Talk Amongst Yourselves
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Awesome. Gives me the impression of opening credits to the Minecraft movie… I loved hearing the creepers and spiders.
I vote for a Fallout theme
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Pirates and Fallout it is!
Arrr!
I thought this was back to Trackmania for a second there and got all excited. I miss trackmania :'(
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Trackmania is AWESOME! Man I haven’t played that for a while. So much fun.
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Yeah we had a little weekly comp going for a while, but it withered away over time :'(
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I would be so keen to start up a weekly trackmania event. I wonder if anyone else would join in?
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That was a bucket of awesome with cool dripped in it! Couple of things I’d suggest if I may, are you mixing with a big woofer? I say this only cause I notice the bass is a little lacking, perhaps cause your bass is set a little high on your system? (Or may be headphones colouring your mix slightly?) But otherwise very nifty!
If you’ve not heard it yet, go find an album called Insides by Jon Hopkins. I think you would like it very much. 😀
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Problem is that while I have pretty reliable monitors (Rokit rp8’s) I have limited time that I can mix with them. A lot of these mixes are pretty basic and done mainly through my cans, with tweaking to get the mix sitting a little nicer before I upload it.
Given the time I’ll be at home this week I’ll be able to get some better mixing done so I’ll try and do you proud Q-bo!
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But it was a great track though! Also, Rokit Rp8’s are great, I say this cause I have thems! I also have the matching rp10 subwoofer… So, hang on, maybe its my problem? I may have over saturated my ears on bass!!! Ignore my previous comments! 😀
Also, listen to Jon Hopkins, Insides. A whole bunch of fantastic tracks which this track you’ve done reminded me off!
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I’ll have to give it a listen!
Oh boy, I am envious of your Rp10… does want! I’ve wanted one for ages but unfortunately the other people in my house don’t take to kindly to the existing levels of bass I put forth as is :p
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I enjoyed this!
Imagine an upwards thrust thumb from me.
Also, the secret track of secretivity, that I’m too lazy to reply about in email form is good, and I have very little to say.
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Thankee kind sir!
More on the way over the course of this week, I’m sure.
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What secret track? Did I miss something?
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Yes, we’re keeping secrets from you because we don’t trust anyone who says they’re female over the internet.
I kid.
I meant “I heart pixels” I just called it secret so as to make it feel like I was in some secret club of awesome…
I wish I was awesome. *sigh*
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Ohhhh. haha oops, ruined the secret there.
Shh we’ll start a new secret club of awesome
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So Marvel.com has every episode of X-Men the Animated Series from the 90s and X-Men Evolution from the 00s up on their site.
Guess what I did this weekend instead of gaming?
Also, the 90s show is veru90s, like woah.
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Err, pretend that says “very 90s”, not that mangled wreck of English and formatting you see above.
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serious?! that’s killer! i looooooooooved that xmon cartoon from the 90’s! All the characters were voiced so well and the animation was just awesome! Think I might now spend the rest of my day hunting this down!
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ahh x-mon.. the Jamaican remake.. I loved that show haha
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Wait, what?!
CHILDHOOD, COME HERE!!!!! I MISSED YOU!!!! 😀
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zomg… xmen, here I come!
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Woo!
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But… I already have them all on DVD 🙁
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SUCK TIN!
You have to watch them in higher quality from the comfort of your lounge-chair!!!-
How lame ey.
I started to do a frame by frame conversion to vectored images at one stage (tracing it in Flash, basically), but it took like a week to get half a second of footage done so I abandoned it.
I just want it in true HD video.
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+1
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Oh! I was going to comment yesterday but I didn’t (true story).
Very… sinister sounding.
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This is supposed to be a reply to the Pessimist and his musics.
Aaaaaawkward.-
Sooo, do you like… stuff?
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Stuff is pretty okay, but things, now things are pretty cool. 10/10 coolness.
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I like to mix stuff and things together. A bit of variety.
Like those green packets of M&M’s.
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So the world didn’t end. Yay!
In other news I went to see the latest Pirates film last night. It was ok. No where near as good as the first but did anyone honestly think it would be?
My two major issue with it was it was too dark, a majority of the film took place indoors or at night, and that there were no ship battles on the high seas. I don’t even recall a canon being fired once in the whole film.
There was a 2 minute or so trailer for Transformers 3 before the film that was literally nothing but explosions and robots fighting for 99% percent of it. Now I quite enjoy watching mindless action every now and then but I know this film will most likely piss off fans of the series.
There’s also a new Planet of the Apes film coming out that looks quite good. According to the trailer the CGI is being handled by the same company that did Avater so at the very least it should look nice.
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Not interested in any of them. Waiting for The Hobbit, HellBoy 3, Harry Potter 7: pt 2, and several others, but none of those you listed.
I think I may have gotten over my obsession with mindless violence… wtf?!
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I think every single transformers movie to date has pissed off fans of the series :p
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To be fair to the Transformers 3 trailer, the film will probably be literally nothing but explosions and robots fighting for 99% percent of it.
And you know that remaining 1% centering around Shia LeBouf’s character is going to be terrible stuff, so maybe it’s for the best.-
NO way, Shia LaBeouf will have an Oscar winning performance.
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I’M SHIA LABEOUF AND I AM SCARED AND/OR AWKWARD LOOK AT ME RUNNING AROUND FLAILING MY ARMS FOR 120 MINUTES AREN’T I AMUSING WHATS WITH MY LAST NAME SERIOUSLY WHERE THE HELL AM I FROM.
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Hmm, why does that guy have my twitter URL?
Strange.
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What?
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Who?
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How?
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When?
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WWWHHHHHYYYYYY?
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Me?
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‘SPLOSIONS!
If you want to see a fight scene from Transformers, glue textas to your dogs feet and put them on ice. Let em run around for a few minutes and thats what a fight scene looks like, a mess that cannot be comptehended.
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I Lol’d pretty hard at that – so damn true.
I want to see every movie that comes out…EVER! But I don’t have the time, boo.
On the movie theme.. has everyone seen the viral image of Bane from the next batman flick?
Sure it’s not much, but it’s something!
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_dark_knight_rises/pictures/1.php#highlighted_picture
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I remember seeing that and thinking “yup, that’s Bane alright.” Then I remembered that Hardy is 5’10” and Bane is 6’8″ (on Venom anyhow, he’s about 5’10” without). That should be interesting. The only way I can see it working is that he doesn’t grow taller after taking the Venom. Which makes sense.
I saw it on Saturday.
I didn’t mind it… but I had a minor vent on Twitter about the price of Drive-in tickets.
Also, I’ve got to agree about how dark it was.
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You’re on twitter? What’s your username?
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Banderdash
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Just a quick post let people know I haven’t dropped off the face of the earth, and this are still a go for this Sunday! (29th) I will send out an email to those whose emails I have during the week, but in case there’s anyone who didn’t email me, here’s another chance!
dondalinger at hotmail
So far it looks as though everyone who originally expresses interest is available, so it’s looking like it will be quite the gathering after all! We might just have to have a bucket handy for dcz12 in case he pukes 😉
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WOOOOOOOOP!!
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Yay! So sorry to everyone once again for screwing it up last week 🙁
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You’ve only just discovered this now? :0 You poor soul!
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So the coffee is a tenth of your height (I can’t actually see the ruler numbers)?
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I assume you never saw Role Models? They dropped that tidbit in that and my “Blind” was “Mown” I believe the term is.
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Try looking up the ‘trenta’ or follow this link.
http://gizmodo.com/5735822/the-new-starbucks-trenta-cup-is-bigger-than-your-stomach
WHAT A WEEK!
2000+ posts in one week!
So a small Sydney gathering this Saturday evening? Sounds like fun.
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I thought they were the Melbourne peeps…
I’m keen for a Sydney one, though! 😀
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I would be up to doing one with Melbourne peeps, though dunno who else is in Melb other than Q-bo 😛
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I could’ve sworn Welbot was in Melbourne… :\
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His model is stationed in Brisbane sadly
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Dude, if your bored one day, your welcome to risk your life and limb coming out to Pakistan, err, i mean Pakenham.
I mean, check out this place, its too awesome to write here, so take a look at this glorious write up about my town!
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I’m in Melbourne (well, in Victoria). As is Chuloopa IIRC.
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I think your from west melb arne’t you? Loops is a Geelongian.
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I work in the Docklands area but I live in Geelong too 🙂
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Finished Doubt last night. At 1am.
Now mega tired and grumpy. This is coinciding with the fact that I’m trying to get off Pepsi Max.
Day 3… the last have been plagued with intense headaches.
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See what happens when you try to leave the pure ambrosia which is Pepsi Max? Your very own body is telling you that you should keep drinking that sweet, sweet nectar!
*this comment is in no way endorsed or paid for by the pepsi corporation… what do mean I’m not getting paid?!?*
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I’m going to remove all the Pepsi cans from the fridge JUST so he can’t relapse!
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On Saturday I drank six cans of Pepsi Max. I stared at the aluminium tower I constructed and realised I may have a problem.
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I was drinking 5 a day. At least. Every day.
I would have died. And the coroner would have written ‘pepsi max’ as the cause of death.
That would have happened.
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I take a can to work. Have one when I get home and then one with dinner. Probably still too much really. then again, I drank a 1.5 litre bottle o’ the Bru on Sunday. Can’t imagine that would be any better.
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According to Google.. Pepsi Max is also the leading cause of calorie suicide.. true story…?
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I used to drink about 5 cans of Coke a day. Now I drink one or two cans of Zero.
I tried to drink Pepsi Max once because it’s cheaper than Coke when you’re buying boxes of it but I was drinking twice as much because Pepsi always seems to make me thirstier. -
I got me down to 1 can a coke a day and LOTS a water.
I generally don’t drink it on weekends cos my wife frowns…I feel guilty. -
Weak!
I’m swilling down about 2 bottles and a can a day… less on weekends though.
It’s killing me, I can feel it… it’s destroying my body from the inside out.
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Forgot to ask; What did you think of Doubt?
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Doubt as in Doubt with the nuns and Mery Streep?
*crickets*l
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No crickets! I loved that movie, was well good.
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I usually imbibe 1-2 caffeinated beverages a week.
Sometimes more, sometimes less.
I thought it was supposed to be Sat, 4th of June for the small one?
And the big one at the end of June?
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Damn! I’m a week ahead! sorry about that.
yes, mini meet on Saturday the 4th.Oh well, my copy of Alien Water arrives today so I still know what I’ll be doing this weekend.
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Just in case you missed Andrew Burdusel’s awesome shop.
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I saw that! It was awesome.
After my manga efforts that were pretty well recieved, I started working on a noir-ish style affair called Alien Water. Hopefully I can clean it up and post it.
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I’m looking forward to seeing it.
You do realise you’re going to have to do an accompanying manga for every one of Chuloopa’s chapters now, don’t you? -
Maybe I should talk to Chuloopa about doing a sidestory or prequel.
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I saw that the other day. I saw “Sounds Boring”~Mark’s wife, and thought to myself, it would have been so funny if he had changed the logo to say Alien Water…then I saw that he already had…(true story)
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Yes, it was awesome! Best tweet all weekend I thought! Mad shop skills!
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That roolz!
The highlight for me being the quote from “Mark’s wife”.
Copy that, Cap’n
I thought we were having a small one on the 4th with Endu then a bigger one towards the end of June?
We really need a Sydney meetup person in charge of this. We gamers are unorganised.
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Sorry, my bad. That was the best thing about school. You wrote the date every day so you ALWAYS knew it. Now? Unless it’s my birthday, fugeddaboutit!
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I still write the date every day 🙁
Reminds me of how slowly we are inching forward this month.
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I SAID IT FIRST!!
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But I said it better and far more eloquently…
Nice try though, Janitor. Less talky more moppy!
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I love the fact that Janitor has stuck. 😀
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Darn you Tadmod! /glares at your chest
Only because it would hurt my neck to look up at your head because YOU ARE SO TALL.AnonymousPessimist, consider your tower no longer safe. I shall sneak around there at night and flood it with lava. MWAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH!!!
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Why Eats-a-lot, thatssss a lovely… everything you have there.
It would be a shame for sssssomething to happen to it…
*begins work on a janitor-proof pessimistic bunker*
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So like I just found about this TNT thing… 😀
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Eep!
So, let’s not get hasty here… a lot of things were said, perhaps in error…
Owait… which one of us gets home first?
>:D
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*melodramatic sigh!* I can never win against you, AnonymousPessimist..
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Your concession of defeat concerns me, eats… what are you planning?
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Well, don’t be surprised if you log in and find your tower covered in tnt.
Oh, and she may do something too…
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Says the man with the giant matchstick begging for some flint and tinder…
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This phallic imagery has been brought to you by Pessimist!
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I’ll just warn you, that my dogs are very protective, as Q-bo learned, and you may feel powerful, but how do you think you can handle nine of them (I’m really sad, one of them phased through the floor, and drowned. All I could hear was its yelps of pain 🙁 .)?
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You forget that I am a ninja, sir!
I strike from the shadows, then return to such.
All I leave is my calling card – a frowning smiley.
THE MARK OF THE PESSIMIST.
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Bah. F1.
Webber’s got more chance of winning if he doesn’t make it to the top 10 in qualifying than if he’s on pole. 😛
And thank goodness for DC. If it wasn’t for him I’d find it difficult to stay awake through the race. He’s the first commentator since the legendary Murray to not be boring and idiotic.
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That was painful to watch last night! After he got pole I was like ‘Finally, we can watch Webber win one!’.. stupid slow Ferrari’s getting in the way!
And I agree on the commentator, some of his comments are hilarious!
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Nah, it was never going to happen. I predicted to my wife beforehand that he was going to lose his position at the first corner then never get it back, but he didn’t even make it that far.
And yes, his best drive all year was when he came from 15th or whatever on the grid to finish 3rd. That was exciting!
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Yeah.. I said to to my brother in law before the race that we should each put $1000 on Vettel to win.. it was paying $2.53.. he said that was unpatriotic haha
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You follow the F1 Strange?!
Well, now you need to get on Twitter so I’ve someone to complain with while the race is in progress 😛
And I agree 100% – love DC’s commentary, he’s brilliant… at the same time, I can’t stand Martin Brundle; he’s like the Ray Warren of F1. ARGH!
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…or that guy who does Tour de France commentary on SBS – Phil Ligget? Some of his classics that I remember include “The moment is nearly nigh now” and “But surely he doesn’t have the legs to claw it back now or does he?”. I wish I could get paid to have verbal diarrhoea on international television!
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I remember my first exposure to F1 was watching my boyfriend at the time(about ’97 I think) and his friends playing one of the PSX games. It had Martin Brundle commentating and about all he said was “You’re right there, Murray”. I was surprised to find when I started watching actual races that it was pretty much like that in real life too. 😛
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Oh, and Twitter scares me….
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I agree. So painful to watch. Is it bad of me that I just assumed that Webber would be slow off the grid?
What’s the bet that the Red Bull engineers took Webber’s KERS system out and swapped it into Vettel’s car…
Nah, I can’t blame the engineers for this one, Webber just had a bad start.
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Totally not bad of you. He’s not usually a great starter even if everything’s working properly. He needs to go to starting boot camp or something.
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lol, it’s true.
Webber’s not the best starter, but his problem this season seems to be Vettel – he’s definitely getting flustered. You can see in interviews whenever he’s asked about Seb and he tried waaaaay too hard to cover him off the grid.
…but I don’t mind – fingers crossed it’ll be similar to last season, but instead Vettel tapers off and Webber picks up a few wins (and the championship!)
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Yeah, I agree on the covering off the grid.. they both should of made sure that things like pesky Ferrari’s didn’t get through.. With his speed over the whole weekend, what did it matter if Vettel got through as long as no one else did to get in the way of him keeping up with him.. as soon as Alonso and Vettel got past I said ‘Well thats over’…
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Webber and Vettel need to establish a whole Ricky Bobby / Cal Naughton Jr thingy. Shake and bake, baby!
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Thats just old age.. the reflexes start to go.. ask Mark! (I can say that cause i’m 30 too!)
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Pfft! that must just be for boys, I’m almost 35 and my reflexes are just getting better.
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WongFu released a few new videos with Harry Shum Jr.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ncMxcoPNxw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwVATJuYz3U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM1RflLugYI
lols were had.
Well… I’m much better at LoL than HoN in both personal preference and after trying a few games on both. LoL was much easier to get a stable start. Despite being a newbie at it, I was given good treatment and given helpful tips to play my champions with. I’ve now gotten my first permanent champion to use instead of using the weekly free champions that change, though my favourite is still yet to be purchased.
HoN however… urgh… sorry to HoN fans but every game I went in, I had horrible lag, and being a newbie to HoN, I guess I had bad enough luck to be always put into over-zealous perfectionist teams so I was treated very poorly for mistakes that are easy to make such as what to get at the start. The first game was the worst, it was so bad I couldn’t even move my hero or click anything on the screen, while I had a constant Loading popup on the centre and it never finished, in the end I got vote kicked off which was depressing, was getting accused of being a stupid leecher and other crap, so wasn’t good on my self-esteem there -.-, it’s not likely I’ll want to go back to that game for a while without somebody to help me learn how to start/play this, which heroes would do best for me, etc.
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What is this. I don’t even…
HoN is WAY better than LoL. Why, you ask? Because when you buy it, you unlock EVERY hero. I hate LoL’s stupid “You only have these heroes this week, use them wisely”
Also, for those that play HoN, add me: “TadMod” 😀
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I guess HoN’s massive amounts of choices overwhelm me so I can’t try them all without pissing off a lot of people cuz I was still experimenting.
Regardless, my ID is “TechKnight” if you do wanna add me
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Do no-stat games. They really do help!
Try and focus on a few heroes of each type (int, agi, str) before moving onto experimenting with others.
Some good ones to start with are:
STR: Pebbles, Accursed, Magmus
INT: Witch Slayer, Myrmadon, Thunderbrigner
AGI: Scout (much to people chagrin), the MadmanTry them out, get a feel for them, then start playing stats! 😀
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So just do casual? Okay might as well. I’m thinking more towards having an AGI based character
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I’d be up for some casual play to see if I like it. Is there a F2P mode/version? Would it be possible for CPT Eats-A-Lot and AnonymousePezdispenser to show us the ropes maybe possibly this week?
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It is entirely F2P same with LoL. Yes characters are locked in LoL but you can purchase them with the currency you earn from playing. I will be playing them both, but yeah would love another to join me in casual so I don’t learn alone, discuss strategies with and all 🙂
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Lol, you people think I have skillz in HoN?
I’m actually looking for some people to play with regularly. Only played a few matches so I have a (very very) basic understanding of it (and still have yet to bind my keys up proper).
If you guys are interested, add me on steam! Jager_8ight (Anonymous Pessimist)
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Join the Kotaku AU group and you’ll see most of us! 😀
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Already on there, you sod.
No love for the Pessimist?
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PublicOptimist doesn’t post much, though, so I’d hardly call him a regular!
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Already got ya 😉 expect to tag up with me regularly 🙂
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I’m sorry to hear your initial experience with HON was so bad. I think a lot of newbies get absolutely blasted when they first start playing, which is a bit sad. The community could do with a few lessons in spelling, grammar and manners too.
I was lucky and started playing during the beta and essentially hopped straight from dota to hon, and double lucky because my entire clan migrated with me at the same time so we were all playing together anyway. Ahh beta, when my stats were so good… *stares wistfully into the distance*
*ahems* Anyway, I think you’ve added me on steam so I’d be glad to give you a call next time we’re going to play! The boys are nice and very newbie friendly; just as AnonymousPessimist!
I didn’t have time to work on my SO-YOU-WANNA-PLAY-HON vid over the weekend unfortunately but I’d be more then happy to help you get on your feet when you next play the game. It’s really worth sticking out for. I don’t think I could say the same for LoL and keep a straight face, though.
tl;dr = Keep playing, I’ll be glad to help you!
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That’s a very sweet offer and I’d happily accept to tag up with fellow Kotaku players. I got TS as well so I have mic capability. (And yes many have pointed out I sound human, but so do Cylons remember? :P)
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I just found out that Kotaku US has their own TAY thing. It looks like it’s a weekend only thing though, and they’ve only got 358 comments. You guys think we should go and show them how to TAY properly? 😀
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I think they actually started theirs after us IIRC…
…copy-cats… 😛
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Do we have doppelgangers then?
Is there an IncognitoDefeatist posting there?
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Yupp!
There’s also a ♥TedMed♥, a Chupoola, a Unwelbot, a SteampunkKnight, a Sark Merrels and a Wierd, amongst others.
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Pfft… SteampunkKnight, I doubt his blaster even fires! Sounds like a defective robot to me
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What would mine be? Porschegirl99? Hmmm, this may not be too bad after all 😛
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nope, BMWwomanisgodessasaurs. 😛
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Now it’s Porschegirl99! 😛
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:-O there’s a Zumulys!????
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Maybe they’re Sirro-Strahtas.
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Nice!
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My alter ego/dopplethingy is a dude called ‘Slim Sunshine’… It is a nickname I tried to give to my best mate years ago and he didnt really dig it… I am now keeping it..
Slim Sunshine is an awesome name! xD
Sounds like the name of a soft drink. Something with an orange or lemony flavor.
Also I guess my opposite would be Everythingisok Dog.
True, probably sugar free.
Slim Sunny for short?
Ah ok, I see… I see who’s important to you now. That’s cool…
well, your doppelganger doesn’t go by anything remotely close to Sughly. She goes by the name of EmpteesArt.
And apparently she *never* delivers…
I love comments like this. You know why? Because when I hit the “Approve” button in admin mode, I truly mean it 😀
lolol!
I’m keeping an eye out for Perfume Girl.
There’s also Lady-doesn’t-eat-much (who in true internet tradition, is a man), Hasten who hates coffee in all it’s forms and also Janie Why?
Love it! 😀
LOL!! That’s gold.
Good Lord!
Tell me there isn’t a James Mic and a JamesMicUsedMyHandle?
Batguy’s bizarro equivalent is Superchick? Jokegal? Flashdoll?
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If it’s Twogal you might wonder if you’re dealing with twin ladies 😉
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Flashdoll is an awesome name.
@AnonymousPessimist
Shouldn’t that be WellknownOptimist?
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Only if our Gangers were our opposites instead. Everyone seems to have confused themselves and got all carried away with opposites instead of creepy alternate us-es.
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What if, and I’m only speculating here, what if Strange had a doppelganger and everyone knew she was a girl.
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Well yeh they’d be exactly the same, only much more flexible…
I noticed that, but thought opposites were more fun.
My creep alternate me would be “Stank Man”
My creepy form would either be “Shoutdude” or “Vomitguy,” depending on what meaning you use for “Blagh.”
Maybe in bizarro land, sir!
We sourupuss types never have optimistic counterparts. It doesn’t work in double negatives like that. I’d explain why but it goes into quantum mechanics and stuff. Stephen Hawkings wrote a book about it.
Mine would be Nuslady
I don’t want to even think about my doppelganger…
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ReasonableResponseWoman is a fine lady…
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Yeah, but she never sings (that may be a good thing), and while sensible and well-loved, she really is completely boring.
i swear i saw a guy called “Super General C-Disco”
358 is a pretty good effort in my opinion.
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Amateurs…
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recalling what TAY used to be like, a valliant effort indeed. Especially if it’s only up for the weekend.
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Remember, the US of A has over 10 times Australia’s population.
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If they were like us, they could hit 20000 comments in a week!
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Also remember that their editors aren’t exactly the nicest kids on the block, and their readership is dwindling. So 358 may actually be a solid effort for them!
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THIS is an epic thread.
My opposite would be:
Jimima Lei-Lei or Jimima Jump-man.
US Kotaku’s TAY used to be daily and would have several hundred comments by the time I woke up in the morning, rendering the whole exercise pointless because the comment system effectively buried everything after a certain point.
2000 comments in a week probably happened by Wednesday.
Okay, with the whole Microsoft + Skype thing… what does this mean for (official) non-gaming applications of Kinect?
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I feel bad that nobody has replied to you yet… but I’m not sure what you’re asking. Did you want to know if they’re going to be producing Skype for Xbox 360 that uses Kinect? If yes, then they have already confirmed that this is in the works. If no, then please elaborate 🙂
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…I didn’t mind that no-one was responding until you pointed it out… :'(
And yeah, sort of – I heard the Skype for 360 part, but I’m more curious about what this might mean for proper Kinect support on PC (I know they’re on the verge of releasing an SDK)
There’s only so much you can do on the 360: with a PC there’s a lot more potential (e.g. sign-language, gesture and audio recognition would really come into their own; for now they seem like a novelty) – sure, considering Skype as-is, it’s a very expensive webcam with some motors and a depth sensor… but I guess the question is, does the Skype purchase hint at something more with Kinect/would Kinect have motivated the decision that much?
If so, what’s it going to change and/or achieve? (i.e. ignoring mo-cap, robotics, etc. that people are already doing, is it really gonna help ‘normal’ consumers)
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Most PC’s and laptops come with built-in web cams anyway… I doubt it will change for them.
I don’t know if skype has a subscription to use it… but given the way they were hemmoraging money, I doubt it.
I’d say all future Kinect’s come with a built in Skype software bundle… and if MS moneytise it possibly a trial subscription.
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Anyone seen ‘The Rebel Flesh’ yet? 😀
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Yes. Not as creepy as I was hoping but definitely had a bit of an old-school Who vibe which was nice.
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It’s pretty freaky! It was a good setup episode, I really hope that the second part can deliver on thrills.
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Gah i’m barely in front of the normal tv with dr who. I have to watch it when i’m in the right frame of mind and when i’ve got the right setup for example i have to watch at night in the dark in a cold room. I treat it wAAAAAAY to seriously. But also i’m loving this new season. 😉
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STOP.
No spoilers!
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Sticking by River’s rules aye? fineee
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You suck 😛 It’s too late you’ve already broken the space-time continuum, who knows what’ll happen now…
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STOP!
Hammer time!
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Alright STOP.
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Collaborate and listen.
Ice is back with a brand new addition.-
More appropriate given our Editor:
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Dr Hoo really seems to be a weekly horror thing now. Not complaing, thought Russel T. went a little too soapy!
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Sure, but apparently there’s a drop in viewers in the UK, and they’re blaming it on the more less family friendly storylines.
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It’s because it’s better, the better something is the less popular. My theory is wrong because Spider-Man…
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I bet Matt Smith had heaps of fun with his Ganger! WHO THE HECK IS THAT EYE PATCH LADY?!
Goddamit! Why is everything linked through Arsebook? Means I can’t do it at work and will prolly forget when I get home!!
ARGH!
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You talking about the M$ competition for a million gazillion bajillion points… yeah me too.
If not, then yeah me too anyway because I hate AB.
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Stragely enough I was on that page when I wanted to type that and then sudden;y that page was gone and I was typing here…
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I don’t think you need to be a AB member to use it. I submitted an entry successfully without logging in, and the T&C only ambiguously say that you have to “log on to http://www.facebook.com/xboxanz and click the competitions tab”.
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Entire site is blocked at mine
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I finally sat down and had a fair crack at Minecraft this weekend, got it ages ago but never found the time to get into it and I gotta say its sweet as. Didnt do too much but built a few houses and stuff. Hopefully I get some more time to play soon
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Yes, you have to really put in a solid 2 or so hours working out what the general ‘thing’ is about it being so addictive. I thought it was lame and naff when i first tried it, but forced myself to follow a guide to survive the first night, and I was hooked. There’s also most likely the chance to join in the kotaku server, but check with FS first though.
Can I get a show of hands for who is seriously interested in heading to the EB Games Expo in the Gold Coast (15th-16th October)?
I’m thinking of flying up on the Friday and returning on Monday.
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How much does it cost?
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Not sure I understand the pricing, but from the website it sounds like there are 3 sessions, and you have to buy a ticket for each session. Not suggestion of a weekend pass or anything like that.
The event is split into three 6 hour sessions:
Saturday Daylight – 10am to 4pm
Saturday Twilight – 4pm to 10pm
Sunday – 10am to 4pm
Each ticket gives access to one session only:Prepaid general admission is $29.95 INC GST
VIP Experience tickets are $99.95 INC GST and are only available for pre-purchase.
General Admission tickets purchased on the day of the event are $31.95 INC GST.-
Additional Info on VIP tickets:
What will the VIP Experience ticket include?
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-Red Carpet Entry
-Priority Seating to all Arena Events
-Express Access to selected games inside the Exhibition
-VIP viewing area for the Exhibition grand finale (Limited numbers).
-Individually numbered VIP Lanyard
-VIP Showbag with limited edition GameInformer
-Souvenir Green Screen Photo
-Backstage access to media interview recordings. (Subject to scheduling and availability. Invites will be limited to VIP guests, who must RSVP, tickets will be awarded on a first come first served basis)
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If I import my ticket from the UK will it be cheaper?
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The plane ticket from Sydney is only about $50. So, I might go. Depends on how much uni work I’ve got at the time.
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*Shows both hands*
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I dunno… still dont know enough about it. I’m pretty pessimistic about the whole thing still. I reckon it will be suck.
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I might go too, given flight prices and that I can fly from Avalon.
So I finally got around to watching New Police Story last night (7 years late).
Probably the best Jackie Chan film that has come out in the last few years.
Not quite as comedic as the older police story films, as it is a more serious reboot of the franchise (Jackie plays an alcoholic cop in it). But definitely worth seeing for anyone who has not seen it.
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There’s also this bit where they fight in some sort of giant LEGO room.
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The LEGO room fight was quite awesome. Ridiculous, but awesome.
It did surprise me LEGO Group would allow their brand to be used that way, what with usually trying to be kid-friendly.
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I love this movie. Less comedy, more serious, makes Jackie Chan epic.
Love the ending, on the roof.
So it is time for my Backbreaker Fanboy to come out again (wow that soulds like I have someone locked in the basement??)
Anyway, Just wanted to share some news from earlier today that the Backbreaker Vengeance XBLA game will also be coming to PS3 users. Previously when this download only game was announced it seemed to be an Xbox exclusive.
If you didn’t know, BBV is the console follow up to the iPhone games that have sold millions, but instead of being a simple port (like that would work), this is a arcade game that utilises the best parts of their retail release while focussing on the arcade fun (good for Aussies that aren’t that familiar with Gridiron).
Here is the trailer – game to be released sometime in summer (winter here?)
http://www.gamefront.com/backbreaker-vengeance-trailer/
Think of it as a true pick up and play/pass and play/multiplayer sport game where you are not limited to the rules and complexity of a gridiron game. Tackle or be tackled!
I have spoken to one of the team at Natural Motion who confirmed THIS is actually the game that the dev team intended on making initially. I have not been told the reason why the shift but the full retail release, while technically amazing, did little for the hardcore football fans.
I’ll try not to bug you about this much, I am just a big fan of the technology behind this game and seeing as though the iPhone games were such a hit, I have high hopes for this console release.
PS. I have two fav developers right now which are Redlynx (Trials HD, and soon to be released MotoHeroz wii and 1000 heroz iOS) and Natural Motion (Backbreaker). I don’t know why I’m such a fan but I am, so will do my part to assist them and get the word out. I get nothing out of this, just want as many people to get on board.
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I’m interested in MotoHeroz, but its gonna be a hard task having to go the the effort of hooking the Wii up again. Sadly, its kinda spending its time looking like an futuristic anorexic letterbox in the cupboard.
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Yeah I got mine out of storage but not pluggin in yet. I will get motoheroz tho.
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This is so funny, it’s a comment on macrumors on one of the app store trademark legal battle articles.
TheSovereign
They were called “programs” forever, and once Apple became popular and called their programs APPS, now everyone wants to call their programs “apps”.
If Apple called them Little Pieces of Crap at the Little Pieces of Crap Store we would be reading an article how Microsoft says that their programs have been Little Pieces of Crap from the beginning and they should be allowed to call their online store the Microsoft Little Pieces of Crap Store (if this was really the case, I would have to agree with Microsoft on this one). When you have only one tech company, and a whole bunch of copy cats, these things will happen. There has been no original thought out of Amazon, Microsoft, Google, etc.
I have to side with Apple on this one. There were no “apps” prior to Apple calling them so.
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WHat really gets me is the use of the words “Killer App”, not a problem until people start saying sh♥t like: “The 3DS needs that killer App.”
Errr, noooo. The 3DS needs a good game. Who cares if it has an App. Of course they were talking about games…
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Actually apple stole it from the warez community. They were calling programs appz long before the ipod and iphone were even conceived. :0
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Haven’t macs been using .app for their programs for ages too? Correct me if I’m wrong (and I probably am because I don’t have a mac) but isn’t .app the macintosh version of.exe?
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So far as I can tell, OS 9 and backwards didn’t use an extension for applications, but they kept the data that it was a program internally, and it was only at some point during the OSX era that they added the .app as an extension.
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Apps are apps, always been apps, when apps were apps, we called em apps, or appz, but still apps, if apple want to steal old ideas about apps and call em apps thinking they made apps apps, well i appsolutly dont apping care.
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dunno.. i’m not a mac person either
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See if we went to macs we’d be reprogrammed to think we are functional because of magic… *shudders*
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That’s not true, they’ve been called applications for ages, the public called them apps long before the iPhone (at least at every IT place I worked at). Apple just took something and made it popular jargon among the luddites!
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I call them “applications” and always have. Really hated how Apple tried to make a “hip” and quick name for it, and worse, succeeded in making it mainstream. It infuriates me when people say it around me.
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Reminds me of the kid in the US who was granted a patent on swinging sideways (instead of forwards and backwards) at the playground.
Congrats Jamie and Chupoola.
Sorry missed that on Friday and had a mostly computer free weekend.
Good job!!s!
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Cheers mate! I almost missed it myself.
Hello again, Cave Johnson here.
Has anyone ever tried this PS3 accessory?
http://www.ozgameshop.com/ps3-accessories/official-sony-wireless-thumb-keypad-for-controller-ps3
Is it any good? (Heck, I already bought one. AU$20? Bargain!)
Hello again, Cave Johnson here.
Has anyone tried this PS3 accessory? It’s a wireless QWERTY keypad that can attach to the top of a PS3 SixAxis/DualShock controller.
http://www.ozgameshop.com/ps3-accessories/official-sony-wireless-thumb-keypad-for-controller-ps3
Is it any good?
Grrrrrrr
So mad at this video, totally bring bad vibes to the Tay, I’m sorry, but sometimes cops cant be mean a-wipes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdkJxw1mPoM
splitting his head open, is that really necessary? I mean, its not like he was able to run away! So mad! >:-(
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I can’t see how they can justify picking a guy out of a wheelchair and splitting his head open on the pavement. That’s just messed up.
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You humans are so needlessly violent…
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Surely they could have just turned off his electric wheelchair?
I’ve been transferred to Vice Desk, I’m not sure whether I should be happy or sad. It’s theoretically a promotion, but I’m stuck with a pretty boy partner who’s obsessed with his own image. It stings, because he reminds me of a younger me. We went out to the west side of the city, a pile men, stone cold dead. Six of them, all in one room, overdosed on Morpheine. My partner and I took some for… verification. This stuff isn’t pure, it certainly couldn’t curtail the pain I’m feeling. I’ve given up caring about this city. Nobody else does, so why should I?
(Firstly, I just reached the Vice Desk In L.A. Noire, and I’m still enjoying it (haven’t done any Vice cases yet though). Secondly, Sydney Meat 2.0 people, my cousin’s birthday will be around the 26th ish, and I’m supposed to turn up because he’s little and adorable (turning two), but my Aunt and Uncle live up nearish to Sydney, so this may make my job even easier, so I’ll keep anybody who cares informed about my availability.)
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You know, I read the first paragraph and was honestly shocked… then I read further, lol 😛
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Sorry, I forgot to start playing some Jazz, I’m running out of genres that I can recall off the top of my head…
OOOoooohh, Dixieland, how did I forget about that. Next time, Gadget!
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When I read the first line I thought “Dixieland”
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I have a cd which says “Dixieland” on it within reach, and quite visible of where I sit (It’s a compilation, history of Jazz, Dixieland to Swing). I have no idea how I forgot it. :/
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I care! Keep me informed.
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You guys with your L.A Noire stories make me want to get it. But sadly i’m not playing any more games until i get my new computer and sort Magicka and super meaty boy out.
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Yeah, but the game isn’t nearly as awesomely “noir” as my amazing writing. *Looks around sketchily to makes sure nobody catches me out on calling my writing anything better than “average”*
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I’m ordering it from Zavvi so I’ll have to wait. Got a 10% off voucher so I’ll be getting LA Noire, Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood and Enslaved: Odyssey to the West for around $95 all up. Pretty happy with that.
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I don’t care about no one!
Which obviously means I care about everyone.
Looks like we’re all down for the 26th then. Are we just going for the same venue as last time?
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Keep me in the loops Blaghs!
Also, why am I your partner in crime investigation? I demand an explanation.
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Nah, you remind me of what I’ll be like in about six years.
OK, that’s exactly the same as I am now, but less fat… Just uhh, just bear with me…
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I will assume you did your darnedest to give me a compliment just there.
*pat pat* attaboy, you’re trying – and that’s the important thing!
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Pshh, who wouldn’t want to be like me? I’m bi-polar! I mean awesome! Or something…
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I’m sorry Bishlewishlekins, next time there will be food references. Just for you.
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My friend didn’t know that the family in “Third Rock From The Sun” were aliens, so we made a film about it.
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Eh? Please elaborate. What did he think was going on?
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Note: Anecdote doesn’t always directly relate to the film. We used the idea of Mike not understanding the core concept of something to create an film around it.
But to elaborate, I have no idea how his brain works and still tells his organs to function. He watched “Third Rock” religiously and only as we were talking about it one afternoon did he realise that they were aliens.
I assume he just thought they were weird? Like it was the funny version of Party of Five?
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Note: I fully understand.
Watched the film. Enjoyed the film.The anecdote was what baffled me. Add to that the fact that he watched the show religiously…
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He also has the effect of making himself and others around him stupider in situations that they are trained for.
Example. We went Mic shopping yesterday. I know mics, he knows mics.
He asks me, “What’s better Condenser or Dynamic for me do you reckon?”
Me -blank stare as I try to remember the difference-
Him “Maybe I mean ribbon”
Me -blank stare as I try to remember if ribbon is a type or brand of mic-
Him “Maybe I’ll just got with a Shure”
Me -practically yelling- “SOUNDS LIKE A SHURE THING!” -blank stare-
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Mics eh?
I have a few nice ‘uns.
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Party of five IS the funny version of Party of Five!
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Oh man, the episode where the brother’s plane crashed on the island after the sister was terrorised by a masked killer with a penchant for horror movie cliches, while the other sister was terrorised by a masked killer with a hook, soon after the first sister conspired with her friend to frame a school counselor for rape was my favourite episode.
Also I’m sure the others had careers as well…
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I remember they all had asthma or something that kept them from sayin a whole word without breathing between sylables.
Also, the little sister got hot by the time she was in ‘Not Another Teen Movie’.
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And they all wore thumb rings and sweaters off one of their shoulders.
90’s…
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I’ve been frantically watching MTG video to remember how to play the game. Turns out they’ve added quite a few mechanics since 2001.
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SO many crazy new abilities. Some of them super cheap too.
Regarding those cards from Good Games, my brother said there were quite a few where you’d get 3 or 4 of a kind across the whole 24 packs. He didn’t seem too bothered by it, though, because it meant he was able to add several of them into his deck if they were good.
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I had a really great deck when I first started playing, really offensive, damage early and often. But after I changed high school I couldn’t find any other players. So I kinda became more of a collector.
I’m still a collector, but I’m trying to build up a good deck again. It doesn’t help that I actually have zero basic lands in my deck. eBay here I come.
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So me and my mates are having an Epic Meal Time this Friday. We getting a crapload of bacon and making bacon wrapped lamb in beer batter, bacon stuffed chicken, hashbrown balls, jack daniels marinated kangaroo and making a bacon bowl to put chips in. Its going to be so tasty and heart cloggingly good fun.
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Don’t do it! You’ll never be able to eat regular food again!
Sounds sooooooo good.
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Friday you say? Where do you live again? I’m coming over.
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Me too, I’ll bring some music with me 😛
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Celebrate with me by having bacon all night. Eat until you burst. It’ll be like taking Charlie Sheen.
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Friday shall be referred to as Baconday henceforth.
At least, until someone makes up the inevitable horrendous Baconday song. And no Blagh, that was not a challenge.
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ITS A TRAP!
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All glory to the deliciously tasty bacon god.
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*drools*
My friends did 20 cheese burgers, 4 large fries and 20 chicken nuggets between the two of them. I’ll try and dig up the photo of all the cheeseburgers in the back seat of our car.
I was unfortunately not present at the time.
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Food challenge at the next Sydney meat lets do iiitttttt
Who can down two Subway foot longs and a dozen Subway cookies???
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Normally I don’t mind what people eat (unless it’s other people), however it is somewhat emasculating to see Strange and yourself drooling over this Epic Meal Time while all I can think is “Ugh… pass” XD
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Well they don’t call me eats-a-lot for nothin’ !!
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Was going to make some comment about the product of your emasculation and eating but thought better of it….
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Yes… in hindsight, I could’ve phrased that a little less suggestively – I appreciate you not saying anything XD
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Just count yourself lucky Blaghs and/or I did not see this comment first…
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Yeah, you’re right, it could have been much penis. I mean worse…
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I came home around 22:00 lima on Friday night with every intention of getting my Red-Dead on.
In what is perhaps the greatest piece of immersion in that game, the savanna I was riding in was completely deserted…
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*tumbleweed rolls past*
I bought a lamp from Officeworks earlier today. I did not buy the correct bulb, so I just went out to swap them and a storm hit when I was on the way back.
So much for walking the dog or bringing in the laundry.
On another note, yesterday I watched my first ever StarCraft 2 match. It was a Terran vs Terran mirror, one of them was TLO (I was linked because of his 24 hour charity stream) and the other some Korean dude.
Interesting stuff, but what I really noticed was how easily the skills displayed could have translated over to online poker. Resource management, paying attention to ten different things at once. Many, many small little things that could convert into making lots of moneys.
Bertrand Grosspellier (better known as Elky) made the transition from pro SC player to high stakes poker pro. I wouldn’t be shocked if there were others. There’s also a reasonably well known SF player who is also a high stakes poker pro, but his name escapes me.
Makes me wonder how many skills developed in gaming could translate into other areas.
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Gameing made me better at Teabagging.
True story.
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Tetris vastly improved my block stacking skills. Packing a moving van is easy, aside from the physical part.
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I’m hoping that all those years I’ve spent playing Need for Speed games help me learn how to drive more quickly.
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Call of Duty is good for one thing, after my years of playing it I know all the humans weak spots for my robotic allies to take advantage of later
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Ninja Gaiden helped me be more confident wearing tight, black leather in public.
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I was going to say “Ninja Gaiden 2 helped me… jiggle my boobs?” in reference to the sixaxis boob jiggling, but I thought that might have been a bit weird to say.
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Thanks to you and O Smelliferous One above you I now have some very…interesting mental images.
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To make it even worse (Just for you, Strange):
Ninja Gaiden 2 helped me jiggle my moobs.
But then, so does any Kinect game.
You’re welcome.
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I read this as
‘Testes vastly improved my bollocking skills’
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Also true.
Diablo II inventory management: I pack the best moving boxes in the country.
Diddy Kong Racing made me better at banana eating
I’ve seen some people put online poker on their resumes, as a “risk management” trait.
Whether or not they got the job, I do not know.
Also, playing Heavy Rain has made me a better serial killer.
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Joking!
Never played Heavy Rain.-
It’s nothing like the real thing, trust me.
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Yeah. Games will never be able to accurately portray the horror after the first.
Then the need. Always there, gnawing at your core…
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Thanks to minecraft i can now chop wood with my bare hands. It has also taught me that jumping from whatever height i will survive if there is a tiny bit of water at the bottom.
Playing RPGs allowed me to carry a ridiculous amount of stuff around with me wherever I go in real life.
Mass Effect helped with my people manangement and “office relations”…..
This entire mini thread – so much lol.
I’m pretty sure I could beat Vettel in real life now in F1 racing thanks to F1 2010
Just finished my Japanese speaking assessment. Huge relief.
Could really go for some allen water now. Thirst quenching.
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Alan Wake 2: Allen Water
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EGADS.
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Where is Chuloopa today?
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Gon’ Fishin’
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I sen’t him to find Carmen San-Diego.
There was suddenly an opening at the top of the ‘must find’ list.
Read through the past 2 pages of comments.
Sorry I won’t be around as much this week, I just broke up with my boyfriend. He gave me back my stuff, which includes the Fable 3 Xbox 360 controller I used at his place, I don’t even have a Xbox 360 myself : (
Also it’s nearing the end of uni semester, got to finish off my assignments. Will be posting more often (aka “spamming”) once I’m back to normal.
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Bummer.
On the plus side, you’ve just given yourself a great excuse to pick up a 360 and get some serious gaming time in once exams are over.
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Haha, every time I look at my xbox controllers I consider buying a new one.
Now I’m going to have to try and find a good price. Damn it.
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Its both funny and sad that you are more cut about not having a xbox more than your breakup. lol I hope you can sort your stuff sorted. 🙂
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***Hand dwadle tub of Haagen-Dazs and bottle of Cottees hot fudge topping***
Works for all my female friends when they have a break up
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*claps hand on your shoulder*
Remember, you have the entirety of Kotaku AU here if you need us.
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Um… This cheered Jimu up when he was down:
http://bit.ly/m6gZ3I
(They’re brother and sister)
(It made Jimu happy)
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I think that only cheers up Jimu because it pisses me off.
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I sense a lot of myself in Jimu – a man that can only take pleasure from another man’s suffering…
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I’m blushing!
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Even though you are correct Trjn, I do find amusement in your pissed-offedness. I was already smiling the first time I saw that pic…it’s so wrong it’s right!
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Sorry to hear that Dawds. I think the ice cream and the xbox are both great idea to help you cope. Endless hours in minecraft will also help.
But here is also something that may cheer you up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mwCs6yOuUU
Hope the link is good cause can’t check at work.
Awww no sorry to hear that Dawdle 🙁 I’m always up for a chat on Steam if you want help taking your mind off it 🙂
Sucks to hear that 🙁
If you don’t want to buy a 360, you might be able to pick up a 360 usb wireless adapter for you PC and still put the controller to good use.
Also listening to arcade fire seems to help. Or really good any time. Actually everyone listen to arcade fire right now. any song is good.
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Who are arcade fire?
*Waits for impending hipster attack*
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RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!
[powers up]
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They’re no Beyonce.
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I just pretend to be hipster. I’m more waister instead. Lol
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I’m a love-handler…wait that sounds wrong!
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That sucks dawdle.
Have a picture of an adorable animal to cheer you up:
http://images.pictureshunt.com/pics/f/fluffy_guinea_pig-8235.jpg
Hey dawds…
I just ready our post after making my first post of the day, now i feel really bad 🙁
I’m so sorry, but as eats-a-lot said, We’re ALL here for you if you need us, whether we a pretend or not 🙂
we wuv woo!!!
http://s3.amazonaws.com/kym-assets/photos/images/original/000/121/563/i%20wub%20woo.jpg?1304928747
Breaking up sucks. Mainline a crappy TV show to take your mind off things. I’ve also found that changing your hairstyle/colour can work wonders when trying to move on. *hugs*
My advice: watch craploads of Gossip Girl, then brace yourself for the the attention of all the dudes with who have crushes on you.
Good luck – you’ll need it!
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/me takes ticket number 1
Seriously tho, sorry to hear about the breakup! The guy is obviously crazy! Visit my Cuppy Cake store in MC, totally fat free.
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Just remember the guide to Girls dieting:
If it’s broken, the calories fly out.
If you eat it while exercising, it has no calories.
If you’re eating with friends? No calories!
Feeling fat? No calories!
Feeling sad? No calories!
Bored? No calories!
Last thing on the plate? No calories!
Has a redeeming feature? No calories!And uhh, I think you get the idea.
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You have my most sincere condolences, Miss Dawdle, never forget that the internet will always be here for you
Damn Dawdle, sorry to hear that. It’s never fun to go through these things. Keep your chin up and the days will get easier.
Like everyone has said, us Kotakuites are here for you.
Take care of yourself, ok?
Sorry for your loss, chin-up Pip pip and all that!
I am sorry for your lots 🙁
So who else here is getting worried about the lack of 3DS games getting announced? I’m hoping for lots of announcements at E3 but it’s been pretty barren so far 🙁
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Bring on the Ocarina!
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I already own an ocarina made from the good stuff and in the shape of Taiwan!
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I’ve been meaning to write a piece on exactly this, and the fact that all the games appearing seem to be remakes. And the fact that I’m entirely cool with that, so long as they remedy the former predicament.
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I’m waiting for some Ace Attorney games, but it seems that capcom doesn’t want to translate them at the moment.
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Was the same thing with the DS, turned out to be my favourite handheld in the end. Second favourite console and with a lot of games from my forst favourite!
Picked up a bunch of Nintendo stuff at a garage sale recently. Bunch of NES games, A Zapper, a SNES console with controllers, a near pristine copy of Super Metroid etc.
All for $15.
The biggest surprise was at the bottom of the box. Near new original Xbox.
Colour me surprised.
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No one has yet said awesome so…. Awesome score dude.
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F.U.
I’m seriously JELLY!
Hey guys!!
Sorry i haven’t been on today – it’s been hella hectic… but i wanted to make some time to stop by and spread my joyous news!!!
Tomorrow is my 26th birthday, and my family came by to see me for it a little early yesterday.. Hows this for some freakin Awesome gifts…
-Tekken 6 arcade stick bundle – I FINALLY HAVE AN ARCADE STICK FOR MY 360!!! :D:D
-Serious sam hd collection (1+2) for 360
-The Founding – Warhammer 40,000 novel (it’s the first omnibus for the gaunts ghosts novels, which are freakin rad)
-A pack of all natual mario jellies – i have never seen jellies look so rad! I’ll have to take shots for you guys
-$150 spending money… *drools*
So utterly stoked! 😀
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Oh man, if it’s your birthday I’d better get to work on your song… Ehh, too much effort.
Do you feel like giving yourself a birthday gift by continuing the tale of the great ship Kotaku?
(Nice work with the other stuff too)
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I hope to have something tomorrow if work isn’t too busy… how about a teaser from what i have written??
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“I have an 8” Fatshady said, matter of factly, keeping his card concealed from the group.
The heavy weapons specialist was a behemoth of a man, easily a head taller than anyone else at the table, with muscles throughout his body that were surely wrought of iron.
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AAhahahahahaAAAAahHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
[explodes]
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I read that as “I have an 8 inch”. I wasn’t supposed to, right? Right?!
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I… I also may have thought that at first.
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Thank god, I thought I was the only one who seriously misread that.
I thought Chuloopa had started writing Kotaku porn fanfics.
…I’ll admit, I wanted to know what happened next.
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What can I say… great minds think alike.
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We all know that this story will eventually lead to porn. This is just a short term journey where he is setting the up the major plot points. As soon as he introduces a pool (which will need to be cleaned) it’s all over.
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I did!
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Yeah… At first I was impressed, but then I saw he was playing cards…
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Hmm, let’s see… Overanalysis time… (Thank you, btw)
Clearly. from the description, TadMod is not at this table, however the language used indicates that we’re dealing with a friendly character. Since the story so far kept Mark as its focus, we can assume that he has gone off to find Shady himself. Thus, we can ascertain that there is a reason MadTod is not there. There are only a few options, but again, based on the language, I would consider this to be prior to the assault on the Atkinson. As such, either Tad has been assigned to do something else, while Mark goes off to gather people for a clinical assault, or Tad is so against the plan, that he has backed out, telling Mark only that he “warned him.”
Or, you know, there could be some other reason, that will be explained in due time… Or, I’m just making shit up…
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I friggin LOVE those jellies! Oh and I guess the other stuffs cool…BUT JELLIES!
I need you to stand in for my birthday please, you seem to score rather well! Its the perfect triangle I tell you, mine is lopsided, and has a patch missing as if I was attacked by a pack of drunken shavers whilst passed-out.
Congrats young man on the 26th!
Also congrats on the arcade stick mate. Ive only had one for a few weeks but I have street fighter IV and i really enjoy it mate.
HARPY BURTDAYE!
Breaking Bad is the best TV show and Arrested Development is the best sitcom.
Problem?
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This is a fair assessment. Except Firefly is better than Breaking Bad. Though Breaking Bad is quite an excellent show. ABC needs to hurry up and show series 3!(or 4? I’m fairly sure it’s 3 they’re up to)
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Aside from your poor taste in television?
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You fool! Those two shows are CLEARLY the best shows ever made.
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You best be trolling.
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I hope he isn’t!
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You best have a head injury.
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Arrested Development is an awful show.
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Arrested Development is one of THE WORST sitcoms i have ever had the displeasure of viewing.
I gave it a shot on 3 occasions, and each time i just felt dirty for watching it.
IT WAS HORRIBLE!
So my school’s (Insanely annoying) sports day(s) started with triple jump and a 1500m run today, with the rest of the torture to happen tommorrow
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Can’t wait to have my ass handed to me in everything
#unfit
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I once faceplanted whilst running the 4x100m relay.
In the finals. Where everyone was watching.
We did not win.So yeah, there’s a tip! Don’t faceplant, and you’ll be fine!
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I was decent at sport, then puberty happened.
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We have no hot water ’til at least Thursday!
And I didn’t do any dishes on the weekend so they’re all dirty. If it doesn’t get fixed on this week I may be turning up for Operation: Invade Welbot’s house all super-stinkified. Eek!
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I find this incredibly amusing because it’s not me.
I would like a day-by-day stench report.
And yes, page 2 is filling up with an unnerving amount of my comments because I’m waiting for Brink to finish a 3.2gb ‘update’ despite the 5gb dvd installation.
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Embrace the stench.
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DISHES CAN BE CLEANED IN COLD WATER, just takes a little more elbow grease.
I went through this when our hot water machine sploded and flooded the apartment…smelly!
Also had a job interview, had to wake up EXTRA early and walk to a mates and use hid STINKY shower!
Jog: Commenced.
Bogan (referred to hereafter as ‘gandalf the westie’): Present on side of road smoking a cigarette.
Comment made: None.
Operation run around block: Success.
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KEEP ON TRUCKIN’ SON
*appears in a puff of smoke, steals your pants, then jumps up into the ceiling and runs away*
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DAMNIT. D:
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Hah, joke’s on you! I wasn’t wearing pants!
…can someone please call 000?
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Good thing i’m wearing a novelty G-string to ease tension!
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Good thing I was going Commando!
Oh yeah, feel that breeze.
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(Alright, fourth attempt at submitting a comment here)
Hello again, Cave Johnson here.
Does anyone here have the Official PS3 Keypad? It’s similar the Xbox 360 keypad that plugs into the controller. Is it any good?
(Well, for 20 dollars, it’s a pretty good deal!)
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For the record, this is what I’m referring to:
http://www.ozgameshop.com/ps3-accessories/official-sony-wireless-thumb-keypad-for-controller-ps3-
That looks badass! Yeah if I was on my PS3 often, which I’m not, I’d use that to chat to friends online
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If you chat or web browse on ps3 it’s a must (as is the 360 one if you chat).
I don’t own the ps3 on but have used it and it does as expected. If you’ve used the on screen keyboard more than twice you will agree it’s a good deal.
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Personally, I’ve found having a full USB keyboard next to me is the best way to go. Chances are you have one lying around and you can fire out sentences faster if your chatting in-game.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY LOOPS!!!
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Nipples for everyone!
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Happy Birthday indeed Chuloopa!
I also have authority to pass on Birthday wishes from Mr Qumulys cos he’s in hospital today! He wishes you the best for your age increment day!
Here’s also hoping that Mr Q-bo is ok too! I’m sure he will be since it’s nothing major, but hostipal is alwasy scary when you go under!
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Cherry Mirthday, Buloopa! Spucking foonerisms.
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Happy birthday!
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHULOOPA!!! May you enjoy your birthday celebrations 😀
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Happy birthday.. duuuuuuuude! hehe
Hope it’s a great one Chuloopa! 🙂
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Yaaaay! Happy Berfday! *Obligatory comment about your mum’s clacker*
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I’m not Commander Shepard, so my opinion means very little, but THIS is my favorite Birthday Comment on the Citadel.
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YESSSS! I win! 😀
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NOOOOO, I lose!
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Day of burthe HAPPIE!!!
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Appy-hay Irthday-bay! 😀
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I’d say seconded, but that ship sailed a while ago, by the looks of things.
Happy birthday Loops!
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I don’t have anything hilarious to say… but happy birthday!
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Bappy Hirthday loop-de-loop.
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happy birthday loopsie!
Qumulys, Notch seems to have fixed something in Minecraft just for you 😛
* Fixed fires being impossible to put out in multiplayer
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Oh Lord! I don’t think that’s news he will want to see when he gets home 😉 Lets just hope he doesn’t go on a doped up rampage tonight! hahahaha
Got a brilliant email today!
“Could someone check out 627057703 for me and see if they can transcribe all the fine print? The cut we have of the ad makes the fine print look like (and I quote) ‘someone dipped an ant in rainbow and let it crawl across the screen’ :)”
Sadly the ad has been replaced in the system so I cannot get a screen grab to send you. I’m quite curious what the trail of a rainbow dipped ant would look like.
Also Happy Birthday Loops!
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We have ants in our office kitchen at the moment.
If I catch one, and can find some rainbow, I will take a photo for comparison.-
That sucks. We have rainbows in our kitchen but no ants. Typical eh?
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Thanks mate.
you never emailed me about NWN – i’ve still got it if you still want it
Hopefully the PS Store fires up today…
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I’ve been checking the blog (US and Europe) and no mention of it going back up. They said the 24th (Or someone did) but that may be US time i.e. tomorrow. Fingers crossed tho. Got a bunch of stuff to redeem and things to buy.
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Outland outland outland outland? Outland outland outland outland outland outland. Outland outland.
Outland!
Sigh. My download usage for the month has been used up and my interwebs has slowed down to 64kb/s, at least during peak times. I don’t normally hit my limit but I was downloading a bunch of stuff onto my new computer I got at the start of the month.
Oh and happy birthday Chuloopa.
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Thanks mate 🙂
Also, you think that sucks? We didn’t have interent for the first 2 months of living in our new place up until just a few weeks ago… i’d take a slow connection over that anytime lol
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I used to hit my limit all the time, got so bad I had to increase it… or reduce how much porn I downloaded.
Lamboman!
Did you get me email yesto with the comic attached??
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No, but I did! Or did I…
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No you didn’t…
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Got it, thanks 🙂
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Woooooooop!
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Sorry TadMod but HoN threw another curve ball at me just after you left Steam, that I was running a Trial version and that I only had 10 games left that I’m allowed to play. Non-rated!… Sorry but that’s a serious marketing error there, I can understand no matchmaking or no rated matches until you buy full version but limiting the non-rated games? That’s just a pathetic move.
I first thought that since it was a trial, I would have all the casual games I could play to help me get used to having a hero I can use normally, getting a good build going and all that jazz so I’d be prepared for playing in ranked matches but… that’s not what I expected. The first impression I gotten from HoN has not been good at all so far, and this just makes it worse. Sorry Tad but my respect points you had for me will have to drop again because that’s more support towards LoL for me :(.
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Can you sign up for another trial, new account? lol.
Or maybe just buy it…
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lol I’m struggling to get motivated enough to do that or buy it at this current moment 😛
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Uncle Owen…
This Tech-Knight unit has a bad motivator.
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I thought it was gonna be the ninja dood from the megadrive/MvC2…I am dissapoint…ed.
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Good game
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Haha, I nearly forgot about this. The movie scenes with me and Arnie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMkXY6MN96E
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When I was a kid I always wondered why the guy was called ‘Sally’. It wasn’t till years later I realised they were saying Sully. The hilarity!
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Haha, yeah there’s a few Sully’s in film. One in (errrrgh) Perfect Storm, if I remember right. Ahhh, also… something else… which is on the tip of my tongue… blah!
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Sully from Uncharted 2!
You are a badass old man.-
Ah yep, that’s probably the one I was thinking of.
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How can you forget Monsters Inc. ?
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Of course! Gah! I even have a figurine of him on my desk for that very reason >_<
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Okay, today I reached optimum beard scratchyness. It feels like it’s trying to rip itself of of my face and make a break for freedom. Time to hack it off…
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Don’t do it man. What will you do next time you slam down an entire can of Solo in one go and it just runs down your face instead of getting stuck in a many fashion in your beard so you have to wipe it off on your sleeve. You’ll have to go back to drinking Pepsi Max…
Beards are all the rage.
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I’ll just leave this here.
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Arrrr tis troo ennuf!
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I heard Solo was for cats, or words to those effect. As manly as my beard is looking (And that’s pretty effing manly, let me tell you.) I. Hate. The. Itching!
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There’s nothing manlier than 5% real lemon juice.
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5% lemon juice, 10% gravel. MANLIER!
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Real gravel?
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I got rid of mine last night, I’ve not been clean shaven since Christmas. HORRIBLE. Keep it, mang.
hmmm… My beard downstairs is feeling the same. I may have to hack that off as well… or maybe just get rid of the crabs
Don’t do it! I just got over itchy beard. Just shampoo it a lot until the itchiness goes!
Does anyone know when Zavvi’s Monday Madness ends? Cause if it’s going to end shortly, it’s no use me putting the deals from it in cheapskate…
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Well, if it’s UK’s Monday, then it will end tomorrow morning.
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Woah, it’s Tuesday D:
Ignore that. It’s over already.
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Here’s something strange, the Monday Madness link is gone, but the games that were on special are still at their Monday Madness price…
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You know what that is… Madness!
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This. Is. SPARTAAAAAAA!
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Trying to plan a group holiday with my friends.
At first it was Bali, then it turned out that most of my friends couldn’t get there are the time we wanted to go.
Then we realised that we can’t do much until the Christmas/New Years period. Which means the plans changed to trying to do a ski holiday at Whistler in Vancouver.
Getting quotes for flights and accommodation for ten people is fun. Especially when right now I’m just ball parking dates and numbers because I won’t know who can do what until I tell them how much it costs.
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Sound like an awful feedback system to me. Good luck!
Ski holiday sounds fun.-
At this rate, we’ll end up going to New Zealand in 2015.
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bum…
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(Hehe)
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My copy of Brink arrived today.
Where were you a week ago when I cared?
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Me? I was home sick…
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You know what man? Screw you! I got here as fast as I could okay? It was hard! I got lost, there was no one to ask for directions! I have the Yoda voice on my Tom Tom and it go so bloody annoying I threw it out the window. I’m sorry about that but if I heard “Turn left you must hrmmmm” one more time….
I’m sorry you don’t care okay? I go out of my way to give myself to you, body & soul, and what do I get? Rejected! Rejected like a piece or rancid bacon on your sandwich of life!
I’m going to my mother’s! Don’t call me! *sob*
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*grabs some chips*
*parks butt on couch*
Mmmm, do continue.
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I think I’m… SHE’S done…
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Hi Jo’s Brink.
So… What way do you swing..?
‘Cause if you’re a PS3 kinda Brink, then you’re MY kinda Brink…-
I like to think that you use this line on actual women to try pick them up.
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I know, I know, you had to come all the way from the UK and that aint a trip down the shops.
But I needed you! The Razer Onza controller came last week and has sat there unused, waiting for you. There was a gaming void that I had hoped you would fill but you never came to fill it.
But something had to.
Some robotic pusher thrust a drug called M&B Warband on me and in my deprived state I have become hooked.
Where were you when I hadn’t shaved for over a week cause that would be less time playing it?
Where were you when due to lack of sleep I told my housemate to F**k off when he just wanted to play Halo?
Where were you when I was playing it till 4:30 monday morning, fell asleep, sleep through all 4 alarms and only woke up when my boss messaged me wondering why I was 2 hours late?
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I also got brink, Jo.
Did you get yours on console or PC? I’m assuming console if you’re using the onza.
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Yeah 360.
Anyone else playing it on 360?
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real men use a mouse and keyboard 😉
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When they’re not replacing hardware, or downloading updates, or checking for driver patches, or fighting DRM, or complaining about consolised games?
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I’m about to tuck in to some of my leftover Chicken Tikka Masala that I made (from scratch. No pre-made sauce here my friends) at the weekend.
What? I didn’t show you?
Omnomnomnom.
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My god, it’s beautiful…
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Dude.. nice..
I have a new found respect for you. 🙂Cooking = rad dacks quaks!
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Thanks man! That means a… Wait, does that mean you didn’t respect me before?
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I’ll let that puddle of drool on the floor next to me do the talking.
Respect.
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Good sir, if you would allow me to comment and marvel at the quality of food displayed in that given picture.
You have chosen a dish steeped in history, mystery surrounding its origins. Was it truly a dish made to adapt to the tastes of the British? Was it really dismissed by Indian chefs as unappetising and inedible? Whilst no doubt, like any culinary dish, it has changed throughout time, even if it was supposed to be a ‘joke’ dish, what we have here is a dish that is, flat-out, tasty. The rich, creaminess of a good yoghurt, and the combination of all the spices truly make for something sensational.
Not only that, but your photo is a visual feast for the eyes. Vibrant colours leap out at you, a combination of the red, yellow and green contrasting with each other. And next to that you have a wonderful geometric mismatch of the circular naan on a square plate, adding a much needed variance in the dish presentation.
Immaculately clean benchtop, too. Truly amazing.
If I wore a hat, sir, I would take it off to you, but alas, she has just left me in this formless state on the floor. Not even mopped up or in a drool bucket. Just here. In a pool. Slightly unhygienic.-
ROFL.
Oh god, I wish I could have such well-spoken drool. The conversations would be so interesting.
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HA! That was a work of art.
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Je-helly!
Hey guys – just wanted to say thanks again for the b-day wishes!!
I don’t want to take away from Sughly, but on this day 26 years ago, it was my mu that delivered!!!
BAM!! Like a mo-fo and that!!!
I won’t be on much this afternoon, i’m finishing work at 1 to go help Bee out. She needs a male model for her exam today. I’ll be getting a FACIAL!! *waits for crass joke influx*
But seriously, a free massage? Hells yes!
Then i get to go home and find out what she got me. Getting presents from bee is ALWAYS the best part of any birthday. She spends MONTHS picking up on things i say and planning stuff within our “birthday budget” and it ALWAYS ends up being awesome..
Also.. i’m totally torn. i can still get the duke hail to the king edition from the hut for ~$98, but i don’t know if it would be worth spending that much of my birthday money points on…
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If you get Terraria for your BDay, we’ll know she’s been stalking TAY D:
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She (thankfully) doesn’t look through TAY. lol
I was actually thinking of buying Terraria with my birthday dosh anyway.
I’d get minecraft, but i just don’t know if i have the time to invest in it, as neat as it looks
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Happy Birthday !!!!
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Happy birthday choops!
Worth it??
Zelda – 4 swords GBA – $14.50 (NO BOX)
Link to past – SNES – $33.50 (NO BOX)
Phantom Hourgflass – DS – $24 – (BOX $& MAnual)
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Yes. Phantom Hourglass is a pretty fun game. Haven’t played those other two but Link to the Past is worth it simply because of how hard it is to find a SNES game at a resonable price.
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You’re a semi-collector, right?
I don’t like things that are cartridge/disc only.
I like boxes.-
Ohgawd, no sexual innuendo intended!
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I like both, also I call the pink button on PS controllers box…and I like it too!
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hehe in-your-end-oh
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Yeah, i am a collector – i like to buy with boxes as much as possible, i just thought it was cheap as boxed it’s still around $100-150
Also was considering getting the Gamecube collectors edition which has the first 2 nes games as well as ocarina and majora… but that will be around $50 complete – if i’m REALLY lucky
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I actually have a spare copy of the Zelda Collection on Gamecube. Never got round to posting it on ebay (Along with all my other crap)
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I’d have to say yes to at least Link to the Past. Thats a pretty good price!
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Pretty sure that GBA 4 swords also has LttP, as that’s how I played it for the first time.
So if you’re just after a game to play, go the GBA one over the SNES one. Phantom Hourglass is pretty cool too, I enjoyed it.
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First point is semi-correct, it was called LttP and had a “+” 4 swords.
Don’t know why I’m bothering…I used to own this game and a “friend” lost it.
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OK, I’m bored.
Please someone post something entertaining here. If it’s a yootoob vid please post in a new unrelated thread cos I caint toon @ wurk!
Cheers
JIMU
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What about boobs? Are they okay at work?
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As long as they’re in shirts…
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Why couldn’t Barbie get pregnant?
Because Ken came in a different box.
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That a good 1!
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Ba dum tish!
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Hi Jimu!
How did you get the name Jimu? How old are you? What state do you reside in? Do you like gravy? What are you playing at the moment? Favourite game character of all time? Why? If you could bring one fictional character to life, who would it be and why? Do you have many scars? Where do you work?
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*takes the janitor’s red cordial away*
Jimu, at your leisure sir…
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sorry, I was just getting demoted! EXCUUUUUUUUUUUUSE me.
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Jimu is my Chinese name…
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Squall, because at that time in my life he reonated best
Spidey, there is no better
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Om nom nom. As I sit here munching away on some cheese and bacon rolls on my first day of leave, I have two musings from my morning adventures:
1. Ladies, if you have so much fake tan on that your lips are a lighter shade to the rest of your face, ur doin it wrong. Also, orange is not the color of tanned skin.
2. Ladies (again), unless you are made out of porcelain please avoid fake eyelashes.
This fashion tip was brought to you by the adventures of pessimism – yours to own now on DVD or blu-ray!
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Sir, your ‘DVD/Blu-Ray’ is just a cork coaster with a picture of Scotland on it.
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NO REFUNDSIES!
*runs*
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You telling me you’re not attracted to this!?
http://bit.ly/jC1xDG-
She’s pretty in that ‘looks like a kfc wing’ way.
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that’s a corker!
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But i’m not made out of porcelain, I’m made out of carved steel.
got any more pr0 tips?
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Stainless steel or the normal variety?
Oh yes, you will walk right into this one, won’t you… *rubs hands together*
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Shorts and tights… bad.
Denim shorts with pockets longer than the shorts… very bad.-
Just to prove you wrong I’m going to wear shorts and tights to the next meetup. Ha!
..Not that you’re going to be there. ;(
Pessimist, I have thought about it carefully and have come to the decision that I’m.. not going to answer that ;P
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Dammit eats, stop replying before I do, you keep making my replies look out of context!
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co-signed in epic fashion.
What is the world coming to when men have to give women fashion advice?
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That the men of Kotaku AU are stylish dudes?
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And yet I’m still single.
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He said stylish, not attractive!
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His name is “James Mac” how can he not be attractive?
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I play the bagpipes…
Chicks love a guy who can suck, blow, squeeze and finger all at the same time.
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Anyone in Brisbane want to see The Haunted on Thursday night at the HiFi? We’ve won tickets but we can’t make it so we need someone to give them to.
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geez! You’re a total winning machine for that place! CRAZY!
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Crazy indeed. You wanna take some more tickets off our hands?
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Dunno if I can this week. Have a feeling LittleJJ has something on, but I’ll double check and let ya know.
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oh, and how’s the hot water situation? If you need to, you’re welcome to come invade 😉 We even have a bath if required for little people!
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http://users.tpg.com.au/welbot/hbc.jpg
That is all!
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YUMS!
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Am I the only one that sees a smiley face in that taco?
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it’s not a taco! it’s a chalupa!
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My first thought was “yum”! But then I realised the tasty-looking thing was representing Loops and was kind of creeped out that I thought it looked tasty. 😛
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lol that’s just classic! I can visualize the image that must have been going through your head.. tasty mexican treat slowly morphing in to a semi-hairy chest and nipples! rofl!
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hahahaha LURVE IT!
best – birthday – ever!
This is my Birthday gift to Loops.. and the rest of you. I have been thinking of this for a while now but had only a small amount of time at lunch to do this.
Also I really hope the formatting works and it is easy enough to read… someone will have to teach me how to use bold and line breaks if it doesn’t.. Enjoy and Happy B day again mate….
Strange: You can take off your blindfold now. We’re almost there.
Chuloopa: Not yet. I don’t want to ruin my birthday surprise.
Strange: Then at least let me drive!
Chuloopa: Strange, you know it’s illegal for women to drive.
Chuloopa: A woman driving. That’s adorable.
Strange: Chuloopa, I don’t think- Chuloopa, please! I’m begging you! Stop the car! We’re here! Thank God.
Chuloopa: Mark Serrels’ Pants-Free world and Putt Putt Golf? The grownup in me likes the prospect of exposed nipples. But the kid in me is suicidal over what a fat bastard I’ll become!
All TAY: Happy birthday!
Chuloopa: I can’t believe it! Rocketman, Batguy, Qumulys! ….. Who are you?
AnonymousPessimist: I’m the guy whose car you just slammed into!
Chuloopa: Strange, you invited everyone!
[Screams from roller coaster, while Loops and Qumulys line up]
Chuloopa: Excuse me. Excuse me. My friend is differently abled. May he go ahead of you?
Elly Hart: Of course.
Chuloopa: Frontsies, backsies, backsies, backsies.
Rocketman: [Addressing a young woman in line] Well, hello. You must be this beautiful to ride the Rocketman.
Eats-a-lot: Careful, Qumulys!
Qumulys: [Riding the roller coaster] YYEEAAHH!
Eats-a-lot: Your father. Sometimes I don’t think he’ll be happy until he’s completely paralyzed.
James Mac: [Holding a gun] How deliciously evil looking! It’s like something out of ‘The Adventures of Buttercup!
Trjn: Okay. For my 307th buttercup…this couple is attacked by a…lamp monster!
TadMod: You’re not even trying anymore, are you?….. When can I have it?
James Mac: A 10-gauge. I’ve never handled one of these before.
James Mac: Ah! Yes! [Singing] “This is my rifle, this is my gun, This is for fighting, this is for fun”
Batguy: [missing a putt] Oh, dang. Now I hate windmills even more.
Chuloopa: Let me give you a little tip, pallie. The shortest distance between two points is the full-body English, high-arcing rainbow shot.
[Glass shattering]
[Window breaking]
Mark Serrels: Sir, I’m gonna have to ask your party to leave. You’ve caused nothing but trouble since you got here! Perhaps you should just continue the party at some other type of location.
Chuloopa: No. Wait. I know this guy. We went to high school together.
Mark Serrels: We did?
Chuloopa: He was a loser then, and he’s a loser now. We used to tease this guy all the time.
[flashback to high school]
All TAY: Mark misses his Pepsi Max! Mark misses his Pepsi Max!
Chuloopa: We’re not going just because some pissant tells us to. I demand to see the owner!
Mark Serrels: That’s me. I’m Mark Serrels.
Chuloopa: You own this whole place?
Mark Serrels: That’s right! This place is my legacy! So what have you done with your life, you jerk?
Chuloopa: I’m Neptune, God Of The Sea! I sink ships and conjure up storms!
Neptune: No, you’re not. I am. And you know nothing of my work.
[back at home…]
Chuloopa: Look at this, Strange. See? Right here. I was voted Most Likely to Succeed.
Strange: Chuloopa, that’s not you. That’s not even a yearbook. That’s a People magazine.
Chuloopa: I wondered why they had the wrong picture and name.
Strange: Can’t we just enjoy the rest of your birthday? [Strange passes a hand-made card to loops] Look. It says, “Happy Birthday, Loops. Love, James Mac.”
James Mac: Let me see that! Did you forge my name? Is that backward “S” supposed to be cute? I’m going to crap double for you tonight!
Chuloopa: Face it, Strange. I’m a nobody. Why can’t I be famous like Serrels?
Sughly: Don’t be depressed, Dad. Here. I made you a present. [‘Delivers’ to Loops a one of a kind drawing]
Blaghman: My God! It’s good. Really good.
Sughly: It’s partly an expression of my teenage angst. But mostly it’s a moo cow!
Sughly: Don’t forget this! Maybe you could hang it in your office.
Chuloopa: Son, I’ll put it someplace where everyone can see it. [Places it in the rear window of his car]
Jamie What?: Excuse me. I’ll give you $1,000 for what you have in the back there.
Chuloopa: $1,000 for a bumper sticker?
Jamie What?: No, no. I mean that drawing. I must have it for my gallery in Soho. I’ll give you $5,000. What do you say?
Chuloopa: I say…
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What is this? I don’t even…
(yay, token appearance! :P)
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You didn’t get the reference… Family guy episode about Bob Funland and Chris becomming a famous artist…
Loops is Peter Griffin, Sughly is Chris Griffin, Strange is Lois, Dawdle is Meg (yet to appear in this episode), Mark is Bob funland, Qbo is Joe Swanson, Eats a lot is Bonnie Swanson, rocketman is Quagmire etc etc etc….-
I got to be Stewie?
Thank you Fatshady.
Also, IRL… I’m a boss with a shotty.
Although, I don’t know how you knew that.
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And Blaghs… you are the DOG Brian.
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Well, that makes considerably more sense now, and I take being compared to Brian as a great compliment, so thanks!
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YAY I’m a womanizer just like i am in real life except for the talking to people part, i only have to do that if i need to like: “help i need a doctor” and “dont punch me in the face.”
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FatShady… that was just awesome.
Such is the awesomeness that Chuloopa should pay you for reading that.
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I’m sad…
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Don’t worry Jimu, I mentioned you. 😛
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It’s only the start of the episode….
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Ahhhhh hahahha. It allll makes sense now!!!
A wonderful way to kill some time. /stabbity stab stab
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Haha! Awesomely random!
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Do you mean random in the traditional sense or in the way all the kids are using it these days??
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I’m Lois? I feel strangely old and dowdy now. Wait, does this mean I’m married to Loops? And wait once again, is James Mac going to plot to kill me?! Arrgh, I’m so confused. I’ve only ever seen about 3 episodes of Family Guy.
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I thought you’d think that. Don’t read into this next sentence but Lois is actually the hottest chick in the series and is the wife everyone wants.
Trust me being Lois is a good thing.
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wowah.. i have never been more excited to be mentally disabled and morbidly obese!!
BRAVO GOOD SIR!
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You just dipped awesome in batter and deep-fried it! And I totally nailed my role! 😀
Everyone, right now, needs to go and to Apple Trailers and watch the trailer for “Green With Envy”.
Link for convenience
http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/disney/greenwithenvy/
Make sure you watch the whole thing.
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I saw that earlier today and was told the exact same thing.
At first, I was wondering why anyone would want me to watch a trailer for a generic rom-com but I kept going.
Then I was smiling pretty much the rest of the morning.
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Saaaaaaaaaaaame.
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Had to go through YouTube, but it was worth it. Fracking hilarious.
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‘get ready for muppet domination’?
I already saw that movie. I’ll never watch muppets in the same way again.
Also, Jason Segel is not typecast. At all.
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Oh shit, I just spoiled it.
Let’s hope my joke is not just funny in my head then!
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So Dirt 3 and Brink are both in my possession and I’ve not really played either of them.
I did epic errands this morning, I am quite proud of my productivity. I went for a run with our dog (read: I got pulled around the block until he got tired), and smashed out some truly epic music (I think… I’ve listened to it so many times I can’t tell if it’s good or bad anymore).
A man could get used to this not-working thing. I might join Blaghs and Q-Bo and chillax for the rest of my days.
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On a playground?
In West Philidelphia, where you were born and raised?Chillin’ out maxin’ relaxin’ all cool
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I don’t suppose a couple of guys, who were up to no good, started makin’ trouble in your neighbourhood?
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I just got in one little fight, but my mum got scared…
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Shoot more stuff in Brink.
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YOU AREN’T MY DAD YOU CAN’T TELL ME WHAT TO DO.
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WHY ARE YOU NOT SHOOTING THINGS I TOLD YOU TO SHOOT THINGS AND YOU ARE CURRENTLY NOT SHOOTING THINGS
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DON’T YOU YELL AT HIM!
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BACK IN MY DAY WE HAD TO SHOOT UPHILL BOTH WAYS!
EVERYONE QUIT YER COMPLAININ’, I’M TRYING TO WATCH MATLOCK.
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Trade them both for LA Noire
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Blasphemy! You take that back this instant!
My position just dissapeard so I will be taking a pay cut…least I still have job, I guess.
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Dude go look for it if your gonna have to take a paycut. On a more serious note that sucks, bad luck man
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That sucks. Might be an excuse to see if there are similar/better positions elsewhere.
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That sucks mate, it’s just another way of saying “We don’t have enough money to pay you so you’re taking a paycut”. I’d start looking for another job dude 🙁
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Spewin. Sorry dood 🙁
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Dude, GTFO out of there and get a job at a company not liable to sodomize you.
There is no reason for you to be grabbing your ankles and sighing every day.
Unless you like that sort of thing.
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I work for the government, I have chosen job security( I still have one) over what is it you feel when you enjoy your job? I’ve never felt that.
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That sucks mate. I’m not great at consoling words, so here’s an adorable animal, just for you: http://legacyentries.weheartit.netdna-cdn.com/20081015102708.jpg
(Sorry if you can’t view it at work)
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I smiled!
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It’s my solution for everything…
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It’d be even cuter if it was deep fried and put on a stick. 😛
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I’m pretty sure I ate one of those the last time I was in Inverness.
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I’m getting a bit worried about you and this thing you have for guinea pigs Mr. Blagh….
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That’s a hamster, not a Guinea Pig.
And I am not Richard Gere.
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Haha! Yeah I wasn’t sure. Should have gone with ‘rodent’.
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Ay, sore throat today.
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You know what fixes that ice cream and rum. That’s my generic cure for everything. Kinda like European people and windex.
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You cure Europeans with Windex?
You monster!
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Well just the ugly ones. I kid the ugly europeans.
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Turrets? Is that a disease where heavy machine guns grow out of your shoulders? That would be kinda cool. Although you’d need specially tailored shirts.
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And we have a winner… The winner of the internet today is.. Trjn! Congrats.
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gargle aspro clear
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Me too. Many cups of tea have been consumed. I regret nothing!
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1 part whiskey, 1 part boiling water, 1/8 of a part honey.
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I like the way you think.
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I’d like that thinking more if there was no water or honey involved.
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I was born in Ireland.
What we don’t know about cooking, we make up for with knowledge of drinking. The honey and water are there for a reason.
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Chai tea with honey is the solution to all of your problems.
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Rub something woollen all over your head and shoulders, spin anticlockwise three times, wash your hands with the blood of a salamander, then go to sleep upside down (meaning with your feet on the pillow and your head at the foot of the bed).
By morning you should be cu… Oh wait, sore throat… Hmm, give me a minute think…
Made some lovely Chinese watercrest and pork hock soup… mmmmm
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Given that it’s just started raining again, I think any sort of soup would be quite well received.
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hock is the foot right? My wife makes that, tastes good!!
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hock is usually the shin i think. My wife and mother-in-law make an awesome dish with the trotters though! So delicious! The sauce is made with star anise, so it has a very mild aniseed flavour. Only problem with it is that it is so good.. makes it almost impossible to stop eating!!
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yeah thats one of em!
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you are truly EVIL! I’d love a big bowl of that right now. My mother-in-law makes the BEST version of that soup, but she’s in China, so will be a while before I get some more 🙁
Gonna have to try and convince LittleJJ to attempt making some for me soon!-
… Or you could try making it yourself.
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I don’t know the secret!! If LittleJJ wants to translate a recipe from her mum I’d be happy to give it a try, but she’d probably love to do it herself anyway.
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*Dixieland plays in the background*
I’m sick of the corruption here.
Six months handling the vice desk, and the only difference made seems to be to my partners hip-pocket. With that in mind, I handed in my badge today. Hopefully I can have my cake and eat it too. The freelance world beckons. I feel like I can make a real difference here. They may be the problems of people, but who better than a troubled person to help?
I haven’t told the missus yet. Like the cheap fifth street hookers, I feel that so long as I can keep acting normally, she may never need to know…
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I like cake!
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\o/ STEVE HOLT!
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There’s no “I” in “win”!
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I had to ask a friend to get a food reference, then the rest was just built around that…
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And I love you for it
<3
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Also, for a while there I thought that was Dixie Chicks.
Imagine that, noire , blaring country music in the background.
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The Yogscast with Yogtrailers to cheer me up : )
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The piano lid fell on her hands! XD
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Is that sarcasm… or is he genuinely that dense?
Someone keep me away from book sales 🙁
Unless I can eat paper somehow?
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For science, I think you owe it to yourself to try.
Report back with your findings!
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High in fibre, lacking in nutrients, if you eat it too quickly it gums up and tastes like crap.
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Pretty much this. *ahem*
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Please excuse my swearing just this once…
BIANCA GOT ME A PS3!!!
A FUCKING PS3!!!!
OH FUCK!!! I SHAT MY DACKS!!! HOLY MOSES ON A POPSICLE STICK!!!
I HAVE A PS3!!!!
I AM HAVING KITTENS!!!
GAHHHHHHHH!!!!!
SHE’S BEEN SAVING SINCE LIKE LAST FRAKIN YEAR WITHOUT ME KNOWING!!!
MY WANG.. IT’S… IT’S TINGLING!!! GAH!!!! LORDY LORDY… CAN’T…EXPRESS… EXCITEMENT!!!
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Dude. That’s awesome. Congrats man. And happy bday. Your prize for last week’s kudos will be a PS3! I’ll find something good!
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That is so awesome – thank you so much 😀
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Your missus is a keeper. Know what I got for my birthday last year?
A nose hair trimmer.
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You just made bee crack up laughing.
She is definitely a keeper. 😀
This is why i bought a nose hair trimmer for myself before anyone else could.. one of the most useful things i have ever bought myself.. if i hadn’t i KNOW bee would have 😛
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At least that’s subtle.
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Genuine LOL was just had.
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Maybe the nose-hair trimmer is a hint you’ve been buying her crap presents too.
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Now there’s a thought!
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Congrats man.
Marry that girl… dammit!
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Oh, i shall.. damn right i shall.. lol
Like I said earlier, this one sounds like a keeper 😉
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just like diabetes… and twice as sweet!!!
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lol, you softie.
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Congrats!
Made me all warm and fuzzy. Have a blast!
Holy shit, nice work!
I think there’s a consensus here, and it involves you, some romantic crap, and being on one knee.
jelly I am, hmmmmmmmmm
Woah, nice score!! With the loot and the girl.
You spoilt little brat!
Seriously though, that’s awesome.
That’s it! Just marry her man! If she’s willing to do something like that for you, clearly you’re both meant for each other 🙂
Back to the gift… PS3! AWESOME! I’ll add you ASAP 🙂
Pffft, had you taken me over her, you would have had it for last christmas…
Seriously tho.. THATS AWESOME!!! And I will also say a very Happy Birthday my sexy man! Sorry for not being here to say so myself, I was a tad out of it due to bad reaction to anesthetic, but luckily I pre planned this and good old welbot came to my rescue and posted for me, so thanks heeeeeaps wellybotticles! 😀
A friggen PS3… yeah, I cant compete.
*mumble mumble friggen Bee, mumble mumble*
So guys… Must buy games for a PS3…
I know.. i know.. uncharted and demons souls… what else?
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Mines still loading….
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ZING!
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I was in the car and could not elaboate.
If Loops is seriously into racing games then the racing part of GT5 is impressive. But seeing as though I don’t think he is a massive racing fan and has a 360 also, I would argue that Forza 3 is a much better overall package.
the GT5 user interface and load times are so bad that i barley play this game. Now I am no huge racing sim fan and I have had fun with GT5, but the thought of the loading times just stops me from pickinng this game up for a quick spin around a track…
Each to their own, but I would not suggest GT5. Perhaps Borrow it first and you will see what i mean.
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Yeah, i am much more of forza man, myself.
And the load times are long? Well seeing as the load times in need for speed shift send bee bonkers as it is, i may give GTA5 a miss..
Plus, i’m pretty sure if i get any racing games on ps3 it’ll be motorstorm or modnation
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uncharted 2!!!! i know you already said it but i gotta tell you as you MUST get it, i love the littlebigplanet games, so yeah those as well… i’m also sort of a newcomer still to ps3 as well…
Team Ico stuff… apparently*
*I don’t have a PS3*
Valkyria Chronicles. Poo story, but amazing gameplay.
I’m probably not the best person to answer this (given my library of like, 3 PS3 games), but still.
I’d recommend Little Big Planet, as it can be a lot of fun, maybe infamous? And uhhh…
Oohh, Flower, maybe Flow, and when it comes out, Journey. (Have to say this for Mark)
Can’t think of others…
Do you like fighting games?
If so, then get BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger.
You should be able to find it cheap if you look around.
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Umm… but that’s on 360 as well, isn’t it?
Heavy rain 29 bucks at ozgame. That is all
Wow. I just checked, congratulations on the PS3!
Uncharted 2 – Definitely. Even though you acknowledged it, I must acknowledge it every time someone asks what games to get.
I seem to recall you saying you liked Prototype? If you did, I recommend you give inFamous a whirl, I absolutely loved it.
LittleBigPlanet 2 is huge fun, though if I recall, you’ve already played it on PSP. Still, I recommend LBP2, as there is local multiplayer, making the racing/basketball/general levels a great deal of fun.
God of War (3, and the HD Collection) is also quite fun. 3 had the poorest story of the trilogy, but looks amazing and again, is really fun. And the bosses make for some set pieces.
I’m not sure if you played Alan Wake, but Heavy Rain is also a great game. I mention Alan Wake, because I found that Alan Wake and Heavy Rain had a cinematic quality to it, and it’s just as enjoyable to watch someone play it as it is to play it. Indeed, on my first playthrough of Heavy Rain, my cousin demanded that I only play whenever he came over. So that may be something you and Bee may enjoy.
Flower is also a game I feel you should try (get the demo when PSN Store is back). I would talk about it, but I’m sure everyone has heard plenty about it.
I’m also a big MGS fan, so MGS4 is also a great game you should try. You can still play it without playing the other entries, it just won’t be as satisfying.
As for 2011, there are some great PS3 games coming out. Twisted Metal, Journey, Uncharted 3, inFamous 2 (in 2 weeks! Yay!) and Ratchet and Clank. Oh yeah, Ratchet and Clank games are always a great deal of fun.
I would try and rant more, but it’s 1230 in the morning and I should be working on my assignment. Hope you had a good birthday, and congrats on the PS3 again. Bee sounds like quite an awesome gal 🙂
I never actually played any of these games proper since I dont own any PS3, but:
God of War 3
Metal Gear 4
ModNation Racers
Congrats man!
Pretty much any PS3 exclisive I’d have suggested, someone beat me to it.
Heeeey, wait a second! Whats this guy saying about as here? First comment… http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/05/grand-moff-tarkin-looks-amazing-in-2011/
Is that a threat? And if so… what is the threat, exactly?
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How are we remote if the click a cm away from gizmodo or lifehacker. They end up here. Lol
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At my husband’s work Kotaku is blocked but Gizmodo and Lifehacker aren’t.
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Hello? *cough* Uh, my name is Jamie Watt and I, I like the Resident Evil movies.
I mean, they’re not as good as the games. I would never say that! But, as films, they are enjoyable. Good. Not great, just good. Yeah, the direction and writing are fairly mince, sub standard affairs. They are not Romero’s Dawn of the Dead (One of the greatest zombie movies ever made IMHO) but they are also not Romero’s Diary of the Dead…
So, yeah. That’s my confession. Don’t judge me too harshly.
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I liked the first two movies, couldn’t stand the third and haven’t seen the fourth. As for the games I’ve only played the fifth and thought it was terrible.
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What you like us. No even we like us!
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You know what I like? Cupcakes.
I mean they are not as good as a real cake but as bite sized confectionery they are enjoyable. You might not be able to share one with friends and if you brought one to a birthday party you would look cheap, but they have sprinkles.-
Woah there cowboy! Sprinkles? That’s a broad generalisation right there! Some cupcakes have icing and those little tiny shiny candy ball bearing things and they are no less yumtastic.
But yeah, Sprinkles are good. Cupcakes and prinkles are even better than just sprinkles on their own.
Fairy bread though, is possible the weirdest thing I’ve seen in Australia. Bread butter and sprinkles do not a treat make.
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You haven’t had it done properly then. It has to be really fresh white bread like from Baker’s Delight or that you made yourself and sliced thickly. Then spread all the way to the edges with butter, or some of that softer, spreadable but still tasty blended butter. No margarine! And just a small sprinkling of hundreds and thousands, not a carpet of them. Yum!
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At any point does it stop neing bread, butter and sprinkles and become an actual cake? If not, still not impressed I’m afraid. It’s still just an open faced sandwich with coloured sugar on top.
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I like to think Ash Williams wouldn’t be out of place in a resident evil movie.
While i haven’t seen the latest, i too enjoy the movies, just so long as i don’t relate it back to the game. They are a guilty pleasure.
I am also still yet to watch my copy of Dead Snow (nazi zombies in a winter wonderland) and Dead Set (Zombies meet big brother house)… but my dad assures me that they are most rad.
Also, he ensure me that Diary of the Dead was a travesty.
Also also, are you reffering to the ORIGINAL Dawn of the Dead, or the new one with fast zombies?
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Ash would be awesome in resident evil. Hell, Bruce Campbell shoule be in all films. They would be made at least 80% better.
I also haven’t seen Dead Set or Dead Snow yet but they do look good.
And I do like Zack Snyder’s remake of Dawn but Romero’s original is far superior.
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I’ve never seen any of the movies or played any of the games, so I have no idea how good or bad they’re supposed to be…
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I love you for announcing that!
I like the Resident Evil movies too. The third one was a bit lacklustre though. I actually loved the 3D one. It was the only movie I’ve seen in 3D where I thought the 3D was worth it(besides Avatar, which would have been nothing without 3D). It’s the movie that made me start wanting a 3D TV.
Oh, and Milla is pretty much the hottest chick ever and I’m not afraid to say it. I may be slightly afraid to say I bought her CD a long time ago though….-
I saw the trailer for the new one and it made it look all matrixey and crap. No one wanted to see it with me so I skipped it at the movies and picked it up on Blu-ray and now I really regret it. All the silly bits from th etrailer happen in th efirst five minutes and th erest of th emovie was really, really good.
I agree about Milla but I was sad that the last movie broke wit hthe tradition of having her start and finish each movie naked. *shakes head*
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Going to the movies alone is far better than with someone. I often go with my husband and his brother and they’ll sit somewhere around the middle and I’ll sit in my favourite seat about 3 or 4 rows from the front, right in the centre.
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If I go to the movies alone I feel like a ‘Wee Jemima Nae Pals’ as we used to say back home.
My prefered seating is the middle seat of the middle row.
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I like to sit right up the front and all the way over to the left!
But seriously, I’m with you guys. I can’t understand why when you go to the movies with freinds they decide to sit right up the back or somewhere equally odd.
I have a neck and eyeballs and I don’t like to strain either!
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Thank God, I thought I was alone in this. My best movie-going experiences are ones where I’ve sat by myself. My wife prefers to see movies with other people, though, so I guess I just have to pretend she’s not there. 😛
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I actually think that the RE movies are about on par with the games.
The games really aren’t that great. There’s something really charming about them, like a dodgy B movie that draws you in, but they aren’t exactly Red Dead Redemption.
The movies are about the same level of quality, not great but somehow entertaining.
The exception to this is RE4.
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There not RDR they are better!
RE2 is one of my most played games.It wasn’t the nasty visuals or the movieness that I liked about the RE series, it was the gameplay.
Gameplay before everything in a game. I loved back tracking in and around that damn police station so much that I still do it…at least once a year.
It’s a game right up ther with DK country 2 for me.
Not trolling, just sharing my alternate opinion.
I like you cos we like different stuff and you can tell me why the other thing is good in an intelligent way.I enjoy our debates.
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I think the problem with Resident Evil is that the gameplay conventions used just don’t date very well. If a new game was to come out that mechanically the same as the first few RE games, it would not go over well.
Resident Evil gets a free pass because those mechanics are a legacy of the series and it was acceptable at the time the series started.
Dead Space (which I really should get around to playing past the early stages) seems to take the same basic ideas but uses more a current style of gameplay.
I guess the point I’m trying to make is that RE are very much Playstation era games, from the time before everyone worked out what actually worked with 3D games.
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I just wish they did the run and gun thing (yes I want to move and shoot at the same time, dino crisi 2 did it!).
And have it play the same, trapped in a mansion solving puzzles and backtracking much like Metrodvanias but 3D.
Metroid Prime was on the right track with this idea, they seem to have forgotten why Super Metriod was so much fun by the time they got to 3.
So my point:
I miss puzzles
I want to explore more, not just follow a single path.
I need auto aim, cos I suck (V.A.T.S. in fallout 3 made the game much more playable for me).I’m not against the new gaming styles, I just miss some of the stuff that didn’t need to be removed.
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WHAT?! Whats happening in here? I leave for a few days to work and not only are people defending Res Evil movies (which are just utter poop), but you sir Trjn are saying the mechanics of the original wouldn’t work today? What is this?!
Those original Res Evil games had great gameplay. Look at Silent Hill! It’s still doing the same thing and it’s working! Gameplay wise that is, the only thing that isnt is the writing. Even Heavy Rain is using many of the same mechanics as the original RE’s! And if you take a look at what they were able to do with the RE1 remake on gamecube – it was amazingly good!
I mean, RE4 was great, but the whole over the top action thing hasn’t exactly done wonders for the series – RE5 was one of the worst games I’ve played in a long time. I’ve been secretly hoping for a return to the ways of the originals, but I doubt it will happen. Well, maybe not soon. Could get a rehash back to the old ways. One can hope…
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Dood, silent hill isn’t going so great.
Admit it, if they made a traditional RE the only people to buy it would be me, you and an ultra-keen Japanese Otaku.And I prolly won’t be able to afford it…
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Yeah ok, granted silent Hill is going down the pooper, but thats not to say the gameplay mechanics dont still work. I may be an original fanboy, but I still fevently believe in its gameplay design. I think going away from it is a bad thing, it still has potential for sure.
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I didn’t go in expecting much so I was pleasently suprised in the second when Jill walked on screen in full resi 3 costume also Nemesis.
I thought even though it’s also not the greatest movie, SIlent Hill was alittle more closer to the mark.
I haven’t seen many of the films, but I scored a free copy of Afterlife.
Watched it. Wanted a refund.
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I’ll give you the refund, you must give the goods to me and then I will forward you the free.
I’m gonna throw this out there.
From a straight up “filmic” view (that is, composition of shots, use of camera styles and focus, all that crap that Sughly probably knows quite a fair bit about) they’re getting better. (excluding the matrixy crap) But the director guy is getting slowly better at what he’s paid to do… (also, to be honest the writing has gotten better, even if the plot has gone berserk)
I’m fairly ambivalent towards them, they’re crappy action, which is one of my favourite film genres.
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Ta, love that guy!
I’d sex him if I were available, he were available and one of us was a female.
YAY! UNI ASSESSMENTS!!!
THE NEXT 4 WEEKS ARE GOING TO BE FUN FUN FUN!
…fml…
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Do I detect a hint of sarcasm..?
Listened to and ENJOYED Tool’s Aenima for the first time in years this morning.
It’s funny how feeling angray and betrayed really makes metal sound that much better!
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ANGRAY is a new word, it’s when you are so angry your face turns gray!
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That album is one of the greatest ever. Just after it came out I was robbed and all my music was taken (along with my make-up – who does that?!!) but my sister bought it for me again so for a while it was the only CD I owned. And I didn’t care.
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It’s up there with the following for me:
NIN – The Downward Spiral
FNM – King for a Day
Devin Townsend – Infinity
Bjork – Homogenicand I can’t be bothered remembering anything else
OH! Deftones – White Pony
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I remember listening to white pony over and over and over again before a Deftones concert. met and spoke to a future girlfriend there. When we eventually got together, she had no recollection of meeting me at the gig. True story.
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My husband does not remember the first time we met.
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same girl as mentioned before once fell out with me years later when I failed to remember the outfit she wore on our first date. The outfit! I remembered the day, the movie we saw, what we talked about after but ‘oh noes’ I forgot what she was wearing!
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Sounds a little shallow, good riddance I say!
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His shoulder hair obstructed his view.
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THEMS FARTIN WURDS!
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Hahaha! I think he cultivates his shoulder hair because he lost his head hair prematurely.
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I second the Deftones, they’re one of my all time fave bands.
White Pony is awesomesauce.
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That was NSFW…
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oh shiz.. i forgot to mention that…
NSFW GUYS!!!
wow.. i feel dumb now..
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It’s not that bad, I’ve seen worse. Saw a ginie once. Man was I scared…wait that sounds wrong…
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Ginie eh? I hear of you rub them you get wishes.
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only when permitted…
Thanks Jimu, I almost clicked on it without reading the url and my boss sits behind me on one side and the female admin person behind me on the other side.
Gah! much love!
I’d replace Homogenic (great album) with Vespertine. Vespertine was so brilliantly recorded, the glitches superbly timed and subtle, and the dimension of space that it created surrounded you in a cocoon of beauty.
ahhhhhhh
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I place Vespertine 3rd after Medulla…ALL VOICE? Oh yeaaaaaaaaaaah!!!
Homogenic wins for a more nostalgic reason in all honsety.
Okay, so, I don’t like Smallville.
But.
I watched the ending. I likey.
SPOILERS
Clark Kent is Superman! hooda thunkit rite?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=kFauG5dyi_Y#t=119s
I really hope that Snyder uses some element of John Williams score in the new movie. For me that music defines superman. Without it, it’s a dude in a cape who flies. I get goosebumps just hearing it.
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I’m surprised it ran for, what, 10 seasons?
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yeah. 10. It took Clark 10 years to get his shit together and be Superman.
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Meanwhile the following heros careers had already begun:
Green Arrow
Super Girl
Super Boy
Black Canary
Star Girl
Hawk Man
The Flash
Aquaman and his wife Mera
(Batman would have, but they didn’t have the rights!)-
Didn’t even take Bruce Wayne 10 years to become a damn ninja.
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HAI YA!!
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I grew up finding the Superman movies VERY boring. Couldn’t sit through one as a kid.
That old soundtrack just reminds me of a thing I didn’t like growing up, I really wish they’d go in a totally different direction.
I think that was one of the things wrong about Returns, too nostalgic. Those “funny” villains have no place in a modern day SuperHero film.
Even some of the comics artists draw Supes to look like whatisface, I hate it!
I prefered that nasty, nasty Supergirl movie when I was 8!
Saw Supes 2 semi-recently and had a good laugh at the humour and campyness of it all.
Wouldn’t mind going back and watching them all.
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The Supergirl film always seemed to fall short for me. Maybe because I kept expecting Superman to show up. Speaking of Supergirl… This movie looks good!
http://www.bleedingcool.com/wp-content/uploads//2011/02/supergirl.jpg:3
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I’m forbidden and it aint by work…
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What about this un?
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/SuperGamer/news/?a=30039
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HA HA! BEST SUPERGIRL COSTUME EVER!
Also, is it just me or is there a real porn vibe to those pics?(cant see the vid)
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Def porn vibe. Haven’t watched the vid but am tempted to see if I can find the DVD somewhere. My collection demands it!
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I have a friend who basically worships Superman and he endured all ten seasons of Smallville.
Even he knew it was a bad show, but he stuck around for those last few moments.
Oddly enough, he has read very few of the comics and refuses to read Red Son because it shows Superman in a negative light. I also find that it’s really easy to troll him by saying that Big Blue is a bad character (which he is, but many writers have managed to use him well).
Ok so it took me FOREVER to set up a user name on the PSN last night.. i actually spent most of my time doing that..
All forms of chuloopa are taken (which i find VERY hard to believe)
So add me, my user name is chu-loopa.
That’s right.. i had to put a hyphen in it *shudder*
Maybe you could all come back to my home and we can make sweet love.
…can you do that? because that would be neat…
Also, so i had a game to play when i got it, bee also go me a copy of Sonic Unleashed. She said it looked the best out of all the cheap games that the eb she went to had, which i don’t doubt.
You know what, it’s actually not that bad of a game either… i mean all recent sonic games considered… then again i haven’t played a brawling section yet. I am also skipping EVERY cinematic and cut scene as they are boring as batshit, but the gameplay seems to be ok… if not frantic…
“HOLY SHIZ!!! WHERE DID THOSE SPIKES COME FROM!!??”
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Oh.. is it also true that playing games online is free on the PS3??
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Yep, but [insert obligatory joke about how it didn’t work for a month].
You can add me with the handle Batguy (no hyphen for me!). Don’t have much in the way of multiplayer PS3 games, though I have enjoyed the MP mode in Uncharted 2.
You should also go accept my XBL request!
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Yes, PSN access is free.
Also, you should have called yourself xX Chul00p4 Xx. Much better than having a silly hyphen in your name.
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Seriously.. you have no idea how many variants i went through before i finally got that one… i was getting so pissed off…
My xbox live one is chul00p4, and even that was taken…
Seriously, it’s just a pain in the fkn arse…
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I registered my PSN account before the PS3 was even released. Seeing as I didn’t pick one up until the PS3 slim came out, I think that worked in my favour.
Honestly can’t remember if my account is Trjn or TrjnRabbit (it’s always one of those two if you’re trying to find me on other gaming services), but I got in early and got meself my name.
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I’m so happy I was the first one to grab Zorine!
PSN: Zorine
hahahahaaaaaaaa.. *rides off into the sunset*
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Honestly – Zorine is such a badass name.
It makes you sound like a Star Trek villain.
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Definitely has a Sci-Fi/Fantasy villain ring to it.
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My story is about to make her name all the more bad ass
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As Zorine finished mopping up the entrails of the fallen, she thought to herself ‘If only I had let the world know my true name earlier. Then I could have been queen!’
Her dreams of grandeur were short lived, few people can aspire to greatness when they are cleaning the castle privy.
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HAHAHAHAA!! Oh shucks, thanks guys!! You make my day 🙂
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My name’s pretty rare too. But it’s all girly and wussy, not mean and awesome like Zorine.
I’m mad at my mum now for not giving me a badass name. -
I’m curious now, what is your first name Strange? Promise I won’t stalk you… much…
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Well, she befriended me on Facebook, so, to quite honest, I think she’s completely unafraid of being stalked.
Or she knows I’m busy watching Loops and Bish…
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Umm, I didn’t really want to have to announce my secret identity on the internet but I guess it’s not like it matters. 😛
My name is Luelle. See? All girly and wussy.
HEY! Be nice!!!!!!
(PSNID: fatshady-live)
*hangs head in shame*
Yep.
As you are not a frequent user of XBL this is prob a good move for you mate.
If you want some good coop fun get borderlands on PS3 as I have a copy and it is a good game in co op.
This is true. Is alllll free. When it works.
My PSN ID is cronotriggr
yes it is true.. no subscription required!
Brawling brings it DOWN!
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yeah i thought that would probably be the case.. well it’s turned night for the first time. so i guess i might find out tonight…
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I was playing and thinking:” not so bad” and then night hit and I thought “not as good, it’ll be ok” and then I got lost and was bored and couldn’t see the point anymore.
Maybe you’ll find your way and it’ll all be ok…maybe.
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Okay Chu-loops, I’ve added you. You stole my avatar picture! I’m StrangeAndAlone. Finding unique usernames sucks.
I have a hyphen too!
Let’s be friends.
Love,
Effluvium-Boy
xxoo
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Oh, and I agree with FatShady.
Get some Borderlands happening.-
YEAH!!! 4 player co op… just need one more!
$28
http://www.ozgameshop.com/ps3-games/borderlands-game-of-the-year-edition-goty-game-ps3
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Man you’re making that sound so fething tempting… but i already own borderlands *sulk*
then again…
i think i just beat your price
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Mate. I owned 360 version of this game and got level cap and played through twice.
I then traded it (for backbreaker btw) and then bought borderlands again on PS3… I say get it mate, or trade your 360 version for the PS3 one. If you have not played coop then you have not played it. Everything levels up to match the larger number of players, and is just a cool place to be in. Jump in/out co op in campaign.. awesome stuff.
c’mon man, we’ve gotta have something to play?
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Page 3 bump…
You mentioned motostorm.. I HAVE THAT. Got is last week off ebay for about $6.
If nothing else you should get that so we can race (I don’t know what this game is about or its setting?)
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Bishzui
(I think? I don’t actually know, haw haw)
The only multiplayer game I have is Uncharted 1/2?
And even then, I am terrible at dual-thumbstick shooting, so I go around punching people.
So if anyone wants a good round of fisticuffs let’s have a game!
Also I think there is one move where you slide and punch them in the groin, and that’s always fun.
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Oh! Demon’s Souls!
If you need a level 80 dude to hang around you and to accidentally roll off cliffs, I’m there! -
i vote we do this and record it…
what would be better than a bunch of people just running into a circle and start punching eachother?
Ha! I feel good. My PSN is NotoriousR. But I’m pretty sure my brother and I were beta testers for the original PSN, back in the day of PS2’s, getting Socom and receiving a free network adapter.
I’m assuming my PSN is Blaghman… I don’t use it very often…
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I’m with Blaghman,
I also assume mine is Qumulys (its never been stolen anywhere yet on the net, take that net!) but my ps3 is not on very much.-
Doesn’t it feel good to have a single name that you use for everything? Doesn’t it make it so much easier for everyone else?
Having a weird name that nobody else could possibly use also helps…
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If anyone wants to add my PSN ID (I can’t add anyones, as I’m at work)
Sarujin13
I also had the problem of someone stealing my standard ID on PSN, hence having to put a 13 on the end.
welcome to the world of tomorrow!
i thiiiiink my PSN is “GrandmastaBFunk” buuuuuuuuut then again i don’t really pay attention to it, i might just add you xD
I already sent a tip to Mark about this, but putting this out there for the TAYers too…
Ms Splosion Man Mutliplayer Beta: https://connect.microsoft.com/site1241
Go sign up now! Should be splosiontastic!
Funny little thing.
Oz game shop, a store based in England but selling directly to the Australian public exclusively, has several titles BANNED in Australia.
Most notably a certain game involving combat of some variety. *wink*
Now the REALLY interesting part?
It’s selling for $54 on both consoles.
How is that interesting, you great big poo?? i hear you ask..
Well that same game is selling from within Australia by people who have imported it successfully for upwards of $150….
Risk Vs. Reward??
this is where the Australian government fail to realize that not only will people still obtain these things, but when they do, they’ll sell them for STUPID amounts!
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People who buy from resellers are stoopid. Also, People from Australia selling RC games are stoopid. Owning it is not necessarily illegal but distributing it most certainly is.
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Stoopid, yes. But also making plenty of dosh from it.
Really it’s just so stupid.. if we had an r18 shops would be able to make money off it themselves, rather than letting dodgy people take the huge markup….
oh well
I am still of two minds as to whether or not i’ll import it.. i’ll probably still wait a few months.. Marvel V capcom is much higher on my radar…
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i reccomend 100 billion times to get marvel vs capcom 3, and if you get it on your shiny new ps3, i could have a few rounds with ya 😛
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I know. I mean it is RC here so demand is high, but then supply is not lacking and the prices are really quite good.
I guess you have to know where to look.
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That’s not particularly the failing of the government itself though, is it?
The point about the price markup is that you’re pretty much guaranteed a copy, since it’s very unlikely that customs would search through domestic mail. Though I’ve yet to hear anyone actually have their copy of said game seized (on Whirlpool or GameArena), once it does get past Customs check for international mail, you’re sweet. For the paranoid or uneducated folk, maybe an extra $40 on what would have been Australian RRP is a comfortable price to pay.
The Review Board itself though, they’re just doing their job, on guidelines set by the government however many years ago. The fact that people will still manage to get copies of it is completely irrelevant for them. I don’t know the legality of the situation, but I’m sure that overseas sites can at least hide behind the fact that they are based overseas so that the prohibition of selling the game for commercial reasons doesn’t apply to them. So I would argue that the onus is actually on us to abide by what ratings are given to us.
Of course it’s utter bollocks. We have our rights as adults to access adult material. Many of us are able to recognise the difference between fantasy violence and actual murderous rampages somehow. They’re treating us like children, but yet some of us are still acting like children. Some deliberately rebel just to spite them, or immaturely insult the other side. There are people on both sides who are just being stubborn dicks about it.
So I’m not sure the government (in general) should be faulted for this. We are technically being naughty by importing it, but the anti-R18ers are being incredibly… closed minded. Yeah, that’s a nice way to put it I guess.
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Trust me, the government’s right hand doesn’t know what the left is doing.
And don’t even get me started on the feet!
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Duke’s gone gold… commence the end of days.
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP!!!
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I want this game o bad.. and even more the collectors edition.. i just don’t want to pay the stupid amount of money for it 🙁
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I saw this news late last night.
Wow, finally we will get to play this game. I have been waiting for it ever since it was announced.
http://www.thesixthaxis.com/2011/05/25/minecraft-mobile-premiering-on-xperia-play/
So evidently Minecraft mobile is coming out later this year, but as an xperia play exclusive at first, before spreading to other Android devices and Apple’s iOS platform…I hope it doesn’t stay exclusive for too long… D:
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It is amazing what a little Sony cash can do!
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Maybe I’ll get to play…if I ever upgrade my phone.
Oh that’s right I don’t have any MONEY!!
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I’m not sure how effective it would be to play on the Xperia Play, honestly.
Welbot – you hear from q-bo last night?
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Yeah hope it all went well…
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nah no news as yet.. he still hasn’t logged on today either. Guess he’s in serious recovery mode.
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What happened to Qumulys?
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I really wanted to ask this but was worried it might be a sensitive situation.
KUDOS to you East-a-lot!!
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I can only assume that he dug a hole so deep in Minecraft that he got stuck in both the virtual and real worlds, and it’s going to take a couple of upwards digging to make it back?
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He had to go to hospital for an operation yesterday. Nothing major, but yer.. always scary when you have to go under for a procedure. I’ll leave it to him to divulge details if he so chooses to.
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HE’S ALIVE!!!! ALIVE I TELL YOU ALIVE!!!
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did you send him my lovins!?!?!?!?!?
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yessum! he’ll be along shortly to catch up!
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Yeah you should send him all of our lovins. Just not nekkid lovins like Loops’.
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*PANTING!*
Yes, i am ALIVE! 😀 That is always a bonus I’ve found!
Its taken me quite a while to get this far through TAY! It was just a small procedure to try and get a permanent catheter in place (yes yes, go on, have a small penis joke if you must). But its due to a spasming bladder muscle that they can’t do it, so I was put under so they could use a RIGID catheter, which also did not go as planned and failed to work. Then, I had a bad reaction to the anesthetic and kept passing out all day, slept for 17 hours! But I am all good now! (mostly) but still a tad tired! So thanks everyone for the concern, your all awesome! 😀
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Yay, good to see that you’re okay!
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Glad to hear your okay why do you take a load off and play some dirt3. That will wake you up a bit
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WELCOME BACK!
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Hiya Q-Bo!
Welcome back!! How is Dirt 3 going?
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Hey, don’t want to bring the mood down in here but has anyone seen a movie called ‘The Bridge’. Made in about 2006, it is about the suicides that occur at the golden gate bridge during 2004. Sadly there were 24 deaths that year, however this is apparently not unusual.
Not one to praise it or say it was great, simply because the subject matter does not allow you to be happy watching it, however is was a very interesting film.
I have had a few people close to me commit suicide as i am sure (unfortunately a decent number) of you have also. I can’t explain why i wanted to see it, I guess it is just to try to get a better understanding of the circumstances surrounding these lives.
Im not posting this here to glorify it, but suicide is still one of those things that happens all too often that is not talked about that much, so I guess this movie is about shining light on this topic in a brutally honest way.
Anyway, enough of that, just thought I’d share.
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Shall give it a watch.
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Yes sir i agree . Suicide is something that no one wants to discuss and for that reason people feel alone when they are depressed. Not that anyone should feel comfortable about it , but realistically what are you meant to say if a freind or a realitive tells you the are thinking about suicide. For me that would be worse than me feeling that way.
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Totally agree that suicide is not talked about enough. It sadly happened to a friend of mine who electrocuted himself. But he did more than destroy himself that day, watching his kids grow up and struggle with it has been unbearable. His kids have just recently hit 18, and thankfully after being messed up all through teens years, seem to be settling down to some normality in life.
Sure, it might end your problems and the deep dark hole your in might seem like an impossible challenge, but there’s always someone who will be left behind struggling to come to terms with why, and what could of I had done differently?
Welp guys, I’m bored…
Who feels like entertaining me?
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Your bored
YOUR BORED
Y O U R B O R E D
Yeah cant help ya man i took all my energy to write “your Bored” in 3 different ways. Good luck.
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What about my bored?
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and on all 4 occassions you spellt “you’re” wrong :p
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Look if I wanted to express english correct I would chat to people on grammarnazi’s.com. In all seriousness I’m terrible at English i’n general. Sorry blagh and loops 🙂
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Don’t worry Rocketman, we’re only doing it to make ourselves feel superior.
Or maybe to try and teach you…
But probably the first one.
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Lol I try and do that i’n other ways like making birds scared and tell people the flux capacitor is broken i’n their tv remote.
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You shall be shot at dawn for your murder of the english languag.e
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Now THAT’S entertainment!
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I’m going to go wash the dishes.
Feel free to watch me in my battle against grease and grime, as solidified food material sit and absorbed damage stubbornly, refusing to budge, finally overcoming it with perseverance and the amazing power of Earthchoice Dishwash Concentrate (Pomegranate) [TM], before moving onto the purification phase of rinsing. The end has a twist though, a great moral dilemma. To air-dry on the rack, or to dry with a tea towel?
Watch to find out!
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Bish, you know I’m always watching you.
Always.
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Every breath you take,
And every move you make,
Every bond you break,
Every step you take,
I’ll be watching you.ಠ_ಠ
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Remember those times when we both found ourselves watching each other? That was a little weird.
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I know! We got crazy confused trying to figure out who the stalker is if you stalk the stalker who stalks you.
The old man in the bathroom we were we were peeping into didn’t seem particularly amused though.
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Remember that time when I was sitting in that tree, and you were sitting behind the tree, watching me attempting to watch you, but the me in the tree was really a decoy, and I was watching the decoy of you from a car while you were on a nearby roof?
Good times.
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Yo dawg I herd u loik staorkin!
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As another bright side, I now know what song I’ll sing Bish.
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Hah, the place where we had Sydney Meat 1 had a jukebox. If 2.0 is there, we can fill the room with creepy stalker musics!
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As much as I love creepy stalker music, there’s one song that I have to play if I have access to a jukebox.
And well, it’s all ages appropriate, because it’s not rock. It’s Rock… LOBSTER!
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Okay bish you have done it. You have made dishwashing interesting. Do you have one for vacuuming?
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There is sucking involved! So much sucking.
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Bish, since I’m always watching, I’m just gonna say.
You’re not supposed to use a vacuum cleaner like that. It’s used on the floor. Not, well, you know. But, I guess, whatever gives you kicks.
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Pish posh, I can use it on the ceiling if I want to, you’re not the boss of me!
:<
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fMDJ6pwSfo
Here you go. 🙂
Sorry, nothin goin on here…
So I got my PSP back on the weekend. I am firmware upgraded and batteries charged and ready for some free games…
I am thinking of mod nation racers and LBP because I have not played either. Only really got the PSP for GTA games.
Anyway, my question is.. is LBP the same on both devicecs so should only get one of them?
Also can you play PSP games on your PS3???
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handheld version is a bit scaled down, and noticeably lacks the PS3’s entertaining multiplayer modes that are a blast to play with friends, locally or via the Internet. Still, the core gameplay mechanics in the PSP version are as strong as they are in the PS3 version. In fact, some elements work so seamlessly on the PSP that at times we forgot we were playing it on a handheld device.
Thats from PSU .com
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Nope, you can’t play PSP games on your PS3. (although it has just been announced there will be ported PSP games coming to PS3, similar to the ported PS2 games eg GOW collection).
You can play PS1 and PSmini games downloaded from PSN on either console, and I believe you can transfer saves fairly easily by plugging them together (personally I have not tried this).
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There are some minor differences between the PSP and PS3 versions: Graphics (obviously) and load times, no multiplayer, but you can download user-created levels and the gameplay isn’t too far off the PS3 version. So, I’d say, get LittleBigPlanet for PSP. It’s definitely worth it.
In response to the other question, no, you can’t play PS3 games on a PSP.
Hope this helps. 🙂
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The LBP on the PSP is a good game but very different from the PS3 version. Completely different levels and somewhat dumbed down. Fun none the less.
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thanks all, still trying to fdecide what to get when (if?) the store is back online.
I have pursuit force already, so deciding what else to get???
Also not really sure about PS3 so will have to think more about it. Cheers.
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FF Crisis Core
FF Tactics War of the lions
FF Dissidia and Duodecim
MGS Portable Ops and Plus
MGS Peace Walker
Valkyrie Profile Lenneth
OutRun 2006 Coast to Coast
Castlvania X
Silent Hill ZeroTheres prolly more games. The library isn’t as big as the DS’s but there is plenty there.
Has anyone got any tips on how not to punch you computer when playing super meaty boy? I played for like 2 hours last night got past the forest and died 400 times i’n the first two levels of the hospital.
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Kick it instead!
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Play it on Xbox
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yeah i know the difference will be huge, but the thing is i wanna but its to much effort to set my xbox up with internet.
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Play it with an xbox controller.
Also, if you’re dying a lot… that’s how the game is supposed to work. Each level ends up getting ingrained into your muscle memory.
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Yeah but shush James Mac and your senses. Nah i realize its meant to be hard. My frustration gets the better of me sometimes. I am enjoying it though.
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So, so much easier with a controller. Trust me, I’ve tried both.
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I wasn’t serious, I was suggesting you punch the xbox instead of the putener.
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cover your computer in pillows.
Get better at it?
But yeah, what James Mac said. You die so much in this game, but that’s fine as long as you’re learning from what you did, and either get better at avoiding the obstacle or find a different path/pattern.
I recommend jumping straight onto the first dark world after finishing the light one. May seem like masochism, but it will set up the reflexes you need for the rest of the game!
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Thats easy for you to say. Your pretty much the best gamer in the world batguy with your trials hd awesome times and finishing super meaty boy. lol
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i’d just like to point out I’m beating Batguy in Trials HD. That is all.
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A bit of friendly advice to everyone.
If you ever use a hammer to mod a Nerf gun, do not leave the hammer lying around on your floor. If you do leave the hammer lying around on your floor, you might want to consider not stepping on the claw end of it and ripping open a chunk of flesh at the base of your big toe.
My ankle now hurts because I’m walking oddly, in order to avoid putting pressure on my poor bloody toe.
TL;DR don’t mod Nerf guns. They’re awesome enough straight out of the box.
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But more importantly can your nerf gun now fire killer bees with stingers dipped in rabies…
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Ouch that probably hurt. But the important thing is that your nerf gun is okay. BTW what mod were you doing??
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Oddly enough, it didn’t hurt too much when I did it. didn’t even think it had drawn blood until I took my sock off.
As for the mod, I was just taking the air restrictors off of an REV-6. Nothing fancy…yet.
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well that is better than constant pain i guess. My mum tells me to eat cement when i hurt myself. Then i do and she laughs.
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That’s some rock solid advice!
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I guess you had a hard childhood?
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Advice like that is never set in stone – I’d ignore it.
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Do you have a gravelly voice these days?
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I think you’ve hit rock bottom with these puns. You should be stoned to death before you try to mine any deeper.
I shale never look at you in the same light again after this, even if you may consider yourself boulder than most.
Sedimentary.
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I suppose her words were cemented in your mind after all these years?
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Did you build on those words of wisdom as you grew older?
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Did her directions keep going round and round in your mind until it settled?
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Was this a foundation for your future behavior?
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*deep breath*
Ok, I’m done.
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Nice.
*High Five*
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Nice Job. That is all.
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I was surprised you never mention “s***ing bricks”
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I keep it classy, sir.
There’s no need for expletives.
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My apologies.
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*appears out of nowhere and high fives you*
Alright!
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Wow. Just. Wow.
I find another good piece of advice is not to step directly on rusty nails. On the bright side, it didn’t rip flesh out, just left a large hole.
Where was I going with this? Oh yeah, always mod nerf guns, they become even more awesomererer.
I too know your pain from foot injuries causing ankle injuries, so have some condolensces… And this picture. http://very-bored.com/pics2/cuteanimals/cute-animals-1.JPG
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It’s not a rodent? I’m stunned.
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I’m just a fan of cute things.
And I prefer animals to people, they’re far nicer. And adorable.
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and animals can’t say no!
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I already said, I’m not Richard Gere.
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That’s what corpses are for. Crack open a cold one.
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Agree completely except replace “people” with “humans”
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Yeah, I used to live in a country town in Tassie when I was a child. We use to play in old broken down places and there we’re old fence planks with nails sticking out…and I trod on one and didn’t notice after 30 seconds. So…much…pain *shudder*
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not we’re. Don’t kill me Grammar Nazis!
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Amusingly, my nail-in-foot occurred in Tasmania too!
But it wasn’t all that bad, I was just breaking apart a fence thing (it was going to be shipped to the dump), and I stood hard on one of the nails. I then calmly walked to my father, and asked when my last tetanus shot was, since it was recent enough, I went back to smashing stuff.
Nineteen years of conditioning, to make me stupidly calm!
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hehe, what’s with Tasmania and their fences with nails sticking out tsk tsk.
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Funny thing is, I got a rusty nail in my foot in Tasmania too.
I used to live there as a kid, and one holiday I was running around with my sisters at White Beach. Both my sisters missed the old plank of wood lying on the ground with a rusty nail sticking up, but I didn’t. Ouch.
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10 points for this anecdote, enGROSSing!
If anyone is bored, I just made a super mega update post on the state of the Trials HD riddle on the Redlynx forums. It is a really interesting riddle that after 1.5 years no one has figured it out yet.
There are a bunch of clues throughout the game.
Here is the thread, just look at the bottom for the huge post by me…
http://www.redlynxgame.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=2667&start=540
You dont have to have the game as all images are included, more detail can be found on the wiki.
Just throwing it out there if anyone hates them selves enough to get into this. Batguy, ytou have self hatred down mate, wanna try?
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I’m not even going to bother looking at the clues.
The answer is 42.
Where’s my prize?
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I think you’re right!
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But but buut… 42 is actually one of the clues…
http://trialshdsecrets.wikia.com/wiki/Stock_Market
So you win nothing…
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So you’re saying I worked out a clue without looking or even playing the game before? Clearly I’m a genius and the only reason I haven’t solved this puzzle is because I don’t want to. Therefore the prize should be mine anyhow.
My logic is flawless, flawless I say.
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Your logic can not be disputed.
If you are so smart, why dont you guess another clue, or better yet, an ANSWER! lol.
The 42 clue was one of the first ones to be solved. Funnily enough I have not seen the move/book in question (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) so didn’t get it.
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This has nothing to do with the puzzle, but interesting fact.. if you dug a hole through the earth from one point to another, using nothing but gravity to travel through it, would take you exactly 42 minutes! Wouldn’t matter if it was a hole from new york to london, or new york to sydney.. it would still take you exactly 42 minutes!
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That was Quite Interesting. When I heard that, I couldn’t work out how you’d be able to push someone against the effects of gravity and back out of the Earth’s core.
So I concluded that an elf made up that fact as a reference to Douglas Adams.
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The main problem I have is that it assumes the world is a perfect sphere, with no variation in altitude.
To clarify, at a guess, when they say “person,” what they really mean is a person weighted object which is only affected by gravity, and none of those other pesky things, like friction.
I could guess at how they came to 42 minutes, and then explain how it all works, but I think I’d need a piece of paper to do it properly…
So, let’s go with your answer, the number itself was probably created by the Fae.
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I would for sure, but… um… I have a baby to look after [that will do nicely]. You know how it is.
The biggest problem I have with the riddle is that when I last read up on it, there didn’t seem to be anything to grab on to to even vaguely suggest what the question is. So you have a whole bunch of random clues that you need to assemble to find the question, that you then need to solve to find the answer? Ugh… my head hurts…
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Spot on mate… we don’t even have a question to answer yet!
Needless to say that is causing my brain pain also and has been for months now… The wiki is helping.
It is funny, up until recently, there was only one guy at Redlynx that even knew what it was. He took another dev to lunch recently and spent 30 mins going over it all. Now there are two.
Crazy hard but it has been very interesting to say the least. It is amazing what you can figure out with next to no information.
Why did I just buy 5 games from the EB Sale today, on-top of the 2 I got yesterday.
I never have enough time to play all these games I own.
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Out of curiosity what games did you get?
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Today
Vanquish $30
Kane & Lynch 2 $20
WRC 2010 $25
Assassins Creed Bloodlines $25
MGS Peace Walker $30Yesterday I mentioned in Cheapskate gamer,
Ar Ciel something something $30
Hyperdimension Neptunia $30Probably could have just got these cheaper from the UK, but I wouldn’t have been saving much.
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Freaking hilarious:
Meat Loaf’s ‘Anything For Love’ redone as a ‘literal’ video version. Watch it.
I’ve been reading TAY because I’ve finally got a chance. I had to stop halfway through page three because FatShady is psychic.
The Peter’s Birthday/Chris becomes an artist episode was on last night, a bare 4 hours AFTER FS posted that.
Also:
Harpy Birdsday Loops!
🙁 I hope it was for the best dawdle. You’ve always got us. Your exclamation mark always make me smile.
Jimu: I’ve only played about half an hour of Black, please don’t hurt me! SO MUCH WORK
Party at welbot’s house?
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THIS! I noticed that Family Guy creepiness too!
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Party at welbot’s house, BYO tools of mayhem and destruction.
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At least we know you have a bloody hammer!!!
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There’s no blood on it. My sock on the other hand…
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You know Strange collects weapons….
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Dear god, I need to stop calling her a man or she’s gonna cut me.
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I dunno, she seems quite reasonable.
In the same way that Jame Gumb was reasonable.
So, I guess what I’m saying, is you should practice your look of surprise for when the jerkin you get is made of skin from your own back…
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WOW…
I did not notice that. I picked that episode because it had a birthday boy and our resident artist in the making… anything else was just a bonus.. but that is freaky…
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Is OK, I will bring the Pokewhip on Sundee.
You still lifting me to Welbo’s???
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yes gathering at my house confirmed for Sunday!
So far looks like everyone can make it, and I believe Trjn is bringing his arcade stick, RB3 and the Keytar thingo for RB3 aswell! If anyone else wants to bring controllers or games and such, feel free! I do have a couple of controllers for each machine, but I can’t guarantee they’ll be operational due to batteries etc. I have a wheel and pedals for pc too, but not for any consoles, so if you have one and want some racing action, but all means bring it along! BYO Booze. I will have some soft drinks and snacks etc. but if you want something particular, you’re more then welcome to bring whatever you like!-
Will anyone actually drink?
I haven’t had booze for over 10 months!(which suprisingly isn’t the longets time for me, childhood not included).
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Bringing arcade stick, keytar, RB3 and if you don’t have SSF4 or MVC3, I can bring those too. I can bring a second stick if it’s really necessary, but you guys don’t need to see my ghetto stick.
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To Jimu, I dunno. I personally haven’t had a drink in years. Only time I ever really otuch booze anymore is for cheers when I’m in Shanghai!
To Trjn, I have MvC3 for xbox, and SF4, but my only copy of SSF4 is for PS3, and I don’t think my arcade stick works on that, so feel free to bring that for extra characters if you like!
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Glad someone notices my exclamation mark.
I added it after being caffeinated one day (and you know what magical properties coffee does to human beings), and it just stuck. : )
Just dropping by to say hello. Havn’t had much time to keep up with TAY latley.
One thing though; I WILL NOT put up with Jamie What? badmouthing Fairy bread! (this may be the most manly thing i’ve said so far this year)
If he dose it again I’ll make him eat 1L of vegiemight with no bread or other mixers!
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What? Fair bread badmouthed, that dog won’t hunt, Monsignor.
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Reading the posts up the top of the page I suddenly have a strange desire to deep-fry fairy bread…
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Amen to that!
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As pizza topping.
With bacon.
Minced up for burrito filling.
Omnomnom-
2 Words.
Culinary. Genius.
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Don’t even get me started on Vegemite! *shudders*
Spicks and Specks to finish in November 🙁
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
Well, to be honest, I haven’t been watching it that much lately, but that’s not its fault, I’m just bad at watching tv.
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While I doubt that will break anyone’s screen, I would like to apologise for the above post, I thought the “nooo…” would be shorter than that, but I misjudged.
The only option now is ritual suicide… Of my liver cells… Through alcohol…
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I’ll drink to that!
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*clink*
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GANBEI!!
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干杯!
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Go Maroons!
That is all…
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Yay a fellow qld supporter who watches the game. I thought I was the only one.
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I pay attention to the game, and care.
I’m a Queensland supporter of course.
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blaggy you live in canberra. Why do you support QLD.
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Cause they win!
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Wrong! Well, you’re right that they win, but I’ve been supporting them since I was born. Queensland is my state of origin. I appeared in a SoO half-time show, riding around in a giant cane-toad thing (I was like 4, I have only very vague memories of that night, but apparently QLD won). I will always support Queensland.
(Interestingly, there’s about an even split in the ‘berra between QLD and NSW supporters)
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Go morons??
OHHHHHH!!
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Nice, GOLD!
C’mon you mighty Maroons!
Stupid Perth doesn’t get to watch until 10.30pm local time D:
“AND TWO EGGS!!”
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“HOLD THE BEETROOT”
just noticed a dead pixel on my screen, now i’m going to notice it every time i go on the computer…
WHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!?????!
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I have a baby, my screen is covered in various colours of liquified food.
Consider yourself lucky!
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dead pixels are fixable sir.
Drop me a line.
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*facepalm*
I always forget my e-mail address – the [dot] tsharp [at] gmail [dot] com
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Just entered the Samsung Galaxy S II competition on Gizmodo. Hope Nick considers my entry *fingers crossed* If any Allure Media staff would just give him a nudge in the right direction *wink wink* ; )
But really, most of the entries there are nothing when compared to the ferocious battles we have over here. 😀
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Yeah I know, had a quick glance over the entrants and theyre all saying ‘woe is me and the 900$ phone I already own. But I like stuff, so give it to me’. Man, I’m on an anciently old Nokia. I rest my case. I’ll be entering before Sunday fo’ sho’!
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I took your advice and went with the woe is me style answer…
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Hey Mark, wouldn’t it be a shame if two of those prizes went “missing”? 😛
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Don’t worry guys. I got this.
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Oh really? May inquire as to how you’ve “got this”? 😛
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I’m sooooooo entering this one 😀
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Now this I’ll have to see…
Will there be some shirtless Chuloopa in your entry? 😛-
No.. i am going to show the holes my current phone has been ripping in my jeans… lol
It’s horrendous!
Criminal, even!
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Geez, Final Fantasy XIII is $20 at Dick Smith. Not too shabby.
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I bought the limited edition on launch. I do not regret it 🙂
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Me too and I do…
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I bought a PS3 for the game, which I do not regret. The game was pretty “meh” but worth a play through. Looked fantastic though. If you like FF games, $20 is totally worth it for a try.
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its in my pile of couldn’t be bothered with Dragon Age 2…one day, ONE DAY.
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Yes it is…
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Had it from release, still need to finish it. Damn end bosses.
http://www.nintendo.com.au/gamesites/mariokartwii/index.php#competition
can we do this on sunday?
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If you take a photo of everyone playing mario kart AND planking at the same time, I think you’ll have a good chance of winning 🙂
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LOL that could be amusing! Someone better bring some wiimotes though, cos i dunno how many of mine work, and I think I only have one nunckuck now.. dunno where the others went :\
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I have some working Wiimotes and nunchucks. I’ll try and remember to bring them. Do you need anything else? Should I bring some foods? We’re gonna need lunch aren’t we?
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I will have some snacks and such.. usual sort of stuff.. chips, crackers, cheese or something.. if you want to bring something feel free.. if we wanna do lunch proper, might be easiest to just order pizza or something?
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Im bringin 2 DSs
2 broken PSPs
Some Cube ‘trollers
A wii mote and chuck
DS games…
Anything else???
I’m liking that website.
Driving tip #16:
High beams and spotlights are only necessary while driving at night in the country where there is no streetlights or other traffic. Or perhaps in fog so heavy you can barely see two meters in front of you.
There is absolutely no need for it in suburbia, all you are doing is blinding other drivers.
This public safety message brought to you buy the b**ch tailgating me last night with her high beams on.
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a brake check is a hell of a deterrent 😀
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Not such a good idea if you are getting tailgated by a truck.
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They can still stop in time but they do get mighty pissed off.
Don’t ask me how I know this.
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One was tailgating me this morning on the freeway, so i slowed to 80… there were two lanes he could have changed to, but he just wanted to be a dick…-
Extra points if you speed up when they try to overtake…
*is vengeful when people tailgate*
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The best fun is boxing in a P-plater with a vroom-vroom car. Drive slowly so they get frustrated and they try overtake, but then speed up and match the speed of the car next to you and trap them in behind you or your neighbour, so they can’t get anywhere in a hurry.
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My car is P-plater bait… it looks like all-show and no-go (came like that from the factory), but it’s quite the ball-tearer.
I’ve had hours of fun with lancers/mirages with coffee can exhausts.
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It means that girls think it’s hot…so I wouldn’t complain 😛
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You guys are really making me feel confident about driving…
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Pro-tip – getting in a car with me has the same disclaimer you’d find on rollercoasters.
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If you use your high beams in heavy fog, you’re going to be worse off than when using normal lights.
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Good to know, never had to myself.
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I was hoping someone would have commented on this. Hence why foglights are lower than normal headlights, so they will not reflect back off the fog and make it harder to see.
There is one time I used them and I thought it was justified. I went out at 4pm to a mates place about 15 mins drive away in daylight with my 2yo son. Stayed there for a few hours and drove home at night.
Turned out that BOTH headlights were out, along with one of the parking lights!! (Auto elec problem)
So i tried to use street lights, but decided id rather piss a few people off and get home safely with my son. Replaced them first thing in the morning… but there was no other alternative…
But yeah, otherwise i agree totally….
1000
do i win yet
What about now
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I think your spam name should be: Rocketspam
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I dont spam that often so i haven’t ever made one up before. But if i ever do it again i will use rocketspam.
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Agreed
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We’ve only just hit 1000 comments.
Not good enough peoples, we should be approaching 1500!
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This is what happens though. We hit 1000 and the weeks after we only managed 700ish. We need time to recover!
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That and i’ve been out of the office for the most part of 3 days this week 😛
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You’re a slacker! You remind me of your father when he went here. He was a slacker, too.
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My apologies, I have been on leave, and hence doing productive things like writing music.
I will be more spammish from today onwards.
I just can’t stop listening to Daft Punk…is this a good or bad thing?
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Obviously a GREAT thing. Daft Punk rule.
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It looks like you can’t stop but listen… one more time.
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You need to listen better.
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I love this comment.
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In other news, Portal 2: Songs to Test By is awesome
I have had all my xrays done and everything and I’ve been given a diagnosis! Psoriatic Arthritis. Lame!
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Hope your gonna be alright mate.
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having quickly googled it i see its not as bad as i thought. Still hope your doing okay though
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Not to make light of your situation, but…have you been playing too much Nintendo? 😛
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Sorry but I initially read that sentence as ‘Got all my Xmas shopping done!’.
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Lame indeed.
So in the tradition of Blaghman:http://www.2020site.org/hamsters/images/teddy-bear-hamster.jpg
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Thanks all. Yeah, not too bad really, but it sucks for my training for gridiron!
And that Hamster made everything better 😛
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man, that definitely sucks!
I didn’t know you played gridiron, though… i’ve been wanting to play that for ages, in all my petite deminour!
… stupid french words and me not knowing how to spell them… -
You should buy some elastamine… it’s a supplement that I’ve put a few people on and it does wonders for arthritis pains. Hit me up at the [dot] tsharp [at] gmail [dot] com if you need more info.
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Pessimist, are we able to hit you up about anything?! Is there anything you do not know?
‘Cuz I’ve sorta got this plumbing issue at my house…
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“*Intro Sax part to Careless Whisper*
Hey there, Eats-a-lot. I heard you got some… Faulty Plumbing. I’m here to give it a fix.
H-uh, there seems to be a blockage. I guess I’ll have to… FORCE it out.”
So on and so forth…
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Paint me disturbed…
…because that’s what I am after reading that comment.
I feel dirty…
😛
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You know there’s drain cleaner and stuff for that!
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Oh Bish, every time.
In related news: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSqhpnRNyK4
Not excessively safe for work.
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You know, eats… a blind man in Oregon could probably see my response coming a mile away…
It’s just too easy! I can’t do it!
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Well then, consider me a worse then a blind man, because I hadn’t even realised I set this up.
I swear you and Blaghs taint my innocence!!!
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My Pessimistic Friend.
Our work here is done.
Now let’s keep doing it anyway.
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Yes yes, sure, of course :p
*puts away guitar and wah pedal*
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*Aggravating disease five*
The medical nerd-doctor person in me has to ask, do you already have the symptoms of Psoriasis, or has the Arthritis popped up first?
I’m not really sure what to say, because the “post a cute animal thing” has already been done. I feel so useless now…
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Yeah man, about ten years now. Just on my legs. All my doctors shrugged it off until I saw a podiatrist about my foot and HE investigated more and arranged blood tests etc.
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Hope its not too bad! No idea what it is, but I’ve found some doctors care heaps more than others. Maybe i should see a podiatrist! 😀 *insert cute cat hanging on clothes line.
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You need ACUPUCTURE!!!
So I must be weird or something. It seems I’m the only person on the planet who wants to play Battlefield 3 AND Modern Warfare 3. I just like video games y’know?
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I’ve only ever played a COD game once, and that was at a friends house, and I kept getting beaten by a ten year old…
Anyway, I’m more interested in Battlefield 3 right now, seeing as though it’s aimed more for PCs than Consoles, which is cool. My nVidia gt9600 has been playing games well for too long, it’s about time I had a decent excuse for upgrading 😀-
I really liked COD4 and MW2. Both story modes and multiplayer. But yeah, if you don’t keep up then MonkeyFart69 will waste you every time out of the gate. I stopped keeping up around level 45 or so.
It seems a lot of BF fans really hate COD. I can understand hating the people who play the multiplayer because they’re mostly scumbags but the games themselves are pretty solid.
Battlefield is awesome from a team perspective. I long for the day when I have a team that actually supports each other though. Damn strangers.
Also, I’ll be getting BF3 on 360 due to a crappy PC. Yes, yes I know. Blasphemy.
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Halo Custom Edition is probably the game I’ve played the most online MP on. And your right about teams not supporting each other. It’s probably the reason why I’ve become good at getting the flag all on my own in bloodgulch.
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I too have nothing really against cod apart from some of the people who you play against.
I prefer the larger scale battles of Battlefield though – give me a tank battle over a camping competition any day.If I end up getting it I’ll back you up!
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I still maintain that Battlefield 2142 was one of the greatest multiplayer experiences of ALL-TIME.
Pity so few people played it… 🙁
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Yeah I kinda wish I had but I didn’t have a worthy computer around that time.
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omg, co-signed in epic fashion.
Where is my CD for that game? I must hunt it down. Those walkers… just epic.
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I’ll see your poorly constructed example… and counter with Mechwarrior 4.
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Hoorah!
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Well that’s just the thing, isn’t it? Based on their previous entries, they appeal to different audiences. Battlefield is team based (although I jumped onto BF2 a few weeks ago, and nothing but snipers sniping everyone, lordy), and CoD has become this how-many-guys-can-you-kill Unreal Tournament sort of multiplayer.
I’m not saying there can’t be overlap between the two, but I guess some people have a tendency to lean towards one or the other.
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I’ve also only played COD once, and that was the single player campaign.
Oh, wait, no. I also played some Blops at my brother’s place (sp).
Didn’t really draw me in.
No, your opinion is yours. Disregard everyone elses. I personally am looking forward to BF3, as I’ve had a ton of fun with BF2, BF1942 and BFV. I haven’t really played BC, so I’m excited to see how BF3 works out. Conversely, I’ve felt each CoD after CoD4 was either worse/boring/uninteresting. But, my cousin loves it. And so do the millions of people that buy it fast enough to break records. So continue on Raygun, and Haters will hate, and not a single f**k will be given.
I totally understand hating the kids who play COD. But the point of the MP is to shoot them in the head so it kind of evens out.
Most of them are insane though. Like people who ONLY play multiplayer and never touch the single player at all. What the hell is that? You already own the game, why not play the SP as well? It blows me away to hear about dudes who have prestiged 10 times in Call Of Duty MP but have no idea who Captain Price is.
It’s actually refreshing to see somebody who’s not going to take sides. *fistbump*
It’s like console wars. There’s no point fanboying, just share the love and appreciate the variety!
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(says the lady who was mocking League of Legends over Heroes of Newerth last week)
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THAT IS A DIFFERENT MATTER ENTIRELY.
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Speaking of which got a 22/4/11 score on LoL last night, I got a new favourite champ, Master Yi xD. Good way to end a very stressful day which caused bad bowling last night
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You misspelt “H-o-N”, buddy.
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More coffee, hon?
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Misspelt!? Does not compute human. So far HoN hasn’t given me enough incentive to keep playing the 10 games I have left to be allowed to play or buy it Tad, I’m sorry.
I guess you’ll have to finish that video Eats-a-lot and hope it brings me back in! 😛
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CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.
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Was hoping you’d say that 🙂
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I’ve never really played either CODs or Battlefields multiplayer. MW, MW2 and Black Ops I all rented for the weekend, beat the single player and only played one match of multiplayer before returning them.
The first I ever heard of Battlefield was Bad Company 2 which I bought on Steam. I had some fun playing the multiplayer beta which consisted of one map but when the actual game came out I found it horrible. I found the single player story boring and the multiplayer lagged so much it was unplayable.
I want to play both MW3 and Battlefield 3 but I’m undecided whether I’ll buy them or just rent them.
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I stopped playing Bad Company 2 due to all the idiots joining forces on opposite teams to boost their stats. Like a dude on my team wouldn’t plant a bomb at the objective and when I tried to do it, his friend ON THE OTHER TEAM would shoot me down. Grrr.
No, I fully intend to buy and enjoy both…
I like videogames… and I hold allegiances
to no game*.
*TIE Fighter doesn’t count, it’s not a game… it’s the love of my life.
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TIE defenders still get me all hot under the collar.
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Oh, those were nice…
But I was born to fly the TIE Advanced…
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All you New South WelshTayers are Bluesers 😛
(Sorry I couldn’t resist)
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Well yes, NSW is traditionally donned in a blue colour scheme. I don’t get your point???
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B-leusers…b-losers would have been read as blowsers…
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I still love how NSW and QLD act like they started the state of origin thing…
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Don’t think anybody has ever claimed that they started it, they just perfected it.
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TROLL TROLL TROLL!!!
I AM A TROLL!!!
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Yes we know SA and VIC started it. It just wasn’t as popular. Also despite getting 50000 people crowd. The afl gets 90000 at the mcg on 6 or7 occasions per year.
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Billy Slater is the Sughly of Origin. He always delivers.
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So you’re saying:
Billy Slater = Sughly?I think you might be onto something!
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He’s here! He’s there! He’s every-f***ing-where!
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Wait, what? I suppose this is a good thing? I know nothing about Origin, or pig skins, or hoogiewhackers…
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Depends who you ask. I hate you now that the comparison has been drawn. Sorry.
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damn straight lambo. It was a good game to watch as well.
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Apparently it was sponsored by Modern Warfare 3.
Watching Ken Sutcliff talk about it being an awesome video game experience… and its incredible graphics was a very bizarre thing to see.
SPLOOOOGE! (SFW)
I WANT THIS NOW! GIMME GIMME GIMME!
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Was talking about this with a friend. He especially liked how in the contents, after saying there’ll be an ocarina and sheet music, they mention that you’ll also get a copy of the game. You know, just as a bonus!
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Wow.. it’s only $68???
That is well under what i thought it would be.. good news for 3ds owners!-
Really?? Isn’t that the average 3DS price??
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I like how out ocarina doesn’t look like it was abandoned while young into the care of Frolo, the master of Notre Dame.
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Silly Sean, never proofreading. *glares*
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Also, Frodo came from The Shire and I’m pretty sure he didn’t have an ocarina?
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It’s…
But…
You know Bish, I’m never sure with what you say, so just in case…
Disney Movies! That is all.
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I’m just like a Disney movie.
I always have a happy ending.
BA-CHIKKA-WAH.
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Do you sing catchy tunes with animales and inanimate objects during?
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Assuming we’re talking about pre-2000 Disney movies, do you also have really frickin’ depressing middle bits, too?
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I’m going to give a PSA here.
Watching Bambi two days after your favourite Guinea Pig (or any pet really) died is a bad idea…
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Plz stop ruining my dirty innuendo with heartfelt emotion, kthx.
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Well, the other option was to make a crack about Disney films and eight year-olds, but I figured that was a little too far, even for me.
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You know, I’d buy a 3ds *just* to play ocarina of time. Even if that was the only game ever made for 3ds, that would still be a financially sound reason to buy one.
I was already buying a 3DS just for Ocarina. MUST HAVE MORE OCARINA! I own it 6 times already! *_*
What date is gears 3 due? i was thinking of laying down some cash for the pre-order of the collectors thingy with the statue
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wait i jus tanswered my own question… 20/sep
… $200!!!oh man.. that’s a lot of $20 a weeks…
:s
possibly not worth it, hey?
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I’d say no unless you are a HUGE gears fan.
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Well i LOVE the games and have a figurine of Marcus on my bedside table, BUT i do not yet own a lancer.. where does that put me?
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I’ve preordered mine from GAME UK, where they sell it for 105 pounds, including shipping. That’s about $AUD160, but they don’t charge you until dispatch, so currency may go up, may go down. Who knows?
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Awwwww what! I just looked at the description, and it said UK only? Dammit! Now I has to go to EB and order mine. As if they would still let me pre order it. Freaking hell.
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http://tiny.cc/4ibup
Remind you of anyone???
(There’s an f-bomb at the end, but apart from that, it’s clean)
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Lololol!
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hahaha that’s great
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HHAHAHA! I love Cyanide and Happiness.
Oh and to answer your question the mod of Tadness.
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Bahahaha!
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You know what’s sad? Conversations really have gone like that…
…I lol’d, and then I wept…
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*pats your shoulder err.. hip, in a consoling manner*
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And yet you’re not even the tallest person I know.
You’re third.
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I know I’ve been going on about this Trials HD riddle a bit and I will stop now.. just one more post that is related but not specifically about Trials HD.
There was a issue of Wired mag in 2009 that had a bunch of puzzles in it. It is currently thought that this magazine and the way the clues and riddle are presented are similar to the Trials HD riddle..
I just wanted to share this article (**spoilers**) because it is an amazingly impressive issue that has some seriously complex puzzles.
Check it out:
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2009/05/0514_metapuzzle/
I think it is an awesome idea for a magazine and I can’t help but think that the developer of Trials read this mag in April then between then and the August 2009 release, made a bunch of crazy puzzles in the game…
In August it will be 2 years without it being solved… Anyway, enough from me.
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Up for some backbreaker this weekend, buddy?
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As Joe Swanson once said… YYYEEEAAAHHHH!
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It does sound quite interesting but requires far too much dedication and time for me to be bothered with that kind of thing.
Watch it mutha f♥♥ka!
Still haven’t read like 2 pages of TAY, but thought you guys might appreciate this:
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haha yeah, i’ve seen their stuff before.. it’s pretty rad 😀
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That was pretty epic.
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Too Awesome!!!!! and quite catchy….
So it turns out that tweet I made about coming down with the sickness might actually have more truth to it than I thought.
Dammit, why can’t the sniffles end up just being the sniffles?
Woah, demons souls is only on $25.50 oz game shop??
Maybe i’ll have to get that when i order MvC3 for my 360….
…that is unless anyone know where i could get it cheaper?
Score.. just got a copy of CoD3 gold edition for $15 on 360… 😀
<3 WWII games
OH! Also got halo 3 last night for $13
As most of you know, i have been pretty “meh” with everything Halo, having only been bored to death with the first one…
Ok.. not quite that bad, but still pretty meh… but still everyone says how great it is.. so i’m giving it another go….
Will it matter i haven’t played 2, or that i can’t even really remember the story of 1 other than “blah blah aliens blah blah blah zombies… blah blah KA-BLOOM!!”
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Halo is at it’s most fun when played co-op. As much of a fan as I am, I only ever played 1-3 splitscreen. I suspect unless you find a mate to play with you will be bored.
And the story probably wont make much sense without the first two.
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that is the game my son bought for $50 in games on demand without me knowing. i’d happil play co op with you mate, if you had gold???
Trackmania is on sale today @ steam – everyone do yourselves a favour and pick it up! Then you can all play with me so I won’t have to play with myself… giggity.
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Bought it. Can’t wait to get home and…
…study for exams/do uni assignments…
…well F♥ck.
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THERE IS NO SHOOTING IN TRACKMANIA WHAT ARE YOU DOING WHY ARE YOU NOT SHOOTING I AM PRETTY SURE I TOLD YOU TO GO SHOOT STUFF AND YET HERE YOU ARE NOT SHOOTING STUFF YOU NON SHOOTING GUY
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CEDRIC!
STOP YELLING… YOU KNOW WHAT THE DOCTOR SAID ABOUT YOUR BLOOD PRESSURE!-
roof
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floor!
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Hello!
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poor cat, took up smoking due to stress…
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YOUR BLOOD PRESSURE IS DANGEROUSLY LOW, YELL MORE!
SO IS MINE.
STUPID SERENITY NOW BULLCRAP!
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WHY AREN’T YOU SHOOTING… RAWK
PEW PEW PEW… RAWK
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Get the parrot!!
Psh…vroom vroom
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DON’T MAKE ME FETCH MY REVOLVER FROM THE CIGAR BOX! IF I MISS ONE MORE ZINGER IN GOLDEN GIRLS I’M GOING TO LOSE MY MIND AND HAVE NORMANDY FLASHBACKS.
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your all stoopid
stop beeing stoopid
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Wow.. i’m horrible at this game.. i put spaces at the end of every word after “anonymous”
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Help me! I’m stuck in this cigar box and I can’t get out!!
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ah pooped mah pants
Trackmania Tourno V2.0 anyone? 😀
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Yes!
$21 for Infamous.. good price, yes?
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Yes. Are you actually buying all these games or are you just amusing yourself by trying to find things for as cheap as you can?
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haha i got $150 of birthday money.. 🙂
I am buying most of these… i won’t be going too crazy, though…
Most of all i want MvC3, but i need some PS3 games now, and as cheap as possible lol
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shit, didn’t realise i was still incognito…
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if he is buying them his girlfriend is going to regret getting him a PS3.
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That’s why my wife doesn’t want me to get one, it’s just another excuse to by more games.
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I suppose there is now no chance that the Kotaku Chronicles are going to be finished, right?
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Next instalment will be written saturday/sunday for posting monday.. i’ll make it massive to make up for the delay…
The boss has been here all week and i’ve been leaving early for uni and birthday stuff so i haven’t had any time as of yet… but it is DEFINATELY coming
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Isn’t that one of the free games offered when the PSN store comes back online?
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Only if you were present when the PSN was down and out 🙁
.. i think…
I well.. i won it now… LOL
Downloading would have KILLED my DL limit anyway..
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I’ll tell you when I get it for free as compensation for the PSN outage 😛
Unfortunately, I don’t think you’ll get the same offer considering you signed up to the PSN after the problems.
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Not sure about that.. I think that he would have got them for free… I have a second PS3 that could not sign up because of the outage, so i suspect that ALL PS3 users will get these deals. because even if they didnt sign up before the outage, they could have purchased the console during the outate, and are therefore still entitled.. we will see i guess???
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Well if that is indeed the case then:
1. SCORE!
2. There are 4 games to chose from, so no loss
It is 4, isn’t it?
What were the games, again?
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Sony have already said you only get the freebies if your PSN account was active before the down time. If you bought a PSN during and were unable to sign up, you get nothing. (This also stops people making multiple accounts so they can get all 5 games.)
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So how’s that nickname change working out for ya?
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I clicked sumbmit before I realised and it was too late to fix it. 🙁
Damn my need to join in running gags!
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OK, hadn’t seen that, thanks for clarifying…
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Mark!!!! (Actually, Everyone!!!) This sh*t is uncanny!!
DL as soon as i get home…
https://market.android.com/details?id=uk.co.randomhouse.superpegg&feature=top-paid
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I will make CERTAIN Mark sees this. LOVE IT!
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Ahahaha! Yeah – someone else showed me this.
Looks amazing.
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hehe that was me.. months ago!
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Yeah, somone posted it on TAY or Ask me Stuff quite a while ago.. it’s still ultra rad,. though
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What exactly am I looking at here? I’m totally confused…
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Super Saiyan Mark Serrels
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That link failed at work, now I understand.
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I like to dance the swan lake ballet under a waning moon.
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Did you ever dance with The Devil in the pale moonlight?
Stench Report: Day 4. There was a man here to look at the system. He reported there was nothing to be to done to save it. RIP Hot water system.
Stench level: 8/10.
Forecast for Sunday: 15/10.
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i was wondering what that STRANGE smell was!
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAOHIWENTTHEREANDI’DDOITAGAINHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
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If you have to change, swap to an instant gas heater. Made a huge difference to my old dears power bills…
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I did say the other day you’re welcome to come bathe at my place if you need to! Even have a bath if the kids need it!
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Oh yeah, I did see that and meant to reply, sorry! Thanks for offering but I’m looking forward to turning up to your place on Sunday to meet everyone all unbathed and gross.
No, actually, we don’t have a car this week either as our old one is out of rego and the new one has yet to arrive at the dealership so we can’t even get to your place to take up the generous offer.
Cold showers are good for you aren’t they? All invigorating and icicle-making and stuff.
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Why are my comments not coming through?
Am I not manly enough?
Is it because I like to dance ballet?!
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Hey Doppelganger, it helps if you spell my twitter URL correctly! You fail, so I laugh.
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How do we know that YOU’RE the real AP, and not trying to fool us by correcting your own typo!?
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How do we know that you’re the real Effluvium Boy, and not just tricky imposter…
For all I know, you might all just be white Zetsu’s.
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Not just a* tricky imposter
Well, since I’m the master of letting my brain get ahead of my fingers I’m sure we can all tell that I’m really me…
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BAHAHAHA!
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Bahahahahahaha.
I am laughing so hard right now, my Guinea Pigs are looking at me like I’m insane.
My tummy hurts from laughter. Bravo good sir.
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I’m sad now Bishy.
I thought we had something special, a Stalker-Stalker relationship, but when you say things like that…
I…
I just can’t look at you the same way now, knowing how you feel. Your cruel words have foiled my plans, foiled them like yesterday’s leftovers.
So I bid thee Adieu.
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That’s okay!
I’m still happily watching you. Within such close proximity.
We breathe the same airrrrrrrrr
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REAL MEN SHOUT
Gah! My mum won’t let me buy Trackmania because she thinks I have enough games already. 🙁
I suppose it will be on sale again sometime in the future…
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bahahahahahahaha
Some things should not be said online, my friend.
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Please explain??
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maybe your mum could… 🙂
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My mum says i have to many games to. But she says it this way.
“Wow you have too many games you won’t ever play this one, why is that guy in a bat costume”
Me: “mum thats batman , you know who he is”
Her: ” Batman was never around in my day”
Me: “batman has been around since the 1920’sish”
Her: “You still have too many games”
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Bahahahaha.
My mother has just given up on me. It’s great!
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Oh, and technically, Batman has been around since 1939.
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Are you suggesting that I try and be a failure (in my mum’s eyes) too? 😛
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Dunno.
My mother thought I was a loser /before/ I became a failure, so it requires the right kind of relationship there.
(She thought I was a loser, but in a nice “D’aww, isn’t my son useless” kind of way)
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Drat, I’m going to be a failure at being a failure then. I’ve been good with a lot of things I do (unfortunately), I was even better at ballet (sort of) than my sister D:
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You mention ballet in the past tense. Why’d you stop?
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she is kinda down with the kids. shes ace at wii golf and tennis. But thats as far as i will let her go. also my grandpa is a bigger dr who fan than me. when i get them he makes me watch them with him. Its pretty much the best thing ever.
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Your Grandfather sounds amazing.
My Grandmother spends most of her time fussing, or asleep on the couch, and my Grandfathers spend most of their time having cancer…
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My mother can’t say anything because my brother and I happen to be our families sole tech support.
No likey? No fixey!
I tell my wife I have too many games.
She shrugs and says “meh”.
I love my wife.
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I tell my fiancée this, and she tells me to stop buying games 🙁
Oh well, will be buying Trackmania when I’m home from work.
PENGUIN IN ARKHAM CITY!
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Nice!
But no Arleen Sorkin for Harley 🙁-
FUZZ YEAH!!!
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Gonna b weird having Batgirl voicing Harley, the dodgy “sexy” costume is bad enough…
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I read that as Batguy will be voicing Harley.
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That’s a terrible likeness.
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There was a poster for his bar in Arkham Asylum. Makes sense that he would show up in Arkham City.
I made this one yesterday. I just have to get some ribbon to tie it with so I can try it on and decide whether I need to put straps on it or not.
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Wow, the word straps and on should be at least 3 words apart in future plzkthx.
I nearly fell off my chair after glancing through this page…
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Well maybe if it didn’t only have 3 legs, it’d be more stable.
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I concur. Didn’t particularly notice it the first time, but after Anon mentioned it… Well, let’s just say he makes a valid point.
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*twitch*
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TAKE ME!! TAKE ME NOW!!!
Seriously, though, that is frakking awesome
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You need a model, wearing tight undies and your uber cool garments. I volunteer!
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I would like to mention that I sprayed milk all over my desk when I read that comment but I’d be worried it’d be missed interpreted as something other then chocking on my breakfast.
http://i1208.photobucket.com/albums/cc362/Ninja_Fanpire/CerealSpit.jpg
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I’m Curious as to how you (or anyone) goes about attacking the picture to the cloth as my friend and I had an idea for a couple of stargate shirts we wanted to make.
Though I should point out this idea involves neither ribbon nor strap about three words on.
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This is as good a place as any to say my stuff is not as cool as people are thinking because the T-shirt was already that cool, and I just cut it up to make into a pretty top rather than a man-shape T-shirt. So in this case the Assassin’s Creed images were printed like that.
I have, however attached things to T-shirts with some success before. You can use iron-on hemming tape which you can get from most supermarkets but it won’t stay on forever. There’s also stuff called fusible interface that you can get from specialist sewing shops which is also activated by ironing.
The most durable way is to attach using one of the above things and then hand-sew in very small stitches around the edges of whatever you’re trying to attach. My favourite thing I’ve done this way is a frame from Joss Whedon’s ‘Fray’ which I printed onto an old bit of fabric using t-shirt transfer paper and then attached to a shirt with hemming tape, sewing around the frame and then fraying the edges of the attached fabric.
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I have just discovered psychobilly music!!
This shiz is rad!!!
Most of their stuff is nsfw, by the way 🙂
People can be ridiculous:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihLBCbNIDbI&feature=player_embedded
But people can also be funny:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0nznMimuOE&feature=related
And rich people can make you laugh:
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Hahaha, omg, that first one nealy made me wet myself when *spoiler* she says she should get to keep the money because the charged her */spoiler*
We’ve been busy this week filming and writing almost non-stop.
Because the current films we’re working on are very effects heavy, I didn’t want our channel to idle for too long.
As such, I decided to fire out a quick Behind The Scenes.
Episode 6 – “Costume Dept.”
(potentially NSFW)
ENJOY!
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I watched all of your videos. You guys are very talented and funny. It’s a shame you guys aren’t more mainstream yet hopefully you get
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Yeah, I love the high production values for a video that has less views than me making a fool of myself.
There’s no justice in this world.
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Thanks dewds! You made me and Karl blush.
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Ninja Gaiden 3.
Co-op.
What up?
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Now, isn’t Ninja Gaiden supposed to be a really hard game? (I played a bit, and found it easy, which is weird because I usually suck at that type of game) So imagine just how aggravating co-op would be, if you ally was especially bad. It could be a friendship killer.
This sounds like my type of game!
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I played Ninja Gaiden 2 and felt like the game wasn’t hard in a fun way. Unless co-op adds some level of wackiness to the whole thing, I’m not sure that I’m convinced.
Just the opening of the article makes my head ESSSSPLODE! (sic)
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Robert Clark is still against it, it looks like:
‘”We remain concerned that these draft guidelines would legalise games with high levels of graphic, frequent and gratuitous violence, including violence against civilians and police, and would not adequately protect the community,” Mr Clark said.’
If there’s no unanimity in SCAG, O’Connor will just have to pursue whatever legal options he was thinking of after July falls flat.
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‘”We remain concerned that these draft guidelines would legalise games with high levels of graphic, frequent and gratuitous violence, including violence against civilians and police, and would not adequately protect the community,” Mr Clark said.’
This has always bugged me. He claims this as the reason he cannot support an R rating, yet to me this is describing what anyone could do in Grand Theft Auto 4. A game which is readily available to anyone aged 15.
1- L.A Noire is still $78 at Big W/JB, so hurry up and get it.
2- For the love of ______ I hope enough people get behind the R18+ draft to help get it over the line.
3- Someone searched for Bomberman ’93!!
4- I really hope Dallas beat Miami in the NBA Finals.
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Mmmm, Bomberman ’93, I have fond memories of never playing. Or I just forgot I played it.
Prolly all Bommerman experiences have melded into one, except Bomberman 64, man that was a rad game, wish it were on Virtual Console…
Odd dream last night.
I walk into a huge games shop in Sydney and there’s someone playing a piano in the corner and some people are singing. At first I think it’s MadTod playing the piano but he stops and turns around and it’s Blaghman. A Blaghman with short blonde hair who doesn’t look anything like he does in his videos but I still know it’s Blaghman. And the two people singing were Eats-A-Lot and Anonymous Pessimist. Eats-A-Lot has an amazing voice but I can’t remember what The Pessimist sounded like because he’s now turned around too and he’s sitting sprawled in his chair like a drunkard and his shirt is open and his sun-burned and peeling hairy gut and chest are exposed and he’s scratching his navel.
It only gets weirder from there.
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Oh hey, while we’re sharing, you were in one of my dreams I had a few nights ago.
We hung out briefly like bros… well a bro and a female-bro, I guess.
I was going to mention this sooner but I thought posting “GUYS I HAD A DREAM ABOUT STRANGE” would make things awkward. But now I can hide behind the female-Blaghs and fat slob Pessimist imagery! -
Sounds almost as good as the Kotaku Chronicles. Please to be continue.
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It’s not actually super-interesting but I have continued the story in case anyone’s bored enough to read it.
…So all of a sudden we’re all sitting around a table in the humungous games shop eating…something, I think maybe it’s cookies. Bish and Dawdle! are there too. We’re talking about The Pessimist’s jerkin when suddenly up pops my best friend Alex like a jack-in-the-box(really, it was just like that: POP! and there he was behind Bishy and Blaghs) and it seems you guys all know each other and knew I would be there even though I didn’t and I still don’t know why I’m in Sydney.
From talking to everyone I gather I’m there because I’ve won tickets to some Comic convention thingy and I’m late for a meet-and-greet with some famous people. So I say goodbye and hop on a bus but I get the uneasy feeling I’m going in the wrong direction. For some reason even though the bus isn’t full I’m sitting on a seat squished between a rugged up but still cold looking lady on the window side and a fairly ordinary looking guy on the aisle side. I start getting panicked I’m lost so I ask the lady if she knows about this Comic thingy I don’t even know anything about and she tells me she knows where it is but the ordinary guy on my other side says she’s wrong but he knows and he’ll take me there. So I follow him off the bus (what the hell’s wrong with me?! why would I do that?!).
Apparently in this dreamworld I never had kids because I’m all scrawny with no curves or boobs, just like I used to be before I had my first kid. I know I’m still married though because after we hop off the bus the guy takes me to his place to grab his mates before he takes us all to the Comic thingumijiggy and one of his mates makes a crack about him picking me up but I say it’s not like that because I’m married. So we all grab a piece of pizza (don’t ask me where the pizza came from, it was just there all of a sudden) and start walking around Sydney together.
We’re walking around minding our own business eating pizza and talking when suddenly a guy bumps into us and starts accusing us of I don’t know what but we’re all getting ready for a fight and it’s all like a Yakuza game with mystery bus guy playing the part of Kiryu Kazuma.
The rest is just random weird, disturbing and vague bits and pieces I’m not willing to share and being rudely ripped out of the dreamworld by my alarm.-
I normally can’t remember my dreamas and when I do, never with that kind of detail.
Still, very entertaining. 🙂
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AHHAHAHAA!!!! oh gods, your description of Pessimist sprawled on a chair with his shirt open like a drunkard honestly, honestly, made me laugh out loud here!!!
I feel special, having made a guest appearance in your dreams ;]
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You cant leave that at “it only gets weirder” and not expect us to get those details!!!!!
Keep going!!!!!!!!!!
I want to know if a greased up Serrels does a back spin on the piano!
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Hahaha, that would have been funny. Alas, sir Serrels did not even make an appearance. Most of the reason I stopped there is because that’s almost where Kotaku people stopped being in it.
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Um… what?
I just… I don’t… what?!
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I’m really sorry. I think it’s your fault though for going on about me making you a jerkin and then mentioning saving skin for it in a box a bit at a time. I’m pretty sure that’s why you’re sunburned and your shirt is open at least. I have no idea why you were sprawled in a chair like a drunkard and scratching your hairy belly that probably isn’t even like that in reality. Again, really sorry. My mind is a scary place. I’m just glad Hugo The Hung Barbarian didn’t appear, that would have been even more disturbing.
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I took on an army of 320 in Warband last night with only 66 dudes on my side and won with only 10 losses.
Good times.
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I’ve been addicted to With Fire and Sword latley, just because it’s easier to make money then any of the other versions. Just purchased my custom made black armor. Yey!
Probably time for some minecraft now, see what this update is all about. Anyone know if the server is patched yet?
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The server’s working fine…well sort of. Both it and some lan servers I made this morning are taking forever to generate new chunks. But already generated chunks are fine. Maps work well too 😀
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If you’re running a graphics pack on minecraft, it may end up crashing just trying to get into the main menu like my LB photo realism pack did. To easily fix it, grab a zip file of the default graphics pack, put it in the same folder as your other pack, open the options text file in the minecraft folder, and change the Skin to the full name of the default graphics pack zip file.
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Thanks. I was looking for a solution to that and read your comment whilst i was waiting for a page to load 😛
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Yeah that solution I didn’t ask google about, I checked my options file, and since the update introduces new content which includes new graphics, I thought I’d put it back to default but since I couldn’t do it in Minecraft itself (It crashed when trying to load the main menu when I tried last night), I looked around for some options text file (most simpler coded games have this luxury) and figured it out from there.
I am here to assist, human.
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I ended up just deleting the texture pack from the textures folder. I was aksing google where to find the textures pack folder because i’d only gone into it va mincraft before 😛
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can’t remember off the top of my memory banks but start in %appdata% > Roaming > .minecraft folder (That’s the name IIRC) and there is a folder named TexturePacks, all your texture pack zip files go here then you go back to the minecraft folder and edit the options file in notepad.
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Everyday I come into work and my handle is one of the many I have used in the past.
Confusing…
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/05/26/best-noir-comics/
Obligitary Comics Alliance post…
Trjn, there is a Batman comic in here I never read that looks ACE!
What’s the longest some one here as gone without buying a game from an Australian retailer? Myself was halo reach but before that it was a fair while again. I just can’t see why anyone would buy from an aus retailer except for special editions etc. Howwwww are eb game etc still going? Are there an amazingly high amount of gamers uneducated to the fact they are being duped? I always assume being someone that play games are on top of current issues and topics in gaming.
Can any of you imagine being a gamer but not following gaming news or being involved in a community? Just goijg to the shop buying a game and playing it… that’s it.
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I bought Crysis 2 from JB because I had a voucher.
Before that? I think it was New Vegas, also from JB, in an uber sale in october.I guess people who buy like that are not primarily gamers, just people who play some games.
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Last game I bought from an Aussie retailer was Little Big Planet 2 Collector’s Edition for my daughter. I wouldn’t have but I was leaving the country the day after LBP2 released and I wanted to give her something to make up for the fact that I was leaving her with her grandparents for a couple of weeks.
Before that the last one was Final Fantasy XIII on release day.
And before that I have absolutely no idea so it must have been a long time ago.When I first got into games I used to just be a gamer but not follow any news or magazines about gaming. I’d just walk into the games shop every payday, talk to the guys who worked there and buy whatever looked good or what they told me was similar to a game I’d previously enjoyed. This was back when games shop employees actually knew something about the games they were selling.
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LA Noire, but with a JB voucher.
Before that was New Vegas because i got $74 trade in value for dead rising 2…If I pay cash im overseas for sure, but vouchers or trade ins i buy locally.
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Oh man. Does that GAME sale that was right before they got taken over by their UK parents count? Because I picked up stuff like Heavenly Sword for $8 and Left 4 Dead 2 for $12. Judging by Steam, that was June last year.
Oh, when I picked up my PS3 Slim last year I also picked up a copy of Valkyria Chronicles, but again, that was on special.
Full RRP? The World Ends With You for $70. And to be honest, a very well spent $70. On launch day, apparently April 21, 2008 (according to the receipt).
So it’s been over 3 years of buying pretty much everything either from Play Asia, OzGameShop or Steam. Haaaahahaha, I bet Gerry Harvey would be pissed at me.
Is 3d dot game heroes any good?
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If you enjoy Zelda: Link to the Past, then yes. If you, oh, I don’t know, haven’t played any Zelda game then who knows. But then again, everyone played Link to the Past… Right?
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*ahem*.. yes… EVERYONE!!!
i’m guessing playing this wouldn’t make up for the fact i no played zelda?
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Did you really think you could get away without playing Zelda?
PUT YOUR PS3 AWAY AND PLAY SOME ZELDA GORRAMIT! -
No. Not even a teent bit.
But it is still a fun game. Funny too. Alot of parodys of Zelda, FF and Dragon Quest.
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I played it all the way through and enjoyed it. Very similar in gameplay style to Link to the Past. If you wanted to save some money (so you can it spend on other PS3 games, obviously!) I could probably lend it to through the post?
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Very admirable, and thank you for your offer. But i will decline, respectfully. As a collector, i like to own all titles that i play so that they can then gather enormous amounts of dust on my shelf and i can stare at them doh-eyed 😛
Thanks again, though 🙂It’s only $25 or something on ozgameshop.. so i might get it from there in a few weeks or so…
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You can have mine if you want. If I never hear that music again it will be too soon….
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Have? i don’t like the idea of taking your net stuff… maybe i could give you some value of monetary goods for it?
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Dude, you’ve given enough stuff away yourself. Just send me your address to smitemeisteratiinetdotnetdotau and I’ll post it. Eventually. I’m notoriously bad at doing things in a timely fashion.
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lol the game is fantastic, but as strange implies.. the music is… teth grindindly repetitive :0
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teeth even!
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I’ve just realised that I won’t be able to do cheapskate next week, because I’ve got an exam on Tuesday morning D:
Anyone here like to step in for me? Please?
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Sure, why not! it will be good to put those myriad game deal emails I get to good use.
Bunny, have you played any more Demon’s Souls yet?
I thought I’d better ask in case you’d told yourself “I’ll only start doing Buttercup again if Strange or someone asks me about it”.
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Been trying to get motivated. It will happen, just not sure when.
Hi there Kotaku!
First-time poster here, I’ve been following the site for a while and finally decided to become a part of the community.
That’s if you guys accept me.
😀
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ACCEPTED!
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I just had a mental image of you slamming a big “ACCEPTED!” stamp on a monitor.
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Oh man, accepted by The Boss no less than 5 minutes after posting.
Feels good man.
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There is no doubt.. you will be accepted.
Welcome.
Also your name reminds me of the Paedo guy in Family Guy when he is at the ‘Fondle Tank’ at the aquarium…
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Lol, classic TAY welcome.
And Hi!
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I actually thought of the Greased-up Deaf Guy when I read his name.
Welcome to TAY Otter.
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I bid you greetings human… or are you an otter? If you are then you’re the first Kotaku Otter I’ve ever met. Still… You’re accepted and welcome!
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Haha, I’m very much human. No otter here, just thought it was a good enough name.
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That’s a shame, you could’ve taken the chance to be the very first otter gamer of Kotaku 😛
Love the name regardless *Being an animal lover myself*
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Well, there is the small matter of the token top-secret initiation rite which may or may not involve secret secretty stuff, but pending that I’m with the Boss: ACCEPTED!
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So, who’s supplying the bees and the hobo?
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lol. I was actually thinking of giving the new person, person because i never assume gender ;), the task of solving the below Trials clue as an initiation thingy, but that would just be mean (and selfish).. still, if he/she does solve it, he/she would get my eternal respect…
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I’m sure in time people can figure out my gender.
As for the riddle, oh man I have no idea. Sorry.
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Thanks for the warm welcome guys, I do feel very welcome now.
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hello old bean. How do you do?
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Always love seeing a new face!
Mark Serrels is the Editor: Pretty cool guy. Coming off a Pepsi addiction, so don’t mention the substance to him, he might relapse…
I’m the Tech Manager: I’m 200.5 cm tall, that’s all anyone really knows about me.
Elly Hart: The early-morning editor for the tech sites, will usually be the one posting the American articles. Pops around for a chat sometimes
Ben White: Design guy, he rarely pops in, but when he does, choirs sing!
Sughly: working on an Epic game which I’m getting a free copy of *cough cough*
Chuloopa: Been around kotaku before the beginning of time. Writes epic space Operas about the community.
FatShady: Trials. HD. God.
Welbot: IT guy. Also a robot.
Tech Knight: Our resident spam bot that doesn’t spam at all.
Jimu: Advertising Manager for comicsalliance.com.
Janitor Eats-a-lot: IT’S A GIRL!!!!! Epic gamer in an epic clan!
dawdle: IS ALSO A GIRL!!!!! Pretty much the nicest person around these parts!
Strange: 3 GIRLS?! THAT’S INSANE?! We have a love-hate relationship over here, but she’s really a sweetie!
lamboman007: He is Cheap$kate Gamer II. My successor, and a worthy one at that!I’ve undoubtedly missed loads of people, so I’ll let them introduce themselves! 😛
WELCOME TO KOTAKau!
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If I recall correctly, Q-bo was the only one of the community in the very first TAY. So, y’know, not to steal Loops’ thunder, but Q-bo has been around since the dawn of man. And Machine. And games.
So, SlipperyOtter, what platforms do you game on?
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MAN.. Q-bo will be pissed when he realises he was forgotten… I would not want to be the person that did that ^^&^.. lol.
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1 black marker….
*squuuueeeeech soundThats spamtod of the xmas list.
Oh, I like otter’s, hogwarts and all that hazaa!
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Well, my PC recently died. Back when it worked, my time was split evenly between PC and Xbox.
Oh how I miss it.
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Don’t worry, you still have about 5/6 months to gather enough money to get a PC for BF3/Skyrim 🙂
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One day I will be the SpamBusterBot… with my blaster and energysaber in hand!
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Batguy: Constant tormenter of your high scores, and the only TAYer to finish Super Meat Boy (I think? Unless somebody else has done it by now?)
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I’VE FINISHED SUPER MEAT BOY 100%!!!!!
I had to say that because it took me MONTHS of solid work…
… It’s a pride thing! 😛
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You did‽ Awesome work!! Congratulations!
Makes you feel like a mean, lean, gaming machine by the end doesn’t it? Especially when you finally A+ those later levels that just seemed impossible to finish, let alone finish quickly. Or when you fly through the earlier levels again, taking crazy risks and cutting your times in half.
Man… loved that game so much. Everything about it was just so perfect. Look forward to seeing what Team Meat come up with next (which apparently will not be SMB2).
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OK, so make it (if the HTML works properly):
… one of the privileged few TAYers the only TAYer to finish Super Meat Boy.
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Nope, didn’t work. Feel free to mod in the strikethrough tags, Tad!
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I knew it. I KNEW you hated me. *sob*
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I was going to type more but my boss came over with one of my new team members for training so I panicked and posted.
Anyway. I’m pretty much here 24/7 but don’t post much. That’s my little bit I guess.
WELCOME, SLIPPERY OTTER OF SLIPPERINESS.
A few more Kotaku regulars who have not been mentioned –
AnonymousPessimist: Musician & techie, often appears with a host of other Anonymous relatives.
Blaghman: EPIC singer. Likes cute and cuddly animals. Maybe a bit too much…
Bish: He hates worms, cuz they’re jerks.
Qumulys: Was born when Kotaku was born, I’m quite certain. He will be back soon 🙂
Endu: A complete mystery. Who is Endu? *pulls out t-shirt that reads “Who is Endu?”*
Jamie What?: Already has introduced himself but I’m going it again 🙂 He has an epic Scottish accent and I’m going to high5 him ‘cuz he wore a Dragon Age tee to the last meetup.
James Mac: The first James Mac. I do believe you mentioned you were Irish.
jamesmacusedmyhandle: The second James Mac. May or may not be Irish.
Rocketman: Also known as ‘Ross’, iirc. He’s flyin’ to the moon and back.
Undoubtedly I have missed heaps, but that’s my contribution for now!
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Wait, James Mac is Irish? He plays the bagpipes, doesn’t he? I always assumed he was kind of Scottish.
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It’s all the same – right guys!
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Whit? Mon en!
*ahem* I dunno, I lived in Ireland and it was the ONLY place I have ever lived where thy didn’t ask if I were Irish. They asked if I was English…
Wisnae impressed…
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He said he was born in Ireland, does that make him Irish?
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Born in Ireland, most of the family is from Coatbridge in Glasgow, Scotland.
I play the pipes in a Scottish Pipe Band (current world champion pipe band is from Ireland)and will be playing at the Tattoo in about 9 weeks.Welcome SlipperyOtter.
Do tell… are you as slippery as Slippy the slipspace eel, who’s just been named chancelor of The slippy physics department at Slipery-Dip University?
That’s it? I’m the just “cheapskate guy”?? 😛
And it’s nice to meet you Otter 😀 (dammit, why does that smiley keep coming out as D: ?)
[Insert unintentionally creepy or sexual welcome here]
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[insert intentionally creepy or sexual addition to the above in attempt to be funny, cross the line, then be too ashamed to comment for 2 weeks of TAY]
Welcome aboard! Arrrrr
I don’t KNOW why I went with a pirate theme. I just did. Deal with it.
Oh, I’m also the self appointed resident doctor.
REMEMBER ALL THIS! THERE WILL BE TESTS!
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Was your old man a doctor too?
If so… that would make you Dr Watt’s son, I presume?
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No one has replies so I shall do it for them.
That was EPIC!
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SlipperyOtter?
Man, what a rad name!
I saw a movie with that title once!!
Welcome to the community, mate. The more the merrier…
…Unless you start beating us all in competitions, in which case you will be excommunicate…
…nah, i’m just kidding…
…*glare*….
Greetings SlipperyOtter!
I too only just started commenting on TAY and let me tell you, you could not have found a more welcoming, hilarious and sometimes distrubing group.
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“sometimes” disturbing?…
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Time to up the ante.
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My bad…
welcoming, hilarious and totally disturbing with every syllable written, oh dear god the horror I have witnessed here, the sheer gruesome acts against the natural order of the world consistently perpetrated on this site will forever haunt me in my dreamsand waking hours.-
Well, now we need another Sughly drawing.
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Hullo Mr. Otter, welcome to our little slice of insanity.
Are you as really as slippery as your handle suggests?
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Are you implying that I’m slippery!?
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Thanks.
Yes. Exactly as my handle suggests.
Because Otters can be slippery.
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They are also rather stinky. You’ll get on fine with Effluvium Boy.
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I refuse to accept you!
OK, that was a lie. Welcome. Just don’t be surprised if you start seeing movement in the bushes outside your home, and movement watching the movement in the bushes outside your home.
Not that any of us are crazy stalkers.
That would be silly.
You haven’t met plainview yet… but that guy, that guy will freak your shit.
He’s one of those minds that is so great it’s hard to tell if he’s the smartest guy ever… or completely batshit insane.
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I miss Plainview. He needs to come BAAAACK.
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Every day that goes by without a comment from Plainview I die a little more inside.
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He’s our very own Jack Sparrow… which may be why he’s gone missing.
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OK, my new trick for exploiting people for help in the Trials HD riddle is both twitter and here. As the clues are not related to Trials HD at all, anyone can join in.
Lets make it like a trivia event, but one where i don’t even know the answers..
OK, question for today, what is the significance of this cardboard box?
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I would say the box itself is irrelevant and the significance is the change from the scrawled out bit to the new writing.
Perhaps not what is written but the correction.-
The box is apparently instantly recognisable to those that know about it?
One dude in the dev’s office was shown it and ‘got it’ immediately. It was suggested that we show this around to get someone else to ‘get it’.
I have no idea.
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Obviously I am good at this then.
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I can’t use (L) to tilt the box to try and find clues! This case is a bust!
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Just use your ‘Intuition’
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I can’t seem to see any writing underneath the tape, so I’m assuming there isn’t any.
SU 122 in Google returns something about a German mobile howitzer – probably not relevant 😛
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yeah we got that far, but im assuming it is not relevant.
Anyway thanks
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Okay,
So the Inception music dun goed good with the BF3 trailer. But not as good as this ‘un.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VGt5Onx0_I&feature=youtu.be
(May be NSFW if you have speakers)
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Everytime you play that song some male, somewhere in America gets a boner..
Why didn’t i find this for Mothers day. I actually have it on my iphone as part of a mix tape, didnt realise it was a legit song!!!
Mr T.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_rBidCkJxo
i normally can’t YT at work (at home today) so sorry to those working right now.
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Awww mann.. you haven’t listened to Mr.T’s raps before?? He’s the shiz-nit!!!
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When the camera pans out to the shorts.. I lost it!
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Is it just me or are the US articles becoming less and less about games, and more and more about fitting in as much boobs and swears as possible? (I’m not a prude [well I am a little], but I would prefer to keep my interests separate.)
Anyway, seems a shame to be diluting the award-winning Australian journalism with such disappointment.
Is there anything planned for the site revamp that will allow users to view Aussie content only by default?
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…So business as usual for Americans then…
Sorry that was horrible but yes I have detected this also
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ditto 🙂
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Just click on the AU tag and you’ll only get the Aussie content 🙂
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It’s not just you. The quality of the US-based stories is definitely decreasing. Hopefully this downward spiral doesn’t continue.
In the meantime, I’ll often just pretend http://www.kotaku.com.au/tags/au/ is the only Kotaku there is. 😛
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Funny, I tweeted about a similar issue last night. Kotaku US has such a bad rep in US…
As you say, shame really.
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Oh god yes! And how Totillo keeps making those videos of whatever he’s playing at the moment. Oh and McWhertors terrible spelling and grammer.
What. The. Shit. Kotaku US…
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It’s Bashcrafts spelling and grammer that get to me.
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Have you read any of Tim Rogers stuff?
If ever there was a man who needs an editor.
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I have noticed this a little…
They do cover most of the ‘newsy news’ stories, although the journalism isn’t nearly as good as [award-winning journalist™] Mark’s.
Could we break free from the mothership? Or is there a contract with the US site that forces Allure to use their stories?
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I hate the shameful TROLL articles…cos they get me everytime!
Takes all my power to not comment, and then I do…
I recently caught up with an old school friend online.
In polite society I imagine this would constitute sharing fond reminiscences and asking each other about how we’ve been and catching up.
There was some of that. There was.
Most of it was burried under layers of scathing insults and mockery.
Is this a normal occurrence? Or is some sort of repressed male thing exclusive to the people I grew up with? Maybe it’s a Scottish think?
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It’s usually pretty civil with me. But admittedly, I pretend to be AFK when somebody I don’t want to talk to starts chatting.
The problem is, when I explain this to actual friends, they think I don’t want to talk to them due to the frequency of me leaving my computer on whilst I do something else… I just can’t win… 😛
But yeah, back on-topic, I would just delete “friends” who decide they need to insult me. I’ve gotten far enough in life to realise that they aren’t worth the effort.
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The insulting isn’t mean (well, to anyone else it might be) it’s, well, I guess it’s kinda like saying “I love you man, you’re like a brother and that’s why I can get away by endearingly calling you a ‘baw bag’ and you might reply by implying that I’m a ‘bummer’ or implying my ‘maw’ is somehow sexually promiscuous.”
Also, does that mean all those times I tried to chat to you, you weren’t really AFK!? *sob*
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Yeah I often use insults as terms of endearment. My poor kids.
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Two guys calling each other gunt means nothing, a parent calling a child gunt is totally different!
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If you had a school life like mine, you’d be holding back the urge to terminate them in the most long and painful manner. I cut all my links to them and even used a new email for exactly this reason. I only have very very VERY few people from high school I keep in contact with… mainly cuz that one girl is now engaged to my older brother.
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I learned long ago (read Feb 2011) that some friends enjoy mocking each other, others definitely do not.
Case and point, called a friend and his old-lady lame, a witty retort was fired back at me.
Said the same thing to another friend from High School, “Dan, we’re engaged and that’s totally inappropriate.” Me – “Oh that’s right, so your sense of humor is now held in here purse along with your balls! BOOM! IM OUT!” -dropped mic and drove back to Brisbane-
Moral – Don’t insult someone you’ve driven an hour to see.
What were we talking about again?
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I guess it depends on the person.
One of my housemates and I will insult the hell out of each other, a normal greeting will be something along the lines of “Hey look at this C***, why the hell aren’t you dead yet?” with a similar retort and that will be all the conversation we have for days.But we have developed that kind of friendship over time where its all in good fun.
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While my friends and I don’t quite go to the extent of some of the above, we have certainly developed a rapport which allows us to be mean and cruel.
One of my friends will invite me to his house, then proceed to yell at me to get out of his house, and another one uses “Shut up fatty” as a response when he can think of nothing else.
And then I’m constantly mean and cruel to all my friends, but that’s just because I’m a bad person.
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I avoid most people from school.
Have kept in contact with my good freinds.Saw a guy the other day at the pizza shop and said hello…
What’s this??? has anyone seen this before??
http://www.ozgameshop.com/blu-ray/appleseed-ex-machina-blu-ray
looks kinda neat..
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My interest program just activated…
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I say, this looks, on first sight, like an interesting and appealing little piece of High Resolution digital entertainment. I must alert the Information Gatherer so he can find more information about this so that the Master CPU can make a decision as to whether this product is worthy to be invested in or not.
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AHA! Anime question eh?
It’s the sequel to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appleseed_%28film%29
Based on the manga by Ghost In The Shell Creator Shirow Masamune. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appleseed_%28manga%29 which remains unfinished.
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aweww sequel!?!?
Damn it.. that means i won’t understand it.. all i wanted was an awesome cheap anime bluray to test out my PS3 with!!!
grrrr
And by the creator of ghost in the shell, it would be MEGA awesome!
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Youu should grab it anyway. I’ve seen the DVD going around really cheap. Hell, I got mine for free. If you can’t find it, you can have mine 🙂
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DONT DO IT!!!
They suck HARD!!!
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Afro Samurai’s are pretty cheap now or Studio Ghibli….
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how cheap?
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Look on Amazon.co.uk (They’re currently doing free shipping to Aus)
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Afro Samurai isn’t region free and wouldn’t work on Chuloopa’s PS3.
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+1 for Afro Samurai. Ninja Ninja is the best.
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I knew when I missed KFC’s double down, something better was going to come along…
That’s right! *tv-ad-in-your-face mode on* INTRODUCING THE CHICKEN MCWINGS FROM MACCAS. BEST WINGS ON EARTH (may or may not be true). For a limited time only.
Well, to be honest, they’ve had mcwings in the maccas in Hong Kong for ages, and every year I can’t wait to be in Hong Kong end of the year to eat them because I know they won’t be here.
Om nom nom nom nom.
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chinese maccas and kfc always have really interesting stuff! Same with japan. I always enjoy travelling abroad and finding what new things await! Possibly the strangest thing I’ve come across was in Tokyo McDonalds.. they had a McHotDog for breakfast!
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Hope this doesn’t constitute in advertising…
http://mcdonalds.com.hk/english/food/valuepicks.htm
Just look at the variety of food.
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The thing that really blew me away was Kentucky Fried FISH! lol Not something I excpected to see in a place known for it’s chicken, but it was AWESOME!
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My favourite find came travelling in China with the “orange and cheese” (orange cheesecake might have been a better name) and Yam paddle pops.
The first one was quite nice, the latter a bit…plain.
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I love the fact here McDonalds advertises that it only uses white breast meat.
Yet in China, they advertise they only use thigh meat.
The difference is tastes in various markets. My biggest problem with ordering McDonalds in China is I don’t speak enough Chinese, so I have to order via number, and I’ve been to some where the numbers on the menu do not match the numbers of the operators keypad.
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Maccas breakfast is the only thing I can stomach from them.
I litterally get sick from the lunch/dinner menu…everytime. Cos you know there always comes a day when maccas is the only option, that or soggy old 7-11 sandwhiches!
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Do they still have corn in cups at Maccas in Hong Kong?
Because that’s hilarious.-
They had em in Shanghai when I was there last time.
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It’s Friday
( insert lambos mysterious YouTube video i’n)
I have to make a relay switch box for work and then come in tomorrow oh joy, but at least I’m happy i’n the fact I beat the hospital levels of super meaty boy. So what are you guys up to this weekend?
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Attempted world domination in M&B Warband probably.
Though all the talk between Tech Knight and Eats-a-Lot have got me wondering if I should try out lol.-
Try what out? What talk? Where?!
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Wait, I just got it – the word ‘lol’ has been so ingrained into my mind as laugh out loud that I completely forgot it also can stand for League of Legends…
Also no, try DOTA!
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Goddamn, that was a fail reply to Jo’s comment.
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I type it as LoL every time which = League of Legends in my book, using the same format as typing WoW
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Yeah but Tech is playing LoL so I have an in.
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Are you really going to risk it? It seemed like yesterday you were cursing my name for getting you hooked on M&B xD
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felt like it was only yesterday*
Massive Error detected: Starting hard disk scanner…
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Quiet you.
Seriously though, I like playing games with others so I figure I might as well give it a go while it is happening.
Assuming you acquiesce to my participation.
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Always happy to tag up with a human Kotaku ally. To tag up with another machine, it’s an honour (Read: Welbot)
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Nothing much, this sums it up perfectly though.
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I’m just finishing up my last Assignment (making a 3D Pacman game in Java). So once I submit this, i plan on finishing up killzone 3, replaying half life 2 and watching the LOTR Trilogy. It’s been such a crappy week. And then, joy, exam revision.
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For me and a whole bunch of others in here, it’s a gathering at my house! w00t! Shame you can’t make it being in north qld, but we’ll be thinking of you!! 🙂
So, evidently Ghasts can put out portals in the Nether…I found this out the hard way (read: I got trapped in the Nether) :/
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The Yogscast showed that too, they do vids on every minecraft update to show what was included in a practical sense, they got two lines of trap doors set up as a drawbridge using redstone. Very very nice
I suggest that, for the rest of today, we all become anonymous.
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Any reason?
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That is reason enough.
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Okay then…but why?
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I don’t agree to that!
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I suggest you get back to work! 😛
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STOP EXERCISING YOUR POWERS TO MAKE US JELLY!
*turns off caps lock shouting program*
Okay sorry about that, no I won’t become Anonymous, those pricks keep putting PS3 customers down as collateral damage. They have no honour!
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OK, Done.
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I think AnonymousPessimist and I had already worked out that we are the same person, at least as far as minecraft is concerned.
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I think you’re all just jealous…
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Adventures of an Anonymous Velociraptor, Entry 1
Dear virtual diary,
I have been ordered by my psychiatrist to write diary entries as a way to express myself “that does not involve kicking people in the groin region”, so here I am.
“Psychiatrist? How did this come to be?” I hear nobody ask, but I will gladly tell you anyway. It began at the start of this week. I came into offices, refreshed after a weekend of Jurassic Park marathon, motivated to scare some little kids protected by Sam Neill. It was strangely quiet though, none of my workmates seemed to be around, and only the humans that worked in the higher management areas were in. Odd. Maybe I was early. Headed to my locker and changed into my uniform. Urban camouflage outfits for party surprising, and some good steel capped boots for some groin kicking. I glanced over to the mirror on the inside of the locker door to check for any signs of lingering scruffiness, when I noticed it. A letter, taped over the mirror, starting with “Notice of Dismissal”. What was this? WHAT THE HELL WAS THIS??? I ran straight to my boss’ office upstairs and kicked down the door. “THE HELL!?” I shouted, and threw the now scrunched up notice of dismissal at him. “Look, I’m sorry, I really am,” he started, “but I can’t continue employing you. I can’t list you as an employee, because apparently dinosaurs are extinct, so you officially don’t, no, CAN’T exist. ATO were all over me yesterday asking about my mental well-being for claiming I had employed a velociraptor. I tried to prove it, but I didn’t have a photograph on hand, because you refused to have one to keep in your employee file!”. “I don’t photograph well!” I explained, because I don’t. I always turn out looking like a drug-dealer or delinquent or something. “I’m sorry. Really.”
And like that, I was back in the locker room, clearing out all my stuff. I don’t blame him. The boss man is a pretty cool guy, and I know he tried his best to keep me. I started to make my rounds to some of my old work mates, to say goodbye. Jim, Steve, Jimmy McSteve, Frank, the janitor, and other Steve. I kicked each and every one of them in the groin. Why? Because Jim was a jerk, Steve once farted in the elevator while we were in it, Frank once laughed at the inability of the Velociraptors in Jurassic Park to hunt 2 little kids down, and the other guys I am pretty sure have stolen my lunch from the fridge at one point in time. I only got up to Frank before I was tasered, though. I was told that my thick dinosaur hide would have +50% resistance to electricity, but apparently not, huh. I was told by the armour merchant in Ioka Village that these would last a lifetime. Note to self: kick that dude in the dinosaur bits.
So here I am, ordered by the courts for anger management treatment, seeing a psychiatrist. -
Leave me be!
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I was like, cool, theres a pic of an anonymouse, but the little fuckers playing scrabble! Vermits!
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http://notadahi.comlu.com/gallery/anonymouse.png
Applied to upper post…
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Well I had the worst evening yesterday. I got home from work around 5, and heard one of my kittens I’ve had month meowing really angrily.
So I rushed into the kitchen to find out what was wrong. The kitten Spartan had got himself tangled in the strings for the kitchen blinds, and then fallen off the kitchen bench whilst tangled.
He was hanging about halfway to the floor against the front of the dishwasher meowing in pain, as his front left leg was twisted behind his back, with the wrist even further twisted. His right front leg was also tangled and had circulation almost cut off.
I quickly rescued him, and he was so sore and upset. We went straightaway to the vet, and he seems to be ok. He had some swelling and sore muscles. But nothing seems to be broken or dislocated.
I feel so bad he got like that, as he may have been hanging for most of the day. I got him home and he has slept most of the evening and night, and seems to be walking ok now.
I also feel so bad for his sister, as he was so stressed when I got home, as her brother was in pain and she couldn’t do anything to help him.
This morning he seemed to be walking fin, so he could go to his sterilisation appointment. So at least he has a vet keeping an eye on him today, and she’ll only operate if she is happy he is okay.
I hope he’ll recover and have no permanent limp.
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Oh wow, that must have been so awful. There’s nothing worse than the feeling that perhaps you shouldn’t have gone to work that day… 🙁
(Though I must admit when I read the kitten got tangled and was hanging, I was somewhat relieved when I kept reading that he was meowing in pain…)
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I just feel so lucky he didn’t get it tangled around his throat. Since it could have ended up so much worse.
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You know he’s going to think the steralisation is punishment for playing with the blinds.
Worst week ever.-
He is going to get large amounts of cuddles tonight. Especially since he’ll be dopey from the general anaesthetic.
I might have to go out and buy him a steak to chop up as a treat.
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Poor Kitten!!!! ;(
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Sorry, couldn’t keep reading.
Not sure the outcome, hope everything’s OK!
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The outcome at the moment looks pretty good. I’ll know more in just over 3 hours when I pick him up after his sterilisation.
But he was running around this morning wanting food. So I reckon he’ll be good.
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Kewl!
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Kitty!
Glad to hear it’s okay.
Just found this whilst looking for leads for our new MMA brand, and it’s rather amusing..
http://www.titlemma.com/sf_3700.aspx
my favorite of which is:
http://www.titlemma.com/p_CNTS+6+M+WH.aspx
They also do some bruce lee shirts, which are surprisingly tasteful.. well mostly…
http://www.titlemma.com/sf_1528.aspx
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Those shirts you gave me last year are still some of my favourites. Where can I look into getting more, amigo?
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That is, do you do retail stuff or supply? Because I’d be happy to fund some Chuloopa Industries related stuff.
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Stoked you liked them, mate 🙂
They last FOREVER
you can get a bunch REAL CHEAP(ish) on my works website, platypusx.com under the runnout specials section.
the shirts i’ve designed are still at http://www.chuloopaoverload.toctopus.com
…but its been a little while since i’ve done a shirt 🙁
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No, I’m Spartacus!
I, sir, REJECT your suggestion! The moral fiber of the pants of life has frayed enough! Look here! At the seam! Can’t sew that you know. Just tear right through, that will.
So I say ‘NAY’! I say ‘NO!’ and I say ‘Who stole my noodles’ as we march ever onwards, ever upwards and ever looping the loops of Green Hill Zone!
Aye, fight and you may die. Run, and you’ll live… at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willin’ to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they’ll never take… OUR FREEDOM!
Wait, what were we talking about again?
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This was a failed attempt to reply to AnonymousTad
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Yeah, that happened to me too.
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Remember the game ‘Spot the difference’ in mags of old (and now i guess, I only read the interwebz so not sure)
Well today, for the whole day, I get to play this for work! See i have two types of documents that are generated out of two very diferent places (even using different inputs) but the test is do they look the same. I am going over 100+ pages and confirming where the differences are.
I know it sounds boring, but I have made it into a game and it is heaps fun. I always loved STD games so this is a good day at work (working from home so even better)…
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…I always loved STD Games…
Hmmmmm……..wait, what?
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It’s like Russian Roulette, only instead of getting shot, you get Chlamydia.
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did someone say my name?
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So that’s how you pronounce your name :p
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My comments weren’t being approved, was that because I had a tinyurl under Website?
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never mind
So today’s track I’ve been working on has a snare created from a paint can, a crowbar hitting a car, a marching band snare and a distorted clap.
Music is fun.
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Oh! And bamboo sticks. Can’t forget bamboo sticks.
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With real bamboo?
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Yeah!
None of that synthetic stuff – the pandas hate that.
Just putting the final rough mixing touches on now, sending it over soon.
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Wants your job.
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My real job or my music hobby?
If you want my real job… it’s all yours :p
I go back to work on Monday!
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I once saw an old dude down the street cutting down bamboo and effectively stealing it from someone’s front yard.
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I am neither old nor a dude, sir.
’twas my butler, Jeeves. I send him on expeditions to fetch odd instruments for my composing pleasure.
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Very good, sir.
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Aren’t you meant to be fetching me glass bottles for my next composition? What are you doing on TAY? Begone until you’ve completed your tasks!
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I have indeed fetched your bottles for you sir, however, as the young master seems to have locked himself in his room viewing and posting pictures of women with lack of tops, I thought it perhaps preferable to all parties involved that I do not physically interrupt activities you may or may not be partaking in. Thus I found it most appropriate to inform you via modern technology, such as the internet.
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Touché Jeeves… you win this round.
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You know what I hate about lunchtime on Friday ?,
You guys: no Ross we don’t know you spaz tells us
Me: I don’t like lunch cause I have to go back to work after wards why can’t I finish at one on Friday instead of spending the afternoon cleaning the toilet and my desk then pretending to do work and waiting for tay to update.
You guys: rocketman you deuce at least you have a job. Also generic hair insult towards you.
Me: you guys are awesome
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Rocketman you deuce at least you have a job! Also generic hair insult towards you!
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need pic of hair to properly insult you. kthnxbye.
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Why hair insult of all things?
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OKAY NOTE I ACTUALLY LIKE MY HAIR
I was just trying waaaaay to hard to be funny.
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Pshh, your hair is less ridiculous than mine.
I mean really, what would inspire someone to get hair as completely impractical as mine is?
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H-uh, I could have sworn I’d switched my name back. C’est la vie.
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Totally agree. I have lunch at 2-3pm on a Friday and then come back for two hours of sitting at my desk pretending to work as I count down the hours*. Boring!
*note that this isn’t always the case and sometimes I get so much work after lunch I have to stay until around 7pm.
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that is EXACTLY how i feel… EVERY FRIDAY!!
Miami is playing less than spectacularly right now.
First game of basketball I get to watch in months and Miami is getting dominated? YAY!
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Go Celtics
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Amen.
And now Miami has hit the front. Why do they have the talent to make a comeback dammit?
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327.79 million dollars worth of comeback?
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Sleepy sleepy… time for a nap.
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i like sleepydawdle as a handle.
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And many others would like to handle a sleepy dawdle.
Bu-dum-tish
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I don’t get it…
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HO-MY-GOD!!!
LOOK WHAT I JUST FOUND!!!
OMG OMG OMG OMG!!!
SQUEEEE!!!!
PURITY SEALLLL!!!
I CAN BE PURE!!!
Interestingly, neither Game nor EB have collectors editions of this game for pre-order yet… maybe they might trump jb??
$150 is a lot of money.. but i always bend over and have a proctological exam for ANYTHING warhammer…. *looks at warhammer online collectors edition with glee*
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ipKzys3kgY&feature=player_embedded
god watch that clip!! how could you now want it?!?! so visceral!!
…except orks in 40k don’t have shamans.. so i don’t know what they’re doing in there… and the guys speaking make me want to punch them… grrrr…
Some of the splatter is a little over the top, but man, it looks like genuine F-U-N!!!
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I can’t believe that I haven’t seen any media for that game before now.. it looks AWESOME.. Can’t wait!
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The only thing that’ll put me off is my horrible console aiming rating. My hands don’t have the appropriate subroutines to use the controller for an FPS effectively.
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So for all your high tech mods, you are telling us you don’t have a usb dongle? 😉
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lol, ‘dongle’.
😛
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lol “lol Dongle”
i found it funnier the second time okay!
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I guess the unknown creator of my model thought it was funny to not fix up the drivers for it before activating me… I think more and more by the day that I think about it.. he or she probably works for ATi
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but…but…it’s 3rd person… *puppy eyes*
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GEARS OF WAR-hammer!
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Gear of f*** yeah!!!
Seriously, if i saw cole train do a roadie run across the screen in that clip, i would have been confused, but i also would have had a testosterone overload…
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Any time someone talks about Warhammer it makes me reconsider getting back into the tabletop game. Today is no exception.
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I continually look at my long neglected armies and unused sprues and think “mannn.. i reallllly want to.. but it’s just soooo time consuming and expensive…”
*sigh*
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I bought a space marine once and painted him with some old air fix paints. He looked like a rainbow had pooped on him. I took him to a friends house and proceded to tell him thet my space marine was indestructible and that we should play. We didn’t. I left the space marine there as a present. I don’t think he ever got used. That is my ONE warhammer story.
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I still think I have some of my epic dark angel army lying around. I heart terminators.
Does want the 40k MMO to be spectacular when it comes out.
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Another Dark Angels person?!?
So, Dark Angels as the official TAY Chapter?-
Hells yeah, Dark Angels FTW
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WANT. Now, let’s hope they give us some Dark Angels skins…
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We are now blood-brothers
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My Blood Angels and Salamanders disagree!
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niceee…
well my Undead Chaos Space Marine force disagrees with all!
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My Tau expeditionary force would have something to say about that!
And my Dark Eldar army (are these guys even around anymore?)!
Aaaaaand my Imperial Guard batallion!Man, all this talk… hard to resist. I guess I could just put together the old box of Cadian IG soldiers I have somewhere?
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Yeah, but we Dark Angels get robes. And we’re all mysterious.
And we live on a blown up planet named after a Shakespearean character.
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I CAN DANCE ALL NIGHT I CAN DANCE ALL NIGHT
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…are you the janitor in disguise?
Take off that fake moustache and nose! I must know!
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What an outrageous accusation. I do not do any dancing of any kind, ever.
*suspicious glance*
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You keep saying this McTricep, but we’ve yet to see the evidence.
I need to see a video of you dancing all night. All sped up so I can watch it in less than eight hours.
Did you ever ever know
Did you ever ever know
That your bum
That your bum
Took you back in time?
To the sixties
With the hippies!
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What…on earth…have you been smoking??
Pteranodon!S!
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Good sir, it would seem your eye has fallen out.
May I suggest calling an ambulance for medical treatment?-
It’s just glare.
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Glare from my monocle, beeetches!
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Woodhouse!
What did I say about posting on the internet under an assumed name?
And where did you get those shoes?.. you know the rules.
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Heresy?
THIS – IS – ULTIMA!!!!!
*kicks ork in chest, sending him spiralling into pit of death*
SPACE MARRRIINNNNNEEEE!!!!!!
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Impeccable kicking, sir.
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Nah not heresy.. Space marines are pretty tough.. I’m sure under their space armor they have abs worthy of Sparta!
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Did you mean Ultramar? Because Ultima is a game series…
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Yes… -is shamed-
I was in a hurry to type that and i have sinned 🙁
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Not sure if anyone is watching twitter, but one of those lovely Allure media lasses from fabsugar posted the following link:
NSFW, a lack of tops and Rosie Huntington-Whitely are involved. Winning combination.
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I’m going to have to start paying more attention to fabsugar….
I bought Minecraft yesterday and it’s so addictive. Now I know why people like it 😛
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you want multiplayer just let me know mate.
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Yes please sir!
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Alright, have already been feeling the love on twitter but decided to come in here and leech on some more of it. I finished my frakkin Masters today! Woo! My game was bug ridden, one particular nasty game ending one too that I left a note for the markers to try and NOT reproduce >_<
BUT IT'S OVER! *big sigh*
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AWESOME. [INSERT FIST BUMP HERE]
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INSERT FIST, BUMP HERE.
Oh my!
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Oh YOU!
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For the first bit: Congratumalations!
Fro the second: You whaaa…?
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Awesomesauce! Well done!
I think I speak for everyone here when I ask ‘Can we play this game?’-
aNot with those mystery glitches, no.
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lolol, I wrote ‘please make sure you save it before you go to the roof screen. there’s a possibility your cursor will change and wont let you continue. if this happens, load game and try again’. Was too tired to do anything else about it XD
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NO! *cuddles game and hides in a dark corner*
Ahhh I SUPPOSE so… but not yet! It’s a really buggy prototype at best. Still needs lots of work!
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Yay Sughly!! Time to partay!!!
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Fo’ sho’! I nearly forgot about Sunday I was so focussed on the game!
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Gratz
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Yay! (place ‘achievement unlocked’ joke attempt here).
Must be a huge relief!
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The sense of euphoria from handing it over the counter lifted me and took me straight to JB HIFI, where I was awarded Black Swan and A Serious Man on blu ray.
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CONSTIPATIONS MY DEAR FRIEND!!!
MAY THIS LEAD YOU TO MANY HAPPY TIMES AND LADY!!!
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Congrats mate. Can we go around addressing each other as Master from now on.
Again, Congrats Master Sughly!
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Congrats again.
Now you are edumacated!
I don’t know if this is a dumb idea or not (work with me).. but I was thinking about after loops went well.. loopy over Space Marine..
Have we ever considered a ‘What are you buying it on?’ poll or discussion for games that are going to be released soon? I think I have bought 4 games on PS3 and PC just so I could play the multi-player with all my mates (hence why I hope Portal 2 isn’t the last ‘free digital copy game’!) I know we all have different hardware but still it would be nice to see who will be playing on what?
I’d be happy to go with the majority on a game just so there was more opportunity for multi-player fun with decent people… (even if it was console where I know I would lose cause my aiming there is well below par!)
DNF and Deus Ex HR are two examples I can think of right now.. cause I don’t really know whether to go console or PC for them? I don’t think my mates will play either… Maybe I just need more PSN and Steam buddies?.. or maybe this is just the ramblings of a guy who wishes for a better world, one where we can all play together regardless of hardware…. thoughts?
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NES!
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Commodore 64! Man I loved that machine… Wizard of Wor. That’s where my childhood was at.
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Ha! I wish.. mine died a few months back.. saddest day ever.. had it out for some retro fun and it just died… I made my house mates stand around the bin while I said a few words..
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Thats the saddest thing I’ve heard in a long time. RIP…
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So I don’t have any tv shows to watch tonight (as US seasons are all finishing up).
People give me some recommendations on a movie to watch tonight (not one in a cinema). As I’ll be sitting there with my injured kitten.
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Thin Red Line. Ima be getting Malick all up in this tonight! -points to eyes-
OR
– Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (Wright you glorious englishman)
– Away We Go (Krasinski you talented bastard)
– Titanic (Oh man, that band playing ’til the end. Ima lose my shit if I keep thinking about it. Also fun fact, Jack & Rose say the lines “I see you” to each other. Could it be Camerons Wilhelm Scream?)-
Titanic?
TITANIC?!
Your penis… leave it by the door on the way out.
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BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Oh my god. That was awesome.
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Kindly unbreak the page, good sir.
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Never. That is how hard I laughed. It needs to be known! 😛
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You’ve gone drunk with power!
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That is taking it a bit far though…lol
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LMAO.
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Hey Man, I’m all for measuring masculinity by what movies people watch, but Titanic is a friggin’ masterpiece of cinema.
It is so well made. I physically can’t put into words how much I enjoyed that movie.
Funny Story, When I was 11 and Titanic came out I was all “If you like Titanic, then you’re a girl teeheeteehee” (lol hadn’t been invented yet.) Then I grew up.
I urge you to give Titanic a watch. Not for the love story because, let’s be honest, it’s a bit shit. But for the multiple storylines and characters that make it so damn interesting. Plus, the ship is sinking and all the Phantom (Billy Zane) wants to do is bust a cap in DiCaprio’s head.
Plus it’s got Bill Paxton AS a treasure hunter with a Gold Earring… ’nuff said.
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I’ve seen it… I’m not proud of that, but there’s lots of things I’ve done that I’m not proud of.
It remains the second largest piece of self abuse that James Cameron has put on film, and when it is released in 3D (in development now BTW) it will still be second.
Your manliness is brought into question because you recommended it in a top 3.
If you wanted a long ass film in your 3 recommendations then you pick Shawshank Redemption…
I support the Malick love! Was happy to see him pick up the palme d’or with Tree of Life, really looking forward to it.
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Away We Go’s ending was a bit meh though. Movie was a bit disapointing for me.
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Totally, it just kind of, stopped.
But I was way into it. I hated Maya Rudolph before that, now I can’t get enough of her.
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Watched Scott Pilgrim again today, so so good.
WE ARE SEX BOMB-OMB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Watch The Lion King.. its all about cats overcoming obstacles…
Actually maybe don’t… I’m sure it was around the time I had that on for my nephew my cat developed a serious superiority complex.. like he always had one, but it made it worse!
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It’s also near impossible to find on DVD. I have a copy, but anyone who didn’t get it before Disney slammed it back into their infernal vault isn’t quite as lucky.
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Pfft, DVD shmeeVD, it’s coming out on bluray! That’s gonna be some pretty pretty lions goin on right there…
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Yeah, Disney are bad for that. I’m hoping they do a Blu-Ray soon.. then my collection will be complete!
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The Lion King Diamond Edition (so yeah, the Blu-Ray version) will be released on October fourth. If it’s the same level of upgrade between Beauty and the Beast on VHS and Blu-Ray then I will be very pleased.
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B&B on bluray is AMAZING!
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Boondock Saints
then immediately after
Boondock Saints II All Saints Day
do it doitdoitdoitdoitdoitdoitdoitdoitdoit!!!
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You’re like my own personal David Stratten.
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That man is a movie GOD.
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Volcano High!
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What type of movie do you feel like? Does your poor kitten get scared easily?
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Have no real preference on movie. My fiancée isn’t keen on horror. So probably nothing scary.
I barely watch movies anyway, recently been watching the Police Story series, before that last movie I watched may have been last year.
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Hire/buy Red Cliff. Awesome movie. Get the full extended edition if you can (the International release doesn’t make much sense due to missing stuff).
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I have that! I just keep forgetting to watch it.
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Red Cliff is amazing!
Get the original Mandarin version with English subtitles, not the ‘Western’ version…
The Western one has about an hour of stuff cut out, which kinda ruins a lot of the sub plots.
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LittleJJ and I watched I am Number Four last night. I thought it was a pretty good movie. Lots of action and some hot chicks! Can’t go wrong! 😉
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That was a terrible movie. Wasn’t good enough to be worth watching, wasn’t bad enough to be worth mocking.
Then again, I can be a bit of a film snob.
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Since I’d gone in with a warning from a critic I like, I watched the first 2/3rds with my brain in “lolol teenage angst” mode (which I’m allowed to do, as I’m still a teenager), and only engaged for the fight scenes at the end, which weren’t bad. Still, I’d hardly call it a “good” movie.
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Well that’s bizarre. For some reason it keeps deciding to make me post like that.
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I found it fun. I don’t expect all my entertainment to be edifying. Sometimes it’s great to be along on the probably predictable ride.
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Oh hey, it took all day but I finally ‘got’ your nickname.
Ho ho, your zinger is duly noted sir.
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Quite so, he has even made me note it down in this workbook labelled “Stolen Witty Or Funny Lines To Use At A Later Date”.
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I read the book and loved it… was going to see the movie (for Alex Pettyfer, ahem) but never got around to it.
Then I read that it wasn’t that good anyway. No big loss…?
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No big loss.
Also, the ending would have been better if he’d said “There’s many worlds out there, but Earth is the best of them. Except for the world of lesbians and Chocolate, that place is ace.”
(He actually says something along the lines of the first part of that at the end, it was cringe-inducing)
I think aus post hates me.. I still haven’t received my kudos and DR2 stuff yet.. I know Chuloopa has.. anyone else had any luck?
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Australia Post is shocking…
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I haven’t received my headphones that I’ve bought from ebay. I’m not sure if he’s scamming me or not. He lives in Adelaide and I’m in Melbourne, it shouldn’t take more than a week right?
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My Kudos is also yet to arrive. It’s not just Aus Post that hates me either, I’ve been waiting over a month for a package from America via UPS. I think there’s a black hole near us that only eats mail.
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I thought I had a note to pick something up from the post office… turned out to be a toll fine :'(
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lol.. what a bugger 😐 that’s gotta be the biggest let down
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Nothing here, just went and checked. Didn’t realise people were already receiving them.
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LA Noire did not come in the mail today.
I am torn between being sad and angry.Also, you just know that they’re eventually going to deliver the stuff when you’re not home to receive and sign for it, so that you have to wait until the next working day to pick it up. *shakes fist*
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I live in a gated omplex with lazy ass managers that never let anyone in, so I ALWAYS have to pick it up the next day. Damn security gate, what the hells it good for?! Can’t even get delivered pizza :'(
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I’m pretty sure my post office hates me so much they don’t even tell us when we have stuff to pick up.
We’re supposed to have received a litany of things, and yet… Nothing.
Unless you have something to do with that?
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Nah man, I only steal your underwear, not your mail.
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I mean…
If you could only read the first two words of that comment, that would be swell. -
If you’re stealing his underwear, then whose underwear am I stealing?
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Are either of you stealing my socks?
Because either someone’s stealing them, or our washing machine has gained both sentience and hunger…
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You mean they aren’t wangwarmers for the cold winter months?
Well, this is awkward…
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They only hang around that area when your mind is at its lowest.
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Just in case FatShady hasn’t seen the previous page. I can I get join in the Kotaku minecraft shenanigans.
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Whoa english fail.
*Can I get to join in the Kotaku minecraft shenanigans?
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claimsboy at hotmail dot com
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email: sent.
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Speaking of Minecraft, I thought you Minecraftians were filming your Leather Cap Tour the other week so we could see a bit of what goes on. Did that happen? Or was I just dreaming?
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yeah we filmed it but i need to edit it and probably get some more footage so i can make a decent attempt at a movie. If anyone wants to help me with that they are more than welcome to. I will be on tonight from about 7 ish. cause i eat dinner at 6 cause i live with old people
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also the first lot of footage was me singing as i dug a mine. Not the most entertaining thing i have ever seen. Believe me i watched it!
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I actually dreamt last night I went on my first leather cap tour with you guys last night.
It was fun. Lots of stuff got blown up, then I saw Vegeta from DBZ!
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Admin’d!
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Im not sure what this means. Is it code. Do you want something to moderate.
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I added the pre-fix of “Janitor” to her name. shhhhhh!!
sneaky sneaky admin! 😛
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I believe it means he changed her name to Janitor.
Lol! (not the game, genuine expression of hilarity)
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SO. UNCOOL.
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You misspelled ‘cool’, eats.
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I think this means that TadMod, drunk with power over our comments, added the “Janitor” part in front of an unsuspecting Eats-A-Lot’s name.
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*evil snicker*
😛
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/me adds an unexpected part in front of tadmods face.. 😉
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I absolutely adore going through spam comments, because, once in a while, you’ll find a diamond in the rough.
The comment I’m about to present you with had me silently giggling for the last 15 minutes. I’m not sure why, but I absolutely cracked up over it.
And without further ado:
http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/5002/unledhc.jpg
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I saw it and read the first word as nutfluf.
Heehee… nutfluf
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That is indeed amusing, sir.
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JEEVES
Can I ask you something?
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You have already asked him something.
A better question would be if you were to ask him another question would he give a satisfactory answer.
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You can ask Jeeves anything, eats. He used to have a whole site dedicated to people asking him questions, you know.
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Certainly, madam, I will do my best to answer any given question succinctly and informatively.
I should perhaps preface that I do not know much about the matters of plumbing or pipe fixtures in residential buildings or otherwise. I apologise in advance for disappointing you. -
What happened to your website?! It was awesome. I could ask you whatever I wanted, even the private questions I would never ask anybody else (e.g. Where do babies come from??) and you would always answer me.
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Wolfram Alpha.
Poor bastard was replaced by a computer.
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I’ve seen it twice. It’s damn freaky and will put you off vagina’s for a very long time!
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Interesting Fact: Jeeves is incapable of blushing. You should see the things I asked him in an attempt to make it happen. He’s quite the stoic butler.
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Oh sir, your unrelenting praise of my abilities are vastly exaggerated. I am but a humble butler.
That said however, I would very much prefer if you wore some sort of clothing for the lower half of your body.
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Alas madam, that is quite sad and sordid tale. Whilst recounting the tale may besmirch some fine men and women of society, perhaps this is adequate explanation:
Think Tiger Woods on the cover of the PGA Tour ’11 and PGA Tour ’12 games.
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WHY CAN I NEVER VIEW IMAGESHACK PICTURES~! THIS MADDENS ME AND MAKES oo shiney
Ok.. prolly last chance before people piss off for the weekend, so here we go.
Sunday 29th. Kotaku gathering at my place.
If you wanna come and haven’t emailed me to get the address yet, so do now!!
dondalinger at hotmail
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HEHE.
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Oh man. People on the internet…
Do they not see all the other stories on the onion and go ‘hmm, something… strange… is going on here’?
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I love that! People overreacting to the Onion are amazing 😀
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I laughed at “Final Minutes of Last Harry Potter Movie to be split into Seven separate films” It ‘almost’ rings true!
All I can say is: “LOL”:
https://twitter.com/#!/TheRealTadMod/status/74004149691355136
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HAHAHAHAHA NINJA’D!!
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He’s always wearing that shirt!
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Geez, work looks tough at your place.
Got any positions available for someone completely useless? 😛
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Don’t believe what Blaghman says. He’s actually very helpful.
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His e-mail signature even says so!
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I have to question this. When have I ever been helpful?
More importantly, what can I do to make sure it never happen again?
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Yeah, I second, he’s never helpful. I’ve asked him to squeeze his guinea-pigs so many times, and he flat out refuses!! He is destroying a little girls dreams of hearing a boys pent up guinea-pig beg for mersy in his room. Like, a gentle squeeze, ya know, about the same as is required to get a clacker sound out of a whoopie cushion.
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Really, the best way to make them squeal like that is to starve them.
Which is why they squeal at us every day.
Every goddamn day. The moment it starts to go dark outside.
Because clearly, the food already in their cages isn’t good enough.
Of course.
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Given the things Blaghs gets up to with his wee pets, I don’t reckon a squeeze is too much to ask!
Poor lemmywinks…
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Wow, that was a way too long nap. Now it’s all dark outside and it’s going to be coooooold! Woke up just in time for Kudos.
and so begins the end…, of the middle…
i now have my mid-semester exams starting next week, so thats gonna be fun… ugh, year 12 isn’t fun at all…
oh and anonpessimist, you said something about removal of dead pixels before? would love some help, but if it involves taking apart the screen, i don’t think i wanna risk doing that, the dead pixel is on the bottom right of the screen, so it’s not that bad 🙂
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no taking apart of screens is required sir, a pixel massage + website is all that’s needed to fix most pixels.
F♥ck Brink.
That is all.
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“Haha, Brink” Bish mocked “Haven’t you tired of it yet?”
“Does a fish get tired of breathing water?” Pessimist snapped back.
“Technically fish breathe by passing water over their gills extracting oxyge-” Bish started, but was interrupted.
“NO THEY DO NOT” declared the Pessimist, for some reason now only in his underwear.
*101% true storyVINDICATION
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If I had a dollar for every time brink crashed, I could buy and build a rig for the sole purpose of putting it through a wall.
This would go some way to making me a little bit happier at having to play what feels like a half finished game.
Crap AI + horrible stability = rage.
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Also, shut up >.<
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…I’m installing Brink again >.<
I'M WEAK. I CAN'T HELP MYSELF.
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Working fine for me
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Are you playing it on PC or console?
If you’re on PC, then congrats… Do a search on google to see just how many people are affected by the regular crashes due to this game.
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Got Red DeadRedemption (fianlly) on PS3…. for $18!!!
No sexual favors were exchanged
And.. wait for it… it was from EB Games…
Now all i need to do is round up a posse
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Holy golf balls thats a good deal at EB did you show your nipple though? Be honest
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Sweep! I got mine cheap as from GAME. It still sits, buried under a montain of other games, in my ever growing pile of shame.
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Man alvie I’ve been eyeing off RDR for a while now (trying to get the will to finish GTA IV before taking on another open world epic) how did you wrangle such a deal, black magic?
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Im in dude! You will have the biggest posse in the west… No not you Madona, Posse!
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wat how
I’ve been meaning to get it, but since I’m a cheapass I scoffed when I checked EB yesterday and saw it for $45 (%50 off, golly, that’s generous).
$28 from overseas ain’t bad for a 2010 GOTY contender, but I just haven’t gotten around to getting it I guess. $18 would certainly push me over the line.-
PERCENT FIFTY OFF
what is that i dont even understand
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I only just got it not too long ago as well!
thats great, i’ve been wanting to try multi-player ever since i got it!
count me in pardner!
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Nice Buy! I haven’t played it since getting 100% completion gave me saddle sores.. but I’m in if y’all need an extra posse member!
Nintendo magazine reveals how Nintendo America wanted to finally reveal the Zelda timeline displaying which games come in order, however Nintendo Japan disapproved of this:
http://www.officialnintendomagazine.co.uk/26468/news/ocarina-writer-wanted-to-put-zelda-timeline-online/
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That is a badass name.
I AM ZORRAN, DEVOURER OF SOULS, ALSO EATER OF REALLY TASTY FOOD
Ok, So I’ll post this on Monday’s TAY as well, but in the meantime…
This mini-gathering on Saturday 4th for the Sydneysiders. Has a location been decided? Where are we all keen on meeting up?
I think Endu suggested either near Paddy’s markets and another place that escapes me at the moment. What’s the consensus?
I’ll be driving in from my residence in the west (read: out in the sticks). If any Kotakuites want a lift in the pessimistmobile and you live between the west and the city, drop me a line at the [dot] tsharp [at] gmail [dot] com.
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If I drive out to the west so I can get a lift in the famed pessimist mobile, can we listen to WSFM and sing 80s and 90s classics together???
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Yeah, but if you change the music Imma cut ya.
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This sounds awesome!
…a shame I’m already committed to a birthday [thing] and won’t be able to make it :\
Oh well – later on in June!
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Hey, wait for me…I wanna do that too!
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You people don’t even live in Sydney. Don’t be ridiculous. You wouldn’t even purchase plane tickets to come to my house just to be driven into the city by me. You aren’t even that sort of impulsive. The sheer mechanics are quizzical. Stop entertaining these spurious notions.
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Some pretty cool bargains out there:
– Bayonetta Climax Edition/PS3/EB Games:$19.95
– Battlefield 2 Ultimate Edition/PS3/Dick Smith:$24.94
– Assassins Creed Brotherhood Codex Edition/PS3-PC/EB Games:$44.49
– Batman Arkham Asylum/PC/EB Games:$9.94
– Bioshock 2 Special Edition/PC/EB Games:$24.95
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Geez VeeGee, everyone knows that you shouldn’t get the PS3 version of Bayonetta, it’s terrible compared to the 360 one. GOSH! (“But What about if you only have a PS3 Blaggy-“”SHUT IT”)
But in all seriousness, the Arkham Asylum and Bioshock 2 ones are great deals for brick-and-mortar stores.
Particularly the Bioshock 2 one, I’d say it’d be worth the price just for the extras (Seriously, I do not regret my Bioshock 2 SE purchase in the slightest, it’s so shiny).
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Haha bitch!
Anyway, I don’t think EB have any 360 versions left as it is not advertised.Also I’m sure each of those LE game packs will be getting hard to find, and not each store will have them. So hurry!
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He he, CLIMAX, I get it!
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There is also an Assassin’s creed sale on steam today.
Picked up the brotherhood digital deluxe edition… now I really need to finish #2.
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Man, these steam sales are killing me!
Every day I get something.
Steam is evilllllllllllllllllllll.
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Hitler plans to buy Halo: Reach:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eik2ze0Kl6w
(NSFW with swearing in the subtitles)
This meme is old but never fails to make me laugh xD
Do you think video games are a nice distraction when things are going all well as sweet with your life, or have u used games to help you psychologically get through some tough times??
Ive been going through a tough separation and my overall desire to game has increased sigbificantly-i dont have the parience to search for 2 hours for 20 red flowers… But black ops online is one of the biggest distractions for me at the moment and is really helping to just swith off the old thinking organ.
What have your experiences been?
I use games both as fun when things are good, but also to keep me sane when things go terribly wrong with life. Sometimes it’s good to just lose myself in a gameworld but then there’s times it’s fun to just mow down a crapload of enemies. In those cases I think it’s good to feel like there’s something you have control over when you feel your life is spiralling out of your control.
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Oops. Reply fail. Was meant to be a reply to Astroboy.
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