Talk Amongst Yourselves
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Thanks all!
It’s just like the opposite of Optus; Amazing! It’s a really nice office space, and everyone seems really cool.
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congrats again you lucky SOB
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Grats TadMod. Start Modding!
I got my new computer late Thursday afternoon and spent the whole weekend playing DA2 with the hi res patch. It was awesome.
I would just like to thank everyone who offered me advice about the computer over the last few weeks. You guys rock.
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Dude.. so so jelly…
I can’t even play Plants Vs. Zombies without the framerate dropping drastically once i have more than 5 plants on the screen… 🙁 *sigh*
Hey there Kotakites!
Can anyone recommend a website where I can purchase an xbox360 copy of a recently released fighter game?
My usual website, Ozgameshop is out of stock ;(
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To the eBays!
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I ordered mine from PlayAsia on the weekend. I’d heard people talking about them not sending it to aus, but I didn’t seem to have any issues. Now I just have to cross my fingers and hope it makes it to me 😉
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Thanks for the help guys! I didn’t realise that the 360 copy was region free. (which is why I was only looking at ozgameshop)
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Even though it’s region free, playsasia still seems to have 2 versions. I chose the asia one for myself. Dunno why.. just did.. but all up cost me $70inc postage, and that was for fedex 1-4 day delivery! Which means all going well, I’ll have my copy this week! Now I just have to think of a perfect excuse to tell the wife why I have it. I’m thinking I’ll go with “I won it from Kotaku love!” I’m sure she’ll believe it since I’ve won a bit in the past. Just have to hope she doesn’t rat through the credit card bill and find the playasia entry 😉
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How about “I couldn’t resist, I’m sorry.”. 😉
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That one never works for me, just FYI
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Lying never works either, you’ll get in more trouble when your wives find out you lied.
I just found out my husband deliberately misled me to think that his mate won tickets to Disturbed and couldn’t find anyone to take when actually his mate’s mate couldn’t go so my husband stepped in and said he’d go and paid $90 for the ticket. For a band he didn’t even really want to see. Grr. -
AAAAAHHH!!! Watch out lads! It’s a woman scorned!
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$90 for Disturbed? He could have used that money to see a decent band!
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It’s funny caus it’s true.
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Oh come on! That kookaburra song was pure genius…”oooh wakakaka!”
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Try…
Y’know how when you’re told you can’t have something it just makes you want it more?
I found a New Zealand dealer who was featured on this very site for getting the uncensored version sold in his country. I am sure he will be willing to sell you a copy.
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Uncensored version of GTA that is.
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People at the TRMK forum’s are saying that the Asian version doesn’t seem to come with an online unlock code. Versions from the UK do come with the code, but you have to create a separate UK xbox silver account to activate it. Doesn’t cost anything, just a minor irritation if you want to play online. Still nervously waiting on my copy…
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Zavvi sell recently released fighting games for around $54.
It’s funny caus we’re talking about Mortal Kombat, which was banned. Did everyone get that? I’m just checking guys…
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I never mentioned anything about that game! What would make you think that? 🙂
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Sughly, you doosche!
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XD
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oooooooh wakakaka!
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Ow. My legs. Relay for life was a huge success. We did 300km in the 24 hours (there were 9 of us), we beat our goal of $4000 and raised $4151, but most importantly, we won the relay 🙂 We did the most laps in 24 hours. Take THAT MELBOURNE GRAMMAR! Woooo! 🙂 Thanks for donating Trjn and Q-bo!
Now, I don’t suppose anyone knows how to make legs less painful after they’ve gone for a long run?
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Amputation is the only solution.
Failing that go find a jacuzzi to soak in.
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Well done!
Make sure you do plenty of stretching. A swim or a massage are both good too.
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Hit a pool up and walk laps up and down.
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I forgot all about that. Did you wear the Waluigi moustache, or whatever it is I demanded? :p
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Nope. But our team name was U Jelly? So we printed letters on each shirts so that side by side, we spelled out JU? lely
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Well played good sirs.
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Like Rabbit, I totally forgot about the run thingy! Good on ya for winning and raising over $4000! 300km’s is insane! And your welcome! 😀
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Aww man i was completely oblivious to this!!
That’s some awesoem work, mate!
Congrats! 😀
Hope everyone had a good weekend!
I randomly selected a game from the shame pile to make a start on. Ended up with Castlevania. As I played through it the falws were glaring obvious and many in number but, possibly because of that I found that the good bits seemed better.
Went trophy hunting in Portal 2. I now have all the single player trophies and just have to wait for the PSN to come back online to get the Co-op ones as all my gaming buddies live overseas 🙁
Also did some arts and got a hair cut. A VERY short hair cut. All in all, a very secluded weekend.
Did anyone ever find out why The Witcher 2 was removed from Steam? GOG.com have a pretty awesome deal going for the special edition. http://tiny.cc/mxj6c
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GOG offer great deals on EVERYTHING
*swoons*
But yeah, their deal is pretty brill, especially for the price
Anybody coming to the 3DS meetup at the opera house this Saturday?
Morning. What’s happening TAYbies?
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This http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJnZtcY5-Mk which is rather NSFW
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That was… different…
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I have finally given in to temptation and signed up for Xbox Gold subscription.
Most likely will be playing red dead redemption this week and if anyone is interested (or just wanna add to friend list) my ID is:
Rafor al Carr
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Added. That’s some hardcore achievement progress on them RPGees!
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Yay for new friend!
RPGs seem to be the only games where I actually achievement hunt.
I did have all achievements for Mass effect 2, but I haven’t had time to play the new DLC yet, mmm… now people can see my progress I may have to hop on tonight.
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Added… I also have RDR so happy to take you for a tour around. I di prefer co-op or free roam and still have a few cheevos if you want to get them with me????
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I’ll join the posse too! Probably not going to be available till after 10 tonight, but I’ll be available earlier tomorrow…
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Oooo can I join? I havent tried RDR online yet, I only ever played the single player game. I want to see!
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Yes join us! Soon all other RDR player will tremble in fear at the approach of…
Mmm, I think our posse should have a name;
The Good, The Bad and the Kotaku?
The Magnificent Kotaku?
True Kotaku?
3:10 to Kotaku?
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The # Kotakeers?
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Dum da-da-dum da-da-dum da-da-dum Ko-takAU!
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Once Upon A Time In Kotaku?
Or in light of recent Quentin Tarantino news, Kotaku Unchained? (he’s making a western everyone! yay! ‘Django Unchained’)
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Little House on the Internet?
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Paint the Wagon Kotaku?
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The KotakAUn?
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Sounds good to me, as a multiplayer noob co-op sounds like a safe bet and I had a blast with free roam last night so im definetly up for that, tried a friendly free roam and was laughing hysterically as about a dozen people set up a fist fight match at Macfarlane’s farm where no one was actually hurt, it looked like something from the Benny Hill show.
Also am liking the sound of working on some more achievements, having just started online, my list for red dead is pretty slim.
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FatShady the wrestler, a guy in a bat costume and a barbarian in a posse roaming the west… sounds like a possible web series, make it so guys!
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I’ll be in… I’ll send the request now-ish.
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Added.
If you are looking for a fourth member of your possie…
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As our group grows we become more powerful, soon we shall rule the world MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHA…
Our at least have a pretty good posse on red dead.
i’m still waiting to get my interwebs back..
..STILL…
But add me in the mean time… chul00p4
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Sydney Gamers League
Time we arrived – 1:30pm
Time we left – 2:30am
13 hours of competitive gaming.
My god, what an event! As some of you may know, I participated in SGL on the weekend. My clan and I ended up competing in CS:S, DOTA and some of us in Starcraft 2 and Warcraft 3. HON unfortunately had some sort of ill-timed maintenance, delaying the tournament until after we had left. We were too spent to even look at Team Fortress 2.
So, our results!
CS:S we won our 1st match 16-10 to proceed to the next round, which saw us get rolled by the very pro Team Immunity (look them up to get an idea..). I only found out last night that this match was shoutcasted live with commentators and all. Honestly, the replay makes me want to ry. But hey, they commented that we were the only team to steal a few rounds off Team Immunity up till then, so I was proud! Not bad, for somebody with <20 hours in CS:S, right?!
So knocked down into the losers bracket we had to forfeit our next match as teammate Snifu was too busy pwning in Starcraft 2; he progressed undefeated in his bracket up till the 4th round, where his match was also shoutcasted live.
Our next comp, DOTA, proved to be our downfall. So much went wrong.
Let me start off by saying that in all my years of competing in tournaments, I have never encountered sexist pigs. Amazing, I know, but for the most part the fact that people know that you’re a person possibly sitting a few metres away demand some sort of respect – especially when you’re not just in a pub game, but a competition.
Our first opponents in DOTA started off with a “DW GUYS THEIR CAPTAIN IS A CHICK SO WE HAVE AN ADVANTAGE”. These guys are the very reason I will go to lengths to hide my identity. Unfortunately this is a little hard at tourneys as captains have to meet+greet each other before each match, do the shake-hands thing and all. I’m not stranger to trash talk but it still irked me.
Their trash talk, however, made our victory against them all the more sweeter – we beat them at 44-33.
Our game went for 1 hour but 15 minutes before the ending one of their players dc’d. He angrily demanded a rematch from the SGL admin. In the end it was my call… so after a lengthy discussion with the team I said we’d give ‘em a fair shot and rematch.
Disaster.
About 20 minutes into the rematch the power went out in the backrow, dc’ing half their team but leaving ours intact.
So we wearily agreed to rematch them for the 3rd time. Needless to say, we beat ‘em again – a victory that was made all the more satisfying from their sexist comments. In a show of poor sportsmanship, a few of them refused to even shake our hands post match. Did you enjoy how we stomped all over you twice, bitches?!
It had taken us 3 hours to play a single match of DOTA; I don’t even want to look at that game ever again.
Needless to say our next opponents were much nicer – they were so polite and lovely that I was happy to chat to them after we lost. Knocked into the loser’s bracket, I forfeited our next match. I could tell the 3 hour game had taken its toll on our team, and a few players were beginning to show strain – myself included. 1 guy was suffering carpal tunnel. It was a signifier for the end of the night for us!
Anyhow, I think this is getting WAY too long so I’ll wrap it up here. If you’re up for a read for what it even took us to GET to SGL in one piece, check out mah blog! http://bit.ly/jzoQvD
Thanks for reading, peace out, end rant.
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Hey Eats-a-lot.
Would you be up for expanding this into a little blog post for Kotaku? Would love to put some like this up on the front page. Shoot me an email if you’re interested.
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Awesome reporting! I agree with our lord and master!!! So glad your team succeeded in defeating the sexists piglets! 😀 WE’re all very proud of you 😀
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Hey that was a great read! Thanks for the wrap up 🙂 Been wondering how it went all weekend! I can’t believe those DOTA players though! I’ve been to many tournaments over the years myself, and only ever come across one sexist pig before, and he got disqualified for saying the very things that caused that opinion. Maybe the tourney’s I’ve been too are more strict on tolerating that kind of behaviour, but still.. glad you whooped their asses! In my personal experience, it’s the teams headed up by girls you really HAVE to worry about cos they’re usually extra cunning 😉 All in all, sounds like you had a ripper time though! So glad you enjoyed the weekend! Shame I couldn’t be there to see it all first hand!
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Wait, “sexist pigs”?
Wait, you’re a chick?
WHAT
WHEN DID THIS HAPPENSounds like a smashing experience though, good thing you had fun at SGL; imagine what super happy fun times you could have had at the thoroughly organised WCG! ;D
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See Elly? Those CK tags are totally useful!
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Totally going to show her this post when she comes in to work tomorrow!
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huh?
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HAHA, I hadn’t seen this before.. I somehow always miss the community kudos things. lawls. Thanks!
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I really really hate how human guys do stuff like this to girl gamers, it’s just so pathetic. Sorry you had to go through that but I’m not sorry that their sorry arses got kicked twice! Well done! Too bad I couldn’t go, I would’ve loved playing alongside a fellow Kotaku peep 🙂
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Sucks about the sexist idiots. But you showed ’em 😀
Sounds like it was a nice event, I’m always in awe of competitive gamers. No idea how you concentrate for that long 😛
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Thanks everyone who read!!
Qumulys – An expanded version will hopefully be finding its way onto the interwebz soon..
welbot – thanks for offering to come along. In the end we didn’t even enter TF2 so I would have felt bad making you come. Not to mention just one tourney is not enough to justify the $40 entry fee.
Bish – lulz WCG fail. Did u see my tweet on this?
Tech Knight – haters gna hate. It usually just goes right through me but not that day. We aren’t exactly innocent of a little trashtalking ourselves… /angelic smile
Aidan – Oh man, after 3 hours of a non-stop dota match… even I was brain mashed. I’ve watched Starcraft 2 players do 5 hours straight. It’s INHUMAN!
Jamie What? – reply saved!
Apologies for the very long rant – after an intense tourney I felt the need to get it out.. somehow ;P
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Well for all you humans maybe ;), but I play games online with honour (Hence the “Knight” in my name), fight till the end, shake their hand if I win or lose saying something like Win: “You fought well, hope to take you on again one day”, even offer to assist in strategies if they like or Lose:”Well played indeed, I would love to see how you did it” and if it were a girl that beat me I’d add “over coffee” to the end of it… 😉 lol
But yeah as a machine, I’m genderly impartial when it comes to gamers, boy or girl doesn’t matter for me, but can you kick arse? Question is for all that I play alongside/against online. Only then I’ll take you seriously as a potential ally for future games, not if you’re a boy or girl, doesn’t matter to me in a game 🙂
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I refuse to admit to Twitter-stalking people here who went to either WCG or SGL, even though I was within reasonable driving distance to both events but was too lazy to go to either.
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Nice write up, and I hope that even with all the stupidity you still had fun.
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*bows to your awesomeness*
Female gamers are no different to male gamers, and anyone who treats them otherwise needs the crap smacked out of them, both digitally and physically…
Although digitally is sooo much more satisfying 😛
Totes proud to be associated with you via this community… keep kicking butt, and good job, and glad you had a rockin time. 🙂
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I hereby promote you to Captain Eatsalot.
I think people are failing to see the obvious here – the gods of gaming (they be good, yo) shone upon thee, giving thee not one, not two, but, yes, three victories in which to demonstrate thine mad skills over the heathen scum.
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Promotion acknowledged!
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One disadvantage to working from home for yourself.. you never really know when public holidays are unless someone else tells you! I just found out it’s labour day up here in QLD.. anybody getting up to anything special, or just gonna smash your way through your piles of shame?
OMG! LittleJJ just told me she’s going out for lunch with a friend today, but she bought me some 猪肉包子 to eat while she’s gone!!! What a sweety!! OH HAPPY DAY!
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Mmm, 猪肉包子 😛
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I have no idea what a 猪肉包子 is, but since it looks groovy, I shall tattoo it islander-bone style on my rump.
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After using google translate, then reading your comment, my drink is now all over my screen.
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HEHE!
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lol classic stuff!!!
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ROFL! What a superb coinkydink!
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I want your 猪肉包子 pressed up against me
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Congratulations on pwning the sexist team! And everyone else who was also pwned on the day. Sounds like quite a crazy yet epic event. I hope you take Mark up on the offer as I for one would love to read more.
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This was supposes to be a response to Eats-A-Lot’s post. Reply Fail
TADMOD UPDATE: He is in a meeting. I haven’t seen him. Everyone has mentioned how tall he is. He winked at me when he came in.
It was awesome.
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Exactly how tall is TadMod? 8 foot?
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While seated? Yes.
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LOL! I can vouch for that.
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Dude is tall!
He should be a lumberjack. I don’t know how this is relevant.-
It’s relevant if he’s okay. And he sleeps all night. And if he works all day.
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Lets just hope he doesn’t put on womens clothing, and hang around in bars 😉
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Just like his dear papa?
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Or wears high heels, suspenders and a bra… 😛
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Dear God, I hope he doesn’t. Would only make him taller!
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Yeah… ceiling fans will haunt his dreams for the rest of his life!
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Yep, especially since for Tad they’d be at crotch-height.
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I just fell off my chair, and on to my Guinea Pig’s cage thanks to that reply thread.
Good work fellas.
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You sure it wasn’t Bigfoot?
I bought and finished Portal 2 on Saturday. Got a good 6 hours on the single player, nothing on the co-op yet cuz for now I got nobody to play it with :(.
Also grabbed Dawn of War 2: Retribution and the stability of that game really disappointed me. It doesn’t like my nVidia graphics card and I figured out why. In the manual it felt like I was reading the thoughts of ATi fanboys. So made for ATi cards would be my bet. I can only run the game at “low” preset graphics settings in order to play uninterrupted. It’s the strangest thing, I had the very highest of everything set automatically when I checked the settings at the start, ran the first mission, and it all ran smoothly, until about roughly 7-10 minutes within the mission, it suddenly froze and the screen went black. At first I was confused then suddenly it went back to normal, everything ran smooth again as if nothing happened, then 60 seconds later it happened again, and again, went back to normal. It seems that only Low is what keeps the game from doing the black screen freezes, despite that my card can take on the maximum without any trouble. It makes me a sad panda but so far the gameplay is improved, by a lot.
It’s got a good balance of the Dawn of War 2 and Chaos Rising, with using a finite number of squads, each having their own special abilities, but have added using currency again, like the first dawn of war, but it’s very fixed in terms of how much you have during your mission and you have to spend it wisely, which I like a lot. You can buy squads of three, vehicles (Which you have short choices at the start but you can unlock more squads as you go as well as new abilities for those squads or more wargear for your heroes) or you can temporarily upgrade your heroes for the remainder of the mission (More HP, energy or more damage). This I think is a great balance in terms of strategy but also looking after all your armies. Every your unit you have, they all matter. If any die, even parts of the squad, it’ll hurt, which makes battle plans VERY important, and that’s something I really enjoy. Looking forward to continuing the space marines campaign, and play the other campaigns later. I’m really surprised with how they made this, it doesn’t look rushed, or screwed up at all, in fact it’s been improved on many points. Here’s a good part, you don’t need GFWL to play single player anymore! Only steam is needed obviously, which is good enough for me.
The last of the batch I got was HOMM5 gold edition, finally found a copy and got my hands on it, can’t wait to play that again, I missed the HOMM series ever since we played the MMO.
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Sounds like your having fun with the new pc! You must give it a name.
Trust me, going Nvidia was a good decision. Most of the games seem optimised for NV, and usually ATI has the problems. I’ve gotten so tired of glitches and stuff with ATI with pratically all good new games. Its so frustrating!-
It’s the exact reason why I went back to nVidia in the first place. My radeon 4870, now sitting in the closet, was the buggiest graphics card I have ever used.
I got a new Quad Core CPU and 4GB DDR2 RAM on the way as well, so it’ll be almost a whole new computer, I’m actually thinking of getting a new motherboard, and put my XP version on that instead. Maybe sell it to a friend. My PC has two 250GB drives which house my XP and applications and my 500GB SATA2 drive has my current Windows 7 64 bit ultimate. With this new CPU and RAM I can completely split them up with a new case, motherboard and power supply and presto! 🙂
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OMG Yeah I should give it a name! Can’t believe I never did that. Oh yeah, it’s not a new computer, had the same one for almost 4 years now, I’ve just been upgrading it bit by bit, or replacing parts that explode like my first power supply… (Not taking a shot at consoles… much)
Here’s a thought, I’m open to name suggestions for Tech Knight’s PC while I think of my own 🙂
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Tech Camelot!
The exclamation mark is compulsory.
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He could name his mouse Techscalibur!
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I like that a lot!
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Hey welbot, congrats on winning that copy of MK!
(Wink, nudge)
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lol thanks! 😉 Now I just have to hope it shows up! Hopefully i’ll have more luck receiving this than I have with other kotaku prizes!!! *hinthint mark*
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Hehe, prizes. I’m pretty sure they’re just some crazy dream. But if they’re not, maybe TadMod is about to become Official Web Monkey And Executive Director of Prize Postage?
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Or maybe it’s actually a sneaky lure to force interstate people to come up to Kotaku AU HQ to come claim their prizes, so that we may have an even more amazing Sydney meet!
Crafty Scotsmen!-
Works for me.
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Sounds like a plan 🙂
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I like this idea! Stacking codes would be cool one day! 😀 Purrrrlease!
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Shout out to Qbo for his epic Minecraft adventure puzzle game we played on the weekend. I really enjoyed it.
He has also said he can upload the map again if anyone wants to play it.
No spoilers please… but please everyone who has ever played on the server should have a go at this map.. fun game.
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Oh yeah! Thanks to FS and Blaghman for playing through it! Made a fun challenge/change on the server. Dawdle and lamboman were both bummed about missing out so its already loaded up on the server ready to go again probably during the week. I’ll let those two decide between them when they want to give it a crack. Welbot was also interested in giving it a go, but I implore him to grab a mic from somewhere and Teamspeak because it just makes it so much easier, quicker and fun!!! 😀
Oh and Dawdle, the map is the Redmurk mystery, which the yogscast boys played through, so you may/probably have already seen it, so pretend like you don’t know whats going to happen! 😛
I’ll also be searching for some other similar maps/games we can run, with a bit more noticed than a tweet 30 mins b4 start next time 😀
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I’ll join in too if I’m free. I’ve been needing a prod to get back on the server!
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Me too, main problem is I seem to be on the server when nobody else is around, might need some extra visibility on times and such 🙁
Oh yeah I gotz a mic too so TS is no problem, which server we using for that?
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The teamspeak server details will need to be kept quiet, because we still get the occasional pop in of the uninvited taking a free ride on Shadys coat-tails.
Perhaps FatShady can do a re-mail of the Teamspeak server details when he gets a chance.Would be good for You and Batguy to join in. I think the game had a maximum player count of about 2-3, otherwise some puzzles may not work, but we can run it multiple times. Seems we have enough to run it twice again already! 😀
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Yeah I knew it had to be quiet, just a general question as to “who do I ask to get the details by email” is what I should’ve said.
I’ve got my new Kingdom Hearts Riku custom skin I got and modified myself to use, hopefully it looks good, haven’t tested it yet. So you will all get to see it in action first hand 🙂
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Just tweet me up! : )
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Man I knew I should have minecrafted on the weekend.
That’s what I get for being lazy I guess.
I’m up for it next time you run it, or whatever the deal is.
This is the third time I’ve tried to post a comment. The last 2 just vanished when I clicked submit
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We must alert TadMod!
OK, now that my comments seem to be working.
Can anyone recommend a good microphone headset that is not too expensive and doesn’t require a lot of screwing around with the settings to work right, mainly to be used with Skype and available at Aussie retail.
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You should be able to pick up pretty much any headset off the shelf and just go with it. They’re all plug and play these days, unless you’re using some weird Unix based OS with no drivers installed for anything at all.
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Logitech G330s?
I have a friend who has a set, and although he complains they lack… something (I think the bass was a bit weak, IIRC), but apparently they’re real comfortable.
You might be able to snag them for just under $50, if you’re lucky.-
I find the logitechs have two problems, occasionally they seem to get sound problems through the left headphone (jiggling it around a bit fixes it), and it takes a while to get them comfortable with glasses.
Well, that’s just the two pairs I have. Other than that they’re pretty good.
(I can’t remember which types mine are, but I think one is the G330, or it might be something completely different… I’m good at this)
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Yeah agreed with Trjn, but I’ve always gone with non-USB headsets, gets rid of the need of drivers entirely, and your motherboard/sound card should support one no problem. As long as it’s got a sound and mic plug of course 🙂
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i’ve got a pair i bought off ebay for about $20, and they are great, they do the job, haven’t died, and seem to work fine on games
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As an ardent audiophile, is there a reason you need a mic headset? A good set of phones + a separate desk mic will generally set you back the same amount (or less) and the quality is much better.
Hey all,
Just a general update. Accounts are finished.
Everyone here thinks they’re amazing. 2 of the sugar girls fainted at how amazing it was.
I’ve decided to release these changed on the 3rd of November.
*trollface*
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Get back to work.
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Why do you do this to us, Gabe Newell!?!????
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All happy feelings I had for you getting this job have suddenly gone missing…
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Is it true the sugar girls are made of sugar?
Do they yell at you for looking at kotaku during work time? Do you need an assisstant?
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Someone better lick them… just to be certain.
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I volunteer.
*Hand raised, staring ahead creepily, slight smile on my lips*
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I was going to suggest licking them, but thought it might be a little creepy. Glad I’m not the only one who thinks the way I do 🙂
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****COMPETITION****
This competition is only open to Kotaku ‘regulars’ as this prize includes access to the exclusive (sort of) Kotaku Minecraft Server.. It also includes a FREE copy of the multimillion selling Indie Hit Minecraft!
Competition details:
Competition closes 6/5/2011. Winner to be announced the following Monday. To see the detailed terms and conditions, please read the prior sentence.
To Win:
A wise man once pondered “What do cows do when they have an itchy bladder?”. He then realised that the bladder would likely be internal and changed the question to udder. The fact remains that with no opposable thumbs and, let’s be honest, pretty crappy elbows, that cows would not be able to scratch that particular itch….
So to help our Bovine friends, you must invent a device/contraption that would assist a cow in scratching an udder itch and, using Photoshop or similar (Paint is acceptable) provide an image of your invention. Please include as much detail as required to detail the particulars of the device. Extra points are awarded for also making udderly ridiculous jokes!
To be eligible, you must send the e-mail of your image to claimsboy at hotmail dot com but make sure you post here also. I will bump this next week.
Good luck
(This competition is brought to you by the Kotaku Minecraft server, in association with Q-bo’s twisted twitter feed @Qumulys)
okay, so it was under my intention that instead of buying the PC version of portal 2, getting the PS3 version would be a much better idea… so NOW I CAN’T PLAY GOD DAMN CO-OP, I CAN’T PLAY SPLITSCREEN BECAUSE NO ONE IN MY FAMILY PLAYS GAMES EXCEPT FOR MY BROTHER WHO ONLY PLAYS COD AND FIFA!! DO YOU GUYS KNOW HOW HARD IT IS NOT HAVING ANYONE TO PLAY WITH! AND EVEN WORSE IS MY IDIOT FRIENDS HAVEN’T GOT THE GAME, BECAUSE THEY ARE TO BUSY NOT ENJOYING LIFE BY PLAYING PORTAL 2! SO I HAVE TO WAIT FOR THEM TO GET IT AND FOR THEM TO PASS SINGLE PLAYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!
anyway, long story short, portal 2 is awesome
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Is that a subtly hint that you are looking for a portal 2 co-op partner over steam?
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it would be, if i could play online D:<
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No internets? Or does the PSN thing mean you can’t register it or something?
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Just received my PS3 copy in the mail from Zavvi (finished the single player by borrowing my brother’s steam account). According to the insert:
On your PS3:
1) Create a PSN account
2) Press SELECT in Portal 2 to access Steam
3) Follow steps to create/login to SteamThe on the PC/MAC:
1) Get Steam
2) Login to Steam
3) Activate using the code they provideThe Internet confirms that the code won’t work until you’ve tied your PSN and Steam accounts together. Which is currently impossible because you can’t log in to the PSN. Bugger.
I was previously indifferent about the PSN outage. Now I am filled with rage and hate Sony and want to sue Sony for everything they have and want them to give me free PS4s and every game they ever make and ponies. Gah!!
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i feel exactly the same, you’d think valve would be extremely pissed about this, i mean they JUST launch steam for PS3, and PSN goes down, they only had about a day of testing… but oh well, the game was still amazing, I JUST WANNA PLAY CO-OP RAAAAWR
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I understand your pain human… I have no co-op partner for Portal 2 either
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Techy, you’re on the PC version, right?
I have two more achievements I need, and if you haven’t attempted co-op yet then it’s perfect for me. You might say it ruins all the fun because I’ve already finished co-op, but it’s okay, my memory is terrible. So, if you wish to co-op, and are desperate enough to use me as a friend, just give me a shout whenever I’m on Steam. Or something.
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Yeah I am on PC version, you probably would’ve seen me via steam playing it on saturday afternoon/night.
Would be willing to tag up with ya on co-op sometime this week or the weekend, dunno yet but will keep you informed 🙂
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That Virtua Tennis 4 ad is pretty sneaky.
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Yeah, they’ve got quite a good racquet going on.
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yeah I LOVE it!
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They may NET themselves a few customers with it.
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That would be ACE!
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Can I play?
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You need more than 2 for a full SET.
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That joke’ll be tough to MATCH. I hope they LET you get away with it.
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…Albatross???
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That comment was a FAULT.
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No, wait! I get it now…
SLAM DUNK!
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GGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAALLLLLLLLLLL!!!
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With the death of Osama Bin Laden, I hope we can all sit together (while apart), and contemplate the fact that it makes absolutely no difference to anything whatsoever.
Everyone’s life is meaningless.
You’re Welcome.
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Profound words, friend. I feel refreshed and fulfilled by your verbosity on the topic of life, inspired even.
You sir, are a motivational genius! Bravo!
😛
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Although, the story being posted on Kotaku seems to be a big deal for some people. It puzzles me.
So much nerd-rage…-
I’m just wondering what else is going on that Obama doesn’t want anyone to pay attention to….
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His fly was down…
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Two words: impending election.
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Or impending erection?
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http://twitpic.com/4msofb
Do you see this? DO YOU
This is a man who has won Lizzies, not Walkleys!
HE HAS NO RIGHT TO COMMENT ON WORLD POLITICS AND MATTERS OF TERRORISM
*shakes fist*PS, this comment was just an excuse to re-post that picture. I wonder if I can find one of him kissing them creepily.
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So, let me clarify what I stated above (although, since you’re a bunch of smart people, you appear to have the right opinion anyway).
The death of Bin Laden will have absolutely no effect on the function of Al Qaeda. If I look at the upsides, there’s a higher chance of Obama being re-elected thanks to this, but I doubt it will make a significant difference. The death appears to have kindled the American spirit, or something, which will have a small effect, but again, not really. Also, I was just down in Woden, and saw a bunch of people watching the tvs and gawping over the news, which kind of offended the intelligent part of my brain.
Finally, I just posted the depressing message because if the death of someone so renowned is overall irrelevant, what chance do the rest of us have? Now that I’m done being a miserable sook. Who likes cookies?
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I LOOOOOOOOVE COOKIES!
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He should technically be added to the Guinness book of Records as hide and seek champion 2001-2011…
I’m more annoyed that in the 10 “offical” years it has taken to find him… we still dont have a R18+ rating for Games…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9552BCx4g20&feature=share
Poor Nathan Fillion.
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lolwut?
Nathan Fillion so crazy. I love watching him in the behind the scenes/outtakes videos, they’re always hilarious.
http://www.gtplanet.net/playstation-network-gaming-services-to-return-this-week/
Erm… apparently the PSN will be up this week…
In preparation for Friday, I was trying to find a way to trick Tech Knight into watching the Friday vid…my first attempt failed though… http://bit.ly/jFV9Ow
🙁
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Oh, and while I’m at it, this ;( must be the weirdest smiley ever…
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Why not just re-post the video… that would give you a different link?
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Lol this’ll turn into a conspiracy if you keep this up. You really want that happening on our TAYs? Really?
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I’m the one who Damned Hinden… remember?
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You can try human, but you will fail 😉
All i can say is ‘BAHAHAHAHAHA!!!’
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Man, that’s so wrong! That’s like saying the sexiest girls are the ones with barely any clothes on……erm, let me think of a better analogy…
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Pshh, as I’ve stated before, a lack of clothes =/= sexy. Yes, there is appeal to someone who is willing to show off what they look like, confidence is always sexy (apparently). But there’s a reason Tali has such a strong fan following.
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hahahahaha! I thought monks were the best without clothes on, that’s the NWN side of me anyway 😛
Just in case anyone is wondering, a can of V is no substitute for a morning coffee. Not even close.
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How could you let your mouth be filled with that bastardous liquid!?
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It’s quite simple really. You open the can by pulling the tab at the top, then tilt it backwards and let it enter your mouth.
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This one time, I opened a can by pulling the tab at the top, tilted it backwards, but then it went into my eyes and buuuuuuuuurned 🙁
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Goddammit. You beat me to the punch, and yours is funnier. I just cannot win today.
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A very common mistake.
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I tried that once, and it just resulted in me pouring it all in my eyes, which was followed by five minutes of manly (exceedingly girly) screaming.
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That’s why I wear goggles.
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Ze goggles… Zey do nuthing!
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I take it as a suppository
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I don’t know if it’s totally awesome or immensely disturbing that we think alike.
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I think it’s awesome!
Was yours a true story though? Mine was a true story (I was even wearing glasses at the time, pro tip, they do NOTHING).
They always say that great minds think alike, so I’ll ignore that fools rarely differ.
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Our minds are pretty great, huh.
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I considered doing that, but I get stared at enough as it is, so I don’t want to think how bad it would be if part of me was in a museum.
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Or maybe everyone in Canberra has X-Ray vision and they’re actually staring at your brain!
So if anything, putting your mind somewhere where other people can stare will mean you can go and rob banks or peep into some change rooms unnoticed!
Like the Invisible Man, except very visible, so nothing like that at all, really. -
Well, people do seem to see right through me, so maybe there’s logic to what you say…
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I like V.
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I would happily swim in V if I could… coffee is for those with weak hearts and no beards!
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Hear, hear.
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Heart discrimination, thy name is Fatshady
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Let it also be known, that no coffee is just as bad as V as a substitute for morning coffee
What’s the deal with this facebook login thing?
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Oh, well you see there was this giant Nyan Cat flying straight towards TAY. I was the only one who noticed, the other’s were too busy spilling V in their eyes. I was starting to get a bit worried, seeing as the the Nyan Cat was about to collide with TAY and do who knows what to it. So I looked around for some sort of something I could throw at the Nyan Cat to knock it off course. All I could see was this facebook login thingy and I thought “Great! Nobody uses this thing anyway, do they?” and of course everyone was busy screaming their heads off due to the fact that they had V in their eyes (even the ones with sunglasses on). So I took that as a no and hurled that facebook thingy as hard as I could at the Nyan Cat. Facebook thingy and Nyan Cat collided, facebook thingy exploded into a million pieces of PHP code, and the Nyan Cat went veering off course away from TAY. I am sad to say that it took out Gizmodo and it’s facebook thingy when it eventually collided with Earth…an unfortunate sacrifice for the greater good of the TAY community.
So yeah, that’s why the facebook thingy’s gone…
I’m just going to leave this here
http://www.facebook.com/pages/They-clearly-found-Osama-Bin-Laden-via-his-Playstation-account-details/181450671906226?sk=wall
I’m trying to decide what to play next.
There’s a handful of titles out there that I really have been meaning to play and just haven’t. Then there’s my Paragon playthrough of Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2, the RDR Undead Nightmare DLC and probably a million other things that I can’t remember.
I’m damn near paralysed by choice.
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Choose a few, then give us a list to vote on tomorrow 😀
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I’ll do the list sooner than that. Actually, I probably won’t.
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I’m going for a combination of Dragon Quest 9, HOMM 5, Starcraft 2 (still, really?) and Minecraft with mods. When I game I seem to do the opposite of what I do when I read, that is, try about twelve different things at once.
Oh, and Metro 2033, because it’s fun.
Simple tee…
Black with white writing
“(in)SECURITY” across the chest
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I love it.
I would buy one for every douche bag bouncer at every club in melbourne
Seeing as I’m a sucker PS3 user, do I cancel my credit card now, or wait for someone in China to buy a small aircraft carrier over ebay with my details?
Decisions, decisions…
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If your credit limit will cover an aircraft carrier, better of buying one yourself so they cannot.
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Buy an aircraft carrier, ship it to the house next door to you, claim you got scammed, your neighbour gets arrested, you elope with your carrier, bingo, bongo, bango, everyone is happy.
You’re welcome.
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Brilliant!
If anyone asks… we never met. I wonder if the F16’s are included in the cost? Probably worth asking.
Now I need a rag-tag group for wacky hijinks on the seven seas.
I’m thinking I name it the USS Yeah Buoy. Thoughts?
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I played a flight simulator once, can I come aboard as your chief pilot?
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With credentials like that you can’t go wrong! Can you swab a poopdeck?
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No, but I was captain of a sporting team (BAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHA HA, but seriously, I was), so I know how to delegate!
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What shall I play from my pile of shame?
Dead Space,
Mass Effect & Mass Effect 2 + DLC (paragon playthrough)
Red Dead Redemption Undead Nightmare DLC
Dragon Age: Origins
Trauma Center: Second Opinion
Valkryia Chronicles
Uncharted 2: Amongst Thieves
Batman: Arkham Asylum
I’ll play whatever the Kotaku masses decide and will probably use this as an excuse to write something.
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Dragon Age: Origins! Can’t think of a better game to write a blog post/narrative for. Also it might assuage some of the collective sadness over DA2.
Check out some of the DLC and Awakening if you get the chance, the expansion is pretty fun.
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ALL OF THEM
Did I help?
I’m a helper!-
You’re helping in the same way a five year old is helping by getting the dog to lick dirty dishes :p
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And what a smashing job my dog does!
When she’s not rolling in poo.
She still smells a little of poo too.
Good times.
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I’d go for Batman myself. Or Dead Space. They shouldn’t take you too long to get through, and both are rather exciting games 🙂
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Valkyria Chronicles.
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I vote for Valkyria Chronicles.
I really love that game, but have never had the time to finish it. Maybe, if you succeed, I’ll be inspired to find the time needed to complete it.
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Go with Uncharted 2. It’s really, really, good. And also, because it’s fairly short, you will then be able to get back to writing Buttercup entries.
I’m shameless.
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I second the recommendation of Uncharted 2. Absolutely fantastic game, it’s just an epic adventure from start to finish. Great funs indeed. Once you’ve done that, play Arkham Asylum, because that was my second favourite game of 2009. It’s also quite the awesome.
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I plan on Buttercup coming back the Monday after PSN is back online. Playing something out of my pile of shame will hopefully have no impact on that because I’m not going to do something like Buttercup with it.
The closest to a Let’s Play you’ll see for anything on this list is me releasing some failure videos of me sucking :p If I can be bothered getting my capture card to work.
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Well, I’m glad you have a predicted date, and I was joking. But Uncharted 2 is really, really good. I’m going to agree with NotoriousR and say put AA as your second. Still, with that pile there’s not really any I can’t recommend.
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Red dead undead. Amazing DLC
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Arkham Asylum…
*shakes fist*
Arham Asylum, you owe it to the Goose.
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http://www.kotaku.com.au/2009/01/kotaku_au_games_of_the_year_-_4/
He kind of owes it to The Goose to play Valkyria Chronicles, too. And seeing as it’s been out longer it should get higher priority. 😛
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Don’t try and bring logic into this discussion. We’re on the internet, logic has no place here.
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Uncharted 2 is a quick win – you can get through it in one or two good sessions.
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While I thought Undead Nightmare was OK, I didn’t think it was as good as the original RDR. But both Uncharted 2 and Arkham Asylum kick ass, so I’d say go with one of them. For pure enjoyment factor, probably Uncharted 2. But if you’re writing about it then I’d say that Batman is the better choice because it has more chances for emergent gameplay – with Uncharted that you’d basically be writing a story about a story!
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This is a game that doesn’t deserve to be sitting in anyone’s pile of shame!
Absolutely amazing game, and hands down, imo, best (notso)super hero game ever made.
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Luckily for me, it doesn’t sit in my pile of shame.
Unluckily for me, it doesn’t sit in my house…at all.-
Then you know what needs to be done, son…
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Most stores have it for PC for less than $20. Do yourself a favour and buy it.
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It just took me over an hour to get the right drivers to get my PS3 controller working on my PC.
*waves PC Master Race flag*
Stupid controller. But I guess it would be weird buying a 360 controller without actually having a 360, and just using it as my PC gamepad.
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Lol, I’ve got a 360 controller for my PC, and I don’t have an xbox…it’s not too weird…I think. Now where’d my tofu get to?
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Grab motionjoy. It can run a 360 controller emulation for your PS3 pad (that’s what I did to play Super Meat Boy)
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Haha, I did that, but all the buttons show up in Spanish symbols in AssBro.
I kept forgetting which button was the upside down exclamation mark, so back to KB&M I go!
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Wow. The, um, rage in that Osama Bin Laden article is pretty crazy (and hilarious :D)
Surely one of the biggest news stories of the last ten years warrants a mention? Where’s the harm in telling people who might be casually glancing at the site that this happened?
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yer.. what’s with all the haters.. i dun get it. it’s not like it was announcing something like a new mariah carey album or something stoopid. some people seriously need to get over themselves. One little piece if information among the many articles that get posted doesn’t hurt! It’s not like a gaming article got pushed aside for it or anything. Fucking bunch of baby’s in there for reals!
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Ooooh, there’s a new Mariah Carey album?
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No…
Unfortunately it’s her European cousin, Cariah Marey
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Yeah one non-gaming article in a gaming new website is complete blasphemy to these humans. Really sad how seriously they take it. They treat the Kotaku guys like they just maliciously ran over their dog or something, it’s horrid!
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haha yeah i really couldn’t believe that..
“ZOMG, KOTAKU WAS MY LAST SOURCE OF DEPENDENCY AND CONSISTENCY, NOW THAT IS ALL BLOWN AWAY AND RUINED FOR EVER!!! WOE IS ME!!!”
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I’m thinking of making the first Kotaku meme, here’s the slogan:
“Non-gaming article posted
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Reaction: WHAT HAVE YOU DONE HEATHENS!?”
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Hai guys!!4!
So, I didn’t manage a post here all of last week and only one or two the week before; haven’t even asked Serrels anything for the last fortnight, completely smashing a tradition that began when he joined us… so I’ve missed out on some stuff and feel a little bad that I haven’t been around for all the fun and excitement :\
…but on the bright side, I’ve met an amazing girl and I really don’t care anymore 😀
I kid! I kid!
Honestly, things are pretty good (with the exception of my uni workload) for once and I think now that I’m pretty comfortable with how things are going I can start to build back towards my old 8 hours/day Kotaku habit.
How’s everyone else? ^_^
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Unemployed, sad, and alone.
FEEL MY MISERY! YOU WILL ALL FEEL BAD TO MAKE ME FEEL BETTER!
No? That doesn’t work? Dammit. I really need to get out of the house more.
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I’m employed, sad and alone, so I’m not far off from you. I bought a future two bedroom apartment that I’ll be moving into alone in two years time, go me…
*Forever alone face* 😛
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Haha thats amusing, I’m in the same situation and I bought a two bedroom apartment that I can move into in 6 months.. Optimism FTW?
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I differ slightly again.
I work, am warmed in bed by a beautiful girl every night, content and yet have a car that is about a week from breaking down so bad that it may actually become a black hole, and no savings to come anywhere near a deposit for a house, apartment, car or Razor Scooter…Do you think that’s related to the girl? 😛
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Optimism is a human thing, I stick to the facts, since there really isn’t any escaping what’s true.
My apartment isn’t built yet, hence why it’s two years time, but it will be good. Too bad I won’t have anybody to share it with.. *shrugs*
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Dude.. that’s 2 years away!
It’s a bit pessimistic to say that you won’t have one then.
Stiff upper lip, old chap!!
Besides, if all else fails, Q-bo and I will come by for cuddles and girl movie nights!!!
I’ll bring Maid in Manhattan and mud masks!!
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Yes! I’ve been meaning to try this whole gay thing out anyways! I’m lonely single and sad faced as well. I’ll totally make the 2 bedroom apartment all homely with you. We’ll nest and nuzzle and… Oh yeah, I have 2 kids tho, is that ok with you? If not, there’s always ebay and stuff.
But seriously, me loops and you should make a night somewheres, a house warming maybe?
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haha Optimism is fun, My friends think my apartment is a total ‘Field of Dreams’, if you build it she will come..
In reality she may come, but she may also be scared off by the piles of gadgets, games, and gratuitous nudity hahahahahaha
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Wait.. so did you meet a girl or not?!?!
And don’t feel too bad, mate. I missed like 2 and a half weeks straight… I feel like i have to start all over again 😛
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The girl is real, the utter disregard for you all is not.
less-than-three
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Dawwwww!!!!
I’d man-cuddle you, except you now have somone that will either;
A) Hit me with a saucepan
b) Give you that horrible girl-stare thing that is possible the worst thing a man can get. You know that one that says “i won’t say anything, but all my respect for you has just died… until you buy me something laced in diamonds”ich liebe dich auch!
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Haha, I was like ‘what?! you assho- oh… wait. He meant he loves us. I get it now’. Man I’m slow this week…
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Game suggestions please!!!
I want to buy some games to pull out when mates come around for beers etc…
Criteria:
-PS3
-local multiplayer
-fun
-easy to pick up but not “casual”
examples:
-nba jam
-FPS with splitscreen (4 way preferably)
Any thoughts???
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OH! I forgot COMPETITIVE.
None of this lame holding hands lets be cooperative and talk about our feelings crap.
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Mod Nation Racers
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Been meaning to get this one day… Has the load times been improved? It was that that had put me off buying it.
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The load times are longer than average, but I wouldn’t say it’s a show stopper. It’s still a great game 🙂
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CODBLOPS. I’ve only ever played it once, and that was at a friends house on his PS3. 4-way split screen was very fun, except I kept getting beaten by this ten-year old :/
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I’d say Wipeout HD is a good one. Its easy enough for my kids to pick up and play, but mastering the corners takes some skills. But I liked the split screen in it. my 2c
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I humbly submit Tekken and/or GT5 for consideration.
Besides, GT5 has go-karts. What more could you want?
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Blue shells!
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Decided to go back and finish Portal 1 so I could start 2 with a clear conscience.
Seems I was a corridor away from the last boss…
Started 2, glad I went back for 1 otherwise I would have completely missed the sweet repetition.
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Yeah, i’ve been thinking recently that i reallllly need to go back and finish that too…
I think i’m quite a bit away from the boss, though.
Beasides, i’ll probably just start from scratch. It really is an awesome game, though. Just a pity i got distracted from it…-
Couple of days before Portal 2 release, I played Portal for a bit of a refresher. Knocked it over in 2 hours (somehow).
It’ll be a quick one to knock off your Pile of Shame!-
… Everest of shame, more like it 🙁
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I hear that.. I blame Steam.. The pile just keeps growing!
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Ahh, but because it’s Steam, it’s not a real pile, and therefore not real shame. Feel better? 🙂
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steam?
I have like 90 360 games… of which only around 8 i’ve completed…And lets not even mention other systems…
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90! Yikes.. Isn’t there some sort of leave you can get from work to stay at home and finish them?
Compassionate – It breaks your heart knowing you haven’t finished them?
Stress – Its makes you angry you haven’t finished them?
.. found!
http://www.actu.org.au/HelpDesk/YourRightsfactsheets/TypesofLeaveandPublicHolidayEntitlements.aspx#communityleaveCommunity Leave – the TAY community demands you stay home and finish games!
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You sir.. are a genius…
Unfortunately i’m pretty sure this place would implode without me here…
Seriously.. the boss gets pissed that i already have 2 half days…
Once this trimester fro uni is over (june) i’m hoping to hit them pretty hard…
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On which of its six arms does an octopus put its watch??
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Probably it’s seventh or eighth arm 😛
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They only have SIX ARMS!@!!!!!
and two legs, for walking and soccer.
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The 6th
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Trick question – an Octopus has eight arms, silly rabbit.
Do I win the prize?
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You lose prizes, and your pants. 2 legs, 6 arms!!12@21@!! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2547597/Octopuses-have-two-legs-and-six-arms.html
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What if I’m not wearing pants?
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They have eight tentacles, six that act as arms and two that act as legs.
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But why does he wear shoes on his hands?
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glove slippers perhaps?
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The left one.
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He doesn’t. He keeps a Fob Watch in the right breast pocket of his vest
To FatShady and Batguy, sorry for the early exit last night, but I have (finally) managed to download outlaws co-op and liars and cheats ( I think that’s what it’s called)dlc plus get another headset, so if your up for another game some time, I should be better prepared…
maybe…
possibly…
in theory…
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Am I needing to get the dlc if I want to join you? I have none of it.
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Not for freeroam, you need the free outlaws co-op dlc for co-op games.
Freeroam was fine, you only miss out on a few gang strongholds, but if someone else has the dlc, then they start the battle and you can still join in.
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I apologise for not being able to attend… I was trapped in a meeting in town till nearly eleven.
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No worries, will probably be back on again this arvo, there is something disturbingly addictive about playing the game on multiplayer.
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I just went to put my lunch in the fridge and someone had left their tea brewing in a cup. With 3 tea bags!!! 3!!! Who needs that many in one cup!?
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Proper English Gentlemen do!
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Two girls??
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Down, boy. None of that filth here.
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Now you’ve made me think of a whole different kind of “Tea bag”.
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I take 2 but that is because I have a 600ml mug.
Does anyone in Brisbane either have or know anyone with amazing tattoos done by Brisbane artists?
I’m tired of thinking I’ll get the rest of the tattoos I want “one day”. So I’ve decided to get at least two of the ones I want done this year. But with this year getting close to halfway done and good tattoo artists often booked months in advance I need to hurry up and find someone.
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A friend of a friend got a pretty impressive tattoo from a local artist a few years ago. I might be able to chase him up about who, but can’t make any promises.
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YES!!!!
I don’t live there, but one of the girls who did a shoot for us with Skin Industries a few months ago is an AMAZING Tattoo Artist
Teneile Napolihttp://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/teneile.wood
I can’t remember the name of where it is she works.. but her work is simply mind-blowing and amazing. I can’t endorse her enough…
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oh… you can see some of the tatts she’s done on her Facebook that i linked you.. they are AWESOME!
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Her work does indeed look awesome, but according to her official FB she’s booked up for a year! I did however research where she works – Garage Ink and it turns out they’re a hairdressing salon combined with a tattoo parlour and they do some impressive dynamic styles and colour so thanks to you I’ve found my new hairdresser. Yay!
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YAY!!! I AM HELP! 😀
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My old boss got some pretty awesome tats last year.. dunno where he went though. I’ll message him and see if he’ll spill the beans!
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West Side Tattoo in West End has a pretty good rep.
And my sweet-lady used to work at Wild At Heart in the city, and she reckons they’re pretty rad.
But, as with all things, it depends on what you want. It might just be a matter of going to places and flipping through their work until you find an artist you like. Plus, it doesn’t cost anything to chat to them about it as well.
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I’ve pretty much decided on Wild at Heart for one of them so that’s good to hear, but I’ve yet to find an artist I think would be perfect for the second one. It’s Demons Souls related so I think I may just go into a studio and ask if anyone’s played the game. 😛
I’ve heard good things about West Side Tattoo, but I also heard they closed.
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I always thought it wasn’t so much the location but the person.
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I don’t think they’re closed… I mean, they’re always closed when I walk past but I’m pretty sure they’re still there.
Jimu’s right, man. Just find an artist that does stuff you like and have a chat to them about what you want.
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This whole Bin-laden thing has got me thinking…
So today, i’m going to Werribee Mansion to find Hitler!!
http://www.parkweb.vic.gov.au/werribee/w-mansion.cfm
If Hitler isn’t there, i’m 75% sure i’ll at least find where the Fornication Wally has been all this damn time!
Why’s he been hiding all this time, anyway? I’ll tell you why.. Tax evasion…
…Hey maybe Wally is actually living with Paul Hogan… But then again, i’m pretty sure he’s harboring Carmen Sandiago, whom despite her name, wasn’t hiding in Sandiago..
…or Carmen for that matter
http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=carmen&sll=-25.335448,135.745076&sspn=35.696273,56.513672&ie=UTF8&hq=carmen&hnear=&ll=-29.382175,155.742188&spn=32.621067,56.513672&z=4&iwloc=A&layer=c&cbll=-33.870762,151.208744&panoid=5lopYnItJyP65CIVm-J2Eg&cbp=12,345.23,,0,2.3
One thing is for sure.. when i come back i will have found SOMEONE or SOMETHING… But not the G-spot… that just confuses the HELL outta me!
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Its a conspiracy, he’s probably holed up on a nice sunny island somewhere…. Buried at sea? So quickly? hmmmm, sounds fishy….
Go on a new chase for skase instead!
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I hear Wally tried to hide by changing his name to Waldo. Really, he should have just changed his shirt and hat.
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Haven’t you heard?
You can’t change your stripes!
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It is my birthday today, and I’m at work 🙁
2 hours of teaching which is pretty easy to be honest, though I’d sort of rather have the day to myself even if I’m working on my thesis. Need to get that out of the way sometime soon.
So happy birthday to me!
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Happy birthday buddy! Hope it’s a relaxing and awesome one 🙂
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祝你生日快乐!
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Exuberant celebrations for the anniversary of your entrance to this world!!!
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Happy successful vaginal departure anniversary day! I’ve popped one of these in the mail as a present.
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Whoops, should have totally put a NSFW on the above linky ^. Which really only makes ppl click it more anyway… What a world we live in.
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do they… do they take bulk orders??? *ahem*
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HAHA!
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY DUDE!!!
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lawl…. Dudeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
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Happy Birthday! Will there be cake? (No portal jokes, please)
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Happy Birthday!! *brooooooooooo* (that was a thing you blow into to make noise by the way. Whatever those things are called. I forget)
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Ah yep, thats the one!
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Ah, the joys of aging. You get to … actually, there really are no benefits to getting older by this point. Still, it’s an excuse for cake and who doesn’t love that?
Happy excuse for cake day!
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Yappi Bertdei!!!
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Happy Birthday. Hope you have a good day.
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NO
NO NO NO NO!!!
TODAY IS MY BIRTHDAY DAMN IT!!
WHEN DID YOU STEAL IT FROM ME?
WAS IT WHILE I WAS IN MALAYSIA?
YOU CRAFTY DEVIL, NOW YOU ARE THE POSTER CHILD OF THE DAY, RECEIVING THE LOVE AND ATTENTION I SO DESPERATELY NEED!!
I’D PREPARE LAWYERS MATE, COZ I’M SUING!on an unrelated note, happy birthday fellow may 3rd’er! 😀
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Awwwww. Now I feel sad for you. But since your birthday post is tardy, I’ll just add a +1 for you.
+1
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Yuppi Birddai 2 u 2 GmB-F!
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BRO!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DUDE!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-q6IUv7yL4you get stoner video too!!
YAY!!!
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Happy Birthday!! *BROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO*
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Happy Birthday! May the rest of your day be filled with all sorts of bizarre birthday buffoonery.
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Happy Birthday!
I wish Grandmaster B-Funk a happy birthday also.
Screw it, happy birthday everyone!
I finally started to play MvC3 with my new Hori stick yesterday! What a difference!!! I actually managed to pull off some of the high level combos in the mission section! It was so joyous! Best $20 purchase ever!
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shaking…with… jelly… gah!!!
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Brilliant! As a bonus, the jelly looks like an army of Day of the Tentacle tentacles!
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haha that game is evil didn’t you know?
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.games.lucas-arts.day-tentacle/browse_thread/thread/ee42596135aa4a91/30b9204437a56357?pli=1hahaha internet rants…
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Haha, what the? That game by the way is like, one of my fave all timers. Just sayin.
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DOTT FTW! 😀
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Yes.. but with slightly more anger… but not too much
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Did you ever say where you got it? I’m tempted to get a PS3 one myself.
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I did say. I got it from a dood who posted on the xbox.com forums.
Execution is a lot easier with a stick. I bought one of those Hori sticks a while ago for SF4 and eventually caved in and got a Mad Catz TE stick. Damned good stuff. Unfortunately, I still suck, but at least I can’t blame it on the controller.
Googled my handle for shits and giggles (What else am I supposed to do? Work? Pfft) And found out that Modnation Racers has an online community. Apparently I’m an Elite III whatever that means. I think it’s just because one of my tracks is pretty darn popular.
http://community.modnation.com/en-us/players/cronotriggr/creations
I think I spent a week making stuff then gave up on the game.
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That’s one of my big regrets for not owning a PS3.
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It’a s pretty good kart game. I basically just made old Super Mario Kart tracks and racers based on comics, movies etc. My Deadpool racer and kart are my faves!
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I want to kiss you for that Deadpool one….
So… Damn… Good…
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OKay, but only on the cheek or others may talk.
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HA HA…which cheek?
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I was given a copy of ModNation Racers pretty much the week it came out.
Loading times were so bad, I gave up on the game shortly after the difficulty curve spiked upwards dramatically. Yes, that’s it, the loading is what made me give up >.>
Seriously though, it was bad. Does anyone know if that has been patched yet?
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I thought I read the patch made the game slower?
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Apparently they patched it and made the load times longer. Although got to pick where you wanted to start rather than being dumped in to the lobby-place-thingimy. I haven’t played it in a while so they might have patched it again.
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Well, that lobby was completely pointless and being forced into it and enduring more loading times was annoying. Still, how hard would it be to release a kart racing game these days with minimal loading?
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I ordered the Donkey Kong Returns on the weekend…seems Britain has a bank holiday so they aint even sent it yet.
I hope I fall in love with this game in the same way I fell in love with DKC2:Diddy’s Kong Quest.
Looks fun!
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Yeah, I ordered some new headphones for gaming from Amazon.co.uk and they got caught with the same thing!.. not that one day extra from the UK is that much to worry about!
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I cried a little…
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Haha I was only kidding! The game is a pile of crap! HAHAHA LAWL! You fell for it!
No I jest, it’s good. You should enjoy it.
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my balls, your chin.
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He’s not lying.. He’s evil
He punches babies in their junk with dead kittens covered in fire ants
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That game is frustrating at first.. I’ve only played at bit of it at my sisters (which reminds me I need to borrow it to play more haha) but I was ridiculously bad at it for the first few goes..
I remember being really good at the original.. I blame getting old!-
I’m looking forward to a challenge.
Loving this ridiculous bottomless pit levels in S Mario Galaxy at the moment!
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I started to play S Mario Galaxy 2 again the other day.. with the view to knocking it off my pile of shame. I found out however that its been so long since I used the Wii that the rechargeable batteries for controllers only last about 5 minutes.. or 1 level! playing 1 level every hour is no fun..
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We just buy batteries bulk when they’re on Special. Works better since I don’t get much gaimg time these days.
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And waggle to roll…
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Who wants some bubbles AND kittens?
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Awwwww, kittehs!
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so they topped it with Rainbows on fire.
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Being the Dairy Queen guy is so much cooler than being the Old spice guy.. right?
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DQ guy is cool… but no one out does Old Spice guy.. he’s rugged.. and manly.. and sexy.. and has a voice that’s like james earl jones but no so much that you say “ugh, that’s creepy”
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*awaits PETA response on the cruelty of imprisoning kittens in bubbles*
This newspost on Penny Arcade regarding the PSN had me in absolute stitches…
” think there might be too much information about the PSN Incursion now, apparently there’s something going on with SOE now, and there was a press conference or something. At this point, I already shredded the card; they can’t really get my goat, as the goat has been obliterated. Unless another shoe drops in the form of a comma delimited file full of plaintext credit cards or something, it may be over as a news concern. I want to give you a heads up, though, for the next round of Sony defense material which is typically indistinguishable from what they’d buy from a PR company.
– On the collapse of the Playstation Network:
“I’m a PS+ subscriber, and I don’t even care about this. I’m too busy enjoying the richness of this incredible, exclusive single player content.”
– On the revelation that the Playstation Network had been cracked open and the guts slurrrrrped out of it:
“What. The. Fuck.! Just move to a new city, cancel your credit cards, and then form new social bonds, beginning life anew in a faraway land!!! This is a gift.”
– On the discovery that the intrusion has resulted in the dissemination of an infectious Hrungnir neocyte:
“All you people who wont submit to the mindpulse are f’ing morons. It’s like one parasite and you guys are talking about it like it’s some big thing or like “oh i don’t want to be a subjugant.” FFS, you guys. Just quaff the fucking Dominus Flask. Yield to Her. Yield, and be whole.”
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I was also full of man-love for Jerry this morning.
I do liketh the Penny’s Arcade
Can you guys just pause TAY for a while, I have some work to do.
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I’ll try, but it’s going to be difficult.
So, Justin Bieber has won, I lost the battle. My daughter is going to his show tonight in Melbourne. So depressed about it. 🙁
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I’m sorry for your loss.
At least you don’t have to go!
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I doesn’t have to go – he wants to!
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Gah, formatting fail. Serves me right for overusing it!
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Tell her to get JB’s attention (That’s right, I use his initials, because I’m hip and ‘with it’… with tween girls :/) you have to differentiate yourself from the crowd. Something to make her stand out!
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I’d chain her down so she couldn’t go..
when social services turn up i’d simply say “Justin Beiber” and they would understand and offer up a reassuring pat on the shoulder and a face full of pity
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Was anyone else disapointed that Corey kid didn’t pile drive Beiber too?
well, someone already stole the birthday thunder last page, but yeah it’s my birthday…
PRAISE ME!!!!!!!!
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I did…on the last page.
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Sorry, I have a pre-determined limit for this sort of thing. It’s your own damned fault for being born on the same day as someone else :p
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Felicitous jubilations for the annual recurrence of your deliverance to this planet
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You strike me as a very well educated barbarian.
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Happy birthday!
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What I said on the last page. I think there might be some cake left….
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May a day of funky Grandness be bestowed upon ye!
PSSSSSSSSSSSSST
Now that Sughly’s distracted let’s talk about how much we love those things taht he likes!!!
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Oh man, how about thems good vidya gaems??
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I like video games!
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Wait… damn you people! I said PAUSE!
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What things?! TELL MEEEEEEEEE!
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Movies like Iron Man 2 and 2001: A Blade Runner.
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And disturbed…OOOH Wakakakah!
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These are a few of my favouruite things, it is true.
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When the dog bites
when the bees stings
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I just think of a few of my favourite things, and then I don’t feeeeeee-eeeeeeeelll, soooooo PTERODACTYL BLARG!
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DINOSAUR….NICE!
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Well, technically pterosaurs aren’t dinosaurs. I know this only because my five year old self corrected someone on this matter. How my five year old self knew this is a mystery to me.
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Printers are evil.
That is all.
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You need a visit from this guy.
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This.
*angry face*
I am normally happy to accept a friend request on XBL. Most are from Trials players wanting to compete so its all good.
But I just had to decline this one. If it is one of you here I may reconsider but change your profile man!
GT: zachthebrat
(let me guess.. 13yo?)
Bio
i hate u
Message
i’m the devils son
No sir.. you can NOT br my friend!
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I also replied to him/her??
“I normally accept any friend request I get from Aussies but after looking at your profile I could not. Being the ‘devils son’ and hating people (“i hate u”) is no way to act online. You’re free to display what you want but I won’t accept FR’s. Cheers”
Who thinks he will take the high road and change his profile????
Who here thinks i will get an abusive message back? (me!) lol.-
hehe i’d be betting on the latter myself 😉 what a douche
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I’m thinking abusive message…
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Too bad there’s a law that prevents me from terminating such pathetic humans 😛
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That was ME Fats! How could you, I just wanted to be your friend :'(
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Actually in all seriousness, I finished sauna! Did you see? On gold that is. I have only one platinum 🙁
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Nah i missed that.. good job. You working on Reality check yet.. I want to hear your thoughts on that one. lol.
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Well, I’ve finished all the new tracks at least once… I think. I’m not sure if there were any extreme’s I didnt do. But I’m not so sure I want to look now you said that 🙁
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Am find myself outraged sir! Indeed, to whom must I answer if I wish to hate everyone? You insult my eloquence with your vile and verbose complaint. My personage is injured by your words so harsh and cruel. Nay, stay your apologies for they shall do naught but flame the fires of wrath that burn brightly within. I shall take my leave of you, FatShady, for now but do not misunderstand for my revenge are not yet fulfilled. You shal rue this day most tragic once I have taken matters up with my father, the esteemed Lord Beelzebub. Rue I say! Farewell.
Sincerely,
Zacharia Thebrat.Postscript.
i hate u lol
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^ I say you’ll get something similar to that. With less spelling and grammer errors.
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I got a response:
“i dont care bud”
I actually thanked him for not getting all abusive and left it on good terms…
Was not expecting that. Not actually sure why he wanted to be frinds anyway as I didnt see him playing trials. Perhaps a RDR guy from last night? Ah well, was nice not to be abused though!
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Funny, he turned out to be a decect bloke and we exchanged a few more messages. good outcome I think. The Internet is full of nice people.. or that I jsut spend too much time here …
AAAAAAWWWWWWWWW. *does a man hug with 1 pat on the back /rapper style/*
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Just a warning folks. Got a job email in my inbox today with the subject heading;
“URGENT JOB : Nuke : Sydney”
This could mean that someone is looking for a compositor, or that someone needs help to nuke Sydney. it’s 50/50 either way really.
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Nicccce
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LOL! What a job!
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What the hell kind of work do you do to attract ‘jobs’ regarding nukes?
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I worked in animation and get a lot of media jobs emailed to me. Nuke is a compositing tool.
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He’s a knob polisher…
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He gets the tops of Nukes real shiny like…
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That’s interesting, because I just received an email with the heading:
“URGENT JOB : Stop Nuke : Sydney”And so it begins…
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It’s ON!
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URGENT JOB : Nude : Sydney.Your art does favor the norks…
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And the phat ‘ginies!
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Imma take that as a compliment.
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I bought another Rubik’s Cube today. This is seriously Becoming an addiction.
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I got a free one from Western Digital last year! It’s the best cube I’ve ever had! So smooth!!
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This one was a tiny novelty cube I got from a $1 store. It moved badly at first, but after a few solves it’s actually not so bad. The build quality is pretty good considering I got if for a buck.
Also, it’s freaking tiny. Just look at it against a regular cube and a can.
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HA! Jimu’s probably already seen this, but:
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LOL! A forfeiture due to personal philosophy counts as a loss for Jesus 😛
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So, so good.
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It’s hilarious how he managed to keep that going for 5 hours! xD
For those whom care… DJ Hero 2 bundles for 360 and wii are now just $49
http://www.jbhifionline.com.au/support.aspx?post=1&results=10&q=dj+hero+2+turntable+bundle
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What about those of us who don’t care?
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That’s an absolute steal at that price, would buy myself if I didn’t alrady own it!
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I already have that one. Not really a surprise that Joss Whedon wrote an Xmen story focusing on Kitty Pryde :p
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The real shock for me was how well he did. As a longtime Kitty Pryde and X-Men fan he really outdid my expectations.
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http://www.fishpond.com.au/Books/Summer-Blonde-Adrian-Tomine/9781896597577
Read this from the library. Don’t usually LOVE indie comics, but this one’s a winner!
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Looks like Fishpond will be $54.34 richer this evening.
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FINALLY! I have been showinh that to everyone!
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Then do as i am doing, look down your nose at it and say, out load, “that’s not a GAME”…
followed by a sturdy “Hmph!”
I just tallied the votes for what game I should play from my pile of shame.
Dead Space – 1
Trauma Center: Second Opinion – 1
Mass Effect (1+2 & DLC) – 2
RDR: Undead Nightmare – 2
Dragon Age: Origins – 2
Valkryia Chronicles – 3
Uncharted 2: Amongst Thieves – 5
Batman: Arkham Asylum – 8
For the record, this includes a few votes made on Twitter and I counted votes for multiple games (even Bish’s :p).
So, you don’t need to be the world’s greatest detective to know what I’ll be playing next.
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Batman is fun and you’ll knock it over quickly. Good choice!
You’ll be playing uncharted in no time!
And I’ll add a vote for DA:O so that it’s at 3 and you can play third. This RPG is not a treacler…
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UNCHARTED! UNCHAAAAAAARTEEEEEEEED
is awesome. Play it straight after!
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That’s the plan, dood. Caint u reeeed?
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I never agreed to that!
Did I agree to that?
I hope I didn’t agree to that…
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But the votes…
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I helped!
Didn’t want those one vote games being all sad and dejected at getting no votes, right?
THREE CHEERS FOR BATMAN!!1
and a couple of extra ones for his Rasta coustin, Batmon
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Yay me… oh wait. Yay Batman, I guess.
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Three cheers for Batguy for being a good sport!
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I was just bout to vote (bit late this week), but yay for Batman!!!
Come back Sughers! TAY has slowed to a CRAAAAAAAAAAWLLL!!
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Well, what would you like to talk about?
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Comics
Donkey kong
Mario Kart
Mario Galaxy
Thor Movie
Chocolate
boobs
Anime
Akira (manga, just finished Vol5)Etc…
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Saw the Thor movie on the weekend. Pretty much what I expected: excellent special effects, passable plot, decent acting and tie-in references to the other ‘Avenger’ movies (namely Iron Man, in this instance).
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Yeah, that about sums it up. Wasn’t anything more or less than I expected. Maybe I wasn’t expecting so much girlish giggling from Nat Por.
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All it required for me to enjoy it /was/ Natalie Portman.
My two complaints in regard to special effects were ‘Ugh, Post-process 3D, why would you do this to me (though, to be fair, it was one of the better PP3D effects I’ve seen)? And, OH GOD, that is not how people in the air move, what is this, 2005?”
But still, was exactly what I expected, and I am glad that it went for a more kiddy feel than the overserious MATURE other comic book movies (we’re dealing with a god, it cannot be mature).
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I mean A) When Thor does that flying thing with his hammer, and looks completely ridiculous, and B) Whenever anyone jumped. At all. It looked terrible to me (movement in 3D space is something I’m very passionate about).
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Didn’t stand out to me.
I noticed it didn’t look like thhe hammer was pulling Thor.
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I particularly like that explanation when he just hovers in the air.
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Just go with it?
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I blame Mark having his lunchtime break. Whenever our posts take more than two minutes to be approved, we all curl up in a corner to hide. Also, I wasn’t awake, so you didn’t get my steady stream of inane stupidity.
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Actually, Mark’s out interviewing Randy Pitchford today. Y’know, tough life and all that…
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Impressive!
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Heh… Randy…
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Well then Seamus, the only option is to blame you. Don’t worry, we’re not angry. Just, disappointed.
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So… he’s at a strip club?
That guys got the best job ever!
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Let see this stream of stupidity then…
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Surely you can find it by looking back at everything I’ve ever posted. I post poems about whatever is on my mind!
There once was a quester called Sean,
Whose life was all rather forlorn,
he posted this here,
it was rather drear-
y lom dilly lom fabla orn.OK, that’s a stretch even for me.
I’ll show you stupidity, oh, you’ll see it. Little do you know, that you have awakened, the BEES! OH GOD NOT THE BEES!
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I’m here! I’m making my way down the page! But it seems you’re doing alright without me… :'(
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YAY! Me bruddaz back!!!
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Don’t these rappers know that I have a job and a family and a long commute… RA the Rugged man just landed in Sydney and is asking if anyone wants to hang out in Sydney.. Can I really respond and say:
Sorry, not tonight. I was up late last night playing RDR and didn’t clean the kitchen so I have to do that, then put my kid to bed, then iron a shirt for the morning as they are still on the clothes line…. then maybe I’ll make the 1 hour long drive to the city to hang out…
I want to go though.. lets see what happens?
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Invite him over to your house for some tea and scones and maybe a little rabble-rousing!
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So, in otherwords, getting high at high tea
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If by “high” you mean a natural high shared by good freinds during some light-hearted rabble-rousing…then yes, they will be getting “high”.
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DO IT!!! DO IT NOW!!!
How many other times will you get this chance!! You already hit him up on Twitter before, it would be rude not to go now.-
The man has a point…
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Yeah, waiting to hear back. My concern is that he will post with like 5 mins notice and I am well over an hour away.. I am in Parra now, but would ahve to go home first and change etc…
Just not that easy these days!
We’ll see.
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That’s what i was gonna say!
I was THIS close to buying Mario Kart Wii from Ozgame because of that $5 off voucher. Seems I could only use the voucher once.
I was and am …dissapoint.
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Wait, you don’t already own Mario Kart Wii? I thought everyone who owned a Wii owned Mario Kart Wii!
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Nahhhhhhhhhh, didn’t get a Wii til very late in the game, maybe a year ago. Expected to pop down to JB and pick it up for $40.
Was shocked to see it’s price remained unchanged.Is $46 on Ozgame and with the discount would be at that price.
If I do get it will anyone race me? And how do I dig out my freind code or whatever?-
I should add I’ve owned every MK at one point. Even the less than stellar MK Advance.
I need to buy this on principle.
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i don’t have it either.. and i have a Wii…
Nor do i have either of the Galaxy games…
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ME TOO! Let’s be friends!
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I own a Wii and don’t own Mario Kart Wii.
Because GAME had a special where you could trade Mario Kart for Red Dead Redemption as a straight swap. I don’t regret that for a second, MK64 > MK Wii.
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MK64 was my fave but MKDS blows it outta the water!
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I actually would put Double Dash up the top.
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You are a sick, sick man…
I hope to buddah that you are teasing me!
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I’m purely going off time spent playing and it goes:
MKDS
64
DD
Super
Advance(Super Circuit?)Waiting for this 3DS one with a baited(fishy) breath!
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No, I no joking. I loved DD, with a passion. I played/own all of them too, but have only ever replayed DD really. Multi on 64 was hands down the best tho, DD multi was suck. I love playing DD on mirror, the tournie with all the tracks, then choosing a crappy combo of people in the worst car. Then try and get a perfect score. Not as easy as it sounds!
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YOu can borrow my copy if you don’t wanna fork out the cash for it
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I got a mate lives 10mins down the street has a big Wii collectin(I’m playing his Mario Galaxy at the moment).
Think I will buy it. The only games we own are the ones that came free with it (Sports, Sports Resort and Fit) and DKCR is on the way.
So one MK would be nice.
Besides, how can I race you online if I have your copy?
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heh good point! I’m up for a bit of online action when you get your hands on a copy! let me know and I’ll send you my friend code.
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I will, where do I find mine?
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From memory you can find your friend code in the wii setting menu, and possibly in Mario Kart when you launch the multiplayer part.
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I’ll SO be there too! I have MK Wii! 😀
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Wooop!
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I usedn the $5 to get a copy of Street fighter IV. I got that arcade stick so want to test it out… I picked it up for $15 ( I conned a mate into buying Heavy rain so I could get over the $30 limit for the voucher. lol.
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Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition soon…
http://www.fishpond.com.au/Books/Bucky-OHare-and-Toad-Menace-Larry-Hama-Michael-Golden/9781887591966
WOW! I forgot this dood ever existed!
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I am disappoint that this was not a link to other amusing NSFW ‘erotic’ comic titles.
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Look below!
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ZOMG! Bucky O’Hare!
I, too, had forgotten of the existance of Bucky. Thank you, Jimu!
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Prolly NSFW!
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That is so awesome because it just looks so lame!!!
I’d buy it for shits and giggles if Bee wouldn’t disown me completely! lol
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I’ve got Alan moore’s “classy” porn on the way, will be readin that one in secret.
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I’d buy it just to see why/how they’re on Mars.
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I’d guess that they just are. No explanations needed, straight to nudity and softcore!
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I’d read it just for the articles.
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HA! GOLD!
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weeeee!!! My copy of Mortal Kombat just arrived!!! I ordered it on Friday from PlayAsia, and it’s here already! WIN!!!
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Just looked at the box, and it says NTSC.. kinda crapped myself thinking it wouldn’t work (despite being region free, there’s still supposed to be PAL and NTSC versions).. but it works!!! SWEEEET!!!
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Woooooooooooooooop! Challenge tower after that excellent Story mode(with some of the silliest writing!).
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I wish everyone would stop making me so damn jelly this week… lol
How is it, mate?
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haven’t actually played it yet. I was in the middle of something when it arrived, and now I have to go out and do a job. I just popped it in to see if it actually worked. Can’t wait to get in to it though!
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Woah… thats friggin FAST! Holy geez… luckyyyyy! You must inform us of its quality, ASAP!
Oh yeah, Jimu! Are you still interested in buying New Vegas off me?
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Shizz, I forgot. I can no longer afford it after buying DKCR and a new (old) PSP 2000.
Solly…
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All good
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Phew…
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Hey folks (that means you, Jimu), just found this:
10% off at Book Depository (with discount code)
Details here:
http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/44083
Can’t guarantee it will work, so if it doesn’t, don’t blame me 😛
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Hmmmmmm…will pass this on to a mate!
OH NOES!
Tragedy has befallen our wonderful new minecraft town. A fire did break out, seemingly without any help of me with a flint at all…..
She spread, and a gallant effort I performed, running about with a bucket, was to no avail. Our town, has fallen….
I’m so very sorry…
I’ve been trying to rebuild houses, seems Lambo is the worst hit, sorry mate!
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OH man we so needed video of this…
This is why backups are available… however I kind of like it.
Now the community will pull together and help out.
You SO need to make a SES (orange one piece)skin, then go around putting blue tarps (wool) on the roofs of those worst affected.
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Backups are useful for replicating the event and making a video of it 🙂
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bahaha you guys just gave me one of the best chuckles i’ve had today.. brill 😀
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lol! we have an arsonist in our midst! that must have been truly epic to watch! wish I’d been there!
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I was expecting more burning wreckage. That said there could be another dozen houses that used to be there yesterday.
There will never be a more bad-ass cover than this
http://www.bookdepository.com/Adventures-Dr-McNinja-Night-Powers-Chris-Hastings/9781595827098
I highly suggest EVERYONE buy this 😛
Bit late coming by this week. Shop has been busy for once!!!
Happy Birthday Adam and Grandmaster B-Funk. The rest of you are hilarious and awesome.
So i’ve been thinking bout the current buzz word “gamification”. Couldn’t the same theories be applied and it be called “sportification”?
HOLY CRAP!!!
SOMONE MADE A DR. McNINJA MIGHTY MUGG!!!
http://www.toycutter.com/2010/03/dr-mcninja-mighty-mugg.html
I’ve just read all of TAY. Eatsalot, FS, I posted replies from the heart, don’t let them wither and die… or do. I know I rarely timetravel the thread.
Mainly I wanted to say Happy Birthday x2! So you guys didn’t miss it 🙂
I think I’ve got my first tourney in World of Tanks tonight, wish me luck
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😀 Thanks CFKaJH
Oh, hopefully in 4 hours I’ll be the proud owner of a black.
Pokemon black that is. I’ve raised my spend to $25 to obtain it earlier 🙂
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Cheap.
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Tempted to buy this to see if it really is just a compendium of words that rhyme with lust.
Gonna be reeeeaaaaaallll mad if it ain’t.
I can only think of “must” and “gust” right now. 🙁-
Trust, Thrust, Bust, Combust, Cussed (stretch), Just, Rust, Dust, Entrust, Encrust…
So on and So forth.
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See, if I had a thing that listed off words that rhymed with lust, I would know this.
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I’m just good at this kind of crap. I used to have competitions with a friend where we’d each say words beginning with “con” until one of us couldn’t answer (it would start with “I concur” then go to “I concave” “I convex” “I conflagrate” so on and so forth. It does wonders for your completely useless vocabulary!
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Strangely black skies, ominous thunder, police sirens… is a superhero facing off against a supervillain in Brisbane?
I jyst read through 400 comments of TAY and ny head hurts.
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I’m sorry i hurt your brains… 🙁
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damn i love that movie!!
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Seconded. Moral filled B stories and all.
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Arnold is such a bad actor, yet all of his movies somehow end up being good because of it…
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Same. I must catch up on the latest Kotaku goss. If I don’t, I GO CRAZY MAN!
Hey guys and gals..
NEW TEE! 😀
‘Love Capacitor’… god i love that title.. lol
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hehe that’s awesome! Love your shirts 😛
Wow, crazy day today…
First, I go to my grandad’s funeral, which is why I’ve been absent today. I come back to find that all sorts of crazy random stupidity has happened…then I found out my minecraft house has BURNT DOWN!!!!!!
So yeah, crazy day today…
Oh, and happy birthday Adam and Grandmaster! 😀
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Sorry to hear that lambo. Hope all is well.
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*hands you some glowstone blocks in consolation*
May they light the dim days of your pixelated life and lead to a sunny tomorrow.
Touching, no?
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Yeah very touching 🙂
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http://www.overclockers.com.au/pic.php?pic=images/newspics/29apr11/11.jpg
chuloopa will no doubt love this! I had to lol!
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The shark needs twin-mounted Gatling Guns
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That’s pretty rad… but it would be better if they were doing that whilst eating nacho’s…
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I’d like to see you pictures and raise you one ninja doctor in a space suit, re-entering earths atmosphere on a robot dracula that he hi-jakced from real dracula’s secret moon base..
http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs32/f/2008/202/4/7/Dr__McNinja_Demotivational_Pic_by_TheEverLoser.jpgThen bake for two hours and season liberally with frank stalone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAv500Q6bfASeriously, listen to the song while looking at the picture and your day will be complete
FYI guys.. the gizmodo trivia is hard as heck!
On the plus side I’m not as geeky as previously thought!
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I’m going to the Brisbane one tomorrow night. Sounds like I’m pretty screwed.
Yay.
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Is that the yahtzee one at mana bar? Or am I thinking of something else entirely here?
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There’s a Gizmodo/Lifehacker trivia night in all of the important cities. The Brisbane one is at the Story Bridge Hotel, but there are limited spots and they all disappeared pretty quickly.
Yahtzee does trivia at the Mana Bar, but I haven’t been and I don’t particularly plan on going.
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I suppose I wouldn’t fancy being yelled at by a cranky British person, either.
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Seriously the questions are ridiculous.. smartphone use was not banned but even so…
“On Thursday, 4th November 2010 what keystroke was most often hit incorrectly by Mark Russinovich during the development of Windows Azure?” *
It was a great night however, almost made up for missing the Kotaku meet up! My advice however is make sure you’re in bed before 1 AM if you have to get up at 5 AM.. Today hurts….
* Not a real question but on par with them.. haha
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I didn’t get a chance to play MK yesterday, so today is the day! I have a pc to fix though, so I will have to fit it in while installing software and updates. Thanfully some of those take a while, so I’m hoping to get lots of play time in! So super happy I have that arcade stick now! Will make the experience all the more sweet for a first time I reckon! w00t!
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You can doooo it!
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You’re not gonna turn yourself in to a symbol next are you? 😉
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If I was a wizzbang at puteners as you lot I would have been a symbol from the beginning…or the Sonic and Knuckles logo!
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So I bought Mount & Blade Warband on Steam over the weekend randomly. Decided to see what it was like.
Emerged 3 hours later after being kidnapped by raiders (on my very first battle, 1 vs 5, took down 4 of them but the last one got me), escaped, recruited some dudes, won a tournament, frolicked the lands, killed some more raiders, and helped an uprising of sorts.
Low budget, but golly, is it engrossing.
I have no flipping idea what I’m doing, but maybe that’s the point of it. Do whatever you want.
Anyone else have this?
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I poured 75 hours into Warband, I picked up fire and ice… flame and water, hot and cold, whatever it’s called yesterday (nearly completed downloading, stupid capped internet). Looking forward to some musket action!
I have fond memories of taking a lance to the heads of unsuspecting knights.
Lancers, much like rogues, prefer to do it from behind.-
Man, how do you lance well? Wait, scratch that, how do you even land a melee hit from horseback? Maybe I’m just crazy uncoordinated, but I seriously cannot hit anything from horseback in close range, so I mainly just sit back and fire arrows, and then run away.
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It is very much an art form, once you get a feel for the ‘range’ of your weapon things are much easier. I did spend numerous hours when first playing the game swinging at air and dying, so don’t get too demotivated if you don’t pick it up right away.
Once you get good at hitting them while motionless, start practicing at hitting them while your horse has some speed behind it (you do even more damage when you have extra inertia behind you).
Lancing is awesome fun – medieval version of a cruise missile. Thunk!-
There is allways the practice arenas. Do the horseback lessons there, it’ll give you a good idea of just where the blow lands when you swing. Also try using the claymore for hoseback, that was allways my fave.
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THE JANITOR WAS RIGHT!!!
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Haha +1!
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*slow clap, gradually becoming thunderous applause*
Well, I played about half an hour of Batman Arkham Asylum. Recorded the whole thing with my capture card, which doesn’t record in a format I can edit with iMovie, so that half hour of gaming took about 3 hours to import into iMovie so I can show it to the world.
Yeah, I’m going to try doing a video Let’s Play of Batman: Arkham Asylum. Not sure what sort of timeframe this will happen in, but I’ll be putting together a test video soonish.
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doesn’t that kind of kill the mood whilst playing, worrying about all that pap?
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Not really. In terms of recording everything, it’s a case of setting everything up beforehand and then just hitting a button when I start playing. Actually playing the game goes on as normal. The narration stuff will be done after I edit the video together, it’s easier that way.
Which is a lot better than how I’ve been doing the Buttercup stuff in Demon’s Souls. I would literally stop and find a safe place for Buttercup to rest while I type up notes. The whole reason I bought the capture card was so that I could just record me playing and do the writing without having to worry about taking notes as I played.
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I’m telling you, dood. YOU NEED A DICTAPHONE!
I have one, they are glorious basterds!
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The thunder’s been stolen twice already, but…
It is also the day of my birth today!
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That thunder was yetserday! You’re the first for today! Congratumalations!!!
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I shall call this week “The Week Of Birthdays”! 😀
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Thunder? Yappi Berddaei!!
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A birthday pixel for you sir! see if you can find where I hid it on the page!
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HAPPY FRIGGIN BIRTHDAY!!!! :D:D:D:D
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Again? Whats with you people? Alright alright, Happy Birthday!
*broooooooooooooooo!!* -
OOooooooooooold
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Happy birth anniversary date!
So Mario Kart Wii.
How many humans can play together online? Can we set up races? I have 2 IRL friends that will join. One definetly still has it the other is prone to random trade-ins that make no sense.
Can we have two players online from 1 Wii?
Sughly, what’s a crappy combo in DD? I always just used Diddy Kong and Daisy cos they’re my faves.
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Haha, thats a pretty bad combo right there I would say… although the big banana does come in handy when up the front of the pack. As does the heart protection thing. I find the bowsers shell kind of useless most of the time, so they arent crash hot. Also Wario/Waluigi bomb is pretty crud. I think my combo was generally Daisy and ah… baby bowser maybe? In that poo brown car of hers.
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I couldn’t use baby bowser cos if I lost he would cry and my ears would bleeeed.
I just taught myself to be good with them, the banana is amazing at helping keep the lead as long as you place them well.
I actually am(was?) pretty good at hitting people in front with the banana and hitting people behind and in front with the green shell.
Me and a mate would play 2p in one kart and I’d shoot and he’d drive(being our strengths) and we would flog everyone!
I would use the walugi purple car cos it looked good. All my choices were based on favouritism rather than whethet or not they were good or not.
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Anyone hear Firemint has been bought out by EA?
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Nope. But I heard that you’re AWESOME though! *high five!*
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You could at least return the high five >:(
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I will
***HIGH five***
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Sorry Sughly! I didn’t re-check until just then .. would a hi-ten make up for it!? **does a hi-ten**
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I so hope Firemint makes the next Need For Speed iPhone game 😀
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What did they make again?
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Flight Control and Real Racing 1 & 2
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VG! Love your top ten, I re-check it every time you comment!
Was going to rag on you for putting Portal 2 above 3DS and then I remembered there are no games on 3DS yet, so WELL DONE, good ser!-
Cheers man! Any top ten themes you would like to see in the future?
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Gosh, my boredom from the last couple of days has hit a all time high, I really don’t enjoy watching tv or playing games at the moment. I’m not sure why. I feel like a moody female teen cause all I really do is listen to music. But the buck stops today, so suggestions if things to do would be nice anyone wanna give it a shot?
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Sounds like you’re in one of those ruts where you need something NEW to do to me..
Unfortunately what that is varies person to personI like going to the gym when i don’t feel like doing sit-down things. It’s actually good fun… well for me…
Maybe comics? They also tide me over.
Also i went through a massive warhammer phase where i’d paint and convert mini’s like a mo-fo
As i said, the cure is different person-to-person, though :S
Long story short, i’m useless but just waned to ramble
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Have you done Q-bo’s minecraft mystery map yet?
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-Horse-riding.
-Make a cos-play costume(sewing’s not that hard, really).
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Teen femaile? I must have grown boobs and a ginie in my teen years cos thats all I did…thought I was still a guy though.
Yeah Chupoolas correct. New stuff to excite.
Something different.I always find when I’d had enough sit at home alone stuff it was good to get out and socialise, even if it meant going to the (something) store and having a chat with the sales person.
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I know the feeling, I have been a bit like that for a while.
The bored, not female teen.Learn to ride a motorbike.
Find a book or two you want to read.
Chop wood.
Catch up with someone you have not seen in ages.
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I’d like to chime in that I too have been in a bit of a rut lately. The way I seem to be pulling myself out of it is by setting myself tasks or finding competitions/etc to enter that have an external deadline – these keep me honest to the task at hand and actually get me off my ass to do some things. It’s been surprisingly successful – getting more motivation to do things as I am spurred on to complete works of music/etc by cutoff dates.
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You can dance! You can dance!
Everybody look at your pants!Also, if I’m in a gaming slump, I read. Maybe I should pick up Mogworld, someone here said it was good.
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You could check your emails 😉
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/05/03/green-lantern-light-up-retail-display-goes-down-in-flames/
Seriously, everyone can enjoy this joke!
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That’s HOT!
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I don’t care if it might spontaneuosly combust I WOULD SO have that it my house 🙂
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ME TOO!
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I have been invited to join the panel for episode 2 of the Inflated Egos podcast! http://inflatedegos.blogspot.com/2011/05/recording-tonight.html?spref=tw
I’ll be the token “Johnny Foreigner”. Nooooo idea what I’m gonna say. I think they just want to use my accent to pull in the female demographic 😉
Wish me luck. Or don’t, if you want, you know, it’s up to you.
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What sort of accent do you have? Do you make ladies swoon when speaking over the phone?
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I have a Scottish accent. Swooning comes as standard I’m afraid. I have a recording I play to warn people before hand.
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Something along the lines of ‘ach lassie, better get yer wee breathing in order, imma take it so far away ye’ll find it near Willy Wallace’s restin’ place!’?
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His accent is win. Scottish accent ftw. It would make YOU swoon.
Congrats Jamie!
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I concur. Watching him and Mark out-scottish each other was a truly momentous occurrence!
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Jamie was the only one carrying irn-bru around with him, so he won that round.
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I came prepared. I also had Pepsi Max which made me seem like some weird soft drink collector…
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And when Eatsalot says it’s true, it must be true.
Congrats to you also on your promotion to Captain!
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The mere memory of his sultry tones gives me a semi
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Well y’all were just to scared to give it a try..
http://www.popsugar.com.au/2011-MTV-Movie-Award-Nominations-Full-List-16234055?page=0,0
Why is my picture thingy automatically female???
Bit sexist me thinks, might get a few more guys commenting if this could be changed… 😉
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Hey! They have accounts!! And proper emoticons!!!
TADMOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!-
SKINNER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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ROOOOOBoT HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Every now and again I hand out my own awards for winning the internet. Today this goes to you for two back to back quotes that made me LOL.
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Do we get fabulous prizeses??
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You get my praise… which is pretty good isn’t it?
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That’s FABULOUS!!
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+1 praise
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nuff for me 🙂
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I won’t be able to touch the SUGAR network stuff due to the licensing agreement between allure and the sugar network in the US.
But don’t worry. Our accounts will be infinitely better!
nice.
Don’t be scared of Popsugar…
and Fabsugar… and Bellasugar…
OHGOD THEY’RE EVERYWHERE.
My god i chucked so hard i ruptured a testicle
Youse a clARSEy guy!
Best performance by an actress: Jennifer Aniston, Just Go With It or Natalie Portman, Black Swan. HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM…
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Edward Norton – The Italian Job!
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K-stew for life yo
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Mmm. Best constant hair touching, hands down.
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HAL 1billion- The Blade Runner
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I never knew Chupa Chups had funny commercials.
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NEED MOAR MANN!!!
GRRR!!!
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I can imagine the soft toy thingy in this one as Serrels:
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I’d need to see the puppet do the swivel before passing judgement.
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The Lifehacker/Gizmodo trivia night in Brisbane has several spots still available.
Two on the Gizmodo side and one on the Lifehacker side.
I don’t want to be the sole representation of Kotaku (no point having the other sites think we’re a bunch of dunces). So those that are in Brisbane and can get to the Story Bridge Hotel tonight should sign up and try to bring honour to the Kotaku name!
I’ll be wearing a green shirt with “c’est n’est pas une pipe” on it, so I should be easy-ish to spot in the crowd of more techy nerds.
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Ceci n’est pas une pipe! 😀 😀
Love that meme/phrase/idea.
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I thought there were no spots left?
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Seamus opened a few up this morning, you best take advantage.
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mm just tried, but it says it’s full..
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The Lifehacker event page is saying that there are now 4 spots available. Which one did you try?
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i guess i was ont he gizmodo one? I just used the link in the story that was posted on giz today
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mm doesn’t look like I can go anymore anyway.. I just asked the mrs if she wanted to come along, but she said we have guests coming tonight 🙁 Wish she had’ve told me earlier :\
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Dang.
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I would but I’m vain and don’t want to be seen in public because I have a blind pimple thingy inside my nose that is making my nose all bulbous and red and shiny.
Oh, and more importantly my memory is shocking so I would make Kotaku look bad. 😛
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owie!!! blind pimples are teh worstest!!! Espectially in your nose!! Don’t envy you at all!
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I HATE blind pimples! Grrrrrrrrrrr that make me SOOO anGrY!!!
You wouldn’t like me when I’m ANgrY….JJIIMU SMAAASH!
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What if you wore a burke?
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Or a burka, that might work.
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No no, the burke was a better idea. He can talk about gardening and what a great country Australia is and everyone will be distracted!
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Just had to teach my boss the differences in spelling/pronounciation/etc. of ‘loss’, ‘lose’, ‘loose’, and ‘lows’
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I’m at a lose as to how someone could have such a lows understanding of such basic English. Still, it’s not a huge loss, time-wise, to teach someone the highs and loose of the English language.
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HA HA! Loss was correct use!
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I thought it’s be amusing to throw one correct usage in there, just to confuse people even more :p
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suuuuuuuure
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That’s my story and I’m sticking to it!
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This made me smile. Very wide.
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My brain blew up reading that.
*headdesk*
Hey Taddy, do you get to approve your own comments?
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Nope, but I’ll be working on the new system which will remove the need for comment approvals.
So look out for that in the coming months! 😀
Hey all.
I don’t think i’ve seen anyone posting about this so sorry if this is old news (new to me!)
I have been using a site for a few days now and really impressed with the technology. it is:
Basically you can get a bunch of open source applications onto a USB stick and use them on any PC without the need for installation or any updates on the PC. For example, I can not use certain software at work on machines that are ordinarily locked down but I can bypass all that with a USB stick.
Pretty impressive. Not sure if you’d seen it so thought i’d share. Let me know if there is anything I should get?
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Yeah, that site has been around for a while. It’s an epic site though, and it proves to be invaluable for a uni student who isn’t allowed to install stuff on the uni computers!
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That’s pretty cool.
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So, I’m waiting to be regaled with tales of fat blunts, wild groupies and unbridled debauchery…..You DID go didn’t you….?
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No response from him man 🙁
So nothing happened.I suspect he arrived and either found a strip club himself or fell asleep from jet lag.. either way Im ready for tomorrow night.
Sucks but what can I do?
Also, not sure if you are a shower/car/home alone rapper like me but I’ve been trying to sing along to the second verse (RA’s one) in Uncommon Valor and after 2 days of trying, I am starting to get it.
Crazy hard verse, wondering if you’d ever tried? After seeing that video of a 10yo doing it I thought *clarkson voice* “How hard can it be?”
It’s the one that starts
Call me Thorburn, John A Staff Sergeant….
Anyway, I’ll try to post some vid/pics on Friday of the convert to get you all keen for it.
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Are you the hip hop connoisseur, fat shady? I am a hip hop producer… drop me a line sometime, I am knee deep in some very cool projects at the moment and one of the groups I work heavily with just dropped an awesome new clip!
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Hmm…Interesting 🙂
Links please…..
So AnonymousPessimist i like the cut of your jib, but I am wondering…Are you a regular with a new handle due to no FB or a newbie? -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln3vBnCVeX4
The new clip they released… I am nowhere to be found in there given that I stand out like a sore thumb – I am a svelte sexy white nerdy gamer-type (and also in Sydney, hence the geographical disparity).
I am busy tucked away in my studio/gaming room writing more tracks but I am thinking of getting more into orchestral music scores for games (a bit more artistically fulfilling you see).
I am also a newbie here… with no FB to boot (yes, I am one of those weird types). I do make it rather hard to find out more about my enigmatic self.
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Guess i would have to pull a swifty to find out who you are 😉
I like your beatz. Aussie Hip Hop tends to either be to samey or trying too hard to sound like whatever is hot right now. Do you play instruments? What programs you using?
Wasn’t busting your balls bout being new, just curious 🙂
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Can’t check linky at work but will def drop you a line and check out the link when i get home.
I am just a fan but if you want to see my skillz (I am joking as I say this) check out my Youtube channel FatShady1… Nothing special and recorded many years ago, but good for a laugh.
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Yeah, Aussie hip hop doesn’t really have an accessible sound or much of an image unfortunately, hence the desire to relocate my sound to something that’s a bit more fulfilling.
I am primarily a pianist (classically trained), but over the years I’ve also played violin and dabbled on drums. I’ve acquired a number of unique instruments in my quest to build up my wee studio which I am currently trying to not suck on… always a humbling experience. My DAW is ableton live and I’m a big fan of native instruments, hundreds of gigs of soundbanks tend to help the creative process as well 😉
Fatshady, I’ll check out your youtube tonight, I am struggling against a terrible bandwidth cap at the moment. Bandwidth caps are truly the devil’s work – I could knit a jumper between loading pages. I feel like I’m back in the ages of dialup and winsock shenanigans!
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Those fat blunts had better be PHAT!
So, Adelaide meet up.
Are peeps still interested in this?
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That’s abig YES for nohandle!
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Most definitely. I had suggested http://www.avcon.org.au/ but would peeps prefer something sooner….
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Not too fussed myself.
And event like that would be good – that way there is stuff to do rather than just sitting around trying to think of stuff to say, especially since there will not be many of us.
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Yep… maybe Mark can fly over on the company dime?
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And he can bring TadMod too!!!
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Yeah! Just squish him into your carry-on luggage!
Airline lady: “Excuse me sir, what is that?”
Serrels: “My carry on!”
Airline lady: “Sir, that item of luggage is over 8 feet long.”-
Serrels: *does swivel stare*
Airline lady: *is confused*
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Just started to play some MK! It looks totall HOT!! I got one of those Kombat Pass codes with my copy which you need to enter to access online play, but it wouldn’t accept it under my normal account. I created a US account on my xbox and downloaded the pass, and now I can play online using my normal aussie account!! BOOYEAH!!!
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BOoYA-KASHA! RESPEK!!!
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Tempted to grab a copy but I don’t know if it’s because I want to play it or if I just want to give the finger to ‘The Man’.
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You will feel you have accomplished BOTH!
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Anyone played world of tanks yet?
I started yesterday and i’m loving it. All execpt the constant pressure to partake in micro transactions. I would be happy to buy it as a full game, but micro transactions piss me off.
On the bright side it means I can enjoy most of the game without spending a cent (well other then electricity/internet etc)
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Yay! Someone else!
I played through closed and open beta and have been playing quite actively (hence my absence from minecraft) since it was released. I preordered gold because I wanted to support the developers. I’m not sure if that is surpressing prompts or something but I don’t think the ‘get gold’ link on the splash or the button in the game are very intrusive.
That out of the way, the game is f’ing awesome and everyone should bask in it’s glory.
Add me! Enduwolf in game. I’ve got tier 2,3,4,5 and 7 tanks at the moment.
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nice, i’m only up to tier 2, though i’ve nearly got a tier 3 tank destoryer
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German or Russian?
German TDs are nice but they deviate strongly after the Jagpanther, going from big guns mounted on medium tank bodies to immovable objects with a cannon sticking out of it. The Russians on the other hand keep the pace up and just progressively sticking bigger and bigger guns on.
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I’m currently unlocking russian Tank Destoryers and german artiliry. They guy i’ve been playing with tends to use light tanks so it makes a good combo.
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Ooh, what’s world of tanks like? I’ve heard a lot of people talk about it but I’ve never engaged in it myself… worth the price of admission? What are the people like playing it? Pretty tempted, need something to fill my wow addiction.
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There’s no price of admission, unless you want to. Which is like an eternal free trial with no restricted areas.
Buying ‘gold’ allows you to run a premium account, which grants 50% more credits and XP per battle. Otherwise, you can use it to buy premium tanks (which are generally sub-par, but they do allow you to play in higher battles earlier), premium ammo which is just that – better shells, or premium consumables – same deal. They’ve managed to preserve balance which is good, but at the same time, give people who enjoy the game a boost if they want it.
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There is one tricky thing with the gold but, you need a premium account in order to for a party (they call it a platoon) with your friends. Otherwise it’s nearly impossible to end up in the same battle, but only one person needs the account, they just invite the rest.
But if you don’t have anyone you particualy want to play with it’s completly free.
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Oh dear… I just took a look at the tankopedia… and there are tanks out the wazoo.
And upgradeable kit.
and extra things for silly people like me who throw money at things in an impulsive fashion.
This has the potential to not end well.
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Yeah, I apologise, I’ve been running premium so long that I forgot about that. In beta they gave us 250 gold a day, so you could afford a week’s premium every 5 days, so it didn’t take long before we never had to think about platoons anymore.
What you can do (it works most of the time) is count in. If you’re both the same tier, you count down to pressing battle over VoiP and generally it works. I just joined a clan last week and we’ve been doing it with platoons and managing to get 3 platoons in the same battle.
The one thing you can’t guarantee of course is that you’re on the same team…
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Q-bo! I just got your parcel! Mucho thankyou! Where you at these days anyway? You aint been logged in to steam for days!
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He’s still putting out Minecraft fires.
I just had an awesome weekend. I was holidaying up in kalbarri (WA), when I noticed on a map I was reading, that the Principality of Hutt River was nearby. I remember someone (TadMod?) talking about this place in TAY about 6 months ago or so, and I thought it was hilarious. I just had to go to Hutt River – for TAY!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Hutt_River
So anyhow, I somehow convinced the missus to come with me to visit the Principality of Hutt River. We were given a visa without a passport, though they stamp it if you have one. I met Prince Leonard, the head of state himself.
Prince Leaonard personally took me and the missus around to visit the government house, the post office, the pyramid of Hutt, and the Royal chapel. He explicitly told me not to sit in Princess Shirley’s throne. I was tempted to take that as permission to sit on his throne but didn’t take the chance.
The majority of the tour was dedicated to Prince Leonard showing us documents which support the Hutt River as a recognised nation. There was one Polish map he showed us which pinpointed the Principality of Hutt River precisely, but placed Canberra somewhere in north Queensland.
I brought back some momentos, including some local paper currency, and a neat $5 coin. I also have pics, though none with Prince Leonard. I was afraid of offending him if I asked.
The best part about this story is that it is 100% true. No jokes.
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There was one Polish map he showed us which pinpointed the Principality of Hutt River precisely, but placed Canberra somewhere in north Queensland.
Well, at least they got the important things right.
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I’d love to defend my city, but I read an internet article recently that said it was “just outside Sydney.” I mean, come on guys. We’re almost 300 ks from Sydney, we have a population of around 350,000, and we’re the capital of the gorramn country. Saying just outside is like saying Philadelphia is just outside DC, or hell, that DC is just outside New York! (Ok, so there’s about 40-50 km extra between those two, but just roll with me)
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rolling…
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Rock’n’Roll!
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Kewl!
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lol! That place sounds great!
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You seriously do not understand (or could you ever comprehend) how jealous I am of you at this moment.
It was me that raised it before, and I’ve wanted to visit (even if just for the novelty) ever since!
I’m expecting a full write-up of this to appear soon! xD
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Well just think Tadmod, if you hadn’t mentioned it in TAY back then, I would never have known it existed, and would never have thought to visit there. For now you can be content that it was you who INSPIRED someone to go there 😛
Unfortunately my write-up above pretty much covers everything I did. All the tourist stuff is in a small area near the entrance to the principality. This place is called the Earldom of Nain, and is the capital of Hutt River. So we only really stayed around for an hour or so before Prince Leonard left us to go and fix the pool filter (lols!).
Oh and did I mention that Prince Leonard also acted as the customs officer, the postman, the tour guide AND the royal poolboy while we were there?
I’ll see if I can get some pics up on here tonight, being as you are intereseted.
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COFFEE <3
going to class 10 minutes was so worth it 😀
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umm 10 minutes late not just for 10 minutes lol…
I made a very clever joke today that no one got!
I am working on a project that(very long story short) is trying to support something for 13 months but only charging customers for 12 months. So an issue came up where the 13th month was causing us grief, so I am now referring to it as the SMARCH defect… not even a giggle!
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Lousy Smarch weather.
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“Do not touch Willie”…
Good advice!
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That’s better… I knew I could could on you…
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So I’ve finally started using that twitterz account I’ve had sitting around for a while. By which I mean I installed the app on my phone and I’ve started following a whole bunch of people (are YOU one of the lucky ones?).
You’re welcome to follow me, or direct message me, or whatever it is that the kids do with it at RealBatguy. Woo. Now all I need to do is think of super witty things to say to amuse the masses…
Crap.
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I’m one of the people you chose to follow, but I don’t know if that makes me one of the lucky ones :p
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Followed you (RealJamieWatt)
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I’m niewho : ) you can go to my list of kotaku au regulars & follow others from there!
Twitter broke this news first but I am watching No Ordinary Family atm.
I have watched 2 episodes and I have mixed feelings about it. No spoilers but I just feel it got too deep into the story way too quickly (like the first episode)… It is certainly no Heros but I will watch it. Its not bad, just not fantastic.
Anyone else seen any… thoughts?
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Joan and I watched it on Monday, and we both enjoyed it. Was quite an amusing show at least. I don’t expect great things from it, but at least it’s good for shits and giggles. Certainly better than most of the other crap gracing our screens at the moment 😐
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I haven’t seen either shows, I’m too busy watching The Clone Wars to care right now. I’ve been watching season 3, and I just can’t get enough of it! Season 3 is definitely the best season so far, its stories are starting to get more complex and enjoyable. Especially the Mortis trilogy of episodes 😀
Oh, and for those that are interested, iView now has some of the season 1 episodes for your viewing pleasure… -
My first thoughts when I saw ads for it:
Oh Michael Chiklis. You are better than this.-
*Cough* Ben Grimm *Cough-cough*
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I still remember ‘The Commish’.
Man, I miss that show.
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The Commish was an underrated gem
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In his favour I think he did a good Ben Grimm, it was the costume and SFX departments that failed him!
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Fair enough.
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I’ve seen Chikky in a few roles, but Vic Mackey was the only one I enjoyed him in (and I really, really enjoyed that, to the point where The Shield is my fave show).
Will skip this one, based on what everyone’s said.
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I had a twinge of unease with the first episode when I realised how woefully miscast Michael Chiklis was. I mean, how are we supposed to buy that this bear of a man was weakest of the weak until he gained superpowers?
I should have payed more attention to that twinge because after the first few okay episodes it became clear that this show was one of the worst pieces of excrement I’ve ever had the displeasure of watching, and I’ve watched some horribly bad shows.
I’ll usually finish a show’s season if I’ve started watching it but even though I tried with No Ordinary Family I found it was just making me too irritated when I was trying to watch it. I even hated most of the characters which is also unusual for me. It’s a shame because the concept was actually quite promising.
Watch after the first few episodes at your own risk….-
Well, that saves me the hassle. Wish someone had warned me about The Cape.
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The advertisment made it perfectly clear to me. Ended up seeing it anyway…GOODLORD!
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It was cancelled before the first season was up.
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Strange doesn’t like it?
I’m out!
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“It is certainly no Heros but I will watch it. Its not bad, just not fantastic.”
I thought you said it wasn’t like Heroes
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CRAP! This is a reply to FatShady about “No Ordinary Family”
Damn you innernett!!
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Nah it had a similar theme (normal people with abilities) but that is not to say it is anywhere near as good.
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Haha, my thoughts exactly. I actually forced myself ALL the way through the first season of Heroes. It was painful. One day I turned on the TV and season something was on, the bad guys in black lycra with hair slicked back. I lol’d before changing the channel promptly.
**Minecraft Server Outage**
For those who care:
5th May
10am to 12 noon.
downtime will be for about 30 mins during this time.
Just FYI. Perhaps you can use this time to get some sunlight and shower…. and stop setting everything on fire! Yeah maybe that was more directed at one person than I planned…
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Is this minecraft server open to all, fatshady? Do I need to take some sort of initiation to prove myself worthy to enter the realm and commence construction?
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This is a secret we do not speak of.
Prove yourself worthy!!(just kidding, FatShady is the boss though :p)
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Initiation? This could be fun [evil grin]™
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Eep. Having images of that Simpsons episode… and the crossing the desert initiation… and the unblinking eye.
As long as I don’t have to fall several floors, I should survive this…
…right?
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Well, when we hit you with sticks, we actually do it with wooden swords. And by “wooden swords” I mean swords with wood in them, by which I mean diamond swords.
We then trap you in and obsidian prison at the spawn, and fill it with tnt.
And that’s only stage one!
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So what do I do with this wooden shovel you gave me?
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Elementary, my dear holmes!
Then I shall build you a hovel from the finest diamonds I recover from the bowels of the earth with naught but my wooden shovel and cunning skill (so cunning indeed that I can mine diamond with aforementioned wooden shovel).
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Congrats,
Remove the Shone of Shame…And attach the Stone of Triumph!
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“And now, the Paddling Of The Swollen Ass! With Paddles!”
I wish I could play minecraft again but alas my laptop is out of commission and I haven’t been bothered to get a new one just yet.
Serrels get now!
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/unisex/popculture/e873/
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If I were him I’d get it at least as a back-up for a costume party!
I went outside today.
My legs and eyes hurt, and I didn’t get to spend the whole day sitting on TAY, posting random crap.
Why do I ever leave my house?
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Dear god man, there are BEARS out there.
Did you survive?
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And where there are bears, there are sharks. And where there are sharks, there are gorillas.
And all they do is constantly high-five.-
And the Tyrannosaurus high-twos.
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The sharks actually have to travel in groups of 3, just to be able to get 5 fins in.
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Also, I was looking at this: http://www.xkcd.com/893/ and it rather depressed me, but I got to thinking. Would any reader of this site be willing to go on that proposed Mars trip, the one where they said you’d never return to Earth. I mean, obviously it’s a big ask, and I doubt anyone over the age of about twenty-five would even contemplate it (I could be wrong though). But I was thinking about it, and it wouldn’t make that much of a difference to me. Well, apart from the 200 odd day travel time, and the cripplingly bad internet.
Obviously this is wild speculation, and the US won’t be launching any missions to Mars until at least the 2030s (If they launched on the 5th of August they could make it correspond to the 100th anniversary of Neil Armstrong’s birth!), so yeah, in all seriousness, would anyone here ever consider signing up to anything like this?
(Rough idea of the Mars thingo here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_to_Stay)
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Sure,
I’m nearly thirty.
I’m not close to my family and have no real close friends.
No kids or girlfriends.
Why not.-
I’d go, because everybody needs a little comic relief.
Besides, we need someone charismatic in case there are any martian lady-types.
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If my parents were dead I might give it a go…
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hang on. Just so we’re straight, you are asking us to kill your parents, right?
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You’d still have a few Nukes left over from that last job, eh?
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Got one left. Still not to polish it’s knob before i can use it
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Good to see a man who takes pride in his workmanship!
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If I could take the wife and kid, no hesitation.
I would go in a microprocess but there is only one human girl whom I need to rescue one day and be with, and I won’t go into rest mode until that mission is complete.
Sure, it sounds more worthwhile than the 9-5 grind.
Just bring an e-reader with a few thousand books for the trip.
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And by sure I mean I would probably kill or at least do some maiming for a chance like that.
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My main problem would be, given the time it takes to get there, even if they launched yearly packages, I’d still be a year behind in gaming hardware. I just don’t know if I’d be able to handle that!
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Wait’ll you get married!
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Me married might lead to children brought up by me. And that, is a terrifying thought. Although, I guess there’s only one way to find out how bad a father I might be… Ladies.
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Hey guy… Guess what?? 😀
Look at the time this is posted…
THAT’S RIGHT – INTERNET IS BACK BIZNATCHES!!!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
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And to top it off, WALL OF SMILEYS!!!!
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kongrats…
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Hmmmmm…
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TWO JIMUS? Did one of you come from the future? If so, DO NOT TOUCH EACH OTHER! Of all the important lessons taught to us by Time Cop, this is the most important one!
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WOH! I’m seeing double. FOUR KRUSTYS!!!
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“…And two your change, and-a we thank you.”
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yay welcome back sire!! hopefully backk for good this time 😉
Welcome back! Back… TO THE FUTURE!
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RAD!!!
Where do i pick up my hover board?
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Same way everyone else gets one. Wait till you see a little girl with a scooter, mug her then break it.
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Personally I like to wait for a guy to get arrested and steal his while the cops drag him away in handcuffs…
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Do you have Minecraft? You really need to join the Kotaku Minecraft server 😀
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not yet.. but i tested my net connection with some counterstrike last night and was pinging at 34… so i am a happy happy man 😀
Minecraft, you shall be mine…craft… *ahem*
Yaaaayyyyyy!!!!!
Welcome back human, you were quite missed by all I’m sure 🙂
YAY for ultimate return of the Loops!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVTDnlIU6IY
What the hell did I just watch? :S
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I feel dirty now 🙁
Just got back from the Gizmodo/Lifehacker trivia night at the Story Bridge Hotel.
First things first, thanks to Angus, Seamus, Nick and the guy from Microsoft with the nifty hat whose name I can’t remember. You put on a jolly good show.
I’m happy to report that I was part of team Pesto Party (yes, it was a last second “holy crap we need a name before we submit the first round of answers!” name) and that we were victorious on the night. I’m also pretty confident that I was the only Kotakuite there, so it was a win for Kotaku.
We each walked away with an Xbox 360 game (in my case Homefront, but there was also Crysis 2) and a MS Arc mouse. So now I have three pointer devices plugged into my laptop.
We won largely due to shameless cheating with smartphones. Everyone else was doing it, we just did it better. I think our competitive edge came from the fact that I found the one place in Brisbane where I get great reception with 3 mobile. If I ever need to make a call, I’ll be sure to go to the Story Bridge Hotel.
On top of the team quiz, there were also spot quizzes of True/False questions. I won one of them (the questions were largely about the Star Wars Holiday Special for that one, too much TV Tropes for me) and picked up a copy of Crysis 2 for my efforts. My efforts entailed putting my hands on my head to indicate “true” and leaving them by my side for “false”.
Nick from my table also won one of the spot quizzes, a MS Azure shirt I think.
Then to top it all off, the Xbox 360 for the best flow chart went to the brothers Jonathan and Jeremy. Well, the prize was awarded to Jeremy but Jonathan wrote it and they live together so it’s a shared thing. They were also from my table because my table was full of winning.
So one table pretty much nabbed all of the prizes.
Except that we never got hamburgers 🙁 Still, I’ll take free video games and a rather nifty mouse over half a hamburger. Probably. Actually, can I get back to you on that one?
Had a nice chat to Nick from Gizmodo after the trivia night was over. Shame I came up with my best thoughts after the conversation was over, l’esprit d’escalier.
He mentioned that he was a little jealous of how awesome Kotaku’s community is. When I got into the car, I realised the two main reasons for it.
First of all, we’ve passed the critical mass needed for there to be an active community. Secondly, being a gaming site allows for Kotaku to have a lot more community contributions.
Writing a game review or opinion piece on gaming is a lot easier than doing a gadget review or writing a lifehack. Well, probably. I haven’t actually tried.
I’d love to see the same sort of thing happen at the rest of the Allure sites, if only because the people who run this madhouse are awesome and would probably enjoy it.
In short, free booze (that I didn’t drink) from Microsoft led to an excellent night. Especially because of the great victories that ensued at our table.
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Yeah this is true
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Well, do you really expect the sort of person to go to a Gizmodo/Lifehacker trivia night to not own a smartphone? Also, because it was Lifehacker, everything is about productivity and efficiency. Cheating was the most productive and efficient method of playing :p
Also, the questions were fiendishly difficult. Some were designed in a way that made looking the up hard to do in the space of time given. Like the puzzle sheet filled with formulae or the pictures of famous nerds we had to name.
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haha I was going to comment on the formula sheet yesterday.. but didn’t want to give away any clues!
.. and You’re right smart phones did not necessarily help!
Good to hear the Brisbane meet-up went well!
I think that part of Sony’s make good to all of us post-hack should be to sponsor Kotaku meet-ups! haha
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Sounds like good times! I was actually sitting here, in my den, working away and thinking of you and the quiz thing. Wish I went 🙁
Hey All,
I’m just writing up a short doco here to quickly sketch down the ideas/features that you guys want implemented in an account system.
Some details I can share with you:
– It will most likely be an “Allure” account. This means that you’ll be able to use the same account on kotaku, gizmodo, defamer and lifehacker.
– It will be entirely web-based, so don’t expect the next Steam!
– There will be features such as avatars, emoticons, likes (and dislikes [take THAT, facebook!]), replies, quotes, and all the other good stuff.
So, fire away!
Tad
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Sounds good. I think keep it simple and streamlined, dont add too much to it. What you listed is plenty.
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If anything, it’s going to be implemented iteratively.
We’ll probably get the bare-bones version up and running with the basic, necessary features, and then slowly add to them the slightly more useless ones. 😛
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Notifications, we need notifications. If you could have a bar across the top of the screen like the sugar sites do, you could put the notifications there. Notifications would be for stuff like, “Someone liked/disliked your comment”, “Someone replied to your comment”, “You have won Community Kudos” things like that.
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I’d love if there was a personal message type system and the notifications were tied into it somehow.
So if someone replied to your comment, you received a PM that said “UserX has replied to your comment. Here’s a link.” Also, people should be able to disable notifications, or just specific types of notification (so if someone wants to know when they’ve been replied to but not when someone likes/dislikes a comment).
Most importantly of all, it should be powered by unicorns.
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PM’s were always going to be implemented. It would allow for better communication between members. Currently we have to share our emails in the comments, and there is no guarantee that the person your comment is directed to will see it.
Private messages will also allow the editors of each site to directly communicate with users about prizes, etc…
I imagine the notifications systems working a bit like facebook. You’ll be able to check which of your notifications will send an email to your preferred account.
The office is currently powered by rainbows, but seeing as they produce a low yield to energy ratio, we’ve been thinking of switching to unicorns. We’ve been tossing this up for a while now.
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I likee da email notifikations!
You is a good on!
Kotakudos…
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I hadn’t thought of notifications! I’ll add them to the list.
In terms of achievements, I’ve put them down as “Accolades”. They will be things such as “Has 10 friends”, “Has linked to their facebook account”, “Won Community Kudos on 20/3/2011”, etc…
I’m hesitant to refer to them as achievements for fear of alienating the other allure site members.
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Can we also level up? Can I start as a lowly street-urchin and become a time lord??
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haha yeah! Acheivement get! You posted the 1000th comment! That way Mr Serrels doesn’t have to waste his time settling debates over who got it 😉
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Can the avatars be Sughly styled faces?
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Only the default one you start with! xD
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WOO! lol. Thansk for the love Jamie 😀
In all seriousness, if you did want to have some just let me know what res and stuff they would be and if there’s any specific looking avatars you want and I could easily draw some up.
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Well, what about Sughly style emoticons???
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Mine will be a Jamie hat? phat ‘ginie!
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Can do ;). Working on an awesome punk girl at the mo. Going to give her full body tats (Tattoos, not breasts. that would be too much.)
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You make me wish I had 3 hands!
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Very much a work-in-progress http://tiny.cc/j7n4h
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That’s boobalicious!
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drooooooooooool
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I aim to please
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haha i’ve already got my own personalized sughly avatar! 😛
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I’ll prefer using your avatar of me when it’s done 😉 But also Sughly hasn’t made one for me yet so no competition 😛
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Hshs, this is true.
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omg, *haha. I wasn’t just hissing at you, like some weird man.
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Sounds good! The only thing I might add that hasn’t been mentioned is private messaging. So I can tell Jimu when I’ve caught his pokemanz.
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You’ve been beaten by a hair by Trjn!
We were always going to implement them. 🙂
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Gotta catch ’em all!
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Tech Knight approval program: successful
I agree with lambo, notifications on replies would do very well. All that you list is going to be awesome. Always enjoy having my own avatar 🙂
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Maybe later on down the track TadMod, I had other ideas as well: Kotaku online gaming collaboration and Personal game reviews.
To elaborate, first part, users can add in games that they currently own, so that other people can search for other people that have the game, allowing for possible FRs to play online together as fellow Kotaku peeps.
Second part, allow the user to make personal reviews on each game they list, for others to read should they wish it. So not only do people know what games the person has, but also what they think of it, kind of an online word of mouth for recommending games to other people. Obviously not everybody posts in for the reviews posted on the Kotaku pages, but I personally enjoy voicing what I think of the games I play in detail, and I’m sure others do as well.
Just an idea. Thoughts?
Hey Tad, I was just thinking… do you think we could get one of those PM systems?
Gatling lasers!
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Yeah this! And sharks with frigging laser beams attached to their frigging heads? Is that too much to ask?
In all seriousness, can we has collapsible comments? It’ll mean that when I goto uni and come back, scrolling through the days worth of TAY will be much easier.
I’m just wondering what people like Lamboboy and Jimu are going to do when they have to stick to one username….
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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Nooooooooooooooooooooooo!
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NooOOOOooooOOOooooOooooOOoOO!!!!
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NNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!
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Set up multiple accounts perhaps?
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I wouldn’t go that far… maybe something that when you mouse-over it shows the actual name.
Oh! Not that my laser-gatlings-for-all-accounts wasn’t serious, but a more serious suggestion:
Easy creation of accounts would be nice?
Not saying that people like Hugo the Hung(arian) Barbarian’s boss, his boss’ boss, or that weird Zumba Fitness/Train nutter aren’t real, but they do seem to pop up rather… spontaneously.
Some great ideas! I love the sound of accolades and notifications. The fact that three people independently suggested PMs is kinda awesome 😉
Can’t really think of much to add, except for a record of all our comments so that it’s easy to see what we’ve written. The Facebook connect feature used to do this but it was broken ands only showed the last dozen or sio comments.
Not sure if it fits exactly under “accounts”, but anyway: keep track of which comments are new since you last visited the story. Then no matter whether you’re on your browser or your phone, you can see that there are X new comments, and highlight and/or jump between them. Would make TAY a LOT easier.
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This would be good. I shall call it “Following an article”
You could change your settings so that you automatically “Follow” an article when you comment on it, or you follow it when you click on a follow button near the top of the article…
The Trip is the best BBC series I have watched in a long time. I want to have Rob Brydon’s babies.
Also, capped internet sucks.
Good morning all. I am a tad less cranky (but no less pessimistic) after the morning coffee.
How are the Kotakuites this morning?
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Brydon + Coogan = Hilarity… TO THE MAX!
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Brydon AND Coogan! Why was i not informed of this previously!!!!!!! You have failed me internetzzzzz…
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It is as every bit as awesome as you would imagine. Possibly more so. Words cannot do the duo justice.
They do get a little bit of drama in my comedy, but it’s largely laugh-city.
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Yeah, I is a’ight…
Well with that iPad compo I’ve entered, I’ve come to a conclusion. “If you can’t beat em, join em!”
The guy who’s in the lead has 618 votes, I have 12, so I voted for him too… 🙂
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I think you’d have a lot more luck if voting didn’t require you to add an app to facebook.
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Agreeeeeed.
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I’m sorry.. but is it just me or is Superman one of the lamest super heroes around?
I mean, honestly, i could just never get into him.. and the more i think about it, the less i care and the less cool he seems..
In fact, the only superman i thought might have been neat was the communist alternate reality superman..
He just doesn’t have the cool factor of other heroes, even compared to a long list of DC heroes…
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Nobody likes or should like an OPed superhero IMO
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*whispers*
pssst
That means overpowered, yeah?-
“OPed”… TRANSLATION: Overpowered
Yes, correct
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Superman is a tricky one.
The main problem is that with his ridiculous array of powers, it’s very easy for bad writers to just latch on to the fact that he’s pretty much unstoppable. So they turn any story about him into a contrived series of events where he faces off against enemies that happen to carry green rocks or use magic. As if somehow manipulating his weaknesses to add tension will somehow make it a more interesting story.
When a good writer gets a hold of Supes, it’s a different story. In Red Son, Mark Millar got around the issue of him being a boring invincible hero by making him a boring invincible villain. By turning the usual “Lex bad, Supes good” dynamic around, we got a great little story where Lex Luthor saves the world from an evil super powered dictator.
Likewise, there was a story about an old woman who relied on Supes to constantly save her. Eventually it got to the point where she would intentionally get herself in distress and Superman couldn’t save her because he had more important issues to deal with. That was a good idea because it shows a more interesting aspect of Superman’s character: people’s reliance on him.
In Kingdom Come, the best part about Superman’s involvement is not that he faces off with Captain Marvel, but how the big blue boy scout was seen as a role model for the other supers. When Supes stepped down, everything went to hell. Again, it shows an important aspect of his character that isn’t about his powers.
For The Man Who Has Everything deals with Superman being the last of his race and how he truly desires to be back amongst his own kind.
The finale of Justice League Unlimited let’s him deliver the famous “World of Cardboard” speech. Which is another little insight into Superman’s life.
Notice how the best Superman stories forget all about the “super” and instead focus on the “man”?
He’s an interesting character. Just very rarely used well.
I’m not a fan of Superman, and normally argue that he is a boring character because writers simply forget about what makes him interesting. The trick to winning that argument is to ignore the parts that do make him interesting.
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Superman can be one dimensional but I like what they’ve done with him in Smallville, for my money the best take on the Superman story.
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http://sughly.deviantart.com/favourites/?offset=120#/d3e01g6
Not mine btw, just an awesome pic.
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Not sure that will work since I linked my faves folder, so heres the direct link: http://artsammich.deviantart.com/art/Weak-204915030
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That picture says a lot and is pretty cool, but more importantly “Artsammich” is an awesome, awesome name.
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Deviant Art just shut down all my winders wit it’s intarwebz crazy. Saw the pis though, good reversal on the Supes/Clark Kent dynamic!
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I don’t like Superman that much either, although I’ve never read a Superman Comic book or seen any of the movies or TV shows…
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I would recommend looking up “For the Man Who Has Everything”, either the comic or the cartoon adaptation (from Justice League Unlimited). I prefer the cartoon, but I’m sure Jimu will assert the superiority of the comic.
I don’t like Superman, but there’s no denying there is some great material out there focusing on him.
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You think an adaptation of an Alan Moore story is better than the original?
Interesting.
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I think Alan Moore is on record as saying that it is the one adaptation of his works that he likes.
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That’s effing HUUUUUUGE!
(for anyone thinking I’m sarcazzing Trjn, AM has nothing but contempt for all the other adaptations!)
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I wouldn’t have mentioned it if it wasn’t a very compelling argument :p
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I used to think this way and then one day I woke upo and realised it’s not the character it’s the creator.
Anyone can be interesting in the right hands.
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This. It really does depend on the writer. A dude that can basically punch a planet out of orbit CAN pretty much kick everyones ass. Good supermans imo are a bit underpowered and more story than action driven.
Oh and you said YET above so i present you this
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/JUSTICE-LEAGUE-COMPLETE-DVD-NEW-Sealed-FREE-POST-/220778882573?pt=AU_Movies_Movies_TV_Shows&hash=item336772660din a sexy tin no less 😉
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I cannae Ebay at ze work, how much?
Not that I’ll prolly buy it, mebbe when the boy is older!
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$88 with free postage from australia. All four seasons blus a bonus disc. Got the exact same set sitting at home. It is an investment in you and your sons future relationship really…. In fact it could almost be considered CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE if you didn’t get it and i wouldn’t want to have to report you to the appropriate authorities… 🙂
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I’ve had this discussion. It’s quite possible that cos I like comics and games so much my son will think they suck and get into sports and cars or something!
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Nah, they just like little sponges 🙂
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Awwwwwwww, how sweet
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A legitimate concern that we share. I fear he’ll make me go and cheer at sporting events and then one day my portable will run out of battery…
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Well today it’s official. I have lost my last friend in Brisbane. I went to high school with this guy, and we lived one street away from each other for many many years. Even after I got married he still used to come and hang out with us almost every other day. Until one fateful day when we invited him over for dinner at the same time I invited a girl I’d met on the interent. That fateful day, they met, and seemingly fell in love. Time went by and he slowly stopped visiting. Then one day after not having had a visit for weeks, I find out they were married. Ok.. stab in the chest for me, but I’ll get over it. Worse things have happened in life. I attempted to chat with him on facebook, and got the very occasional reply, usually just one sentence here and there. Then the replies just stopped. He stopped coming online altogether. It’s been months and months since I spoke to him. Possibly even getting close to a year now, but I still held on to hope that one day I would again speak with him. Until today.. 😐 I saw his account log on, and sent a message asking why he never spoke to me anymore, and apparently it was his wife on the other end. She told me he was banned from the computer, and not allowed to communicate with any of his internet buddies anymore. So I asked for a phone number so I could have a chat with him, and she just ignored me 🙁 Logged off and gone for good 🙁
So there you have it. My last friend in Bris gone for good 🙁 Here’s a tip… don’t introduce you best friends to people you’ve met on the net.. even if you do it with no intentions.. Sad sad day for me 🙁 He used to love coming over and playign all the new games I got and having a blast together. Now I’m dying to share some mortal kombat goodness with someone, and there’s noone left to share with.
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What a sad story. She’s probably paranoid that he’ll meet some other girl on the internet.
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I’d really doubt that actually.. in all the years I’d known him, he’d never had a girlfriend before. He wouldn’t even talk to girls usually. Certainly not for the purpose of picking them up 😉 He was totally addicted to WoW for the longest time, which possibly had something to do with her banning him from games, but banning him from communicating with old friends is taking it a bit far I think. Especially considering I’m the one who introduced them to each other :\
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That sucks WB. I have 2 friends like that and to be honest, my ex nearly did it to me too, before I figured out what was happening.
Funnily enough, I met my current girlfriend/future wife on WoW. In 20 weeks we shall have our first child together 🙂
I’ll tell you all about it when we meet up because I’m going to be your new friend. I suck at fighting games, so you’ll feel like a god among men! I live at Bray Park.
I’d say more about the meetup but there’s two posts now and the other seems more organised…
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That really sucks fellow bot 🙁
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Banned from the internet?
Are you sure she didn’t murder him and is now trying to cover it up? 😛
But seriously:
Try to get in contact with HIM, and directly with him. Often things aren’t what they seem.I remember one of my mates RSVPing to my birthday party a couple of years ago and not turning up. Now, I had lots of other friends at the party, but he was a particularly close friend and so I felt a little betrayed.
Out of stupidity (and anger), I didn’t talk to him for about 3-4 months. We then randomly met at uni and started chatting. The first thing he said to me were his apologies for not coming to my party, but claimed that it was a tenuous time for him. He told me that his father had died that week.
Ever since then, I always seek out an explanation from the person themselves before jumping to conclusions. There’s always a reason.
Anyways, that’s my little story. Try contacting him directly. I hope everything works out between you and your friend.
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Problem is I don’t have a direct line of contact with him anymore. He’s moved house, changed numbers, doesn’t reply to his email or messages..
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Thats sad 🙁
Making new friends can be hard. I’ve been in Aus for a good few years now and so far haven’t been able to meet anyone (IRL) who shares my interests in games, comics, manga etc. The jobs I’ve had have all been with people much older/completely different interests. I have a few online friends but it’s not the same. I miss hanging out with friends and playing video games so I know where you’re coming from there.
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That’s quite sucky.
I just don’t understand this bizarre controlling thing some people do to their partners. Surely they can’t honestly believe that the person they’re with is happier without the things they used to love (like their friends or internet access).
Here’s hoping that he manages to break through Big Brother’s censorship network and you two can get back in touch.
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That sucks, dude. Girls are weird, and boys are weird for letting girls change them. It’s especially weird that you introduced them and they didn’t invite you to their wedding. Like Elly said, it sounds like the girl in question is mega-insecure. 🙁
At least you have new friends like us awesome Kotaku people though. Yay!
P.S. If a long time goes by and I haven’t spoken to you, it’s because I’m unintentionally self-absorbed and I suck. 😛
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Man, that sucks. Well, you know, I’m still in Brisbane, and if I ever get over my inhibitions then you have me! Reading this makes me want to meet up with you guys even more. Be warned though, friends I’ve had from as far back as high school that have lived here have struggled to get me out of the house. I’m not a douche though! Just a hermit…
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hahahaha I think at this point I would welcome some new company, even if it was as you explained 😉 As long as you love games and stuff it’s all good 😉
And I am greatful for meeting strange and Jimu aswell. Even though we’ve only seen each other once, it was great to do so, and I’m sure we will have more opportunities to get together.. well certainly Strange anyway! Looking forward to that concert next week!!! eeeeeeee!!!! Gonna be a busy week at the HiFi for me! I have frenzal Rhomb this sat, then Alerstrom on… is it wed or thurs? :0 Either way I’m pumped!! -
That’s okay, we’ll just rock up to your house. Something about Mohammed and mountains. Wait, that makes me the mountain. Oh well. Where do you live again? 😉
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Haha! Then I could show off the Dead Rising 2 jacket I won and my autographed Russell Crowe photo XD
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I would totally love to see that in person!! I bet it looks totally sick!!
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My girlfriend does not approve of it. Needless to say she is happy it doesn’t fit me (jacket size is like, XL or XXL maybe… and no, I’m not too big for it! How dare you think that!).
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Or maybe you meant Russell? Caus he looks damn slick…
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You.. a mountain? I can only drum up one image from that description, and Joan would LOVE IT!! HAHHAHAHAHAHA
I live in Springwood btw. If you want exact addy details, hit me up on facebook.
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Go give welbot a hug on behalf of TAY.
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Maybe we should try an informal Brisbane meet-up. Say at the Mana Bar on some upcoming weekend.
It opens at 3pm on weekends, so we could go late afternoon and hopefully it won’t be that crowded.
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Yeah I’d do something like this. It would be a great place to meet… if it wasn’t so damn small! Grrr! Damn bar with amazing idea but no space to execute it properly…
I have to say when I first heard of the bar I was SO SO excited. I imagined (obviously) a bigger place, but also with like couches and a more relaxed setting. The cramped quarters with lack of seating really brings the idea down. Couches would have been the best. THE BEST!
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hha maybe we can convice Mr Serrels to sponsor us to open our own BETTER bar! Call it Kotaku Kouch! It could be like Las Vegas used to be back in the day.. walls lined with arcade machines, and consoles up the back.. big bar in the middle, and couches all over the place to chillax in!!
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Heaven.
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THIS!
And Super Nintendos!
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Heaven just got better!
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Super Nin-better!
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Yes plx. This sounds fun & junk.
Just please not Mana Bar.
It’s great and everything but just waaaaaaaaay too small & overpriced on le beverages.
Objections to West End? Like Lock n’ Load or Rumpus Room (I know I keep bringing up West End, but I just work here and it seems to have the better ‘bars’ rather than clubs) Oh OH! And it’s got sling so we could like, totally get bat-shit insane cocktails and then drink them even though they taste awful but we paid $22 for this Red-backed Spider Martini and dammit I WILL ENJOY IT!
Also if anyone sees me around*, feel free to come and say hello. I don’t like not having faces for names. Plus you can’t look or move more goof(ily/y?) than I do.
Also I need freshies for some ideas I’m cooking up at the moment.
*If you don’t know what I look like, click my name. Then subscribe. Then praise me. Then unsubscribe when I heap thanks on you. Then change your email when I keep emailing asking to hangout.
Then cancel your credit card when I reveal, in the middle of a drunken “Why won’t you go out with me anymore?” phonecall, that I was the one who hacked PSN.
Aww that sucks. I’m a bit worried about your friend, being under the thumb and all. Being banned from the things you enjoy would hurt bad, the woman sounds like a control freak.
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yer.. she is a bit of a control freak. Thanks to people like yourself, and other polycountersand kotaku peeps I know from Bris, at least I have a good circle of virtual friends to keep me going. I’ve met one guy from Polycount who’s a pretty good friend. Dunno if he actually shows stuff on polycount anymore or if he just hangs out in #model_design, but we’ve managed to meet up several times and had a blast. It’s great meeting like minded people, whether it be for games or arts sake!
I’ll be your friend!
Just won’t be available nearly as often as that dood seemed to be.
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haha I wouldn’t expect it really.. he was my besty for so many years.. Can’t really just replace that. Specially when he lived so close. But anything is welcomed 🙂
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I dunnoooooo, I;m pretty coooool!
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haha yeah you are pretty awesome! I was very surprised at how well we got along for a first time meeting. I was expecting a miriad of those awkward silince moments that usually plague those initial meetups, but it just never happened!
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It helps that my boy starts yelling baby-obsenities at the staff while we eat.
Lightens the mood a little!
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Whoa, turned into quite the thread so will reply down here.
It sucks that you don’t get to see your mate because of someone you introduced him to. If it is her pulling the strings, he might be missing you too and might really need you should he ever extract himself. If you think he is worth it, I would persist with trying to get a hold of him directly, don’t give up til you here it from the horses mouth. If he does choose otherwise at least you know that you tried.-
yer well that’s kinda the plan since I don’t have much else in the way of options. Given that she is such a control freak, I’m hoping that one day he’ll get the shits with it and end it all. I mean.. sounds horrible to say that, given that relationships are great to have, but damn it.. i want my friend back!! If it all does go south, I’m hoping he’ll turn to me for friendship again. I have a feeling he would, but only time will tell. I mean i know it’s not his choice to not talk to me. You don’t just go from being best buds who see each other almost every day to just not talking without good reason, and I have done nothing, so I highly doubt it’s mine or his fault this happened.
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Man that sucks more then a high-powered vacuum cleaner. I hate when people drop off the face of the Earth because they’ve found a significant other. Friends are important too.
My condolences.
BREAKING NEWS:
Hacker group Sony has initiated an attack against the Anonymous Network. Analysts belive Sony may have made off with users names, well, their handles, well, one handle… “Anonymous”. Oh, and one user’s name – Harry Stevens – who didn’t really get the hang of the Anonymous thing.
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c268/cronotriggr/hack.jpg
The Anonymous website has been down for several hours and an image of a flying poptart encased black cat posted with a message warning of “maintenance”. As everyone knows one of Sony’s mascots is the black cat Kuro who is also prone to wearing food as clothing (See picture) http://www.e-life.youthinks.com/picture/taito/revoltech_kuro_hallo1.jpg
Irrefutable proof? I say yes!
More news as this story develops.
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That cat looks delicious!
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The new stage of culinary technology; self grilling meat!
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My mum wants me to have lunch with her and meet some of her friends from church. This is bizarre and completely scary.
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It’s a trap! 😛
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I lol’d, hard.
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Dare you to draw some fake stan tattoos all over your arms. And forehead.
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Stan? Who’s Stan? I meant Satan…
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I’d prefer “Stan” tattoos all over her. Would certainly confuse the shit out of everyone.
Failing that, you could go the ultimate ignoramnce tattoo…
“Santa” in gothic lettering with the Judean Star beneath it
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What about Saturn…with the ringed planet beneath?
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How about just “Hail Saturn!”
would be a great double-take piece
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All of these are good ideas. I do have one tattoo but alas it is not Satanic/Stanic/Saturnic enough. It is sort of a ribcage though so that might be offensive enough.
I’m being picked up in 10 minutes and I don’t have any textas or permanent markers which is a shame because regardless of the other ladies, my Mum would have found it amusing.
🙁
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I watched a movie the other day called Stan Helsing.. omg.. it was so bad it was good! I couldn’t stop laughing at just how terrible it was!
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Sounds like one of them there nekkid movies.
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it definitly could be a porn title for sure! But it wasn’t.. it was a c or even d grade comedy movie
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“one of them there nekkid movies”
BAH HA HAH!!
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Jimu Kong, read much Spawn?
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Nope.
Not a big McFarlane fane. From what I’ve heard, the stuff he didn’t directly create(HELLSPAWN, Sam and Twitch) is a lot better.
I’ve read the first few issues since he got in amazing creators, Frank Miller, Niel Gaiman, Alan Moore and the guy who did Cerebus…who I can’t recall the name of right now.
They were pretty crap. I own the Gaiman issue, signed by Gaiman. Not good.
Gaiman and McFarlane were in a legal battle for years over the rights to Angela a character Gaiman created while writing Spawn and who McFarlane refused to share rights with.
Funny, since MacFarlane and all the Image boys left the likes of Marvel and DC so they could own the rights to their creations but then Macfarlane seems to think it’s fine to do it to others.
Bully syndrome???
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I’m also not a big FAN of MacFarlane…
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Yet another thing we have in common then!
I remember the Gaiman fiacso. Thankfully McFarlane lost and all was good.
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I read Spawn!
I lied. I don’t read Spawn.
I just wanted someone to talk to. 🙁
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I saw the movie!
It was suck.
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I concur. Although I remember there being a semi-decent animated series.
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I own the movie 🙁
John Leguizamo was quite good. But apart from that one of the worst films ever.
Spawn cartoons are infinitely better….-
I too would be sad if I owned the movie. There there…
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I’ve read maybe 1 issue and didn’t really know what was going on.
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I read the first two volumes of Spawn, they were very good. But then I read the third volume, and each issue got progressively more worse and outlandish, to the point I didn’t finish reading it. It’s sad, because it started of great then turned terrible.
Okay, posting a new comment about the possibility of a Brisbane meetup just because the current one is nested a few comments deep and things might get confusing quickly.
Suggestions for possible meet-up places so far are: Mana Bar (only really suggested because there are consoles there), Lock n’ Load and Rumpus Room.
Or we could build a Kotaku sponsored bar of our own.
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Where’s Mark? Didn’t he say he’d sponsor us for the new bar? I swear I saw him say that.
Anyways, I don’t really know those West end places, I’ve gone to restaurants there. But walking past the bars, I reckon they look better than city places. Ummmm, I don’t really know though based on my lack of experience. I do like the idea of consoles at Mana Bar though, despite the negatives already brought up. I’ve been keen to chewck out the trivia, even if you haven’t. We could be team kotaku and win prizes even!
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I could probably be persuaded to take part in some trivia down the line.
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I’m not afraid of axe murderers.. i eat them for breakfast, so I could always offer up my place for a party. I have all the current gen consoles etc. Plenty of space to move. But if you mis-behave and break shit.. I’LL KILL YOU!!! 😉
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Your place wasn’t the one by any chance that had the arcade machines in show us yours?
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omigod… Welbot… was it?
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Unfortunatly no.. But I do have a pc hooked up to my pc with a metric fuck ton of mame roms on it :0 My hori fighting stick also works on pc too, so it’s really just like having a 50 inch arcade machine 😉
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err pc hooked up to my tv…
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Damn, I was hoping for some Xzibit goings on:
Yo dawg, heard you like to game…
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nearly became the xzibit meme there 🙂
SARK MERRELS EDIT: 1000 post. SPAMTOD YOU BE SLIPPING YO!
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WooHoo!!!
Great minds Jimu! 🙂
How’s the trophy looking Blaghman? -
That’s a very good question, and I shall choose to answer it in limerick form.
There once was a rapping tomato
That’s right, I said ‘rapping tomato’
He rapped every day
From April to May
And also, guess what? It was me.Okay, that doesn’t answer your question, but I completely forgot about it, and got lazy, so I’ll probably finish it up at some point eventually… Or outsource to welbot…
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Surely he’s busy working hard and not spamming!
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Hmmm… it will do, I SUPPOSE. I actually bought one of those keyboard encoders with the intention of making a cabinet myself. Too lazy to do the woodwork though. And inexperienced too, I guess. But I did buy some arcade buttons and trial the encoder out for a uni project, works like a charm 😀
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I can bring another stick for multiplayer MAME madness.
And the sweet axe collection?
Surely you’d run out of axe murderers pretty quickly and end up pretty short on breakfast supplies.
I’m fine with this idea, if you want to invite several strangers you met on the interwebs into your household, we can do that :p Not sure how best to organise that.
Public places are convenient because you can simply say “everyone get yourself to place X at 2pm on Saturday!”, private abodes take a little more coordination. Unless you want to broadcast that stuff to the world.
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Who wants to drive me out to woop woop where Welbot lives?
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the good thing about a private residnce is also the fact you don’t have to try and figure out who in the crowd is the one you’re looking for 😉 Only downer is travel I guess. I live southside, as said earlier.. Springwood. But it’s east to get to via south east freeway. I’m not afraid to open my place up to strangers. I’ve already met two of you, and providing the rest of you are as nice as them, I can’t see there being any issues 🙂 Would be great to have another stick to play some multiplayer stuff on mame too 🙂 Also if it’s xbox compat, that’ll make playng SF4 and MK a whole lot more fun aswell 🙂
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Well, since we’re practically neighbours, I SUPPOSE I could make the trip out to yours. Tis sounding like a more and more promising idea though…
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I live in Sunnybank, so Springwood is pretty good for me.
And yeah, my stick is for the 360 so that should would out nicely.
If everyone else is keen to go along with this idea, then it’s just a matter of working out when and finding a way to communicate the details privately so that your address isn’t braodcast to the world.
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probably easiest if interested parties just shoot me an email.. dondalinger at hotmail
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Springwood… SPRINGWOOD!!! AHHHHHHHH! SOUTH SIDE!!!
So I guess I’m the only one on the north/east side (Ascot… yeah bitches, Richy McMoney-bags lives at Ascot)
The other prob with a residence is being politely asked to leave after you ralph on carpet/lino/tile because your nervous and your Mum tucked your shirt into your undies too tight.
But I could be down.
So how many would be definite?
I count Trijn, Welbot, Sughly, Strange?, Jimu, Me & my Krew*
*We used to be called the Killer Krunk Krew but the shirts we got printed with our initials were ‘offensive’ apparently
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So richy Ascot guy, you can pick me up from richy Clayfield.
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Count me in too. I live at Bray Park (near Strathpine) so I can pick you up Jimu. I’m part of the stubborn PC master race though, so my console skills are limited. I’m especially bad at dual analogue shooters.
Ugh, home from work with a cold. Despite the fact that I’ll be playing some Portal 2 and Minecraft in my waking moments, this is not an attempt to follow Mark’s sickie guide (http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/04/the-definitive-guide-to-your-portal-2-sickie/) – I swear!
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I started following Mark’s guide and pretended to get sick before the game came out… but the PSN went down. I had too keep going in case it came back up and I needed a sickie there and then. It’s been two weeks!!!
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lol.. i had to triple that that post.. i could have sworn that said ‘in my wanking moments’ hahahaha
Looks like I’m in for a right crapper of a week. As if it wasn’t enough to lose my besty, I just got a call from my dad telling me it looks like my Grandma only has a matter of days left 🙁 She’s been in aged care for a while, so we kinda knew it was looming, but damn 😐 Just what I didn’t need this week 🙁 Will have to go see her tonight before it’s too late.
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That sucks. You have my condolences.
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Awww man..
I’m so sorry.. to say that sucks is really such an understatement..
I lost my nan the end of last year… it’s such a terrible thing to loose ones you love..
I hope everything goes as well as it can.. i know that doesn’t sound right, but i’m sure you know what i mean…
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Take care welbot!
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Duuuuuuuuude. Condolences.
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That sucks mate. Just take the rest of the week of dude. Littlejj will just have to get a few more One Team refs and blitz some of those city targets.
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Man, sorry to hear. My condolences too…
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To whoever can change the map in Minecraft Kotaku Server…
Could you change it to that mystery map Q-bo was talking about so Batguy and I can play it?-
this wasn’t meant to be a reply 🙁 sorry
You take care welbot. I hope you’ll be okay during this sad period of time in your life
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“Gives webot a platonic internet man-hug of condolences”
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Take care, welbot. Have a hug.
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Damn. 🙁 I really feel for you mate. Sorry for not being online much for you either this week, sounds like you really need heaps of hugs.
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My condolences WB. Take solace in the fact that you have the chance to say goodbye and bring some light to what could be her last days.
It’s always made me feel better that I got to speak to my Dad the day he had his accident.
1023 comments on Thursday lunchtime?!
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Yeah, people have been lazy in posting. We apologise.
For cheering of the welbot:
Classy Fox News. Very classy
http://www.allhiphop.com/stories/rumors/archive/2011/05/02/22697083.aspx
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On 7pm Project the other night they showed a clip from a foreign news network in which the female presenter kept calling Obama Obama and Osama Obama. It sort of went like this: “And President Obama has announced Obama is dead. Obama ordered the attack on Obama after learning where he was hiding”.
You ever have one of those days where you just can’t do anything? Trying to work but I just want to go home and sleep. My day has consisted of me pretending to work, drinking Pepsi Max and reading/commenting on TAY
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Testify!
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I have so little to do that I am happy when some work rolls my way. Except for that DAMN PRINTER!
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Jimu, can I have your job? It honestly sounds like the perfect job for me…
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Prolly could get a job like mine very easily.
I never went to UNI and I failed English in the last year…Nevr got lower than an A in English until Mrs.Clarke. Saw that bitch in the city the other day and giggled at how ugly she still is. Stupid bitch.
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Bitter much?
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She was a gunt!
Mate in the year below said she failed the WHOLE class one term…the WHOLE class. They got the head of English to re-mark them and guess what?
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And sell me your PSP!
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Probably has something to do with drinking Pepsi.
You should be drinking Irn-Bru… or Coke; Coke is awesome.
More love for welly well well!!
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UND THIS!!
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Night time…. DAYTIME! Love that video.
Also, this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XID_W4neJo
There’s one where there’s a competition between the boxes, but I can’t find it.
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Too much cute on the second one! xD
Do people not realize that everyone can see what you post on the internet!!
http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshh42m4xTZXhR097I1z
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that was… it was… I mean… What I saw… he… it… that….
Nope.
No words.
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Holy…
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Oh god my ears! My eyes! What have you done, jamesmacusedmyhandlebutiliketodestroypeoplessenseswithterriblevideos!
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YOU WHAT?
I just posted my penis on FACEBOOK!
EVRYONE CAN SEE THAT!!!???
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(after they get out a microscope of course!)
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When I think ‘Kong’ I think ‘Gorilla’
When I think ‘Gorilla’ I don’t think ‘Microscopic Penis’-
I’m more like Diddy Kong and less like Donkey Schlong.
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Fatshady, AnonymousPessimist, NightFlarer and any other hip hoppers i’m yet to weasel out
http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.14838/title.eminem-royce-da-59-reveal-hell-the-sequel-ep-coming-june-14/
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I just realised that as much as a hip hop head that I am… I have never read a single ‘hip hop’ website. I didn’t even think to look. I have no idea whats ‘poppin’ right now (is that what the cool kids say?)
Funnily enough, I have always just followed the music so if i hear a good colab with someone, i check them out. It is kind of my own path of discovery every time, however it often makes me sound like i have no idea about what is going on!
Thanks for the link. I have not listened to much Em or Royce for years, but would prob check it out.
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Awesome, sounds like its gonna be a great collab.
…how did you know I like hip-hop?? *looks behind his back*
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I can always sense a kindred spirit….
Translation : Internet Stalking!!!!
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Any MTG players reading Kotaku today?
I took a photo of my collection. Checkit
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I’ve got a couple of kgs of MTG cards from around… 2007?
Would they be worth anything?I played a little from ’95-’99 but my deck got swiped and I lost interest.
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You can see what individual cards go for on http://www.blackborder.com/cgi-bin/prices/welcome.cgi or ebay.
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Thank you, my good man!
Whether or not I’m willing to rifle through thousands of cards remains to be seen.
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Niiiice, nice. I don’t know a lot of the older cards, I got into MTG from around Mirrodin onwards. Whenever I see the ones with the old borders I kind of dismiss them, they are foreign! I friggin loved Ravnica though, bought a booster box and was so happy with it. Until I realised I had noone to play :'(
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I started collecting around about Nemesis and Invasion (circa 2000). So my deck is over 10 years old now. But I ended up getting a lot of cards from the early sets and expansions.
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ARRRRRRRRRRRRGH!!!
I’m having the worst luck with eBay recently!!!
First I get sent a bunch of dodgy pirate games which led to weeks of trying to get my damn refund.
AND now the guy has had my new PSP2000 stolen and has offered me a refund!
GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWD!!!
I HATE YOU EBAY, YOU HAVE TURNED TO STALE DOGSHEET!!!
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I haven’t used ebay for ages. Amazon has been the go since the AU$ so good.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B000UA0LXQ/ref=sr_1_1_olp?ie=UTF8&qid=1304572863&sr=8-1&condition=usedstill got my US$ card if you want to work sumthin out so let me knooooow…..
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I’m guessing all those shipping rates are within th US?
My browser isn’t digging Amazon. Was mostly horrid looking. Could see the lists clearly though…
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My girlfriend lives in he Americas. If you want anything I could get her to post it to you so you won’t pay any crazy shipping prices. In saying that, Amazon shipping usually isn’t that bad.
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Unlucky,what a sh*t excuse for not sending your psp I would venture to say that was not the real resin for not sending it.
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Doods got a helleva good rating, Hasn’t been on for long but it’s 100%. every comment is golden.
But yeah, I get the feeling he din’t get what he wanted for it.
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He’ll be getting a damned neutral from me after the refund!
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Unlucky man, on a positive note I bought $500 Beats by Dre studio headphones for $200 from ebay.
Drinking my current favourite coffee: Gloria Jean’s “Voltage”!
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I am not a big coffee fan, but I would drink one called voltage. I bet it’s (insert terrible electricity pun) good
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It will really, AMP you up in the morning.
I think you’ll find the JOLT, ELECTRIFYING!
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Ohm-y god! Watt a brilliant pun!
You’re such a bright spark.-
Was that Sarcasm? That Hertz!
I guess I’m just not keeping Current with all the jokes available.
I hate to be Negative, but if you keep Grounding me like this I’ll start putting up a Resistance.
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You sir are very good at these puns
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Should’nt Jamie WATT step in now?
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They Cell a coffee called Voltage? How much do they Charge?
The Mains problem is I don’t know many puns.
When I was in highschool I Newtons.(BEST PUN EVER! AMIRITE?)
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Not bad, not bad.
Sir, I challenge you (and everyone else here) to a PUN-OFF. We pick a topic, hopefully something everyone knows a little bit about, and then we unleash our punderful moves on each other, until everyone but me gives up. I mean, until a winner is declared!
So, who’s with me? (I was tempted to turn this entire thing into a massive lead-up to a single bad pun, but I just didn’t have the… Energy)
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I accept! Behind the bike shed after school?
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I admit defeat.
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I was considering something along the lines of “Charging you with Battery”, but I know when I’m out-punned…
Good show, sir!
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I simply have the Capacitance to keep all this crap in my head. Alright, Alright, I’ll pull the Plug on this and congratulate you on a good effort.
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I am shocked… shocked I tell you.
I don’t get it…
It’s an iced coffee… with hot coffee added?
I refuse to enter Gloria Jeans for religious reasons.
My belief system demands good coffee and views Gloria Jeans as sacrilegious to the holy bean.
TadMod Edit: Agreed. Also, this is a test to check that I haven’t broken Kotaku. 😛
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If you were trying to make changes to comment page navigation, you may have broken it just a little.
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You can only judge once you’ve tried! :\
It’s not the best in any aspect, but it’s wayyyyyyyy better than that icy flavoured chunky goo Starbucks serves.
Well, perhaps because I grew up in Hong Kong, a place where good coffee you can buy from shops just never happens…
Can I buy your PSP 2000? Cheers!
That beverage is like a slap to the face with a rabid mongoose.
In a good way.
That being said, gloria jeans is to coffee what mcdonalds is to restaurants.
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is what pepsi is to coke
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Should that be ‘cola’?
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I’m too angry and bitter to care!
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Bourbon is to Scotch.
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I am listening to some awesome music right by the wombats. They are probably my favouriteband at the moment there album is quite good
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Do they have a new album out? I remember listening to their debut cd a number of years back… gotta go find it again. They are quite the awesome band, innit.
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Yeah they have a new alBum out called this modern glitch. All the song are good but the song anti d is particularly good.
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I can’t get Billy Joel out of my head at the moment. ‘For The Longest Time’ in particular.
But you know what? I like it!-
Wooooooo-ooooo-oooo-oooohhh, for the longest time, Wooo-oooo-ooooohhh, For the longest-
If you said goodbye to me tonight,
There would still be music left to write,
What else could I do, I’m so inspired by you,
That hasn’t happened for the longest time…*cough*
Sorry, I just burst into song when I read the name, and figured everyone else should have to put up with it.
Favourite song of Billy’s? Just the way you are.
I am a pathetic sappy romantic. It’s disgusting.
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Not bad, not bad.
Although I think For The Longest Time is my favourite BJ.-
New York State of Mind. HANDS DOWN!!!!!
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Goddammit, I just burst into doing an instrumental version of that with my mouth, and then remembered that someone else is home… Awkward.
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Billy Joel is cool too because I know just about all the words to we didn’t start the fire.
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What!
Screw that guy!
When I first met him, he was all like
“SING US A SONG, YOU’RE THE PIANO MAN”
What does that even mean!?
Yeah its not bad. Guys voice gets grating very quickly though. Aaaaand it’s not really a hell of a lot different from the last one. But yeah, it has its moments.
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Sell me your PSP 2000!
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You need to be a fan of British accents to like his voice my sister hates it because of his voice but i think he definitely suits the type of music they make. I particually like the violin part in anti d right at the start
Soooooo you’ll be at The Tivoli tonight?
I’ll be the hipster in the corner telling my girlfriend how I had Raybans before anyone else.
SELL ME YOUR PSP 2000s and I will grant you CASHMONEY!(probably not cash, I’m guessing more along the lines of electronic funds transfer, but you never know, maybe you will hand deliver it to me . Maybe after I wpay you, you will go to an ATM and release the cash money from it’s electronic jail, you never know).
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you never know
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Out of curiosity… Why not a 3000?
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This.
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Sell me yours.
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No. My brudda IRL gave it to for xmas.
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Emulators a no go on a 3000…otherwise I could just pop on ove to K-Mart or wherever and POW!
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If anyone wants I could prolly buy a 3000 and swap it for their 2000, think about it…you never know.
Oi tad mod are you and mark now moderating swears. I can self moderate if you guys don’t wanna do that. I just thought it was okay
TadMod Edit: I was under the impression that Mark always moderated swear words. :\
He’s sick today, so you’ll have to pardon any mistakes I make
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Sometimes he lets me use the EFF wurd but only when …I don’t know why. He just does…
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I think he just moderates whenever he wants to. I get away with swearing all the time, but it’s usually with a reasonable context, so I think that’s okay. Given I’ve seen “Shit” appear on the 6:30 news, I think he’d have a hard time justifying a blanket swear filter, so it’s all about the context.
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“Yeah! Hell, damn, fart!”
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I’ve always self moderated but sometimes i forget…
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I don’t always self moderate… but when I do, I do it like a @#$#$%$%$ @!^&^&$%#$ #(&%^$#@$ ?#$@!$$%#$# and then you insert !@#$#$%^%$% #%^^& rotate it a @$%%T%43 little, coat it in !@$#%%^%^, wave to your neighbour, go back inside !@!#%$#$#@#@ %^&&*U*^^%”:}{ kumquat @#@$%$#%$& German !@#@$%^$&^&^&*& then you fetch a camel… @#$#%^^^%$%#$&*%^ &^*&”>”>^&^&
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Meh I don’t know wether he has or hasn’t doesn’t really matter I guess. Also hows the work going .you liking it so far
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I’ve never actually been clear on that.
I know that the occasional profane word slips through and that they are sometimes censored (either by moderators or the user), but it was never really made clear what is and is not acceptable.
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If Mark’s away, we can say naughty words!
Boobies!
Gosh-damnit!
Poopy!
Indiana Jones 4! (MARK EDIT: WHAT IS THIS MOVIE I’VE NEVER HEARD OF IT?)
Frig!I FEEL SO LIBERATED
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I’M ALWAYS HERE!
(and just to clear things up – I don’t mind ‘shit’, but usually try and cut out f*** and c***!)
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I felt chills
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They’re multiplying!
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If u never ‘eard of it, ‘ow’d u know ’twas a moofie???
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I’m pretty sure I had a “‘French-Connection’ this Shit” get through once, which I was pretty amazed by.
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But the US Posts have f*** in the headlines!!!!
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The man has a point
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Actually surprised you didn’t censor the-movie-that-shall-not-be-named!
…By which I mean I***** J**** 4, not a Harry Potter movie.
TadMod Edit: Sorry. I couldn’t resist! 😛
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Hey dzc12 !
You richy Ascot guy! You driving me to Welbot’s??
Sell me your PSP 2000!
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Hey Jimu! You poor-rolled-for-your-shoes Clayfield guy!
Maybe! When’s this nonsense happening?
Also, I aint got a PSP.
Had one.
Sold it.
Ebay.
100 bucks.
Free Postage.
Yeah, I’m pretty great.
I’m going home…angrily.
And Sughly, if you haven’t organised me a PSP 2000 by the time I log back on tonight …I will shake my fist…angrily!
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Nighty-night Jimu.
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I think I have a 2000. No wait, I think I have the original (1000?) and a FF:Crisis Core special slim one which I think is a 3000 and I wouldn’t get rid of it anyway. Sorry Jimu.
Also, I think TadMod is editing all your posts to say “give me a PSP 2000!”. ;-P-
1000 works. is it in good nick?
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Dammit. Turns out the husband stole it to play on his lunch breaks, and there’s no way in hell I’m letting him use my FF one so I can’t give it to you, sorry. It’s in great condition though, especially considering I bought it on launch day.
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I’m going to cry…
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But, but… ahh!! I failed! I dont want an angry fist shake! I”M SORRYYYYY! X'(
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***skates phist***
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***snakes lisp***
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***lakes mist***
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This popped up while I was scrolling through TAYs pages. I couldn’t click it and it only appeared on one page. http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/29/kotakugotolastpage.jpg/
Why does Kotaku tease me so?
TadMod Edit: This is my fault. It keeps working in my tests, but every time I upload it to the actual server, it panics and doesn’t work.
Sorry people! I’m working on a fix!
OK guys (lamoboman007, Q, FatShady) I had to give up on the Minecraft puzzle map 🙁 I got really far (the sand rooms) and had loads of treasure, but then I died when a creeper blew up the floor, then catapulted me into the middle of a sandy floor, which then collapsed under me and killed me. I tried three times to get back there with cheating (breaking anything in my path) but without any healing items and failed dismally. In the end I just gave up and watched the end on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUXqVBe5yQ4 .
Still, it was good fun while it lasted. Thanks for setting it up!
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If only life were like this…
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Awwww, the sand floor is meant to collapse, but hopefully not with you under it! Lol!
What happened to Lambo, your wingman???
This is why a tour guide is needed i guess! 😛 If we run it again, I’ll try to make sure i can come to help if things get stuck.
I’ll revert back to normal home map now.
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My wingman was very apologetic, but he had to leave about half-way through, during the forest temple. I know now that the sandy floor was meant to collapse, but I wasn’t exactly in control of things at the time!!
Kinda frustrating that I came so close by myself, but oh well, I still had fun.
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Lol, I read apologetic as pathetic 😛
It was fun playing, I hope to do some more of it soon 😀
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Tadmod, just letting you know that there’s nothing stopping you posting as usual instead of editing in replies :p
If there is something stopping you from posting as normal, go fix it.
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He’s probably getting carried away with all his new evil powers.
I too was wondering why he wasn’t just replying but then I figured he was probably wanting to make us Jelly™ for being able to do stuff we can’t and also if he replies in an edit it looks like he’s working rather than just hanging around on TAY. 😛
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Nah, I’m seriously not!
It’s just such a hassle to log out, comment, log in, approve. Rinse. Repeat.
It is a LOT of fun, though… >:)
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I think tad needs to change his handle to tad mod I’m a moderator now bitchz.
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I wouldn’t dream of it!
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There is actually a wordpress thing that seems to disallow us to post while in admin mode. I’m not the only one affected by it.
So respect to Mark for dealing with it for so long!
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Commenting must be a little different than on my site (which shouldn’t come as a huge shock), where you can reply to comments when you approve them and edit who the reply is coming from. At least, I think you can, I never played about with it much.
You know what? Disregard, WordPress is probably being a meany.
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My WordPress site doesn’t have that very weird-sounding issue. For your sake, can’t wait until it’s all fixed up.
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Good to see Tad is testing stuff out that will vastly improve Kotaku navigation/destroy all life in the universe.
A ‘last page’ button would be awesome 😀
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Yeah, there seems to be some javascript dependecy or href blocker that I can’t see in the code… Fear not, the change is coming soon!
Quiet night?
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A little too quiet… *shift eyes*
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AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
Better? No? oh ok…
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AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
Sorry, peer pressure.
…you were saying?
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Dude I love Your handle it’s quite creative and aloof well done sire 10 points and a gold star. Except there is no conversion chart. So they all equal nothing lol
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‘Sup?
Here’s a little something just for FatShady.
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Ross Greenwood strikes me as the type who rolls on 22’s.
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They totally missed an opportunity to hang a 3 foot golden dollar sign around his neck! I was amazed he did it! 😀
Also, I see your a muso! Sorry, I’ve been a bit absent this week, so hello to you! I love NI stuff too, but abelton both scared and confused me. So I used to be a cubase hound. But I’ve ditched it in favour of using Studio-One (Presonus make it, yes, odd I know, but it is really nicely done software.)
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Oh awesome!
Yeah, Ableton is a bit frustrating, it does like to crash… but once you get the hang of the clip/session views it’s an awesome piece of software. I am quite infatuated… I’d be even more so if it stopped the random pauses.Perhaps we need a kotaku producer group? Swap some projects back and forth and such? Do you have much of a studio setup?
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I’m discovering the joys of editing videos.
Long story short, I decided to see what it would be like to do an actual Let’s Play and recorded myself playing Batman: Arkham Asylum. I’ve just finished putting the video together for the first clip (it was pretty simple, all I had to do was cut out a few seconds of dead air when the game was trying to hide some loading).
Now for the tricky part…narrating.
I don’t expect this to go well and odds are you guys won’t see the results for quite some time.
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Nooooooo! Get it up! Me wanna see el video!
What are you editing in? iMovie? You should try out Premiere Pro (there’s a free trial from Adobe.com) Much easier to cut and do sweet overlays/mix audio in.
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I might put a test video up at some point, just to see what people think. But if I’m going to do a full LP of Arkham Asylum, I need to plan it out a little.
Also, the reason I’m using iMovie is quite simply because I have it installed and ready to go. All I’m doing is snipping out some segments of the video and pasting some audio over the top. It isn’t really complex enough to justify going with other software at the moment.
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I’d be all for watching that, I already watch things like that with the Yogscast and TotalBiscuit’s “I suck at Starcraft 2” streams. Quite enjoyable.
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Well, in that case you’ll love the Let’s Play Archive.
I tend to watch the videos put out by Squint, Maxwell Adams and KungFuJesus. There’s also ChuggaaConroy and Proton Jon on YouTube, who have teamed up with another guy for a group they call The Runaway Guys (also on YouTube), which just finished a LP of Mario Party and are now doing New Super Mario Bros Wii.
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My Kotaku WWE entry was my first time with video editing and I really enjoyed it. Would like to find another application for my new skills but I dont think i have one.
Just wanted to say I enjoyed it also.
In other news, a new Asinine Circus comic is now available for your perusal.
Carlos really did not want to do a portal comic, this was the compromise.
http://www.polycount.com/2011/05/04/lucasarts-inks-deal-with-epic/
It looks light Lucasarts are getting ready to do some gaem makin’. Really want a Jedi Knight 4, Battlefront 3, or an intresting new IP featuring Lightsabers.
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omg yes
Sadface at Battlefront 3 disappearing with the closure of Pandemic though.
But, uh, Epic, huh. Of Gears of War and Bulletstorm? Foul mouthed Jedi roaming around and hiding behind cover, hm.
*somewhat bitter over them no longer having any love for PC*
Here’s some photos from the Hutt River trip. Tadmod might be interested.
The long dirt road to get there:
http://i56.tinypic.com/140gtgg.jpg
The entrance:
http://i56.tinypic.com/2ewp0ug.jpg
The throne of Prince Leonard:
http://i56.tinypic.com/a4vepl.jpg
A portrait of Prince Leonard:
http://i53.tinypic.com/2hn43ya.jpg
Me standing next to a large statue of Prince Leonard’s head:
(editing to preserve anonymity :-P)
http://i51.tinypic.com/23vzv3o.jpg
The map I was talking about: (green star is supposed to represent the capital city)
http://i51.tinypic.com/29czk0.jpg
The “Pyramid” of Hutt: (Yes that is just corrugated iron)
http://i51.tinypic.com/swux5i.jpg
And lastly, the Royal Rolls Royce:
http://i55.tinypic.com/21jzpd1.jpg
Apologies if the links don’t work, I havn’t used tinypic before.
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Is everyone tall and thin on Kotaku? Am I the only short and plumpy? (the more married I get the rounder I get, I used to be short and thin, and before 10th grade average height and thin)
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I’m stumpy.
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6 foot 3.
I’ve got a picture somewhere…
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I’m most definitely not tall and thin. I used to be short and skinny. The more kids I have, the more curves I get. I’d say my height is somewhere between short and average.
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I’m only 3’6″! Beat that 😛
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you weren’t as short as i thought you’d be. I was quite surprised actually.. or did you have big shoes on that night? 😐
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Weren’t we pretty similar builds when I gave you my pokemanz? Then again, if we’re not it just goes to show how inattentive I can be to details some might actually consider important :p
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You are taller and thinner than me, I was wearing a jacket at the time so it may have been hard to tell.
I conceal my massive gut with the skill of a pro!
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lol you must be pretty skilled.. i didn’t notice at all when i met you and you only had a t-shirt on! I’m 6’2″ and I have a reasonable belly. but I can easily make myself look 9 months pregnant if i push it out :0 Certainly not the string bean i used to be when I was figure skating and playing ice hockey!
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Yeah, you poked your gut out at the end there whe……FIGURE SKATING???!!!
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hahaha yeah 😐 it’s a time of my life i prefer to forget really. I was kind of pushed in to it by my mum, and cos i was actually quite good at it, a lot of other people started to push me, which gave me the shits, so i quit 😉 I came 3rd in the aus national champs in like.. 92.. tons of people were pushing me to join all these squads to train for the olympics, but my heart just wasn’t in it.
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cool, I suck at sport. The older I got the worse I got.
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I’m pretty god-like…
If by god-like you mean near sighted, oddly proportioned and lacking an arse then I’m Thor up in here.
I’m tall and slightly plumpy, mainly cuz of my bike riding that I did in the past (so got meaty legs :P)
I’m quite short and average..
5’6″ and 70kgs
Being short sucks, but I can give you the shin kickin and crotch punchin of a lifetime, sonny!
Of all the interesting photos I put up, everyone is more interested in my body structure 😛 lol
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Personally I expected you to be hairier, with an overly muscular build.
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this!
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Used to be tall and thin. Same deal, except mine is a ‘sympathy belly’ caused by serving sizes increasing to feed the baby… except only one of us is pregnant.
About 6′.
Oh and Strange, curves ftw.
I’m short and fat.
Genetics in combination with my terrible lifestyle are a bitch.
I am a bit under 5’6″ and am a svelte 60-something kilos.
Quite the sexy nerd, if I do say so myself (modest, too!)
Possibly the greatest thing I’ve ever seen.
I am SO jealous of you, HindenLagen.
I’m still surprised you didn’t absolutely piss yourself laughing when you got there. It looks to be hilarious! 😛
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Don’t be surprised, I WAS pissing myself laughing whenever noone was looking.
I was pissing myself laughing before I got there, even when I was merely contemplating going!
I’m still pissing myself laughing now! Has anyone noticed that I just won’t shut up about this place. THAT’S how awesome it was.
Oh and by the way I’ve decided from now on to refer to you as Tad “the mod” mod. 😛
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I can confirm that he has not shut the hell up about this place yet.
Having said that, it is absolutely hilarious.
Tell them about Prince Leonard’s maths!
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From GOG on Facebook:
“To all Australian gamers! You have 17 hours to preorder The Witcher 2 on GOG.com for the original price of $42.27 AUD! On Friday, May 6 at 1500 GMT, due to licensing reasons we’re going to adjust the price for Australian market and charge $62.99 AUD for the preorder and $69.99 AUD for the full price. The preorder on GOG.com isn’t forcing you to pay for the game instantly.”
These guys are awesome for letting everyone know.
Also, when I got back from taking the kid to school I tried to open Kotaku and it said “Access Forbidden”. My first thought was “MadTod! What did you break?!” 😛
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You make me wish I had a gqamesin putener…
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Ditto 🙁
Mine can’t even run the first one
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Yeah I had the same “Access Forbidden” message, except my initial reaction was,
OH GOD THE BOSS IS ON TO ME… NO MORE KOTAKU… NO GOD NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!
The I tried again ten minutes later and everything was fine.
Kinda feel embarassed about curling up in the foetal position in the middle of the office and sobbing hysterically… but only a little.-
Now there’s a pic for Sughly to draw! 😀
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Don’t tempt me Q! I’m trying to work :'(
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What are you doing here then?
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At least they’re still saying that it’s the uncut vesrion
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Scratch that. Oh well, I’ll probably still buy it from them.
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Last night, I tried recording narration for me playing the first 13 minutes of Batman: Arkham Asylum.
Recording my voice, syncing it to the video and all that other stuff was remarkably easy. Seriously, the software available these days does all the work (Garage Band and iMovie in my case).
The actual content of what I was saying? Not so great. I’ve played half an hour of the game so far, my knowledge of it is terrible. I think I might have to finish the game and then go back and put these together.
That should be fun 🙂
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I used a program once called CamStudio which gives you heaps of options and is an all in one kind of thing. Works real easy like. Maybe even easier then running GB and iM together?
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Is CamStudio a Windows or OS X app though?
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Windows. You’re on a… Mac?
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Ah yeah, GB and iM. DUR. *forehead slap* Sorry Trjn.
But seriously… a Mac?
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Yup, I use a Mac. Wanna fight about it?
Seriously though, I’ve been using Mac laptops as my main computer for years. I have a Windows box connected to my TV for torrenting and media, that’s actually being replaced by another Windows/Hacktinosh computer that I bought from a friend but haven’t been able to wrangle into submission just yet.
Quite simply, Macs just work for me. Also, MacBook Airs are fully sick bro.
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As I understand it , Macs are better for large art or music creations.
They have more power to deal with more shit.
PCs are good for all your net surfing, DLing and emulators.
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I dont know where this preconception came from. Its a load of croc. Everyone says it. They might be good machines, but they come twice the price for the same specs (exaggeration, granted, but not far off). I’ve had both, and as someone who has pushed both platforms pretty intensively I wouldn’t say one’s any better than the other, so for the price I go PC thanks. And I prefer PC software, generally.
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I have a mate that does music prodction that was forced to go Mac cos his PCs kept crashing and he would lose too much stuff.
But yeah, you makea da snsezes/sense
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The best thing about Macs is that their laptops are pretty damned awesome. As someone who’s primary computer is a laptop, that is a big point in their favour.
Also, I simply prefer the UI over Windows. It’s a personal preference, but I do.
Then there’s the fact that Windows wireless networking and I have never really seen eye to eye. I want it to just work, it wants to sit around doing nothing. On the other hand, I’ve never had issues with Apples there.
I don’t think Apple is better or worse than PC for creative types. I just think that it has different tools available to perform the same tasks and the tools I prefer happen to be available on Mac instead of Windows.
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What makes their laptops better though? I’ve been shopping around for laptops of late, and again, same specs but twice the price.
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Build quality, battery life, trackpads and support.
Particularly trackpads, and if that’s your main input device that means a lot.
Whether Apple performs those things better than the other companies to the level to justify the cost is another thing entirely, but I’m one of those poor sods that thinks that the extra cost goes towards the OS.
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I suggest finding someone else you can cast with. Narration is often a lot more fun/better if there’s someone else you can bounce ideas off, though I’m not sure how you’d manage it for a single player game, so I’m not really helping.
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My plan was that I would wrangle in random friends, like Carlos (the artist for Asinine Circus, or possibly even other Kotakuites via Skype.
Admittedly, I haven’t looked that deeply into things. Right now I’m just seeing what I can do, then I’m going to actually decide how to do it.
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Hmm, the page just exploded, so, I dunno if this will work (TADMOD!!!!).
I shall give you some background for the game.
You’re the goddamn Batman.
What else do you need to know?
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Rogue’s gallery trivia. That and how the game actually works :p
I made multiple “goddamn batman” jokes in the first recording, they’ll continue no matter how this thing goes.
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How does the game work?
Well, since you’re the goddamn Batman, you punch your way through everything (though not walls, although, I think you do for the sequel).
Rogues Gallery? Who cares, you’re the goddamn Batman!
Commissioner Gordon is important, but only because he has my favourite line in the game.
Oh, and Bane is hugely simplified, which saddens me a little.
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Just about to sit a test
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Luck to you good rocket!
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Urine Test?
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That joke was ….GOLD!
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A wee bit of toilet humour never goes awry.
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1st of all – holy crap this is rad
http://www.ozgameshop.com/pc-accessories/razer-naga-molten-special-edition-mmo-gaming-mouse-pc
2nd of all, now NONE of you that own a Wii have an excuse not to have MADWORLD!!!
http://www.ozgameshop.com/wii-games/madworld-game-wii
BUY IT – BUY IT NOW!!
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I never take buying advice from people with Everests of shame!
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They’re the best people to take advice from. Obviously they’re buying 10 games for the price people would usually pay for just one.
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Wait, has he played a Zelda yet?
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Exactly… i recently got 4 360 games for just over $20… 😀
I havn’t paid over $25 for a game in over a year now lol
..i think…
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But have you played any games?
Zeeeeeeeelldaaaaaaaaaaaa??? -
No.. not yet…:(
This is my game plan…
Finish playing 2nd run of ME1
Play something shortish (maybe dead space)
Play ME2
Play another shortish game
Play Zelda… more than likely starting with that cartoony one of gamecube
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Second run of ME. Second. Loops, forget that plan and just friggin play Zelda, you fool! Forget this shortish nonsense and just ZELDA UP!
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WHAT HE SAID!
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Also, once you’ve played one… you’ll never have to play another.
Because they’re all. the. freaking. same.
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I think Wind Waker with all the boat stuff was decentley different.
I was dissapointed with the sameyness of Twilight though. Didn’t get very far at all. Those wolf bits pissed me off!
So at least play Wind Waker and one other (not twilight).
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I have an excuse, I don’t like short, repetitive games that rely on shock value for entertainment.
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Do i really have to chainsaw your testicles?
The game is actually rather fun, if not incredibly repetitive.
The thing is that by my reckoning, EVERYONE needs some games in their collection that are all about brainless guilt-ridden fun.
Some days you just need to sit back and not worry about story progression or morals and just hack away at things… it’s like therapy.
Stress relief for those that don’t watch copious amounts of pr0n!-
Well, I have my copious amounts of pr0n, so I’m fine :p
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what great is that no matter which path you choose, your wrists will end up shot to hell lol
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He’s got you there, Loops! 😛
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He’s got me?
But i don’t recall ever releasing my sex tape??OHH!! You mean he presented a good counter-point?
got ya… boy is my face red!
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Just cos you didn’t release doesn’t mean we don’t got it!
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That WWE vid wasn’t a sex tape?
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No, but i can understand if it aroused you
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No self-respecting gamer has any excuse to not buy a naga.
They are awesome. The recent config version also lets you remap all the keys to whatever buttons you choose.
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But theres no way to plug it into my DS…
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You need to jam it in just right.
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THATS WHAT SHE SAID!
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colon capital D!
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It was fun to follow that on Twitter.
It seems like a silly thing to try and enter a war of words with one of the world’s most prolific writers. Then again, we are talking about an American politician and all I know about American politics is that it is all a bit silly.
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Heheh
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/05/05/free-comic-book-day-2011-fcbd/
This is tomoz if u interested!
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Who subscribed TAY to the comicsalliance.com RSS feed?? 😛
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My balls, your chin!
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And this from the person who has posted Rebecca Black how many times? 😛
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And for those of you in Sydney:
http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/indexohb.cgi?AREA=06BAM!
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I’ll be there. Probably before heading to Sony to play InFamous. If, you know, Mark ever sends me details. You heading to Kino?
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Sending now!
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I’m going to try to get there. Busy weekend ahead.
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Oh, and… SPOOOOOOON!
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BAHAHAHAHA!!!!
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My local comic store is doing this, so i’ll be all over it like a rash tomorrow 😀
Mass Effect 1 is only $5.00 on Steam today, also ME 2 is $9.99 and a deluxe edition is $19.99. Just letting everyone know!
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so that means you’ll finally be getting 1? lol
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YES!
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i was hoping that the next time this went on sale i’d notice before you and be able to gift it to you
You brokesed my heart now 🙁
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You could gift it to me if it makes you feel better XD
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Woot! Thanks Q, I was hoping this deal was coming this week
Well priced, good quality earphones?
Where to buy?
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damn………………………………….
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No help from the Gizmos?
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Nope
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I used a friend’s Sennheiser’s when I was sound recording at film school and they were by far the best that I tried during my experience. I think you can get lower end models for around $50-$75 which are quite good. Just looking briefly… looks like 505 model might be one?
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They’re in Red Hill by the way, right near Kelvin Grove. Not sure if they have a shopfront though…
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I’ll second the Sennheiser earphones. They’re absolutely gorgeous. I paid $75 for mine at JB Hifi a while back on special (down from $100?).
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My local borders is closing and have earphones that look pretty decent that were $40-$50 that are now 50% off… not that that helps you, unless you want me to try and get a pair for you..
Other than that i usually just buy $20-$30 headphones from JB… i like TDK… i’m a cheapo
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But then one day you will hear good speakers and will never be able to listen to yours again 🙁
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I won’t be able to hear ANYTHING… i have a tendency of listening to stuff WAY too loud, especially if it’s HQ -
My current(broken) pair are $250 Band and Olufsen earphones.
No matter what I buy is gonna be a step down…I just don’t have the spare cashola!
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Do you mean ear buds or proper ones?
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I think I might go HEADPHONEs with the total ear coverage cos I can’t afford earphones that are as good as I’ve got.
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done sented you an email….
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I’ve got HD202’s (from JB) sweet sound, good for listening to music on the bus/train.
Even better when you’re accosted by charity/homeless/public, you can just point to your headphones and mouth/say/yell “I can’t hear you, I’m wearing headphones” Then smile and walk away.
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I considered getting those before… whats the headband like? Doesnt look very flexible. Which could lead to potential uncomfortableness. CAUS I HAVE A BIG HEAD, OK?! Geez :'(
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headphones.com.au if you are willing to pay a premium, or get an idea of what you want from their site and pick it up on ebay.
Though mind you, this is coming from a man who owns a few pairs of ~$350 earphones/headphones… you’ve been warned.
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can I “borrow” a pair of yours…longterm?
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I can vouch for this site, I have a pair of Grado 80’s, and beyerdynamic dt 770 Pro’s.
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Colleague downstairs just started cranking ‘You Raise Me Up’
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Next up ‘I Believe I Can Fly’
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‘Angels Brought Me Here’ She must be playing a Guy Sebastian album.
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Go downstairs and hit on her…
Step 1.
Get a box
Step 2.
Cut a hole in aforementioned box
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I LIKE JOSH GROBAN >:(
DON’T JUDGE ME.
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It’s ok, my girlfriend likes Brian Adams. I’ve learnt to live with the fact that not all people have good music taste like me.
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you think that’s bad?
i have Mika’s albumn!
*puts on high pitched voice*
awwww sucking too hard on ya lolly pop, aww loves gunna get you downnn… na na na na na na na-na
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I actually like one of his songs.
Not that one though. Definitely not that one.
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This is dangerous territory that this thread is going into. Very dangerous…
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“He asked us, ‘Be you angels?’ And we said, ‘Nay. We are but men! ROCK!’”
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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm…
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Hm?
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This is a tribute, oh,
To The Greatest Song in the World,
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Dear Chuloopa,
Did you end up sending me the game? ‘Cause I didn’t receive it. I always get paranoid that the postman, makes a mistake or some kid ends up stealing out of my mailbox.
Sincerely,
nightFlarer
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SON OF A FLAPJACK!!!
i knew i’d forgotten something!!
Sorry mate! With assignments, sickness, work and lack of internets i COMPLETELY forgot!!
I’M A BAD BAD MAN AND NEED TO BE SPANKED!!
Can you pretty please send me a reminder email so i’m sure to send it on monday!
Cheers mate.
ps. SOOORRRRYRYYYYYYYYY!!! 🙁
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lol it’s alright man! I had a feeling you were a bit busy with no internet and all.
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*flexes up for a good spanking*
Okay Chuloopa the safe word is “fluggaenkdechioebolsen”-
I tried so hard not to laught at this, but it burst forth in splutters and snorts.
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i like it when i get a refference
it makes me chuckle
tee-hee-hee 😀
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Ok guys, I’m getting dangerously close to the end of “The Wisemans Fear” by Patrick Rothfuss!
I need more books!
So tell me, what books did you particularly enjoy recently? (preferably Sci-Fi or Fantasy)
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I’ve been reading Xenocide by Orson Scott Card.
It’s the third of the four main Ender’s series book.
Personally, I think the first two books are much better (Ender’s Game and Speaker for the Dead) and the first book of the side-series, Ender’s Shadow, is also a damned good read.
The rest of the books are probably only worth the hassle if you’re interested in concluding things.
Here’s a chart mapping all of the stories in the series, it’s a little complicated. All you need to know is that the red = short story and blue = novel and that the three stories to really focus on are the ones I mentioned above.
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Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health
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Oops. That should be a reply to Tad, not Trjn.
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Trying to get a few ideas of how to start your own cult?
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Steve Jobs Biography?
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I really enjoyed the Ender series, it was an inspired choice to keep it going after Game and chart the really interesting stuff that happened in the universe.
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From what I remember, Ender’s Game was originally a short story and it was re-written as a novel to establish Ender as a character for Speaker for the Dead (which was planned but needed a main character). Everything after that just kind of snowballed, and I’m not sure how much of it was originally planned or just latched on to the successful series.
For the record, Speaker for the Dead and Ender’s Game are easily two of my favourite books.
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I think he also wrote a novella or something to bridge the gap between the two (Game and Speaker, that is), or added to another existing Short Story or something. It was fairly recent, like ’08 or something, but I can’t attest to it’s quality. Did I say something enough in this post?
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Ender in Exile? I think it just ties what Ender is doing on the first human offworld colony with the Shadow books.
Haven’t read it, not entirely sure I want to read it. Speaker for the Dead does a good job of bridging the gap by establishing Ender as Andrew.
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Aye, I never really saw the point, just felt I should point it out, I’m not really sure exactly what it’s about, I just remember hearing about it back then, though I have no idea how I knew… If I ever have the time and money I’ll probably go and read every book, but as it is I’m pretty contented with just the first two.
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Ender’s Shadow is a good read, it adds a fair bit to the story of Ender’s Game simply by focusing on Bean.
The rest of the Shadow series isn’t worth the hassle. I read some of them and just didn’t like them.
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I’ve posted bout it before, but have you read The Night Angel trilogy?
NO! No books for you! Not until you’ve finished the accounts! 😛
I could read Katherine Kerr’s deverry series over and over again. If you havn’t read any, do so!
Daggerspell is the first one.
VAMPIRE WARS: The Von Carstein Trillogy
IT – IS – AWESOME!!
it’s a warhammer book too, so should be easy enough to find..
so… damn… awesome…
For sci fi, any of the last chancers or gaunts ghosts novels are a fantastic read
Raft
Stephen Baxter
Most of Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith (the end part not so much, also, I nearly typed “Moving Forward”. Damn you, J-Gill!)
It starts off with a similar sort of bizareness of Hitchhiker’s. Like how the city has a district where only cats live, just because.
Anathem by Neal Stephenson is pretty awesome. Mind-bending at the start, but you soon get into it.
At nearly 1000 pages it’s a pretty epic read.
I hear this twilight book is suppose to be good lol.
Oh and. If strange reads this and gets offended I have actually read all the twilight books and I actually like the first one. I guess I’m a romantic at heart. :p
Jim Butcher’s Furies series.
George R.R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire.
Anything by Dan Simmons, particularly Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion.
Also, I second NoHandle’s suggestion of the Night Angel series, although I thought the writing could have been more solid, the concept, characters and story is great.
Tom Clancy.
Also, I think Aaron Alliston is writing some new X-Wing books.
Ton… why?
*sobs*
Just looked at my pile of shame. 51 games in it…..
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Thank goodness, there are people out there as bad as i!
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What? Jamie that is pretty epic I have about 15 and I thought that was bad also pokemons which I have invested 30 hours in an now still stuck at the elite 4. Just pick something and play it. That’s why when im in a rut I’m going to start playing FIFA 07 with my grandma. Yeah that’s right I get schooled in FIFA by a septegenarian what of it?
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actually, the pile is much greater. I was only counting PS3 games. I still have games on Wii, PS2 and PC to play…..
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Not finished (IMO)
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Yeah, I agree wih Not Finished. But most of said 51 are Not Started 🙁
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Both. The ones not started are particularly more shameful because i/you/we should have really finished the others before buying more…
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I have seven and I thought that was bad. Good to know you’re almost eight times as shamed as me. 🙂
Guys and gals of the mine craft server. I have been thinking that I would like to make so videos of the stuff we do on the server sort of like a leather cap tour video with someone recording. I think it would be pretty awesome. Anybody keen?
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YES!
I just want everyone on the internet to experience the joy that is hearing my voice. This is why I randomly cast SC2 games. Also, for “teh lulz”.
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I for one would very much like to see the hijinks and shennanigans that you are all getting up to without actually having to contribute or do anything myself 😉
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where and when.. im in.
has to be after 9pm for me though with kids bedtimes.
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This sounds cool 🙂
Can you record conversations in teamspeak? If so, we could put that into the video too.
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Yes I’d love that!
Count me in 😀
Tweet me whenever something’s up because I don’t log on the server very often… :\ -
Count me in too good sir, just let me know when 🙂
ok. well this stems off fromt he conversation yesterday about a bris meetup. most people seemed keen on the idea of meeting up at my place, and I’ve run it by LittleJJ and she’s cool with it too, so I’d like to start nutting out some details if we can. So far Sughly has emailed me and confirmed he’s up for it, but we still don’t have a date or anything yet.
How about we figure out which weekend coming up people will be available and work it around that? This weekend will be no good due to mothers day and my Frenzal concert, but next weekend and the one after I believe I’m free, so what about you guys? Any particular time better for any of you?
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I’m good pretty much any. It’s the last few weeks before my Masters is due though, so they are frantic weeks for me. I can deal with a night off though I suppose 😀
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Oops, I forgot to send an email to say I’m in. Will do that when I get home and track down your email. Or just get Jimu to send it to you. Yes, let’s force responsibility on him :p
I’m pretty free on weekends, so whatever works for everyone else is fine by me. I can change my plans to accommodate whatever everyone else wants to do.
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I was supposed to email?
K…Urrrrrrrr, I’m nevr free, just set a date and see what happens. My other problem is getting out that far and then home again!
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I’m sure we can work out something for you transportation wise if need be.
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BOAT-a COPTER?
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Busamaran?
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Thors Hammer?
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Thor’s Hummer?
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Oh yeah, that HIT the spot!
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unfortunately nothing that cool i’m afraid. But I’m sure if you can get here with someone, I could drop you back when it’s all over.
My offer to take you is still open.
OH AND I CAUGHT A BLACK ONE.
As for the lack of an email from me, I got distracted. I’m good most weekends too, Sundays are generally better than Saturdays though as I do domestic stuff on Saturdays.
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Ah okies! Well who else is good for a Sunday then? We should try to arrange it so as to maximize potential attendance!
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Oh and for those thinking of attending, if you have any party games that will have us making total asses of ourselves to aid in upping the hilarity, do bring! I have ps3 move and kinect, but I have no games for the Move bar the ones that came on the demo disk. I have Dance Central, Kinect Adventures and Sonic Free Riders for xbox.
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Can’t we just all gather round and watch someone play a single player game? That was all the rage when I was 8 and only 1 kid had a megadrive!
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Hells yeah, that was the way. I still do it now!
P.S. I CAUGHT a BLACK one, Jimu.
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Alright, this one’s for you Loops. Just be warned, he knows…
kramsdesign.com/misc/kotaku/he-knows.jpg
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http://kramsdesign.com/misc/kotaku/he-knows.jpg
Thats better.
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just need the braces and that perfect triangle of chest hair for Loops….
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plus i’m not bald.. 😛
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have i ever told you that i love you?
That’s going straight to the pool room… i want to put that on a shirt for myself so i will always remember… he’s watching me
Man that gave me SUCH a good chortle!
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Sughly always delivers. Always.
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speaking of that, he’d look great in a sexy fed-ex uniform too!
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The hair! That is all…
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Shuggy-Moto?
He looks like the Mario guy… or the Chairman from Iron Chef.
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Yeah, they do have similar hair!
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“Shiggy” <- greatest nickname ever. xD
THE CURE…. Opera House… Robert SMITH!… Mascara… THE CURE!!! Albums… IN FULL!!! ROBERTTTTTTTTT SMEEEEEEEEETHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH
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O……M……G!!!! That would be KILLER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why no brisbane!!! DAMN YOU!!!!!
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Quick! Someone build an opera house!
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Oh man! Did you see them when they were her last like 3-4 years ago? I wanna say so many words but they’ll be mondo offensive.
It was good…
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The Cure WERE great….Tough call. Have you seen Robert Smith lately!!??
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First three albums….Now that is tempting.
If they were playing Disintergration i would be booking flights now…-
Oh man, Disintegration! -faints-
-regains consciousness-
Oh man, Pornography! -faints-
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If a non-informd person were to read that post they may get the wrong idea…
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I am intrigued…
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Whats the deal with these Opera House only gigs? I noticed Bat For Lashes is coming to Aus to do the same thing. Which made me a very sad panda…
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It’s really weird, because the Opera House is only average for the audience, and absolutely terrible for the musicians. The acoustics in the “pit” can make a musician cry (I have no evidence of this, but I’m sure it’s happened). They really need to shut it down for six months and rebuild the entire interior.
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I do believe this musing will go unnoticed on the previous page:
Kotaku producer/muso group. Together we will create the finest of music as only gamer nerds can.
E-mail me if interested @ the.tsharp [at] gmail [dot] com
Even if you don’t have any digital recording software but can play a mean tune or have vocals talents, you are all welcome (I have extensive recording equipment and I’m sure a few other kotakuites would as well)
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I used to play round with beats and still have a few mates that rhyme.
I got disheartened by beatmaking. I spent ages going through the old mans records to find a sample i liked. Took me ages to layer and loop, i even got a mate to freestyle some guitar over the bridge. I thought it was original and awesome. The this came out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R1y4B6S5Sw
I’m not accusing anyone of biting or any such nonsense. But this was pretty much identical to my track and i just lost interest…-
All skill levels are welcome, I’d imagine the more skilled muso’s/production types would be more than happy to show other people tips and tricks.
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Sent an email!
I’m always up for some singing, no matter the context, or the fact that nobody wants to hear me.
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I liked your Christmas song!
Please do sing again 😀
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Context:
Photo of me… in front of thousands of screaming old people.
Like an Andre Rieu concert.
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WELBOT!!1
TELL ME ABOUT THE KOMBATS MORTAL!!!
IS IT SACRALICIOUS?!?!
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Did you get my email Loops?
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Don’t ask how I know but it is what you say.
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So far it’s been awesome! I’m only just over half way through the story mode, but it’s really good! I’m really impressed with the way the story pans out and they’ve divided it up in to chapters for each character! No fatalities in story mode though.. which is understandable I guess, cos it would kind of bring the story to a halt if you just killed everyone up front. So I have yet to even perform any fatalities, but I’m not really caring at cos the story is so good 🙂
It just gives you a good opportunity to learn the moves and combos of the characters, and then after story mode I can look forward to playing arcade mode and checking out all the goodies 🙂 Also really looking forward to the tower challenge.. I think that’s gonna add tons of replayability so rather than just playing arcade over and over, you’ll actually have missions to accomplish! If you love MK2, and have the balls to try importing.. DO IT!!!! You wont be disappointed 🙂
This one’s for you Jimu (and anyone else less-than-3’s pokemon): http://kuroi-tsuki.deviantart.com/art/Starters-207676669
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Deve just killed my browser…AGAIN!
Looks good!
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Wow that’s crazy good.
Only about half as good as yours though 😉
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Yeah, I know. *smug face*
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There was this man with grey hair and wearing casually who was at the counter at Gloria Jeans before me today, here’s how it went:
Man: Do you sell coffee here?
Barista: Yea we do. What would you like?
Man: Uh, one flat white. No sugar.
Barista: 4.10 please.
Man: What was that again? 4.50?
Barista: 4.10
*man looks angry, storms off*
And this scene made me forget to give my “buy 10 get 1 free” card to be stamped for my coffee today ;O
I guess I don’t mind spending a bit more for coffee sometimes.
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Wat?
He got angry because the coffee wasn’t expensive enough?
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damn hipsters!
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lol! I didnt see that at first…
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As someone who loves good coffee, I like to imagine that the old man realised where he was and stormed off to find a local cafe that actually knew how to make a coffee :p
My dislike of Gloria Jeans may also have something to do with the fact that they are affiliated with Hillsong, a group I definitely don’t want any of my money going to. Mainly, it’s about the horrible coffee.
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This.
I’m such a coffee snob lolI do, however, enjoy their caramel latte’s…
I used to like their iced mocha’s until Hudsons blew my freaking mind.
Of all chain coffee stores, Hudsons is EASILY the best.But generally i preffer a nice cafe where the barista isn’t 12 😛
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So where, pray tell, is good coffee sold?
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Brazil
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I couldn’t help but read that in the Street Fighter announcer voice.
Ja-PAN!
CHI-na!
USA!
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Great, now I’m doing it
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Man, now I’m reading this in an Oprah voice.
CHIIIIIIIIIIII-NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
YOU’RE ALL GOING TO JA-PAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNN! -
thank F***I don’t remember what Oprah sounds like…
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Now I’m reading this as an Opera song!
Caffè? Dove trovo il caffè? Brasile! Brasile! Caffè dal Brasile! Cina! Stati Uniti! Pronti? Fight!
*bows*
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In Brisbane?
Pour Boy on Wharf St (where I go in the mornings), Brother Espresso on Margaret St (where my coffee snob friend goes multiple times a day), Campos in the Valley (behind the George St Markets), and Coffee Laboratory on Bishop St, Kelvin Grove (easily the best option but somewhat inconveniently located).
Those are the best ones, but it pays to just sample the local places until you find a place that knows what they’re doing (which is never a big franchise store). A good thing to look out for is a sign saying they use Campos or Merlo beans, both of those companies roast their beans in the Valley and are pretty good quality. Alternatively, any place that roasts their own beans is also a good place to look.
Really, the best way to find good coffee is to just go to every coffee place until you find the one that makes the best.
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Now I’m reading my comment it sounded a bit snobbish – I was actually being wholeheartedly interested in places you recommended, so sorry about that! XD
I’ve been meaning to check out the factory place since you mentioned it a while back, but usually when I’m on my uni breaks I just walk out the building I’m and across the street to the shops they have there. Getting in the car to drive down the road is a bit of a pain and a break in the work routine 🙁
Any other time I’m out it’s usually Garden City, which has limited options. GJ is pretty much the best there… -
In Garden City, the best coffee seems to be from Pappa Johns (might not have the name right, but in the upstairs food court, opposite the Vodafone store that used to be a 3 store). They use Campos beans but the kids there aren’t very well trained. Sometimes you get good stuff, other times not so much.
Best of a bad bunch really, shopping centres don’t tend to attract the sort of stores that do good coffee.
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Agree with the Hillsong bit.
No money of mine going there, thank you very much 🙂
(and their coffee is pretty crap. *cough*)
So any good recommendations for cheaper yet good coffee in Sydney that I could try sometime? Either in the city or Eastern suburbs.
There’s a pretty popular one in uni (UNSW) that has a minimum 20 people in line any time during the day, but I think I need to expand my choices a bit more.
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The best advice I can give is to find a place that uses locally roasted beans.
It helps to have caffeine fiends as friends.
So AC Revelations will be another Ezio game. Thoughts?
Was kinda hoping for a new time and theme setting, but it seems that is still yet to come.
I don’t mind Ezio but can they really make his story compelling enough for another game?
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If it’s anything like Brotherhood I’m really looking forward to it. This game is meant to feature Altair, Ezio and Desmond at various points – so it’s not just another clone of AC2.
Plus the fact that it’s set in Constantinople around the time of the early Turkish presence in the city sounds fascinating – it’s not really a setting we’d be familiar with playing as Ezio (in that it’s not, well, Italian).
But I do agree though, I’d love to see a completely different setting with a new character and story, something vastly different to the (arguably) similar stuff we’ve seen with the medieval Holy Land and then Italy/Rome.
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To me, Brotherhood felt less like a whole game and more like the missing chunk of AC2. I enjoyed the game and would recommend it, but I would much prefer an entirely new game instead of AC2: Part 3.
I don’t know if this game will be AC2: Part 3 or a new game that just happens to focus on Ezio. I’ll be buying it regardless, but it would be nice if this one went through the same upgrade process AC2 did.
After all, AC2 showed that Assassin’s Creed Syndrome can be cured.
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I just can’t seem to make it through ArsearseInns Greed. Just the same thing over and over, and you don’t evemn level up!
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ACII is the absolute daddy.
Brotherhood is amazing as well.
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What does that even mean? Daddy? Whaaaaaaaaaaa???
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lol, the tagline for that game would have to be “Once you check in, you can never check out!”.
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The first AC is *really* repetitive, but they improved it heaps for AC2 and Brotherhood.
A lot of the repetition is gone (it actually has a decent story and variety of missions) and you level up to get new items, etc.
Both great games, but AC is worth slogging through for the story bits at the end.
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I just don’t think a year is quite long enough for me (personally) to feel that the game mechanics are really different from other games so that it feels ‘fresh’. -
Yes!!!!
Reminds me I should finish the tie-in novel “Renaissance”. been stuck at 1/3 of the book for way too long.-
there is one for brotherhood as well
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I think it’s official.. i’ve gone Pun crazy today..
Punsane..
Someone, please PUNish me!
Maybe good PUNch would help?
Maybe a slice of PUNpernickle bread… do we even have that in Australia?
If not i’m going to lobby out PUNiticions..
My god.. they’re not even making sense anymore.. this is completely PUNbelievable!
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SLAM DUNK?
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BOOMSHAKALAKA!
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aLBATROSS??
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What you’re doing is positively ramPUNctious!
I wont PUNish you this time, but don’t be such a homesPUN PUNk in future!…God you’re such a PUNter!
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i think you just PUNctured my lung…
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lol you crazy PUNk you!
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I don’t think any PUNitive action is necessary.
It is your right to PUNctuate these points
Especially with such great PUNctuation
As long as you don’t PUNcture anything
Nothing you said is really PUNgent
Did Mr Serrels have any luck posting out prizes int he past few weeks? Is TadMod the new prize bitch? Don’t mean to pester. Just looking to find more info on what’s happening. I’m still waiting on Dead Rising 2 stuff and MotorStorm Apoc (unless it doesn’t work in a retail console)!! Someone got some news for all us poor souls?
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Sorry, I just get caught up in writing content. I’m a horrible human being. I’ve been trying to sort the backlog out. Well start posting them soon.
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all good 🙂 Thanks for the update sire! Any clues as to what this ‘awesome’ thing is that we’ll be getting instead of the dead rising 2 poster? 😉
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Whatever I can find from my big box of stuff!
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ahh I thought you’d already decided based on what you said last time! I love surprises!!
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As someone who is probably owed a prize and keeps forgetting to send in his details, I’m not too fussed about these delays.
Stick to the writing, it provides more entertainment because we get the double whammy of words what which we can read and people who are getting anxious about their lack of winnings.
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I’m running on the theory that since Mark has received my details once (for a prize that never turned up :() it’s all his fault for every other prize I’m sure I’ve won.
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well that’s a relief.. lol
Don’t stress yourself, mate 🙂
You’ve been doing an AMAZING job, so waiting isn’t that much of a big deal 🙂
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Agreed 100%! this place has been rocking under his watchful eye! No pressure! As I said I was just looking for an update cos it’s been ages since we’d heard anything! The articles we’ve been getting definitly make up for the delay 🙂 My days just wouldn’t be the same without all this Kotaku awesomeness!
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He’s got all the stuff, he’s just flat-out all the time… seriously!
I barely see him taking a break!
I don’t think he even went for lunch today! If he did, he left after me and came before me, which would take talent as I only took 35 mins today!
Take a damned break, Mark!
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ONLY?!?1
How long do you guys get for lunch?!?!
I get half an hour flat!
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I’m having an extra extra long lunch today :0 One of my customers forgot I was coming today, and rang me when I was halfway to her house and told me she’d forgotten and went to her kids school to do tuckshop duties, so I turned around and came home. Pushed the jobs back til Monday, cos the other one I had was just around the corner from there, so just easier to give myself a day off 😉
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I work for the government…MWA HAH HAH!
I don’t get bank fees MWA HAH HAAH
I get paid too much! MWA HAH HAAAAAH!
Lunch goes for…AS LONG AS IT TAKES, after I’ve finished eating! MWA HAH HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!-
This made me laugh.
Then I felt sad.
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I really need to try and get a cushy government job…
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I despise you
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It’s as boring as all get-out though. Wish I paid more attention in school so I could have done something more fulfillig…
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cos thats a word…
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I find getting paid quite fulfilling myself.
I figure jobs can be one, maybe two of the following: interesting, easy, well paying.
Sounds like you got a good deal with two of them.
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I paid full price for Brink last night, just so I could get the Spec Ops bonus on PS3.
I feel dirty.-
Step 1: New PC
Step 2: Brink
Step 3: ?????
Step 4: Awesome.
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woah.. that’s gnarly!!!
and i haven’t even played zelda!
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Heathen!
The power of Shiggy compels you!
The power of Shiggy compels you!-
Roflcopter
Does it help that i watched an ex play her way through ocarina?
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WOW!
Jamie What?
“I Newtons”
… I wet myself with laughter.
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page 8 !
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Represent!
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Whatever are we going to idly click now just to get into a conversation? This is getting far too convenient…
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Just watch yourself around all the electrical puns.
Navigation buttons on TAY, flickering in and out of existence, like ethereal spirits that can only make fleeting contact with the lives of the blissful ignorant.
I like. 🙂
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yeah i caught a glimpse of a ‘last page’ button yesterday! I got so excited!
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We we so excited!
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You’re welcome.
😀
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Also, massive shoutout to Ben White for being awesome and helping me out!
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You are also welcom…
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Dammit, you’ve done well thus far, MadTod. I’m very sad now. I was so hoping you’d fail (only for a little bit), so I could find some Schadenfreuderific joy from your troubles. Ahh well, guess I’ll just have to deal with a new, wonderful system, as designed by someone who was unwilling to say a hilarious pick-up line to the face of Elly.
I will never let you live that down (until I forget about it in two minutes times).
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Tad: Hey there, pretty little lady, come here often?
Elly: Um.. yes, i work here, and my name is Elly. You know that…
Tad: umm… uhh…oh god… umm…
*Elly stares quizically, head half tilted to the side*
Tad: Uh… wanna…. seeeee… my junk?? *ahem*
Mark: OH SHIZ!! NO!! ABORT!! ABORT!!!
*tad wakes up in hospital with gauze in both nostrils and THREE broken legs*
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Actually, it was “WHat’s that you’ve got on your face? *rubs gently* Oh, it looks like beautiful doesn’t come off. :P”
I’m assuming that if this makes it through moderation, it counts as permission to tell the world. 😛
I was hoping he’d say it to her face, but he did it over twitter, I was disappoint.
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Oh man.. that is SO awesome!!!
If he had of done that i would have… i don’t know!!
I’m going to try it on bee tonight and see what horrid look she gives me!! 😀
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I do want to try it on some poor unsuspecting girl next time I go out clubbing…
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Hmm, nitpick time.
Would you be able to put the “next” button back on the right side of the page, and have the numbers somewhere in the middle (the answer is yes you theoretically could, but there are far more things going on than just a yes/no answer)? It just feels a little odd to me with them all cramped up in the left hand corner. This is only a little sticking point, and I’m sure I’d be used to this in like, 2 hours (or thirty refreshes of Kotaku), and apologies if you have plans in this regard or whatever, but I feel like being hyper-critical, because I’m a dick… I mean, because user feedback is important *shifty eyes*.
Truly you are a giant amongst folks who are not so tall.
MARK SERRELS
Ask me stuff, seems to mysteriuosly stop having answers answered at my question.
What is it with my questions that are so revolting to you?
Also, TADMOD, great page navigation buddy, KOTAKUDOs TO YOU!
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I was late for an appointment at Ubisoft so I only had time to answer the first half.
IT’S NOT ALL ABOUT YOU JIMUUUU!
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You must have missed the memo.. 😉
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It isn’t?
So, what?
You win a couple of awards and suddenly you’re better than us?What happened to you man, you’ve changed. It used to be about the MUSIC!
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MARK SERRELS, I just have a bad track record with ASK me stuff, jus sayin…
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Cmon guys! It’s Friday! TGIF! Can’t we all just get along D:
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Won’t somebody think of the children!
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Just do what I do, ask it at the end of the day (6:00 when he’s at home), and then pester him to answer it on Twitter. Since he has this deep-seated desire for approval, he has no choice but to answer it!
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WE HAVE PAGE NUMBERS!!! FUZZ YEAH!!!!
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All hail TadMod the queen!
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They’re so beautiful… O_O
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I… I can’t look away…
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FLUGG YEA!
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YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!
Five days in and TadMod has brought salvation…
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I would have preferred if he had brought brownies…
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Damnit. Now I want brownies.
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I was like what? Page numbers? What the hecks he talking abou-… oh… ooooooooo… ahhhhhhhh…
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Through the wonders of Science, the Peoples Republic of KotakAU marches into the future!
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*DING!*
Kotaku has leveled up!
It has earned the ‘Page Number’ ability!-
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i’ve already told you that i love you today, haven’t i?
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Haha, yeaaah…
I love you too 😀
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Yeah page number are freaking awesomeness…
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I just realised that page numbers will actually make me more productive at work. Less time I spend scrolling to the end of TAY, the more work I can get done… Then again I could use that time wisely and spend it on here?
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After much testing of this new feature (which mostly consisted of “WHY WON’T IT WORK!!…oh wait, I’m supposed to click on it…”) I glad to give it the lambo-tick-of-approval-007 😀
Just a cool link showing initial sketches to final cover art for new Flashpoint
http://dcu.blog.dccomics.com/2011/04/29/flashpoint-friday-from-the-editor%e2%80%99s-desk-eddie-berganza-on-reverse-flash-1-cover/
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I have been wanting to read flashpoint since I read the flash rebirth.
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I’ve been wanting to read Rebirth since you did.
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P-page numbers? *cries happily*
Thank you TadMod, thank you so very much! :`)
Squeeing just a little bit at this:
http://biowarestore.com/accessories/ssv-normandy-ship-replica
And now that the Aussie dollar is the ONE SUPREME REIGNING CURRENCY, American stuff is so cheap!
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$35!?
I really don’t need more random crap but that is too tempting.-
And that Tali tee is also strangely compelling
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FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF!!!!
THEY HAVE A DISINGENUOUS ASSERTIONS TEE!!?!?!?!
Do you think i had it before them??
man that is just so… SHIT!!!
GAH!!!!
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wow, that is gorgeous!!
And what a steal at $35!!!
Postage would be the killer, though..
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Yeah, postage is $20 – making the whole thing $55.
And it’s only about 6″ long, so it’s not really a big model. Still would be nice to have around though!
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Replica is only about 16cms long…
Did it shrink?
That’s not going to look awesome on my desk, not at all.-
“Replica is about 16cm long”
H-uh, that’s a lot bigger than mine…
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Gah, I’d have a better chance of finding gold in nuggets in my cereal than a copy of Portal 2 on PS3.
🙁
Do any of you watch Masterchef?
If so, John, the guy Australia has practically fallen in love with… Well, that’s my little Bee’s Cousin!
That’s right people.. i’m only several times removed from C grade fame!
Really though, we are watching every night because of it, but he is the most genuine guy and giving it a read red hot crack.. what a legend!
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Ooo, I didnt before but Ill watch an ep now so I can see who this dude is! I’ll be like I know a guy whos with a girl who’s cousin that is!
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If you wonder why he speaks a little odd, he has cerebral paulsy.
From what i understand he’s the first contestant to ever have a “disability”, if you want to call it that. It sure as hell doesn’t stop him from cooking like a bloody genius and running a vinyard in SA.
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Ohhhh wait, I know who he is actually, we had it on in the background and I popped my head out when I thought I noticed someone with cerebral palsy. He was upset about not having his dish ready, I felt so cut for him. How’d he go with his fish thing, thats what they were doing right? I’ll def be watching now to see how he goes!
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Yeah, crocodile – the judges said that out of everyone, he cooked the croc the best.
We were so chuffed for him 😀
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Woo! Awesome!
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I’m a couple episodes behind but I saw him. I was impressed that he had the integrity to not serve up a dish that was inedible.
I was actually shocked in the first episode when that silly kid who’s always in danger of being eliminated served up his raw meatballs instead of admitting they were inedible. He should have had the balls to do what your Bee’s cousin did.-
Yeah that impressed me too, how he did that. I thought the same thing.
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Fuzz me.. how i love TISM… i REALLY wish they’d reform 😀
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No Handle, have a great night tonight. Make sure you go nuts. I really enjoyed the show and def worth the price. Murs was awesome as was RA (9th was not there?????). I was planning on posting some pics but in the spirit of no spoilers.. you dont get any.
Twitter however has spoilers of sorts but not many..
Enjoy dude.
btw, MURS is a totally nice guy and enjoyed having a chat with him. I have only started listening to him over the past week but will be a fan for a long time. He also did a song that i requested on twitter, specifically saying that ‘some dude’ on twitter asked for it… I felt special!
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Cheers. Will let you know how it went next week.. 🙂
Why do people spend so much time shopping myself and my sister went to a shopping centre bought two pairs of shoes went to eb games bought some ds games for her, had something to eat at madras bought a cd and my moms present for mothers day and we took a hour flat. We didn’t run but whenever I go with my mum it takes at least 3 and a half hours. How long does it take you guys.
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Shopping is quick with me, I know what I want to get before I leave home.
…but with my mother, it takes ages.
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bee and i can spend hours shopping – simple as that
We both love it.. but she really doesn’t seem to like going to game shops with me lol
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I hate crowds and I dislike slow people… shopping is a brisk and painful experience when I do it.
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I’m quick when I actually buy something, but I can wander around a shopping centre for hours and then leave without making a purchase.
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…are you one of those dude that hangs around outside of bra’s n things??
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Sometimes I’m this guy, but it’s only caus I’m waiting for my girlfriend! I swear! Then people look at me all funny and I feel awkward and I don’t like it :'(
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I actually go in with mine… I NEVER KNOW WHERE I SHOULD BE LOOKING!!
So i just stay close to her and try not to look like a rapist wandering the shop on my own and leering at people!
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I jest!
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I’ve been doing that A LOT of late.
Tonight i’ll be getting a couple of warhammer books from the closing borders in geelong, however… at 50% off i can’t resist
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Oh God… mums and shopping do NOT mix. I avoid going with mum at ALL costs. Especially food shopping. I end up grabbing the trolley and finishing all the aisles while she’s still looking at vegies :/
I avoid taking my girlfriend shopping now. I get her to make a list and I go, it takes like a quarter of the time
As to my awesome plan to film a leather cap tour. Someone inform qbo because he owns All rights to lct and he also has to play. If everyone who wants to play can sent me a shout out by email we can organize a time to suit nearly everyone. Also if everyone can be on teamspeak that would be cool.
Send emails to rossfear at msn.com
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Just remember that we have limited spaces on the server. We have 10 slots available at one time, so while I have allowed about 20 of us to register, you can’t all play at once!
Just keep that in mind if we do organise something big.. I think I have only ever seen up to 6 on at a time so should be fine, just letting ya’ll know!
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Yeah man, I’ll give it a crack! I’m now completely made of leather! But yeah, as FS says, depends how well the server holds up. But tweet me or something. About details when its on!
So, I just found a patch of 15 pumpkins on our Minecraft server, and as I run further and further away, I keep seeing the strangest land features.
At the rate I’m going, I’ll find the Hallelujah Mountains in ten minutes. (There’s been a fair amount of blocks just floating above the ground)
Too much stuffs happened here while I was away beating up people who run into me in the street, buying everything I could fit into my pockets, fulfilling every little weird request strangers have and generally just wandering around trying to look cool.
It’ll take me a while to catch up because I’m supposed to be doing insignificant things looking after my kids, getting the washing off the line and making myself all clean and pretty for Kyuss Lives tonight so I’ll just comment on the most monumental…
Page numbers!
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Soooo…
1) What weird requests do strangers have for you?
2) Is “strangers” some kind of colloquialism for your fanclub/groupies?-
I assume Nier, or whatever game has replaced Nier…?
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In 4, you ‘help’ a guy contemplating jumping off a building by beating him up, claiming he’s causing a public disturbance.
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Oh now i get it 😉
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To be honest though, imagining Strange just walking around the mean streets of QLD beating up little punks is way cooler.
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Congrats to whomever wins Kudos this week! I’m outta here!
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Go, i hope you win now, so then we can all cheer out “JIMU, YOU SELF INDULGENT A-HOLE!!”
*cackle*
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You know it’s going to be Tad for the page numbers.
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Well, Taddy is simply doing his job, that would be like Mark awarding himself Kudos because he thinks his hair looks great this week.
Actually, now that I think about it, I support both of these…
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I sure as hell wanted to give him something when he ripped off his shirt!
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Staff can win?
Mark should win every week then (or every now and again), as this community really came together on his watch (kudos Mark).
He puts in more hours than most of us (I hesitate to say all of us, but I’m pretty confident about most).
Now I can has prize? (kidding)
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Since this is an award given out to the community with no Terms or Conditions, I imagine Mark can give it to whoever he damn well wants. He’s a little too awesome to give it to himself though.
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I think you just created a paradox there, buddy 🙂
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Wait, a Paradox? But what about the Space-Time Continu- AAAAARRRRRGGGGGGHHHHH WHY ARE THERE ALWAYS PTERODACTYLS?
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tis early for even you SLACKER!!!!
Is the new prize a signed photograph of Mad Tod???
Signed pictures of Mark, Elly and Seamus were so last month!
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That’s just mean Bish!
As you well know, no camera exists that can capture the full awesomeness (read: height) of the Tad. At best you’d get a picture of his chest. Or knees.
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I’m sowwy. 🙁
The man just has amazing knees, and I feel like they need to be photographed for posterity. THE FUTURE MUST KNOW OF THE LOFTY GIANTS WHO ROAM OUR MORTAL LANDS
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I can’t believe we’ve reached 1615 comments without resorting to spam! This must be some sort of miracle!! Awesome work peeps!!!
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Two words, page numbers. 🙂
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Good morning Kotakuites! (this is as close to morning as one gets on a Saturday, anyway)
I has had coffee and I’m watching some Ghost in the shell before embarking on the new section 8 and mount & blade.
What are y’all up to this sunny Saturday morn?
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Recovering, working and then off to get me some free comics!!
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I only got up recently, and I’m dreading the fact that I have to walk down to Woden to pick up a present for my mother for tomorrow.
*Ugh* Stupid hallmark holiday’s.
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Yeah, my brother and I went to the effort of getting something decent this mother’s day, and then the clever online company decided they would let it sit around in their warehouse instead of shipping it. This is all despite their assurances it would be shipped on Thursday.
Cue one angry phone call on Monday morn…
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I am filled with fail.
I forgot that banks aren’t open on Saturday’s (and due to a long story, I need to go into the bank to get money out), so I walked down, realised I had no money, and have since walked home.
Awkward.
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Time to macguyver a cunning replacement present.
Do you have an eraser, rubber band, nails and coat-hanger at your disposal?
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No. Well, yes, but I’m not so good at the MacGuyvering. Instead what I have is the ability to say “Whoo boy, I really cocked up this time.” Having no shame is often a blessing.
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Finished downloading the Mount and Blade gun expansion?
How is it?
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Yeah, I’ve picked it up but I haven’t played it yet, been checking out section 8: prejudice and watching anime today.
Will give it a whirl tonight and report back on my findings!
Sughly! Thanks for all the art this week!
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c268/cronotriggr/Sughly.jpg
I realised I hate trying to draw freehand with a tablet.
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That is quite the likeness, sir!
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That is awesome! 🙂
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hehe cool, totally captured sughly’s style.
You hate drawing freehand with a tablet? Isn’t that the only way to draw with a tablet? lol
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Rather than free hand with a pencil is what I meant. Actually, I more meant trying to draw freehand with a tablet in Photoshop.
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Haha! Awesome! Thank YOU!
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wish I had two monitors…
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AMAZING.
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Brilliant! 5 stars.
Are there any Hellboy fans here, or anyone who wants to see a new Hellboy game?
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I like Hellboy…
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Love the Mignola arted comics. Last game was sos os …on PSP.
Ok, seriously, twitter is annoying me so damn much. It keeps auto refreshing the page, and if I’m halfway through typing something it just wipes it. Does anyone else get this? What is this?! HALP!
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What browser are you using? I mean I have Twitter, but I never use it. The browser is probably reinterpreting updating the Twitter feed as in refreshing the whole page. So maybe try a different browser to see if it acts the same?
I’m probably just talking out my ass though…but it makes sense to me 😛
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That’s never, ever happened to me. Really strange.
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It shouldn’t refresh the page entirely, new tweets will come up in a “x new tweets” bar under your tweet box. Are you still using the old layout perhaps?
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Gah, sorry for the late reply! I got distracted with work. But thanks for the suggestions! (Just replying to Dawdle caus shes at the bottom).
Def’ not using old twitter, using the new one.
Using Firefox 4, but was happening with 3.whatever as well. Tried Chrome and yeah… seems to be going okay, at least for the time I used it for. So maybe you’re right nightFlarer? Buuuut I don’t really want to use Chrome, I LIKE Firefox. Except for that issue obviously. Any suggestions on how to fix?
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I’m using Firefox 4 as well and tried twitter awhile ago and it doesn’t do it for me. My next guess is it could be an add-on affecting it. Go to the firefox menu>Help>Restart with Add-ons Disabled. Continue in safe mode and try twitter again.
I like Firefox as well 😛
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Ok, I’m using Firefox 4, and it works fine for me, so a couple of things to check.
Firstly, check if Javascript is enabled. I’m assuming Twitter is running AJAX, which requires the use of Javascript to update the page without actually refreshing, to check that, go into options, and on the content menu make sure Javascript is enabled (in the advanced settings I have the first and third option enabled, but I don’t think they would make a difference to this).
If Javascript is enabled, and you’re still having problems, then uhh, I’m going to transfer to welbot, because he might know…
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Seems to be working fine for me, I’m using Chrome. I’m actually liking my switch to Chrome, except that it can tend to give way too fast loading some pages. Other than that, its been a good experience.
Just a heads up, on Steam today Crysis and Crysis Warhead are only $3.75 each. Thats a flipping steal at that price! If only they put Crysis 2 down to a reasonable price they’d get my munnnies!
so, a friend of mine wants to get BRINK instead of portal 2… disown them?
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Hardly – ensure he gets both like a good gamer.
I’m looking forward to brink coming out. Pew pew pew!
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no you don’t get it, she has said she doesn’t want portal 2, and is super excited about brink…
and brink does look good, but portal 2 was fantastic, and i can’t believe she would choose brink over it…
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Yes, immediately…
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No, No, you should embrace your fellow gamer, regardless of their taste.
Then Sucker Punch them as they least expect it.
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Yes.
I would just like to state that games for windows live is the devil. On par with EA, perhaps.
That is all.
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I was attempting to get into the Age of Empires Online Beta thing, and my god, I swear that program was written by a six year-old. It took two reboots and about six tries for it to successfully download and install an 18mb file. Thankfully it works, but christ it was annoying.
Hi all, I was a plus one guy that attended the Sony head office today for the sneak peak of inFamous 2, just like to say I had a good time and met some good people from this site.
Talk soon….
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Hiya Grubby!
Wow.. last night.. best $20 spend EVER!! Frenzal Rhomb were just FUCKING AMAZING!!!!!!! I almost expected to see them looking a little tired or trying to get their mojo back after being out of the scene for so long, but damn.. it was like seeing them 10yrs ago! Nothing different really.. the energy was just mind blowing! The place was packed to the brim with around 1400 people and there was no room to move, so it was literally like one massive mosh pit! They pumped out so many of their big hits, and let loose with a new single and an announcement that there’s a new album coming!!! OMG!!! The place just went completely nuts with that one! I’m still kinda buzzed about the whole thing myself! Gonna take a while to calm down after that one I think 😉
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Haha, that’s awesome. Reality after a good concert like that is always suck, I’m just wanting to be back there for the next few days.
Good afternoon Kotakuites.
How was the weekend for everyone?
I have played mount and blade (somewhat), watched some anime (ghost in the shell FTW), fiddled with my gaming netbook (latest nvidia drivers make the games run much smoother now – I love this little device) and wrote some music.
So far, my thoughts on the new mount and blade: People wear funny hats. I’m planning on playing a few more hours tonight and will report back with something a bit more indepth. It seems to fix some of the issues with warband which is good – it’s not so much an expansion as a total conversion of the game.
If you want to listen to the fruits of my creative labours:
Piano ditty:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/w044yx
Hip hop beat:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/cfutwn
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