Talk Amongst Yourselves
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I’m an avid Bombers supporter, so i’m really happy to come away with the win.. but the first half of the game was just terrible for us.. we really should have been doing much better.. luckily we came away with a decent win in the end.
But you know the highlight of the week?
COLLINGWOOD LOSING!!!
HELLLLL YEAH!!!
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Everybody wins when Collingwood loses 🙂
Thankee kindly Ms. Strange!
For those who don’t have the link:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/762e8w
Someone suggest a theme for this week. Should I do Minecraft? I found the FX files last night.
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Minecraft! Minecraft! Minecraft! Minecraft!
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Minecraft it is!
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yay! That’s epic!
Tell me I’m not the only one who noticed a Pokeball in Sweden’s Eurovision entry.
http://i55.tinypic.com/k21ydf.jpg
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I think maybe you were the only one to even watch Eurovision…
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I would watch it but I can’t get SBS at my place. I was sad this weekend.
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I watch Eurovision.
It’s hilarious.
Can’t say I spotted that Pokeball though.-
Speaking of hilarious:
Moldova.
WTF.-
Moldova were legendary!
Gotta get me one of them fancy hats! -
And a monocle, man.
Dude put on a monocle at the every end.Make sure to get a lady dressed up as a fairy riding a unicycle, too! Not enough of those in the world.
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Naturally
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I didn’t notice that in Sweden’s entry.
Far too busy looking at other things.
Yes, someone else saw that. I believe after seeing it I may or may not have yelled out “I choose you Pikachu”.
Played minecraft pretty much all day with faction and the rest of the minecraft gang on saturday. Had a blast. This community is awesome.
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Heck yeah. Minecraft is awesome. I am working on some redstone wiring at my desk at the moment (for an RPG quest I am designing). Graph paper, how I have missed thee!
You guys have some very impressive buildings going on there. I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to get into online play.
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My tower of Sauron was the best creation I have ever made!
For my next step, making a lava moat around my home, leaving a pool of water behind the house for quick drop-to-ground-floor from the top of the tower hehe
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My almighty glass tower now has a diving board for that exact purpose.
Unfortunately, people like Blaghs do not seem to realise this and insist on jumping onto the cobblestone instead.
I hear it doesn’t end well.
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I need not your pathetic “Diving board.” Jumping off onto the cobble, three times in a row, is way more fun.
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Another week, another TAY. Hope you all had a good weekend.
So the PSN is back! For online gaming at least. Who here has a PS3? Feel free to add me! ‘cronotriggr’
Now… I should probably do some work!
Oh, Anonymous ‘Flamestar’ Pessimist. Not enough cow bell! 😉
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Will do, need ps3 friends 🙂
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Effluvium-Boy
You know you want to…
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More cowbell!
Let’s see if I can intertwine that with this week’s Minecraft challenge eh? -
I think I added you the day before it went down.
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Awesome! We must game together sometime! Bards will write epic songs about our adventures!
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Through a show of hands or loud yells, would anyone be interested in some sort of Kotaku 3DS Streetpass get together and general meet and greet? Just something I was thinking about but thought why the hell
not ask?
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BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!!!!
(yeah, that’s a loud yell, I couldn’t resist 🙂
Ok, I sent out an email on the weekend to those whose emails I had, regarding the gathering this weekend. To anyone who didn’t get an email from me, and you’re still interested in coming, shoot me an email soon and I’ll forward on the details.
dondalinger at hotmail
The gathering is scheduled for Sunday 22nd of May from 10am onwards. So yer.. email away if you want details and to confirm your attendance!!
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I have to say, while I was stressing before sleeping last night as I tend to do, that it might be a bit silly for me to take Sunday off when I have my Masters due 4 days afterwards. I don’t expect everyone to change dates or anything tho. But it does suck, I was looking forward to it 🙁
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I think that’s a sensible decision, I was thinking you were kinda nuts to agree to that date. Personally I’m happy to wait to have a meet until you can make it.
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If it bleeds into next month I can’t come, will be moving…
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Thats very kind Strange, but if this is the case with Jimu then maybe keep the date. I dont want to start causing problems with other people because of me. I should have just said something before now anyways. Sorry guys 🙁
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You could have it the week after. That way it’s post-Sughly-masters, pre-Jimu-move…
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What date would it make it?
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29th
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I’m good any Sunday other than 6/June. And then September. There’s going to be a baby and I understand they ruin social engagements.
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Yours??
Sozzles cats, I’m out. I’ve got maw shtuff awn.
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how would people be with the 29th then? does that come too close to you moving Jimu? It would be best if we can get more peeps, so if everyone’s happy to wait, it’s no issue for me. The whole point of this excercize was to get everyone to be able to meet up, so it’s kinda missing the point if only one or two can make it 😉
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The 29th is the day after my mates 20th so I’ll be either hung-over, wearing a fake moustache, belligerent or belligerently wearing a fake moustache while hungover.
But post-May I’m golden most weekends, I just need a week’s notice or so.
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Not sure, will have to confirm with the Mrs…
Is possible.-
Is there any particular date for you that might be better Jimu? Like after your move or something?
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It’s too hard to say. You guys make a date and I’ll see if I can go.
Al I know is I’m gonna be hella busy the first two weeks in June
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Like I said before, I’m free whenever you want to do this. I rarely have plans that can’t be shifted about somewhat, so whatever works for everyone else works for me.
On the weekend, I stumbled across this video. I think we can all agree it was the best course of action.
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Clearly nobody followed this link, unless they were laughing too hard to type a response :p
If only you could treat annoying NPCs like this in normal games, not just on sketch shows.
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Hey man! I meant to reply. Must have typed my response then closed the window.
Very funny! I like the Adventure call sketches. The Jester had to die. Only possible action to be taken.
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So, tried to pre-order Dark Souls from Zavvi on the weekend but it wouldn’t let me 🙁
When I try this morning it is not even giving me the option to ship outside of Europe, tried with several games and no dice.
So it looks like we might be down one source of cheap games.
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I pre-ordered Dark Souls from there on Friday without any hassle. Here’s hoping they don’t cut us off, Zavvi is awesome.
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Have you tried thehut.com? They own Zavvi, and I’m pretty sure their prices are around about the same as Zavvi’s. http://www.thehut.com/elysium.search?search=dark+souls
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I just tried to pre-order LA Noire and had no problems. Admittedly I didn’t actually complete the order but went all the way to the ‘pay now’ part and it had no problems with my Australian address. Does it decline you after you try and pay?
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On the weekend it would just freeze when I try to go past the delivery stage, today it just does not give the option to ship to Aus.
Just tried The Hut, that works.
Thanks Lambo!
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Seeing as Welbot is trying to show up us Sydneysiders with a Kotaku meetup…
Sydney meetup? eh? EH?!
Show of hands for all interested. I am prepared to drive my ass into the city just to see you all.
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I suggested one last week (Or was it the week before?) but you were the only person who showed any interest.
In saying that, it has only been a short while since the last Sydney meet. Maybe people need more time.
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Sorry Jamie! It’s not that I wasn’t interested, just that the following few weekends were not good for me.
I am still quite keen. June sounds ideal.
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That’s cool! I didn’t think we should have it right away. But I figured we could at least get numbers.
This time I’ll try and bring my PS3 and some SSFVI, Tekken 6 etc and we can set up a tournament 😛
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Let’s have one in June : )
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Right in time for my birthday!
We can celebrate my 26th by nerding out.
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I am also 26 in June.
Nerd-five!
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I’m turning 20 in June, so I’d be cool for something then, might be able to drag myself all the way over there. Actually, the “my birthday” thing has nothing to do with me being cool to go up there, I just need to leave Canberra regularly, or I go insane.
Well, more insane.
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I’m 20 in June too! *high-fives*
I would kinda prefer if it was made late June ’cause I’ve been too lazy to check my exam timetable so far – on holidays from the 23rd though.
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Are you in Sydney?
We could have a mega-tri birthday celebration in June with James and Blaghman! -
Hells yes! Mega-tri-nerd-geek partay.
Sounds like a plan!
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Sounds good. Seeing as there are so many birthdays, what weekend would be best for peeps?
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As long as it’s not the first weekend in June, I should be free. 😀 Perhaps we should bring this discussion to the latest pages? I’ll just post again tomorrow morning.
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Haha! That’s kind of funny because I will be in Sydney on the first weekend of June for my birthday, but I’ll be booked out with family stuff 🙁
Unless we did something late night on the fifth or too early for gaming folk on the sixth?
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If you want a Sydney meet up the old venue may be available. Not sure of my availability but could assist with that if needed. Let me know.
Sydneysiders, please check page 6 for more details/discussion!! : )
Yay, PSN is back! Boo, I have 4 assignments due next week. In other news:
ITCHYBEARD!ITCHYBEARD!ITCHYBEARD!ITCHYBEARD!ITCHYBEARD!ITCHYBEARD!ITCHYBEARD!ITCHYBEARD!ITCHYBEARD!ITCHYBEARD!ITCHYBEARD!ITCHYBEARD!
*runs off cliff scratching beard*
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If I don’t shave after precisely nine days, it actually defines my mood.
I can’t not be grumpy until I shave it.
Itchy beards are the WORST.
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I’m the same. Still, I ALWAYS leave it till it gets mad itchy before shaving.
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It makes me at least 200% more grumpy.
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Googles told me to shampoo it and it’d stop it being itchy, but that only lasted Saturday and Sunday. Now it’s back to making me go mad.
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Try using an anti-dandruff shampoo that has zinc in it, it works for me. My beard gets insane after a few days, I finally gave up and just let it be a beard.
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Oh god, why didn’t I think of that! Thank you!
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9 days?
dude 4-5 and i’m ready to rub my face against a cheese grater
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I can’t grow a beard =( All I can grow are a few stray chin hairs.
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I know. Me either. All I can manage is a few straggly hairs growing from the wicked-witch mole on the end of my chin. 🙁
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Hmm, maybe I should have said ‘wart’ instead to make it more clear I was joking. I don’t really have a hairy chin, honest! 😛
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Glad you cleared that up. I honestly thought you were being serious lol.
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After about three days of not shaving I get what kind of resembles a 5 o’clock shadow. It’s pretty embarrassing.
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I shave my head and often get pretty slack about it.
Imagine itch beardness EVERYWHERE on your head and face.-
Theres a simple bearded motto that I use when I’m growing a beard. Grow Beard, Get Ladies. Gentlemen do not be selfish when in the act of growing a glorious man mane on your face, it provides warmth and comfort for not only you but the people that see it. And when a lady looks deep into your eyes and rubbing your beard, she’ll know she has the security and protection that only a beard can supply. So do not worry about itchiness as it will bring in more glory than pain!
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Oh god. That’d be….
You poor thing.
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I thought I had something in my beard yesterday… turns out a spider climed onto my FACE while I was cleaning the shed and just took a ride when I jumped in the car to go to my parents’ place.
I think I’m going to shave it all off now.
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Ooh that’s nasty.
If you shave it though you will have to go through the itchiness again. -
Just your beard spider, nothing to be worried about.
Keeps your chin hairs uniform, stays on the lookout for dandruff, that sort of thing…
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It probably laid some eggs.
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I was rockin a mean beard after spending the week in bed. Chopped it of this morn.
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Mine’s just getting to the point where it’s starting to itch… I’m just going to man up and ignore it though.
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I’ve had a beard for years now and my life is nothing short of awesome. I can only assume it is entirely due to having a beard. Beards are great.
Everyone should have one. (except Strange). Lol. Just thought someone has to ‘shop dawdle with a beard.
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Name has link. Trolling imminent. 😛
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I think all this power you have is starting to go to your head…
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I don’t know why, but that took a while to load. But as for the picture, that’s pretty awesome. Nice job! Or should I say, terrible job….
/poorattemptattrolling
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Haha, thanks man. I wanted to mash two meme’s together, and thought these two fit perfectly. 😛
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PSN is back on my 60GB console but not my 120GB?? explain!!
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Messing with you is really fun 😛
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Do you use the same PSN account on both of them? If so it may be something to do with your account being created on the 60GB one. If not, I have no idea. 😛
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God dun it.
Oh, you mean a plausable one?
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Does it have something to do with your PS3’s being activated to your account? Maybe you did it to one, but not the other?
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I dunno, but it wasn’t back at all on my PS3 before I left for work at 8 this morning 🙁
I’m really hoping that it stays alive long enough for me to register my copy of Portal 2 when I get home tonight!
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I left home at about 10:30 am and it still wasn’t up for me. Perhaps there’s some kind of wierdness regarding the model used? My account is an Australian one, but I have a Japanese system (shiny white version was too tempting, and at the time it was cheaper than the local version) and I get firmware updates for example when they roll out in Japan, rather than locally.
I’m just going to assume that everyone here hates football/soccer.
But Glasgow Rangers won the Scottish Premier League this weekend, and I… felt… nothing.
I think I’m officially dead inside. A hollowed out husk of a man…
Or maybe I just don’t care about football anymore!
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So… Which is it? Soccer or Football?!
Make up your mind, Serrels!
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Soccer is football because you use our feet to move the ball. All other games that are called football such as rugby, AFL and union should be considered as Handegg because you move an egg shaped object with your hands. Hope this will clear it up!
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That kind of football is the only one I don’t hate and my Dad likes the Rangers so he was pretty happy.
If you didn’t feel anything it may have some something to do with the fact that being over here you’d have missed a lot of the atmosphere. Or maybe it’s because sport is not sport anymore, it’s business.
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What! I love football !. I never feel comfortable calling it soccer. I’m an Arsenal fan myself.
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Really was hoping Arsenal would win the Premiership this year. Love the way Arsenal move the ball around.
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That’s the uh, most contemplative comment on soccer I’ve heard all year.
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Did you see the ludicrous display last night? The thing about Arsenal is that they always try and walk it in.
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What was Wenger thinking, bringing Walcott on that early?
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They’re avin a laff.
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Well, if it’s any consolation, the FA Cup this year was utterly lacklustre.
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Yeah, I actually stayed up to watch it. On SBS. Everyone except Fozzy on SBS is absolutely woeful. Half of them don’t even know what they’re talking about.
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Everyone is woeful. Fozzie included.
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Which is why I was playing my 3DS at the time 😛
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I keep getting the soccer and Eurovision mixed up.
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lolololol!
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HA!
There’s less melodrama in Eurovision.
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But City won their first bling in like… A BAJILLION YEARS.
I’m not a fan of City, but that’s gotta count for something, right?
Greeting Rangers fan. I myself am a Glasgow Celtic fan and I congratulate you on your team’s win. Indeed, it was well deserved. Next season perhaps my team shall win instead and our roles shall be reversed and all shall be grand. We can reminisce about how your team won last year. If you are free we should all go to the pub and celebrate jovially! I suggest you get the first round in old bean!
(Look up Old Firm Rivalry to get the joke)
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Ahahahahahahaaaa!
I hate sport but paradoxically Soccer/football is my favourite.
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We go for Leeds United, I hear they aren’t even in the Premier League anymore…
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I’ve taken to calling it soccerball.
It’s probably because you didn’t get the full Glasgow experience when they won…
Here’s what you do.
Invite Angus out to lunch, get steamin… nut him.
They finished one point above Celtic?!
I…am….very…. ANGRY!! :RAGE:
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Lets be friends.
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See this is more like it.
My enjoyment is directly proportional to the rage of Celtic fans in my vicinity.
Thanks guys – I knew you’d understand!
Just grabbed the complete edition of Mount and Blade on Steam. Gotta say, it’s cool but a very slow start, I got a total of three guys in my army right now, one of them a generic guard lol xD
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I saw you all playing that and felt like I was missing out on something.
Whats its deal?-
It’s a HEAVILY open RPG/strategy game. In no possibly way is it linear. Think of the Shogun series, where you have two armies clashing, but you’re a character in that fray. You can do pretty much almost anything you want, be an adventurer, a conqueror of lands, a bounty hunter, a tournament champion, an expert tradesman of goods, a great commander, the possibilities are almost endless. Your main UI is a world map that you travel on, where you can go anywhere you want, cities, towns, castles and camps… at least that’s what I’ve seen so far with just one hour playing it. Combat is good, where you have to block at the right time in order to block the right attack, too soon and he’ll get right through you unless you’re using a shield. Horseback combat is fun, where you hack, slash and shoot bolts/arrows or throw weapons. Time them right and you can get huge damage bonuses since you were riding at full speed and slashing somebody on foot. Very fun.
So far I got captured once cuz I had bad luck to run into a party of 21 all with horses, armour and mixed with bows and melee, so I got my arse handed to me and I got dragged around the land until I escaped.
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argh possible*
Dang Monday morning errors, hurry up and finish scan program!
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Urge to buy… rising
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Oh yeah and TotalBiscuit did a “WTF is” on the most recent Mount and Blade (Which introduced muskets, which kinda suck but still everything else is solid), you should watch that if you want an idea on how it is.
Graphics aren’t breathtaking at all but the gameplay pretty much makes up for it hands down
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Still has the same stupid problem in Warband where infantry queue on the ladders. Supremely frustrating.
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Well I’ve only just started playing the very first one for about an hour last night, downloaded the whole pack off Steam on that same night so only scratched the surface of it. So I don’t know what you mean, sorry
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All weekend I was trying to siege a castle just for myself, with an army of 75 or so, but then I guess the Kingdom of Vaegirs didn’t like that much so sent an army of 300 at me. Man, what a bunch of jerks.
And then Jarl Turya was all COME FOLLOW ME so I went and followed him as he went around doing jack squat as Marshall as one of cities was being sieged. Good times.
My monitor is so weird…It stopped working last week, but decided to start working again on Saturday, but then on Sunday, it stopped working again…weird…
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Sounds like something’s loose, I get something like that on my laptop screen, on some days it loves to flicker to distorted screens and back again, and some days it’s perfectly fine.
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It’s possessed, obviously.
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By voodoo or demons?
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My guess is demons. He should try hugging it and see what happens….
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I just googled hug a demon, and well, the 3rd/4th picture scares me. Don’t do it.
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If you spell it “daemon” you don’t get the creepy blood-baby.
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Poltergeist?
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My family unexpectedly gave me a Nook Color for my birthday. I’m surprised at how fairly awesome it is.
Also lol, sports.
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I love it when family unexpectedly get the gift right.
Unfortunately for me it’s so rare that to be safe I just have to give them a list so I don’t end up with something pink and frilly.-
They always ask for a list, but I always fail to give one. I was so stumped as to what I could be getting, as I was informed that my siblings and mother were giving me a combined present that took some organising to acquire. It was actually a little nerve-wracking considering my brother told me that I had to like it or too bad as it was the non-returnable type of purchase!
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I bought a Kindle recently and honestly don’t know how I went without one this long. E-readers are the iPods of books and once you start using them it’s really hard to imagine life without a vast collection of books at your fingertips.
AnonymousPessimist!
It was you who was interested in the RAT7 mouse was it not?
I reinstalled the software on the weekend and got it working so I’ll play with it some more and do up a review for you.
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Thanks Jo! Looking forward to it!
I am sitting in my house, wrapped up in a blanket. I think it’s about 5 degrees inside here, and all I can see outside is whiteness.
Has the end of the world come?
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No, but you might have been teleported to northern Europe in your dreams.
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*shakes can of white spraypaint outside Blagh’s house*
COFFEE… COFFEE…
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The most important meal of the day.
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*clinks coffee mugs with yours*
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COFFEE. [vigorous nod]
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PEPSI MAXXXXXX….
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You sound like a [minecraft] creeper D:
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I’m sorry Mark, but I’ve tolerated this for far too long and I can’t take it anymore: Pepsi is shit!
…please don’t IP ban me D:
(To clarify: I don’t drink much coke or coffee either… but Pepsi tastes waaaaaaaaay too sweet)
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Please allow me to clarify…
Coke > Pepsi
Pepsi Max> Coke Zero -
This.
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I approve of and fully endorse Pepsi Max!
Also, 24 cans for $12 at Woolies/Safeway. Buy 2!
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Good man – knew I had to be wrong about you!
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I.. I have to agree. Coke Zero is all kinds of crap.
So Pepsi Max, while STILL EVIL, is the best of the worst 😛
Original Coke <3
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7Up > *
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You are just all kinds of wrong. I don’t want this to come between us but I think we need to spend some time apart..
Coke Zero>Pepsi Max
(OOhhh, lets use an ‘X’ because people will think it is cool!)
I will remain calm with console fanboy wars but I will not allow you to trash talk my drink. First there is no love for ‘V’ then my Zero cops it…
How can you all be so wrong?
(PS, unlike my grumpy man rant last week, this is meant to be fun so have at it…)
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I think we need to find some common ground.
Everything is better than Fanta.
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Red Fanta is my all time fav drink closely behind ginger beer… Now please clarify your comments to only include orange Fanta, or we can’t be friends either!
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They made a red Fanta?
What kind of new hell is this?
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Red Fanta is the best softdrink after 7Up. My brothers and I used to combine Red Fanta and 7Up into one magical drink all the time.
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I’ll back you up on the V front.
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Agreed. Thoroughly.
The only softdrink worth drinking!
*hides behind Mark in expectation of flame war*
You just randomly made me think about this that was on Deathklok.
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Mwahaha coffee always makes me think of that.
Please, someone call a doctor or vet or something; I need help…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ5LpwO-An4
…can’t stop listening and finding it entertaining :\
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Lololol! I need a doctor too, you’ve infected me. Arrgghhh!
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You called?
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What…on earth…was that??
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Amazing.
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What is this? I don’t even
I’m gonna throw my undies on stage at Ben Folds tomorrow night, anyone else going?
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Dunno if that will encourage people to go or make them have a night in…;P
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I’m going to throw a chair at him… it’s got to be his turn by now.
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Soundwave Revolution looks fracking awesome! Van Halen headlining, Steel Panther, Yellowcard, Alice Cooper, so many more (inc Devin Townsend, for those interested). Count me in!
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I’m pretty tempted, I’ll admit.
I might be in trouble for refusing to call football soccer when entering ads :\ If they want me to stop, they’re gonna hafta fire me.
You use your FOOT to kick a BALL. Not like other sports where you use your HANDS to carry a leather EGG!
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First of all, a ball does not have to be spherical.
Secondly, in the AFL there are approx 400 kicks per game and approx 300 handballs per game. I’d say that means the main method of moving the ball is kicking it.
Thirdly, there is an argument that football refers to the fact that it is played on foot (as opposed to games like polo, which is played on horseback), not that the foot is used to move the ball.
Finally, soccer is a nickname for Association Football. Calling it soccer does not mean that you don’t consider it football, merely that you wish to distinguish it from the three other major sports that are commonly referred to as football in Australia.
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Fair enough.
I don’t mind calling other sports football but Rugby football and aussie rules football sound better than soccer football or association football.
Plus, it is widely considered to be the original footbal and is regarded as being called ‘football’ to most of the world.
Also, basketball is played on foot also. Just saying.
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“Rugby football” and “Aussie Rules football” sound pretty silly to me. Rugby, Aussie Rules and soccer all make sense to me. I don’t think anyone ever tacks “football” to the end of either rugby codes and Aussie Rules is really Australian Football.
Association Football is just the formal name, it can be shortened to soccer or football, but the idea of calling it “soccer football” seems to be a little redundant.
The original football was basically rugby where the whole town played as a giant mob. Soccer is known as football to the majority of the world because it is the predominant, and typically only, code of football in most nations where it is played.
Australia and America both have other codes of football that are more popular than soccer, so football normally refers to the most popular variation of the sport in the region.
I’ve argued this one many times, personally I don’t care that much, I just like to do the counter-arguments.
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I figure that since you only use your foot (well, almost only) it seems a bit pointless to call it football, it is clearly football. That would be like calling Halo “Shooty McSpaceMarine.” The other forms need the clarification though.
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I know someone who has been advocating the term of “handoval” for years now.
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http://thegoodjokes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/12939090477571.jpg
TadMod Edit: You win the internet. That’s hilarious!
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Am sharing this to facebook, haha!
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Well, as you also use your head, chest, knees and any part of your body that isn’t your hands (unless you’re Maradonna)… shouldn’t it be called Amputee Ball?
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You’re on to something Jimmy boy!
But I think No-handball might sum it up better. Full name can be association no-handball-unless-the-hand-is-the-hand-of-god (Which lets Maradona off the hook)
P.S. Sorry. I’ll never call you Jimmy boy again.
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Handlessball?
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I’ll let you away with it because you’re Scottish.
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LOL. I actually have to go by James now (Not that James is a bad name!) because when I tell people in Aus that my name is Jamie they always think I said Jimmy.
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Stirling.
My accent isn’t that strong (At least, I don’t think it is).
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I could understand confusion if you were from Strathpeffer or something… but Stirling is lowlands.
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The accent can be pretty “guffy” in central Scotland. My parents are pretty bad and they use a LOT of slang. I didn’t even say “aye” as a kid. I always used “yes”. I lived in Ireland for a few years and no one there had any problems.
But here I’m ‘Jimmy Wet’.
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Your name’s not Germy?
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oh isn’t it?
You don’t need to be Scottish to have that happen…
Jamie/Jimmy/Jimbo
I’m not sure how I feel about Jimbo. On one had it an affront to all that is good and holy. An abomination. On the other, it mines I have finally been indoctrinated in to your fine Aussie culture.
Tadmod
On the weekend(many days after being sent) I received my entry for Mark’s B’day…I’m guessing it never arrived on your end then?
Booo, intarwebs, BOOOOO!
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I don’t believe it did. You can check here to see if it got through (as they are all the ones I received)
It might be my hotmail playing up again :\
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C’mon Tad. You know how unreliable hotmail is.
Go Google!-
Google retains all that information and sells it onto advertisers. No thanks :\
At least the Hotmail TOS states that whilst your emails are retained, they will not be re-sold.
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STupId intarwebz…
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Got my new copy of Game Informer in the mail while I went down to get coffee! *squeals in glee*
It’s the beared old dude Ezio for AC Revelations : )
*tears plastic packaging apart*
*looks at assignments*
*looks at coffee & homemade muffins*
Ah well, I can do my assignments in the afternoon.
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And they fixed my name to “Miss”, YAY!!
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*reads “Ah well, I can do my assignments in the afternoon”*
*sees “Dawdle! is now online” on Steam popup*-
hush hush… no one needs to know that. ;x
It’s not like I’m actually playing any video games now!
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coffee AND muffins!! Could you possibly make me any more jealous? :0
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I prefer a mocha and scones with jam and cream, that’s one of my perfect breakfasts
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I made those muffins myself!
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If you make (and share) some orange poppyseed muffins then you’ll become my most favouritest person ever.
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Screw the muffins, I would happily eat orange and poppyseed icing.
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If your going to screw muffins then at least wait till they cool down.
“Sponsored by the NSFW government, spoken by Dr J Watt”
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Hmm… if only White Wings has that muffin mix…
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I approve AND second this ‘om nom nom nom’.
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These are seriously so damn good. Had them multiple times.
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DAWWWWWWW!!!
You got yours before i did?!?!
Maybe mine will be there when i get home!? 😀
I actually haven’t even finished the last one due to assignments!
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I have a backlog of issues that I have yet to read… I was just flipping through the latest one that featured AC: Revelations. So psyched for the game!! New characters, new combat, Constantinople!
11am, and I’ve done 2 jobs already! w00t! Good start to my day! Now comes the best part of my day! Sending out papers to get people to pay me teh $$$!!! WIN!
I flogged my dad’s Logitech Wingman Forumal GP wheel on the weekend too! He doesn’t use it anymore, so said I can have it! Yay! Fun shall ensue!
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Why don’t you pop your company website into the “website” field for comments. It might attract more business! 😀
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i have considered this, but it’s extremely unimpressive atm cos I just signed up for a free site through an offer I got from MYOB. Bitchin thing is I can’t customize it the way I want it, so I’m kind of ashamed to put it up anywhere :0
Usually my websites are sexy and impressive, and this is anything but.. I thought when i signed up for it, I would be able to customize it however I want, but it was not to be so 🙁
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I’d still put it in! It looks fine, even if it is a bit simplistic.
If you want (and are so self-conscious of that site), I could make you one over the weekend (for free of course).
btw, I love the header image on that site, it’s ace 😀
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I’d be interested to see what you can do 😉 I am quite capable of doing decent front ends myself, but the problem is I can’t upload anything to that site 🙁 Which means I’ll have to get another domain. Only reason I went with that one initially is cos it was free for the first year, so I figured I’d just get something up to fill the void for now. Really wish my old polycount cottage was still active.. You’d be able to see just how awesomely tricky I was with my sites 😉 Alas it’s not to be since they shifted from PlanetQuake 😐
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Oh dude, you should definitely buy a domain, they’re only about $200, with full access!
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I use a service at work called Business Catalyst. It’s pretty awesome, WYSIWYG CMS and 100% uptime and all that jazz.
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So I started Undead Nightmare yesterday. Played for about half an hour but so far its shaping up to be very enjoyable. It seems like its going to play very differently to normal RDR and its something that I’m actually looking forward to. Also I love zombies so it makes it even better.
I got this from Dr Jamie What!
But too good to not post on here.
EDIT: SORRY AMBROSE!
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That’s a little awkward…
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…you don’t even read the comments, do you?! :'( </3
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/05/talk-amongst-yourselves-126/comment-page-1/#comment-271239
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All credit goes to AmbroseIV for finding this gem!
I feel it deserves to be posted at least once on every page though. 🙂
Cheers Ambrose!
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…now I feel bad about my mock outrage 😡
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NSFW if you don’t work at Allure, btw.
MARK EDIT: HOW IS THIS NSFW!
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Mark, imagine ANY other manager except Chris walked past your desk while you were watching that video.
THAT’s why it’s NSFW! xD
Tad Note for context: Chris is our Managing Director
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It was safe at my work… And I don’t work at Allure. Or do I?
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Maybe they thought it was an ad? xD
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lol He-Man ftw! That’s totally awesome! well.. cept for the tune.. but so well done!
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There are no words.
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My god.. that was…. stimulating…
I mean… amazing!!
i lol’d
then i wee’d
then i lol’d cause i wee’d which made me wee again, so i lol’d
Had a great time on friday night with the group playing Reach, even though I totally suck at FPS (I think I did more damage to our own team then the enemy, sorry guys).
Love the idea of arranging more of these sessions, so who’s up for some Red Dead action this Friday (also open to other suggestions)
360 GT: Rafor al Carr
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Hugo, don’t worry. I don’t think I was of particular use to the team. My K/D was always negative.
But still it was good fun, although I have no idea what went on with my connection/the party? It just seemed to drop me.
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We had crazy network issues near the end. Every time Hind and I went to start matchmaking, it would claim it was ‘loading map 0%’, the countdown would start shortly after and take ~15-20s…
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It was a good night. There were some network issues at first, but they were probably at my end, as a restart solved everything. Don’t worry about your performance guys, it was all in the name of fun.
It was also good to see our glorious editor Sark Merrels make it to the gig… before mysteriously disconnecting mid game 😛
I *may* be able to play red dead on Friday. I am actually getting the game tomorrow for my Bday so I will be the noob this time…
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Indeed was quite enjoyable.
And you both held your own quite well I thought.I might be down for Red Dead, you really need to get a mic though dude.
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Yes, a definite must!
I could actually hear all of you fine, which I couldn’t seem to before, but I just couldn’t transmit AARRGGHH!!!
I am going to track down some more headsets, and maybe also try some different controllers.
By all the various Gods of the many Barbarian Hordes, my voice will be heard throughout Xbox Live, THIS I SWEAR!!! -
Also, just in case you haven’t done it yet Jo, download the “outlaws to the end” dlc, it is only about 12 MB and is free, it allows co-op which is hella cool.
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I’d probably be up for RDR on Friday, depending on whether or not anything else comes up.
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I might be keen for some RDR, but doing the co-op missions. I’ve played enough of the random run around in free-roaming, and have got bored of that already.
(I can only jump off a cliff so many times).
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YOGSCAST FANS! SHADOW OF ISRAPHEL #21 IS OUT!!
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YAY! Oh wait, I’ll have to watch it at uni. 😛
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YAY Finally! 😀
The Coke vs. Pepsi debate by Yogscast while watching a crappy “last-gen” game trailer:
Sex in my ears:
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No-one else thinks this is amazing?
I can’t believe there aren’t any other Daft punk fans here!
Sons (and daughters), I am disappoint. 😐
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I am a Daft Punk fan.
If you know when they’re touring again tell me.Tell me!
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I need to attend one of their concerts!
Also, Poets of the Fall 🙁
It’ll takes ages for them to even consider coming to Australia.-
Poets of the Fall = Awesome!
Got into them because of the Alan Wake soundtrack-
ME TOO!! *high five*
You should listen to Alchemy Vol. 1, which is part 1 of a collection of their best tracks.
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HEYHEYHEY I tweeted you back!
Wouldn’t say I’m a fan because I don’t know all their songs but I really <3 the Tron Legacy OST. Can name a couple of other their songs off my head. -
That was pretty cool. Would have rated it ‘pretty awesome’ but he messed up some of the visualisation timings.
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Interstella 5555 = The dogs bollocks
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Interstella 5555 > the dog’s bollocks
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Touche…
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I’ll admit that’s the first thing that popped into my head too.
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I have found my celebrity doppelganger!
Higa Manami, a Japanese TV actress in Code Blue and a few other jap medical tv dramas:
http://ww2.sinaimg.cn/large/673a1b93jw1dh732mcjg9j.jpg
😀
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Weeeeeeeeeiiiirrrrrrrd
No-one looks like me…’cept mebbe Swamp Thing.
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I have the prestige of looking eerily like Jabba the Hutt.
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I don’t think I look like anyone. If any disagree, please inform me! A drunk girl at a party once told me I looked like Steve Buscemi. That hurt my feelings. She then told me that it was fine as Steve Buscemi was hot and I realised the girl in question was bat sh¡t insane.
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I get people telling me that I look like Leonard from the Big Bang, which just confuses me. Yes, I have glasses, and appropriately coloured hair, but apart from that…
(Also, don’t you want to have Steve Buscemeyes? Everyone wants Buscemeyes!)
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Somehow I don’t think she knows who Steve Buschemi is…
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Steve Buscemi IS hot in a weird way. Or maybe I’m just batshit insane too….
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Ohta su marvalic plesodoro
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That’s creepy! You guys look really similar!
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You’re way cuter than her! 😉
I personally don’t think I have a doppleganger, but when I was 17-18, TONS of people used to tell me I looked like Nick Carter from the Back Street Boys 😐 Talk about insulting!!! *shakes fist*
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on the subject of dopplegangers though, my dad’s a dead ringer for Johnny Cash!
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also apparently, I can’t spell doppelganger :0
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Back when I had long hair I was told by some guy in a pub that I looked like Devin Townsend.
Strangely enough I am down with that comparison.
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Are you bald in the middle?
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No just a fairly high hairline.
He did have a pretty epic skullet.
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He’s just an epic guy…MEEEEEEEEEEEETTTAAAAAAAAAAAAL!!!
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WOAH!!
I don’t mean this in a creepy way at all.. but you’re WAYYY cuter… even though the simularities are astounding.
Now please inform both your boyfriend and my girlfriend that they shouldn’t feel the need to kick me repeatedly for saying such a thing…
please…
*whimpers*
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Oh.. and ll through year 7 and 8 i was called “bean” for my resemblance to Mr.Bean… *shudder*
Thankfully i cut my hair and that changed lol
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I’m told I look like Horatio Cain from CSI.
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WHAT IS THIS?
WHAT IS THIS?
I THOUGHT YOUR NIPPLES WERE MINE AND MINE ALONE!
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WHO LET YOU OUT OF THE KITCHEN!?!!?!?!?
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god help me if she decides to start reading TAY…
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If she started doing that, the love song I’m writing to you could become exceedingly awkward…
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First Q-Bo, now Chuloopa?
You are turning into the town bicycle of TAY.
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That thing with Q-bo was… It’s hard to explain. We were on the stairs, I was wearing a golden dress, and I’d rather not talk about it.
Whereas I’ve been meaning to sing Loops a song ever since I slighted him with my Christmas song.
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you hurt the ones you love
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So I shall be forever lonely, for the sake of those around me.
http://thegoodjokes.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/forever_alone_cinema_final1.jpg
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I’m sad about how much that’s like me.
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Maybe she’d be into it.. and you know.. she could like.. you know.. watch… or something…
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Do you think we could convince Wildgoose to join in?
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they don’t call him “wild”goose for no reason
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And I was under the impression that the last threesome attempts from this site had fallen on Goosies deaf ears (closed ears, perchance?). I guess I was wrong.
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There’s a reason he had to leave.
I just read the whole ‘conversation’ and chuckled in amusement.
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way to rip my heart out 🙁
lol
I posted this in the last TAY at the weekend and figured, what the hell, I’ll post it again.
Best medical advice EVAR!
“Swallow one capsule once.”
Often I have found myself flummoxed over this very thing. “What quizzical quandary!” Quoth myself. “Confounded conundrum!” Cursed I, Capsule clutched in my clenched fist.
How many times must I take this tablet? Twice? thrice? Tens of thousands of times must I inbibe this insipid inoculation! Examining expelled excrement, extracting the ejected elixir that it might meliorate my myriad medical maladies with multiple passes!
Yet here, printed plainly upon the perforated packaging it proclaims different.
“Swallow one capsule once”
First shalt thou take out the Holy Pill.
Then, shalt thou swallow only once, no more, no less.
Once shalt be the times thou shalt swallow, and the times of the swallowing shall be once.
Twice shalt thou not swallow, nor either swallow never, excepting that thou then proceed to swallow once.
Thrice is right out.
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You know what, Dr. What?
I can never swallow pills/capsules, not since I built up a self-defence mechanism of accidentally swallowing hard lollies too many times when I was a child. Now comes the consequences of either biting up the pills into bittery powder and downing lots of water, or getting the syrup form. Capsules are just impossible for me.-
I don’t often have problems, but some generic brands of one of my meds are just HUGE! So damn hard to swallow, but I can’t break em up cos they’re sustained release, so if I did, I’d get a whole days dose in a couple of hours! Dunno why one brand can have a tiny pill, yet others are like 5x the size.. STOOPID!
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I also recommend swallowing hard lollies whole as being the best and safest way to eat them. Especially giant gob stoppers. Om nom nom nom
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They really need to sync bus and train timetables up better. I’m sick of my bus pulling up to the station just as my train leaves and I have to wait half an hour for the next one. Why can’t the trains wait just one more minute before going?
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The system is broken.
We should all use hoverboards.-
lol hoverboards ftw!! the world would be a much better place!
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“Hey McFly, you bojo, those boards don’t work on water! “
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“Unless you’ve got POWER!”
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That’s one of my pet hates about public transport. There’s a couple of train stations around bris that are like hubs between bus and train. Stoopid thing is, whichever one you want to link to, always ends up leaving just as you get there. They really should put em like 15mins apart or something so whichever way you’re going, you’re gonna get your ride with minimal time and fuss.
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Haaaaahaha, this one time it took me 3 hours to get home from uni.
1. Get to UNSW bus stop.
2. Miss bus.
3. Wait for bus for half hour.
4. Get on bus.
5. Get to Central.
6. Miss train by 2 minutes.
7. Wait for train for half hour.
8. 45 minute train ride home.
9. Get to station.
10. Run to station bus stop.
11. Miss bus.
12. Wait for bus for half an hour.
13. ???
14. HOME
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;O What do you study at UNSW?
How come I never see you?!-
I do Engineering! We are woooooooooorlds apart.
And by that I mean you’re probably up alllllll those ten million stairs.
Why would you build a university on a hill. Whyyyyyyyyy-
Which engineering? There’s so many of them!
My classes are scattered around the campus. My “school” building is in Robert Webster (next to Quad), but I rarely ever have classes in them 😐
I have a lecture on level 7 of Civil Engineering on Wednesdays, and it just kills me to either wait for the worst and slowest lift ever on UNSW campus, or walk up 7 levels of stairs.I feel like I get enough exercise just by going to uni with all the walking and stairs!
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Electrical. We’re someone attached to Quad too, so I guess we’re on opposite sides!
We have the worst lifts. The main one is actually out of line (sometimes) with the floor, and the tiny one smells a bit like pee.
Also, ironically, despite being included with the Telecommunications facility, we get absolutely rubbish WiFi signal in our building.
Also also, I barely attend uni anymore. Nothing but Ethics class left, and I need to get a semi-engineering-job to complete my degree, so that I can get a proper job. Go figure. So I guess me not really showing up to uni is part of the reason we don’t see each other at uni. 😛 -
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That building gives you cancer.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/university-brings-in-experts-as-staff-fears-of-cancer-cluster-grow/2007/05/11/1178390559624.html -
The electrical engineering lifts are only useful when I’m THAT lazy to even go to upper campus. 😛
The Morven Brown cancer cluster just sounds like an awful coincidence though.
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Since I’m waiting for my late lunch of instant noodles (yes, you still need a few minutes for it to cook), let me post some awesome lyrics from UNSW Med Revue 2011: Surgery Street!
To the tune of “Hakuna Matata”:
Avada Kedavra!
What a wonderful phrase
Avada Kedavra!
Makes life pass away
It means say goodbye
TO the rest of your days
You’re now history, magically!
Avada Kedavra!
(Avada Kedavra?)
Yeah. It’s an unforgivable curse!
(What’s a curse?)
Just some bad ho-curse, po-curse
These two words
Will kill all your problems
That’s right! Take Voldemort here
Why, when he was a young wizard
When I was a young wizard!
(Very nice)
(Thanks!)
He thought Slytherin heritage was a big deal,
Those mudbloods and muggles made him very ill
I had a twisted soul,
though I seemed appealing
But it hurt that
My dad was a non-magical being
And oh, the shame
(He was ashamed)
So went changing my name
(He-who-shall-not-be-named)
Then I got horcrux’d
(How did ya look?)
Well my nose was f—
(Hey! Dark Lord!
Not in front of the kids)
Oh, sorry.
Avada Kedavra!
What a wonderful phrase
Another Cadaver!
Makes life pass away
It means no Dumbledore,
Sent down to the grave
Killed Cedric Diggory,
Banged Hermione!
Avada Kedavra!
Avada Kedavra, Avada Kedavra!
I slept with your momma-
(Avada-what?!)
Wand’s like the Death Star,
Shooting deadly green rays
I killed a puppy, acccidentally
Avada Kedavra!
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Seems oddly familiar:
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Ahhh they “reference” a lot of things from the interwebz. There’s also the “Like Jesus” parody of Far East Movement’s “Like a G6”.
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I have not read a single harry potter book, nor watched any of the films, but that tickles my funny bone.
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I love Harry Potter!!
Nothing of that Twilight nonsense kids read nowadays.
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Dawds… are you studying for an MBBS?
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How would I get so much free time on Kotaku if I was? 😛
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You could be in your first 3 years.
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I dunno about the first three years, but I’ve seen first year stuff from the ANU med degree (which is a 4 year post-grad course), and I’m pretty sure I could sleepwalk my way through the coursework. Things like “Write 600 words (in your best doctor scrawl) on the difference between allergic reactions and poisoning.” Or stuff about the use of polypeptide bonds, or the difference between Mitosis and Meiosis.
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Meiosis and mitosis… are the two way in which cells divide.
AND for visions of this division… A microscope is tried.BUT for visions of COLLISIONS…
What would you choose?
What would you choose!?(Got any clues?)
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For reference:
http://youtu.be/77qxo5rHIuM
(One of my favourite bands)
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Nahhh I’m one of those arts students that people like to point and laugh at.
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What are you majoring in? Something incredibly arts-tastic?
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Oh God http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4QYkrp44us
NSFW
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What did I just watch for two seconds and turn off in shock?!?!
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I know someone who walked out of Inception because it didn’t make sense. They walked out during the scene in Paris… where he explains the whole film.
True story.
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Palms & Faces – Unite!
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This is what I’m saying.
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I find it hard to believe that someone couldn’t understand Inception after the first five minutes…
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The Flat Earth Society is still taking memberships, and The Luddites have a website.
After Hydrogen, stupidity is the most common element in the universe.
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I’ve met people who didn’t understand the Silent Hill movie…even though there is a good ten minute bit at the end that explains the whole thing.
And why doesn’t anyone understand Matrix 3? Pretty straight forward I thought, what’s not to get??
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How it got funding?
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BA-DUM-TISH!
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I don’t understand Moon.
But then, I haven’t seen it, and have avoided spoilers as much as possible (although I do know the twist thing).
U-Foh Porn-oh
I can now die happy…
I want more!
I love it.
do
{
foreach(task : workQueue)
{
if (isBackUp(PSN))
{
psnBackUp = true;
break;
}
doStuff(task);
}
goHome();
if (psnBackUp)
{
insert(BFBC2);
launch(BFBC2);
openBeer();
startMadness();
}
} while (alive);
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*sigh* spacing fail.
Does anyone remember the children’s show “Lift Off” from the 1990s? I had such a hard time recalling the name, luckily Wikipedia is here for me : )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lift_Off_(TV_series)
http://www.actf.com.au/productions/productions/lift_off/html/front.html
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HOLY CRAP!!!
I COMPLETELY FORGOT ABOUT THAT SHOW!!!
I WATCHED IT ALLLLL THE TIME!!!
seriously, these past 2 weeks have REALLY shown me just how much i’ve forgotten of my childhood…
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I was going to say that I didn’t remember it, but then I went and watched the intro on youtube and HOLY CRAP I REMEMBER THAT SHOW! It was really weird.
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linky link please?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50v-m4yUewI
First 20 second are the relevant bit.
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Of course , I still have an EC magnet!
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Good times.
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Can’t say I was a fan of Lift Off.
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Ah yes… they guy from ‘The Comedy Company’… after he stopped being funny.
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It was a very weird show but I remember watching a lot of it… kind of like the stuff people post on youtube now… hmm.
BEE SPENT A GOOD PROPORTION OF THE WEEKEND PLAYING GAMES WITH ME!!! ZOMG!!
Ok, not gameS – rather just A game.
Need for speed shift.
Picked it up for $13 and whacked it on and we’ve been having a grand time taking turns in career mode.
The last thing we played together was Limbo, which was quite a while ago.
Tell you what, there is no better feeling than when your non-gaming GF sits down and actually plays with you…
*ahem*.. plays a GAME with you…
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…umm… is it the name of your child?
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Maybe child 2, the Mrs is keeeeeeeeen!
But I think there may have been another reason…
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Ummm… Croatian public holiday?
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We should impose a daily Zelda tax on you, Loops, until you play Ocarina.
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What i choose to play one that isn’t ocarina first?
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My ex was alright at Borderlands (A bit of a loot-hog though)
“Trjn
May 12, 2011 at 4:23 PM
They’re making a movie with Hank Pym as the main character?
Well knock me to the ground and call me Janet…”
I just read that! Comedy GOOOOLD!!!
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Good to see someone got the joke 🙂
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That was shameful.
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May you be bitten by a thousand ants for that horrible pun.
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I didn’t even see the pun until you admitted to it…
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THANK YOU EBAY!!
I now own a copy of Earth Defense Force for a meagre $14.50!! :D:D
DE-LIGHT-TED!
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F U eBay, it’s not your fault but I’ve had such bad luck this year…
Also screw you paypal, you are dirty, dirty liars!!!Apparently my PSP IS coming, we’ll see how that all turns out though…
Frikkimfrassum
I played Backbreaker on the weekend…
I have learnt somehting
I suck at backbreaker.
Such an awesome game, but Fatshady will beat me 999,000 – 1 if i play him….
Shady… tips?!?! lol
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You should have seen the amazing match between TadMod and Batguy (I think it was those two anyway) at the Sydney Meat.
Pretty sure Taddy didn’t know which half of the screen he was playing as for the first 5 minutes.
So at least you can be safe in the knowledge you’re better than someone. 😉TadMod: Shut Up, I was pro. 🙁
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when i play him i might aim a camera at the TV so i can share my hideous defeat 😛
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You would have fit in well at the Kotaku meet. Tad and I played an entire half of Backbreaker without scoring a single point. We were so bad that we decided the first to score was the winner. I eventually scored a goal to win, but even then it was such a bad attempt that it looked like it missed!
Good times.
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It really is such a great game, though!
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Work is killing me hence the late reply. As for tips. On defense try sticking with one player. Switching often is a but jarring.
Offense is really about focus and timing. Hold LT I think and it zooms in on your reciever and pads into open space. Also learn how to protect ball ( it is press down and RT I think?) when catching to avoid fumbles.
Finally avoid running when you can because it is near impossible to do well unfortunately.
Also make sure you give the tackle alley a go and play me online!!!!!!!
I can’t believe it, for a moment at work I forgot how to spell my surname. My own name.
How weird is that, what’s worse is that I was talking to a client at the time and I just froze when giving him my details.
Though the spelling of my surname is, while short, rather odd, many people do have problems pronouncing it, but still… my own name.
I think I need a holiday.
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“Barbarian” isn’t that short a last name!
I kid, I kid.
I’ve managed to forget how to spell my own first name, which is quite incredible given it’s four letters long.
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Forgot my Personal PIN number once, had to call a mate who saw the slip and memorised it as a joke. Strange times…
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My PIN only consists of 2 different numbers!
And I still manage to forget it. Good thing they allow you multiple tries to enter it.
“XYXY? Nope, not it. XYYX? Noooope. YXXY? Success!”-
My PIN is 2257.
OH NO! Now you’ll steal all my money!!!
Oh wait, no, you need my bank card. 😛
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I forgot how to sit down once… that was intense.
IDENTIFICATION
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CAPTAIN EATS-A-LOT, REPORTING IN
TadMod Edit: You misspelt Janitor… it’s “J-A-N-I-T-O-R”.
Don’t worry, you’ll get it right eventually. 😛
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Thanks, Cap. Can you throw your mighty shield??
And MadTod, don’t go dissin on the JANITORS. I was one for around six years!
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Also, the Janitor is one of the best characters in Scrubs.
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ALLITERATION
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ONIMATOPEIA
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FONETIC
NOW WITH LESS ‘PH’
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So, apparently the Government spends $1,800 per day for each Asylum Seeker we keep locked up on Christmas Island…
Now, I know I’m a left wing hippie and all, but wouldn’t it make more sense to maybe, just, put them in a hotel room, pay for their schooling, their food, then get them a job, and make them productive members of society?
No terrorist is going to attempt to come to Australia by boat, and the majority of illegal immigrants fly in! Why does our government have to be so stupid?
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I’m an immigrant… you don’t want an answer to this question.
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Aye, you’re probably right.
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Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. 14% of people know that.
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Fun fact: in that line, Homer gives a completely made up number. Something like fourtumpth or other such nonsense.
Also, illegal immigrants by boat are nowhere near our biggest issue. The less I hear about people bleating about them danged boats, the better. They’re people who are in a shitty position and we’re not helping much by treating them like criminals.
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Apparently the biggest issue in Australia is planking, considering that was the headline story on the news this morning.
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I agree. Without getting too much into the politics, the government is under pressure from a not-insignificant proportion of the population who are either irrationally afraid of the security risk of boats, or see asylum seekers as variously, ‘queue-jumpers’, leeches, economic migrants, and so on. The problem being that all these xenophobes lie in marginal seats.
There aren’t many votes in compassion, and they see more advantage in demonising marginalised people than attempting to explain the issue rationally.
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You have hit the depressing nail on the head.
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PAGE 3ness?!
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Not yet!
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Add a few extra replies above and you might get it.
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Still on page 2 🙁
I just went base-jumping off of Sauron’s Eye. Funtimes 😀
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Hehe what did you think of it? Made that myself, best creation I ever done 🙂
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must try this! Did you see Blaghman’s.. creation… last night?
Can we all just shut the hell up about planking?
I found out about it yesterday, and 24 hours later I wish I never did.
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Snap Dawdle, I beat you to page 3 😉
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NO lamboman007 did!
I knew I miscounted there…
My math is terrible.-
Just find an excuse like mine.
As a Protoss player I only need to be able to count to 4, because once I have 4 gates I’ve completed every build I know.
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Dude. I’ve never agreed more with someone in my life. Ever.
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+ eleventy billion.
It’s bad enough that the tabloid media is all over it; that a journalist asked the Prime Minister to comment on planking is just… a farce. The media’s priorities are screwed.
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I second this seconding of the first!!
PLANKING IS FLIPPING STUPID!!!
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I like planking BECAUSE it’s stupid. If you are so stupid to plank yourself to death then it was well deserved. Ha ha, you planker!!
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Natural Selection at work?
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Indeed
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Would a planking death be eligible for a Darwin Award?
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I made a few puns and now I’ve had my fill.
Plank is an inherently funny word, but it sure does get worn out quickly.
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They tried to make the Dr walk the plank the other day!
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Yup. It’s true.
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Hey Lambo,
Now that you’ve taken over Cheap$kate, would you like access to the facebook page as an admin?
Hit me up on here or with an email so we can set it up for you!
Tad
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Can I do another CCG? Or is everyone over that now???
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Whatever works. I’ve forfieted my role as CheapSkate Gamer, and thrown it to the audience.
I think you guys will do a swell job as my successors *single tear wells up in eye*
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I just remembered… did you ever finish up your ‘Only Girl’ song parody?!
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Erm, nope…
I need to jump on that. Too many assessments at uni atm, so I’ll probably get around to it in the holidays 🙂
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That’s alright. I just thought I might have missed it in one of the earlier TAYs. : )
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NOOOOOO I just discovered Game Dev Story!
Played through the demo version on Android (Xperia PLAY loaned to me, so can’t buy apps or root it), don’t have an iOS device (nor want to have one). The Facebook version just closed down 🙁 Where can I still play it?!
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Anytime I see you you can use my
iPhone. Freaking awesome game huh? Sorry I can’t be more helpful. -
I bought Game Dev Story for my Galaxy Tab a few months ago 🙂 It’s a pretty wicked game indeed! Such a shame there’s no pc version or something. If you wanted to get tricky, you might be able to use the android dev kit and emulator to get it and play it? I can’t say with 100% certainty that it would work, but might be worth a try?
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I was going to play games dev story, then I realised, I’m actually working in games dev, so i’ve got a real life games dev story! LAWLZ
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lol i used to work in game dev myself. Thankfully game dev story is waaaaay less stressful! And no crunch times!!!
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Also where you working?
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Used to write for a small indie dev known as Panicmerchant, sadly it did not last long 🙁 such is often the tale of Aussie indie devs..
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jelly 🙁
I so badly want to be in the industry, but have no real skills.. this is why i’m hoping to have my own business with a store specifically made for the otaku and gamer the likes of which no one has seen before…
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One of these days when I make my million off my current business, I’m prolly gonna start up a dev house to make some games I’ve had mulling around in my head for years. 🙂 I’d be happy to bring you on board, even if only for comic relief 😉
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i’ve had some rad ideas for games.. but whether other people think they’re rad.. that’s another thing all together.
I realllly want to have a business that brings the gaming community.
HOLY SHIT!! BRAINSTORM!!!
A retail shop/cafe with in house dev stuido, so people can come in and see how the games are made… through soundproof glass of course
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SWEET!
I always wanted to work in a zoo!!!
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“so can’t buy apps or root it”
Sometimes i just want to hug you. First i had a little double take moment, then raucous laughter.
Well, I tired to install Portal 2 onto my pc using the code I got with my PS3 copy, turns out that it is over 10GB to download, and we have 50GB (25GB peak, 25 off-peak).
My reaction:
http://www.totalgamingnetwork.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=6578&d=1248634306
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*tried
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Honestly I think capped internet plans is an outdated mechanism nowadays. Why not ask people to pay for unlimited, the price difference is for internet speed, not uploads/downloads?
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Now I re-read that it didn’t make too much sense.
I’m sleepy. : ( May need 2nd coffee of the day to get some assignments done tonight.
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If you know of a friend that already has it on PC, you can copy it off them onto a hard drive and paste it in. If you’re forever alone, and with a certain ISP (iPrimus, Bigpond, etc), they sometimes provide quota free gaming downloads if they are hosting the content. If all that fails, well, yeah, FFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU is the only response.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2_DuFvyQYc
Been out for a while, didn’t know if anyone here has seen it but it needed to be shared.
Well, I just got to a certain part on Portal 2 on PS3, and it has started glitching.
http://www.totalgamingnetwork.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=6578&d=1248634306
Just too many comments. I tried to reply where I could. Work is just crazy now and you are all nuts. Did we almost hit 500 on a Monday?
I have not played street fighter since I was a kid at arcades but with a fighting stick at home it is just awesome. Really enjoying it.
Loops I want to play backbreaker now.
Also looking for operation flashpoint friends or friends of friends please.
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I would play Red River with you, if freaking Gamesplus actually bothered to try and get in touch and send me my copy that I won on their fb page. I am sad now.
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Should clarify 360 if you are wondering.
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haha yeah such a cool game even when i’m sucking.
also, i don’t know if i replied, but if you could send the kotaku team, that would be frackin awesome!
also tell me how to install it.. lol
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I dont know how to save it let alone send it or install it!!!!! I have some work to do. I know it can be done because dudes are trading NFL teams all the time.
Hope I can do it.
Also, are you GOLD and can we play with eachother??? (You heard me)
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not yet.. i was just going to buy a pass from gamecard.com.au when i’m ready to play you lol
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did you try my 48 hour code??? Not sure if it worked or anyone took it??? I posted it a week or two back?
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nope.. never saw that LOL
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I somehow managed to get toothpaste in my eye this morning.
What’s the opposite of burning? It was like an intense cool, fresh, minty breeze in my eye. :/
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FYI don’t brush your eyes!
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I can beat that. I once got a toe nail in my eye!
Before you think that I cut my nails while doing yoga let me explain. I was cutting my sons nails and a crazy bit jumped up and attacked me. Worst pain ever!
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Just wash it out with some Listerine.
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and don’t forget to floss!
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Fun fact, getting toothpaste in your eyes (or any base) is worse than getting an equivalent acid there. When you put acid in your eye, it burns, but forms a crust which helps prevent the acid from going further, whereas with a base, it just burns straight through your eye!
I really enjoyed Mirror’s Edge, except for the end, which basically went against everything the game was about. Anyway, RockPaperShotgun have put up a preview of a indie game called InMomentum, that looks pretty cool. It’s has free running and some shooting, but the art style looks amazing and the game play seems pretty interesting. Anyone who played Mirrors edge should look at it.
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/05/16/preview-hands-on-inmomentum/
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I’m guessing you’re talking about from when you enter the boat onwards, because that’s where things really do start to fall apart and be less about free running and more about being trapped and trying to escape.
I’ll definitely have to take a look at this game. Mirror’s Edge was good, it just needed a sequel to work out the kinks. A sequel we probably won’t see 🙁
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The ship onwards more or less is when it went downhill. The last level, where there are a billion guys with guns is what killed it for me, because I more or less found it impossible to do anything unless I killed the guards.
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Assassin’s Creed Syndrome.
They ran out of ideas that held true to the game and just went with a generic “kill everything” session. Makes me sadface.
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Okay, I need to study me some Batman.
I’m after Batman comics that are worth reading. Not just the big ones like Killing Joke, Knight Fall and Long Halloween, but the other ones that aren’t as obvious.
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See if you can get your hands on some sixties Batman. They’re so bad they’re good.
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For the sake of my own sanity, I’m avoiding Silver Age comics.
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Hush is really good, Also batman black and white is really good as well.
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Hush is Epic, and read anything Frank Miller.
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He did ask for non-obvious Batman comics, right?
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That’s right.
Hush and Dark Knight Returns are already on my list, and I’ve added Black & White as another one to look up.
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Any of Grant Morrison’s run.
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Good luck tracking all that down…
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Luck? Where I’m going I don’t need… Luck.
Also, torrents are our friend.
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I’ll give this some deep thought and get back to you
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JLA-Tower Of Babel.
It’s about Batman… sort of.
I have injured my Achilles to the point of being in tears when I walked to the bathroom. Don’t know how exactly, though I hurt my foot a few weeks ago with some dodgy shoes… guess that’s it. Driving to work ended up being pure agony.
On the plus side, I might get a few days off work!
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Crush that pile of shame.
Oh, and sorry to hear about your foot. But mainly, just crush your pile of shame.
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Putting your foot in people’s asses sure does take its toll.
I just came up with a cunning plan.
Let’s find a month with very few, if any, exciting new releases (there have to be plenty of months like that between now and November) and that month shall be called “The Month of Anti-Shame!” where we all make a concerted effort to clear as many games out of our pile of shame as possible.
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See, I don’t see it as a pile of shame. I see it as a pile of stuff not interesting enough to hold my attention.
Much easier to deal with that way.
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I find that I struggle to complete games that I’m kind of interested in, but games I outright dislike are much easier to finish.
Strange as it seems, I think that when I don’t like a game, I make a point to finish it so that I never have to bother with it again. Same with books, which is why I’m wasting my time reading Children of the Mind, which I’m hating more and more as I get further into it.
If I like something, I’m more willing to put it aside so that I can finish it later when I have time to fully enjoy it. Hence my enlarged pile of shame.
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I like that idea.
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I second this liking of ideas.
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Me three.
I was thinking about my pile of shame this morning. I think it’s probably just as large as my pile of pride(?). Except for portable games, I’ve finished almost all of those.
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July/August?
September is Gears 3 and RAGE, October is Twisted Metal, Dark Souls and Arkham City, and then November is basically every publishers most favourite game: Sony and Uncharted, EA and BF3, Activision and CoD, Ubisoft and AC:R, Bethesda and Skyrim, Microsoft and their distinct lack of exclusives (Unless E3 changes that) (Sorry, I’m kind of annoyed at the lack of quality exclusives MS has for 2011, espeically since I bought my 360 at the end of last year).
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July seemed like the obvious choice to me. There’s always a lull around that point in the year where things just don’t get released (aside from blockbuster movies). Perfect time to catch up.
Shall we make this a thing?
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July is MY B’day. That is an awesome thing to do to celebrate this awesome occasion.
Now to win the witty-july-anti-pile-of-shame-name-the-event award…
“Preparation J”
See Preparation H is a Haemorrhoid (Piles) removal cream and as we are removing out ‘piles’ of shame in July.. it kinda makes sense.
Also, if you don’t find that amusing or are more creative than I… check this out.
Wiki page about Prep H.
“Pfizer, the maker of Preparation H, has also released the product in a suppository form, which is not as popular as the cream.”
I doubt this was surprising to the marketing team!
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I’m ruthless with my pile of shame… generally I trade them in so that their cases don’t haunt me with a visual manifestation of my own ineptitude.
Does anyone like video games? I do, I think they’re pretty cool.
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Video games? You mean the ones where you use your hands? That’s like a baby’s toy.
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…but…but, it’s really fun. You should try them.
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*You are a Crack Shot at jokes*
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Nope. I’m all about scrapbooking!
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I heard that they’re pretty good. Saw a guy playing Alex Kidd and it looked Gnarly!!!
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isn’t that the rape simulator one?
video games are abhorrent!!!
*sets light to a retirement home*
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I saw a guy playing the rape simulator. It was also gnarly.
Wait… Maybe that was an actual rape…
/PoorTasteHumour
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Nope – convicted arsonist here – i like watching things burn
Well last night Jimu confirmed his availability for the 29th. So far the only one I know who isn’t keen on the 29th is dzc12. I guess if he could control his alcomohol intake on the night before it might be a possibility, but is that likely to happen? 😉
Who else is keen for the 29th, or should be postpone the meet til June sometime (after Jimu’s move?)
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Or he could just KEEP DRINKING, can’t get hungover if you’re still drunk!
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29th sounds good to me. Dzc12 can turn up all grumpy and in dark glasses.
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I’m good either day. The next Sunday I CAN’T make is the 6th.
I’ll be in Sydney. Maybe I should organise a meet for that day 😛
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Now I kinda have to come. -rotates head to door way-
SALLY! ORDER MORE BOOZE! I NEED TO BE DRUNK FOR SOME VIDJA GAME THING!
-Sally is standing in the doorway as I yell-
Sally: Why are you such a shit person.
Me: -troll face-
Ahh steam.
My library is filled with so many games I don’t want to play while I remember when the ones I do want to play were on sale and I didn’t grab them.
World of tanks it is then.
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I was pleasantly surprised with that game. For a free to play, it’s pretty darn solid!
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i’ve started downloading it, buit have hit my monthly limit 🙁
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looks like we’ll be having quite the platoon one day, KotakuAU tank platoon!
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you have no idea how awesome that sounds to me…
AWE-SUM!
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I’ve downloaded but still haven’t installed it… are y’all Kotakuites on regular? I saw tech-knight online playing it last night.
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well I got the next tier tank and tagged up with Endu last night. Will most likely be playing it more, though I have many other games that have my attention to play as well, like SC2, minecraft, KOTOR 2, list goes on
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After listening to everything you were saying about it last night while I played Minecraft, I’m certainly interested, should I go to the effort and get it?
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I would recommend getting it during off-peak times or near the end of the month if your monthly cap isn’t that large. It’s 1.8GB just for the installation file, might be bigger with the new update coming today as well.
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I don’t know which post to reply to! I’m so full of white, creamy joy!
(Yeah I went there).The game is top notch, by far the best F2P/Freemium experience I’ve had. I’ve been in it since closed beta and have probably clocked some stupid amount of hours.
If you fear the download, does your ISP have a unmetered games service? I got my installer from games(dot)on(dot)net mainly for the speed increase, but it would have been unmetered for me too.
Now, the other thing I wanted to mention is what Gorzy and I were talking about last week – platoons. You can only fit 3 tanks in a platoon AND YOU CAN ONLY START A PLATOON IF YOU’RE A PREMIUM PLAYER. Which means that if 8-9 of us play, at least 2 other than me will have to pay to platoon – and that will only guarantee* that the platoon is placed in battle together.
*You can count in (3… 2… 1… Battle!). It’s about 80% effective getting players/platoons placed in the same battles.
I’m on Steam when I’m not at work, and not in bed. I’m happy to answer any questions you have and make recommendations to which nation/vehicle you play.
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Been so busy at work haven’t been able to come on Kotaku much, let alone TAY. Give me a quick summary of what everyone is up to and I’ll see if I can sneak back on here later.
What’s this I hear about base jumping off of Sauron’s tower to your death in Minecraft?
Also, does anyone know anything about SQL server, because it is driving me nuts.
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I know a fair amount about SQL stuff, and I’m assuming Tad does too. So what’s the hip-hop-happenings?
The Summary of what’s happened is “Oh dear lord, I am so glad I don’t have a job so I can just sit here and read this all day.”
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Humanity lost my support long ago, and garbage like this was and still is why
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“OMG! Like, Like liked Luke but, like, Luke didn’t ‘like’ like Like.”
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Totally
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It’s ok Chuie. We’ll always have each other.
And fire.
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/05/16/bendis-deconnick-castle-graphic-novel/
I’m confused …is this the same as the TV show?
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I believe it’s based on the fictional series the character Castle wrote in the TV shows world.
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It’s a comic based on a book written by a fictional character on a TV show.
Castle is awesome. Fillion is awesome. That is all.
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Portal is mentioned!
Turns out sewing makes me happy and I’m actually quite good at it. While you were all talking too much yesterday I made a whole top. I cut up a men’s T-shirt from the band Sabaton and turned it into ladylike corset-tied camisole top.
Next project is to do something similar with my Assassin’s Creed and Dragon Age shirts. Can’t wait to finally be able to wear a game shirt that’s shaped for girls.
One problem though, now I’ll have sewing as well as games to try and fit into the hour or two of “me time” while my son naps. Oh well, guess I can sew instead of doing the housework. 😛
By the way, my son calls my sewing machine the “mowing achine”. Heheheee.
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Sound’s like he’s a little TadMod 😛
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Where’s my jerkin? I thought we discussed this?
Am I going to have to visit a haberdasher?
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You forgot to send me your measurements sans extra bust allowance….
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touche… sir.
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Strange, you’re so awesomely skilled at everything.
Also, have you tried JINX for game shirts for women? they do some good stuff!
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Seconded, although they don’t seem to be the same quality as the men’s for some reason. My Mrs looks great in her ‘Home is where the Hearthstone is’ shirt!
Well, before baby ___________ caused her to expand and now it won’t fit.
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Jimu! I’ll be happy for CCG to make a return to Cheapskate. Do you have one I can use today? If not, I’ll just whip up something…
And Tadmod, what do you need from me for the facebook thing? A link to my account?
Also, Mark, don’t worry Cheapskate will got to you today, before lunchtime…I accidentally slept in a little bit this morning :/
P.S. has anyone else tried using Zavvi in the last few days? Are they still shipping to AUS?
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CCG is awesome, I am waiting for a comeback.
I really want to read that book.
for the aussies who may have missed the post earlier:
GEARS OF WAR COLLECTORS EDITIONS!!!
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/05/the-rich-persons-edition-of-gears-of-war-3/
i’ll be ordering the statue one from overseas (england) more than likely… i REALLY want it, but stuffed if i’ll pay $200 for it..
Now the only other collectors edition i need to know about for the year is Skyrim and i’ll be happy 😀
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Yeah boy! As I said in the article comments, Game UK will have it here in a week for about $AUD160.
OMFG
TERRARIA IS OUT
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Have you got the game already?
I can’t see what games you have, your profile is private :\
Check my post regarding Terraria on the next page!
Played HoN last night with the Janitor (hehe!)
Had a really good time, I can see myself playing thsi quite a bit. All of a sudden it seems there are all these great games to play. My pile of shame will be forever large at this rate…
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My pile of shame is, no jokes, like 3 games, because I am currently playing about 12, so they don’t count as part of my pile. I have no idea how you all manage to get such large piles.
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By not playing 12 games at once.
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I have a day job. Which means I need a constant influx of purchases to make me happy.
Also, see ‘cirrhosis of the liver’.
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Pshh, your liver can recover from losing 75% of itself, so I figure cirrhosis is a myth (it’s not a myth, that would be silly). The secret to avoiding it is to drink so much that it just straight up kills half your liver… because that makes sense.
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I work 7am-6pm every weekday 🙁
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Darn you Tadmod!!!!! I will never be rid of this “Janitor” tag now!!
/shakes fist in general direction of the Allure Media office
on another note, you did very well in Hon last night! See, you picked it up quickly. Only a matter of time before you’re rollin’ with the pros.
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Less fist shaky, more floor moppy!
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Shake your fist at the Allure office all you like today, for I’m at UTS, doing assignments… all… day.
🙁
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Thanks cap’n, I quite enjoyed myself. Winning is always good as well 😀
Is it expected for people to get good at multiple mains or one of the ‘classes’ (agi, int, str) as opposed to a single character?-
My very strong suggestion is to pick a single hero and stick at them whilst you’re still learning to ropes.
It will lesson confusion and is how I and everybody else I know of learnt to play DOTA when we started, what felt like a lifetime ago…
but of course that is just my opinion!
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the ropes*
I really need to check everything i type before i hit the ‘kgo’ button.
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Had a look at HoN from one of the Yogscast vids over a week ago, looks quite fun though if I ever get it I’ll know I’ll NEVER find a hero to my liking for a long time. Playing DoTA the only one I was remotely good with was the lifestealer N’aix
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Sometimes when I play DotA, me and a friend have a competition as to how many times we can die.
Pretty sure that’s not how you’re supposed to play, but it’s fun regardless! -
Tech Knight! Naix was one of my old faves. DOTA > HON imo.
I was inspired by Anonymous to make a HON tutorial vid .. keep your eyes peeled for one coming to a youtube channel near you!
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well my way of fighting in games such as that were always “The more I fight, the more I heal” idea, used the same thing with Guild Wars, and my melee characters were all close to PvP and PvE gods with very little weaknesses.
Will be looking forward to the vid, and I might join you humans to crushing other humans online one day 😛
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I played Pudge, mostly because strategy for him boiled down to “Stand there and win.” Ahhh, good times.
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I once played a game with a really damned annoying Pudge.
We were playing a middle lane only game. 3v3, I think. He used to lurk in the side forests and throw out his Meat Hook thingy, turn Rot on, and Devour our faces.
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Getting Meat Hook straight up, and dragging aggressive players into range of towers was my all time favourite thing to do.
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Very cool read. Good for those of us planning on world domination.
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A great one for getting people to agree with you if you’re talking face-to-face is to nod very slightly as you finish asking the question, as it lays a semiconscious idea of “yes” in their mind, which is very hard to get past. Most people also have a lot of pride, so once they say yes to something, they won’t want to back out.
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Also, make them responsible for things.
Sentences like: I like your idea of doing (whatever it was you wanted). It makes them feel like their contributing.
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Manipulating people is so easy.
Are there any jobs which solely require that as a skill? I’m pretty sure I could manage it full time…
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Lobbyist.
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Sith Lord.
Only one position comes up every so often…
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Yeah, but apprentice wages suck.
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Well, unless anyone can come up with a reason not to, I propose that July shall be Pile of Shame Eradication Month!
Now to make this some sort of thing so that other people go along with it. Anyone feel like doing some organising? I prefer to just come up with ideas and then pass all the actual work off to people who might be able to do something.
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Firstly, games that have not been started at all or ones that you started and then dropped?
Personally I find the expectation to completely finish every game you start an unreasonable one. You probably stopped because it stopped being fun and whats the point of playing if you’re not having fun?
Also I suggest at the start of each week we say what game we will play and then on Friday we give a report on how far we got.
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Or the following monday so you have the weekend to play.
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Just games that you own and haven’t completed, either by not starting or by putting aside. You don’t have to play something that you don’t want to play, just finish those games that you never got around to finishing.
I like the weekend thing. But I’m thinking this might be like NaNoWriMo, just sit down, shut up and game. Extra things to get that done are definitely good though.
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Whoopsie-daisy, I appear to have stumbled upon the plot for Transformers Dark of the Moon http://www.ozgameshop.com/ps3-games/transformers-3-iii-dark-of-the-moon-game-ps3
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Hahaha, Michael Bay ‘plot’.
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‘Michael Bay plot’ is an oxymoron.
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“the Autobots mush hunt Megatron”
My fave part!
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The Kotaku Chronicles – Part One
Eleven months in deep space, trapped on this god forsaken ship. The crew were starting to get anxious as rumors spread that perhaps our quarrel has escaped our grasp.
“Not yet” Lord Marshall Serrels found him self saying aloud. “…Not yet…”
The aging Marshall looked up from the reports laid out in front of him, his eyes strained from hours of reflection. The air was cold in the war room, and the gray adamantium reinforced walls walls did little to warm his spirts. But then again, he though to himself with a bemused grin, a war room isn’t designed with comfort in mind.
He stood from his chair slowly, Field Marshall Tadmod – his second in command, looking up from a digitalised map of the Zetta Cluster as he rose.
“Something amiss, my lord?”
“No… no… i just grow weary of this cat and mouse chase” replied Serrels, stretching his back out as if he’d been sitting for days.
“We’ll have them soon, my lord” Tadmod assured, “The Galactic Christian Lobby can’t hide forever, we will find the R18-Plus and bring it back home, for the good of the people. They can’t hide forev..”
“Lord Marshall, we’ve found them!” the intercom system interrupted Tadmod just short of finishing and seemed to give him somewhat of a jolt, flustering him for a brief moment.
Serrels strode purposefully across to the intercom system on the far wall, pressing a small green button to reply.
“Report Lieutenant Dawdle”
“An GCL cruiser has been appeared on the long range scanners, just 300,000 clicks from our current postion”
“Is it alone?”
“It appears to be sir”
Serrels paused for a moment, this didn’t feel right. Not at all.
“Sir?”
“Set the ship on alert, we’ll meet this thing head on and anyone or anything the bastard holds. Meet me on the bridge and have Sergeant Jimu meet us there. Serrels out”
Serrels turned to see Tadmod already rising from his chair. For all the years he had know the man, he still marveled at his sheer stature. The man was a leviathon, easily 7 feet tall, yet he moved with a grace unlike any had seen before. The man was no warrior, but as a great thinker he had come to rely upon him in even the most dire of circumstances. An expert tactician, an economical thinker and most of all an honest and resolute man.
“Well then, sir..” started Tadmod as he strolled effortlessly toward the Lord Marshall, a smile cracking accross his face “…we best be off, duty calls and so forth”
“That it does, old friend. That it does”
The Dreadnought class starship Kotaku was a technological marvel, even by Allure Alliance standards. All the latest in military technology could be found here – rendered beautifully, yet functional. Her crew was 10,000 strong, all loyal to the cause. Armed with the advanced weaponry and a core drive powered by 3 flux capacitors, she was also the quickest and most destructive ship of her size.
The bridge was abuzz with activity when the Marshall’s arrived. Sergeant Jimu and lieutenant Dawdle already present and quickly snapped into a salute upon their entrance.
“Commander on deck!” Dawdle exclaimed loudly
“At ease” Serrels said as he and Tadmod returned their formality.
Never had the Lord Marshall seen an odder pair standing side by side. The lieutenant was a beautiful young woman, fresh from the academy, service in the family blood line for centuries. She was slighly off-centre with a happy disposition, and always seemed to have a cup of liquid stimulant in her hand. Serrels often wondered if that was all there was keeping that smile on her face, what with her extended hours over the course of their search.
Jimu, on the other hand, was a veteran of countless battles, with a map of scars to prove it. While he was known to joke now and then, his constant stone expression made it hard to tell exactly WHEN it was that he was joking. That aside, he was a fearless leader of men and knew his soldiers thoughts and fears better than they ever could. He was one of the few men the Lord Marshall would trust with his life during the heat and chaos of a firefight.
Lord Marshall Serrels took his spot in the command chair. The man was imaculate in his white officers uniform, only he didn’t wear his medals or flashy ranking pins like other Allure Alliance officers, and discouraged his subordinates to do the same. By his reckoning he and his men were equals, all entitled to their own thoughts and didn’t see the need to separate himself from them. They were, after all, his men and women.
He ran his hand back through his thick fiery red mane of hair and sat back for a moment before addressing his crew.
“How long?” he asked quite simply.
“Two hours, sir” replied Dawdle.
“Are we sure it’s on it’s own?”
“Yes sir, there isn’t another ship in sight. Also, it seems to be powered down, with only basic life support operating.” Dawdle paused, somewhat troubled by the fact. “It’s quite peculiar, is it not?”
“It’s a trap” Jimu said flatly
“I am inclined to agree with you there, Sergeant” replied Serrels.
“Then what do we do?” inquired Tadmod, already knowing the response he would receive
“We spring it” replied Serrels, a wild grin spreading across his face as he rose, once again.
“Jimu, gather ‘The Regulars’, you’re going in”
Jimu’s face cracked something resembling a smile, and his eyes widened in anticipation. “It will be done, my lord”
With that, Jimu snapped another salute to the Marshal’s before striding out of the bridge with an air of purpose about him.
“Lieutenant Dawdle – full ahead, the R18plus will soon be back in Alliance hands”
“SIR!” Dawdle said excitedly, almost spilling the black ichor-like substance of her cup as she twisted around and skipped off to her post, forgetting all formality in her eagerness to do something more than read over reports and scan systems all day.
The atmosphere was electric. The old Marshall could smell the excitement on the air. Without a hint of trepidation, his crew went about their business….
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OMG. THIS IS PHENOMENAL.
SOOOOOO GOOD!
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What, no mention of me?
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This is pretty damn awesome… it is now my turn to profess my love for you, sir.
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This is glorious.
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Oh goody.
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Amazing. You sir can write! Moar please.
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Absolutely terrific! *slow clap like a master just after watching a battle* I hope I’m some sort of Battledroid or cyborg with lotsa weapons… if I ever enter this xD
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Can’t wait for part 2.
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hahaha thanks guys!
And don’t worry, more of you will be entering in later parts! 😀
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ZOMG! Not only is this story brilliant x 24 zillion, did you just suggest a chance of anal penetration?? PART 2, quit your day job, part 2!!!!!!!!!
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That was EPIC!
I hope I get to be a mercenary and master of stealth who prefers to do things on his own instead of following orders 😀
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That is awesome dude!
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Please
keep
going.
I actually really, really want to know what happens next. And your descriptions made me do a real life lol at my desk.
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spelling fail.
rear**
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Boris Vallejo fan??
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I’m scarred….sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!
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Just a thought, was my description as it was cos I don’t use emoticons?
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That and i’ve thought you’ve been serious when you’re not on a few occasions.
Because i’m a fool… 😛
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“It’s a trap” I loled.
This is awesome Chuloopa!
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You, sir, are truly a Man among men!
Also, MOAR!
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The english language cannot even come close to describing the sheer awesomely awesomeness of that. I wept tears of pure unbridled joy reading this masterwork.
MORE MORE MORE!!!!!!!
P.S. It was awesome.-
Then use Hungarian.
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amit volt félelmetes
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Best thing ever. Dare I create said dreadnought in 3D Studio?
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Only if it’s as impressive as i say it is 😛
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That was brilliant!
You got the part right where I tend to keep a smile on my face.-
YAY! That is because I are smrt
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Instant CK Nom, mainly for the firey red mane. Nice work Chuie.
Although, I would have preferred a cameo from Admiral Ackbar.
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lol – fitting in most of you guys will be hard enough, let alone Ackbar…
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I was going to suggest you make this a t-shirt and I would buy it in a flash, but that would be silly. Instead, you should write a book. 😀
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team up with surrrrrly to make it a graphic novel, maybe? LOL
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ZOMG AMAZING.
NEED MOAR.
Adelaide-ians.
The planned meet-up at AV-Con.
I cannot make it, the dates are about about a week after I fly out.
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Do you have a recommendation for an alternate time?
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Not really,
How about 1pm on the 4th of June outside the Da Vinci exibit?
We can complain how the models are obviously not right because we saw it in Assassins Creed 2.-
Whatever man, I am not too fussed. Later in June would be slightly better as I will probably have a new bike by then.
Has Nohandle been around lately? Since it looks like just the three of us we should see what he says.
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Yeah, he and Brains have both been AWOL.
Also, I think DCZ12 is from Adelaide too.
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Haaahahaha, I’m sort of imaging Serrels as Zap Brannigan.
Feel the breeze, Kif!
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Augh what is this, stupid not being a reply to Chuloopa amazing tale of life, love and war amongst the stars.
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Ohgawd, “imaging”? Imagining!
I even managed to misspell my typo before correcting it.
That’s it, I just give up for today.
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ROFL
c’mon girdle… hoooooold!
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Lol…
Mark: “TadMod! Clear my schedule!”
*Tadmod groans and takes out an Etch-A-Sketch, shaking it*-
Tad, I have made it with a woman. Inform the men.
Also,
Mark: Rock breaks scissors. But paper covers rock, and scissors cut paper! Tad, we have a conundrum.
[Tad groans]
Mark: Search them for paper… and bring me a rock.-
That’s Serrels law. And Serrels law is like Serrels love… hard and fast!
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HAHAHA! You guys always make me smile, even at work 😀
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lol funnily enough that’s the image i had too.. pantsless and poised like a god!
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Mannnn
this reply chain gave me SUCH a great laugh! lol
Documentation. Project proposals. Aims and objectives and OH MY GOD SOMEONE SAVE ME!
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Ctrl S
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What? How does this help!? I have nothing to save :'( (except headings with no content that I copy pasted from the supervisor’s email telling us what we should write about)
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I was answering your request
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buh-dum-tish
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*slow clap*
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G’day All,
Anyone know anywhere in Sydney where I could get Super Nintendo games? I had never played the SNES (had a megadrive) and my kids bought a SNES console at a garage sale last week, and I’d like to get some games for it. If anyone knows anywhere that might have some cheap, I’m heading up to Sydney on Thursday for the day.
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gametraders are the only retail outlet I know of that will stock them. Not sure where you are going but look them up. I dont think you’ll find them anywhere else.. but others may know more?
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Thanks, I’ll check them out. Can anyone recommend some good SNES games for the 10 year old?
Totally not for me. at all. really….-
I did own one once upon a time.. the only game i remember but a game i thought was amazing was a Yoshi game.. Yoshi’s adventures or something.. should be fine for a 10yo?
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Yoshi’s Island????
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This is also on the DS, and yes, it is brilliant.
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You will VERY rarely hear me talking about nintendo products but that little game was a gem. I just loved it. There was a level where you ate cotton balls that made you all dizzy, so i’d play it drunk to cancel the effect out.. didnt work!
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Donkey kong Country 2: Diddy’s Kong Quest
Super Mario Kart
Super Mario World
Super Metroid
Donkey Kong Country
Super Mario Allstars
Secret of Mana
Super Mario World 2 Yoshi’s Island
Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie’s Double Trouble-
I like games that start in either D or s….
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Also games that go for lots of moolah. Actually if one were to really do that, they might suggest:
Terranigma
Harvest Moon
Lufia
Link to the Past (not to the same price extent, but still up there for the box and map and blahblahblah)
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I dunno if they’re present in Sydney, but is Bris we have a store called Game Traders. They sell tons of old cartriage games for snes and megadrive and the likes.
ebay?
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The games are well overpriced on ebay, I was hoping to pick up a bulk lot or similar. I’ll check out Gametraders. Cheers!
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You’ll find prices for SNES games in places like Game Traders tend to be more than ebay actually. Ebay is pretty much the cheapest source for SNES games, after getting lucky at garage sales and pawn shops of course. That being said, if you manage to prove me wrong please let me know – I’m always after some SNES bargains 😀
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The postage kills me as I’m out in the sticks.
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Maybe garage sale hunting?
Lambo007man
Just saw your request, sorry missed it while I had an early lunch at the ANTZ wank.
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And er…I’ll do some up for future, and er…do you gots an email…and errr…what format…JPEG?
I gve Tad a PDF, he nearly killed me, quite funny!-
Yeah, a JPEG would be preferable 😛
Here’s my email address, in spam proof communication form. lamboman007 at live dot com dot au
Wait a minute, if I put my email address in so it’s unreadable by bots, does that mean Tech Knight can’t read it as well?
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Shao Kahn is a dick.. a cheap-arse move-repeater..
Anyone got a strategy on how to beat him with Raiden at the end of story mode? I’ve had at least 30-40 cracks at him and have temporarily given up due to frustration. HELP!
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I use projectiles
Me mate uses the teleport, gets in real close, teleports behind then uppercuts him or whatever suits.
Shao Kahn is the worst part of that game, cheap cheap cheap, like a little boidy!-
Hey Jimu,
The projectile thing worked well with Liu Kang when you fought Shao Kahn mid-way (unintentional pun FTW!)through the game.. but not so much with Raiden..
Guess I’ll have to try the teleport thing. Curse his knockdown protection and his super armour..
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Projectile was win for me, I just jump away when he gets in too close.
Yeah, I think it WAS easier with Louie King…
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Apparently, Seth McFarline is rebooting The Flintsones! Should be interesting.
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No… no it shan’t.
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Willllllllllllllllllllllllmmmmmmmmmmaaaaaaaaa!
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*clears throat*
WWWWHHHHHHYYYYYYYY?????????
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I hope Dinos the main now…
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This is becoming about as repetitive as yesterday’s plank.
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Seth needs to stick to Family Guy. Infact I’m pretty sure Family Guy made a joke once about its similarities with The Flinstones. Something about a fat guy married to a red head.
Got my first ever Steam gifts. THREE of them! Each with their individual link to a little jpeg of a present. *Squeee!* Qumulys, I thank thee.
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No worries, been waiting so long to repay you for the tablet! I also must thank welbot who painstakingly put up with my indecisiveness and helped me to pick what you might like.
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Haha! Thanks welbot!
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lol you’re very welcome sire!!! Glad I could help!
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Had lunch with friends.
More precisely, met up with friends to have some lunch. I have an hour long lunch break and even though everyone was there and we had ordered 15 minutes in, we didn’t get served until I had to head back to the office. Not very impressed.
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Please inform of the name of this place so that I may never bring my patronage there.
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Sparrow and Finch in Brisbane. Decent burgers, last time we went there it was fine but today they really dropped the ball.
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Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Yeah I always thought that place was overrated. I used to work just up at 303!
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lambo, if you want to be an admin on the facebook CheapSkate Gamer, I’ll need your email.
On that note, if Blaghman and Jimu want to be admins as well, I’ll need yours as well!
email tadmod at hotmail dot com! 😀
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I don’t think I need admin…don’t have the time to FB anyways, me wife took over mine. Everyday I get a message in chinese.
I have finally finished today’s cheapskate gamer. I now have some free time 😀
Who wants to invade kotaku america! 😛
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Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!!!
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And deal with their terrible layout? I say nay.
Hooray… after a year and a half trying, i finally been starred on the American Kotaku.
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I have no idea what that means?
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I think it’s their way of showing who good members of the community are. I’ll stick with our system, which is “if Chuloopa likes you then I guess you’re OK.”
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We should indicate that on our profiles when we get accounts by having a picture of one of his nipples next to our name!
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Kotaku AU: Where Chuloopa’s nipples are the equivalent of stars.
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Then we can post “I’ve been Nipped on Kotaku!”
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Should still be stars, but those fancy nipple decoration ones.
With Chuloopa’s nipple as the centrepiece.
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Oh no
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LOL
Everyone should be rated via Loops nips!
“ZOMG!! FOUR AND A HALF LOOP NIP RATING… THIS GUY IS A VALUED MEMBER OF THE COMMUNITY!”
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Imagine if someone ended up with a higher “Loop Nip Rating” than you. I’m not sure my brain can comprehend such a conundrum.
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PARADOX, MUTHA FUDGA!!!
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They’re still doing that?
I’ve been starred and destarred) twice over there. Bit of advice, don’t make a “does this rag smell like chloroform to you?” joke. That lost me a star and then someone managed to get in comment of the week with the same joke.
Well work sucks 6 thirty to 5 thirty today. At least it’s interesting. Tonight I’m gonna buy terraria hopefully, or minecraft. Also I ordered songs of ice and fire series as well as superman red son, hopefully they come soon.
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RED SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON! One of Millars not-shit ones! ( I own the HC, but screw Millar and his dodgy comics)
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Yeah i heard you say some good stuff about it so i thought i would give it a go. Also book depository is having a 10% off sale thing.
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Red Son is one of the stories I use as an example for Superman not sucking. One of my favourites.
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Yeah it was you sorry TRJN.I didnt realize but i remember you saying that.
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Mmmmmmm, 10% ooooooff…
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Anyone else fall for Tad’s trap and purchase Operation flashpoint Dragon Rising on Steam for $5.
I have never purchased a game on steam and apart from minecraft i have not played a PC game for about 10 years.
Thankfully my PC has received a few facelifts in that time so should be OK.
I get a bunch of hand me downs from my cousin ‘GRUBBY’ (so if you see him say hi!) so my PC is pretty decent and he is giving me a new mobo and processor tonight. He has already given me a tower and a 512mb graphics card.
Look forward to testing it out actually. For less than $5 can’t go wrong.
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Yeah, I don’t have my Credit card in my wallet for some reason, so I’ll have to get it when I get home. 😛
It looks good though!
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I’ll see if I’ve got any gift copies of games left tonight!
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I bought a copy of it months ago when it was last on sale. Have not got around to playing it yet, so no idea if its any good. One of these days.
This new Steam Daily Deals is going to result in my Fiancée killing me, as I’ll probably be buying new games almost everyday, and then not having time to play them.
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Oh I should clarify that I have actually finished this game on 360. I did enjoy it and am hoping to play it again in co op with some of you.
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Totally stoked you guys liked my little story.. I’ve been meaning to do something like that for a while, and i’m planning some pretty big things for some of you. Once of the biggest for Eats-a-lot.
Also, just a heads up, if you want me to continue… some of you will die… it is a story after all and not everyone can be heroes.. BUT i’ll try to make your death glorious.. you know, stuff tht ISN’T death by falling asleep on the john, then falling onto the “eject” button, launching you into space to explode in a firework or blood, gibblets and poo…
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I would be totally fine dying like that, as long as the explosion was suitably impressive.
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I don’t mind Dying. That’s if I’m in it. I’m in it right? Right?
Actually, I was thinking about writing something similar (Different theme) at the weekend when I was posting as ‘Dr What?’ and make a Dr Who parody to try and push TAY over 2000 posts.
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Who would your Amelia Pond be?
They’d have to be tall and leggy.…
I wonder what TadMod looks like in a short skirt…
TadMod Edit: Amazing. That’s all I’m saying
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Tall??
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All I can think of now is Matt Smith playing Soccer, and the fact that he was really good.
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Doods got the bowiest bowed legs I ever seen!
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WOW! I thought they were all short…’cept Rory.
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Can I be Amy Pond?
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You could have been, but I probably won’t write it now. Don’t want to steal Loop’s thunder/come across as a copy cat.
Surely my hard as nails, scarred faced grimacing fictional me HAS to die in a ball of fire!
I lived a good long life. Won many battles.
That whole bit about Serrels trusting me with his life is surely a set-up for me saving him and sacrifising myself later on…right…RIGHT???!!!
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Or betraying him in a critical moment.
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
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Nah, he’s going to end up a hard shell of a man… a bitter samurai, destined to survive whilst his brethren have all passed on.
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Do I get a sword?
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Vibro-Katana.
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Woooooooooooooooooop!
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I await with baited breath!!!
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***sniff, sniff***
I don’t mind fighting off an onslaught of pathetic humans saving a lovely human lady (I WISH! lol) then using a self-destruct to finish the rest off xD
I’m fine if I die…
… so long as you understand that, from now on, NONE of your comments will EVER be approved… EVER!
The choice is yours… >:)
I kid, I kid.
It truly is excellent. I honestly haven’t laughed that hard for sooooo long. And that portrayal of Serrels is damned accurate. He is a legend and a hero. He is Commander Serrels, and this is his favourite website on the internet.
😛
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Lord Marshall, actually
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The thick, fiery red mane of hair had me nearly choking on hot chocolate.
Something I would do again for more work of such awesomeness.
Obviously I’m going to have to survive to the end, I write cheapskate gamer. What!? You’re gonna kill me of first!? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
😛
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At least your death will be cheap 😉 lol
Clearly I will survive, what with being nothing special and having no admin powers at all!
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unless you’re wearing a red shirt for some reason.. uh-oh lol
Quite the opposite of what you suggest, I would love a ridiculously absurd, accidental death – I’m sure other people would too, so… go crazy? 😛
I want you to continue, I just have one request. Nay command.
In the spirit of FatShady’s BTTF rewrite, if I appear I must be female. Or at least cross-dressing. As the only person in my year at school to turn up in a mini-skirt (it was a pink and purple one from Supre (and I was wearing Purple pants underneath it, which I’ll admit was a cop-out, but it was for the good of everyone involved)) I’d say it’s a fitting legacy.
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Dude, you got me thinking… I should do a rewrite (read ‘find and replace) for the entire Futurama script! Now that would be fun!…
Ambrose IV’s gonna be a planet, right?
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YES.
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I can’t wait to see his absurd, accidental death now 😀
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I imagine that I’ll just be some poor innocent planet, mindin’ his own business, who gets obliterated by an overpowered nuclear warhead that the intended target (spaceship?) managed to gracefully strafe around.
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’tis a hard life… but somebody’s gotta do it
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You save the great ship Kotaku by slowly orbiting into the path of a deadly laser that would have destroyed her crew.
Hmm, wait, that’s not accidental enough… I’ll get back to you.
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LOL.
Even if I get to make a cameo as a gimp in leather being inappropriate behind a basement door, I’ll be happy.
Lamboman, you were asking earlier whether Zavvi is still shipping to Australia? I just placed an order then and it went through OK. People have complained recently that it was tricky to select Australia as a destination, but I already had my address saved in my account, so maybe that makes a difference. Dunno.
Anyway, if you do manage to place an order, I recommend this coupon: VCOD330ZAV. £3 off an order over £30.
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I just ordered games from ‘The Hut’ last week (same store as Zavvi, same ownership or something).
It was a new account, and adding Australia was no problem. So if Zavvi doesn’t work, give that a shot.
Loops, in honour of your magnificent piece of literature… http://kramsdesign.com/misc/kotaku/kotaku-chronicles.jpg
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Wow. You’ve got Dawdle just right!
AND I LOOK BOSS.
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Dude, he’s wearing white… WHITE!!!
LOL
Jk man, that is gnarly! i love it! 😀
Dawds really is spot on.
Tad is too short, though
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HA HA, Tad too short, that’s what I was gonna say. And if that’s me looking surly in the corner I need more SCARS!
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O’ course its youuuu! You get… no scars! I already altered it once. I do not alter thrice!
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ARRRH! You altered too quickly, waaaaaaaaaaaah!!!
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(that waaaaaahhhhh should sound like Waluigi)
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… Pray I do not alter it any further.
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They’re actually all just sitting/standing on top of Tad’s head.
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Today is full of awesome!
Nice work loops!
I’m mown away by how awesome your illustrations are! Commander Serrels looks amazing.
Maybe the Kotaku Chronicles could have illustrations with the text? 😛
hahahahahaa xD Thanks Sughly for drawing me!
TadMod needs to be wayyyy taller though.
His head should be somewhere around the ceiling lol.
Why am I so short?
This is awful!
I expect a free copy of Anna’s Room as reimbursment… 😛
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Ah but I appended it, down below. NO FREE COPY FOR YOU! >:(
If you ‘n loops don’t team up and make this a regular Kotaky (sic) thing (if not graphic novel!) I will be very, very disappointed 😐
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If there are any songs to be made in accompaniment of the story, Blaghman should sing with James Mac doing the music!
We, we so much talent!!
I knew there’d be inaccuracies! Okay, let’s try this again… http://kramsdesign.com/misc/kotaku/kotaku-chroniclesv2.jpg
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No scars?
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there we go 😀
I also like the fact that my chair is tiny compared to Lord Marshall Serrels’ one. -
MUCH better 🙂
You, sir, are a legend!
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Mark tottaly looks like Shatner… I fear he’s going to violate the first alien woman he encounters.
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If this doesn’t happen then I will be sorely dissapointed!
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new meaning to the name BUZZ lightyear?
http://counterforce.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/to-infinity-and-beyond.jpg?w=500&h=630
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GOLD!
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Excerpt:
“In the beginning, there was nothing. In the 31st Millenium, there was a lot more. And more importantly, there was The Emperor, who was like a cross between Jack Bauer, Chuck Norris, Jesus, Hitler and Justin Timberlake. “
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The more i read, the more i lol heartily..
“While less powerful than their Primarchs and far inferior to the Emperor himself, each Space Marine still had a power level of slightly over 9000, spelling the end of the Saiyan’s rule of the Universe.”
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“In the grim, dark future of the 41st Millenium, there are no trees, there is only attacking from the front Trees are for pussies, anyway”
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I was reading this in Simon’s (from the Yogscast) epic space narrator voice…
Reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huM3avYW9eE
I’ve watched this a couple of times since it was posted and never failed to laughed every single time!
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hehe *shrugs* Not like I mind, great entertainment! I used to barely ever smile, on average twice a day, now it’s more often cuz I watch these guys. TotalBiscuit’s humour tickles my funny bone too cuz he’s got a sense of humour close to mine.
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doing research for the novel??
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No, research for urinating myself.
I was trying to illustrate how bad ass space marine you were, when i stumbled across it, though
I completely forgot about Uncyclopedia.
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Assassin
“In order not to arouse undue suspicion, they pretend to be normal people in everyday life who simply wear trench coats in midsummer and sunglasses at night.”
“Ezio Auditore da Firenze – Fifteenth century Italian assassin. He killed more minstrels than anyone in history. He was good at “grand theft gondola”, and bought courtesans every couple of hours.”
And…
“Colonel Sanders – A modern day assassin, whose one aim is to assassinate Ronald McDonald and the The Burger King.”
Tehehehe.
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this is the best website EVER 😀
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I always thought the Colonel was trying to assaasinate me via heart attack
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The assassin that does not need a blade to pierce your heart in the most painful manner!
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If he didn’t get you with the Double Down, he won’t get yu.
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DAMMIT!
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PHEW, Yu is safe. I still have hopes for Shenmue 3.
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I can’t count how many minstrels I killed… good Lord they were annoying.
Who wants to play Terraria?
I think my netbook can handle this game.
If someone buys the Terraria 4-Pack, it’s like a discount of 25% off. Co-op should be fun, providing that it works. So leave a comment if you are interested and we’ll sort it out. : )
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i want to play dawdle.
ill buy the pack and we can shares-
also anyone who wants to play is also welcome i guess. I think anoynomouse pessimist anted to aswell. so thats three. Ill do it tonight but ill have to make a steam account first. To the rocketmobile. MSG me on twitter and we can sort this stuff out @ross_fiamingo
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too late, I already picked up a copy 🙂
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i’ve never even heard of this game before.. looks pretty neat, though.
Let me know how it is, i might have to get it… and minecraft… sometime… lol
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Damn you Chuloopa and your lack of minecraft’s. I know what nearly every regulars voice sounds like because of minecraft and read TAY ocordingly, ie i read blaghman’s comments in blaggys voice and q bos comments in his voice. I read marks comments like Simon Peggs voice
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Dude you should know my voice (sorta) from my wwe competition entry… and my perfect triangle chest hairline
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I read everyone’s posts in this sort of mystical voice that sounds like what I wish my voice sounded like.
No matter how hard I try, I can’t manage to read Serrel’s posts with his awesome accent.
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15 minutes ago I did not know what a Terraria was.
I watched the Steam video.
Now I want.
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So me, Ross, Bish… Loops maybe?
What’s all your steam IDs?
I don’t even remember who’s on my friend list :\
mine is dawdleau-
I’m Fatty. I have a picture of Calvin pulling a face as my display photo.
Do you want me to grab it first? I don’t mind hanging onto a spare 4th copy if Loops doesn’t want it just yet or nobody else shows interest. I’m sure I could trick someone I know into buying it.-
Not “trick”, “persuade”.
Hah hah hah.
*wipes sweat from brow*
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I love how my handle is Rocketman but everyone still calls me Ross. I would have been found out straight away if i was a superhero.
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I try to call you Rocketman, but that’s mainly so I can burst into song every time I type it.
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I wish I could join you guys.
*Stares wistfully at a credit card*
I burrowed Metroid Prime 3 along with MKW, I must say:
I really wish I didn’t have to use the wiimote. I liked the Gamecube ones where you used lots of lock-on and didn’t need to aim, just shoot really fast. And this docking at different planets is really unmetroidy. I like it when all the levels fit together and without realising you have suddenly popped out back at the start.
Anyone play Other M? I know the story is sexist crepe, but is the gameplay any good???
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I enjoyed Metroid Other M’s gameplay, but yeah. The story was just odious bullshit. It’s the one game where the story really did affect me to the point where I didn’t want to play it.
As soon as something better came out, I just played that instead.
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Not even worth a play, then??
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If you ignore the fact that Samus is a submissive girl who freaks out at the inevitable introduction of Ridley, the gameplay is quite enjoyable.
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Maybe getting a bit ahead of myself.. but when the story is done we could definately make this a grand thing for the community with illustrations from anyone who wants to contribute and the story itself. I could possibly even write up background on the chars…
but as i said, i’m getting way ahead of myself
http://landing.blurb.com/gbmAU-print?ce=google_aunz_gen2_print&gclid=CIWF6Z6w7qgCFQrhbgodoENfDA#
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I’d be up for some art work contrubution!
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DITTO!
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I could help with the story 😀
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I could help by sitting around and being useless.
Well, it’s my greatest contribution to mankind thus far…
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Yes, your Friday rendition is estimated to have killed 1/8th of Earth’s population 😛
I think you should just stick to being useless
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I’d be quite impressed if it killed 1/8th of the worlds population, given it has a mere 200 odd views.
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I’m one of those 200. I really wish that I wasn’t, though, because somehow your rendition has lodged itself in my brain in a way that Ms Black was unable to achieve. I’ve been singing it in my head repeatedly since, well, Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Fri-day-ay… Maybe it was the hypnotic dance moves?
Either way, you are a stupid head and I hate you so much.
Your pal,
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I’m sorry Batguy, if I can find the right equipment, I’ll probably have a new song to piss you the hell off by the end of the week.
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*peeks out of corner*
I could edit stuff, if it’s needed. Just spelling or punctuation etc, in case it’s lost somewhere in the frenzy of awesomeness 😛
Hello there.
As suggested by a kindly gentleman known as ‘Batguy’, I’ve come in here to boost my gaming friends list.
On the whole, you lot seem reasonable and friendly but with a healthy dose of ‘I like to shoot people in the face’ syndrome. Hey I like to shoot people in the face too! And break out fatalities as well! Man, it’s like looking into a mirror!
For those you who are questioning ‘Who is this guy and why should I care?’, well I don’t really have an answer for you. You can check out my blog for starters. I try to bring lesser known issues about video games to light such as: Lack of Aussie game conventions, Where’s Aliens: Colonial Marines? (I talk about that one a lot) and Hey, how hard does SEGA suck? (that one too).
Anyway, video games are the most innovative and exciting entertainment medium on the planet and having like-minded people to play them with only enhances them to untold realms of awesome. And they’re made all the more special by trying to play them under this country’s stupid ignorant laws and stereotypical ‘games-are-bad’ media. I’m sure you are already aware of this.
XBL: Raygun Brown
PSN: RaygunBrown
Steam: RaygunBrown
Have a pleasant day. Thank you for your time. SEGA suck.
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I’ve got no idea why, but I feel like shooting you in the face right now 😛
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Maannn,
I don’t know what the hell you just said.
But you touched me man… you touched me deep. -
Sup Raygun.
Welcome to the party pal! /johnmclane
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THEYRE TURNIN MA CAR INTA SWISS CHEESE NO GODDAMMIT NO
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Worth following on twitter, too. I love a VG-based rant in 140 characters (or less)
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I read your blog. You certainly do have issues with SEGA. Personally, I’m annoyed that they still haven’t released Space Channel 4 Part 2 on XBLA, so I’ll support your stance.
Added you to my XBL list, will do the rest later. I think there were plans for Red Dead co-op this Friday if you have a copy?
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Space Channel 4 being the little known sequel to Space Channel 5… obviously…
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It was also totally intentional that I wrote “sequel” there instead of “prequel”. That’s because 4 is greater than 5. Anybody who says otherwise is a total liar.
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Nice post. Seems a good opportunity to post my own Steam ID (something I should have done years ago).
direwolf029
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I don’t think that’s right. Could not find you.
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It is right. welbot sent me a friend request earlier. You sure you entered it properly?
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Ahhh gotcha.
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Well aren’t you a cranky fellow?
Your disdain towards SEGA (although somewhat justified) has brought our potential PSN friendship into question…
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Did you say video games?? I love video games!! It’s nice to see someone sharing the same intrests as me 😛
Welcome!
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What did we tell you about the video game talk?
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I don’t remember, I think Chuloopa was setting me on fire.
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Wow. Thanks for all the positive response everyone. I look forward to shooting all of your faces :).
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Sorry for jumping on the wagon a little late but hi. Welcome.
An intro is always good. Thanks.
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Welcome, good sir!
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Awwwwwwwwwww, I like SEGA.
But yeeeeeeeah, they aint wot they useda be…. -
Another human joins TAY, I guess welcome is in order. I shoot humans in the face too, with my installed blaster on my left arm.
Always looking forward to making new friends regardless, hope you enjoy your stay
Just to mess with your heads… here’s Afrikaans rap sensation Jack Parow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yWeMIALolY
Add me to your gaming collectives
Xbox: Stamperrific
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Collected: 1 x ‘Batguy’
Achievement Unlocked?
Damn you dawdle. Can’t… stop… watching Yogscast 🙁
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Their awesomeness will not diminish even without my regular posting of their video links on TAY.
I can feel the jelly:
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Dammit, abusing your powers, in the same way I do in Minecraft but completely different because you’re not me.
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Tad Edit: Was this meant to be empty?
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It’s not html? Is it bbcode?
[img]http://i693.photobucket.com/albums/vv293/VanillaFayce/Forum%20Poop/fuuu.png[/img]-
D’oh, it just occurred to me that this is probably something only you can do right now taddy :/
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It has a HTML image code thing in it, but i probably should have written in it too
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Man, I am soooo jelly right now. Will this be the future of Kotaku…?
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ON THE SPOT SACKABLE OFFENCE!!!!!!
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Well, All unapproved html gets stripped from the comments when they come through the comments filter, so image tags don’t work, HOWEVER:
If I place the img tags in an EDIT to the post from our approval page, it can go through without a hitch. So, in future, if you want an image in your post, just tell Mark or me and we’ll get it sorted for you 😀Also, I’m hoping we’ll be able to allow images in the redesigned comments, so we’ll see how that goes!
Tad
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Seriously though, I’ve noticed that not many others seem to abuse HTML for fun or profit around here.
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I was just trying to have a bit of fun!
If I’ve offended anyone, I’m sorry!
I just wanted to test whether tags could actually work in comments (for possible use for user accounts), and thought it might be fun to bring it to peoples attention.
I honestly meant no harm 🙁
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Offended?
This would have worked better if this image was in my original post :p
http://www.gifbin.com/bin/1233928590_citizen%20kane%20clapping.gif
It is good fun, I just find it weird that very few comments make use of HTML.
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I was never sure if the comments used HTML, BB code, or some other weird format, so I was always unwilling to attempt to make stuff interesting…
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I use it sometimes, but the lack of preview makes it dangerous, because if you stuff up the tags then your post looks like shit and you look like an idiot.
See?
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Do you think you could put this image into my first comment then? Just to screw with everyone who hasn’t read this far yet. 😀
The image is here http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p116/family_first14/TUMBLR%20MEME/FUUUUUU.pngTad Edit: Sorry man, it’s WAYYY too big!
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drat…
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How bout this one?
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@Tad
THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID!
BOOOOOOOOOOOOYAAAAAAAAAAAA!
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So… your handle is now Tad-The-Modder?
OH NOES!
The more pics there is the less I can look at work.
THI IS AN OPEN PLAN OFFICE DAMMIT!!!
I AM WIN.
42″ main monitor. My e-peen is substantial.
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That’s bigger than my TV 🙁
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Good point, me too. Im rockin a 40…
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I do believe thats my e-peen your playing with there son.
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It’s ok, I suppose I can take another one for the team…
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Hitler Rant!
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Darn it now your e-peen is bigger then my e-peen. And I thought we were on somewhat equal ground before but now you have to go and do awesome stuff like this!
/grumble grumble
Just kiddin’! But in all seriousness, HOW IS IT?!
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muwahahaaaa! It’s awesome! I haven’t really had the chance to play many games on it yet (was checking out my music stuff and some 720/1080p video on it last night) but I hope to get very acquainted with it over the next few days 🙂
On a related note, does anyone have a contagious illness they can bestow apon me? Could use a few days off work…
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I have a contagious illness, not sure how I could pass it on to you though.
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A man buys a lie detector robot that slaps people who lie. He decides to test it at dinner.
DAD: Son, where were you today during school hours?
SON: At school*Robot slaps Son*
SON: OK,I went to the movies.
DAD: Which one?
SON: Toy Story*Robot slaps son again*
SON: OK, it was Day with a Porn Star.
DAD: WHAT? When I was your age I didn’t even know what porn was!*Robot slaps Dad*
MOM: HAHA! After all he’s your son.*Robot slaps mom*
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So wait.
The boy… is actually… a girl? That’s why the robot slapped her?-
Ahh Bish, what would I do without you?
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Made a ball out of rubber bands, undoubtedly.
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I made a bigger rock out of rocks and rubber bands once. That ended poorly when I dropped it on my foot.
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you forgot ending
*mum enjoys robot slap, develops new fetish*
very VERY amusing joke, otherwise 🙂
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I was tempted to head to google and enter that as search term… but quite frankly I am terrified of what may turn up.
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I likee dis joke
Well. Nine hundred comments on a Tuesday.
Impressive, taybies. *tips hat, dons monocle*
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Best. emoticon. ever.
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‘Scuse my French, but this is fucking ridiculous.
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excuse my french, but JE SUIS NES PAS CELLE.
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Je ne parle pas Francais.
Parlez vous Anglais?
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…si?
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熊猫在那呢。
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Nein, Das ist mein Hambourger!
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Reply to James Mac from another article:
NO. NOT UDINA. NO. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO~!
Though it would bring a new perspective on his favourite quote: “I demand action!”
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I can only guess what you’re discussing here, and if I’ve guessed correctly, then OH DEAR LORD NO, NOT UDINA!
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I’m just saying… if there’s a guy in ME who needed to get laid it was Udina.
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I’d like to issue a great big warm thank-you.
Firstly, to Rocketman, who attempted to buy me a copy of Terraria, which didn’t work due to some internal error.
Secondly, to Anonymous Pessimist, who bought me a copy of Terraria after hearing the heart wrenching story of how Rocketman was unsuccessful.
You guys really are wonderful. And I’m glad that we all get to be part of such an amazing community.
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Damn you Pessimist, I try and do a nice thing and i fuck it up and you come through and do the nice thing. LOL Im just glad more people got the game. Also my paypal was being dumb was the reason i was unsuccessful.
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I stole your Karma, good sir.
…believe me, I need all the good karma I can get.
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I imagine you stealing his karma in a very Shang Tsung manner… it’s neat
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First his karma… then his soul…
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awwww.. you lucky son of a gun 😀
You guys are the bestests!
Wow. Now I know what everyone’s on about when they’re complaining about too much talking in TAY. It’s almost impossible to catch up!
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Were you busy making me a jerkin? 😀
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That sounds…. SO wrong…
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Only if you don’t like jerkins?
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Wast thou requiring of me something like this:
http://ny-image0.etsy.com/il_fullxfull.115526548.jpgOr didst thou thinkest it be more like this:
http://ny-image3.etsy.com/il_fullxfull.241743587.jpgIf thou art of a serious inclination then mayhaps I could attempt the creation of such a thing for you to model for us….
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If I click on these links at work am I going to get strange looks (pardon the pun)?
I only ask this as Blaghman has a habit of providing… shall we say, interesting URL’s to click on.
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I’m no Blaghman, Sir! If these visions do offend thine superiors’ eyes I shall prostrate myself aground forthwith in hopes of thy forgiveness!
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Those jerkins are just epic.
I would look quite dashing in one of these. The ladies shall soon as I ride into the local township on my mechanical steed.
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I am insulted, excluding youtube videos which involve terrible singing and even worse dancing, when have I linked to NSFW things without the appropriate NSFW tag?
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Last night.
On steam.
I’ll never look at bacon the same way again…
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Oh. Yeah.
I’d managed to wipe that from my memory.
I was however just following your instructions.
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if I told you to jump off a bridge, would you do it?
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If it was in Minecraft or another game, probably.
Hell, I’ve always wanted to jump off a bridge, so quite possibly IRL too.
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All you need to do is read my story 😛
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I read your story but I wasn’t in it so I got bored. 😛
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Seriously though, I liked your story and can’t wait for the next installment. I also saw Sughly’s illustration of your story but was saddened he missed Jimu’s awesomely scarred visage….
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lol! Yeah, whatevs.
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*is crushed*
you know you ARE going to be in it soon enough, yes?
Be hard to leave out one of our leading ladies 😛
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Don’t worry, I just lied and pretended to not be interested so I could stop myself constantly pestering you for more like I do to poor Trjn. Don’t know how long that tactic will work though. I always want to know what happens next.
P.S. Bunnyyyyyyyyy…PSN’s back…Buttercuppppppppp….
P.P.S. Looooooooooooopssss…need moar Kotakuuuuu Chroniclessssssssssss….
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So, Lamboman.
Just read Cheapskate and feel I owe you some sort of apology for my post about problems with Zavi being apparently all lies and slander that have soiled your good name.
So I shall buy you Terraria.
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everyone is buying everyone terraria!? lol
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I’m probably going to be the only one that won’t be playing it. It just hasn’t hooked me. Watched some vids on it, the 2D sprite aspect was pretty cool but in terms of combat vs the infinite amount of mobs in day AND night that you gotta worry about, the combat just is not appealing in the slightest.
I can see myself doing a lot of “FUUUUUU-” moments cuz of that windmill attack failing to hit at the right time. Well at least while you guys play that I can concentrate more on mount and blade 😛 (finally got a good system going where I’m protecting a few towns from bandits and recruiting volunteers from them, which are upgradable through surviving battles)
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If he doesn’t want it, I’m always open to gifts! 😛
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Terraria for everyone!
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YAY!
lol. I would buy it, but I emptied my bank account last night. genius move by me… xD
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Wow, thank you, you have made my day 🙂
You don’t have to feel too guilty about it though, I do think I blew it out of proportion a little bit.
Well, I suppose you’ve never lived if you’ve never made a big mistake in front of thousands of people…
Thanks again 🙂P.S. I think this is going to be another week where everyone wins community kudos 🙂
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Next we need a Terraria server. I have a spare machine that could be used for the task.
Only briefly checked it out last night – hoping to get some quality time in with it this afternoon. It looked sorta easy to get the hang of things but I didn’t get to the night time so we’ll have to see how that works out with mobs…
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So, who isn’t doing the 4 pack with Rocketman?
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i already bought a single player copy by accident and i cant gift a four pack. Stupid steam. I can only gift single games.
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Out of curiosity, who is picking up L.A. Noire this week?
I am very tempted, but I feel like I shouldn’t…
So fellow Kotakuians, I am turning to you to overide my free will and tell me what to do.
Depending on the number of yay or nays, or if anyone even replies, I shall bow to the wisdom of Kotaku and base my purchase of this game as such.
(in other less mangled words, if enough people say buy it, I will)
My fate is in your hands, treat me gently… or at least don’t pinch.
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Because i’m a tight bum i’d say wait a few weeks for a decent price drop, as buying things from shops is insane around release… wait till it’s like $40… it’ll still be just as good then
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You’re a tight bum?
That explains why I look at you so much.
😛
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I feel bad about swearing… especially as part 2 of my story (currently in my head) is full of f-bombms
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I bought it from OzGameShop while the royal wedding was on and got a $5 discount. La Noire for $55 in two-ish weeks, yeah!
This helps you in no way, but I thought I should just tell you my amazing tale of discount vouchers. -
I’m getting it from JB Hifi because I’m too impatient to wait for it to fly from the UK.
I thought the IGN review of it was quite enlightening. They say that the game parts are fun and the conversations are phenomenal, but that there is a disappointing lack of consequence from how you handle the interactions. So it sounds like the plot will just tick along much the same way whether you’re able to read people’s emotions like a book, or you have the empathy of a Vogon. If the plot is strong enough then hopefully this won’t matter.
Still, I’m excited, and it’s looking like another video game that my wife will enjoy watching as I play (in the vein of Heavy Rain, Alan Wake and RDR).
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It seems to be getting fairly positive responses, so I’ll probably be picking it sooner rather than later.
Won’t be a day 1 purchase though, going to try and finish Arkham Asylum before starting any new games.
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*Pinch*
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Tee hee!
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$78 from Big W. Woo!
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I’m picking it up from EB tommorow.
Cause, y’know… dead hookers.
Damn, I think I need counciling or something.
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Dead hookers! Woo! Uh…that came out wrong. I meant – Dead hookers! Wooo!
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I was thinking about going with them for the better pre-order deal, but figured that the EB tax on top of the local laziness tax was just too much. Or will they actually price match when they’re offering unique bonus items?
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They have previously… or at least mine has.
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I seem to recall rumours that all of the LA Noire preorder content would be up on XBL/PSN within days of release. I hope this is true.
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I vote yay, because LA Noire looks sexy and was made by Team Bondi.
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Mmm, so far I have 1 yay, 1 nay and 1 tight chuloopa bum.
Fascinating.
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Bit late but:
YAY
I picked up TWO copies! One for me, one for the little lady. Both with different pre-order bonuses so It will hopefully save some money on DLC later
Hey guys! I sketched this up last night. Sorry it’s not to scale… (That doesn’t even make sense!)
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c268/cronotriggr/KotakuManga.jpg
Looking forward to reading more ‘loops!
Hope Y’all enjoy!
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I saw this last night and lost my mind. Amazeballs.
There are so many talented people on Kotaku. Quite humbling.
You guys are brilliant.
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Cheers mate! It’s really rough but I’m glad you liked it.
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Also, sorry Jimu. I don’t know what you look like, but I hope you approve. At least you’re rocking the scars now!
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Add round glasses…err oval glasses and a goatee that doesn’t join at the sides…(does that even make sense, it doesnt, it’s like a ‘stache and beard combo.)
But no, yeah. GOOD JOB!
Good thing about ‘toons is our ‘magination fills in the blanks!
(except scars…)-
It’s a Van Dyke?
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HUH?
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If you don’t know… I’m not telling you.
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The Kotaku creative collective is quite fearsome.
I said it this morning on Twitter, but once again – outstanding work sir. I tip my hat to you.
m(_ _)m
that’s me bowing down to your artistic skill, btw.
I LOVE how Jimu looks! Like hardened MANLY MAN WITH MANLINESS
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I love how I look – unrealistically good looking!
My wife wishes I looked like that.
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After talking about beards, I tried to give you some Naked Snake-esque stubble. Got a bit lost in the scanning.
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I read that in the Zoolander voice
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Ah Mark, so modest. You know, they don’t put ugly people on television.
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Thanks Eats!
I tried to make both Mark and Jimu EXTRA manly. You know… For the ♪Ladies♪ 😉
Also this means no one can complain when I draw the beach volly ball arc. Hey, if Dead or Alive can do it…
That…was…EPIC!!!!
Do some more! Do some more!! 😀
Woah! Nice work! I am constantly amazed and humbled that I get to hang out with so many greatly talented people here in Kotakuland.
Saw this last night. Awesomesauce.
The talent is amazing. Keep it up!!
That is so full of win that Charlie Sheen fears it.
Holy fracking crap attack…
That… is… AMAZING!!
I love EVERY aspect of it!
What an amazingly perfect interpretation of my interpretation of the crew.
I will ensure that your character is glorious…. or dies gloriously… *evil cackle*
either way, it’s all gunna be sooo fun
I think i might start writing some in business info systems today
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Really glad you like it! I’ve been checking back frequently to see if you had seen it yet 😛
Yes! Get writing! MOAR! etc etc etc
Tad, you said all unapproved html gets stripped from the comments. Does that mean there’s approved html that we can use?
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Approced html? What sort of madness is this?
Next you’ll be telling me that people can pothole links to websites,
but only morons would do that.Not sure if that last one will work, but the rest are ones I use all the time.
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I jelly of all you HTML knowers…someone told me one once, bold, I think. I promptly forgot.
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Me too. I know how to do all that stuff in BBCode but as for html I have no idea. I’m saddened by my lack of knowing how to make my comments look pretty.
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See, a real gentleman would have stepped up and made Lady Strange’s comment look pretty. I’m looking in your directions Serrels and Tad!
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http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_quick.asp This should help
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The ones that I know work around here are: bold (b)text(/b), italics (i)text(/i), links (a href=”http://google.com”)words here(/a) and strikethrough (del)
text(/del)Just use greater than and less than instead of brackets.
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This is kinda like that god in american gods. I can see it when I’m looking, but the moment I look away it has already started to fade from memory…
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The Great HTML Discovery Jamboree
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I doubt it but Did this work?
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Guess not. Is it something Tad can add in during the approval process like the img tags though?
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HOLY CRAP JO!
YOU ACTUALLY BOUGHT ME TERRARIA!
Wow. Just Wow.
This community is impossible to describe. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a better community in my life.
I can’t overstate that enough.
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Okay is this now a game between JO Pessimist me and whoever else of who can buy more community members terraria first. Because its ON like fur on a goat.
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What is this silly Terraria? A quick look at Steam shows that it’s kinda like a 2D Minecraft?
Everybody seems to be talking about it but I haven’t seen a single article about it. If people are learning about it solely through comments, twitterz, etc, then it sounds like it could be a triumph of social networking marketing!
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I learned of it from the Yogscast 😛
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Yogscast FTW!
And thanks Jo!!
It’s made my terrible morning much better already.
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It’s pretty much just as you described sir, 2d minecraft with boss battles and crazier crafting abilities (like lazer guns pew pew pew) and a few other things to distinguish it from Notch’s creation.
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Where is my copy?! I feel unpopular now D:
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If anyone doesn’t get it for you by late tonight, let me know and I’ll get it for you. Certainly won’t be buying it for myself though 😛
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You’re going to give your copies away for free man?
Blaghs did some pretty unspeakable acts to get his copy. It involved olive oil, a marble and a wallaby.
I hope to recoup my losses with the footage.
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Believe me, we can do much more than just recoup your losses with that video. With the right buyer we can make a fortune.
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Jo, you are awesome 😀
My Donkey Kong Country Returns arrived last night, wowwoooooooooooooooop!
Great game, but I will complain anyway:
Slow as all get out, I know I love JRPGs but I was playing some DKC2 the other week and it’s waaaay faster. Not just the running speed but the reaction time between me pressing jump, DK starting the jump animation and DK jumping.
Pisspoor motion controls.
I love the banging to do a ground pound, but having to do the same to do the roll? Nuh-uh, I lost hearts so many times ‘cos I just ran into an enemy instead of taking them out with a roll.
No Diddy playable in 1p.
Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaad move Retro, I shoot your foot!
Extra catoony.
Didnt minus from the experience, was just a little shock for me.
One of the cooler things in the old series was that they actually went to a zoo and recorded the motion of Gorillas and monkeys. I was always particularly impressed by Diddy’s sideways run.
I hear theres no under water levels.
And the excuse was that it was slowing the pace of the game, Whhhhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaa??? The game is slow already, couldn’t you have speeded up the swimming? DKC water levels were actually fun, this will be the first country game WITHOUT Engaurde the swordfish.
Long cutscenes
Something I really miss from the 16bit era is the way games dealt with story back then, Sure you had your Final Fantasys and whatever but the big name games Mario, Sonic and Dk mostly took care of story with textless animation. I feel this is a lost artform. You new DKs banana horde was stolen cos if you bothered to walk backwards in the first level he’d freak out cos it was gone.
Sonic and Knuckles had some kind of rivalry that all played out silently.
I care not for boss intros, I can handle the animation at the start but just let the game be played. I had to skip that cutscene before the first boss so many times last night cos I was too tired to get my jump timing right.
All that said, it’s early days yet. I only beat the first boss and did some of the beach levels. I like the game, just not sure I’ll love it the way I love the originals(back when Rare were good). This is the rant of an old-school fan, one thing I can say in it’s defence is it’s no Sonic Rush…at the same time I’m not sure it’s up there with New Super Mario Bros though. Time will tell.
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How far are you into it? Because honestly, round about the third world it really kicks in. Pretty much the best level design I’ve seen in a platformer since the original Yoshi’s Island.
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And I’m just ranting, the games seems great, best DK since DK64.-
Man, I’m jealous. Would love to play that game fresh again.
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I can’t finish it! I’m on the last world… only I decided to play it co-op with my 7 year old. And he insists on dieing straight away, every level. It’s making the task of completion almost impossible :'(
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can you not switch back and forth between multi and single?
Glad I started a single, the wife is interested, will prolly never happen.
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I’d break the poor guy’s heart! ‘Yeah Ash, you know that game we spent ages playing together but couldnt finish? Yeah, finished it without you’.
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I’m gonna make a mental note of that for when my boy grows up…
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I agree, the shake-to-roll controls really put me off and I gave up playing the copy I borrowed from my brother. I stopped playing around the second world, one of those silhouette-y ones.
But it’s sounding like maybe I should take it back and give it another shot…
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It’s sounding to me like you guys are too hard to please! I’m usually so, but fell in love with this game straight away. To each his own and all that jazz I s’pose…
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First line”great game”
Last line :time will tell”-
oop, typing fail!
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I just avoid using roll now. Great reliable move in the old games. Sent me mad trying to make a long jump in the first level before I found diddy. Could see the puzzle peice right there.
But serious, love the game so far. Just needed to rant my niggly little problems. I’m sure I’ll get over it soon.
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That might have been my problem. I’m usually incapable of avoiding the bonus items on my first playthrough of a level in games like this (gamer OCD and all that). So there was a lot of attempted tricky roll jumps that pissed me off, where the payoff was an item, not level progress. So maybe I’ll enjoy it more if I just skip that crap and enjoy the flow of the levels on their own merits.
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Yeah, I heard theres a bonus world if you collect evrything and so I was trying too hard.
Started getting tired and relaxed on it.Is fun to go back and find stuff so I will just collect what I do and come back later.
Hopefully I’ll get my roll down and not die so much.
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Terraria Terraria Terraria planking Terraria Family Guy Flintstones planking Terraria.
GAAAAH!!
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In other news, Bon Iver’s new single is lush, gorgeous, amazing, etc. New album is gonna be on repeat for weeks. WEEKS. Non stop.
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Lush?
Ach Cymraeg?-
Eh..?
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SOrry sughly i know what will cheer you up. Ill buy you TERRAR oh thats right um. I know i will sing you a song.
Annas Song By SIlver Chair
Please die Ana
For as long as you’re here we’re not
You make the sound of laughter
and sharpened nails seem softerAnd I need you now somehow
And I need you now somehowOpen fire on the needs designed
On my knees for you
Open fire on my knees desires
What I need from youImagine a pageant
In my head the flesh seems thicker
Sandpaper tears corrode the filthAnd I need you now somehow
And I need you now somehowOpen fire on the needs designed
On my knees for you
Open fire on my knees desires
What I need from youAnd you’re my obsession
I love you to the bones
And Ana wrecks your life
Like an Anorexia lifeOpen fire on the needs designed
On my knees for you
Open fire on my knees desires
What I need from you
Open fire on the needs designed
Open fire on my knees desires
On my knees for you-
Haha, I like this! Ah, except the please die Anna opening line. Poor Anna 🙁
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You can build planks in Terraria. This game has it all!
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Can you quote Charlie Sheen, never shut up abot 911 and link to bad youtube vids?
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Let me play it some more tonight and I’ll get back to you 😉
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I fail at pulling all-nighters.
Needed to get this assignment done by this morning, but I accidentally “took a nap” then slept all the way to this morning, headache-y and assignment-less. : ( I don’t think I can cram it all out in 2 hours so late penalty, here I come!
In slightly more cheerful news, I got an instantaneous gift copy of Terraria from Jo right after I posted that comment above. Thanks!!
I feel like crying from the sheer awesomeness this community is exploding from. But MOAAARRRRRR PLEASEEEEE!
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Terraria Terraria Terraria Terraria…
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Twelve.
Why have I given you this number? Well, that’s the number of times I failed to pull an all-nighter to get an assignment done on time during High School and College. The fact that I never failed a subject, and that I got only a single D, is testament to just how lucky I am.
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That cheers me up, and makes me procrastinate a bit more, umm…
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Free terraria!! Lucky you!! That must totally make it all worth while 🙂 hahah good luck with the assignment though. Sounds like you’re gonna need it!
I finally got into some online matches in Mortal Kombat last night. I was under the impression my Kung Lao wasn’t TOTAL garbage but I guess I was mistaken. I got stomped.
Created a King Of The Hill lobby and could not knock this dude off the pedestal. I came close a couple of times but his Scorpion’s combos wiped me off the map. More practice needed.
Also, is it me or are there a metric ton of Scorpions & Smokes online? Everybody loves a teleporter it seems.
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SPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILEr
not impressed with the lack of robo-smoke!
SPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILEr-
Yeah they probably could have squeezed him in there. Any further than that with more characters would have been dangerous though. It would have entered stupid territory having Motaro as a playable character or something.
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Raygun,
How did you get your Online Kode to work? Mine doesn’t, I think they are supposed to only work in the country of origin (my MK is from the UK)
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My copy was from the UK too. It’s hella easy to do:
1. Go to Hotmail.com and create a new hotmail account.
2. During the sign up process, it will default your country as ‘Australia’ but change this in the drop-down box to ‘United Kingdom’. It then asks where in the UK you live. I put England.
3. It also asks for a UK postcode. Just look up a random one. I used the one for the House Of Commons :).
4. Bingo! New UK hotmail address!
5. Go to your 360 and create a new profile. When asked for your email address, put in the UK hotmail address and password you just created. Once your new profile is created, sign up for Xbox Live. (You get a free month of Gold).
6. Bingo! New UK Xbox Live account! Just so you know, you’ll have UK dashboard too. Full of videos etc. only available to UK users. Most are rubbish.
7. In your new UK Xbox Live profile, go to ‘redeem code’ and redeem that MK online pass. It will download to your hard drive.
8. Sign out of your UK account, sign in to your Aussie account and hey presto! You’re ready to go! Because anything on your hard drive works with any profile your create, you should just go into MK, go to ‘Xbox Live’ and make with the combos son!
9. Hit me up for a match. I’m crap but I’m entertaining.
10. FINISH HIM
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Raygun,
Love your work & thank you, I’m a busy boy these next few days but I’ll hit you up for a game ASAP!! What other online games do you play?
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Well I’m going to finally pick up SSFIV soon so I can get in on that Arcade Edition DLC action when it comes out.
Apart from that, I’m up for most things. Fighters, shooters, platformers. Bad Company 2 is great but I’ve stayed away recently due to morons boosting their stats. I tried Red Dead multiplayer when it came out but couldn’t really get into it much due to SPAWN, DEAD, SPAWN, DEAD, SPAWN, DEAD type problems.
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The proper way to planking as demonstrated by Snoopy!
http://i54.tinypic.com/2i1cg9g.jpg
Please don’t kill me for this!
Look at how adorable he is :3
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Hahahaha! Man he had it down before it became all mainstream and shiet.
I got my hands on The Witcher 2.
FRIGGIN’ AWESOME.
Any questions? Ask me! I’m about 10 hours in.
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“You want a mountain-dew”
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That’ll boost my toxicity to 50%, and I’ll need to have a White Raffod’s Decoction to negate the bad status effects.
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Where do babies come from?
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When a stork and a woman love each other very much, the birds and the bees send out infra-red laser impregnating beams into a woman’s mouth to uterize the eggs.
Duh.
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Ooooooooooh… yeah, I see now…
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Are you a tits n ass man?
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Yes, yes it does. Lots of cow udders and donkeys.
…. There’s a sex card for that.
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Tech Knight you cruel man, why did you convince me to try out Mount & Blade?
I played the Warband demo last night and I can see this game consuming way too much of my time.
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I am not a cruel “man”. I am a machine that made a sound analysis on a great game. I am also a make-your-own-RPG-character-without-boundaries enthusiast thanks to subroutines that developed on their own due to playing other RPGs. I once had over a dozen NeverWinter Nights characters I role played with online, all with epic storylines and goals (Though they all kinda had dark pasts), good guys and bad guys too. All that have read them said they’re brilliant, even got told I should be a writer-bot by some, though I doubt my software is compatible.
That aside, glad to see you’re enjoying it hehe 😉
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Make your own character RPG? Which one?
Any game I can make my own character in is an insta-buy for me. Even picked up Saints Row 2 for this very reason.
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So, uh… It seems we hit 1000 comments earlier this morning.
http://bit.ly/lzX4Kx
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Yup. 2000 is the new 1000.
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Haha, nicely said!
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Who got the 1000th btw? And whats happening to the trophy? Who was making that… Blaghman? ANSWER ME AND MY MANY QUESTIONS!
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Some time on your hands today, Sughly?
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more than just some, it appears to be…
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No, not really. Just doing documentation. Documentation = procrastination.
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The Trophy’s just chillin’.
I’ll get ’round to it once I finish this song…
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Hey Q/FatShady… were you the guys talking up Trials 2? I youtubed it just then out of curiosity, it looks ah… very… weird. Cartoony. Is it done by the same people? It looks kind of… weird. Is it worth getting?
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http://store.steampowered.com/app/16600/?snr=1_4_4__13
It is maddeningly good fun. You will want to both keep playing and break your keyboard at the same time.
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If you have a 360 then just get Trials HD. Amazing game. Trials 2se for me is not the same. I am so used to the new controller and analog controls i just cant seem to go back to the older game that is Trials 2se. If however you dont have a 360 then i sugest you at least get the free demo (which is all im playing.
I still dont think i like the game, only because it’s different. It seems to be a real solid game and awesome community.
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What? What is this fats? I talk to you directly THROUGH the 360. I’ve had multiple conversations about Trials with you, on the 360. Gah! You forgot about me :'(
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GET ‘IM!
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Don’t listen to Fatshady! He gave up too easily!!! I’m very disappointed in him, especially considering his love for redlynx! I completed ALL of those tracks! Every last, finger snapping, ass clenching one of them. But it was awesome all the way!
So I haven’t hopped on the Minecraft bandwagon yet and it seems to have been replaced already by Terriariarira!
I think I’ll just hide under my covers and play the PS3.
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Terraria Terrar, rarriaRarararararara…
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All Terraria and no rarara make Sughly a rarararararara
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This game you’re not playing is making you insane.
Therefore you should play it!-
I do not approve of this logic.
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How dare you defy the laws of Kotaku?!
“Thou shall purchase the game that drives them insane to stop insanity.”
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Yeah, and right when I had nearly finished my epic glass tower.
Sigh.
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NO!
I demand you to return to the plains of Minecraft now, or I’ll flood your tower again!
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lol!
You are an inciter of shenanigans. Was close to handing you a mop the other night.-
hahha. About that zombie that was wondering around your mine a while back. Thinking back now I realise yes, it was probably me.
Also I accidentally led a creeper into somebody’s tunnel and blew off some stairs. I think it was rocketman’s? Not sure at this point.
My humble apologies for all damages caused.
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Minecraft is non-replaceable!
Terraris is just a new game that seems nice for casual multiplayer : )
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So you’re saying I should still get Minecraft? Or both? Or neither? Is the Minecraft server full now? Am I too late?
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You better ask FatShady about the multiplayer server.
The single singleplayer is still very expansive with the different texture packs and mods. You can give yourself different challenges like mining for specific minerals or even go on a dungeon hunt.
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Dw Jamie. Platformers generally don’t interest me and I’ve only just gotten into MC, so I’m still there. I’m slowly turning into a minecraft addict.
Joinn ussss……
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We all pretty much share the same world and can build/destroy each others’ stuff.
For example, the house I built sits (well, floats) near AnonymousPessimist’s castle and I can see Tech_Knight’s eye of Sauron tower from my windows.
My first few nights I had no resources and no structures built so I ran into the nearest house to take shelter from ZOMBIES. It happened to be lamboman007’s house.
Then I ran into what seemed to be a bakery and ate lots of cake, which were made by Qumulys.
Also, somebody visited my house the other day and left the doors open. Fortunately none of my dogs were harmed.
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Just e-mail me mate. There is always room (for you)…
If you get it now its only $20 and well worth the money.
I’ve been tossing up if I should get minecraft or not. And now this Terriara looks interesting too.
gah, too many games to play, too little time.
Serious problem! (No that rash cleared up but thanks for asking)
I have a really cheap M$ mouse for my PC. (like $10)
I want to but a new mouse and I have very specific requirements.
I don’t want to spend much money because the mouse I have is fine… BUT I need one that is quiet. I sit in the lounge room/dining playing minecraft and the constant clicking is annoying the wifey so i’m looking for a mouse that is cheap AND quiet.
Any ideas?
Only want a 2/3 button deal. Prefer wired so nothing special?
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Any cheap MS or Logitech mouse will do the trick for you.
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I have a basic logitech one that does the job quite well. Not silent but not particularly loud either. Cost me $20 or something
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can also get em here
http://www.geekstuff4u.com/silent-mouse-ex.htmldoesn’t look like they sell em anywhere outside japan
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It just took me two hours to catch up on TAY. 🙂
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welcome back!
how have you been? : )-
Good thanks 🙂
Been meaning to ask, you do all your pc gaming on a netbook?
What sort/specs you got?
I’m in the same boat….-
Yep! That’s why I’m more of a XBox 360 person.
I’m using the ASUS EeePC 1008HA, running on Intel Atom 1.67GHz with Windows 7 Starter. Only upgraded to 2GB RAM about a month ago, and noticed some speed improvements. Graphics/video card is crap, I can only get about 6-8 frames per second on average in any game.The games I’ve been able to play are Plants vs Zombies (used to the lagginess in survival endless now), Minecraft (low graphics and render distance as near), Bejeweled 3 (some lag in the level transition screen but still ok), Swords & Soldiers HD (lol), and that’s about it.
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Cheers. I got slightly better specs and was hoping to play minecraft so Yay!!
I also got a Pendo Pad for playing Game Dev Story.
Got mine through Dodo, but cheap on ebay….
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I would like to just quickly interject, if anyone is looking for a good gaming netbook the Acer 1215N is awesome.
1.8ghz dual core atom and an Nvidia ION2. I’ve bumped mine up to 4gb on windows 64 and give it a 10% OC on the cpu/gpu to play games.
Runs the HL2 lost coast benchmark at native res with all high settings at 35fps.
At about $520 it is a steal. All except one of my family now owns one.
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Yeah, its nuts. I get home and waste/spend a half hour to catch up each day
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WOOOOOOOOOOOP!!
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I’m glad TAY has plenty of posts now. As my workload is low at the moment, I actually get a chance to fully read and post a bit more often.
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Woah. Amazing!
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BLACK MAGIC
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*Boggle* *Boggle* *Boggle*
That is the sound of my mind right now.
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SPIDER-WOMAN!!!!! Wouldn’t mind giving her a “Venom Blast” of my own… >.>;;;
Did I ever mention I am obsessed with Jessica Drew? Because I am. This is my new phone wallpaper…
I even own the old cartoon on DVD ._.
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Next time I’m in town I’m totally sleeping over!
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I’ll let you use the Spider-Woman duvet… I’ll wash it first…
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NICE!
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What did you think of BENDIS! and Maleev’s short lived series??
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I thought it was Maleev and Bendis which is always awesome (Still haven’t read their Daredevil stuff though)
I pretty much like all of Bendis’ Spider-Woman stuff. I’m actually reading Alias now because it was originally supposed to be about Jessica Drew (who later appears in it).
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Meh…
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(I jest)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vlVTbBPCtk
ALAN DAVIES!!!!!
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I would bare his child.
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would you bear it as well?
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Nah, he’s just gonna strip it naked
@_@
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Don’t you peel a banana before you eat it?
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I lol’d.
Then I felt bad.
Then I lol’d a little more.
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Either/Or, I’m fairly easy going.
(Dangit. I spelt it correctly originally, then incorrected myself – I seem to do that often)
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Batman Books for Trjn
Private Casebook
Streets of Gotham 1 and 2
Venom
The Man Who Laughs
Heart Of Hush
Thrillkiller
No Mans Land
A Lonley Place Of Dying
Gothic
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Very nice.
The Man Who Laughs might be amongst the ones I’m “obtaining” at the moment, but I’ll definitely have to look into the rest.
Thanks.
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Streets of Gotham and Heart Of Hush come after R.I.P so best to at least be up to speed.
New Batman And Robins are good too….-
Because continuity is a tricky thing, I’m going to be trying to read what I get in production order.
On a related note, because I haven’t bothered to read any comics and because I want to get my next video done soonish, I shall be filling in time going on a little rant about Lex Luthor.
No spoilers, but I wouldn’t mind hearing the reactions from those familiar with Lex and Bats to my little spiel.
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I’ve been uber-slack with this.
Just recently read Judd Winick’s Batman Long Shadows, mostly drawn by Bagley.It goes into some of the thoughts and feelings of Batman’s close freind’s after his “death” and Dick’s taking up of the cowl.
Bagley was an AMAZING choice as artist cos it really showed the difference between Bruce’s take em down hard and fast style compared with Dick’s more energetic circus style.
A real missed opportunity there for Morrison, I guess he’s too busy doing the major epic and doesn’t have the time to slow down and do the emotinal stuff.
Then again, I could just like Bagley alot…
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The fact that Batman is now a legacy character bugs me, mainly because I think that it’s all going to be undone and Dick will give up the cowl to become Nightwing again.
Maybe I should read some more stuff where it’s actually relevant, but I can just feel the finger hovering over the cosmic reset button.
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Of course it will, doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy good stories that no longer count.
Waid and Yu’s Superman: Birthright is one of the best Supes stories I ever read but John’s or someone erased it. Doesn’t mean it aint worth reading.
Same for Whatever Happened to the man of tomorrow. That was written as a goodbye knowing full well that all that continuity was being reset.
And after it was, writers started bringing back all sorts of silver age zanyness anyway…krypto’s back.-
Allstar Superman
Allstar batman and robin
The Dark Knight Returns
The Dark Knight Strikes again
All great stories, none of them canon.Also Alan Moore’s run on Supreme, greatest superman story ever written and it isn’t even superman!
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What if J.Jonah Jameson…nahhhhh, now I’m just bein’ a dousche!
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Ultimate universe stories are canon, it’s a separate universe.
And yes, I know that non-canon stories can be good, but it bugs me when something is written in the knowledge that it is canon now and will be non-canon in the future.
With the exception of Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow, pretty much everything you listed was written with the knowledge that it was never going to be canon.
Then there’s the reverse example, The Killing Joke, which was written with the expectation that it would be non-canon but it was so loved that it became canon. Which is how we got Oracle.
Also, you forgot the best example, Kingdom Come.
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Mainly, it’s my dislike of continuity resets that are a necessary part of on-going shared universes.
But the other thing that dislike about this setup is that Batman just isn’t a legacy character dammit.
Bruce Wayne is Batman.
Terry McGuinness is not Batman, he’s a kid in a costume Bruce designed.
Dick Grayson is not Batman, he’s Nightwing in Batman’s cowl.
Or I could just be a little stubborn here :p
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So do I (although I only watched the show, I haven’t read the comics), but he isn’t Batman.
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Not a fan.
There’s plenty of should have been but isn’t canon stuff that is good.
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I went to EB to get me some dead hookers and all they offered was some model who topped herself and some pursuit badge thingy!!!
James Mac where did you get yours?????????????
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I am hoping you nonchalantly walked up to the staff member, and enquired with the following “afternoon good sir, can you please advise me on where I could partake in the obtaining of dead hookers?”
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EB TTP…
The guy said it was a vice case about a dead model or something.
Isn’t Vice prostitution?Oh God… I just wiki’d, it’s based on a movie:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naked_CityWhat have I done?
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It’s ok I forgive you.
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You could always procure a fresh hooker and kill herself.
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*kill her yourself
(Got a little too excited)
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Tad/Ben, it would be good to see the number of comments on the actual page of the post. Sometimes it’s difficult to dig up through pages of news feeds to see how many comments TAY currently has. 😛
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I fear that if Tad implements everyone’s requests we may end up with this:
http://bit.ly/bbAq42-
Those comments at the bottom are gold.
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HAHA! I’ve been to that page many times (for some odd reason) but never looked at the comments.
Gold!
“it’s his custom car” is my favourite. Merely because it’s so daftly straightforward.
Also, at least now, if I ever find myself needing a laptop in Pakistan, I know exactly where to go. -
OT: Shouldn’t it be “Jimu Kong Country Returns” now? Or are you stuck in the 90s?
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I’m stuck in the 90s.
It SHOULD be Jimu Kong Country 2 : Tyler’s kong Quest.
or
Jimu and Knuckles
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Wait, make that last one:
Jimu The Hedgehog 3 and Knuckles.
madprops where madprops is due…
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Jimu Chaos
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Jimu Kart DS
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Jimuvania: Symphony of the Jimu
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Jimu Kidd in Miracle World
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Super Jimutroid
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Altered Jimu
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Mark and Pants presents: The Need for Jimu
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Jimu Wars: Shadows of the Jimupire
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Jimworld: Jim’s Oddysee?
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OH!
Earthworm Jimu!
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This link will always tell you!
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Cheers!
So… rapture on the 20th, I’m told.
Bringing in some marshmallows and a stick.
I are prepared!
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Don’t forget that after the Rapture is Free Pants Day for us heathens!
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Oh good, I am forever short of pants.
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I find socks are the most elusive item in my wardrobe.
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Twosies are my holy grail.
Always questing, never finding…
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Correct me if I’m wrong (And I may be as I can’t be bothered going to Wiki) but when the Rapture happens, all the christians “ascend” to heaven and we’re stuck down here while all the bad shit happens. That means there won’t be an ACL anymore…
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Did you just scientifically disprove the rapture, Jamie?
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No, but we might get an r18 for video games 😀
Not sure about r8 yet though.
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Only the saved “true Christians” will ascend. The rest will be left to suffer the years of turmoil with the rest of us.
Seeing how there are so many varied beliefs within Christianity, even if the whole Rapture thing does happen, most of them will have managed to get something rather important wrong and thus won’t ascend.
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When Selphie uses rapture in FF8 the enemy grows wings and flies away.
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OHGOD THERE ARE WORMS IN TERRARIA
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THEY ARE JERKS
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GET AWAY FROM ME STOP KILLING ME WHAT HAVE I EVER DONE TO YOU
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AUGH NOW THEY ARE EVEN BURROWING OUT INTO THE SURFACE WORLD AND LEAPING THROUGH THE AIR
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At least you don’t lose your inventory in Terraria.
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Also, I imagine Terraria doesn’t have the ‘magical sand/gravel floating in midair until you break it and everything underneath realises gravity is in effect and you fall to the center of the earth and rage because you lost those 4 stacks you spent all day collecting and your awesome stuff and your diamond pick’ effect.
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Aye, that’s true enough.
Although I kind of get the feeling that there’s a bit more focus on exploration and killing monsters in Terraria, and whilst (I feel) Minecraft has a good balance of risk vs reward when you’re off mining in some deep cavern, the upped monster rate in this would be pretty harsh if you lost your inventory.All in all, 2D Minecraft, for now. It plays well enough. The trailer makes it look like you can craft some phat loot later on, so I’m eager for some of that.
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Hold on, my sunglasses are in the car.
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BUT YOU’RE SO TASTY AND STUFF
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DUDE YOU ARE LIKE A MOBILE SARLACC PIT
SHOULDNT YOU BE OFF EATING BOBA FETT OR SOMETHING???
Also, there’s the single player guide hanging out in my crappy shelter. Whenever I’m in there, he’s all like HI I WILL OPEN THE DOOR SO ALL THE MONSTER CAN COME IN OKAY NOW I WILL LEAVE, HAVE FUN WITH THAT
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lol I have yet to see how the guide is like when I actually get to play the game.
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That is why I made a second story for him http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198022863292/screenshot/578922800417175164?tab=public
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Hahaha, that’s better than what I did. I lured him into a tunnel I dug under a hill and sealed him in.
😀
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And you, ser, make my butt itch!
Sydney Kotakuians!
A bump-up post from page 1 for our MEATS 2.0 😀
Mega-tri birthday partay?!
Please list out any weekends in June that you won’t be free, preferrably with dates & approximate time frame.
I am terrible at names, so hopefully I won’t miss any names (but I know there is a big possibility : )
– Serrels
– FatShady
– TadMod
– dawdle
– Batguy
– AnonymousPessimist
– Jamie What
– Bish
– Harli/Eats-a-lot
– Endu?
– Blaghman?
Feel free to update the list. : )
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That was supposed to be a : | face not a smiling face in the end…
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why did you not want to smile? are you not happy at the prospect of meeting us wonderful Kotaku people?
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It’s horrible to smile at the fact that I forget some people exist and live in the same city as I do.
I don’t mind smiling on other occasions though! : )
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Im not worried about that, but it is good to see you listed them in order of importance… I agree totally!
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*Sad Face*
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It also works the other way…
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if that were true, surely I would be much higher on the list! 😉
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Of course! ; )
I can’t let our Minecraft server access be jeopardised…
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I’ll be there!
With pants. It’s a special occasion, you see.
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Hmm… for some reason my exam timetable was taken offline, but pencil me in for anytime barring 18/19 June.
Just about on holidays, so whatever suits over people should be fine by me 😀
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I’m free any time on Sunday 12th, 19th or 26th. Saturdays are definitely no go, might be able to make a late appearance on Sunday the 5th.
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No love for the Smelly One
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kirby102?
Different handles confuse me (but I have this problem myself)…-
I meant me. Effluvium Boy.
I was at Sydney Meat 1.0…-
I’ve only got a $50 note, anyone got anything smaller I can exchange for it???
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I’m your man!
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Gah D: I am truly a terrible human being..
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At least Andrew knows I exist…
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No, that guy was far too handsome…
Oh wait, it totally was me!
I got a haircut though, so that’s probably why you don’t recognise me…
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Woohoo! I can’t wait.
Yeah any weekend in June is fine with me, provided SGL and/or WCG aren’t on.
The 18th / 19th would probably not be great for me, and later in the month may theoretically be more convenient, but it doesn’t really bother me.
I should be free most weekends. I might be away for one of them (not AWAY, per se, but studying for exams…)
Will update as soon as I know.
Really not sure I can make another one any time soon. With wife and kiddies and the rest of my busy social life (read other kids birthday parties) and weekends being as short as they are, getting time to hang out with you all is not an easy thing to arrange.
As I said before if you want that venue that we used last time, I am happy to pass on the details to Dawd’s so she can arrange it again? Just let me know.
Once a date is confirmed I’ll come if I can, but doubt it right now.
Weird, I thought I had posted a response to this already but it appears not. Attempt no. 2.
I am relatively free most weekends in June, provided SGL/WCG aren’t going on.
Thanks dawdle!
damn it this is my 3rd try with the same post, it is going to work this time or i’m kicking this computer in.
I’m relatively free all weekends in June, provided SGL and/or WCG are happening.
Thanks dawdle!
Screw you guys and your Sydney-ness! It’s not like the meet up will be fun or anything….
/cryingariverofjealousy
I’ll deffo come to this one, was unavailable for the first one…
Unavailable June 11th and 24th, otherwise I’m good to go!
Will anyone be not okay on a Sunday?
Let’s put the tentative date as 26 June when all of the uni people are done with exams and such. It’s still a relatively long time away now, so we can start the planning a bit later.
If anyone has any great ideas on a new venue or any other kind of suggestions, feel free to post them below!
I don’t know if it’ll be feasible to have the gathering at someone’s place since we’re a much bigger group than the Brisbane regulars. But hopefully it’ll allow people to have some local gaming in a comfortable setting. I wouldn’t mind providing the venue, but it’s a small apartment, I don’t have a console, and I’ll need to discuss the availability with my two other flatmates.
Or… if you guys would prefer just chatting and less gaming, we could just hang out at the bar like we did last time. Up to you : )
I am a New South Welshman, however I currently reside (read spy) in Queensland. I will only be in NSW the weekend of my birthday.
I am also now aware I’m an idiot. My dates given earlier were off by a day. Seeing as the fourth has no significance to my family, I could do something on Saturday evening/night. Is that Timezone above the Markets near Central still open?
I’d love to have a meet if people could make it. You can meet my unborn child too!
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Our last meats was on Saturday afternoon, so I don’t know if people will be up for a night one. I don’t mind personally, but I think not everyone will be available on the 4th?
Galloping llamas, there’s a lot of comments this week. Crazy. Can’t keep up.
You could almost say it’s…
*removes sunglasses-monocle*
TAY much to handle.
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lol
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You should watch the YouTube I linked you in Twitter 😉 Not in front of Chinese though…
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WHAT IS THIS WIZARDRY AND LLAMAS AND CHINESE AND WOAH.
What were they saying, anyway? All I got was the subtitles about 说汉语…
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The most famous Chinese internet meme of all time..
llamas!
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WHAT YO SAY ABOUT MY MOMMA???
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What I say? I say yo momma so fat, she have more chins than phonebook in China!!
ROR!
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http://terraria.wikia.com/wiki/Terraria_Wiki
Y’all can thank me later.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/apr/27/charlie-brooker-wedding-go-home
One of the highlights:
“1.25pm Balcony KissYour chance to witness the one image certain to dominate every newspaper’s front page tomorrow. Unless Prince Harry goes mad and has a shit on the steps of the cathedral and then does a backflip and kicks a girl in the face.”
So I haven’t turned my PS3 on in about a month and it’s not currently hooked up to the internet which leaves me with two questions.
One: Is the PSN back up in Australia yet?
Two: Can I get my two free games yet?
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PSN is up and running. So you can play online etc.
Playstation Store is not. So no free games yet.-
I have a code to redeem 🙁
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Last time I checked was last night, said it was still unavailable 🙁
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Mines been working since the day it was announced (2 days???)
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Man, whats wrong with mine? :'(
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Ohhhhh wait no, I didnt look up a bit, I was trying to access the PSN store. Which is unavailable.
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PC Master Race-ists:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/
Yeah.
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http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/5/16/
You mean this?
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Haha, that dentist one is pretty true though! XD
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That’s it.
God dammit.
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SO just got back from uni, and what did i do in my lecture?
Well we were learning about digital security, which i already know a lot about, so i used my time writing in who’s going to be in the next installment Of KC, and what they be/have 😀 yay!
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oooooohhh, can’t wait 🙂
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So what are course are you doing at uni/what kinda subjects/which uni?
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*So what course are
Man, I’m tired. Stupid assignments.
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Commerce, my boy 🙂
As i said earlier in the week, i want my own business some day
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Ah fair enough. Go get ‘dem businesseseseses!
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Yessssssss!
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Last time I saw my Masters surpervisor, she asked how I came up with the idea for my game. I told her it came out of sketches I did during lectures in first semester -_-
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I am giddy – GIDDY – with excitement!
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Okay, It’s been an hour since you got back from uni, you had better have written the next part by now! 😛
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Digital Security.. really, who needs it? Sony?
Odd question:
Manscaping, yay or nay?
I do get guys that shave or wax themselves clear.. it looks… alien… but man, i gotta manscape, especially the legs. I’m pale… real pale… glow-in-the-dark pail… people use me as glowsticks under blacklights at a rave pale… and i gots me some hairy legs!
So, especially now that i gym it up, i manscape, so i’m still mantastic, but not balder than Michael Klim.
I was just wondering if anyone here manscapes? Whether it be your beard, chest, back, legs, arms or whatever… ok… not your man bits or your butt, no one wants to know that…
Does it make me odd for wanting to be presentable?
I don’t expect a response from Mr. Serrels as he is obviously still yet to hit puberty…
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I was about to think of a proper response then I lol’d at the last sentence. xD
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Honestly, i’m a little worried that you were going to respond.. you don’t seem the sort to manscape… what, with being female and all…
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I manscape my chest on the (very rare nowadays) occasion that my bare skin will see the light of day. I don’t have a massive amount of hair but it does let my abs/pecs be more visible, and hence stroke my ego.
Tried manscaping the legs once… I am about as pale as yourself if descriptions are anything to go by. Not sure if I was a fan of it – plus it got very cold in winter!So I suppose that’s a yay to manscaping then… oh my, the things we share on kotaku…
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I’ve tried shaving my back hair, but that stuff is unreachable, I’ve resigned myself to a fate of laser hair removal or permanent back hairyness (the former option is tempting because it involves lasers *pew* *pew*). I also shave my underarms, because, to be honest, I do not like the idea of pubes growing out of my arms, it’s just not appealing.
This dose of “way more than you wanted to know” has been brought to you by Blaghman.
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Yeouch… shaving underarms would be sucky with regrowth.. i manscape my underarms as i don’t like feeling like a bushman lol
I also wear rather tight and small shirts usually, so i don’t want hair poking out from underneath 😛And that’s not too much info. Too much info is me telling you i manscape my happy region because i HATE feeling like there’s a hobo living in my pants… Filthy, filty hobo…
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/me leaves loops pants…
Now I’m homeless! Happy?
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Bare minumum manscaping requirement should be shoulders and back. Hair on these places is unattractive to almost every girl.
I wish my husband would manscape. He thinks his hair makes him all manly or something. Or he just doesn’t care enough about what I think. He has these tufts of hair on his shoulder that tickle my nose when I’m trying to snuggle him. He even refused to get rid of them for our wedding when I asked him to. I’m considering waxing him in his sleep….I’ve also gotta say boys, while smooth chests are still manly and sexy and stuff, shaving your legs and armpits is taking it a bit far from that. 😛
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I’ll send bee to wax him if you like, she’s almost qualified now 😛
I don’t really have a hairy back at all, so she just plucks out any stray hairs…
I don’t get stray hairs.. it’s strange.. nothing then *BANG* back pube!
*yank!*
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This is something you should really be asking Bea.
My wife removes my uni-brow and I remove some other unsightly facial hair but otherwise, I’m not so hairy that it matters.
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Wow! I salute you guys. Also, random images started to fill my head after reading all your descriptions. Thanks guys.
My 2 cents – I agree with Strange. I’m a yay for back and chest being bare on guys. I mean it’s not too bad it there is hair but I suppose if there’s like, a mini forest ready to spring ya… no.
And of course there’s nothing wrong with a clear view of the abdominal and pectoral regions. 😀
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What about perfect triangle chest hair lines? *poses*
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Only if its an equilateral triangle!
*also poses*
What? I like posing.
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I don’t have abdominal or pectoral regions.
Just man-boobs and a gut, more like the abominable regions…
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Go Kommunity! Because of you bastards, I need to read TAY at home because now there’s more TAY than work.
But you all rock. Love your pictures Sughly.
I vote for Jimu and Knuckles.
I’m not sure how much I’ll be able to post in the next week but I’ll keep an eye out for the Gemini Sydney meetup! It could become the social event of the season!
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Whats a knuckles?-
***KA-POW!!!***
That’s a knuckles.-
Ouchth… my tooof….
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Yew bok my node.
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Nooooo… Earthworm Jimu!
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If only you knew the real meaning behind this all… *evil laugh*
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Aren’t they swearing at the viewer? THAT’S JUST MEAN.
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As far as I’m aware it’s a cheeky F-U to the Great Firewall of China.
Or at least that’s the context that I first heard about it being used.
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I’m google translating the comments and it’s full of political stuff.
Something about Taiwan? Anti-Party?
The lyrics don’t make much sense…
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ZOMG HERPA DERPA DERP.
I am so stupid. Of course it’s 草泥马:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grass_Mud_Horse
I looked this up like a year ago, and forgot about it. It’s all flooding back 😀
And NotoriousR: yeah, they sorta are swearing at us 🙁
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Are you blue party or green?
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I caught up with an old school friend today, was very interesting! We did a bit of pool, some music and laughs, but he’s also made me madly jelly!
Turns out, another friend from high school who was always a movie buff, has landed himself a gig working as a producer for Goodgame. GOODGAME!! He will be directing Hex and Bajo!! He just missed out on a free trip to E3 cause he has a contract at channel 9 to finish first. So this news has made me insanely jealous. I’m happy for him at the same time but also wishing to slightly murder him, and wear his skin. Is that wrong?
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The murder part, sure… but I think if there’s some way you can preserve him and wear his skin, then it should be fine!
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Is that wrong?
Only one way to find out. *opens secret compartment full of knives like in dexter*
wow, i really need to keep up with this posting storm!
but anyway, had a day off school, and like the good boy i am, i studied the entire day (with a little break for some portal 2 co-op ;)) and basicly, i think after a while i went a little bit insane, and drew a little comic involving everyones favourite street fighter…
so seeing as we have a lot of talented artists, maybe you guys might wanna add me to the ranks of the kotaku artist elite?
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/5692/scannedimagee.jpg
as i said, my sanity was not up to scratch when i made this…
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Man, you are too cute.
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Why is it on like 90% of any imageshack pics, I just get a silly frog and a blocked login!? Am I required to make an account?
…who keeps checking Kotaku so consistently at night to approve comments?
Is this Tad’s doing?! (’cause if it is, I’m willing to look past any other abuse of your power)
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Yeah, I try to approve them whenever I get the chance. I know lots of people post later on in the evening, and try to give them as close to real-time posts.
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‘Tis the ‘Ghost of Allure Media’ known to others as Mary Trolman.
Rumour tells that in 1882, one single female reporter was writting all the content for the early Gizmodo, Kotaku, Lifehacker, Defamer and Sugar (this was before the big ‘Sugar split’ of 1927) newspaper articles. Typing at five type writers simultanously turned out to be too much for one person’s fingers and she got hand cramp. Days passed and the cramp didn’t lift. Doctors were called, surgeons consulted but it was all for naught. Mary died soon after, unable to feed herself because of the debilitating condition, her desire to write consuming her soul and holding it to the offices. To this day Allure employees swear they can hear the keys of five writters clattering away at night and comments made at ungodly hours are mysteriously approved.
She also tapes troll faces under employee’s optical mice rendering them useless and steals cans of Mark’s Pepsi Max….
WooooOOOOooooOOOOOOoooOOOOOooooOOOOOooooooooOOO!
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*shivers
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LMAO!
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Dick Smith has The Witcher 2 for $59.94 at the moment, so yeh, get it.
Aarrrggghhh! I’m trying to resist buying LA Noire but Kotaku’s main page is skinned with it and mocking me!
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I’m managing to hold out so far. It looks great and I will buy it, but my will is strong and my need to play Batman is stronger.
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Ah Bishy, I knew I loved you for a reason. That creepy-face picture is enough to deter me for now.
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Hahahhaha I love it
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Well I consulted the community about this dilemma yesterday and as the majority votes said I should buy it, I feel I must bow to their wishes.
L.A. Noire here I come.
Final tally, 2 yay and 1 nay… but still the majority have spoken. -
Maybe we can all start a club of those who want LA Noire, but are too piss poor to afford it just yet. Then we all grab it in November 2012 when the PC version comes out….
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Buy iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!
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I’m in the same boat.
But still $78 at JB is as good a price as BrickandMortar have for release, and its <4minutes walk to 3 JB HiFis from my office. So very tempting.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/18/lingodroid-robots-develop-their-own-language-quietly-begin-plot/
NSW is starting to look like a safe place to move to…
Jamie WATT!
Alias rules, one of BENDIS!’s best, also you aint read Daredevil?? Forrrr SHaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamme, that IS BENDIS! and Maleev’s best!
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I Knooooooooooooooooooooow!
I will! I will! I’ll probably order some books on Amazon soon so I’ll see if I can get it.
I also have a lot of Bendis Ultimate Spidey to catch up on.
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I stopped ready when Bagley left. USM became less about being the ULTIMATE SM story and more about being different to 616.
Not bad stories, just not why I enjoyed it so much.
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errr, reading…
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True. Bagley on art duty is what made me pick the book up (Bendis, who I only knew from Powers at the time, helped).
I still have my copy of #1 all safe and secure. I hear it’s worth a few bucks now.
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I’m jelly. I stopped buying comics for a few years there thanks to be unemployed, homeless etc…
USM was the one that got me back into it. A mate was working in a second hand bookstore and brought it home one night. The issue where Doc Oc finds out the tentacles are attached and Gwen makes her first appearance. Being a devout Metal Head at the time I was well impressed by the alternative, peirced Gwen, who slowly seems to have become the same as 616 Gwen.
I had never read a comic with such beleivable dialogue before, it was love at first sight!
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lol, my unemployed, starving, homeless stage came a few years later so I guess I was lucky. I still haven’t gotten back in to comics properly although I have a few things that will make me pick a book up. Spider-Woman, as you know, art by Adam Warren, J Scott Campbell or Humberto Ramos or Written by Warren Ellis or Bendis (and a few others). Amanda Conner is another artist that can pique my interest in a book.
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I think I understood 1/3rd of those words, but the rest is crazy meaningless jibber jabber to me.
/me draws red circles on chest.
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What’s the red circles all about??
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/me hands you a bow and quiver and a copy of Robin Hood, Men in Tights.
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It’s been a looooong time since I saw that movie.
Funny story, I first saw it at Toombul Cinema and they stopped the movie due to the carpark flooding to tell us that if any of us owned a car with the number plate xxxXXX that it had floated away.Sweet!
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WE’RE MEN!
WE’RE MEN IN TIGHTS (Tight tights!)
WE ROAM AROUND THE FOREST LOOKING FOR FIGHTS
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I am guessing he thinks you are talking about magic and wants to help out.
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Something that always bugs me about Marvel comics is how prevalent crime seems to be in New York City.
Seriously, all the street level crime in the world must happen there for DareDevil, Spiderman, Iron Fist, Moon Knight, Punisher and whoever else there is to have a job. Throw in the fact that Fantastic Four and the X Men are located in or near New York City as well and really, it’s like they have the dumbest criminals about.
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Thats’ why they moved Moon Knight out to LA and Thor to errr, HICKVILLE…was it OHIO? Can’t remember. But Asgard was out in the desert next to a hick town.
Anyway, my point is that Marvel knows this is a problem and have slowly been fixing it.
Oh yeah, the X-Men moved to San Franscisco!
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Slowly, over several decades and not in any of the film adaptations or Ultimate universe :p
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Thor movie wasn’t in New york or Iron Man…
Ultimate is fine cos it’s small still.(ish)
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So. I started playing Portal yesterday for the first time ever. I’ve just got to the part where you can make both orange and blue portals but I’ve already had a moment where I couldn’t figure out what I was supposed to do even though it was basic and obvious. I fear for my ability to finish the game. :p
I played a bit last night when my daughter was watching and now she wants to play too. Is there anything objectionable enough in Portal that a 10 year old shouldn’t play it or can I go ahead and let her play?
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It’s fairly child-friendly, I’d say. The only problem I can think of is that the puzzles may get too difficult later on. I mean, even I was stumped on a few of them. And I’d like to think that I’m not a child >=|
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Nothing in Portal that is naughty.
Kepp on truckin’, I got stuck heaps and then always slapped my forehead when I realised how obvious it was. The other upside for parents is that it’s pretty short!I had to have breaks, cos my brain goes overboard trying to suss out the physics when it doesn’t really need to. I think it took me 3 plays with long breaks between. The second break being MANY months.
Woh! This was just meant to be a quick reply…
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Apparently if she’s adopted.
Other than that, no.
P.S. Did you add me to your PSN friends list? Got an add yesterday and I’m not sure who it’s from :\
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Yep. That was me. I was going to tell you it was me but I thought you’d be smart enough to figure it out. Or I forgot.
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lol, I thought so, but wanted to check. You never know who has your PSN ID these days 😛
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There are plenty of times in Portal where there is a perfectly obvious solution and you will spend ages trying to get a really obtuse solution to not quite work. That’s part of the fun.
As for your kid playing, there shouldn’t be any problems. There was actually a thing on Reddit the other day about a parent getting their 6 year old son to play. It was rather nice to see how well everything resonated with the kid.
I would advise beating the game and being familiar enough with the puzzles to be able to lend a helping hand. Just in case frustration kicks in during a particularly difficult section.
Sughly is my new god. He knows why!
Its sonically brilliant!, delicious layers… on repeat all day! Maybe we can convince him of a threeway?
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Ok… now i have to know….
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LOL! I know right! It’s just love Q. Pure love. Man love, but love nonetheless. I’m glad I could share this glorious leak with you.
Haha, ‘leak’ out of context just… does not sound right.
Ooooo, Chortle Cumsplat is on Zero Punctuation http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/3250-Mortal-Kombat
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I know what i’ll be doing in my break today :D:D
Sooo… i still have an extra copy of the original neverwinter nights if anyone would like to snag it from me? 🙂
Also, if you have Vanquish on PS3, i have a DLC code for you??
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Your kindness is an inspiration to us all Chuloopa.
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Is that a yes to either one, soul consumer?
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LOL!
Thank you, but no it is not. I think they best go to a better home, somebody who has the time to take care of them.
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ooooooooooooh!
I’ll snag it!!!!
I’ll even give you moneypoints! Or art! Or just be your friend forever!
😀
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Which one? lol
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Any? Either? All? Watevs.
I didn’t start playing Bioware games till Dragon Age. Always wanted to try NWN and NWN2.
In saying that, My pile of shame rivals your own, so more games probably isn’t the best idea…-
shoot me an email at troy(dot)cleary(at)hotmail(dot)(com) and i’ll sort you out, buddy 🙂
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Wait, you *still* have that Vanquish code? Wow.
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*sigh*… it haunts my dreams…
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Hooray… I picked up my 3DS yeaterday but i have a few hang ups… first is why nintendo use the most inconvienient charger plug, i had to rearrange my power board to accomadate for the plug. The next little problem is the lack of proper 3D content at the moment, i updated the firmware and got the 3D video, which IMO shows off the 3D feature very well but without the option to make 3D videos (yet) or bring in our own. I feel the games dont fully utilise the 3D effect yet and the lack of decent games at the moment is a small issue.
My last hang up is the camera quality, i know it wasnt going to be absolutely fantastic but it doesnt work to well in a not a well lit area enough for the camera to not recognise the AR card i was pointing the camera at.
Other then that i am very happy in my investment and hopefully more decent games are coming soon.
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I fully agree about the 3DS (and DS, and GBA:SP) charger and camera quality. Didn’t realise there was a firmware update, will have to connect to the web and get that tonight.
I enjoy carrying my 3DS around with me in the vain hope that I might pick up some street pass hits (which has only happened twice now), and to get play coins for the dungeon crawl. But that’s only going to last so long – it will be much more fun once we get some bloody games!
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When a good game hits is when Jimu is buying!
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And Sughly!
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And nightFlarer!…when he get moneys 🙁
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Don’t worry, thers plenty of time!
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Why is it that my most anticipated 3DS games are N64 remakes?
Ocarina!
Lylat Wars! (None of this StarFox 64 business, thankyouverymuch!)Kid Icarus looks pretty cool, too.
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What about Lylat Stars?
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Oh, and at the moment my most anticpated game is Mario Kart 3DS or whatever they call it.
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So Steam’s daily deal is a truck driving simulator.
That garbage man sim that was mentioned a while back is looking better!
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I honestly wonder sometimes why people think gamers will want to get these sorts of games.
Bring on the tiling simulator! I just want to tile bathrooms in a game. Is that so much to ask?
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If it was the other 18 Wheels of Steel game, Extreme Trucker, I’d actually probably buy it. Well I can hope that’ll be a daily deal soon.
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I know!
Some people have the weirdest ideas of what fun game is!
Just a heads up, gamersgate have some REALLY good games on special at the moment.. all of your should DEFINITELY check it out…
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DAMMIT! One day I’ll get a gaming set-up…
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Does Orcarina count?
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eh??
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Was sposed to be a reply above bout good 3DS games….
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Nah, I aint buying it again again…
I have two copies for gamecube.
The one that came with Wind Waker and the one that came with…I cant remember, but it has the nes ones and majoras mask.Somehow I like Majoras Mask better. I think its the Goron rolling ability.. . ..
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http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/05/18/frank-cho-returns-to-liberty-meadows/
This is for Comic STRIP fans, I’m looking in your direction Choopsipoop.
Urrrrrrr, by strip, I mean in the traditional sense…not the STRIP club sense.
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I know this might surprise you, especially with my twisted sense of humor which often borders upon smut peddling, but i really don’t like smutty comics.
Reading over that i didn’t even crack a smile once. It’s all just so cliché and overdone in so many comic strips that i have read in my time.
I think it takes a VERY talented person to make strip comics both interesting and amusing, and very few people i have seen have been able to consistently nail it.
All that said, he has designed one HELLUVA woman.
I don’t know, call me cynical, but i just think that what Frank Cho does could be done by any uni student with an ability to draw and a Penchant for pringles, free porn and Carry on Movies…
Although i do rather enjoy Carry On movies… and i am a uni student.. and i REALLY like pringles… hmmm good thing i can’t draw…
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I can’t read these for long, strip comics heart my brain.
I love his art but the writing bores me. Theres the occasional good one, but I gave up somewhere in Vol 1 of the collected edition.Yeah, he draws some NICE T&A…
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That being said, i will also point out that i was unaware of Frank Cho until you pointed this article out just then, so i am basing my opinion only on what i see on that page.. so i’d hope for his sake that his best is better than what’s showcased in the article
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He’s a better artist than writer.
He did some Superhero comics over the last few years. They were good.
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Jamie did.
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157, 154 and 140 on bowling last night, doesn’t beat last week’s 10 spares 1 strike game I had. I’m the first among the family to get that ever. Still beat average on all three games so that’s good.
Might refrain from tagging up with Gorzilla on world of tanks until I have a better vehicle after last night’s skirmishes xD
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I so want to kick you in the nuts for being so good.. but i like you too much.. so i’ll leave them alone.. for now..
Also – i SOOOO need to get into world of tanks… Tankity Tankity Tank Tank
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I’ve only just started to get used to using my personal bowling ball properly now, when I first got it I was getting 120 at BEST! 😛
I used to clock my bowling at 35-38km/h now I’m down to 31-33km/h and I’m actually a lot more accurate lol
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Yeah, with World of Tanks while tagged up with Endu and Gorzilla last night: all I kept hearing was “We can’t penetrate their armour!”
My reaction:
“AWW come on another one?!”-
Is there really that much disparity between gear levels if you are undergeared (or undertanked, as it were)?
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By the looks of it yeah, it’s kind of balancing it out based on matchmaking, you try to tag up with much high tiered tank drivers in this game and you won’t be very useful at all. It’s so you can’t do power-exp or power-currency collecting which makes sense when you think about it.
I was still able to damage artillery and some light tanks though so it’s not ENTIRELY hopeless, and when you do get good shots in you get more than if you were playing on your own tier.
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Awesome.
I’m gonna be giving it some lovin’ this weekend so hit me up if you’re online.
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Same here, I tried late last night but was too tired to think straight.
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Definitely will be, add me on Steam if it hasn’t been done already (I’ll be in Kotaku Group, hard to miss me, got the kickass avatar and everything). You and I should be okay tagging up since I’m only one tank level up, you should still be bumping into tanks your level as well. Just be warned if you ever tag up with Endu or worse Gorzilla, lots of “FUUU-” moments will be had cuz everybody seems OPed 😛
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Woo more tankers! With Jo, AP and Loops we have two platoons!
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The more I went bowling the worse I got. On the first night I got 2 or 3 strikes, after a few weeks I was getting none.
Went bowling 3 years ago, not one strike.
Hate bowling soooo much… I’ve been trying to get a score of 200 for about 20 years now. I’ve scored 188 on 3 separate occasions – the last time I did I choked and got 6 from the final frame.
No, I can’t stay mad at you bowling. I love you too much…
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HA! You perfectionist, such a classic YOU comment.
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My best ever has been 222, and I barely ever get 200s nowadays. I don’t mind though, I still enjoy it.
I’m don’t bother much with bowling, but the last time I went I bowled a turkey in the final frame (final score ~160). I’m not going to be able to top that, so I’m not going to try.
I once got 220 in Yakuza 3.
Does that count?
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/05/18/almighty-thor/
I know I link to comics alliance EVERYDAY, but seriously, THIS is the funniest review I have read in ages!
Fans of Thor, wrestling and Richard Greico…THIS is for YOU!
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Forging a weapon by punching lava is pretty sweet.
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That cracked me up!
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So I can’t play magicka till I get my new computer now I’m sad
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Spend the time you would be playing it watching the Neil Gaiman Doctor Who episode.
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Or playing Terraria…
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No GAIMAN wins!
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Oh god, so much WIN in that episode.
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Damn straight!
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Thursday is my favourite day so i will be watching it tonight.
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Good man, not only does it have the “Strange tick of tv show approval” (that has a terrible acronym), but since you seem to have similar taste to me, I will tell you that you will enjoy it. So much. I know I’ve already said that. But it was so good.
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Wish I could remember what I was replying to…
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Magicka is awesome. It’s a pity it’s so unstable.
I have 4 days off next week.
I am so overjoyed I just have to share this information with Kotaku.
*does dance of time-not-spent-at-work*
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I am JEEEEEEEEELLLLYYYYY
Next time I get time off is to move…
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ouch, I hate that sort of leave.
The last leave I had earlier in the year was exactly that – 2 weeks of nonstop shenanigans.
I went back to work more fatigued than I was when I left. Terrible times 🙁
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Permission to despise you?
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Permission granted!
I’ll even be smug just to make it easier.
This anonymous is a little less pessimistic today.
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*two jelly’s one cup*
SOOO MUCH JELLY!
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SO. JEALOUS.
Does that mean you’re going to finish the glass tower of pessimism on minecraft?
And yay, that also means more time for music!
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Yes indeed! I did a bit of work on it last night (tiny bit).
And music… so much music. Oh boy.
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I have 4 days off (including the weekend) during this uni semester… so nothing much to be jelly about. 😛
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Ok, so now I think it’s my turn to be jealous…
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I’m taking E3 off, and then about a month later I go on leave for eight to ten weeks.
I… I’m going to miss you guys.
I have L.A. Noire. (pictures on twitter)
That is all.
$78 at JB but as I already had a $50 voucher that I got a while back.. I’m looking at this (and justifying to the wife) that it was only $28.
I only decided I was buying it last night. Have not watched a single video or heard much about it…
Really looking forward to it. Comments have been very positive so really looking forward to it.
Also I love R*… I have since Vice City and that wont change.
ALSO have to mention TEAM BONDI!!!!!
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Yo dawg. I heard you like discs.
I got a copy yesterday – but MRS WAS WATCHING FRICKIN’ GOSSIP GIRL WHEN I GOT HOME.
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I’ve convinced my missus that she wants to watch LA Noire while I play. Wasn’t all that hard, really, considering that she loved Heavy Rain, Alan Wake and the plot parts of RDR. We get to be a mystery solving husband and wife team! Just like, um, those guys. On TV. You know, the ones that always wore shirts.
PS: I don’t really like discs, but I do like the 360 controller, live and, yes, achievements, so I’m going with xbox too.
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I don’t get why discs is even an issue.
I guess being a JRPG fan I’m used to 4 disc games.
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Same. I don’t see what is difficult about getting up a couple of times through a game to change a disc.
You have to already do this when you want to play a different game anyway.
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I sit within arms reach of my console. To change a disc I don’t even need to stand.
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I’m having a meeting to discuss changing the classification of J-RPG’s to J-RPO’s…
My reasoning is sound… they’re not games, they’re ordeals.
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Im unsure…
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I was making a statement about how hateful they are to play.
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LAAAAAWL!
Gossip Girl is the devil.
Embarrassing question. How do you pronounce Noire? I’ve never heard it spoken out loud before.
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Ok, ummm, imagine a posh person saying nwah. Also, it’s a french word (meaning black) if that helps.
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Blaghman,
Sorry to be pedantic bro, but I’m Polish and if I said “Nwaaah” it would sound like “NVAAAAH” cause we pronounced our “w” like a “v”
Noire is phonetically “Nooo – Aaaaah” if that makes sense.
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I’m going to fight back, and point out that it’s phonetic pronunciation is \ˈnwär\ according to Merriam-Webster, and that the phonetic type you’ve used would give you a word closer in pronunciation to “noah,” albeit with a “u” sound rather than the hard “o”.
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Hmmm, maybe he read your “posh” as “Polish”?
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A reasonable suggestion, but be realistic, how would I know what a Polack sounds like (why on earth did they use that term? They’re Polish, not Polack, silly people (well okay, it’s an Anglicisation of a Polish word, but still))? I’m a Xenophobic Australian, the only accent I know is Aussie. Or Asian, damn Asians, filling up my everywhere (indeed, it’s now one accent, not a vast myriad in varying degrees of strengths based on a wide array of factors)!
I’m not very good at this Racist thing, since I spend more time correcting what I say than actually saying it…
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Blaghman’s laying the smackdown
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Do you know what my favourite pastime is?
Video Games, and that’s irrelevant to this conversation.
But my second favourite is getting into arguments with people for no discernible reason! And unlike the little asswipes of the internet, clinging to wikipedia, I’m willing to argue with people face-to-face (my memory allows me to remember an absolutely ridiculous number of random facts, that typically have no use). Hell, I will argue with people when I know I’m wrong. Why? Because I’m a dick! (Usually I like to let them know that I’m just screwing with them, I’m not that much of a troll)
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So much LULZ!!!!
I actually *did,* by sheer accidental douchebaggery, read “posh” as “Polish,” and immediately my inner nationalist took over LOL.. Sorry for the confusion Blaghman!
Incidentally, ‘Polack’ was an old, old derogatory term (kinda on the same level as ‘wog’ ‘FOB’ or ‘dago’ are used.) It was derived from the word ‘Polak’ which translates to ‘Polish person’ or ‘Pole’ . It was used in this fashion in the play Hamlet, I think from memory in the very first scene where the old King’s ghost is seen by the guardsmen…
Anyways, well played Blaghman – wars have started on less grounds than my linguistic oversight 😀
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Bahaha, no problemmo, is it bad that a little part of me deep down was hoping you’d misread more stuff and we could get into a flame war? I’m going to answer my own question and say yes.
I could be wrong about this, but if my memory serves, I don’t think Polack was originally meant to be a derogatory term, although it certainly grew into that role (certainly by the point of “A Streetcar Named Desire” (1947) it was being used heavily in a derogatory sense in the US).
Anyway, I consider this a verbal victory! Which gives me a total of three! (Damn that seven year old, I almost had her) (no I don’t consider this a victory, just to clarify)
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Yeah, like the Swanana in Viva Pinata. I hated having them in my gardens because they were always strutting around going “Nwa-aah”.
nuuwaaaaaarrrr
Just imagine that a pirate is saying it:
“Nwarrr!!! Prepare to be boarded ye scurvy dog!”
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Truly a game that should be rated Nwaaaar18+
say “new” and “wah” really fast and you’ll be getting kinda close..
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Oh, and being a french word, if you start with a warm up exercise of saying “i am a smelly frenchman. I smell of wine and cheese. I kiss your girlfriend when you’re not looking, and surrender when you do”, it will held greatly.
That is actually a very awesome question. I was going to call JB before i picked it up to see if they had them in stock and on the shelves… I decided to walk down and just hope for the best, purely because i couldn’t say the name!!!!!
Good question.
I lived in a house once and we had a poster on the wall for the anime Noir.
People kept calling it noyr.
And the dubbing in the actual anime drove me nuts, seems in “merica it’s pronounced no-arr.
It aint no-r, no R is what we experience in the Aussie game community.
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Say it frenchy Chowder, CHOW-DUR
Nevr, shaddurr.
Noar? Like ‘snore’ without the s?
I don’t know any French 😛
Nwah.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/noir#Pronunciation
Listen to the soundbites.
I had a copy in my hand last night, but i got the guilts because i tricked the old dear behind the counter into getting it out….
Will be getting straight after work.
hehe you’ve saved yourself mentioning Team Bondi lol
I’m looking forward to getting this game as well.
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I’d actually finished the post and went back and added that just for you.
Their logo along with Sydney Australia are right there on the back cover so that is pretty cool for the local team!
More like
ROCKSTAR PRESENTS (a team bondi game [in the smallest font available]) L.A. NOIRE
I got mine from EB at lunch, they weren’t matching JB’s $78 because it was their “online store”. I knew I could walk the extra 10 mins to JB and get it for that, but I got them to match Kmart at $79 (although I’m not sure what Kmarts price actually is).
Spend $1 saved 10 minutes of walking. Good Deal.
So on Monday this is what I made. Only took me a couple of hours, surprisingly. The second ever thing I’ve made with a sewing machine(unless we’re counting the horrid cushion-cover thingy from Grade 7 many, many years ago).
Front view:
http://flic.kr/p/9JM5z6
Back view:
http://flic.kr/p/9JM5zH
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Nice work.
Is that for Pessimist? 🙂-
LOL
The red will really compliment my physique. Rawr.
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So a red jerkin then? 😉
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Blind Mown! For reasons unknown i thought you were larger….
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Interesting. Admittedly it looks smaller there than it does when I’m wearing it.
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That’s flipping hot, y’all!
Love it to bitsy pieces!
Now you just need an alestorm one!
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Maybe I should make the Alestorm one look all piratey by adding puffy pirate wench sleeves.
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Thats awesomesauce-y! I think we should have like a community arts/crafts weekly or monthly thing. Just to show off all the awesome talent in here!
What says you Sir Serrelopolous?
AnonymousPessimist, are you still going to start a Terraria server? I won’t be able to keep mine running forever due to my limited amount of broadband usage. If you want me to, I can email you the map we were using last night. Just email me at (my-kotaku-handle)@live.com.au
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***Sneaks up behind Lamboman and kicks him in the nuts***
That’s for your little tinyurl/Friday stunt last week. I had managed not to see that clip until then!!!!
Although it did give some context to Blaghmans clip. Which i never realised contained singing cos the sexy eyes kept making me faint.-
Glad I could be of service…:P
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Word, I am definitely down for that. I like it how characters are persistent across the maps.
Will e-mail you shortly.
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Hey count me in for Terraria multiplayer starting the weekend : )
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I have this game also… thanks to a loving and caring re-gift from rocketman!
I have no idea what this game is even about, but not sure ill be playing it any time soon.. but well see… Just FYI I have it also.
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For anyone interested in Terraria MP, at the moment we are running it with Hamachi.
– Head on over to: https://secure.logmein.com/products/hamachi2/download.aspx
– Get the Unmanaged flavour
– Install
– Send myself a heads up and I’ll give you the login information to join for some Terraria goodness.
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How does one give you an upwards head?
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He said, a few seconds before realising he could find the SlightlyLessPessimistToday on Steam.
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Oh, you innuendo-filled rascal, you…
Add me on steam (Anonymous Pessimist, handle is Jager_8ight), or e-mail me at the[dot]tsharp[at]gmail[dot]com
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I suppose we’ll be needing your email address to send you the heads up?
P.S. I’ve sent you the map
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Woke up 8 minutes before class started at 10am and I had a group presentation. I live about 20 minutes walk away.
Rushed to uni. Was already half past.
Luckily I could still snag in my part near the end.
What a horrifying experience.
o_o
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That’s why it is better to just not turn up, and then say you were so extremely sick you couldn’t make it, or even ring. It takes a little bit of acting the next day to pull off afterwards.
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That sucks. I always felt bad for people rushing in late like that, as I sat pondering what events had put them in that predicament. And today it was you! But you’re series of events was simply just sleeping…
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They were repairing roads outside from 9pm – 3am last night : (
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Pffft, SLEEPING DAWDLE!
No I jest, that sucks. Road work is seriously the worst. And before a presentation… :'(
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You are having some pretty crap luck this week!
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I know!
Hopefully it’ll all go away over the weekend.
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One of the many things I loved about my time at uni was the fact that I lived on campus, all of 2 minutes away from the bulk of my lecture halls.
Quite often you would get small groups of us rock up to our lectures in pyjamas and dressing gowns, then 2 minutes after our class was done, collapse into bed again.
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You should have just chucked on a jumpsuit of some description and burst in exclaiming that it was, and i quote “a bitch to get shore leave from the Dreadnought Kotaku when you’re pursuing the evil GCL”
*nods*
Glad you made it on time, however.
Okay, so I’m finally thinking about man-ing up and getting a proper arcade stick so I can play beat-em-ups they way they should be played.
Anyone know where to get a decent PS3 stick? Preferable not for $500 or some other crazy price.
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WWE All Stars sticks are decent and cheap.
You could get the boss SFIV Madcatz sticks. Hefty though…
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WWE all stars one I got was awesome. I bought street fighter IV and have really been enjoying it with the stick.
I will reccomend that one. Stick and buttons feel just right, and it is big and heavy enough that it does not fly around as you play it, but small enough to rest on your lap or on a desk easily..
A good choice if the price is right.
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Looked at Amazon and they had Mad Catz sticks for around $140USD. I’m very tempted
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There are some serviceable Hori sticks available for under $100 or you can shell out and get a Mad Catz TE stick which are about $150-$250 online (I was lucky and paid $135 for mine).
If you’re not too fussed about quality, there’s also a wireless arcade stick that came with Tekken 6 which is not very good for fighting games but will work well enough for arcade brawlers. Not sure on price or availability, but there was a long period where I would walk into JB Hifi and see piles of the damned things.
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I got one with BlazBlue but it’s, well, kinda shitty.
Thought I’d upgrade to something that was more “The Shit” instead. Thinking I might go for Mad Catz stick
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The BlazBlue one was done by the guys who do the Power Wave peripherals. It was a last minute crappy idea and I wouldn’t wish that thing on anyone.
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I have that one too.
Either it’s incredibly rubbish, or I’m incredibly rubbish.
I’m inclined to assume it’s a bit of both.
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You can get a Blazblue TE stick off Amazon for round $130 plus postage….
It’s a MadCatz stick identical to SSF4 and MvC3 sticks but with better art and price.( This is what i have)
Big W has Hori sticks in a bundle with MvC3 online only but the stick is basically free, or stick on it’s own for about $50 -$70 -
YOU’VE COME TO THE RIGHT PERSON.
/Puts on Arcade hat
I second what Trjn says – HORI is great for <$100
Mad catz is also a good choice if you want to spend a bit more.
Do you know which kind of joystick you prefer? Actually, have you played in any arcades in Sydney? I ask because they use different sticks, with some people preferring different styles to others.
e.g. I personally favour the looser sticks for backdashing and sidestepping (err.. Tekken stuff).
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I think that if you’re planning on getting a stick tailored to your preferences, grabbing a Mad Catz stick and modding the hell out of it is the best bet.
Parts are cheap enough and as long as you know how to solder, there isn’t anything too complicated (says the guy who can’t solder).
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Hey Eats-A-Lot
The arcade scene is something of a mystery to me. Which is weird as I grew up addicted to Street Fighter and Tekken as well as others.
I remember going to an arcade in Sydney to play some SFIV when it first came out but the crowd around it was HUGE!
If anything Arcadey happens sometime and you don’t mind me tagging along, shoot me a message. It’s definitely something I’d like to investigate.
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If your local JB still has stock, tekken 6 with the stick is just $99…
Although it’s hard to find on PS3
If not…
http://www.thehut.com/games/platforms/ps3/tekken-6-arcade-stick-edition/10049919.html
OR BETTER YET!!
http://www.game.com.au/hori-arcade-fighting-stick-3/playstation-3/UH3P-01
$19!!!What state are you in? one of the EB’s in victoria has a street fighter stick for around $150ish..
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OMG!!!!!!!!!!! THANKS CHULOOPA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am SO getting that second one.
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*super happy smile*
Yeah, took me a while to find that one.
Here’s the thing that pissed me off – the 460 one is still just under $50!!!
grrrrr
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That HORI one from Game is easily the best value for money stick I’ve seen in Australia.
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Great price on the Hori stick but is this really as good as a $100+ Mad Catz? I know high price doesn’t mean better product but, well, seems too good to be true. Prolly grab one anyway tho 😛
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Mate, unless you’re going to be ultra hardcore, i’m sure it’ll be more than sufficient.
besides, if it’s no good then it’s only $19 spent and you can splash out on the madcatz one..
my bet is that it’ll be pretty good though
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The GAME in Sydney closed down a while back. I’ll have to call later and see if they have it in Penrith.
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i got me a hori stick from some guy second hand.. it’s awesome!
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As good? No. Good enough? Definitely.
Hori sticks are like Toyotas, they do the job but there’s nothing special about them. Mad Catz are like BMWs, you pay a premium but notice the improvement. If you’re happy to drive about a Toyota, there’s nothing wrong with using a Hori.
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Man up like a man… don’t cave to your inadequacies’ gut through them.
Anyone else watching Miami v Chicago? Good stuff! Keeps distracting me from my documentationing though 🙁
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I’m quite jelly.
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Ssshhhhh!! I want to watch the replay….
Who am i kidding, i’ll be playing LA Noire!
Fistbeard! Not sure if you’re still out there, but I haz questions about Witcher 2. How is it? How’s the combat and story? How’s the world it’s set in?
So Terraria…
How is it?
Looks kinda interesting… but i still might wait for it to go on sale before i buy it.. is it madcool??
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It is madcool +1
Don’t make a fuss… just get on the bus!
Huge crafting options, persistent characters across sp/mp, and a whole bunch of other stuff I don’t know as I’ve just started playing it. Bosses, crazy gear, 2d construction… etc etc. Pretty dang awesome.
AND it’s $10. YOU BUY. YOU BUY NOW.
Today I discovered this:
http://www.etsy.com/listing/66541533/pixel-people-firefly-serenitys-crew-pdf
They have others like people from Doctor Who and Star Wars too. Amazingly awesomely cute.
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You should see if you can make one for the crew of Loops’ story.
So 2GB was on in the background (wouldn’t be if I had anything to do with it >_>) and I just heard a Mr. Chris Smith talking about the NBN, saying “nerds of the world can play their games a little bit faster – 0.2 of a second faster, in fact. Hope it was worth $40 billion”.
Seriously, what the f**k?!
I don’t know what makes me feel more outraged – that someone can be so petty about the NBN because it’s not an idea promoted by their chosen political party; that they think calling gamers nerds is a really clever, scathing insult or; that people think the government does anything to cater to the gaming subset of the population.
>:(
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Worth every penny!
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I don’t know about you, but I could do without that extra 0.2s lag. If we didn’t have that, Australia would rival Japan as the premier gaming nation. Totally worth $40bn.
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Well they give 100,000,000 times more funding to sport than to technology or the arts, so I’m not surprised.
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And yet we still end up with the cutting of programs for sports we’re good at (Archery, for instance). I will never understand how bureaucracy works.
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Chris Smith is an overblown windbag.
He had a quiz running on his radio show to call in and guess the number of asylum seekers that had died in the boat crash near Christmas Island.
The correct answer won a CD.
So this is hardly surprising. Gamers were once an easy stereotypical target, and he has an axe to grind over the NBN.
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To further support your assertion that he’s an overblown windbag, I will never forget this – http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s931663.htm
He’s a joke (albeit, only occasionally funny)
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ROFL.
I didn’t know that happened.
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Hey anyone have any experience with external hard drives for a PC?
I downloaded the original Witcher and it’s 14GB. My crappy, pitiful hard drive is full and deleting that much stuff is not an option.
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I use one to store movies and backups and the like.
Not much to say really, its a hard drive and it’s external.I’d go down to MSY if there is one close and just grab some drive and case.
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I have an external hard drive!
I run mine through a Firewire cable, which would be a much better option if Windows drivers for Firewire didn’t cripple it down to sub USB 2.0 speed.
Anything specific you would like to know?
I’d recommend asking welbot, he’s bound to be wa-ay more useful than I am. Of course, asking him specifically would be awkward, so really it’s just a matter of waiting and hoping he replies.
(Games run fine off mine, my crappy computer is the main speed limiter, not the HDD, but it may vary depending on your specs, mine’s a Seagate, looks pretty, runs well, but I know nothing of cost)
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I was just wondering whether there’s any eye-stabbingly awful brands to stay away from. I saw a $67 500GB HD at JB Hifi that looks like the ticket. Pretty sure it was a Seagate.
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Hi RaygunBrown. Missed out on welcoming you earlier in the week…. So Welcome!!!
Did you say Batguy sent you? If so, have you ever seen him lose at ANYTHING, ANYTHING AT ALL???-
Heh. Thanks dude.
Re: Batguy. No idea. I have yet to witness him compete in anything. But I take your caps lock warning with great trepidation. I will be wary.
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You should see me compete in real-world sports if you want to see me lose. I give it my all, but my aging and unfit body rarely performs like it did in my youth. So I lose then get pissed off, often with spectacular dummy-spits.
You can also see me lose in Halo: Reach. The best thing I can say about my skills there is that if I’m on your team, I probably won’t accidentally kill you as I shoot wildly at the enemy. Probably.
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You were the rulenest Kotaku team Perfect Dark Player.
Not sayin’ much, me and Sughly suck farts.
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I’ve only used external hard drives with games in terms of portable versions of games that are quick to install, would be helpful in LAN parties.
But to make an educated guess, it should work on the computer you installed it on but not anywhere else, you’ll get errors when you try it unless you install it on the other computers as well. If you use more than one computer, updates are a little tricky but not impossible. You’ll just have to be careful not to brick it and have to force a reinstall.
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But yeah main problem is USB speeds, it might cause the game to run slowly
It’s pretty straightforward as those above me have posted. I tend to err towards Seagate or Western Digital drives as they are nice and dependable. I know other people are perfectly happy with the lower brands like Maxtor, but their longevity is questionable.
Some bigger items I would have to compress before my old drive would take em.
Haven’t tried me knew one yet…
If you’ve got an e-sata port, these are great!
http://www.welland.com.tw/html/docking/601j.html
I’ve had one for ages, and it’s 1000% kickass! just pop in any old sata hdd and away you go! cheap and super effective!
I’m using a pretty cheap one by Eagle Tec, still on USB 2.0 with 200GB. Can’t remember the exact price, but you can easily get a 500GB or even more for a reasonable price nowadays.
Just move all your songs and whatever that occupies space and you don’t need to access them as often to the portable hard drive.
Sweet. Thanks for all the responses everyone.
*Cool Jazz plays in the background*
I’ve known this city all my life, I know its darkest corners, how the light falls from a street lamp. I know that when an old lady screams, the only person to “hear” it will be the cause, despite a hundred people listening. Sometimes… sometimes though, fate throws a curve-ball your way. Sometimes you learn something new. Maybe today will be that day, but I guess I won’t know until my XBOX HURRIES THE FECK UP AND INSTALLS THREE FRIGGIN’ DISKS TO ITS HDD.
Some people have very little to whinge about in life. I am one of those people. Now have a picture of a Panda. http://www.treehugger.com/happy-panda.jpg
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HA!
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Dunno, that panda looks more contemplative to me…
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That really, really made me want to buy LA Noire now.
Damn scene-setting narration awesomeness!
AND I CAN’T RESIST PANDAS.
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My main problem, is that when I play it it’s not so much “Cole Phelps, LAPD detective” but more “Cole Phelps, absolutely terrible driver who sucks at investigating” (I screwed up the first investigation you get, where I’m pretty sure it TELLS YOU which answer to put in). Still, it’s pretty fun, and it’s made me want to re-find the noir project I made a few years back.
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熊猫!!!~~~
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I just sent the old dear off to get my copy. I was happy to wait until after work, but now i’m tempted to close the shop and head home…..
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What do you sell Mini-Mac?
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Motorcycle Apparel 🙂
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Motorcycles?
They’re like vespas… for boys right?
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That’s the one!
I think lil Fatshady says it bestManbike!!!!
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Hey Mark did you get my email?
If it is not worthy let me know and I will post it here for Pessimist.
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ratty rat rat rat…
So here is something interesting… My mother is getting married!
Now as a grown man that is a strange thing to deal with… *sits on the couch* Here is the story.
My Father left my family when I was born (a couple of months before actually).. yeah Nice!. Mum worked up to 3 jobs to pay the bills etc so she is a bit of a legend for me! This is part of the reason that she didn’t immediately remarry (along with the fact that she was screwed over and didn’t get child support or anything). As much as I hate to admit it, she is also the reason that I have a decent job and got an MBA.
My mother has been single for the most part since then (some 30 years). She has been seeing a guy for a while now and last night she announced (at the ripe old age of 59) that she is getting married.
I seriously just dont know what to do with this information. I am hugely happy for her and I like the guy so it is all good, it is just something that in my entire life I had not even considered that she would remarry. I just didn’t expect it!
I am glad she found someone and I’m sure they will be very happy together, just don’t know what to do… Do I start calling him dad? Do I play catch with him. Do I get all Peter Griffin/Tom Tucker on his ass and ask for a happy meal???
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My Mum was shagging a guy a year older than me once. Never got to meet him, si wanted to hug him and call him dad so he got all uncomfortable!
Suprise suprise they broke it off cos she found him IMMATURE!!
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Hahaha, what! What a great missed opportunity.
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You should totally ask him for a Happy Meal. Also go all Homer Simpson/Mason Fairbanks and ask him to teach you that the stove is hot.
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I agree. Definitely ask him for a Happy Meal.
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Nahhhhhhhhh, Zinger Combo!
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I am actually Starving (If you know me you’d think I could do with that occasionally…) but MAN I could demolish a Zinger Combo right about now.
Thanks for making my afternoon even more unbearable. lol
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You, ser, need an ULTIMATE BURGER MEAL….LARGE!
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You should just sit back and be happy for her. 🙂 I doubt he will be looking for a father/son thing.
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Nahhhhhhhhh, Zinger Combo
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Yeah he’s not.. at all.
And I’m a dad now so any feelings I had about growing up without one are gone..
My boy is the best. Wanna see:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtnsJDmDfIw
Also they call him daredevil at daycare because he is completely fearless.
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All that ManBike has served him well.
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This comment is making me laugh far more than deserved…
I think my mind went the direction of the gutter after reading MANBIKE.
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*Sings – “I’m a mother lover, you’re a mother lover. We should f (static….)”
My mother is actually single too (widower)
I’ve wondered now and then how I’d feel if she started seeing someone again… I have no idea but I just hope he’s filthy rich and thinks he can impress her buy buying the affection of her children 😀
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.. or just a Zinger Combo!
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euphamism?
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Lol, funniest song I’ve heard in ages. Elly tweeted it and I’ve been playing it to everyone!
On topic, certainly would feel weird mate. I’ve not seen my dad in at least 20 odd years, when my mum remarried (like when i was 8 or something) it just never felt right calling him dad. So I called him John. I still do, and we actually get on rather well, I understand he has a penchant for destroying my property more often than he tries to fix it. But he has a good heart and thats the main thing. So long as this guy is good to your mum, all you have left to think about now is your mumma getting laid.
You revealed something personal so I won’t mince words either.
About four years ago, my Dad died in a motorcycle accident. He was an ex-racer and very talented, but everyone bites it eventually. His best friend at the time was riding one corner behind him and came around to see my Dad’s bike sliding off a cliff. My Dad had already gone over.
That friend told my Mum personally, with the police. He and she took a lot of comfort from each other and it soon (within 2 months) a relationship started to blossom. Now, they’re married.
I call him Barry, because that’s his name. I treat him the same as I did before my Dad died.
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Wow endu that is really sad. My dad died when I was seven i’n a farming accident my mum had to raise three kids by herself. So I know what it’s like.
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I don’t know what to say, sympathies to you both. What shitty things to happen to your Dad’s. 🙁
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Facebook drama is quite hilarious. I’d go into detail but the only person around here that would be able to follow the story without much extra explanation does not post in TAY.
Suffice to say, a useless bint is no longer a part of my life but I now can’t laugh at her hilariously stupid Facebook status updates.
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LOVE Adam Warren.
Never read a thing by Amanda Conner.
Ellis is hit and miss for me. Love his more sci fi stuff and some of his Hero stuff. Thought his run on Excalibur missed the point, but they may have been an editorial thing.
Love Planetary cant seem to get through Transmetropolitan, seems good. I just lose interest every few volumes…made it to 7 or 8.
I think I just dont dig the artist.
List of artists I like
Alan Davis
Mark Bagley
Leinil Yu
Chris Bachalo
J.H. Williams III
Maleev
Joe Madureira
Writers
Alan Moore
BENDIS!
Davis Mack
Ed Brubaker
Theres more of both but I’m blanking right now…
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No love for Jim Lee? He’s my favourite artist by far. Tim Sale and Steve Dillion are also cool artists. I also like Jeph Loeb, Garth Ennis and Geoff Johns.
oooh! Y the last man. Brian K. Vaughan. Awesome stuff.
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I forgot about Ennis and Johns!
I have to take points off of Loeb for Ultimates 3 though. I know the backstory and why his writing took a serious dip in quality, but there is still that period where he just wasn’t writing well.
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Ultimates 3 was an abortion.
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Be fair, Millar and Hitch started that.
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Based on the rest of Ultimates 3, I’m not sure Loeb was aware of that :p
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Perhaps Jeph has a hot sister…
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I wouldn’t put it past the old, bald, pervert!
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I didn’t think that was a problem, the big problem for me was that MOST of the script seemed to be movie quotes. What was with that?
It was even called Sex, lies and DVD!That and it was just action action action. I know he writes to the artists strengths, but sheesh, mad could have handled a little bit of brains!
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Sweet art though!
Yeah all those guys. I didnt like Lee until he did Batman. His little feet freak me out . He was like 19 when he did xmen though!
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Vaughn is a little hit and miss, love most of his solo stuff but not his hero stuff. Although Logan is one of the best Wolverine stories I ever read.
Just finished reading Ex Machina, that is prolly his best.
Agreed!! Needs more Lee!!
Hey Notoriousar you seen this http://www.amazon.com/Icons-Comics-Wildstorm-Art-Jim/dp/1845765192/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1305782248&sr=8-1
I got the limited in the states and it is sweet!
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I like Jim Lee and his wife for supporting him
Enough Lee?And STan Lee for helping invent so many cool heroes?
Enough Lee?
Lee Merryweathers for being that guy that sits in pod5 sipping coffee and being quiet…
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Robert E Lee for proving that no matter how talented you are, you need to pick your sides?
Lee Majors for being 6 million dollars worth of awesome?
Leigh Sales for bringing the hotness back to late night news ( remember when Sandra Sully was hot?)
Lee Harvey Oswald for inspiring a million sniper based missions?
Bruce Lee for being a decent Kato?
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And Amy Pond
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Leigh Sales. Yes.
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Katherine Robinson > Leigh Sales
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I’m disturbed by the lack of Grant Morrison and Neil Gaiman in your writers section.
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There was a disclaimer down the bottom there.
With Morrison he’s one of those hit and miss guys. Love his animal man and new x men. A little underwhelmed with all his Batman. For such an amazing writer those are strikingly average.
Allstar Superman is the second best Superman story after Moore’s Supreme.
GAIMAN ROOOOOOOOOOLZ!
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Gaiman is one of the greatest living authors. Not just with comics, but in all forms of writing.
Good Omens is also my favourite book ever, of all time. Therefore you are dead to me.
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I aint got nothing against it. I just don’t get it. I can see it clearly, I am reading something humorous…I am not laughing. I aint having a dig. Plenty of my mates love it.
It just goes over my head, I know very little of religion or that sort of thing.
My mother was brought up very catholic at home and school. SHE HATED IT, so I was never taught any of it.American Gods is where it’s at for me, that whole thing where he grows up and is known as shadow cos he’s always tailing behind his single mum? Thats what I know.
His dad’s a dick? Been there.
Partner fucking someone else? Been there(no not currently, my wife’s a saint!)But yeah much like Mark’s argument about music being subjective, books can be the same.
PLEASE, resurrect me? PLEEEEEEASE!
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Still dead :p
The religious part of Good Omens works well with me because I’m pretty well versed in that stuff, but the beauty of it for me is the collaboration between two of my favourite writers. They have different styles but they’ve somehow meshed it together in such a way that I can’t tell who did what.
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Really? I’ve heard the opposite that people can tell…
Antway, I have yet to properly read some pratchett. Enjoyed the cartoon and such. I really wanted to start at the beginning and never did.
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The authors claim to be unable to tell :p
As for starting at the beginning with Pratchett, don’t. The first few books were just testing the waters and aren’t really that great. Most people seem to agree that Mort is where things start to really take shape, but because there are several mini-series within Discworld (Witches, the Watch, Wizards etc), there are several different places to start.
I’d go with Pyramids, Mort or Small Gods as the entry point and if you begin any of the mini-series, just start with the first one to focus on those characters and work your way through.
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When I find the time(18 years?) I’ll get back to you. Now I’m off to stare at Amy Pond…I mean enjoy the good Dr…I mean do some work!
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Was Mort the first Death one?
I can never remember, but I’m a proud supporter of Death and the Watchmen.
Also, apparently Pratchett wrote the majority of Good Omens (as in, the actual word on paper stuff), but only because Gaiman was busy with other stuff (Sandman, if my memory serves) at the time.
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No Hitch?
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I love him on Ultimates but the more he deveops the less I’m liking him.
The waists are just getting too long!But yeah, he is GOOD!
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http://bit.ly/iFH8fN Good times
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See? When’s the last time he did something as epic as that?
Oh thats right! That was the last time!!!
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I was BIG in to Joe Madureira. But Battle Chasers… YEARS between issues… No ending…
Fuck im!
If he finishes Battle Chasers then I’ll care again.
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I interviewed him. Had no idea about his comics. We talked about Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure instead!
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CLASSIC! You needabe lerned ,Sereels.
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That’s hilarious. He must have been baffled.
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I didnt get to read BC until years later so I knew it wou;dnt finish.
His bad work habits do not diminish from his sweet art!
Also, J.Scott Campbell, there was atime when he was my favourite. About the end of his Gen13 and during his Danger Girl.
I still like him but the more he draws the more his art seems to be a characature of his style.I bought all 3 issues of Wildsiderz, when did that finish, Jamie? When DID THAT FINISH??!!
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He’s not going to, read an interview with him the other day on Newsarama and he claims to be too busy but working on something for Marvel.
Couldn’t say what he was working on but I bet it’s Spidey!
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I’ve been longingly staring at it for days. I own all the singles and have issue zero signed.
Hard to decide, lotsa money, not that much content…
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I read an interview with him a while back and he said he wanted to finish it eventually.
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Just got an email from Sony saying “To show our gratitude for your patience and support, SOE is offering a Welcome Back program. As part of this program, you will receive 45 days of game time (30 days plus 1 day for each day of the outage), added to your Station Account. This game time applies to any game you have currently or previously activated on your Station Account.”
I’ve only ever used my Sony Account to try out that awful free Clone Wars “MMO”, so this isn’t very useful for me, right?
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Hey, free stuff is free stuff.
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Except lunch for some reason.
No one knows why…
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I’m curious as to what exactly this Terraria is I keep hearing about. I haven’t had much time to keep up with TAY this week but it’s the word that’s stood out the most to me as I’ve skimmed through.
What exactly is it and will I regret asking?
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2D Minecraft you can buy on Steam for $10.
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Minecraft in 2D with less building, more monster killing.
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I wanna say 2d minecraft but the building part of the game is shit. Im sorry to say. But the mass amount of tools, weapons, armour and magical ability is sweet. The exploration is also cool. I’m gonna build stuff in minecraft and throw my enchanted boomerang in terraria. Viva la revolution.
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I think I might give this one a miss. Too many games and not enough time as it is.
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Ok guys, I’ve done it.
I couldn’t resist any longer.
I bought The One Ring (With the help of Mark and Jamie for lending me an ebay account and $35 respectively).
Also, some sexy stuff is going on with the redesign. 😀
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Hurray!
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They’re replacing the current background with a picture of Mark in his natural pantsless state.
I consider this a definite improvement.
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Or maybe a wallpaper of Loops chest hair.
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Loop’s Chest over Mark’s Legs, but who do we go to for the arms, feet, and head?
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Tadmods arms. They’re probably so long that they’ll come down to the bottom of Marks legs 😛
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@Dawdle: It does not.
@Blaghman: Forget what I said to her… it does.
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As in the the one ring to rule them all, Oh Lord TadMod of the burning eye?
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Indeed it is! I’ll post up photos once it comes in! 😀
Facebook group chat can be used to try and organise group holidays. Now I know this.
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Facebook group chat can also be used to annoy you beyond belief… >:(
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Very true, but I’ve just managed to get a reasonable sized group of people to agree to go on an overseas holiday.
Possibly two holidays, one to Bali soonish and one to Korea in Summer (our Summer, Korea’s Winter). The rest of it is just working out when to go so that everyone can get there.
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BOWM-CHIKKA WAH WAAH!
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I tried to post the look of disapproval in response, but I kept getting errors.
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http://www.herorealm.com/images/Previews/APRIL2008/CLANDES003.jpg
This will cheer you (me) up!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzUqWmQkbTc
I want my sandwich to be cut like that next time.
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Simons hysterical laugh at 0:16 makes that entire video worthwhile! 😛
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You got to admit, that guy’s hair is pretty ridiculous.
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Ok I am heading home so I’ll just copy/paste here.
I apologise Pessimist I only have the 5 not the 7.
Loved
Construction:
The RAT is very well made with brushed aluminium and high quality plastic with a matte finish.
It feels solid and durable, button clicks are satisfying and it glides smoothly across the mousepad.
And it looks like something out of a sci-fi movie.
It is quite a large, wide mouse and more weighty than my old logitech. This, along with often needing to use the thumb to press buttons instead of gripping the mouse
makes it more suited to a palm hold and using small physical motions with high sensitivity.
Customisation:
Being the dirty console peasant that I am, when faced with the array of options and macro settings in the profile editor I was initially
a bit daunted. But it is pretty straightforward and includes a link to an online manual if you get stuck.
Four DPI modes can be set up with separate levels for X & Y and toggled through on the fly by the button under the scroll wheel.
Multiple profiles can be created with different sensitivity and three sets of button mapping arranged with anything from simple key commands to complex macros.
The three modes can be switched between via a button with handy colored lights – good for quickly changing games or even different classes in one game.
Physically the palm-rest can be extended and weights added or removed as comfort desires.
Hated
Precision Aim Button.
This button when pressed reduces the sensitivity by a customisable amount – theoretically good for precision sniping or the like.
Unfortunately the button is located a bit too far forward from where the thumb naturally rests so you need to adjust your grip to use it. It also needs
a rather firm press and hold so using it quickly and precisely a bit awkward.
You cannot set another button to do this either unfortunately.
LOUD!
The two regular clickers are quite loud. If your PC is in a public room such as a lounge or you even just play with low volume it will get old quickly.
To sum it up, it’s a solid mouse for an FPS player wanting a bit of style and customisation. Players of other genres would probably want more buttons.
More expensive models are available with more chassis customisation and higher DPI.
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I really like how Mario went moustacheless this time. People thought it wasn’t going to work but I think Sega really pulled it off.
Wait…we are talking about Megaman, right?
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Sooo… It’s basically one of these: http://bit.ly/Qcw98 ?
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More like this http://walyou.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/warmouse-1.jpg 😛
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You know, I think we’re going to break the 2000 comments barrier this week. We’ve been averaging just over 400 comments a day, and we only have 400 to go till we hit the big 2-0-0-0… 😀
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How does you know howz many commentsez you do?
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We’ve being averaging 400 as a group, not 400 each 😛
I go here to find out how many comments TAY has. http://www.kotaku.com.au/tags/talk-amongst-yourselves/-
Sorry, thought you meant you. I was worried about how much I’ve posted!
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Do we all get a gold star if we break 2000?
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I thought we were going to get a pic of Chuloopa’s nipple beside our name… 😛
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well as nice as that’d be. Kotaku.com.au was blocked at work recently, and I reckon an increase in nipples might not help the case in keeping it unblocked.
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I dread the day this comes….
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Gold star? I usually get told off when I break things 🙁
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http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/05/my-favourite-nintendo-console-wasnt-even-made-by-nintendo/
Hey James Mac the first, I think I’m funny…I’m not!
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You know, I typed it… I looked at it and said
“That doesn’t look right”… so I ran it through spell check, nothing.Soon as it was posted, I figured out why.
Tad, are we going to be able to edit our posts… at least to correct spelling?
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Hey I’m the king of bad spelling, I just wanted you to laugh at my joke…pity it wasn’t funny.
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AMY POND!!!
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DR WHO
I DON’T KNOW WHY WE ARE SHOUTING
LOUD NOISES -
Hottest Doctor companion ever.
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True dat.
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No love for Rose?
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She was awrigh’ guv, but no Amelia Pond.
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Her massive chompers scare the poo outta me!
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She’s not the Doctor’s companion, shes MY companion! /enddream
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But but but… Martha Jones!
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Just gonna throw this out there:
Captain Jack Harkness is an attractive man.-
I got a mate , looks just like him.
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Please introduce me to this mate you speak of.
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Some of you may have witnessed me trolling on Facebook. That was the result of dealing with a completely worthless person for years. Glad to be rid of her, although it felt a little unfair to get into a written argument with them. Oh well, I had my fun.
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Trolling on Twitter, not Facebook. My Facebook is locked down.
OK, my manga and anime loving friends.
We have discussed at lengths what shows we love, and why we love them, but now I’m after something more specific. I want recommendations. For Me. Because I’m important!
I’m considering reading Bleach (I read a bit of it a long time ago (and it was stuff back when the story was simple)), would people recommend this?
What I tend to read is fairly mainstream stuff (weirdest would be either 666 Satan or Hellsing), so uhh, yeah (And while I mostly go for the action oriented ones, I can handle slightly less violent stuff). Any recommendations?
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Off the top of my head:
Gunslinger girls
Elfen lied
Code GeassI need to watch more anime, but those are some of my favourites that aren’t the blindingly obvious ones.
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Elfen Lied is a pretty out there show. Equal parts Chobits and mind-surprise-sex. I liked it, but it’s something you have to know what you’re in for before you start watching.
Code Geass seems like a good idea, I enjoyed the first season of the anime and the second season wasn’t too bad either.
Disclaimer: never read any manga in my life, but I’ve watched a handful of popular anime because they didn’t suck. Death Note is awesome.
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Death Note had probably the best production values I’ve seen for a tv anime. It was so pretty. I watched about 2/3rds of it, then lost interest when something rather major happened, which I’m sure you can guess.
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I think I know which point you’re talking about, and if it is, that’s actually the point where I consider the story finished. The rest is just an unnecessary sequel to cash in the fact that people were interested in the characters and concept.
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I was just having a quick squiz at Wikipedia, and saw “anime, which is notorious for featuring nudity and strong graphic violence” for Elfen Lied. Well, I’ve been sold on that!
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Yeah, the anime goes from ‘oh ok’ to ‘OMGWTF’ in the first 10 minutes.
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<3 Elfen Lied. Just don't don't watch it if you're expecting anyone else to walk in on you.
Other anime I love is Berserk, GunXsword, Last Exile and Serial Experiments Lain.
I've read a few FMA manga and most of Berserk which is probably my favourite because it was my introduction to anime and manga series.
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Are you looking for manga or anime?
I tend to stay away from the big 3 (Bleach, Naruto, One Piece) not because they’re bad or anything, there’s just a lot of content that I don’t have time for.
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I both read Manga and watch Anime, although I haven’t done the latter in a while (not since FMA Brotherhood ended). I already read Naruto, and I avoid One Piece on the principal that the 4Kids version of it was terrible (not a very good reason, I know). But I both watched and read Hellsing, I watch Naruto prior to the timeskip, and have read it since, watched both FMAs, and read a bit of the manga, so, yeah, I’m cool with doing either…
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Nabari no ou is a good series, short (12-13 eps), action oriented (ninjas), and have both dubs and subs (covering all the bases)
I thought it was a prety good series
GEORGE ROMERO MUST DIE!
That is all.
Question: would anyone buy my $50 GAME gift card? Or trade it for an equal value EB gift card? I received it for my birthday, but I also have EB credit, and I would like to get the inFamous 2 Hero edition. Or should I just stand next to the game counter and wait for a person to buy a game with cash and beg them to swap?
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I seriously reckon the swapping idea is good – if you’re confident enough to ask a random stranger 😉
Also, @jamesmacusedmyhandle
That looks *amazing*. I’ve just ordered it off Book Depository! Lee, Miller and Williams, when combines, make the most amazing stuff. I also remembered that you linked me Hush Unwrapped a few months ago, which I promptly pre ordered.
I came across this video about the fighting game community and sponsorship and I definitely recommend watching it if you’re even slightly interested in that sort of thing. From streaming games, to growing communities and how things change along the way.
There’s some interviews with top players like Alex Valle and Justin Wong, the members of Team HORI and also some stuff from Marn (who infamously left team EG after being one of the first sponsored players because it wasn’t working out for him). There’s also some other big fighting game names in there like Mike Ross, James Chen and Ultradavid, although I don’t think mentioning their names is going to convince anyone to watch it.
Good video, but it is ~25min long. When you’ve got a bit of time spare, sit down and watch.
Soo it’s 10.30 ish at night and I’m trolling TAY. I have to get up early and I’ve done 10 hours overtime this week meaning I have worked 50 hours this week. But strangely it’s been a good week, work sometimes gets stressful when we are so busy but when that happens I just jump on kotaku for 10 minutes and I feel all better. I just watched Neil gamins dr who episode and really liked it. Thanks blaggy you were right. Ah yes question to add continuity to my rant
Blaghman: how do you go at snes Mortal combat? I didn’t even know you could fatality someone i’n that game?
Jimu: what other daredevil books can you recccommend?
Jamesmacusedmyhandle: sir I have not sent my ds yet I will eventually get around to it?
Qumulys: how come you are so nice?
Strange: how did you get so good at sewing cool things?
Chuloopa: what is this backbreaker you speak of?
Dawdle: do you think that if I made coffee I could put little marshmallows i’n it?
Sughly: can me and tad be beta testers for Anna s room?
Anoynomouspessimist: why are you pessimistic?
Fatshady: I bought trials hd on disc comming from zavvi, how do I wins at it?
Tadmod: how tall are you? Everyone says your like a giant
Bish: what is the strangest pop culture reference you can think off?
Trjn: how do you say your name right ?
Well that’s gotta keep some conversation flowing!
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I’m 200.5 cm tall 🙂
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Holy. Crap.
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I am pessimistic because then I am never disappointed 😉
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/ˈtroʊdʒən/
That wasn’t very helpful was it?
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That helps a lot actually:
tr – as in tricky
oʊ – as in goat
dʒ – as in badger
ən – as in buttonSo it’s obviously pronounced tricky-goat-badger-button. Duh.
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You just dramatically increased the odds of me starting my next Batman video with “Greetings world, I’m Tricky-goat-badger-button Rabbit and this is Batman: Arkham Asylum.”
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Why not? Coffee with marshmallows would be wicked, I wonder why no one has promoted that yet..
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Many coffee places will put marshmallows in your coffee if you ask. Try ordering a mocha with a marshmallow instead of sugar. Good times.
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Depends on who I’m talking to?
I was playing Company of Heroes the other night and referenced Katy Perry (well, one of her songs. I think it was Hot and Cold). No one picked up on it and I was sad. Of course, I guess they were all dudes, so that probably explains some of it.
Generally speaking though, big fan of David Bowie in Labyrinth references. Just because David Bowie in Labyrinth is just so wtf.-
I love David Bowie in Labyrinth. He’s so wonderful.
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Aww, thanks. I’m kinda surprised at myself but I think it must be in my genes as my grandmother was a dressmaker.
And Trjn is, I believe said like trojan. Just call him Bunny like I do, it’s easier. 😉
I would like to know why Mr. Anonymous is pessimistic, too.
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Trojan, trijin, bunny, rabbit, wabbit, that sarcastic bastard, or Adam are all names that I respond to. There are varying levels of just how correct they are :p
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I feel left out that I didn’t get asked anything ;(
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Neither did I. High five!
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Same… 😐
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Don’t worry, I was mentioned but I have no idea why! (The second time, I understand everything about Doctor Who)
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/hi5’s you both
now I feel better.
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First off im proud of you. Buying Trials HD is one of the hardest things a person can do (knowing that it will ruin parts of your life from here on!)
Also you get Limbo and splosion man I think. Limbo was good fun.
As for how do you wins at this…
To start with, dont watch replays yet. As this game has been out for well over a year, there are some pretty advanced techniques that the top riders (top 5000 replays are visible only)are going and for a newbie it will actually make you aim too high too fast (and ultimately you will feel defeated).
I suggest doing all tracks to the end of medium on bronze medal. Then go back and attempt to get gold on each of them before going further in the game. I certainly would ensure that you have gold or silver on all tracks to medium before attempting hard tracks.
Pay attention to the tutorials and please ask for some guidance. I dont play that much anymore but I can share some good pointers that will give you a good head start.
I still love this game so am always more than happy to get new people into it.
Also would love to hear your thoughts as you start playing it. I really enjoy laughing at new players making simple but amazingly frustrating mistakes.
Also dont be like Tad attempting to complete an extreme track on his first sitting. It did not end well at all.
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Hey mate,
Backbreaker is a KICKARSE unlicensed gridiron game that Fatshady got me on toIf you like sports games with a difference, this is a must
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfNizuMV7LE&feature=fvst
The review is pretty spot on and lets you know what to expect, so while there is a lot of negative, it’s still a hell of a lot of fun, and an update has fixed quite a few problems since.Steep learning curve, but once you get through it, it’s wicked 😀
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I’m not always nice! I cracked a poopy this week in a post about second hand games. But mostly I’m nice, so thankyou good sir 😀
Apologies if FS has already posted about this, but there’s been a minor crisis on the Minecraft server, and we’d appreciate it if all the players could post their Minecraft names, as we’re terrible at remembering who you are, and if you don’t you’ll get repeatedly kicked by the server…
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Sorry if I was a bit short at times last night.. I was busy investigating a box of matches when this all went down… #LANoire
(Damn twitter)
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Your sudden addiction to LANoire is realllllly making me want it badly. I’ve only just completed all the new tracks on Trials HD I got, even the extreme ones, so now going back and golding them all where possible. I told myself I would wait on LANoire, until its on sale or I at least finish RDR. But it just seems like such a cool world to be in!
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Dont get caught in the hype man. It is good so far but as long as you can avoid spoilers then I’d wait. It will be cheaper and you have some quality games already.
I only picked it up because I had a $50 JB voucher otherwise I’d be waiting with the rest of you.
Go for GOLD man. Gotta let me know when you’re playing. I know i cant see replays but I enjoy playing a track at the same time as someone… I like seeing how much I can beat you by *smug bastard smirk*..
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KOTAKU MINECRAFT SERVER UPDATE!
Unfortunately, it seems the server has had a hiccup or something and has lost the list of those of you on the whitelist for server access.
Should be quick to get you all back in, all that is needed for you minecraftians to either post your username in here, or if your unhappy to do that, you can also email it to me jeffkent (at) pacific (.) net (.) au
Sorry for any inconvenience!
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Username: TadMod
I hope nothing too bad happened!
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Username: lamboman007
Password: **********************
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I know your password! 😛
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Is it hunter2?
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I’m pretty sure it’s ‘lambomanisgodasaurus’. Unless I counted the stars incorrectly which is not entirely unpossible.
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I think I’ll use that as my new handle 😛
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LOL!
You can go hunter2 my hunter2-ing hunter2!
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surely you couldn’t forget me!! 😉
username: welbot
Jocon89
Username rossfear12
phew, good that we got to the bottom of that, I was freaking out last night! I thought someone had evicted me from my tower of pessimism before I had begun to furnish it XD
dawdleau
: )
I’m pondering coming back, Enduwolf
Tech_Knight
Pretty straight forward
harlitrix
🙂
I saw your to’ing and fro’ing on twitter this morning, haha. Think I’ll play some late night MC after I get home tonight.
Tech_Knight
Simple 🙂
I think I have most of you back on ready to go. Need to find GrandmasterBFunks proper username, and there’s one more missing I think who I’ve forgotten at this stage, but still love dearly…..
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Not incriminating myself here on who I may or may not have forgotten, but can I check Mark if your user name in MC was “Serrels”? Then everyone will be ready to go except funky.
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Yeah dude – was Serrels!
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Awesome, now that we have your attention, why have you not been back in a while. there is much fun to be had.. Also you need to help me bring in the special guest I was arranging…
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I hope that was me you’re talking about.
Username: shyaru
Sorry if I’m late to the party, I’ve been getting x-rays and blood tests all week!
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I had you in, but as Shylar?, but I’ve fixed it up now thanks. Hows the xrays and blood going? Not too sick I hope!
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Going alright! More days off work though anyway I guess 😉
Thanks for noting me down, I really wish I could change my Minecraft name… guess I could just buy another account?
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grandmasterbfunk
been meaning to get back on…
Hey Pessimist (cause you’re not really anonymous these days), were you going to run that Terraria server 24/7, or just when you’re at home? Because me being the brilliant genius that I am left all my gold, silver, iron, copper, gold coins, silver coins and copper coins in a piggy bank in the server. I’m brilliant, aren’t I? 😛
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oops!
I am going to have to fiddle around because our main server is running a linux build and it was running off my rig earlier. Not sure if I’ll be able to run this 24/7 unless they release a linux terraria server.
Let me do some research and see what I can come up with.
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Why don’t you set up a VM? And to get past the “you can only be logged into Steam on one computer at a time” thingy, you could just run Steam in offline mode on the server.
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Did Mr Serrels get my last couple of emails? The last one I didn’t expect a reply, but I think I was for the previous one, yet I’ve heard nothing!
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Hey duder? The NOM NOM one?
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no no.. prior to my two nom nom mails
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Let’s get past 2000 comments early on today 😀
Today, SpamTod Returns.
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There’s no way you won’t get the 2000th post. You’ll just trash anyone that gets in your way.
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NOOOOOOOOOO
Get him, Tech Knight, welbot and other robotic users!-
*charges up blast on left hand, while his right wrist opens and reveals the lightsaber, pushing it out to his hand* There will be no need for that SpamTod
Should you choose to begin, I shall have you know I have 1,376 satellites in geosynchronous orbit around the earth, ready to triangulate and annihilate your location with an accuracy rating of 99.999%. And in the VERY unlikely chance that it misses, you will meet my blaster to your face. “How powerful is it?” you may ask… well do you know Destructor the big robot from futurama? Thanks to my blaster that’s the second one cuz my blaster completely vaporised the first one in a single shot.
Your move… human!
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Yeah! And I have a rotten fish ready to be thrown at you! Take that you silly huma-oh wait, I’m a human too [sheepish-grin]™
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Given the surface area of the earth is 510,000,000 km2, your inaccuracy of 0.001% is an area of 5100 km2. You have no hope!
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The only time it did miss was cuz Steve Jobs held his iPhone wrong… I never tried again cuz that level of stupidity in a human doesn’t even warrant the amount of energy required to fire a second time
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Secondly, I had to go that .001% off cuz the humans of this world call it “world domination” and it’ll piss a lot of humans off if I had 100% rating. I was only going to use it to cull humans and raise the global IQ of Earth by 40 points at LEAST. Why did they think ~I~ am the “bad guy” here? Granted you might have 10% of the world’s population left remaining on Earth but come on! You’ll all be better off this way! 😛
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So peoples, who’s up for a little Red Dead Redemption 360 action tonight?
GT: Rafor al Carr
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Sounds do-diddly-oable.
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My RDR plans did not involve me having LA Noire…. That is not an easy thing to give up on my limited gaming time available… Well see. I should be online from 9pm so if you start bugging me I;ll try and join in for a bit!!
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Bug.
Buggity Bug.
Bug Bug Buggity Buggity Bug.
Bug.
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Possibly.
Got a mic yet?
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I have three headsets and two contollers to work through tonight. If none of them work I will begin cursing so loudly you won’t need the mic to hear me.
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I have a work dinner, but as soon as I get home I’ll get online.
It’s my first RDR Multi, and I’m told I cannot take Percival (my war horse) with me… so I shall be riding a mule… or something.-
… and I assure you that if I see you riding a Mule I will quickly perform a Mercy killing of it and then lend you my horse. Anyone who has played on line with me (even when I was on a mule) will confirm that I shoot them on sight!
Just saying don’t name it or anything.
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I was going to call it Hans Mule-man.
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Mine was called Burro the Bumbling Barbarian.
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In interest of keeping a concise and accurate social calendar (but mainly to keep the comments coming) is anyone interested in a Sydney get-together on the 4th June in the evening (post 6pm)? I know it’s been mentioned a few times but we’re not really any closer to a resolution so I’m trying again.
And other than the Timezone above Paddy’s Markets or the arcade just up from the Star Bar (where I held the 3rd high score on the Elvis pinball machine before it was rotated out!), does anyone have an idea/preference of venue?
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I can come! I’m not fussy about the venue.
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I know we had a post a few pages back where Dawdle was trying to get a handle on people’s availability.
I’m fine for the 4th.
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Bugger. I think it’s my best mate’s Bidet…
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I thought we’d settled on late June for the Uni goers?
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26 June should be the tentative date for the ‘official’ Sydney meats 2.0.
While this is just a non-official meet-Endu while he’s not in Queensland sort of thing. : )
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JAmes Macs(yes both)
Saw your convo on page 8 and I’d just like to say…
I SO WANT VESPA, I don’t care if they’re for non-manly men.
I’ve wanted one ever since FLCL!!
FOOLY COOLY!!!
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Man really?
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Heh, someone just linked ME to comics alliance!
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Jimu, please relinquish your manbadge.
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lol, I suddenly had an image of the manly scarred Jimu from Jamie’s manga piece… riding a vesper.
Kawasaki Ninja will always have my heart.
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You are mistaken, ser.
The minute I was given YOUR man-badge I threw it to the curb with all the other unwanted garbage!-
Because you were fearful of its immense power, no doubt.
You felt the strength, the sheer testosterone, the power that emanated forth – and you flung it away in fear.
That’s ok. Not many can handle my man.
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Close, I flung it away in stomach pains from the immense smell.
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As they were built using parts from Italian fighter planes… you could claim that your a man, in that your embracing the spirit of war heroes.
But no-one would believe you because it’s a vespa, and Italy had no war heroes.
ITS FRIDAY YAY. Tonight i will be staying up late and playing terraria. I will achieve 10 mana stars.
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My goal for today will be to craft a worthy weapon.
Either that or break into that Shadow Orb I can’t get to.
Also, worms are jerks.-
Why do you continuously break my heart like this </3
I just want to be
close to yooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuu
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You know, that reminds me of something…
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Ohhh, no, I’m not clicking that. Just because you’ve masked the “opph0” with a bit.ly link doesn’t mean that you will win this round!
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This one doesn’t have the opph0 in it. It’s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOLsKylOkJU 😛
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Tolsky is worse. It has hypnotic dancing!
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I find it amusing that you can recognise the URL for that when I can’t.
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Well that settles it then, you are now placed in my “ignore link posts” folder. Enjoy human!
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He’s the venus fly trap of the friday internetz! Speaking of which, how awesome is the fly trap! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzfQwXEqYaI
BACON.
/flex
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ME LikeY!
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Charity of the gods!:
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/05/19/moose-baumann-colorist-healthcare/
I am greatly relieved to see that the CDC is taking the upcoming threat of zombie apocalypse seriously.
http://emergency.cdc.gov/socialmedia/zombies_blog.asp
I believe it is now time to nut up or shut up
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I gotta work on my cardio…
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That is awesome. I’m surprised a government department was allowed to get away with that.
YOGSCASTFANSSHADOWOFISRAPHEL#22ISOUT
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OMGWTFWHYDOTHEYALWAYSRELEASETHEMWHILEI’MATWORK!!!! 🙁
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It’s okay. I haven’t watched it yet either, just saw the video in my youtube subs box.
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I watched it and lolled heartily. Got scary towards the end!
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On hold for an age only to get put through to a voicemail that gives me instructions on how to leave a voicemail.
To leave a message, press 9. *presses 9* After the tone, please leave a message.
Whoever designed this nonsense needs to be hunted down and made to endure eternal torment. I think it would be fitting to make them have to go through an endless array of options that don’t lead to a real person and give them redundant instructions.
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When I start up a huge business (dunno what I’ll sell yet) I’m definitely going to have The Journey of the Sorcerer as the waiting music. 😀
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The almighty Oatmeal, is there anything ranty not illustrated by you?!
I;m having a sh♥t day, gonna go and have a sh♥tty tantrum in the sh♥tty backroom now…sh♥t!
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This should help you feel better http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snwg4MwuLr8&feature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_235451
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Its an improvement….
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Youtube? I can’t see vids at work…FAIL
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Do you work for city wok?
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Um… Will this cheer you up?
http://bit.ly/m6gZ3I-
You get a gift of your choice from my aging comic collection, only not cos Im a poor gunt.
Well done!
You were successful in making me smile! -
… Or this?
http://bit.ly/lIQLKF
(Only have Paint at work)-
Good choice on EWJ artwork, not sure who painted those but they RAWRK!!!
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Turns out I am a genius after all. I just bought a piggy bank in my SP Terraria world, and well what do you know, there’s all my cool junk I left in the servers piggy bank 😀
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It’s your new Godosaurus powers.
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TerarararaRARARARAARGH!
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HEH!
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I now demand a drawing of your face while you are saying/typing that in real life.
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This morning is going very slowly. Maybe I should drink some more coffee.
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And now I feel guilty every time I buy my coffee from Gloria Jeans… it’s literally the closest cafe to my home : (
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You should feel guilty about going to Gloria Jeans.
Go the extra distance, find somewhere that doesn’t suck.
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Some of the coffee at uni is much better, but it’ll be cold by the time I walk back home. : (
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Insulated mugs are a godsend. If you’re willing to lug one about, it will solve your problem quite handily.
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Shall consider using one…
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I cant find an earlier post of mine ( i really didn’t try to be honest) but in case it got lost, I might repost.
I’d really like to have a monthly (perhaps biweekly) post to show how creative all my favourite Taybies are! We can either do it in TAY, or perhaps if it goes well enough a proper post on the big boys page! Stranges sewing is an awesome example of this, but it can be anything you’ve created, say perhaps FatShady’s Trials cake he made, or a model you’ve built, a little plastic man you painted, maybe even something your kids have made in school! Also, the arts of Mr. Delivers and all the other great artists on here, photoshops as well perhaps!
I think it would be a great way to show of some of the talent in a bigger way so it gets the recognition it deserves. 😀
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That sounds like a great idea, and would encourage more TAY’ers to get involved with their respective skillz.
Pretty amazed at the creative talents we all have.
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I think I suggested something similar to Mark a while back. Seeing as Buttercup is about to resume shortly and I’m also doing the Batman Arkham Asylum LP and that webcomic, why on earth would I object to having somewhere to show that stuff off?
Also, seeing other people’s work gathered in one place would be rather nifty as well, but mainly the showing off bit.
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Mr. Delivers?
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You always deliver, you know this! 😛
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Ohhhh haha, you mean me! Man I’m slow…
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I agree with this wholeheartily! 😀
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Change Community Kudos to Community Round up or something, and Tad or Mark can compile and post it there. Brool Plan, Co?
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I like this idea Qumulys.
Let me have a week think about it to figure out the best way to make it work.
You guys do so much amazing stuff, I think something like this would help give you guys the recognition you deserve and help grow the community.
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haha we can call it Kotaku Kreativity Korner!! 😉
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The KK… oh wait…
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LOL! Yeah, makes the idea look not so good any more…
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Lol, yeah, that name wont stick now! Or maybe it will!
How about, the “Kotaku Crafting Tayble”?
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Oh yeah, this sounds awesome 😀
I’m gonna stick wit da CCGs, partly because IT MUS LIVE! and partly because I won’t have to try to hard but will still be flexing my drawing muscles.
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I pass the baton onto you, Jimu!
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*grab*
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um… that’s MY baton.
Plzletgokthx.
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I should man-kiss you
you’re an ideas man
That’s an awesome idea!
Bored this weekend? Here’s a challenge for you, check this out. Its the world record largest megapixel picture ever made at 111 megapixels. The zooming in range is unbelievable, I challenge you to find Waldo! (or Wally if your so inclined). Yes, it zooms in that far!
http://www.sevilla111.com/default_en.htm
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Wow that’s incredible! Small correction tho, it’s in ‘Gigapixels’ not Megapixels! 😉
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That rules, I could have spent all day looking. Had to close so I do SOME work.
Computer has the shits now, HAW HAW!!
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Holy crap…
OMG OMG OMFG!!
Snatch V Starwars
SNATCH WARS!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDKiQfBs9lo
BEST – THING – EVER!!!
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OH!
Lots of f-bombs – so prolly NSFW -
Words do not describe the awesome.
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Not even the f-bomb?…well, sh♥t!
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Can’t watch at the moment, but if they don’t have…
“Anything to declare?”
Yeah, don’t go to Endor.”
…then it’s not worth it-
No.. it doesnt have that, but boy-o-boy is it ever worth it!! haha
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Missed opportunity.
I slowly shake my head at them.
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I love Endor. Was my fave planet as a kid. Have no problem with the Ewoks either. Loved that cartoon and Gungans they aint!
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Even though it’s a MOON, how embarrasing!
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Damn man, way to shame yourself with the whole “endor is a planet” thing.
I also liked the caravan of courage movies.. anything ewok is grand 😀
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HAHAHAHA! Best video ever!
Is it just me or is the ‘US’ Kotaku link broken again? Always redirects back to Au site 🙁
Even blog.us.kotaku and blog.kotaku don’t work anymore 🙁
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Are u an aussie? That could be why.
I could never get back to gamespot.us so I stopped going.
Yesterday’s news is far too slow. -
Hello Mick, you crazy American!
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http://us.kotaku.com/ ?
If you really want the US version, you’re going to have to put “us.” in front of the kotaku bit (sans the .au of course) for every article.-
Got it!
http://blog.us.kotaku.com/BTW I’m an Aussie 😉 I just prefer reading the comments on the US site (plus it’s updated quicker) and I just read the AU articles here
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Kotaku US?
what the hell is that?!?Sounds like it would be a poor mans version of Kotaku AU
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This is why we love you, Chulpa
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Yes.. nothing to do with me making you a field marshall 😛
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As a Field Marshall, I’m not allowed to show bias… 😛
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GAH!! everything went blue for a moment?!?!
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May have been the Ad guys throwing things around. I’m not sure. You get a screenshot?
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馬克·瑟雷爾斯不愛穿褲子。
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Almost spammed this, lol!
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LOL at what the translator spat out:
“Mark · Chinese zither Leier Si does not like putting on the pants”
Just out of curiosity, are you Chinese dawdle?
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i do believe she is.. didn’t you see her pic the other day with her doppelganger?
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The doppelganger is a Japanese actress, I don’t speak Japanese 😛
To answer that, yes I’m Chinese, I speak both Cantonese & Mandarin.
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So HK or mainland? Because I don’t know many Canto speaking mainlanders.
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Guangzhou perhaps.
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Hong Kong. I usually go back there end of the year during my summer break coz my family is there.
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Can you speak English??
(I’m trying to make fun of racist Australians here, not you. My wife is Taiwanese). -
i no speak english la!
甚麼是kotaku?rofl.
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lol i reckon he secretly prefers skirts..er i mean kilts!
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A skirt is still better then actually having to see him with nothing at all.
馬克·瑟雷爾斯 has to be the best name ever.
IT EVEN HAS WALES IN IT!
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I think Google secretly believes he is Welsh as well (following the joke from Twitter ages ago…).
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Google knows everything. [nods]
When it translates to Mark Selai-Wales, eyebrows are raised 😛
By the way, I just noticed that this was in traditional characters. Might explain why I don’t understand any of it 😛
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So, I am rebuilding my PC this weekend. I have a cheap and nasty mobo that has only got 4 USB ports and a basic 3ghz processor.
My cousin is giving me a much better (seriously double the size) mobo with 8 usb ports, 2 fire wire and surround sound etc etc along with a dual core processor (like I know what that means)…
But here is my problem. I have 2gb of ram atm which is DDR3. The new mobo is much better than mine but is older, so uses DDR2.
I was wondering if any of you lovely people have any old DDR2 sitting around that you are not using and would sell/trade me for it?
As strange as it sounds, I fully expect a number of you to have a box/draw where you just can’t throw ouw PC parts and in there will be all kinds of junk, along with my DDR2 ram?
Let me know if you can assist. Mobo has 4 slots, currently I have 2 X 1gb sticks but I really need to have atleast 4gb to be happy.
Cheers,
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I’ll have a look when I get home. I’ve got a spare system that I was using for CivIV lans that I don’t need anymore.
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I’ve still got my old 1GB DDR2 RAM after upgrading my netbook.
Specs of mine:
RAM
Installed Size 1.0 GB
Technology DDR2 SDRAM – 667.0 MHz
Memory Specification Compliance PC2-5300
Form Factor SO DIMM 200-pin
Configuration Features 1 x 1 GB-
netbook ram is completely different to what he needs unfortunately
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ahhh well i’m a total newb then
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thanks mate.. yep I thought that when i read it also.
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Ohh, building a PC are you???!!!! So, so fun.
Let me check when I get home, I’ll let you know. I never throw out my old parts.
Are we doing e-peen comparisons?!?!?!? CUZ I’D LOVE TO WHIP OUT MINE
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erm… lol? 😛
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She scares me a little…
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Competitive PC gamers are craaaaaaaaaazy.
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Mine is bigger!
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My monitor is faster!
Wait, that probably isn’t a good thing (also, it may not be faster, but it’s 120hz so it does out-refresh most monitors, which is probably the lamest thing possible to be proud about)
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I sold my good ddr2 to tech knight a couple of weeks ago, but I might still have a couple of non brand sticks lying about. I’ll take a look later for ya and inform you of my findings
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Which is getting installed along with the new CPU you sold me this weekend, got the thermal paste, I’m ready to roll! 😀
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Might have 2x1gb sticks for ya FatShady.
My bro is scoping out the situation. I’ll let you know.
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Sorry Fatshady…
Weirdly enough, we have DDR, but no DDR2.
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Anything in particular? PC5300? 6400?
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I dont know… I just know it is DDR2.
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Is the world supposed to end tomorrow?
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Technically no. All the good Christian folks will be taken up to heaven so they can watch us heathens suffer (I think) seven years of hell on Earth.
So tomorrow is the beginning of the countdown clock, but more importantly, free pants day!
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I already ordered my lava surfboard!
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Well it depends on the timezone. No one ever tells us which timezone it’ll end in!
I don’t want to run out of beer before the world ends just because it decided to be Hawaiian time, not Israeli time!
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Someone told me it was on the 20th but I suppose the bible follows the US timezone.
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*rubs hands with glee*
So I thought I was very clever yesterday because I invented a new word. Ambrose was saying how he’d like to play LA Noire and as I was playing it, no more than 15 mins from his house, I suggested he should come over and watch (he didn’t).
At the end of the twitter message, I used the tag #disctease. See I thought is was so clever thinking that I combined the disc based media with another commonly used expression.
I then decided that this was my greatest achievement so wanted to start an internet sensation with it (I figure if teapotting can take off this is a sure thing!)..
So i started to write a self serving post about how awesome I am. Then i realised that I should at least consider if anyone has used this phrase before. It turned out it had. Once. Ever! What is worse it was used in the same context.
I would have been standing on stage, accepting the award for best new word invented and know I would ultimately be doomed to failure because of one comment made over a year ago.
So this post is to congratulate Blindsight for inventing a stupid word that noone cares about that wasn’t even that funny.
http://www.eventually-guild.org/~eventual/html/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=15272
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“Disctease”
I like it. Nice work.
That’s happened to me in the past, but far more than one person had thought of the words before me. Gutted. So I think your effort is fairly admirable. -
hey page 10!
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Being the creative type I always come up with “new” concepts and ideas.
I started to think that maybe I’m just good at predicting where something is going to go.
Or the other one, that I’m not an individual special precious little snowflake. I’m just the same decaying matter as evrything else.
*Big Band plays in the background*
I’ve spent my time here, I got to know the people, I know what they like, what they do, I know their dirty little secrets. But when a murder happens, you have no choice but to throw what you know out the window. I look at these people, people I’ve known for years, I can stare them in the eye, look at them straight, ask them a question, and they’ll straight up lie to me. I guess I’m too trusting, I always seem to push the wrong buttons with the suspects.
I am Blagh Man, Ham-fisted investigator.
(I have learned something very important, the only two parts of L.A. Noire I’m good at are the shooting (which is really easy), and walking around crime scenes)
Despite my troubles when it comes to perps, my superiors have seen fit to regularly promote me. I’m not complaining, a bit of extra dough should keep the missus happy, and my hip-flask full. Still, it stings a bit, for I get the feeling that maybe I haven’t earned it…
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Loving these, Blagh.
I hope you’re gathering them in a .doc or something, so you can post the collection together when you’re done.-
+1, they’re really good.
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Alien Water has this fantastic ability to make you feel like a genius when you get things right, and to make you feel like an utter gimboid when you get things wrong.
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“when you get things wrong”
Yeah, that’s my investigating in a nut-shell. I got a one-star rating on a case. ONE. STAR. I’m really enjoying it, but I swear I’d have more luck if I told my sister to play it for me. I retried a case, and asked questions incorrectly in exactly the same way as the first time. I can’t even blame technology for this, because I’m playing through good headphones, and it’s on a 1080P screen…
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I always play games with subtitles on. In LA Noire, however, they can be somewhat of a distraction…
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I usually do, but I decided not to for L.A. Noire, because you can check the conversation log anyway.
Imagine if it had closed captioning though:
“[thinly veiled lie] I have no idea what murder you’re talking about!”Then again, given how bad I am I’d probably still get stuff wrong…
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I stopped reading at “ham-fisted” because I started imagining you getting hungry, with no food shops in sight, just gnawing on your fist.
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Bish, you are a humorous fellow.
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And you sir, are a scholar and gentleman for praising me so.
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I agree with both of your statements! (I started putting my fist toward my mouth when I read what you said, before I remembered about that little thing called dignity)
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Something like this? http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/bb326/batguy_kotaku/IMG_1502.jpg
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Man, look at that red-eye. That’s, like, Terminator eyes, that is.
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He’s had those red lights in his eyes ever since he was born, glowing away in the dark. It’s not normal?
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James Mac and Jo and any other Adelaideans.
Saw your convo in depths of TAY, I’ll be at Avcon both days anyway so if anyone still wants to come by…
Apart from that i’m down for whatever. Just tell me where and when….
Oh and everyone else, LA Noire is the business!!!
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It’s kind of awkward that the first three posts on this page all feature L.A. Noire. Don’t worry everyone else, we’ll get over it, and then exclude you by talking about Minecraft, Terraria, or some other game that only a few people have…
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Moral Combat?
A game paid for and distributed by the ACL?I’m playing as a Lion.
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I canne’ mek ut.
A’m no in the countrry.
A’m all fa meetin up wit ya like, but a willne be here.-
Yer Jock sounding writing amuses me. Ah much prefer, hooevah , the Geordie dialect. It has summat te dee wi me mutha an fatha bein born in The Toon . Actually, this message is just an excuse te try oot a Geordie translator Ah just foond . Reet , Aa’ve had enough, Ahm gunna get back te worrk .
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OMG. That’s perfect.
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tree tirty tree on a turdee afternoon
free firty free on a fursday afternoon
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Woah, as of right now 1911 comments. I think we should be hitting the 2000 mark for sure.
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Time to fire up the lambo-spammer-007 😀
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*charging blaster and takes aim*
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Called GAME and none of them had the $20 PS3 Hori stick in stock!!! DAMN YOU GAME!
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MENDOZAAAAAAA!!!
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KASPAROOOOVVVVV!!!!
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Roboooot houuuse
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I’m biologically programmed to LOL anytime I read or hear the words ‘ROOBOOOOOT HOOOUSE’.
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Skiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiineeeeeeer!!!
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KAAAAAAAAAHHHNNNNN!
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KENEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
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(Someone should make a youtube of these!)
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SSSSSNNNNNAAAAAAAKKKKKKEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!
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SSSSSTTTTEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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… why don’t you order it from the site?
If you can’t go very cheap, go for the best available option. Mad Catz will definitely not let you down.
I use the 360 version of this stick and can’t name any faults with it. Shame the official store doesn’t ship to Australia, there’s almost always specials and discount codes available (watch any Team Sp00ky stream and there will be a Mad Catz discount code.
Anyone know when the next gen sony portable console is coming out? My non-gaming girl friend is thinking of getting it for her bf.
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Not soon enough.
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These guys say before Christmas:
http://www.ngp.net.au/
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Current ETA is the end of the year, although I think that’s for the US so it may take longer to arrive in Aus.
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Ah I see. My friend was linking it from JB Hi-Fi’s pre order page. I don’t think it’s right to preorder for something this early!
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*Dubstep interlude*
WOB-WOB-WOB-WOBBBBBBB
WOB-WOB-WOB-WOBBBBBBB
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***does the robot***
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I know just how to get there – THREE WORD STORY (this will only work if the Mod approves in the correct order haha)
I’ll go first:
“At Kotaku HQ..”
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*hola’s back girl*
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This is gold, I just laughed my shoes off.
Ok I laughed then slipped my shoes off…my feet are hot, OK??!
Es ist Freitag, Freitag!
Gotta get down on Freitag!
Random 3DS street pass hit #3! Happened while I was at lunch at the pub.
His name was Jonny. Recently he has been playing: System Settings. I think that says all there is to say about the 3DS games library…
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I had the same thing occur to me, I was in a shoe store when it happened, and I almost fell over from laughter…
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System Settings!!!! In 3D!!!!!
Why oh why did I not get a 3DS at launch!!???/trollface
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what he said…
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I have nearly 60 total streetpass hits. Over 50 are with the same person. Yay Perth!
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But do you have Boris, aka Mark Serrels? I think not!
(smug mode disabled)
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You’ve got the Touch.
You’ve got the POWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
Yeah!
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Have you seen the video for this on the tranformers movie DVD?
G
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Hells yes. It’s 90% of the reason I use YouTube!
I love my Transformers G1 boxset + animated movie.
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I just remembered that I dreamt last night that that boxset was in my collection and I couldn’t remember buying/borrowing it.
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hmmm…It seems Kotaku is eating up my comments *sadface*
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I’ll do a quick spam search for you old bean.
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Cheers mark, it happened for the first time last night. Kinda happens randomly.
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Is the 2000th comment approaching and SpamTod preparing his dastardly attempt to claim that comment as his own?
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Conspiracy…now I want the 2000th comment.
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With less than 40 comments to go, will enough people comment to throw the SpamTod off his game?
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47 comments and counting…
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Using my limited psychic ability, I forsee much spamming occurring in the next half hour.
Excuse me while I try and take shelter behind this hedge, for I do not like spam.
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29 by my count.
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Oh cock it. Spam time!
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SPAM, SPAM, SPAM and EGGS!
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Green eggs and spam
MARK EDIT: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! EAT IT SPAMTOD THIS IS THE 2000th POST! THIS IS WHAT YOU GET FOR BEATING ME AT EDMUS!
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And there was much rejoicing.
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BAHAHAHAHAHA!!! My one spam comment makes it hehehe!
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Bahahahaha, nice work Hugo.
*Tear in my eye* I’m proud of you.
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YEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!
And Hungo is reletively new!
Well done!
KOTAKUDOS!
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Lol! Grats!
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Dr. Seuss reference > SpamTod any time.
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Do you see what you get SpamTod!?
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Hugo is win!
Now is 3000 the new 2000?
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When do we all receive our gold star/chuloopa’s nipple image?
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Spam is quiet. Too quiet… he’s just watching. Waiting.
Spammy spammy spammy
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Spammy spammy spammy 2
Spammy spammy spammy 3
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Spammy spammy spammy 4
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Spammy spammy spammy 5
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Spammy spammy spammy 6
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Spammy spammy spammy 7
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Spammy spammy spammy8
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Spammy spammy spammy 9
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Spammy spammy spammy 10
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Spammy spammy spammy 11
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“You lose, big guy!”
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Trollololol
I am picturing the guy in the original meme’s over-smiling face towards Tad 😛
HOLY CRAP!!
EPIC RAP BATTLE!!
NAPOLEON V NAPOLEON!
omg NASL for starcraft 2 is on!!
http://www.teamliquid.net/video/streams/NASL.tv
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Oddly enough, I don’t think I’ve ever watched a SC stream before. Just not the sort of game that I’ve managed to get into.
Or maybe I just suck too much and don’t understand what is going on.
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TotalBiscuit is the best caster in it by far, kept me on the edge of my seat on the Catz vs Select match in IGN proleague. It was a glorious battle
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YESSSS I watched that last night too! *high-five (in Simon’s Portal 2 co-op voice)*
By far the most epic recent TvZ game I’ve ever seen.
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I only managed to catch the a bit of the last match there. 😛
I suck at Starcraft 2, but I watch it as e-sports like how guys watch football and NBA I suppose.
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I will basically watch any competitive sport or game if I have a decent understanding of it.
I watch AFL (Lions member for many years), NBA (when I can actually get in front of a TV when a game is on), Tour de France (which is one of the most exciting sporting events imaginable once you understand what’s going on), cricket… really, anything that involves a modicum of strategy and isn’t motor sports or rugby. With games, I only watch fighting games, because I understand those best but I also used to watch high stakes poker when I was playing that online.
Seriously, if there were streams of chess grandmasters playing, I would probably watch that.
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I demand a full investigation into comment rigging if SpamTod does somehow get the 2000th comment.
If he has been found guilty, he should be punished by being made to … um, do something undesirable!
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We’ll cut him off at the knees
*aid whispers in ear*
What do you mean “no discernable difference”?
How bloody tall is he?
Who will win?
Anyone get 2000?
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Either dawdle ,Loops or Trjn….
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HUGO!!!!
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nope, my counting is waaay off. Congrats Hugo!!!
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wooo congrats on making history Mr. Barbarian!
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*teary sniff*
Thanks guys. I tried my best, gave it my all and typed my little heart out.
Next week 3000?
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DAMNIT!
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bahahahah seems like your mod powers are against your own favour.
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Why is Grant Morrison wearing that suss looking glove??
Woops, let me re-post in the correct space (unless the wonderful Mod fixes it up for me anyway…)
I know just how to get there – THREE WORD STORY (this will only work if the Mod approves in the correct order haha)
I’ll go first:
“At Kotaku HQ..”
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At Kotaku HQ, spam spam spam…
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just around supper-time
I think that’s it. There’s no way we don’t have 2000 comments now.
We’re all insane.
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Not me, I’m SUPER-SANE(thanks Grant Morrison!).
You loose TadMod!
My work-chat distraction worked!!
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GOLD !!
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GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
I’ll get revenge for this!!!!!!
BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!
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You’ll have to make Ben “Loose”.
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Hurray for the Allure Media office participating in the battle against SpamTod.
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Not cool.
Very not cool.
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Mark: This is for you, baby
EPIC
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Oh my god, he tapped in Macho Man Randy Savage!
That was pure gold.
I kind of feel disappointed when we have to spam to reach a goal.. i mean seriously guys.. there’s still like 3 hours left…
I mean we got soooo far without resorting to spam, then all of a sudden spamtod goes nucking futs and all sense of achievement is robbed, wit ha shallow victory…
Maybe i should get you back in my story world 😛
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It was more of a mad dash to the finish line than anything else. Although I still support punishing TadMod for his actions.
Then again, Ben’s genius plan might be punishment enough.
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That’s why it’s great when he loses.
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I was gone playing soccer and look what happens… That’s it you humans are getting zapped by my blaster while you sleep!! >:(
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Uh oh, I think I see toilet ejection death for my namesake in the near future.
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hahahahaha – nah man.. you’re a barbarian.. none of that bs for you!
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Phew! That wasn’t exactly the most glorious way a barbarian could go out.
Though I suppose there could be worse ways… maybe… like really embarrassing deaths… or so gross they’re vomit inducing deaths… or maybe… I think I might just stop here before I give you any ideas.
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Loops. You know I’m a big fan of yours.. But I don’t think that I can support you on this. It is not that I disagree, but if there is anyone on this site that should NOT have an opinion or the right to one on this topic it’s me! lol.
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Only because it is relevant to us hitting the magic 2000 posts, thought i’d share this again. This was from FatSpammy’s effort, but a cool snap at the tight time all the same!
I have posted it before, but was trying to figure when we have got close before and found it.
http://i53.tinypic.com/14yaivl.jpg
I think last week was 1700 and prior to that I think we hit 1400 when i took this pic.
Awesome work team! Just awesome.
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reading over that again, i think i came off MUCH more complainy than i meant to.. lol
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Please write more Kotaku Chronicles!
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THI
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weekly, my dear, weekly 🙂
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I really, really, really want to order Alien Water now.
The reviews on TAY/Twitter are TOO HARD TO RESIST.
D:
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Remember the ad for Dog Water on Ren and Stimpy??
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From BLAMMO!
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What rolls down stairs
alone or in pairs,
and over your neighbor’s dog?
What’s great for a snack,
And fits on your back?
It’s log, log, logIt’s log, it’s log,
It’s big, it’s heavy, it’s wood.
It’s log, it’s log, it’s better than bad, it’s good.”Everyone wants a log
You’re gonna love it, log
Come on and get your log
Everyone needs a log
log log log*whistle*
LOG FROM BLAMMO-
This just makes me think of baby poos thanks to strange’s story!
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All this reminds of how long has it been since Mr. Explody has posted here?
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Nevermind, he posts below!
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Yeh I’m still around, just haven’t had a lot of time recently to be as active.
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When my mum comes over on sunday i reallly want to convince her to go into EB and act like a clueless parent..
“hi… umm… my son.. for his birthday… he umm… mentioned some game… Alien Water??? it just came out?? on the Abox, Xbox, Cbox… whatever it’s called?… by popstar???”
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Hahahaha!
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LOL! So awesome.
I know right? Curses to them! Just a few more weeks and I game all I want! HURRY UP AND FINISH ASSIGNMENTS/EXAMS.
Derp.
Do what I did, order it online, from overseas so that it takes 2-ish weeks to get here!
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*cries*
Alien Water is a sexy beast. The faces are suprisingly good (I know that’s the major hook for the game, but still!). And you can’t beat the smug feeling of catching someone out in a lie.
Man, I just read the banking article, and now read through all your spam and talk of Alien Water. You guys are all so crazy. Which is why I love you.
The topic for discussion is PS3 maintenance.
I recently won an NTSC 60GB PS3 off eBay. It hasn’t arrived yet, but I want it to survive as long as possible, so I would appreciate any tips you have for ensuring the longevity of my new prize possession.
For exampls,
* Stand it up, or lie it down?
* Are mountable external fans available and appropriate (I know, for example, that these things actually can accelerate RROD on xBoxs, wondering if any tips for PS3s apply?)?
* What care do I need to take with it, given that it’s a completely different power supply? Can I switch just the power supply cable and run it as if it was an ordinary AU console?
* Best place to stock up on old-school NTSC PS1 and PS2 games? 🙂
Thanks all in advance.
(Also, 2000 comments, sheesh… I spend all my free time reading, and thus get no time for posting. That’s my excuse and I’m sticking with it)
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Lie it down.
Fans are available but unnecessary, I know multiple people with launch model PS3s that have never encountered heating issues.
Not sure on the power supply thing. Have a friend who uses a Japanese PS3 and he just plugs into a converter that goes into the wall.
eBay.
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Here is what I do to my consoles, and so far, only my ps2 broke(and it broke a bout 4 years after we bought it. Even then, I think it’s the disc drive’s fault.). Lying down, with lots of ventilation area. Vacuum it every first weekend of the month, and pow, you’ll be happy. My PS3 is approaching it’s 4th birthday and I’ve never had a problem with it yet.
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I am JELLLY!
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That makes 2 of us… one day.. one day i’ll have a PS3 😀
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Me too, when PS5 comes out!
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I’m stoked for GT6… best launch title ever (even if it is delayed a few times).
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what he said…
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You’ll probably want to try limit play sessions, or at least give it a bit of a break if you’ve got a whole day free for gaming.
I usually try do a half hour of off time for 2 hours of gaming, but if the fan starts getting noisy, I try to find somewhere to save and turn it off quickly.
You’ll want to be careful with the 60GB models too; apparently they’re more prone to YLODs because the Emotion chip (or whatever it is) used for emulating PS2 games makes the system overheat faster. Or something. -
Thanks for that advice everyone. I’m lucky if I get an uninterrupted 30 minutes, so long play sessions are unlikely to be an issue 🙂
Good to know re: power plug – I already have a universal adaptor at home.
Now, for the big one: WHERE BEST TO BUY GAMES…? 🙂 I’m obviously familiar with eBay, and I know PlayAsia and Estarland are decent with PS1 and PS2 games… any others?
(Also, don’t be too jelly, or I scream [get it?])
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DOOD!
Never heard of eStarland before, how can PSX games be so cheap???HOW??
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Why I went the extra mile to get an NTSC system. The old games are —sooooooo— much cheaper in USA, where they never seem to have gotten rare 🙂
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for the power thing, if you a have playstation one or 2, it actually uses the exact same power cable as them!
i now have multiple spots in my house where i can plug my ps3 into wihtout having to move wires 🙂
200 comments… best way to celebrate?
Jonathan Coulton!
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So… we’re going to need 10 or 11 of these then…? 🙂
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J9KRZ0PnAs&feature=relmfu
my god how i love this song… just listen to it without the clip.. 😛
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That…
…is ridiculously catchy… wow. Amazing!
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In… my… head…
TOM CRUISE IS TOM CRUISE CRAZY -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTJEtMSuMqg
some more JoCo love 😀
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How are gonna celebrate when we get 2000 comments? 😛
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*cartman face*
GOD DAMMIT YOU GUYS!!!2000!!!
GAWD!! FAIL BAIT!!1
mmmm, don’t think the Bacon in the chicken burger I just had for lunch was cooked….
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CHOO CHOO!! ALL ABOARD THE SALMONELLA TRAIN!!
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I hate that train.. the last stop is always ‘toilet bowl’
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Depends on your ticket, sometimes it goes to a morgue.
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See how funny this guy is!
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HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
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Now if I only I could drink hard liquor at work. That always solves any food hygiene problems. You can kill everything before it gets you.
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Question to Kotaku. Anyone know where I can get cheap MTG cards that aren’t totally damaged or foreign cards?
I’m kind of cautious about buying on eBay because I’ve heard a lot of those cards are just re-printed fakes.
I found my collection last week and I’ve been getting back into the game.
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Are you after specific cards or just cards in general?
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Nothing specific really.
A lot of places I’ve found only sell booster packs for the newest sets.
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I have whole bunch of cards from around ’06 (Around the “Guildpact” era). Boosters, starters, etc.
The vast majority are opened but unused.
You’re in Sydney right? If you come to a Sydney Meat I’ll bring some along (No idea how many I have, but it’s a probably a full shoebox)-
Awesome. Is a second meetup planned?
I had to miss out on the first one 🙁
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It’s in the works. Keep an eye on Dawdle’s comments.
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Sorta. My brother just bought a whole bunch online for next to nothing. I’ll check with him and post back here. Watch this space!
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Awesome, let me know if they are quality. And if they load up the cardcount with heaps of doubles/triples ect.
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Not answering his phone… but I know that they were effectively recompiled boosters of near-new cards, drawn from a whole range of eras, that you buy in chunks of 10 or so at a time. He was pretty happy with what he got out of it.
Will definitely get you an answer next Monday, if not by the end of today!
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I have your answer: Good Games sell all kinds of stuff. In particular, he picked up the Repack Boosters (24-pack):
“These Boosters have the same breakdown as a normal MtG booster – 11 commons, 3 uncommons, 1 RareRandomly put together from cards from any set between Legends and current!
Boosters are sealed inside a team bag”
You can get 24 of these (= 360 cards) for $22!
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I’ve got singles from both http://online.goodgames.com.au/ and http://www.gamesempire.com.au/index.php?_a=viewCat&catId=257 before, there were other places too I think but don’t have them bookmarked any more. But yeah, if you google mtg singles and make the search for Australia you get a fair amount of good places. There was one that would only charge 50c for postage. Don’t remember which one though 🙁
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When I was first collecting the cards I found this toy store at the Top Ryde shopping centre (before they demolished it) that would just have a big box full of cards in about packs of 20 tied together with rubber bands for $3.
The packs were 95% commons, but the awesome thing was that they were from every set imaginable (I even picked up a few cards from the Arabian nights expansion)
That was seriously the best store. I would have bought every pack they had, if it weren’t for the fact that I was about 13 years old at the time and had no money. The store closed shortly before the centre was demolished and I’ve never seen another store do the same thing since.
If you live in the Melbourne area, you can have these cards if you can come pick them up:
http://explodingstudios.com/general/cards.jpg
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Sadly no. I live in Sydney 🙁
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If those cards are still on offer. Can I get a friend from Melb to come get them?
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Yep, send me an email at my gmail address [mrexplody] and we can organise a time.
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Only 1 week and 1 day till the OzHadou Nationals.
I AM NOT PREPARED
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What is that? What games are you playing?
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Australia’s longest running fighting game tournament. I’ll be entering the Tekken 6 tournament.
You could say that I’ll be Tekken it to the next level.
Or Tekken a beating.
Are you single, taken or Tekken?
I’m so tekken with this game.
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Mark should go with a camera.
He can do a Sam Newman style ‘Street-Talk’.
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It took me several minutes to stop laughing at this, I think I might be broken.
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I made a Barbarian giggle!!
Objective: Complete.
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***awaits epic sughly scribble***
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we need to fight!
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Shame that Shadowloo Showdown has taken all the Evo points stuff away from that event.Then again, the amount of people they’ve managed to pull from overseas for Shadowloo is amazing.
Especially when you consider how last time they aimed to get two people, but ended up with three (Tokido, Mago and Gamerbee).
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Yeah, I’m gutted about what happened. But Shadowloo, OMFG, Gamerbee is going to be there, and I’ve wanted to meet him ever since I saw him. Unfortunately I won’t be able to make it :(((
DID YOU KNOW that last time Tokido visited, a Sydney player beat him in a ft10 match in Tekken? Props to Aus players man!
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Wait, Tokido plays Tekken? That shouldn’t be a shock to me but I only really know him for his beastly Akuma.
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Yeah, although it’s probably not his main game.
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Holy shit, Page 11?
Who put meth in everyone’s cordial today?
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Managed to get on Kotaky (sic) for the first time today – 2110 comments in TAY?!
Blind. Mown.
Everyone’s gone
insaneslightly more insane.-
super-sane
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shhh, you weren’t supposed to let anyone know about the “meth”.
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***dances in with glow sticks***
WHAT METH???!!!!
***dances off***-
I read that and immediately thought of techno viking.
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2000 comments isn’t normal… but on TAY it is.
TAY: It’s a hell of a drug.
↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A start
All you ever need to know.
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Shit, that was supposed to be a reply to Eats-a-lot…
Oh well, I guess it’s good advice for everyone…
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It has other applications… The ladies love it.
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Thanks for the advice Blaghs, I’ll let you know how it goes when I apply it.
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Tried it on my boss.
Apparently I now have a meeting with HR on Monday.
THANKS A LOT.
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I get how you do the arrows on your boss, and almost can guess how to do ‘start’.
But A & B, how DOES THIS WORK?
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Well, you just need to touch them on the ass and breasts.
Yes, all of you, to your bosses, male OR female, right now.
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You’re welcome.
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http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/45210
Just a head ups, Centrecom is selling a 20″ samsung monitor for $90. I just went out and bought one, it looks very nice 🙂
Now, to figure out how to play portal 2 over two screens…..
Does anyone know of a good freeware ogg -> wav converter?
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Audacity. Great program!
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Man love your way, sir.
This will make it much easier to convert those minecraft fx.
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I’ll take that man love, thanks! I’ve used this proggie for all my game sfx and music editing. I care not for Fats recommendations! He put me onto Trials. Anything that man recommends is evil. Pure evil…
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Ive not used this program or know what Im talking about but the eRight SUPER program has done everything Ive ever needed.
Just FYI – eRight SUPER
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SUPER’s been good to me too; can be a little finicky and break sometimes but, overall, it’s awesome.
That being said, Audacity is wonderful as far as free stuff goes.
So’s Handbrake for videos, just to run off on a bit of a tangent – less flexible than SUPER, but what it does do is amazing
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If one was interested in playing a DotA clone, which would one choose? Which is better between HoN and LoL? Is there a One Ring version, that rules them all?
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HoN is better.
DoTA 2 will be the best, though.
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I like DotA because there are pandas in it.
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YOU’VE COME TO THE RIGHT PERSON!!!
/puts on MOBA hatHON.
Competitive LoL? it makes me LOL. It’s like aww, how cute, the lil lol players wanna get all hardcore with the HON players…
Anyways if you want to get into it hit me up or AnonymousPessimist. <- he just started last week and is doing quite well so far.
I'm putting together a tutorial vid and will have it out during the weekend hopefully so look out for it ;]
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Hm…. might take this up as well at some point 🙂
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I think Eats-a-lot has more hats than TF2 and LA Noire combined!
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The more I get to know you… the more afraid I get.
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Actually I really enjoy her attitude, not scared one bit xD
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It’s kind of like finding out about Angela Gossow -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9AcG0glVu4- and feeling the terror as you realise that yes, that really is a girl doing one of the manliest cheese-grates you’ll ever hear.
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I don’t fear the Captain. I don’t even fear that she’s a better gamer than I, because that’s just a given.
I might jump in on the HoN action one day soon. Maybe we could do it together Tech Knight…
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Finally got a new phone, since my old one decided to harakiri. :\
Printing out and putting in my cubicle:
http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1325
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LOLOL. So great.
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I’ve read that site before. Just takes me further away from getting uni stuff done…
*Bebop plays in the background, you hear the sound of a wrench being thrown, and it switches to some swing*
I saw another one today.
Murdered, stripped of their clothes, lipstick smeared over them. It never gets any easier. Seeing a man degraded like that, it makes my blood boil. We’re still no closer to solving the murders, my partner, Ponting, seems to think they’re unrelated, but what would he know? The Shmuck worked as a traffic cop for years, first time I let him drive, *bam* straight into a civvy. Still, no worse than when I used someones car as a battering ram to take down a lowlife scum.
The murders at hand, I’ve never seen anything like them. Every time, they have a Tartan dress, shoved on their heads like a crown, and what looks to be an animal stomach beside them. I can’t work out what the killer’s trying to say, or why he’d do this. All I know, is that no matter what I do, I always seem to be investigating murders.
L.A. The city may never sleep, but far too many people will sleep forever here.
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Everytime I read one of these I flashback to the ‘Aaahhhh It’s the Mr Hell show’ and the detective who used to sream “There must be a pattern”.
Or the girl who was, alas, only a woman… and it was 1890.
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Great show!
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Hi, I’m… Josh, and I’d like to talk to you about… reincarnation.
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Can’t get past 1177m in Edmus. Think I’ll try later *yawn*
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Yeah, give up! That way I dont have to keep beating other peoples scores when they beat mine 🙁
I’m trying to work people! Which is entirely evident by my presence here…
Im all for some friend requests over PSN and Steam
Link to Steam page under my name
PSN: L9783
P.S. thanks to welbot for the FR on steam
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Join the Kotaku AU group, sir.
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I have already Mr. Pessimist, I am just attemting to bring it to the attention of the TAY community
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Oops, my bad!
Added you to my friends list 🙂
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I thought this was real…
http://laughingsquid.com/wp-content/uploads/rick-james-hulk.jpg
/sadface
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And it’s super-freaky! lolol XD
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He’s a brick… Hulk
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That. is. AWESOME.
I wish that was real. Why is it not real? Why would nobody approve such a fantastic comic series?
Wow, running sucks.
When does it get fun? Or does it just get less bad?
Creepy old bearded bogan yelling ‘you’ll get there, son’ as I ran past did not help. at all.
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Just lol’d uproariously at the old bogan bit.
It does get easier eventually, give it a week or so. Being consistent is the key. [/motivational crap]
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Step over to the abdominator and I will shout slogans at you.
Push harder! Go faster Max! Reach over the top! Master your ass!-
UP AND AT THEM.
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At least when you’re running, you can zip by people.
I walk the dog, and I must be an old person magnet or something, because I bump into ten million of them, and one of them always wants to have a chat.
This one time, a lady stopped me so that she could talk about her cats. Except she didn’t use the word “cat”, but rather, a word one letter different to the word “fussy”. She just kept going on and on about her cat(s).
Mega-uncomfortable.-
She was totally hitting on you 🙂
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Does ‘there’ refer to his position of obvious enlightenment?
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Back when I was fitter than I am now (about a year ago) I’d go for morning runs. It was great, because my suburb is filled with old people, and I’d get to see them all out on their morning walks, and we’d have little chats as I ran past them time and time again. Mostly they involved questioning why I didn’t have shoes (there was no real reason, just shoelaces were way too complex for my brain at 6am).
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What is it with old people and talking!?
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That’s exactly whyi go to the gym.
No one talks to you, and everyone is running as hard as they can but getting NOWHERE – therefore we all look just as stupid as each other.
How is everyone spending the last day before rapture?
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Watching Dumb and Dumber and chilling out with some 5 Seeds 🙂
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Working on the weekly Kotaku ‘challenge’ track.
Minecraft-a-licious!
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LA Noire, The Authority Book 1 and possibly watching one but most probably both Adelaide AFL teams get slaughtered.
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I’m spending the day laughing at the people who think the rapture is real. 😛
Is it just me, or do doomsday theorists work in 6-year cycles?
2000 – Millenium Bug. Tons of people thought computers would crash and the world would end. Nothing Happened.
2006 – People thought the world would end on 6/6/06.
What happened? A terrible Omen remake.
2011-2012 – Nothing will happen, this will all blow over, and I’ll be sitting back, laughing harder than before.
Seriously, do those doomsday dodos have nothing better to do with their time?
RIP Randy Savage :'(
You will never be forgotten!
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Oooooohhhhhh Yeeeeeaaahhhhhhh!!!!
The rain pours down, dripping off my hat, sliding down my clothes. Sunny California at its finest. Another broad is dead, different M.O. to the last few, not that we can really tell. The rain purifies the soul, the heart, and the crime scene. Another day, another unsolved crime.
Sometimes I wonder if it’s worth it, if I can ever make a real difference here. For now I’ll just make a difference to this Whiskey.
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Damn, that’s deep Blaghman, real deep
The whiskey crack was funny though
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I wish I could be a Noir style detective… (Although, I’d rather be a PI, instead of an actual detective, it allows for way more dramatic stuff)
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Blaghman: The ham-fisted pie.
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Mmmm, I’m delicious.
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man-bike…heh.
I’M ON A BOAT!
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MY SPOON IS TOO BIG
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THE WEEKLY TAY CHALLENGE TRACK
*drumroll*
http://www.sendspace.com/file/ddy4ed
All the drums/perc and background ambience was taken from the minecraft fx libraries.
It’s a bit wilder than last week’s track; I thought I’d go a bit dubstep/glitch hop for this one.
Will post it in tomorrow morning’s TAY as well for those who aren’t around today.
Why is nobody on the minecraft server anymore? 🙁
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We are, just not at the same time as you.
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foreveralone.jpg
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I want to be but I’ve been stuck at work to much and what free time I’ve had has been funneled into Mount & Blade
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