking whilst playing.
I wanna play StarFox* 64 in a G-force cockpit.*I refuse to call it Lylat Wars
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Why?
That was Ninty stickin it to George…Can’t call it Star Something eh? I’ll call it something WARS THEN!
Good one Ninty, you WIN!
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Actually it was Ninty getting screwed because of this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Fox_(1983_video_game)
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Sleep for 6ish hours, minecraft, Batguy challange, Trials tutorial for Neil
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cb7g3uCcIs
Tequilla Sunrise and took my son to daycare.. now working from home today.
Any of my fellow book lovers out there sad to hear this (not all together surprising) news this morning?
http://www.smh.com.au/business/borders-angus–robertson-go-bust-20110217-1axt9.html
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That’s a shame, but it’s somewhat like the games industry, where the stores are ridiculously expensive. Why would I pay $90 for a book at Borders when I can get the same book for $55 at the book depository? Why pay $20 for a relatively short novella that I can buy for $8 at the book depository? The price mark up is positively ridiculous.
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Yeah I was thinking that.. Maybe this is good for us? I mean that maybe it takes another industry really falling flat on its butt thanks to ridiculous prices, compared to what you pay overseas, to finally wake people up to what we as gamers have known for years..
Having said that tho, I do most of my book buying at Big W these days.. but I fear that now without the competition their prices will rise!
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Sorry Notorious R but every time i skim past this and see novella I can’t help but think that this is what you bought….
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Short_Second_Life_of_Bree_TannerLeast you only paid $8 😛
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I mourned for current state of literature when i saw that…
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Am I the only one who, when in bookstores, turns around all the copies of twilight?
I had a person working there wink at me while telling me off once.
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I stopped going to my local bookstore when I saw they had a ‘supernatural romance’ section.
I’m not going to encourage that kind of behavior.
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You know what? Screw you guys. Quit hating on something just because it’s fashionable to do so. I’m in no way a fan of Twilight or other paranormal romance but I have read them, even enjoyed them. They’re a great way to unwind and just let your mind rest for a while. Not every book has to have something important to say, there’s such a thing as ‘entertainment’.
Books like Twilight are the equivalent of blockbuster movies: all style and no substance. And sometimes, that’s just perfect for the type of entertainment you’re after. You can’t hold the hordes of tweens mooning over that stupid stalker Edward against a whole genre or its authors.Um, so there! 😛
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I’m mainly mad at the whole Twilight series because of what they did to Vampires. They used to be awesome, scary, weird blood sucking demon like things, like in Van Helsing. Now, they’re like……. Justin Bieber. Whose music I also don’t like.
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I actually think Buffy was more instrumental in bringing vampires out of horror and into the mainstream…sparkly vampires was still a stupid idea though.
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This argument is invalid, Twilight doesn’t do anything to any fictional whatever.
Those cool vampire stories you love are still cool even if a new popular version is released that sucks balls.
This is so similar to the “in continuity” arguing Comic fans partake in.
YOU have a brain, you get to choose to enjoy what you like, stop worrying about what little girls and old ladies like…IT DOESN”T MATTER!
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My issue, my primary issue, with ‘Supernatural Romance’ as a genre is that it’s taking the beloved horror creatures from my childhood and turning them into angsty, pubescent fodder for selling shite.
Twilight, like The Da Vinci Code, isn’t just poorly written… it’s so poorly written that it redefines bad writing.
I don’t care that it’s simple to read… not every book needs to be ‘Le Morte De Artur’. Heck I’ve read Matthew Reilly novels… and I have no expectation that they’ll be remembered alongside ‘The Odyssey’.It vexes me that these things are held up as the great new wave of print media…
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I had never considered your argument Strange, point well made.
I actually tried to read the first one before the hype begun because it was about vampires, but just couldn’t get over how poorly written, grammatically and thematically,it was, to continue.
And yes the above is an example of a poorly constructed Stephanie Meyer sentence 😛
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No. I was referring to ‘Heat Wave’ by ‘Richard Castle’. If you watch the show ‘Castle’, you’ll understand what it is. It is most definitely NOT sparkly vampires.
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OMG! You can buy a real copy of Heat Wave by “Richard Castle”!!!
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And it’s only $8!
http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/book/9781401310400/Heat-Wave
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Sorry mate 🙂
But on the plus side i now know bout Heat Wave so thank you.
Yep, good riddance I say. They sell all my fave comics for way too much and they don’t look after them at all!
Comics have resale value…
It’s unfortunate, but not surprising.
What I’m annoyed about is this:
I have a $70 Borders voucher – and I’m definitely not spending another $70 just to redeem the stupid thing. It has to be some sort of violation of consumer protection law.
Ok, so, you know what I don’t get? Split screen where the still space on the screen. I was fairly excited to hear Killzone 3’s campaign is going to have split screen co-op for the campaign; It’s becoming harder and harder to find a good split screen game to sit down with a mate and play. But having played the demo, this is how the splitscreen looks:
http://gamingbolt.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Killzone-3-SplitScreen.jpg
Black bars on the bottom left and top right. What is the damned point of that? Why not just give me the entire half screen to myself?
In addition to that, I like to put up subtitles in games. But the subtitles in the demo were for each split screen. So it was so tiny, neither person could read it unless you’re 30cm away from the screen. Again, what the hell is the point?
Final rant point: not integrating story into the split screen. Natko was a NPC in Killzone 2 that was pretty much with you (Sev) all the time, and was included in the story. In KZ3, there seems to be no mention of him, at all. Not in the trailers or the story itself. Yet he’s who player 2 will play as. Even though you have Rico who is pretty much by your side 24/7, making him an ideal character to play as, nope, here’s Natko, we’re not integrating him into the story at all, go have fun.
It’s just like Halo:Reach. Both of us were Noble 6, but my Noble 6 was ignored during the cutscenes. I felt lonely. No, seriously though, I wanted to play as Jorge dammit (Jorge is awesome)! Or Carter, or Kat, or SOMEONE THAT ISN’T A FACELESS DRONE DAMMIT.
Okay. So I’m likely making some assumptions about Natko in the story (but I’m fairly sure I’m right that he’s not in it), but still. This annoys me a lot. Give me proper split screen, not fraction screen. And proper subtitles, not ridiculously small no one can read duplicate subtitles.
Rant over.
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The story one? Easier to deal with (just ignore the problem and it goes away).
The screen one, means they’re rendering over a smaller area, lets them use other LOD reduction techniques less.
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Ive always loved subtitles.
Need them these days cos I game when the boy sleeps.
Don’t have them AT ALL in Assassin’s Creed…WHAAAAAA???
Is really effecting my ability to follow the story when I can’t hear what’s going on…
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Call me crazy, stark raving mad maybe, but couldn’t you use headphones? 😛
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You buy me a pair with a long enough cord and I will.
Also ho can I hear the baby cry if I have headphones in?
I could do it and it would still be quiet…
I kill you nohandle, with love!
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Baby monitor maybe…. isn’t that what Mrs Hsien is for 😉
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For anyone who played GTA3, did you end up flying the dodo. It was crazt tricky to fly and some people never knew it was possible, so prob 10 years too late, but did you do it?
Was looking at my youtube channel and saw that i had a vid with 18,000 views. It was a vid of me flying the dodo many years ago i posted to show a friend of mine.
Just made me think about how much fun it was doing it, and wondered if you all had the same fun i had. I can’t think of another secret or tricky thing in a game that was so much fun mastering?
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Hells yeah I did! ‘Twas fun. But you know what really takes effort to master? A helicopter or plane in Battlefield Vietnam, using a mouse to control it. 9 times out of 10, the air vehicle crashed within 30 seconds of take off.
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I somehow managed to master the choppers in Battlefield back in the day. So much fun on lan nights.
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I flew it once, at a friends house, on Xbox.
Having tried it on pc, I’m going to say that in that format it’s close enough to impossible that people wonder if the two are dating.
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Oh god, piloting airplanes was possibly the worst experience you could have playing GTA 3/SA on the PC. You had to have your hands spread over the entire keyboard and the mouse just to pilot anything smoothly.
Just finished perusing the color entries, and got to wondering, anyone read “The Black Prism”?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Prism
I had been put off fantasy fiction for years but Brent Weeks is HANDS DOWN Amazing. I cannot recommend him enough if anyone has been jaded by fantasy fiction of late.
The Night Angel Trilogy is a great place to start if anyone is interested….
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Yeah the Night Angel Trilogy was good, But I’ll probably wait till this next trilogy is complete and read it in one go.
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Pretty much this.
I loved the Night Angel trilogy, it was one of the first things I discovered when I got my Kindle.
With The Black Prism I’m trying to wait until the Lightbringer(I think that’s what it’s called?) trilogy is finished but I’m not sure if I will be able to wait.
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Just nearly died.
Was sitting at my PC at home, drinking my free can of Mother low carb energy drink (thanks Pitt Street freebies)
Anyway, was not paying attention and spilled the drink, not only on the wall and my desk, but DIRECTLY on to a powerpoint. I mean *poured* onto a live plug! I didnt even want to turn it off because of how close the switch is to the plug.
Kinda freaky. I just jumped up, and looked at it for about 10 seconds. Its all good, (sticky) but otherwise im good.
This one plug is also heaps overloaded. One plug has all this… you will laugh
LCD monitor
Powered speakers
xbox slim power supply
fat xbox 360 power supply
PC
Printer
Laptop charger
PS3 power cable, but is currently not plugged in as its hooked up to TV.
I have everything running through one screen and 1 set of speakers….
If i lost this plug,I was finished!!!!
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Protip
Just to be safe, chuck all that gear in the dishwasher. I can attend that it works very well and cleans up all matter of spills ills. Step 2 is a little more complex, but chuck that gear in the oven. It works very well. *whistles*I think my socket is a tad overloaded too.
1000watt psu for the PC
2 LCD monitors
SY85 synthesizer
Compressor
Mixing desk
Multitrack recorder md8
2 x 200 watt active speakers
1x 200 watt subwoofer amp
Telephone chargers x 2
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What’s with the synth and the multitrack?
Phat Beats by Q?
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sorry missed your question. Not really phat beats, but music in general. I’m no virtuoso or anything, but did get some songs in an iphone game which is a start. 😀 I mostly just make tunes for myself, then get bored with them b4 I finish them. :/
As my grade 4 teacher said, I need lots of direction.
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Oh Gramps, surely you’re not that silly?
Still. Better than my friends house. When it rains, the gutter overflows and water goes into her kitchen. A couple of weeeks ago, when the crazy rain and flash floods happened in Melbourne, it was more or less raining inside her house. The worst was this: The sockets are on the wall, just above the counter. The sealant/grotting thing around the socket and the wall is half gone, and water pooled on the counter itself, and because water was in contact with the socket, more or less, the area near the socket was electrified, and worse still, one of them was on. I got several nasty shocks. It was ok though, it was like a slightly more intense feeling of a 9V battery on your tongue, but through your entire body. In retrospect, wasn’t the smartest thing to do.
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Most importantly, you’ve survived a life/death situation, but have you discovered an new superpowers????
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@ Notoriosaur
RE: The Spirit
Funny, funny movie. Totally Sin City meets Spirit with a lot of slapstick.
Very offensive to fans of the original comic strip.
Lucky for me I don’t care much for the strip. Seems OK for it’s time, Will Eisner was better suited to his day in the life Graphic Novels.
OGN which Eisner “Invented”.
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Hmmmm. Didn’t look like a great movie, in fact, it looked rather terrible. But if it has some slapstick, I may check it out.
I just would like to see the other Sin City’s adapted for the movies. In particular, To Hell and Back.
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Yeah, go on expecting a laugh and it’s OK. I had been reading All Star Batman so I was used to my overthtop funny Miller stuff.
Also SinCity 2 will commence when those boners are good and shiny!
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Hey guys..
Still no net at the new place – TPG are being royal asswipes and are failing, in any way shape or form, to get the job done.
Both Bee and I have spent numerous times shouting down the phone at them.
I now know, however, that keeping up with TAY with no home internet and being really busy at work is damn near impossible.. good job guys and gals! lol
Either way, hope you all have a killer weekend 🙂
Bee is having 2 sets of cosmetics parties tomorrow… so i have no idea what the hell i’m going to do.. lol
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Join in man. You know you want to.
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Come here, only 2 hours away, I’ll keep you warm and safe my friend. 😉
*pounce!!!
btw, we’ve all been missing you!! 🙁
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LOL “cosmetics”, like the ones that come with batteries???
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Ahh. You’ll be thinking of the portable hair straightened. I recommend getting the crimping attachment too.
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Crimp me BABY! OH YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAH!!!
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Crimps Jimu Hsien where he wasn’t expecting it.
Jimu now has extra wavy armpit hair.
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MMMMMMMMMM, I like it like that!
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The Australian Law Reform Commission has completed part of their report on public attitudes to R18+:
The main findings were:
– Three in four (80%) of Australians say ‘yes’, there should be an R18+ classification category for computer games in Australia.
– There is equal appeal for R18+ classification of computer games across the states.
– More than nine in ten (91%) of Australians agree that adults would know that a game classified R18+ is clearly unsuitable for children
– Two in three (70%) of Australians agree that it would be difficult for parents to stop children from accessing R18+ games
– More than half (62%) of Australians agree that adults should not be prevented from playing games with adult content, simply because they are unsuitable for children
Unfortunately:
– Overall 63% of Australians agree that playing violent computer games results in real life violence. Agreement with this statement shows the greatest difference between young and old with 42% of 16-24 years olds agreeing with the statement and 78% of ages 50+ agreeing with it.
– Six in ten (59%) of Australians agree that computer games should be classified differently, because you play them, not just watch them
Weirdly
– Three in five (66%) of Australians agree that adults in Australia should be able to access the same computer games as adults in other countries with 36% overall saying they ‘strongly agree’.
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The sad part is that none of these findings are likely to matter. The ACL will yell THINK OF THE CHILDREN whilst twisting some AG’s ear, Gerry Harvey will be like I NEED MOAR MONIES I HATE COMPETITION THAT’S EFFORT, Retailers will be like GIMME $100 FOR NEW GAME, Publishers are hiding the money they get from overcharging us whilst whistling and looking away innocently, Developers will be like ‘Can we get a hand over here’ and Gamers will be like ‘Can we just grow up and became a civilised country in terms of gaming’ and the Media will be like GAMING MAKES YOU RAPE AND PILLAGE AND MURDER EVERYONE.
It’s kind of sad that’s how the games industry is right now.
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Heh.
That’s probably true. The results about an R18+ rating in general are pretty positive, but I’m disappointed that the question on the link between violence and gaming shows such a strong ‘yes’ vote. Relentless media coverage of “GAMING MAKES YOU RAPE AND PILLAGE AND MURDER EVERYONE” wouldn’t help.
Also stunning is the 66% of people who don’t think Australian adults should be able to access the same games as adults in other countries. What?! 36% strongly agree with this?
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I bought a book the other day from a sale where all books in the shop were $5! It’s called Advanced 3d game programming with directX 9! I’ve seen this book around and read lots of good things about it, but it’s usually $60. Talk about a score! Read through the first couple of chapters yesterday, and I must say it’s pretty good stuff! If you have any interest in making games at all, specially the coding side, I’d highly recommend picking up this book 🙂
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Oh nice! I would ask which shop, but I’m guessing it’s some small secondhand shop and you also live in QLD 🙁
Still. Bookdepository.com is plenty cheap for me 🙂
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It was actually a clearance shop for angus and robertson! Dunno why they set up this little store in the shopping centre just to clear out a bunch of stuff, but I was stoked! They had tons of stuff and I bought heaps of xmas pressies in prep for this year! 🙂
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I hear they have gone bust, maybe they are offloading stock while they can.
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I thought it was Borders book store that went bust? Maybe they’re owned by the same people though..
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Both did!
Which shopping Centre?
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Twas the Bogandome (aka Logan Hyperdome)
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I think I read somewhere before that Borders did indeed buyout A&R, which explains why they both are doing badly.
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I love Trials HD again, it’s ok guys. The hate is gone, love has returned. For now.
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I was declaring hate for it earlier. Due to its constantly defeating me. But then I defeated it!
And then it defeated me again 🙁
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Sitting down after lunch I was bored and turned the PS3 on out of habit rather than actually wanting to watch or play something and somehow ended up playing the demo of Enslaved: Odyssey to the West (I have a habit of downloading demos and forgetting to play them).
Now I wish I’d bought that yesterday instead of Deadly Premonition. Oh well, I could buy it too I guess and still have two games for under $60.
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You’ll get more value from DP than Enslaved.
Enslaved is a good game, more polished. But it’s one of those play it once never go back again.
If you get into DP then theres all sorts of missions and collectable to be had. DP is just a more intelligent game too.
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The demo is a fair representation of the game, I guess. I’d say it’d have a handful of these good moments, and the first chapter (the demo) is one of them. The gameplay is a bit lacking, but the story and especially the characters are awesome (Andy Serkis/Monkey is positively awesome). It’s a pretty good game, it has 1.5 thumbs up from me. Besides, it’s like $30 from Ozgameshop, which is pretty good.
Mark: I can only imagine how hectic the last couple of days have been, but worry not – your regular, loyal readers still love you (even moreso when you’re breaking stories). As a token of our appreciation, relax and take the next couple of days off 😉
Seriously though, I’d probably just trash all the stupid comments so you’re handling it better than I would’ve.
On an unrelated note, Jimu: AC2 yet?!
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Thanks man – really appreciate it dude. Honestly.
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With risk of being called a suck up (again!!) you doing just great Mr Serrels and remember
http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4pknrWYz91qa9t34o1_500.jpg
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Thanks for the heads up, I’ll head over to the PO box and check ASAP!
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Not yet, when u send it?
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Monday night – would’ve been collected Tuesday.
That should still be Thursday/Friday delivery, right? :/
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I might not be able to check again till next Friday.
But we’ll see what happens…
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I agree completely, but only when i read this comment did i even know what he was talking about. I had not read any of the Bungie articles (sorry dude) because of work and other stuff going on.
We know and trust you. What are you to do but verify to the best of your abilities sources and then report on infmormation you are provided if you are confident of the sources credibility. If not for that, you might as well just link to google and let us find what everyone else has already reported.
I will read more about this later to see all of the Trollnig going on, but im sure there are enough of us to back you up mate.
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+1
Attacking a story just because you don’t like its contents is stupid. Even more so when the “damaging claims” are coming from a source, and not from the journalist. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with investigating credible claims.
Keep it up, Mark. I for one really appreciate the exclusive stories and investigation.
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Yeah Mr Serrels, you do great work. I hope the jerks are not getting you down.
I’ll Bake you a cake in minecraft.-
pfft, its a lie, don’t believe him Mark. For my support, I shall come from behind while you throw that clay pot and lend some extra hands.
Seriously though, good on ya for cracking a big one! I found the articles both enjoyable and informative with just the right amount of sneeky insiderism. 😀 More stories like this!!!
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You know what I thought when I first read the Bungie article? Isn’t Blizzard also working on an MMO with “Shooter” elements? I wonder how those two titles would go up against each other.
Anyone else move here after they ruined the US site? Hopefully the aus site doesn’t meet the same fate.
As I have never played TF2 I decided to buy it on steam this weekend. It is now Sunday, trying to stay awake while I wait roughly 2 days for it to download. QLD servers = 50kb/s max
Anyone experiencing this with Steam?
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Switch to a US server in your Steam settings. I don’t know what it is, and it seems to vary from person to person, ISP to ISP. Downloading from a US server, I get about 500kb/s usually, whereas before I switched I was downloading from NSW – Telstra server at a whopping 33kb/s.
If you ever feel like reading a book instead of playing a video game. Try reading ‘The Wind Up Girl’ by Paolo Bacigalupi. It’s sci-fi and fantastic. If you want to hear more about it there was an interesting interview with the author:
http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2011/02/bsw_20110211_1022.mp3
There’s been *another* change of A-G, this time in Queensland. Paul Lucas is the new one.
I am returned from San Francisco! It was amazing! Anyone want to fill me in on what I missed?
Oh, and Jimu, went in to a bunch of comic shops and not ONE had any of the absolute editions. Sorry. On the plus side, when you buy a comic book they bag and board them! For free! And ask if you want a couple extras!
can anyone see this planet x near the sun?
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